... conservative person for Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. All through the 1860's, he worked in support of the Confederation, he made up an agreement called the British North American Act which was an agreement to united the five provinces in the Maritimes. After this he was appointed Prime Minister of Canada and then won the federal election the next year in 1867 for the Conservative Party. He wanted to build a strong nation so he began the Intercolonial Railway in 1871 that ran from Halifax to the Pacific Coast, and included Canada's two new provinces Manitoba and British Columbia and the North West Territories. It is because of him t ...
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... interrupted however, when orders were given that sent Grant’s regiment to the Southwest frontier in May of 1844. When the south seceded from the Union Grant had no troubles making up his mind to fight for the Union cause. Grant organized the first group of Union volunteers in Galena and accompanied the men to Springfield. Grant longed for active duty and, on May 24, 1861, offered his services to the U.S. government, suggesting that he was “ competent to command a regiment.” Although he failed to gain this appointment, he accepted from Governor Yates the command of the 21st Illinois Regiment, quickly brought it under excellent discipline, a ...
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... Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in death (Whicher 26). Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be equal not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as well (Sewall 98). Explored thoroughly in her works, death seems to be ...
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... William Irving and Peter Irving and William's brother-in-law James Kirke Paulding, together they wrote "Salmagundi", or, the "Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff", and others, a series of essays and poems on New York society. Irving's contributions to this thing established his reputation as an essayist and wit, and this reputation was enhanced by his next work, "A History of New York " (1809), evidently written by Irving's famous comic creation, the Dutch-American scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The work is a account of New York State during the period of Dutch occupation which was from (1609-1664). Irving's mocking tone and funny descriptions of ...
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... feature characteristic of many of Michelangelo’s figures and of his own personality. David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was place in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall. With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and Romans, by infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning. Michelangelo’s David does not make me feel a certain way. It is simply a magnificent statue. This statue does not have a certain mood. David is a statue of David in ...
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... However, before tackling the unprecedented theories of Carey, a description of the man's life and career, and writings should first be examined. The Life of He was born in 1793 in Philadelphia. He was the son of a self-made Irish immigrant, Mathew Carey. His father, whom was a leader in early American economic thinking, emigrated from Ireland on account of the political upheaval during the time. Henry Carey was also self taught and in 1821 at the age of twenty-eight assumed ownership of his fathers printing press. Carey who was a largely self-educated man, retired from active business at forty-two in order to devote the rest of his life to his literar ...
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... her loyal and trusted adviser for the rest of his life (Parshall 1). He took his teaching duties very seriously, while he was preparing lectures for his charge on variety an of topics about science. The first scientific work dates were all from this period. It involves topics, which would continue to occupy him throughout his life. In 1571, he began publication of his track. It was intended to form a preliminary mathematical part of a major study on the Ptolemaic astronomical model. He continued to embrace the Ptolemaic (Parshall 1). The service to Catherine's noble family took him to La Rochelle, ultimately then to Paris. In 1573, he came under the eye of ...
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... had these things were assumed to be elect...almost a way to make yourself elect...? This didn't last long as people continued to become more open minded...for America was giving them the freedom to do this, along with many other freedoms. Thomas Jefferson, America's 3rd president, and an accomplished one at that. Jefferson helped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence. He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana Purchase for 15 Million dollars, what a deal! Napolean definately needed money to finance his little war, tsk tsk. A real thinker in the enlightenment also. Washington Irving, named after George Washington ...
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... as "The coming genius of German music." Schumann also arranged for the publication of Brahms' three piano sonatas and three sets of songs. In 1862, Brahms traveled to Vienna, where he conducted the concerts of Singakademie. The next five years he spent travelling to various towns, such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. . After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was growing and growing. In 1886, he was made a Knight of the Prussian "Orde pour le merite," and was also elected ...
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