In a Dark Time BY THEODORE ROETHKE In a dark time‚ the eye begins to see‚ I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood— A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between the heron and the wren‚ Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den. What’s madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire! I know the purity of pure despair‚ My shadow pinned against a sweating wall. That place among the rocks—is it a cave‚ Or
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In the 1912 election‚ I think I would have voted for Theodore Roosevelt. I found it easy to critique all of the candidates in one way or another. While considering my vote I had to consider the time‚ after all it was 100 years ago and people had a different mindset. I would vote for Teddy Roosevelt based on his earlier years as president. Often times he was portrayed as a spiteful man‚ but he did a very good job serving as president. He was known as a “trust-buster”‚ contrary to Taft‚ he did not
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I. Life Kaczynski was born on May 22‚ 1942 to Wanda and Theodore Kaczynski of Evergreen Park Ill‚ a tidy and middle class suburb of Chicago. The second son Ted ’s brother‚ David was born in 1950. As children‚ both kids were very reclusive‚ not playing with any neighbor children and rarely seen outside of the house. At a young age Ted started to show signs of being a gifted learner‚ he skipped a year in elementary school and his junior year in high school. Ted spent most of his early life studying
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Did you know that Franklin D. Roosevelt married his fifth cousin Eleanor Roosevelt? Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 on January 30 at Hyde Park‚ New York. He was an only child and his parents were James and Sara Ann Roosevelt. He lived in Springwood‚ New York and was educated by tutors until he was fourteen. Then later on in 1896 he went to Groton School for boys. Then later on in 1900 he graduated from Groton and then went to Harvard. He later on got his degree in three
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It was an idea that mixed personal history with political vision. Roosevelt extolled the virtue of the ranching life out west in the Dakotas‚ hunting‚ and other excursions into the wilderness. His enunciation of the strenuous ideal sometimes referred to as part of the era’s “cult of masculinity” or even “cult of the strenuous
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Roosevelt was the second kid of four sons naturally introduced to a socially noticeable group of Dutch and English set of relatives; his dad‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ Sr.‚ was a prominent representative and humanitarian‚ and his mom‚ Martha Bulloch of Georgia‚ originated from a well off‚ slave-owning ranch gang. In slight wellbeing as a kid‚ Roosevelt was instructed by private guides. From childhood he showed exceptional‚ colossal scholarly interest. He moved on from Harvard College‚ where he was chosen
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Professor Brienza-Larsen Introduction to Eleanor Roosevelt A. Leaderships from the first lady and skills that are required to become the best possible leader in anything you choose. B. Eleanor was our First Lady at 48 years old. (4 March 1933- 12 April 1945). C. To define what a leader should possess and portray in the field of their study. D. Who is Eleanor Roosevelt and what made her a leader‚ my field of study and why I choose this career‚ and finally
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a more extravagant upcoming than Theodore Roosevelt. From surviving multiple plane crashes to surviving a gunshot to the heart‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ a lover of ecology‚ for the extraordinary man he is‚ must have had an extraordinary life as well. He could have even considered himself a Renaissance man due to his many acquired titles. When he’s not earning Nobel prizes‚ fighting as a rough rider in the Spanish-American war‚ or just being a cowboy‚ Theodore Roosevelt is just still a human being. Being
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“I want to photosynthesize” (Theodore Roethke). Representing the parallels between photosynthesizing and growth‚ transcendentalist poet Theodore Huebner Roethke focuses on the experiences he has with the symbolic greenhouse‚ which his childhood centers on‚ in Saginaw‚ Michigan. The American poet illustrates the association of nature with freedom in the coming of age poem “Child On top of a Greenhouse. The poem involves a persona that is breaking free of the confinement of the greenhouse; a child
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ANNA ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ROOSEVELT Birth: 11 October 1884 New York City‚ New York Father: Elliott Roosevelt‚ born 28 February 1860‚ New York City‚ New York; heir (although he held no salaried work position‚ he was called a “sportsman” by his daughter Eleanor Roosevelt‚ indicating his occupation of big game hunting‚ his letters about which were later edited and published by her); in his early adulthood he was listed by title as junior partner in a real estate firm‚ and in 1892‚ a brief
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