Sir Hugh Underhill

Enlightened Administrator Essay As the Great Depression hit in the 1930’s, Franklin D. Roosevelt saw a problem in the current structure of the economy and political policies and, in his Commonwealth Club Address, he offers a solution with the regulatory state and “enlightened administrator”. One area that desperately needed a solution was the agriculture industry, specifically in the dust bowl, as detailed in Timothy Egan’s novel The Worst Hard Time. The unchecked production and prevailing…

Roosevelt tried to reassure people that their money would be insured. This was the creation of the Emergency Banking Bill, which said the government would insure your money and back your dollars. Next Roosevelt needed to help the farmers, so he added Hugh Bennett to his team, who was there to try and help the farmers, realizes that they needed to make a change in order to see a change. Bennett said, “Americans in the nation’s midsection had farmed to much, too fast. The land could no take that…

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade Cade was born on January 18th 1912 in Murtoa, in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. John Cade’s father, David served as the physician for the town of Murtoa, but on returning from his service in WWI, he sold his practice and assumed a position in the Mental Hygiene Department. Over the following years David Cade was assigned the role of medical superintendent at a number of Victorian mental hospitals, including Sunbury, Mont Park and Beechworth. John…

The Stockbridge Cup, 1870 British, London The second piece is dish designed by Henry Hugh Armstead (British, London 1828–1905 London). For firm of Hancock and Co., London, England. The material of this dish is silver and parcel gilt. The diameter is 28 1/4 in. (71.8 cm)This dish is metal work silver. Also, it is gift of Margaret A. Darrin, 1990. This large dish was the prize winner of the Stockbridge race, run every year, with a silver "cup" for the owner of the winning…

Modernism is a type of Modernism that uses allusions to classic literature and complex writing to make the reader work for the meaning of the poem, along with other characteristics of Modernist poetry like unusual form and shocking content. Many lines in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley are allusions to Greek mythology, Homer’s Odyssey, or are in another language. His true Penelope was Flaubert, He fished by obstinate…

Reality vs. Myth Sir Thomas Malory was influenced by the knights in his time to write Arthur becomes King. Sir Malory was born in Warwickshire, England, sometime around 1405. As a young man, Malory was a fairly wealthy landowner. He became a knight in 1442 and served in Parliament in 1445. He became involved in crime and allied himself politically with people and groups who opposed the royal government. He spent several years in prison for his crimes and political alle-giances while in prison…

in the kitchen thinking about his certain future. A sad expression formed on his face, for he loved Kay, but it was because of Kay that he would never be happy. Sir Ector came in with intentions of cheering his son up.” You take a glass of this canary, and see if old Merlyn can’t start cheerin’ you up” (White 228). Inside Wart’s mind, Sir Ector was right, so in a sulky mood Wart went to visit Merlyn. However, when Merlyn gave a lengthy lecture about the importance of education, and how it can…

other rulers mistakes, and learns his place in the world, to eventually sit on a throne. Like Wart discovered on one occasion, "Might is Right" is not a desirable way of governing. Wart's first adventure with Merlyn is as a fish in the Moat around Sir Ector, Wart's adoptive father's, castle. Wart met the ruler of the Moat, a large pike called Mr. P,…

While the Great famine could not have happened without the failure of the potato crop – something beyond the control of the British Government- their subsequent response, or there lack of, to the crisis greatly contributed to the devastation caused by the blight. As evidenced by Tony Blair’s 1997 apology to the Irish people, the British Government’s policies during the Great Famine toward a country it was, on paper at least, in union with, were unforgivable. Although the Conservative government…

playing school. I was always the teacher, and from an early age, a big part of me wanted to be a teacher. When I started at Horace Mann, those kids weren’t interested in playing school or jumping rope; they went to the movies and talked about songs like Sir Mix-a-lot’s “Baby Got Back.” It was an interesting school because the district bussed the students from Walnut Hills, an up-scale housing edition, to the school, which also had student who attended from the neighborhoods around the school, a…