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The "Farewell Letter to the American People" was a widely published letter by Choctaw Chief George W. Harkins in February 1832. [1] It denounced the removal of the Choctaw Nation to Oklahoma.
Alan Paige Lightman (born November 28, 1948) is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. [1] [2] He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT.
Given Wirt's artistic liberties in reconstructing the speech, it is possible that Henry never uttered the quotation, "Give me liberty or give me death," [18] and scholars question to what extent the speech we know is the work of Wirt or Tucker. [19]
The phrase "Am I not a man and a brother?" had been used by British abolitionists since the late 18th century to decry the inhumanity of slavery. [3] This male motto was first turned female in the 1820s by British abolitionists, [4] then in 1830 the American abolitionist newspaper Genius of Universal Emancipation carried an image of a slave woman asking "Am I not a woman and a sister?"
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
The basic question about how syntactic dependencies are discerned has proven difficult to answer definitively. One should acknowledge in this area, however, that the basic task of identifying and discerning the presence and direction of the syntactic dependencies of DGs is no easier or harder than determining the constituent groupings of phrase ...
Economic development. Broad measures of economic progress; Direct democracy; Gender equality; Human enhancement; Indigenous rights; Intersectionality; Liberation theology
"The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable , and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.