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Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
Lease in the 1890s
Born
Mary Elizabeth Clyens
September 11, 1850
Ridgway, Pennsylvania
Died
October 29, 1933(1933-10-29) (aged 83)
Callicoon, New York
Occupation
Lecturer, editor
Political party
People's Party
Spouse(s)
Charles L. Lease (m. 1873–1902)
Mary Elizabeth Lease (September 11, 1850[a] – October 29, 1933) was an American lecturer, writer, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but she was best known for her work with the Populist party. She was born to Irish immigrants Joseph P. and Mary Elizabeth (Murray) Clyens, in Ridgway, Pennsylvania. In 1895, she wrote The Problem of Civilization Solved, and in 1896, she moved to New York City where she edited the democratic newspaper, World. In addition, she worked as an editor for the National Encyclopedia of American Biography. Mary Elizabeth Lease was also known as Mary Ellen Lease. She was called "Queen Mary" (after the British Queen consort, Mary of Teck), "Mother Lease" by her supporters and "Mary Yellin" by her enemies. Lease died in Callicoon, New York.
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1 Early life
2 Political career
3 Split with Populists
4 Later life
5 Famous quotes
6 Notes
7 References
7.1 Works cited
8 External links
Early life[edit]
At the age of 20, she moved to Kansas to teach school in Osage Mission (St. Paul, Kansas), and three years later she married Charles L. Lease, a local pharmacist. They lost their Kingman County farm in the Panic of 1874 and moved to Denison, Texas where she studied law.[1] The Leases and their four children later moved to Wichita, Kansas, where she took a leading role in civic and social activities.
Political career[edit]
In 1888, she began to work for the Union Labor Party and gave a speech at their state convention. She was also involved in African American suffrage. From there she became involved in the movement that would become the Populist Party. She believed that big business had made the people of America into "wage slaves", declaring, "Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master."[2] Although she is widely believed to have exhorted Kansas farmers to "raise less corn and more hell", she later said that the admonition had been invented by reporters. Lease decided to let the quote stand because she thought "it was a right good bit of advice."[3]
By 1890, her involvement in the growing revolt of Kansas farmers against high mortgage interest and railroad rates had placed her in the forefront of the People's (Populist) Party. She was recognized as being a powerful orator who was adept at expressing the discontent of the people. Emporia editor William Allen White, who did not share her political views, wrote on one occasion that "she could recite the multiplication table and set a crowd hooting and harrahing at her will."[4] While many considered her speeches inspirational, the fervor of her words, and the vehemence of her conviction, made others hesitant to support her cause. Farmers and labor unions loved her, while the press and the major party politicians criticized her mercilessly. Most went far beyond disagreeing with the content of Lease's arguments, rather focusing their attacks on her looks, self-confidence, and her "unwomanly" argumentative behavior. One reporter described her as "untrained, and while displaying plenty of a certain sort of power, is illogical, lacks sequence and scatters like a 10-gauge gun."[5] A Republican editor similarly characterized her as "the petti-coated smut-mill. Her venomous tongue is the only thing marketable about the old harpy, and we suppose she is justified in selling it where it commends the highest price."[6] Despite the abuse, Lease persevered, continuing to deliver her message throughout the United States. She would eventually make more than 160 speeches for the Populist cause, campaigning all over Kansas, as well as the Far West and the South.
Split with Populists[edit]
Lease began drifting away from the Populist Party after Populist Governor Lorenzo D. Lewelling was elected into office. By November 1893, she was reported to have openly criticized the Lewelling administration, only to deny it in an interview several days later.[7]
It would seem that the first interview reflected her true feelings. By December 1893, Lewelling attempted to have her removed from the board of charities, a position which he had appointed her to originally. Lease felt the attempt to have her removed stemmed from her determination to have women's suffrage and temperance as her main focus at the Populist Party's next state convention. Her public outrage at the attempt to remove her prompted other Populist parties to distance themselves from her.
