... came to office the country’s unemployment rates were hitting record highs. The farmers in the Midwest were in a mass migration to large cities in California to seek out a source of income that could support their families. This was caused by a very long drought that turned the Midwest into a dust bowl. Many historians have credited President Roosevelt with saving our country from total economic disaster. Right after the war all of America’s debts came due and with the richest farm land in the country being abandoned by the farmers with total crop loss the stock market crashed taking the American dollar w ...

... whole, one can see a style that is beyond the "norm." Critics compare his work to life in our world, "…his singular ability to convey the world not so much as a place of pigeon holes but rather of endless questions, none more clearly explained than another" (Young 100), and they compare his work to life beyond the realm of our world, "McCarthy's metaphysical assumptions are existential. Human consciousness of the past exists within each person in memories and contacts, held in an ongoing meaning by individuals as fragments, subject to loss as memory dims and subject to arbitrary changes without order or meaning" ...

... In 1676 he was appointed librarian and privy councillor at the court of Hannover. For the 40 years until his death, he served Ernest Augustus, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, later elector of Hannover, and George Louis, elector of Hannover, later George I, king of Great Britain. Leibniz was considered a universal genius by his contemporaries. His work encompasses not only mathematics and philosophy but also theology, law, diplomacy, politics, history, philology, and physics. Mathematics Leibniz's contribution in mathematics was to discover, in 1675, the fundamental principles of infinitesimal calculus. This discov ...

... was mentally retarded and his classmates thought he was a stupid freak. How could a freak be known to every person in the world today for his extravagant contributions to Math and Science? He began high school at the age 12. He was only interested in Mathematics and Philosophy. Therefore he made no effort to work in his other classes. His father, Hermann Einstein, didn't want him to study Philosophy. He wanted him to take over the family business and study electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to school an ...

... Some say that Frost went from a “bright and sunny day” to “a dreary night.” But even with all of the animosities that plagued his life, evolved to become one of America’s greatest poets. Frost’s poems were not respected in the United States at the time that he first began writing. But after a brief stay in England, Frost emerged as one of the most extraordinary writers in his time. Publishing A Boy’s Will and North Of Boston, Frost began his quest. In the book A Boy’s Will, Frost writes poems of hope and beauty. “Love and a Question,” illustrates th ...

... aunt, Humphrey Ward, was a novelist. His mother was the niece of Matthew Arnold, a poet, and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and headmaster of Rugby school (-Biography). When Huxley was fourteen years old, his mother died of cancer. He said his mother’s death “gave him a sense of the transience of human happiness� and “he felt that heredity made each individual unique, and uniqueness of the individual was essential to freedom� (-Biography). From 1908 until 1913, Huxley studied at Eton College (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). While at Eton, Huxley developed a condition of near blind ...

... of life. To identify just four ideas is impossible, being that the book itself is based on what he calls the ten steps to overachieving in business and in life. The ten steps are: 1) Build your self- esteem 2) Set demanding goals 3) Always be positive 4) Establish good habits 5) Master the at of communicating 6) Learn from good role models 7) Thrive on pressure 8) Be ferociously persistent 9) Learn from adversity 10) Survive your own success Building your self-esteem is the first step to achieving. The first part that you must remember is that you are in control. You are the one that will be deciding how goo ...

... for approval. "Virginia needed her mother's approval in order to 'measure her own stature" (Bond 38). Battling with a sense of worthlessness, Virginia's mother helped her temporarily rid herself of self-criticism and doubt. This however was short-lived. When Mrs. Stephen rejected Virginia, she felt her mother's disapproval directly related to the quality of her writing. "Virginia Woolf could not bear to reread anything she had written… Mrs. Stephen's rejection of Virginia may have been the paradigm of her failure to meet her own standards" (Bond 39). With the death of her mother Woolf used her n ...

... at Stanford University; he graduated in 1895. The influences of his engineering training and his Quaker upbringing were to shape his subsequent careers. Hoover began working in California mines as an ordinary laborer, but he soon obtained a position in Australia directing a new gold-mining venture. During the next two decades he traveled through much of Asia, Africa, and Europe as a mining entrepreneur, earning a considerable fortune. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 he was in London. Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by the human costs of the war, and he det ...

... a founder of the American Bible Society who was active in the anti slavery movement, and the father of thirteen children. Her mother who died when Harriet was four years old, was a woman of prayer, asking the Lord to call her six sons into the ministry. All eventually preached; Henry Ward Beecher, the youngest son became the most prominent. After her mother’s death, Harriet grew close to her sister, Catherine, teaching in her school and writing books with her soon after she turned thirteen. Harriet was brilliant and bookish, and idolized the poetry of Lord Byron. When her father became president of L ...