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- - - - Far / Eaton has many famous quotes in her story, "Its Wavering Image", consisting of her standing up for her nationality. One of the quotes is captured towards the end of her story; “I would not be a white woman for all the world. You are a white man. And
        what is a promise to a white man!”
- - - - Can consist of the thoughts of 1. Individual as Divine 2. Nature as a pathway to divine 3. God as benevolent
        
        Henry David Thoreau was born July 12th, 1817 in Boston. He was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. Thoreau was considered a leading transcendentalist and is best known for his essay, "Civil Disobedience".
        
        Thoreau mainly protested poll tax and slavery; "All voting is some sort of gaming, like checkers or a backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it."
        
        His famous essay, "Civil Disobedience", explained civil order and how it would end if people followed their conscious without respect for law. He believes, "A true place for a man is also a prison.".
        
        Thoreau supported his beliefs by carrying out his own acts of civil disobedience, such as, refusing to pay taxes as a form of dissent regarding the Mexican War (1846-1848).
        
        Abigail Adams was the wife of former president John Adams. She is the second first lady of the United States. Adams is mostly famous for her letter to her husband, "Remember the Ladies".
        
        As famously quoted, "I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them then your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to form a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
        
        Adams was an advisor to her husband and former President, John Adams. She opposed slavery and was an early advocate for women's rights. Adams supported many equal rights including women's education
  - - - Romanticism consists of emotional, individualistic, solitude, nature, subjective, desire and organic views.
        
        Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston on January 19th, 1809. He grew up struggling with authority, alcoholism, and ended his life with a mysterious death (he went missing for multiple days then was found in someone else's clothes).
        
        Poe's motivation for his poems introduced a different type of literature between a mix of beauty, emotion, darkness, and obviously romanticism; "The death then of a beautiful is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." He also did many odd things including writing false papers on things he believed in, like hypnosis, etc.
        
        Poe's scientific skepticism questions man's dominance nature, institution over reason, and more.
        
        Poe's political opinions and worries consisted of masses being swayed by powerful royalists, loss aristocratic, debasing popular art, and he didn't like transcendentalist hippies.
        
        Poe wrote many famous pieces including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Conqueror Worm", "Annabel Lee", "The Raven" and many more.
- - - - Black Message in a White Envelope ... Slaves narratives represent a form of black literature in which white people were trying to convince others of slavery's immorality through the voice of former slaves.
        
        Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal, Africa and arrived in Boston in 1761. She was the first black poet in English literature. Her owners, John and Susanna Wheatley taught Phillis to read and write.
        
        She was overall the second American women poet. Wheatley created Af-Am (African American Literature) and her poems began appearing in 1765. She wrote about various subjects, both religion and moral. Wheatley gained freedom in 1773 along with international fame
        
        Wheatley created many famous poems including, "On Virtue", "An Hyme to the Morning", "An Hyme to the evening", and many more. One of her famous quotes consists of, "Hold in bondage Afric: blameless race Let virtue reign and then accord our prayers Be victory ours and generous freedom theirs."
        
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      - The 3/5th Compromise: Any person who was not free would be counted as three-firths of a free individual for the purposes of determining congressional representation.
        
        Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist and writer who escaped from slavery in Maryland. He became famous for his antislavery writings.
        
        Douglass describes his escape from slavery in his narrative, "I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave. I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his infernal grasp his trembling prey. Let him be left to feel his way in the dark; let darkness commensurate with his crime hover over him; and let him feel that at every step he takes, in pursuit of the flying bondman, he is running the frightful risk of having his hot brains dashed out by an invisible agency ..."
        
        The 3/5th Compromise was a difficult point in time for Douglass due to the fact that though he escaped and was in a free state, he would still be forced to be returned to his owners.
        
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      - Fugitive Slave Law: An act created in which required all slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
      - Booker T. Washington was born into slavery. He created the terms 'cast your bucket down' and 'five fingers'. Washington began working with economics and successfully moved up in the field. He ended up being the Principle of Tuskegee High School.
        
        One of Washington's famous quotes originated from his piece, 'Casting Bucket Down'; o those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say: 'Cast
        down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded."
      - W.E.B. Du Bois was the founder of NAACP, along with being the founder and editor of 'The Crisis' magazine. He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He wrote many famous pieces including, 'The Souls of Black Folk', Double Consciousness', 'The Veil', 'Problem of the 20th Century', 'Talented 10th', and more. Du Bois stood for education and promoted respectful politics.
        
        One of many of Du Bois's famous quotes included him mentioning his outlook on education; "If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may possess artisans but not, in nature, men. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools— intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it—this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. On this foundation we may build bread winning, skill of hand and
        quickness of brain, with never a fear lest the child and man
        mistake the means of living for the object of life."
  - - - Many racist's view of Native Americans were based off of Mary Rowlandson's narrative. She described them as savages, and compared their resemblance to hell. This progressed discrimination towards Native Americans.
        
