Ludlow Essays

  • Housman Biography

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    Alfred Edward Housman Who knew sadness and despair could bring someone fame, fortune, and prosperity? Alfred Edward Housman had all of these things. His life started out depressing and full of failures. Little did he know that his misfortunes would cause him to be one of the most esteemed poets of his time. In addition to his misfortunes, his diligence in his studies helped him further his talents. Life’s situation such as the loss of his mother, disappointment from his father, and rejection from

  • The Ludlow Massacre

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    “I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser.” Mother Jones followed her own advice concerning a small town in Las Animas County. The Ludlow Massacre occurred on April 20th, 1994, in the tent town of Ludlow, Colorado, the intricate web of events that lead to the events that happened in Ludlow are a look in to the conditions that some of the minorities and immigrants had to live in, during the early twentieth century. Coal production had become a driving force behind the United States industrial revolution

  • A Shropshire Lad

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    Shropshire: A Place of Imagined Sexual Contentment Published in 1869, A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad stands as one of the most socially acclaimed collections of English poetry from the Victorian age. This period in British history, however, proves, by judiciary focus (the Criminal Law Amendment of 1885), to be conflictive with Housman’s own internal conflicts concerning the homoerotic tendencies which he discovered in his admiration of fellow Oxford student Moses Jackson. Housman, much unlike other

  • The Ludlow Massacre: The Battle Of The Colorado Coal Strike

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    Colorado Coal Strike from 1913 to 1914, one of the largest losses of life was the Ludlow Massacre, or sometimes referred to as the Battle of Ludlow, on April 20, 1914. Colorado was the epicenter for mine-related violence in the West. From 1913 to 1918, the United Mine Workers of America launched a full-scale unionization campaign by sending forty-two organizers to the Trinidad coal mine located in Ludlow, Colorado. Ludlow was the largest tent colony in Colorado and a major source of tension during the

  • Elizabeth Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters"

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    Introduction Elizabeth Gaskell, author of Wives and Daughters, wrote a best seller during the Victorian reign. Although she started her writing career in her late thirties, she managed to impress her critics with her unique style. She managed to branch away from writing novels to write a biography about her friend Charlotte Bronte, which almost resulted in a lawsuit. Even though critics embarked harshness on her writing about the plight of the working class, yet they viewed her work as a skillful

  • Distance Education

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    audio and video signals by microwave relay over short distances or by satellite over longer distances” (Ludlow and Duff 13). Television broadcasts can be used for one-way video and audio presentations. This can also be used in conjunction with by audio conferencing in which the stude... ... middle of paper ... ...cators and institutions to examine the positives and negatives involved (Ludlow and Duff 10). Works Cited Clark, Tom and David Else. Distance Education, Electronic Networking

  • Cripple Creek Miners Strike In Colorado

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    striking workers. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, which lasted from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF). In retaliation for Ludlow, the miners armed

  • Humanitarian Intervention Case Study

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    rights abuses through humanitarian intervention still remains prominent in international relations today. The international community faces a dilemma of allowing violations of human rights in defence of maintaining State sovereignty and intervention (Ludlow 1999). Humanitarian intervention can be understood as the use of coercive action or military force in another state without their permission aimed at “preventing or ending widespread and grave violation of the fundamental human rights of individuals

  • Adolf Hitler And The Nazi Party

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    (Roon, Ger Van, and Ludlow 152). The Kreisau Circle also had underground activities inside of Germany (Roon, Ger Van, and Ludlow 111). This kind of underground activities was similar to the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad might have been inspired because of these activities. Contact with the military resistance was important for the Kreisau Circle because they were going to attempt to kill Hitler, although that was their original importance (Roon, Ger Van, and Ludlow 167). They were not

  • Summary: The Legalization Of Medical Marijuana

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    in Columbus, Ohio had three spinal surgeries (Ludlow, 2016). Jennifer struggled with the outcome of the surgeries that led her to have an addiction to painkillers and thought of suicide, so she could end the pain (Ludlow, 2016). Jennifer realized medical marijuana could help the pain she encountered (Ludlow, 2016). "'We're real people in real pain, ' she said. 'Do us justice.'" She wanted to have a pain free life to play with her three children (Ludlow, 2016). Table 1 shows the benefits of Minnesota

  • Saffron Walden as a Typical Medieval Market Town

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    Saffron Walden as a Typical Medieval Market Town To find out if Saffron Walden was a typical medieval market town we will compare it with other towns we know were. I will be comparing Saffron Walden with Hereford, Sailsbury and Ludlow. One thing that they all must have is a market. All these towns have a market because we saw it on the map and maps have no reason to be biased or lie. We can see in the maps of Sailsbury and Hereford the grid pattern that markets had and all the specific

