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The Letter to Chesterfield (February 1755) was Samuel Johnson's response to what some believed to be Lord Chesterfield's opportunistic endorsement of his A Dictionary of the English Language. Although Chesterfield was patron of the Proposal for the Dictionary , he made no moves to further the progress of the Dictionary until seven years after ...
The Port Huron Statement [1] is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). [2] It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers (UAW) retreat outside of Port Huron, Michigan (now part of Lakeport State Park), for the group's first national convention. [3]
The National Day of Encouragement in the United States was announced in 2007 and occurs each year on September 12. [1] [2] It is a day to uplift and encourage people to make a positive impact in their lives. [3] The first proclamation for the Day of Encouragement was made by Mayor Belinda LaForce of
Moreover, there was a growing solidarity among its members, created by the "joint stimuli of encouragement and irritation". [46] The encouragement felt by this class came from its success in education and its ability to avail itself of the benefits of that education such as employment in the Indian Civil Service .
Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to take a critical stance or attitude towards one's own practice and that of one's peers, engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning.
The ACLU's 2024 annual report states that it engages in legal advocacy in support of civil rights, including abortion rights, LGBTQ equality, immigrants’ rights, criminal law reform, free speech, and voting rights. [3]: 3–4 When the ACLU was formed in 1919, free speech was the civil right that it concentrated on.
In a letter to Robert Hooke in February 1676, for instance, he confessed "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." [ 154 ] Some historians argued that this, written at a time when Newton and Hooke were disputing over optical discoveries, was an oblique attack on Hooke who was presumably short and hunchbacked, rather ...
He had no use for word processors, believing that one should be able to write a letter or article without rough drafts, rewriting, or any significant editing. He would work it all out in his head before putting pen to paper, and once mentioned that when he was a physics student he would solve his homework problems in his head while walking the ...