|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1191 - 1200 of 8618 matching essays
- 1191: Player Piano
- ... industrial plant and its first general manager. All Paul's career is before him, waiting for him. He is a candidate for a better job, and he might grow up in the hierarchy of the American industry to be offered the seat of general manager of the state industrial division. His wife Anita relies on him and she still keeps telling him to be a correct son of his father. She ... he starts to think about the system of the society and social life, about his professional career, which he starts to see as not as important as it seemed to him before, and about the revolution. He starts planning. Firstly he wants to remain only an internal revolutionary. He buys one of the last farms in the country and he tells his wife to come to live there with him. She ... being hidden in a cell as a prisoner, and he is only an Official Head of the Brotherhood just a puppet to be shown to people. From this you can see that the idea of revolution was not bad at all, but it turned worse with the people's want for might. So it happens. The government does not accept their request, which means violence is used. The common people ...
- 1192: FDRs Influence As President
- ... of the twentieth century. Those claims can be backed up by the overwhelming support that he received from his citizens throughout his four terms in office. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began a new era in American history by ending the Great Depression that the country had fallen into in 1929. His social reforms gave people a new perspective on government. Government was not only expected to protect the people from foreign ... first nominee to ever write an acceptance speech. In this speech, he brought emotions from the audience in his last line, "I pledge to you, I pledge to myself, to a new deal for the American people." During the November campaign against Hoover, Roosevelt suggested a few parts of the so called "New Deal". He spoke of relief and public works money. He wanted to develop a plan to cut agricultural ... or labor laws. As much foreign policy experience as he had, he talked very little of it during the campaign. Many believe that he was simply trying to home in on the problems that the American public saw most prominent at the time. When it came to election day, Roosevelt was the only viable alternative to Hoover, who many blamed for the Great Depression, although critics argue that it was ...
- 1193: Life And Legend Of Howard Hugh
- ... to pinpoint what events and people would prove to be an effective story. This was certainly the case for Howard R. Hughes. Son to the wealthy Howard Hughes Sr., Howard became the interest of the American people and newspapers for most of his life. Being deemed one of the most famous men of the mid-20th century was greatly attributed to Hughes’s skills as an industrialist, aviator, and motion-picture ... backdrop. Some days, everyone would get paid just to stand around. Many months in production, Hell’s Angels seemed to be drawing to a close, when Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer brought an audible revolution to Hollywood. Sound became the standard by which pictures were judged and Hughes’ film lacked just one thing: sound. The film, at length, edited, cut and fitted with titles, was given an unannounced preview in ... twice Hughes’s investment. Bored with the movies and having proven himself, it was time for Hughes to move on to something more exciting. In the summer of 1932, Howard Hughes took a job with American Airlines under the name Charles Howard. His salary was $250 a week, an excellent wage during the great depression (unless you’re already a millionaire.) Hughes masqueraded in this position for two months, carrying ...
- 1194: A Brief Overview Of Psychedelics
- ... modern world such drugs have developed an almost taboo status, it is impossible to ignore the tales of enlightenment reported by ancient cultures and even those rebels that use such drugs illegally today. While the American government has been one of the main influences on today s society s negative attitudes towards psychedelic drugs, they have granted some scientist and psychologists permission to experiment with such agents, and despite the controversy ... hallucinogenic ingredient of the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana and other psilocybe and conocybe species that grow on the pacific coast of North, South, and Central America. Ritual use of psilocybin and mescaline among Mexican and Central American cultures is known to date back to 1500 BC (O Brien, 1984). While American Indians are well known for their use of psychedelic agents other cultures have also been known to use psychedelics, especially psilocybin. So-called magic mushrooms also grow naturally in many parts of Europe and ...
- 1195: World Wars of the 20th Century
- World Wars of the 20th Century The failure of the Europeans to learn from the American Civil War led them to fight the same kind of war in World War I. The armies of Europe and the United States fought for four years only to end in a stalemate. Nothing was settled despite massive loss of life. Some of the techniques used were much the same as those used in the American Civil War. Like building of fortifications and digging of trenches before charging the enemy with rifle fire and the falling back to the trenches if no gain was made. The armies of World War I ... 120,000 at the start of the war.?????dont under stand sentence???? By 1917 the British Army had increased tenfold the French land forces had been enlarged to 2,600,000 and in 1918 the American Army in France numbered 1,200,000. It was the addition of troops from the United States that made it possible to defeat German forces numbering about 2.5 million. Army organization for all ...
