.... In 1768 Jefferson got his first taste of politics as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; which would help lead up to his involvement in the political side of the American revolution. Then on June 21, 1776 Jefferson received a seat on the Continental Congress, soon after Jefferson was unanimously elected by a Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson Took to work at his desk in the attic of a brick layer's house where he was staying while in Philadelphia. As a distinguished writer Jefferson knew just what needed to go into his document, he took the feelings of the people of the 13 colonies and put them into his words. He addressed the r ....

.... to 1890, those countries continued to supply a majority of the immigrants; the Scandinavian nations provided a substantial minority. Afterwards the proportion of immigrants from northern and Western Europe declined rapidly. In the final period, from 1890 to 1910, fewer than one-third of the immigrants came from these areas. The majority of the immigrants were natives of Southern and Eastern Europe, with immigrants from Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Russia constituting more than half of the total. Until World War I, immigration had generally increased in volume every year. From 1905 to 1914 an average of more than a million immigrants entered the U.S. every year. With the ....

.... became the anthem of a generation (Official Oughtabiography). "Alice's Restaurant" protested the draft and the Vietnam War. The lyrics of this song probably make no sense whatsoever, but there is a very long story behind it. The original version of the song is over eighteen minutes long, when done with the original story. This is a shorter version. You can get anything you want... at Alice's Restaurant, exceptin' Alice You can get anything you want... at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in it's around the back Just a half-a-mile from the railroad track Oh... You can get anything you want At Alice's Restaurant. First of all, there is no restaurant named Alice's Restaurant. Rath ....

.... already taken off without him even realizing it yet. He became a substitute teacher and an actor until 1902 when he secured a position as an examiner in a Swiss patent office. Not long after he married Mileva Maric and had two sons. 1905 was the biggest year for Einstein. It is called his "Miracle Year". He published a paper on the Brownian Motion and the seminal papers on his theory of relativity. He received his doctrine from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation of molecules. He published three very important papers to twentieth century physics. The first paper on Brownian motion made significant predictions on the motion of particles that are random ....

.... imperialism increased Americans aggression backed by the belief of Manifest Destiny which many Americans supported. Spain committed many acts of war and Americans believed these helped cause the Spanish-American War: - Restricted Cuban independence - Cuban placed in Concentration Camps - Refused to give them independence - The DeLome Letter - Sinking of the Maine - Yellow Journalism When Spain slaughtered Cubans in the Concentration Camps many Americans were outraged. Cuba had begun to declare independence from Spain so they were placed in these camps. Support for Cubans cause of independence affected “deep historical roots” in the US which became the main ....

.... both complete their education. In 1910, Eisenhower found that he could get a free college education at United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The prerequisite for obtaining such involved passing a difficult exam. While Eisenhower had no original plans to be a soldier, he still prepared well for the competitive West Point entrance exam and won an appointment to the school in 1911. The Coming of a Commander in Chief Unknown to him at the time, Eisenhower would later lead many military forces though the course of both world wars, winning decisive victories and helping push America forward even before his own presidency. When the United States entered World ....

.... tragedy. Many of these functions were merely technical. For example, the chorus often announced the entrances and exits of characters or foreshadowed events in the action. It also recounted or interpreted past events for the purpose of clarifying the plot. These functions aided the movement of the story. First off, when the chorus was introduced into a play, one of its functions was to announce the entrances and exits of characters. This happened in many places of the story. The characters that the chorus took on were the first woman, second and third woman. All of them introduced new characters in order to move the play along smoothly. Such as in 1.29 when secon ....

.... as a metaphorical interpretation of this historical change, where Odysseus is the prototype of the bourgeois man. This study reveals for Adorno and Horkheimer the failure of the Enlightenment project. Enlightenment has no claim to being less a myth than the mythology it failed to escape. This new myth is defined for them by the drive to dominate nature at the expense of alienation of man from nature and from his own inner nature. They follow the appearance of the subject as it is objectified alongside nature, and is dominated with it. The subject becomes an object and his intellect becomes instrumental, and all instinct and sensory experience that fails to be productive in t ....