Ellen Ripley

graduating from Harvard, Emerson became a Unitarian minister, but his life changed personally and professionally after the death of his wife, Ellen Tucker Emerson in 1831. The following year Emerson resigned from Unitarian minister arguing he didn’t have faith on special divinity of Jesus. Emerson along with Frederic Henry Hedge, George Putnam and George Ripley planned intellectual meeting which later would be called the Transcendent club, a focal point of the movement. He also served as the…

Ulysses S. Grant: President and Union General “I can’t spare this man-he fights”, said by President Abraham Lincoln (“Ulysses Simpson Grant”). This was said by him because Ulysses never gives up until he succeeds. Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States of America (1868-1872). Ulysses was also the Union General in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 (“Ulysses S. Grant”). Without Ulysses the Confederates would have defeated the Union army (“Ulysses S. Grant”). Ulysses S. Grant…