ABRAHAM LINCOLN
.... made: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He then warned that he did not recognize the secession from the union of the southern states: "...no State, upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the union...resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void...acts of violence within any State or States against the authority o .....
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Amelia Earhart
.... them. Several months after her
arrival in California Amelia and her father went to an "aerial meet" at Daugherty
Field in Long Beach. She had become very interested in flying. The next day, given a
helmet and goggles, she boarded the open-cockpit biplane for a 10 minute flight over
Los Angeles.
Amelia had heard of a woman pilot who gave flying instructions and shortly
afterwards began lessons with Anita "Neta" Snook at Kinner Field near Long
Beach. She h .....
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Air Planes During Ww1
.... airplane
resembled a large box kite, with a smaller box at the front end of a long,
cloth-covered frame. The engine and propeller were at the rear, and the pilot
stood in a basket just forward of the main rear wing. Not until near the end of
1907 did anyone in Europe fly for 1 min; Henri Farman did so in an airplane
built by Voisin.
In great contrast were the flights of the Wright brothers. Orville, in the U.S.,
demonstrated a Flyer for the Army Signal Corps at Fort Myer, Virginia,
beginnin .....
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Ancient Summerian Mythology
.... in the Old Testament is similar to the motive in the flood story in the Sumerian culture. This motive was to punish the wickedness of men. The flood happened in a city called Shurrupak. It stands on the bank of the Euphrates River. The city grew old and the gods that were in it grew old. The city was in an uproar and the god Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the god in the council, “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.” (Bailey 59.) The .....
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Aquinas And Hobbes
.... Aquinas divides emotion into the desires for the sensory and reactions to threats and difficulties. Aquinas states that sometimes the sensory desires can become excessive, and that we should exercise moderation. This is similar to the Epicurean idea of a life of moderate pleasures.
Bourke also points out that Aquinas believed that each function of his moral psychology could be perfected through practice and making proper action into habit. Aquinas believed that by perfecting the volition, one wou .....
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Articles Of Confederation
.... country that could support and defend itself and its people.
Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts symbolized the feebleness of the nation, and inadequacy of the Articles of Confederation. Although, some states opposed a radical change in governmental form , it was inevitable by 1787.
The Articles of Confederation provided effective management of expansion for the United States. It also gave Congress ample control over guidance of the country. However, The Articles were insufficient in several important matters. Without an executive branch the country lacked .....
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A Timeline Of The Holocaust
.... as a basic part of Nazi rule until May 8, 1945, when the war, and the Nazi regime, ended.
The events of the Holocaust occurred in two main phases: 1933-1939 and 1939-1945.
I. 1933-1939:
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor, the most powerful position in the German government, by the aged President Hindenburg who hoped Hitler could lead the
nation out of its grave political and economic crisis. Hitler was the leader of the right-wing National Socialist German Workers Pa .....
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Allen Ginsberg
.... 60’s he took advantage of this and annoyed and angered one important official after another. By doing so he was kicked out of Cuba and Prague. He was also a fimilar figure at protest against the Vietnam War. Ginsberg was said to be one of the few Beat writers who had genuine literary talent. Helen Vendler said “Ginsberg is responsible for loosening the breath of American poetry at mid-century.” Allen Grossman stated that between Howl and Kaddish, Ginsberg lost his humor and gained a kind of horror which e .....
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Atomic Bomb
.... greater than the length of three football fields. The temperature at ground zero reached five thousand degrees centigrade. The shock wave and its reverse effect reached speeds close to the speed of sound. A mushroom cloud rose to twenty thousand feet in the air, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. Three days later, on August 9, 1945 the United States dropped a second atomic bomb. Its target, Nagasaki- a port city in Southern Japan was thirty percent destroyed, and approximately forty th .....
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Alcoholics Anonymous
.... 28). For the first time, it was shown that sobriety could be mass-produced.
Meanwhile, in New York, Dr. Bob and Bill had organized an over-all trusteeship for the growing Fellowship. All efforts to raise money failed. Nevertheless, the foundation managed to open a tiny office in New York to handle inquires and to distribute the A.A. book ( Fingarette 30). An article was carried by Liberty magazine in the fall of 1939, resulting in some 800 urgent calls for help. At the year’s end, the member .....
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Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
.... people to the camps, and violently forced them off the train. All of the people's property was left on the train also. They prisoners were sent into two different lines, one for women and the other for men. The lines moved into the place were a procedure called Selektion took place. The ones who could work were not killed at this time, but the women, children, and others that couldn't work were gassed. The prisoners that were to work, had their clothes taken, heads shaved, got sterilized, and we .....
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American Reconstruction
.... to plantation labor. In Mississippi, one law said that each person had to have a written proof of employment. In some states, children could be forced to work by their former owners, without their parent's approval. With Johnson as President and the Black codes in the southern states, Reconstruction wasn't making a good start towards it's goals in economic terms.
Opposition to the black codes came from the Freedmen's Bureau. This federal agency had been set up near the end of the war to distribu .....
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ASSATA Shakur
.... by two separate factions of the ruling class. Further, Assata was educated as a child that the slaves hadn't fought back, yet truly was, hundred of black people had got together to fight for their freedom.
Much of Assata's revolutionary inspiration came about from her observing of her society, especially her neighborhoods. It came apparent to her that something was not right within the quality of housings in her city blocks. Homes were usually poor in a certain city block while another was lavishing. T .....
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Attitudes Towards Animals In N
.... the Neolithic people would hunt only out of necessity for food.
The deer hunt scene shows the animals as being stronger than humans, while the lion hunt scene shows the animals as being weak as compared to King Ashurbanipal. The two adult deer are much larger than any of the humans in the first scene. Humans are usually slightly taller than most deer, but here the deer are drawn about twice as tall as the humans. It also takes several humans with weapons to hunt the deer. In the lion scene, all o .....
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Atomic Bomb
.... of a mushroom billowed upward reaching in the sub stratosphere up to and elevation of 41,000 feet"(Johnson 25). The development of this deadly weapon made Truman's decision much easier. He defended his decision with the prospect that at the moment Japan saw the great power of the atomic bomb, they would surrender, therefore saving American lives. Other benefits included "the saving of Japanese lives (compared with the staggering death toll that an invasion would have caused) and being relieved of t .....
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