- 1196: Andy Worhal
- Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to ... recognition, becoming an instant celebrity, having gone from respected commercial illustrator to controversial and influential artist. Such Pop Art images as Warhol’s soup cans and Lichtenstein’s comic book panels jumped from the vast American consumer culture into the realm of high artistic and aesthetic recognition. It is not known whether Lichtenstein or Warhol was the first to displace commercial images from the media to modernist painting, but Warhol, of ... consumer society, including Coca-Cola bottles and tins of Cambell’s Soup. Thus, the once struggling commercial illustrator transformed into one of the most recognized and influential artists of the century, considered the "progenitor of American Pop Art." Death And Disaster In the summer of 1962, Warhol’s friend Henry Geldzahler laid out a copy the Daily News while the two were having lunch. On the cover, the headline was " ...
- 1197: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- ... to see. Sandra Cisneros The first book I read was Growing Up Chicana/o. On the cover the purpose of the book is stated: "Stories of the joys, pains, frustrations and triumphs of a Mexican American childhood - twenty Chicana/o writers explore their search for identity in America." The first short story that I read from this book was by Sandra Cisneros and its title is "Eleven." Sandra Cisneros' "Eleven" first ... Fiction (1992), and the Anisfield Wolf Award (1992). Cisneros also wrote My Wicked Ways in 1980 and The House on Mango Street in 1984, which in 1985 was a recipient of a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (Lopez 155). After reading "Eleven," which takes up no more that five pages, I realized why Woman Hollering Creek won so many literary awards. It's a unique, little "growing-up" story unlike ... by the Indian tribe because he didn't have any hunting skills. Rejection is a part of life that is hard to accept. Denise Chavez The next excerpt I read from a book titled Hispanic American Literature and was written by Denise Chavez who currently teaches at New Mexico State University (Lopez 251). In 1970, Chavez won the Best Play Award from New Mexico State University for her play The ...
- 1198: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... opportunity to make extra money, regardless of opposing economic systems. Back in Cuba, Castro has begun to make enemies for himself. The many policies he has instilled angered many who fought beside him in the revolution to overthrow Batista and many didn’t approve of the socialist reforms he made such as the naturalization of businesses and his collectivization of agriculture. Castro felt he needed protection against the United States and ... As time, went on, Cuba became increasingly dependent on military and economic aid provided by the Soviet Union. Russia made up much of the Cuban trade interactions including the purchase of sugar and nickel. The American government became aware of Cuba’s growing success and began to wonder if Cuba would act as an example of successful Socialism, persuade other countries in the Western Hemisphere to revert to a socialist form of government or even serve as a base for anti-American propaganda. The United States was more threatened than ever by this socialist island nation on the rise. The Cuban Missile Crisis The date is October 14th, 1962. U.S. spy planes are making a ...
- 1199: Is the Unites States Political System a Legitimate Democracy?
- ... occur. The U.S. government may be considered legitimate in some aspects, and illegitimate in others. Because voting is class-biased, it may not be classified as a completely legitimate process. Although in theory the American system calls for one vote per person, the low rate of turnout results in the upper and middle classes ultimately choosing candidates for the entire nation. Income and education determine class, and differing levels of ... considered 60% legitimate. Furthermore, most of what the federal government does never reaches the public. Public opinion polls represent the small percentage of issues that people have heard about. Though the individual workings of the American government may not be particularly democratic, it must be somewhat legitimate overall because without legitimacy, government fails. However, "the people who run for and win public office are not necessarily the most intelligent, best informed ... was designed not to work, complete democracy is most likely impossible. Bibliography 1). Dye, Thomas R. Who's Running America? The Clinton Years. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995. 2). Lind, Michael. The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
- 1200: Romanticism
- ... common man and so forth. This basically explains the content of this essay. The essay will be a deeper explanation of these things related to four of the main themes in romanticism. Specific examples of revolution, individuality, nature, and love will be included. The leading item in romanticism was passion. