Abstract
This paper explores a little bit of the history of John and Abigail Adams, how John Adams rose to power as President of the United States through his political career, and how Abigail Adams stayed home and sent her support and love through a series of love letters to her husband.

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"The world during the Revolutionary War was a very scary and emotional time for the colonists, and especially for those who were involved with the politics of freeing America from England's rule. John and Abigail Adams was one couple that was very involved with the politics of the colonies. Through their love and mutual support for each other, John and Abigail Adams were able to cope with the Revolutionary War and welcome the birth of a new nation."

Tags:abigail, adams, american, colonies, family, john, letters, love, papers, president, quincy, revolution, revolutionary, war

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This paper is a book report on the biography "John Adams" in which author David McCullough presents a strong portrait of the second President of the United States and his era. The paper explains McCullough's thesis that Adams is a much more powerful figure than most people know, overshadowed in history by Thomas Jefferson, but in his own time perhaps a more important and commanding figure in his own right.

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"In the biography John Adams, author David McCullough presents a strong portrait of the second President of the United States and his era. McCullough's thesis is that Adams is a much more powerful figure than most people know, overshadowed in history by Thomas Jefferson, but in his own time perhaps a more important and commanding figure in his own right. Supposedly, McCullough started out to write a joint analysis of both men, Jefferson and Adams, and first worried that Adams might not be able to hold his own against Jefferson. However, he came to see Adams as the greater figure in many ways and discovered that Adams had been more widely known than Jefferson among their contemporaries, and he decided instead to..."

Tags:adams, mccullough, biography

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This paper is a biography of John Adams and his time as president. It also discusses his wife Abigail. The paper explores Adam's personal combative style and his controversial political writings. The author expands on his reputation as a powerful politician.

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"John Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he soon became identified with the patriot cause and became a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses. He was one of the leaders in the movement for independence from England. Adams also has the distinction of being the only founding father not to own slaves during his life. The World Almanac Book of Facts reports that during the Revolutionary War he served in France and ..."

Tags:John Adams, Federalist, president, Abigail, Jefferson, Continental Congress

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Response to first four chapters of Kathleen Adams (2006) RE the Sa'dan Toraja of south Sulawesi for whom outside influences including tourism have had positive influences upon their identity and cultural survival, at odds with much theory lamenting cultural destruction or dilution; paper refers to how ethic peoples disussed as Human Beings will reveal a history in progress as in Toraja pride in adopting Christianity, changing their status system, fighting of a 1950s Muslim occupation and embracing modernity while keeping culture alive.

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Kathleen Adams, Art as Politics & Tourism's Empowerment. Introduction Kathleen Adams's account of tourism as an influence confirming and elaborating indigenous identities in the Sa'dan Toraja of south Sulawesi refers to death cults and carved houses that have interested past anthropologists studying a Christianized minority surrounded by Indonesian Muslims that came to be visited by Western and Indonesian tourists after 1970. (2006:1-15) This was not a culturally destructive encounter for the Sa'dan Toraja discerned how Westerners with cameras meant their rituals or other elements of culture had value. Tourism stimulated cultural revival.

Tags:adams, sa'dan toraja, indonesia

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The paper goes into the history of Adams and the symphony, and how the symphony is both minimalist, classical and also breaks with both traditions organically. The paper goes into musical specifics and history, and how this symphony has been influential.

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"Grand Pianola Music, composed by John Adams, is an extraordinary minimalist-inspired work in three movements. Adams continues to raise the bar in terms of thematic and harmonic sophistication, and Grand Pianola Music is no exception. Though it is typical in its minimalist style, is delicate and quiet, and incorporates sophisticated female vocals that aren't typical of the "Severe" minimalist archetype. John Adams was born in 1947 in Worchester, Massachusetts and was greatly influenced by New England's musical culture and roots. He was a clarinetist for a while (which accounts for the sometimes clarinet-heavy...)"

Tags:john adams, minimalism, composer

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This paper discusses how Ernest Hemingway's code heroes in his major novels find their roots in the short stories in which the young Nick Adams struggles to recover from battlefield trauma.

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"The over-arching themes of Ernest Hemingway's "A Way You'll Never Be" and "Big Two-Hearted River" are the ravages of war and the search for ways to recuperate from those ravages. In both stories, Hemingway's persona, Nick Adams, personifies the ordeal of the Lost Generation of World War I soldiers fighting to regain their shattered sense of identity. "The Way You'll Never Be" reflects his confusion as Nick Adams tries to deal with the..."

