... bill. Finally yielding to pressure from the public and from the National Civil Service Reform League, Congress passed the Pendleton Act, sponsored by Senator George H. Pendleton and drafted by Dorman B. Eaton, a leader of the reform movement. Arthur signed the bill in 1883.The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act created the Civil Service Commission, required competitive tests for some federal jobs and prohibited political ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... much stronger then it was for the election campaign of 1884. Second event that was of the major importance occurred in 1883 when congress passed the Pendleton Act establishing civil service reform. In brief, "the Pendleton Act established a permanent Civil Service Commission of three members, appointed by the president. Around 14,000 jobs were placed under a merit system that required examinations for ... ...

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... considered taboo. His most famous novel, Got Tell It on the Mountain published in 1953, is an unusual depiction of a coming-of-age story of a fourteen year old boy, John Grimes. The story involves John's aunt, mother, stepfather, and biological father. It takes place on John's fourteenth birthday. Like Baldwin, who experienced a forceful and violent religious conversion at fourteen, John is ... ...

• Word Count: 2437
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• Grade Level: High School

Rose Earhart, Dorcas Good, The Diary of a Salem Witch (New York: Pendleton Books, 2000) Dorcas Good is a novel in diary form. The main purpose of the novel is to chronicle four-year-old Dorcas Good's time in a Salem jail, held for witchcraft. ... ...

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... experience, the life that shaped him before I could grow up myself, before I could become a writer" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 10). The novel focuses on the religious conversion of John Grimes at the age of fourteen and is set in the storefront Temple of the Fire Baptized. Giovanni's Room and Another Country "featured characters struggling to define sexual, racial, and national ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the Folio Club. {Encyclopedia Americana-page 274} All eleven stories were eventually published, but not as a Folio Club group. Yet his proposal brought his talents to the attention of John Pendleton Kennedy, and through Kennedy, Poe received entrée to the Southern Literary Messenger. It was in the Messenger that Poe published his first true horror story, "Berenice,"" in 1835. After ... ...

• Word Count: 2288
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School