John Edwards

(noun)

An American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina, and the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004.

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  • The Election of 2004

    • Bush was elected for a second term when he narrowly defeated Democratic candidate John Kerry.
    • Kerry's running mate, John Edwards, who had also run as a Democratic primary candidate, received one electoral vote for president from an elector from Minnesota.
    • On July 6, 2004, John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate, shortly before the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston held later that month.
    • Red denotes states won by Bush/Cheney, Blue denotes those won by Kerry/Edwards.
    • The split vote in Minnesota denotes an elector's vote counted for Vice President nominee John Edwards.

  • The Rights of Englishmen

    • The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 by King John after coercion from an assembly of his barons, is an English charter that limited the power of the king by guaranteeing certain rights, liberties, and privileges to the English aristocracy .
    • It was not until the early seventeenth century that jurist Edward Coke interpreted Magna Carta to apply not only to the protection of nobles but to all subjects of the crown equally .
    • For instance, in 1690, John Locke (one of the fathers of the English Enlightenment) wrote that all people have fundamental natural rights to "life, liberty and property," and that governments were created in order to protect these rights.
    • John Locke, often credited for the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.
    • Jurist Edward Coke interpreted Magna Carta to apply not only to the protection of nobles but to all subjects of the crown equally.

  • Photography during the Great Depression

    • Prominent photographers at the time included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange , Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine, Edward Steichen, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Doris Ulmann, Berenice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, and Russell Lee, among several others.
    • Photographers involved in the group included Ansel Adams , Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston.

  • Photography in the Latter 20th Century

    • In the United States, pioneer photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, F.
    • Holland Day, and Edward Weston, spent their lives advocating for photography as a fine art.
    • John Szarkowski, who was head of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art from 1962 to 1991, became one of the trend's largest promoters, and it became especially fashionable from the late 1970s until the mid 1980s.
    • These photographers aimed not "to reform life but to know it" (John Szarkowski, Diane Arbus).

  • Behavioral Psychology

    • The primary developments in behaviorism came from the work of Ivan Pavlov, John B.
    • Watson, Edward Lee Thorndike, and B.
    • As Pavlov's work became known in the West, particularly through the writings of John B.
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    • Edward Lee Thorndike was an American psychologist whose work on animal behavior and the learning process led to the "law of effect."

  • The Hundred Years' War

    • The reign of Henry III's son Edward I (1272–1307), was rather more successful.
    • After the disastrous reign of Edward II, which saw military losses and the Great Famine, Edward III reigned from 1327–1377, restoring royal authority and transforming the Kingdom of England into the most efficient military power in Europe.
    • Then war continued, and the English were victorious at the Battle of Poitiers (1356), where the French king, John II, was captured and held for ransom.
    • After the treaties of London failed, Edward launched the Rheims campaign.
    • After the invasion of 1419, Henry V and, after his death, his brother John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, brought the English to the height of their power in France, with an English king crowned in Paris.

  • References

    • Commons, John R.
    • Locke, John.
    • Truth versus Precision in Economics, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1992.
    • Pheby, John.
    • Rawls, John.

  • Painting

    • Representative artists include Thomas Hart Benton, John Rogers Cox, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, Alexandre Hogue, Dale Nichols, William S.
    • Schwartz, John Stockton de Martelly, Frederic Jamesand Pat Potucek,many of whom were associated with the Kansas City Art Institute.
    • American Social Realism includes the works of such artists as those from the Ashcan School, including Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Rafael Soyer, Isaac Soyer, Reginald Marsh, Jack Levine and others.
    • Charles Demuth , Edward Hopper, Edmund Lewandowski, Charles Sheeler,andHerman Trunkwere prominent Precisionists.

  • Suggested Listening

    • Here is an example from James Romig's Sonnet 2, played by John McMurtery.
    • The "graduation march" section of Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance No. 1"

  • The Founding of Carolina

    • Shaftesbury, with the assistance of his secretary, the philosopher John Locke, drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, a plan for government of the colony.