By 1896, Lease had become alienated from the Populist Party, and historian Gene Clanton cites her split with the Populist Party as being a major contributor to the Populist party's defeat in 1894.[8]
Despite her fallout with--and the eventual destruction of--the Populist Party, Lease felt that their work and efforts were ultimately rewarded with the election of Theodore Roosevelt and the national push for reforms she championed years earlier: "In these later years I have seen, with gratification, that my work in the good old Populist days was not in vain. The Progressive party has adopted our platform, clause for clause, plank by plank. Note the list of reforms which we advocated which are coming into reality. Direct election of senators is assured. Public utilities are gradually being removed from the hands of the few and placed under the control of the people who use them. Women suffrage is now almost a national issue . . . The seed we sowed out in Kansas did not fall on barren ground."[9]
Later life[edit]
She divorced her husband in 1902 and spent the rest of her life with one or another of her children in the East until her death in 1933.
Literary scholar Brian Attebery claimed Mary Elizabeth Lease to have been the model for Dorothy in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.[10]
Famous quotes[edit]
"Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street. . . .Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. . . ."[11]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ In her later years, she claimed 1853 as her birth year.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Wallis, Eileen V. (2008). Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics. New York: Infobase Publishing. pp. 280–281. ISBN 978-1-4381-1032-5.
Jump up ^ "Wall Street Owns The Country" speech, circa 1890
Jump up ^ Clanton, O. Gene. A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903.
Jump up ^ "Mary Elizabeth Lease", Kansas State Historical Society
Jump up ^ Clanton 1969, p. 75.
Jump up ^ Clanton 1969, p. 76.
Jump up ^ Clanton 1969, p. 142.
Jump up ^ Clanton 1969, p. 146.
Jump up ^ Hicks, John D. The Populist Revolt, A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party. The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1931. p. 421
Jump up ^ Attebery, Brian. The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (Bloomington, 1980), pp. 86–87
Jump up ^ Zinn, Howard (2005). A People's History of the United States. New York: HarperCollins. p. 288. ISBN 9780060838652.
Works cited[edit]
Clanton, O. Gene (1969). Kansas Populism; ideas and men. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. OCLC 22820.
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Wall Street Owns The Country by Mary Elizabeth Lease
Speech to the Women's Christian Temperance Union by Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Accommodation reflex
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The accommodation reflex (or accommodation-convergence reflex) is a reflex action of the eye, in response to focusing on a near object, then looking at a distant object (and vice versa), comprising coordinated changes in vergence, lens shape and pupil size (accommodation). It is dependent on cranial nerve II (afferent limb of reflex), superior centers (interneuron) and cranial nerve III (efferent limb of reflex). The change in the shape of the lens is controlled by the ciliary muscles inside the eye. Changes in contraction of the ciliary muscles alter the focal distance of the eye, causing nearer or farther images to come into focus on the retina; this process is known as accommodation.[1] The reflex, controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system, involves three responses; pupil accommodation, lens accommodation, and convergence.
Light from a single point of a distant object and light from a single point of a near object being brought to a focus.
A near object (for example, a computer screen) appears large in the field of vision, and the eye receives light from wide angles. When moving focus from a distant to a near object, the eyes converge. The ciliary muscle constricts making the lens thicker, shortening its focal length. The pupil constricts in order to prevent strongly diverging light rays hitting the periphery of the cornea and the lens from entering the eye and creating a blurred image.
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2 Pupil and lens accommodation
3 Convergence
4 Focus on near objects
5 Focus on distant objects
6 Neural circuit
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Pathway[edit]
Information from the light on each retina is taken to the occipital lobe via the optic nerve and optic radiation (after a synapse in the lateral geniculate body of the posterior thalamus), where it is interpreted as vision. The peristriate area 19 interprets accommodation, and sends signals via the Edinger-Westphal nucleus and the 3rd cranial nerve to the ciliary muscle, the medial rectus muscle and (via parasympathetic fibres) the sphincter pupillae muscle.[2][3]
Pupil and lens accommodation[edit]
During accommodation, the pupil constricts to increase the depth of focus of the eye by blocking the light scattered by the periphery of the cornea. The lens then increases its curvature to become more biconvex, thus increasing refractive power. The ciliary muscles are responsible for the lens accommodation response.[4]
Convergence[edit]
Convergence is the ability of the eye to simultaneously demonstrate inward movement of both eyes toward each other. This is helpful in effort to make focus on near objects clearer. Three reactions occur simultaneously; the eyes adduct, the ciliary muscles contract, and the pupils become smaller.[5][page needed] This action involves the contraction of the medial rectus muscles of the two eyes and relaxation of the lateral rectus muscles. The medial rectus attaches to the medial aspect of the eye and its contraction adducts the eye. The medial rectus is innervated by motor neurons in the oculomotor nucleus and nerve.[4]
Focus on near objects[edit]
The refractive index of the eye’s lens system allows the eye to produce sharply focused images. For example, geometrical optics show that as a distant object is brought closer to the eye, the focus of the object becomes blurrier in the plane behind the retina; however, as a result of the increase in the refractive power of the eye, this image becomes clear. The refractive power mainly resides in the cornea, but the overall refractive power is achieved by the actual lens changing its shape.[6][unreliable medical source?]
