Essays on Persons Page 11

Google, Yahoo, Bing Who wrote that the people get the government that they deserve? In 1811 Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) wrote “Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle merite. ” (“every nation has the government it deserves”) however; many people credit the quote Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), author of Democracy in America (Big Apple Corner, 2010)….

Winfrey was named “Orpah” after the biblical character in the Book of Ruth on her birth certificate, but people mispronounced it regularly and Oprah stuck. [1] Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother. She later said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter and the couple broke up…

In examining the question how the disturbances on the frontiers are to be quieted, two modes present themselves, by which the object might perhaps be effected; the first of which is by raising an army, and (destroying the resisting] tribes entirely, or 2ndly by forming treaties of peace with them, in which their rights and…

Does the word quantum mechanics mean anything to you, well it should. What about E=MC2, all of this are very important to you but you may not know it. These theories were all developed by a very intellectual person, Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein is very important to the development of our country and the world….

The burning of Washington spurred Americans’ determination to fight. Thousands of Americans volunteered for military service. The British backed off and decided to try an attack on America’s poorly defended Gulf coast. This British assault was to give America its greatest land victory of the war. It was also to bring to prominence an American…

Einstein’s parents, who were nonobservant Jews, moved from Ulm to Munich, Germany when Einstein was an infant. The family business was the manufacture of electrical parts. When the business failed, in 1894, the family moved to Milan, Italy. At this time Einstein decided officially to end his German citizenship. Within a year, still without having…

Despite his age of seventy-five, Old Hickory remained unafraid of confrontations. He continuously engaged in fights and created chaos wherever he went, involving card games, damaged taverns, alcohol containers, and physical altercations, earning the moniker Old Hickory. At twenty-one years old, Jackson became a lawyer in the North Carolina Frontier and eventually migrated to Tennessee…

The power issues in The Club by David Williamson are shown throughout the play. The characters are all different with their personalities and roles within The Club. In his play The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970s. However, many of these attitudes are still relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian…

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion, when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and…

Richard Wright, born on September 4, 1908 in Mississippi on a farm, was the eldest child of illiterate sharecropper Nathan Wright and schoolteacher Ella Wilson Wright. During Richard’s youth, his father abandoned the family for another woman, leading to frequent illness in his mother. As a result, Richard and his brother were constantly shuffled between…