  • Working-Class Poverty and the Southern Colorado Coal Strike

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    the Colorado Coal Strike. The Coal Strike of 1913-1914 culminated in the Ludlow Massacre; this event showed how media coverage played off of cultural stereotypes of the working class and resulted in the raised consciousness among the strikers. The way the strike was presented to the public was shrouded in cultural symbology of poverty, and through these very symbols the strikers formed an identity of solidarity. The Ludlow Massacre took place during one of the most violent labor struggles in United

  • Our Privacy Is In Danger

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    obvious that what hackers do is illegal. A personal computer is personal and the information on it is private. When a hacker invades that privacy, he/she is trespassing and when they take your personal information they're committing a form of thievery (Ludlow). In addition to hackers, we now have marketers invading our privacy through the use of cookies (Rodger). Cyberterrorism costs companies, goverments and everday people billions of dollars each year. "Cyberwar may be to the 21st century what blitzkrieg

  • Free Will vs. Determinism

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    self-obligation to choose the right books, the right friends, and the right teacher. Works Cited Churchland, Patricia. “Do We Have Free Will?” New Scientist (2006): 42-45. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 February 2011. Ludlow, Bob. “Guest Essay - Bob Ludlow on Free Will (Not!).” Electronic Ardell Wellness Report 493 (2009): Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 8 February 2011. McInerney, Joseph. “Behavioral Genetics.” Human Genome Project Information (2008): Biological and Environmental

  • The Cold War and Its Impact on European Integration

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    Saddle River: Pearson Education 3. Cerutti, F and Lucarelli, S: The Search for a European Identity: Values, Policies and Legitmacy of the European Union, (2008) Routledge 4. Judt. T, Postwar. (2010) A History of Europe Since 1945; London: Vintage 5. Ludlow, N. Piers (2007): European Integration and the Cold War. Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-73, London, New York: Routledge 6. Moravcsik, A. De Gaulle Between Grain and Grandeur: The Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958–1970 (Part 2) Journal of Cold

  • The Impact Of The Silver Crash Of 1893

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    Workers grew concerned about their situation as the century progressed, after the Silver Crash of 1893. The Sherman Act of 1890 (SHRM, 2014) obliged the Treasury to buy silver every month at market value. The government had bought almost all the silver from the mines. This also caused the depletion of gold. People presented their issued notes to the government and received gold instead of silver. Workers organized and tried to improve their lot in life. Management and government opposed their efforts

  • Compare and Contrast the Ways Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Milton's Comus explore Gender and Sexuality.

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    pushing social boundaries of the period. Consequently, Astrophil and Stella and Comus can be viewed as socially progressive, considering tensions between genders in a modern liberal way. Works Cited Milton, J. (1634). Comus, A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle. [online] Available through: [Accessed 18 April 2014]. (C) Sidney, P. (c. 1591). Astrophil and Stella. [online] Available through: [Accessed 18 April 2014]. (AS) Secondary sources: Kimbrough, R. (1971). Sir Philip Sidney. New York: Twayne

  • Online Dating Research Paper

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    Relationships are complicated. There are many factors that go into a stable relationship. Meeting, maintaining and committing to a relationship with another person is stressful but if both parties put in the time and effort, the outcome can be miraculous. In the past decade, since the arrival of technology and the online world, the Internet has tried to make dating easier and more efficient by creating dating websites. Dating websites claim that they can help people find their soul mate through online

  • Should Hacktivism Be Legally Punished?

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    legal framework for morally justified hacktivism include Peter Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University. In an article for The Nation, Ludlow argues that the government gave unjustifiably harsh punishments in the cases of four hacktivists, Jeremy Hammond, Barrett Brown, Andrew Aurenheimer, and Aaron Swartz, who all aimed to liberate information for the general public that would make the governing elite vulnerable. Ludlow concluded that “the lesson appears to be that such hacking .

  • The Killdozer Event In Granby, Colorado

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    The Killdozer event in Granby, Colorado, shows longstanding tensions between individuals and authorities in Colorado’s history. This event shows us how feelings of injustice and mistreatment from the government can have violent results. When Marvin Heemeyer went on a destructive spree in the small town of Granby with his homemade armored bulldozer, it showed the complex problems of local government conflicts and personal grievances with that government. This event shows the lengths someone might