American Studies #1
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- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Professor at Cambridge
Fireside/Schoolroom Poet - John Greenleaf Whittier
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Journalist
Fireside/Schoolroom Poet - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Doctor
Proffesor at Harvard
Fireside/Schoolroom Poet - James Russell Lowell
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U.S. Minister to Britain
Fireside/Schoolroom Poet - William Cullen Bryant
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Lawyer
Editor of Saturady Evening Post - Founding Principle: U.S. born from a mistrust of governmental authority
- Progressive Principle: Government should and could exert more power to insure justice and well-being
- Founding Principle: Democratic government should be small and unobtrusive (laissez-faire)
- Progressive Principle: Simple, inflexible government is ineffective in a complex industrial age
- Founding Principle Government should interfere only to establish balance and then withdraw
- Public power is needed to counteract ineffeciency, corruption, and exploitation
- Issues of reform
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civil service (Pendellton Act)
non-partisan elections
watch on expenditures
poverty relief
housing
tax reform
railroad regulation - local reform leaders
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city commisions
progressive mayors
city commissions
government style
city manager/professional administration - state reform
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intiative
referendum
recall
direct election
direct primary
Australian ballot - National reform
- universal suffrage
- initiative
- petition for introduction for a bill
- referendum
- petition for a general vote on a bill
- recall
- petition to remove an elected official
- trochee
- stressed unstressed
- "Edna St. Vincent Milay, won't you come over to play"
- trochee
- anapest
- two unstressed one stressed
- dactyl
- one stressed and two unstressed
- spondee
- two stressed no unstressed
- pyrrhic
- two unstressed
- iamb
- unstressed then stressed
- "To be or not to be"
- iamb
- hexameter
- six feet
- seven feet
- heptameter
- pentameter
- five feet
- repetition of intial consonant sounds or any vowel sound in closely associated words
- alliteration
- assonance
- similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds
- lake-fake
- rhyme
- lake-fate
- assonance
- consonance
- last word in line where final consonant is sam but vowels that preced them differ
- add-read
- consonance
- born-burn
- consonance (slant rhyme)