Author-poet Carl Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third
Street in Galesburg on January 6, 1878. The modest house reflects the typical
living conditions of a late nineteenth century working-class family. Many of the
furnishings once belonged to the Sandburg family are still in tact. Behind the
house stands a small wooded park. Underneath Remembrance Rock, lie the ashes
of Carl Sandburg, who died in 1967.
Carl August Sandburg was born the son of Swedish immigrants August and
Clara Anderson Sandburg. The elder Sandburg, a blacksmith''s helper for the
nearby Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, purchased the cottage in 1873.
Carl, called "Charlie" by the family, was born the second of seven children in
1878. A year later the Sandburgs sold the small cottage in favor of a larger house
in Galesburg. Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a young boy. He quit
school following his graduation from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade
working many jobs. He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat
in Kansas, and shined shoes in Galesburg''s Union Hotel before traveling as a hobo
in 1897.
His experiences working and traveling greatly influenced his writing and
political views. As a hobo he learned a number of folk songs, which he later
performed at speaking engagements. He saw first-hand the large difference
between rich and poor, a inflence that instilled in him a distrust of capitalism.
When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898 Sandburg volunteered for
service, and at the age of twenty was ordered to Puerto Rico, where he spent days
battling only heat and mosquitoes. Upon his return to his hometown later that year,
he entered Lombard College, supporting himself as a call fireman.
Sandburg''s college years shaped his literary talents and political views.
While at Lombard, Sandburg joined the Poor Writers'' Club, an informal literary
organization whose members met to read and criticize poetry. Poor Writers''
founder, Lombard professor Phillip Green Wright, a talented scholar and political
liberal, encouraged the talented young Sandburg. Sandburg honed his writing skills
and adopted the socialist views of his mentor before leaving school in his senior
year. Sandburg sold stereoscope views and wrote poetry for two years before his
first book of verse, In Reckless Ecstasy, was printed on Wright''s basement press in
1904. Wright printed two more volumes for Sandburg, Incidentals and The Plaint
of a Rose.
As the first decade of the century wore on, Sandburg grew increasingly
concerned with the plight of the American worker. In 1907 he worked as an
organizer for the Wisconsin Social Democratic party, writing and distributing
Franklin W. McCormack, a medical x-ray technician from San Francisco, California was born in Illinois in 1882. He married a girl from Missouri named Anna G before moving to California. According to a 1920 United States Census Mr. and Mrs. McCormack had two children, Donald and Marjorie. McCormack was the first to put the paralleling technique into use in intraoral dental radiography. In 1911 he opened one of the first dental x-ray lab in San Francisco, California. He hand wrapped dental films in black paper, to add support he placed a metal plate with the films and then wrapped both in wax paper to put in the patient’s mouth.
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After the Spanish American war of 1898, the United States took control of Puerto Rico. In the initial state of US ownership, the Puerto Rican population faced a major dilemma. The island belonged to but was not a part of the United States, and as a result Puerto Ricans held no citizenship. They simply lingered as citizens of nowhere. It was not until the Jones Act of 1917 that Puerto Ricans were granted statutory citizenship which was not equivalent to constitutional citizenship. Not granted full American citizenship by the United States, Puerto Ricans were, on the other hand, granted the right to be drafted into the armed forces during WWI, and also to be recruited as cheap labor for the defense industry during the time of war.
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Through chronological ordering and well known knowledge, Walter Ehrlich presented information on the Dred Scott vs. John F.A. Sanford case. In the well structured document “Dred Scott in History” by Walter Ehrlich the comprehension of the numerous delays and controversial issues compared to the document’s importance to history in sparking the Civil War. The structure and importance were kept well supported in the document written by Walter Ehrlich.
Early life Adam Smith was born to Margaret Douglas in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. His father, also named Adam Smith, was a lawyer, civil servant, and widower who married Margaret Douglas in 1720. His father died six months before Smith's birth. The exact date of Smith's birth is unknown; however, his baptism was recorded on 16 June 1723 at Kirkcaldy. Though few events in Smith's early childhood are known, Scottish journalist and biographer of Smith John Rae recorded that Smith was abducted by gypsies at the age of four and eventually released when others went to rescue him.
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In the poem “The Raven” Edgar Allan Poe wrote about grief, sadness, and depression. He is writing about a young girl named Lenore. She is depicted as pure, beautiful, and the very thing that the main character lives for, his beloved Lenore. When he loses her, he is sent into a spiral of depression. This leads him to believe that a black raven pecking at his door was sent by Lenore. Through out the poem “The Raven” Poe uses many things to illustrate the theme darkness, such as the words he so carefully uses, the symbols that are chosen, and the description of everything.
Rules are essential to order, but what are the reasons youth become delinquent and how can we identify the causes? Two theories that present strong cases towards why youth commit delinquency are the General Strain Theory and Social Disorganization Theory.
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