As our text attests, Wallace Stevens was born in 1879 and died in 1955. He attended Harvard Law School at the urging of his father who thought poetry was far from a practical pursuit. Stevens rose to prominence as an insurance bondsman in Connecticut, the setting of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (605-8). A self-proclaimed philosophical poet, Stevens was concerned with ideas more than things, as evidenced by the ontological musings of this poem. During the 1920’s when this poem was first published, the United States was just past WWI.
He describes government in such a way that nearly, but not entirely, advocates anarchy. Paine calls government, “even in its best state [a] necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one;” (6). He attempts to predispose the reader’s mind to new ideas of government, namely one that involves American independence from England. Paine accomplishes this through an ideal definition and concept of government. He describes the purposes of government such as protection of property and citizens.
Eugene V. Debs’ father, Jean Daniel, was born in to a very well-off family which owned 2 businesses, one being a textile mill and the other being a meat market. Debs was married on the ninth of June, 1885 at the age of thirty, to Kate Metzel. The two never had children, but their home is still standing in Terre Haute, Indiana, on in the middle of the Indiana State University campus. Eugene V. Debs dropped out of school at the age of Fourteen. This is not a very good trait of a real American Hero.
Disney’s Father – Elias – acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city in 1917. Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. By this time he became the cartoonist for the school newspaper. Walt had hopes of joining the army, and had dropped out of high school at 16 years old. However, he had been rejected for being under aged.
I chose to compare “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. Dylan Thomas depicts the inevitability of death through repetition. He discussed the stages of a man’s life with his on comparison to “good men, wild men, and grave men.” It portrays a son and his dying father, and his son’s plea for his father to hold on to life. Dylan Thomas “Born October 17, 1914, Swansea, Wales-died November 9, 1953. New York, N.Y., U.S.” (The Chronology of American Literature) Thomas dropped out of school and worked as a reporter at the early age of sixteen, in 1939, he wrote “The Map of Love” which soon made him famous; the poem contained a rich metaphoric language and emotional intensity.
Since the Enlightenment liberalism had flourished. This resulted in the conservative right nurturing fascism as a literal antithesis to democracy. Fascism was more of an ethos than a political ideology and incorporated concepts from contemporary genius such as Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche to validate the expansionist mindset. (See Appendices 1 & 2) Imperial Russia under the Tsars had always been synonymous with oppression, and the rise of both Lenin and Stalin was less accountable to charisma than to ruthlessness, with one hard-liner simply replacing another. At the beginning of the 1900’s, Russian society was suffering while Western Europeans were seeing increasing civic powers.
Japan’s industrialized economy needed resources, which Japan believed they could obtain through the same methods of imperialism. Japan would use the same military might as exhibited by Europe and America but would control not only the governments of these countries but the people as well. The indigenous people of these regions would suffer due to the greed of the great powers and eventually gain a greater since of nationalism needed to overthrow their aggressors. India Britain took control of India after defeating France and the Indian government during the eighteenth century. India was considered the “jewel in the crown” of the British Empire.
Plato and Aristotle believed that a fear did, run though liberals as they viewed democracy as a system of rule by the masses, thus an implication of individualism; seeing society as not as single individual entities but rather a collection of individual groups, possessing opposing interest. This in turn leads to Ortega y Gassets warning of the arrival of mass democracy, which had lead to the overthrowing of civilized society and moral order. As a consequence allowing authoritarian rulers come to power, appealing to the basest instincts of the masses; ‘mobocracy’. This therefore is a fear and reservation most liberals have towards democracy. ‘Liberal democracy’ embodies a whole range of doctrines and devices that actually seek to restrain popular rule and prevent government from flexing direct will of majority.
APUSH DBQ ESSAY The view of overseas expansion in the late 19th and early 20th century was mainly driven by Imperialism. With that being said, there emerged two groups with viewpoints on overseas expansion, imperialists and anti-imperialists. Although there are plenty of differences, the main one between the two was over territorial expansion. The imperialists were all for it, thinking that it would help the American market and the depressed economy from the panic of 1893. On the other hand, the anti-imperialists argued that it went against our American democracy and was harmful to the territories we were trying to acquire and our country itself.
Welty said, “Neither of my parents had come from homes that could afford to buy many books, but though it must have been something of a strain on his salary, as the youngest officer in a young insurance company, my father was all the while carefully selecting and ordering away for what he and Mother though we children should grow up with.”(Welty, 391) I remember my father giving me his old Hardy Boys books when I was about eight years old. His words are still in my head,“These were my favorite books as a kid and I want you to enjoy them as I did when I was seven. These books kept me out of trouble,” he laughed. At first I was not really into the Hardy Boys, but since my father loved them I wanted to enjoy them like he did. “My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.”(Alexie, 397) Parents want their children to succeed in life and they know without literacy the world would be a tough place.