… to doubt the enormous significance of the events connected with the name Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, though for some people these amounted to a catastrophe, or the beginnings of one, whereas for others they created the hope that a new and just society…

… Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. A descendant of African American, French, and Dutch ancestors, he demonstrated his intellectual gifts at an early age. He graduated from high school at age 16, the valedictorian…

… around the world. He turned his dreams into reality with the help of his many followers, this showed his true leadership. Walt had the ability to share his visions and dreams with others and persuade them to believe in him and his ideas. To open…

… contains many poetic devices which distinguish him among the great American writers. One such device common to Whitman's poetry is the use of cataloguing. Through cataloguing, Whitman is able to enter into the text multiple ideas and situations,…

… 1881 publication of the Leaves of Grass contained more than twenty-four poems, which were reasonably filled with ten or more diversified types of themes. Walt Whitman the author and compiler of this exceptional work changed the status of poetry writing…

… Whitman grew to be recognized as one of America’s greatest poets. Whitman was born in 1819. His father, a carpenter and farmer, encouraged him to enter the labor force at an early age. At 12 he left school and carried various jobs as office boy…

… culture was forever changed in the 1960’s. Every walk of life in America had a new beginning because of the changes society endured. The art world was no different, radical thinking and new ideas prevailed in all areas of art. Two men would…

… City, Pennsylvania, USA, a small town northeast of Scranton. His father, Ondrej, came from Czechsolvakia in 1912, and sent for his mother, Julia Zavacky Warhola, in 1921. His father worked as a construction worker and later as a coal miner. Around…

… "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submer…

… Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States responsible for bringing an end to slavery, would support equal rights for blacks and whites. That is not necessarily the case. In his speeches and writings Lincoln made it clear that he was anti-slave…