        Mary Rowlandson was a puritan, American, colonial women. She wrote a narrative based on the point in time where she was captured and held for ransom by the Native Americans.
        
        Rowlandson considered the Native Americans depraved, indecent, and less than herself, as well as referring to them as "hell hounds". Her behavior was based off her experience in captivity; the Native Americans did nothing to provide her comfort or help during their journey and her captavitity. She found comfort in her Bible and praying to God.
        
        Rowlandson describes one of her experiences, the seventh remove (a meal supposively offered to her); "Seventh Remove; Here came an Indian to them at that time with a basket of horse liver. I asked him to give me a piece. 'What,' says he, 'can you eat horse liver?' I told him, I would try, if he would give a piece, which he did, and I laid it on the coals to roast. But before it was half ready, they got half of it away from me, so that I was fain to take the rest and eat it as it was, with the blood about my mouth, and yet a savory bit it was to me: 'For to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.'
        
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- - - - Jacob Riis is famous for hosting slum tours and writing, How the Other Half Lives (1890) . In his famous works, he focused on the upbringings of Americas children, because they are the future of society. He showed the world, *How the Other Half Lives. One of his many famous quotes, based on his piece, states "The slum is the measure of civilization".
    - - One of Carnegie's most favorite quotes includes advice about managing wealth; "...the surplus wealth of the few will
        become, in the best sense, property of the many, because administering for the common good; and this wealth, passes through the hands of the few, can be made much more
        potent force for the elevation of our race than if distributed in small sums to the people themselves. Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens-spent for public purposes, from which masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among themselves in trifling amounts through the course of many years."
  - - - One of Roosevelt's famous quotes is when he established what 'being a good boy' meant; "OF COURSE what we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man. Now, the chances are strong that he won't be much of a man unless he is a good deal of a boy. He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He must work hard and play hard. He must be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able to hold his own under all circumstances and against all comers. It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of American man of whom America can be really proud."
    - - Gilman is famously quoted for her words on economics; "Where the two sexes obtain their food under different
        conditions, and where that difference consists in one of
        them being fed by the other, then the feeding sex becomes
        the environment of the fed. Man, in supporting woman, has
        become her economic environment. Under natural
        selection, every creature is modified to its environment,
        developing perforce the qualities needed to obtain its
        livelihood under that environment....When the mate
        becomes also the master, when economic necessity is
        added to sex-attraction, we have the two great evolutionary
        forces acting together to the same end; namely, to develop
        sex-distinction in the human female. For, in her position of
        economic dependence in the sex-relation, sex-distinction is
        with her not only a means of attracting a mate, as with all
        creatures, but a means of getting her livelihood, as is the
        case with no other creature under heaven. Because of the
        economic dependence of the human female on her mate,
        she is modified to sex to an excessive degree. This
        excessive modification she transmits to her children; and
        so is steadily implanted in the human constitution the
        morbid tendency to excess in this relation"
- - - - Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States. He was a key creator of the Declaration of Independence.
  - - - James Madison was America's fourth president. He made major contributions to the ratification of the Constitution by also writing the Federalist Papers. He is considered the "Father of the Constitution".
- - - - "Nevertheless, Americans were wandering ever more widely– friends seemed eternally bound for Russia, Persia, Abyssinia, and Central Africa. And by 1928 Paris had grown suffocating. With each new shipment of Americans spewed up by the boom the quality fell off, until towards the end there was something sinister about the crazy boatloads. They were no longer the simple pa and ma and son and daughter, infinitely superior in their qualities of kindness and curiosity to the corresponding class in Europe, but fantastic neanderthals who believed something, something vague, that you remembered from a very cheap novel. I remember an Italian on a steamer who promenaded the deck in an American Reserve Officer’s uniform picking quarrels in broken English with Americans who criticized their own institutions in the bar. I remember a fat Jewess, inlaid with diamonds, who sat behind us at the Russian ballet and said as the curtain rose, “Thad’s luffly, dey ought to baint a bicture of it.” This was low comedy, but it was evident that money and power were falling into the hands of people in comparison with whom the leader of a village Soviet would be a gold-mine of judgment and culture. There were citizens travelling in luxury in 1928 and 1929, who, in the distortion of their new condition, had the human value of Pekinese, bivalves, cretins, goats."
  - - - “The Waltz” 1933; “It's this constant rush, rush, rush, that's the curse of American life”.
- - - - Paine wrote "Common Sense" in hope to achieve independence from England, the creation of a democratic republic, to change from monarchy to democracy, and to make the American Dream achievable
      - Paine created famous terms such as the melting pot; "Individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.". He also reworded the plant metaphor; "Men are like plants - the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceed from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.".
    - - Crevecoeur took an anthropological look on the strengths and weaknesses of the new nation. He was focused on self interest, equality, and the idea of a self-made man and one's natural rights.