In order to fixate on a near object, the ciliary muscle contracts around the lens to decrease its size. The suspensory zonules of Zinn relax and the radial tension around the lens is released. This causes the lens to form a more spherical shape achieving a higher level of refractive power.[6][unreliable medical source?]
Focus on distant objects[edit]
When the eye focuses on distant objects, the lens holds itself in a flattened shape due to traction from the suspensory ligaments. Ligaments pull the edges of the elastic lens capsule towards the surrounding ciliary body and by opposing the internal pressure within the elastic lens, keep it relatively flattened.[6][unreliable medical source?]
Opposite of fixating on a near object, the ciliary muscle relaxes and the diameter of the lens increases to increase the lens’ size. The tension along the suspensory ligaments is increased to flatten the lens and decrease the curvature and achieve a lower refractive power.[6][unreliable medical source?]
Neural circuit[edit]
Three regions make up the accommodation neural circuit, the afferent limb, the efferent limb and the ocular motor neurons that are between the afferent and efferent limb.
The afferent limb of the circuit
This limb contains the main structures; the retina that contains the retinal ganglion axons in the optic nerve, chiasm and tract, the lateral geniculate body, and the visual cortex.[4]
The efferent limb of the circuit
This limb includes Edinger-Westphal nucleus and the oculomotor neurons. The main function of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus is to send axons in the oculomotor nerve to control the ciliary ganglion which in turn, sends its axons in the short ciliary nerve to control the iris and the ciliary muscle of the eye. The oculomotor neurons functions to send its axons in the oculomotor nerve, to control the medial rectus, and converge the two eyes.[4]
Ocular motor control neurons
Neurons that are interposed between the afferent and efferent limbs of this circuit and include the visual association cortex, which determines the image is "out-of-focus, and sends corrective signals via the internal capsule and crus cerebri to the supraoculomotor nuclei. It also includes the supraoculomotor nuclei (located immediately superior to the oculomotor nuclei) that generates motor control signals that initiate the accommodation response and sends these control signals bilaterally to the oculomotor complex.[4]
See also[edit]
Presbyopia
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Watson, Neil V.; Breedlove, S. Marc (2012). Mind's Machine: Foundations of Brain and Behavior. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-87893-933-6. OCLC 843073456.
Jump up ^ Kaufman, Paul L.; Levin, Leonard A.; Alm, Albert (2011). Adler's Physiology of the Eye. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 508. ISBN 0-323-05714-4 – via Google Books.
Jump up ^ Bhatnagar, Subhash Chandra (2002). Neuroscience for the Study of Communicative Disorders. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 185–6. ISBN 978-0-7817-2346-6 – via Google Books.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Dragoi, Valentin. "Chapter 7: Ocular Motor System". Neuroscience Online: An Electronic Textbook for the Neurosciences. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
Jump up ^ Garg, Ashok; Alió, Jorge L., eds. (2010). Strabismus Surgery. Surgical techniques in ophthalmology. New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Pub. ISBN 978-93-80704-24-1. OCLC 754740941.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Anon-779080 (14 August 2008). "Accommodation Reflex". Scribd. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
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Can't Tell Me Nothing
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For the mixtape, see Can't Tell Me Nothing (mixtape).
