The son of a wealthy Cumberland attorney, his birth followed the dawn of the English Industrial Revolution. ... John's College, Cambridge, studying literature and rhetoric, prior to the advent of the French Revolution. ... A pioneer of free verse, Wordsworth sought to cast off all literary convention, expressing often controversial political and religious opinions through his simply-written poetry and prose. ...
Following the establishment of the Gaelic League and its ensuing success, there was an air of cultural devotion about the country and an Ireland which was not only free but entirely Gaelic was aspired a representative. ... Following the establishment of the National School System in 1831, there had been no arrangements for the exertion of any language other than English. ... There were two main issues, primarily in relation to the curriculum content and its resonance to nationalism and subsequently in relation to the congested areas of study it contained. ... Changes were seen in relation to t...
"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them choose. ... That is because they know they are free to hold to their religion, their beliefs, their history, as each of them choose.... These studies expose the impracticability of US citizenship as the baseline for true Americanism. Another common viewpoint on the National Identity Crisis is tha...
An English scientist who conducted research in the academic areas of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, Smithson lived and traveled in several European countries. ... Sackler Gallery, Arts and Industries Building, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Freer Gallery of Art, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of National Art, National Museum of American History, National Museum of National History, National Museum of the American Indian, National Portrait Gallery, National Postal Museum, National Zoological Park, and the Smithsonian American Ar...
Through studying Columbus' first encounters with Native Americans, his admiration of their way of life is clear: "They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest--without knowledge of what is evil--nor do they murder or steal...they love their neighbors as themselves and they have the sweetest talk in the world...always laughing" ( Zinn, p. 2). ... Along with colonization, free labor was another essential element witch contributed to the success of the British Empire. ... Both these indentured servants and slaves were treated very harshly and forced to live joy free...
Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia"," is important to the study of the origins of slavery as the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. ... As an ambitious planter, Beverley deplored the "heavy impositions "2 put upon colonists by the English crown and used outspoken Americanism to celebrate Virginia's quality of governance in rebuke. ... Verse 41 describes servitude as temporary, after which his whole family shall be free. ...
The relationship between the Olympics and the tobacco industry grew to be quite close over the next four decades, until the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing body of the Olympic Movement, adopted a tobacco-free policy (Steakley, 2012, para. 1). ... By January 2002, 14,305 Utah adults had walked in 117 separate Gold Medal Mile events, 67,000 nutrition trackers and 109,000 safety cards were distributed in both English and Spanish and 15,000 healthy behavior trackers had been produced. ... This is certainly hard to follow through, as studies have failed to find that the Olympic...
He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. ... The "tulips" of the first volume are free-verse lyric poems that present a nostalgic glance at his childhood. ... In his late verse--XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950), 95 Poems (1958), and the posthumously published 73 Poems (1963)--Cummings effects a softer, more elegiac note, recalling his early affinity for New England Transcendentalism and English Romanticism. ...
