"A mother who shifts her own longings, ambitions and frustrations cannot tune in empathically to her family's joy and failures." ... Working husbands and wives can invest heavily in their own jobs, putting in long hours, while their spouses have, at most, full-time or even reduced-hour work involvements. ...
Significantly, their king was particularly inept, and chose to exploit the colonies through taxation rather than allow them to prosper on their own. ... The problem with military dictators is that they worry more about their own ambition than the good of the country. ... Radical is the notion the masses should live long and live well, not merely to improve the lives of their betters but for their own pursuits....
From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... Now, it seems that she has the ambition to do those things again and cannot, because of health reasons or the fear of breaking social norms. ... Likewise, one would assume that the man's son would be expected to become a farmer in his own adulthood. ... The father in this piece appears to want a different path for his son, one in which he has the abi...
He was the "first great self made millionaire whose career was made off of the ambitions of young Americans."... In addition to exploiting Native Americans, Astor succeeded in forcing his employees in the western wilderness to buy from company owned stores at exorbitant prices (Meyers 1936; Rugoff 1989). This showed his own unwaveringness for his own people. ... Suppressed by Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, and Spanish, in addition to being exploited by mostly absentee landlords with their armies, Sicilians had learned to survive by relying on the strength of their own families. ... They had b...
Leuchtenburg, Roosevelt as portrayed as a man of great inspiration and ambition, but his social dreams that helped the mental state of the nation didn't bring that much success to reformation programs. ... President Roosevelt, a very energetic and enthusiastic person, inspired the people with his own confidence and faith in the future. ...
The American Revolution is not only significant to the United States as for Australia it marks the beginning of their own history where Britain's supremacy tries to take over other nations and influence their political ideologies upon them. ... In 1764, Britain passed a law known as the Currency Act, preventing the colonies to print and use their own money. ... Push came to shove as both colonists and imperialists belatedly recognized the contradiction, long overlooked, between the growth in imperial ambition and the persistence of colonial autonomy." 3 In October 1765, nine out of thi...