Tags:American Literature, Hemingway, Nick Adams, novels, battlefield truama, Short Stories, World War I, Lost Generation

Abstract
This paper follows John Adams through his career with an emphasis on the " the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived" the job of George Washington's vice-president.

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"John Adams was very much involved with the government before he was elected president. He was a consultant and a writer for newspapers that critiqued the government of the day. John Adams was elected as a member of the Massachusetts legislature. However, this prestigious position was revoked as he rejoiced when the Bostonians dumped the hated British tea into the Boston harbor. During the Boston Massacre, shots were fired upon the citizens of Boston who taunted and heckled the British troops. None other than "John Adams represented the British soldiers to be innocent and in danger of being railroaded by the colonists if action was not taken" (Degregorio, 24). When Britain retaliated, John Adams was elected as a radical to the First Continental Congress in 1774. John Adams held strong ambitions for foreign policy and helped write the resolutions of May 10, 1776. He also strongly defended the Declaration of Independence such that he had certified it with his signature."

Tags:2nd, abigail, adams, john, president, quincy, diplomacy, france, paris, Tallyrand, alien, act

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This paper explains that Henry Adams's "The Education of Henry Adams" is subtitled as a biography, but doesn't actually tell the story of Henry Adams life; instead, it looks at how he developed his mental ideas and opinions based on historical, political, and philosophical contemplation of the things that were going on during his time. The author points out that, in the "The Education of Henry Adams," Adams places a great deal of criticism on himself and the entire world, which can be very satiric and biting, but there is warmth and humor contained within the book. The paper relates that one small downside to the book is that Adams appears to generalize everything to the point that it often appears he is lumping too many individuals together and does not allow various individual opinions to actually come through.

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"Much of what the book has to offer, however, deals with the power that was had at the time by Christianity and the church and how this power was changed and forced into submission by Darwin's theory of evolution, and much of the power that technology had over individuals during that time. To discuss technology, Adams mentions the Paris exposition that he attended in 1900 and the dynamos that were present there. After he saw this type of technology coming to the front the also realized that Darwinism was causing so much chaos in the world and he felt that there was so much power in technology that the church was not able to withstand the onslaught."

Tags:contemplation, criticism, satiric, power, generalize

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This paper analyses Adams critique of modern education as found in his autobiographical "The Education of Henry Adams". The paper brings out the subtlety and profundity of Adams argument and points out the shortfalls. Adams' principle contention is that education based on science is chaotic and without direction. Science breeds division, yet science-based knowledge neither acknowledges this fact, nor prepares students to cope with it. The paper goes on to highlight Adams' prognostications of how modern education will effect the political, social and gender spheres, and marvels at his prescience.

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"Because he distrusted the autobiographical "I", Adams finds an alternative use of the subject of his autobiography, which is as a manikin doll to test suitably of conventional education, and whether it has prepared him for the world. He states that this act of self effacement is a trend started by Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose semi-autobiographical Emile is really an educational tract. Adams is suggesting that autobiography is automatically a narrative of one's education, and the narrator is simply the means by which this is accomplished. If this is the case, he prefers to do the deed expressly, calling the described character of Henry Adams a manikin doll, and education being the real subject matter. This does not mean that he becomes detached from the character, but he does avoid the "I" throughout, and narrates the story of Henry Adams strictly in the third person. "

Tags:students, diversity, system, tools, direction

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This paper explains that Abigail Adams stood as a witness to the crucial political events that resulted in the formulation of the nation's early political and legal history; however, her status as a woman during time and her intellectual and personal capacity is interesting in its own right, outside of her marital connections. The author points out that, unlike the relatively singular lives of Washington or Jefferson, the Adams emerged as a political dynasty as well as a political influence in the young nation's development. The paper states that Abigail Adams' letters to her husband lay testimony to the fact that rather than being complaint, during the immediate antebellum period, the ideological struggles over slavery and women's rights were woven into the historical fabric of the founding nation.

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"Adams' failure to exhort her husband and to use her political influence to achieve her objectives highlights the contradictions of this early period of American history. It has been commented that the more simply articulated ideals of the Declaration of Independence eventually were diluted by the political necessities of constructing a Constitution amenable to all of the states, and to the maintenance of the aristocratic, land-owning class that the Founding Father came from. The new nation was to be governed by the Thomas Jefferson's of the world, not the Thomas Paines, and to maintain a delicate equilibrium between South and North; the existence of slavery was tolerated via the "three-fourths compromise." Similarly, women's rights were also compromised and bracketed for later reference, to be resolved by future generations. Certain contradictions of American free governance were put aside for later generations to wrangle with, rather than to become a part of the difficult struggles of making America into a new nation."

Tags:witness, letters, family, status, slavery