Lisaks oli Charles Martinil 1 vend ja 3 õde. Tänapäeval teame me Charles Martin Hall`i, kui leiutajat ja inseneri. Esimest korda puutus Hall keemiaga kokku 12 aastaselt, kui ta tegi kodus mineraalidega katseid. Katsete tegemisel kasutas ta käepäraseid kodust leitud vahendeid, kuid hiljem juba, kui ta oli Oberlini Kolledzi esmakursuslane, sai ta laenata vahendeid sealsest kooli laborist. Suure huvi keemia ja kõige sellega seonduva vastu sai ta oma õppejõult Frank Fanning Jewett`lt, kes näitas talle alumiiniumi tükki ja ütles, et kes suudab seda kergema vaevaga ja säästlikumalt toota, see saab rikkaks. See oli ka suureks ajendiks uurimisel. Siiski see lugu tundub olevat rohkem ,,müüt", kui fakt. Tema esimeseks õppeallikaks oli õpik, mille ta sai oma isa kabineti riiulilt. Hiljem õppis ta kooli kõrvalt ka iseseisvalt oma kodus. Peale selle, et Jewett Hallile väljakutse tegi, ta muretses talle ka labori, materjalid ja andis kaasaegsed keemia teadmised
• Westward expansion – people can think about optimistic things happening when they think about the positive things happening in the country • United States as an urban nature: skyscrapers, full of people etc Intellectual and literary trends • Darwinism • Social Darwinism • Rejection of Romanticism – writing moves away from romanticism • New Realism • Regionalism (Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Joel Chandler Harris) MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) • relied very strongly on his personal experience • writes in very plain language • tension in progress and pragmatism • much of his fiction grew out of his childhood • Twain did not write about nostalgia • he's somebody who understood that it was his youth that made him and maybe America what it was
in Washington, D.C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience. Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in his adopted hometown of Washington D.C. He is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Douglass' works · A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) · "The Heroic Slave." Autographs for Freedom. Ed. Julia Griffiths Boston: Jewett and Company, 1853. 174-239. · My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) · Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892) · Douglass also edited the abolitionist newspaper The North Star from 1847 to 1851; The North Star was merged with another paper and became Frederick Douglass' Paper. 8 Famous quotes
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