With a length of 745 feet, she was one of the largest man-made objects in the world. ... The day before Lusitania sailed from Pier 54, U-20, skippered by thirty-two-year-old Kapitãnleutnant (Lt. ... Walther Schwieger, left the German naval base at Emden on the North Sea. Schwieger's orders were to take U-20 around Scotland and Ireland to the Irish Sea. ...
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth" (http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary, President John F. ... Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. ... It seemed like a small eternity before I heard Neil say, "That's one small step for man . . . one giant leap for mankind." ... Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility...
Many movements were made towards civil and social rights issues that now challenged the old ways of thinking. ... It was said across seas that America was place of wealth and prosperity. It was a nation that gave birth to the free man, high wages, and unlimited opportunities. ...
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi was present at the party, and being a 31 year old scultpor, the idea made a lasting impression in his mind. ... Count Ferdinand-Marie de Lesseps was this man, and he had idea's and dreams as large as those of Bartholdi's. The Count dreamed of an enormous canal that would go from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, an idea that was laughed at by most. ... Another quote of this man set forth the motion that would create the Statue of Liberty... ...
If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? Shouldn't man seek out the sunshine, instead? ... Drawn by his own cords of fear and longing, man will imagine that he is tired of the light and his small, familiar world.3 "No amount of rationalization... or Freudian analysis" can overcome "the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."4 Why? ... This novel does not deal so much with witches as it does with the Black Man, which "is a traditional American name for the Devil."44 In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne commits a...
Sparkling blue seas and rolling fields of grain are what come to most people's minds when they think of America. ... Her sister and brother both died at the hands of a man of noble birth, the Marquis St. ... This man saw Madame Defarge's sister and had to have her knowing that the woman was married. ... Two family members were taken from her by the same man. ... Much thought has went into how this man could destroy the greatest nation in the world. ...
Fixing America's broken immigration system requires a more thoughtful approach; mainly with more than one man's thoughts. ... Also if a man in power doesn't have the citizen's support he isn't doing a superior job as a politician and won't be able to accomplish much while he is in office. ...
Not only did the colonists hate the unfair taxes, they hated being ruled by a tyrant far across the sea, where they could not be represented and effectively protest his unjustness. The whole system of ruling them was flawed because one man made the decisions. ...