"Can't Tell Me Nothing"
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"Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been)"
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"Can't Tell Me Nothing" is a song by American hip-hop recording artist Kanye West. It was released on May 15, 2007 as the lead single of his third studio album, Graduation.[1] The song was produced by Kanye West and Atlanta record producer DJ Toomp. It received acclaim from music critics and was listed amongst the best tracks of the year by several publications. "Can't Tell Me Nothing" was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 50th Grammy Awards, but lost to another one of West's songs, "Good Life".[2] Since its release, West has continually reiterated that it is his favorite song he's done.[3] In 2012 Complex named it their song of the decade.[4]
Contents
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1 Background
2 Music and lyrics
3 Reception
4 Music videos
5 Live performances
6 Remixes and other versions
7 Track listing
8 Personnel
9 Charts and certifications
9.1 Weekly charts
9.2 Year-end charts
9.3 Certifications
10 Release history
11 External links
12 References
Background[edit]
The cover art of the single was designed by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Though "Can't Tell Me Nothing" didn't impact pop radio as significantly as the album's subsequent singles, West took pride in the fact that he had attained his very first street anthem with the song.[5][6] The song is featured as the sixth track on Now That's What I Call Music! 26. It was nominated for "Track of the Year" at the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards. It was also featured in the movie The Hangover.
Music and lyrics[edit]
"Can't Tell Me Nothing"
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Despite not being re "Can't Tell Me Nothing" features slow, moody synth-driven production, exemplifying the new sonic direction that would come to dominate much of Graduation.[7] West stated that he drew inspiration from arena rock bands such as The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, elaborating that the song's chords are akin to that of a rock melody.[8][9] He also explained that, with the track, he wanted to make anthemic music and create a theme song for the people.[10] The song contains audio samples of ad-libs provided by Young Jeezy as well as background vocals provided by Connie Mitchell of the Australian electronic group Sneaky Sound System.[11][12]
Lyrically, "Can't Tell Me Nothing" serves as West's reflection on his fame and as such hovers between insecure and confrontational while marked by bitter regret and self-aware defiance.[7] West begins the song by expounding his conflicted feelings regarding wealth and desire, describing a compulsion to spend that overwhelms any and all other objectives in life.[13] He ties this into his perceived overall inability to keep himself together even as he grows into an increasingly prominent figure in the public eye with lyrics like, "I feel the pressure, under more scrutiny / And what do I do? Act more stupidly."[14]
Reception[edit]
PopMatters described "Can't Tell Me Nothing" as a "powerful single."[13] The Chicago Tribune chronicled West's performance as, "defiant, defensive, rueful, sarcastic and deadly passionate."[15] Entertainment Weekly named "Can't Tell Me Nothing" the sixth best song of 2007 while Pitchfork listed the song at number twenty-five in its "Top 100 Tracks of 2007" list and Stylus Magazine cited it as the thirteenth best song of 2007.[7][16][17] The song debuted at number eighty on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 7, 2007, where it eventually peaked at number forty-one.[18][19]
Music videos[edit]
Two separate music videos accompanied "Can't Tell Me Nothing", with the first aired on television and the second made available solely online. The first music video was directed by Hype Williams and released on West's official website on May 25, 2007.[20] To visually complement the thematically distanced, alienated feel of the track, the video was filmed in a desert.[21] It carries a minimal aesthetic, with scenes shot in a barren, wide-open desert landscape. For a limited time, the music video was available as a free download on the U.S. iTunes Store.
On July 25, 2007, West premiered an alternate music video for "Can't Tell Me Nothing" on his website. This version was directed by Michael Blieden and featured comedian Zach Galifianakis and folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham.[22] West had been introduced to Galifianakis' work through his personal trainer, and eventually asked him to perform in his second video after attending one of Galifianakis' stand-up shows in Los Angeles.[23][24] The unscripted, low-budget music video was filmed at Galifianakis' farm in North Carolina and features him and Oldham lip-synching to the song.[25] The alternate video was selected by Rolling Stone as the third best music video of 2007 while Pitchfork cited the version as thirtieth best music video of the decade.[26][27]
Live performances[edit]
On June 1, 2007, West made a surprise appearance at DJ Gomez Warren's set in Los Angeles, California to play "Can't Tell Me Nothing" to an audience which included Sanaa Lathan and Gabrielle Union.[28] He performed the song during his set at Live Earth 2007, before joining The Police and John Mayer onstage to perform "Message in a Bottle" for the concert's finale.[29] On July 7, West performed the song as during his gig at the Manchester Apollo for the Manchester International Festival.[30] West played "Can't Tell Me Nothing” alongside Common, Q-Tip, and Mos Def during impromptu jam session that took place on July 18 at S.O.B.'s in Manhattan hosted by Hot 97, where he served as a DJ battle judge.[31] West and 50 Cent later joined each other onstage to provide a surprise performance before an audience of over 20,000 people for a show held on August 22 in Madison Square Garden during Ciara and T.I.'s Screamfest '07 tour.[32]
On August 7, he performed a medley of "Stronger" and "Can't Tell Me Nothing" during an in-studio appearance on MTV's Total Request Live.[33][34] On September 11, West performed the song live during his appearance on BET's 106 & Park.[35] West performed "Can't Tell Me Nothing" for the opening of the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards on October 13. He performed the song during his surprise appearance at L.A.'s Griffith Park as the launch party for the new T-Mobile Sidekick LX.[36] In midst of a brief European tour, West played the song at Le Zenith in Paris, France, where he expressed difficulty performing after succumbing to emotional distress following a failed attempt to perform "Hey Mama" on November 17, merely one week after his mother's death.[37] After a surprise appearance at a Kid Sister concert in New York's Museum of Natural History on January 26, 2008, West remained onstage to perform "Can't Tell Me Nothing," "Good Life" and "Flashing Lights".[38]
West performed "Can't Tell Me Nothing" alongside Jay-Z at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida for the opening of his Heart of the City Tour on March 22.[39] He performed the song live for the opening of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami's exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum on April 4.[40] Following a performance of their second collaboration "Put On", West and Young Jeezy performed "Can't Tell Me Nothing" at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia for the 13th annual Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash concert on June 13, 2008.[41] West performed "Can't Tell Me Nothing” during his appearance at the Knitting Factory in New York City on September 9.[42] "Can't Tell Me Nothing" was included within the setlist of West's conceptual Glow in the Dark Tour that began in 2008. During the concert, an LCD screen seated behind him displayed a fiery explosion that ignited on the "oh" hook.[8]
Near the end of the tour's North American leg, West performed the song during the final night of Lollapalooza 2008 in his hometown of Chicago, where he co-headlined the festival with Nine Inch Nails.[43] Dressed in an all red outfit, West performed "Can't Tell Me Nothing" during his set a Z100's Jingle Ball in Madison Square Garden on December 12.[44] He performed the song in Hyde Park, London while headlining the second and final day of the 2009 Wireless Festival.[45] West performed "Can't Tell Me Nothing" before an audience of 3,000 students during his free Stay In School benefit concert at Chicago Theatre on July 11, 2009.[46] On August 6 at the Casio G-Shock the World event at Cipriani's on Wall Street, he performed the song in front of a shifting digital display screen that counted down his time onstage.[47]
Remixes and other versions[edit]
The official remix featured Def Jam labelmate Young Jeezy and was later released as a B-side which accompanied Graduation's third single, "Good Life".[48] The extended remix features additional verses from Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes, and was released July 25, 2007.[49] Another remix features West's Rocafella labelmates Beanie Sigel and Freeway. Francis and the Lights recorded a cover of the song for Engine Room Recordings' compilation album Guilt by Association Vol. 2, which was released in November 2008.[50]
Track listing[edit]
Digital download
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" – 4:33
U.S. 12" single'
A-side
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" (Album)
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" (Instrumental)
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" (Remix) (featuring Young Jeezy)
B-side
"Barry Bonds" (Main)
"Barry Bonds" (Instrumental)
"Barry Bonds" (Accapella)
Personnel[edit]
Information taken from Graduation liner notes.[12]
Songwriters: Kanye West, Aldrin Davis
Producers: Kanye West, DJ Toomp
Recorders: Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Tony Rey
Mix engineers: Mike Dean, Andrew Dawson
Keyboards: Darryl Beaton, Chris Rob
Additional vocals: Young Jeezy, Connie Mitchell
Charts and certifications[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2011)
Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[51]
16
France (SNEP)[52]
145
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[53]
107
US Billboard Hot 100[54]
41
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[55]
20
US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)[56]
8
US Pop 100 (Billboard)[57]
55
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[58]
36
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2011)[59]
Peak
position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) 77
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
United States (RIAA)[60]
2× Platinum 2,000,000^
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Release history[edit]
Region
Date
Format
North America May 15, 2011 (2011-05-15) CD, 12", digital download
United Kingdom May 29, 2011 (2011-05-29) CD, digital download
Ireland/International June 11, 2011 (2011-06-11) Digital download
External links[edit]
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" Lyrics at MTV
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" music video on YouTube
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" music video (alternate version) on YouTube
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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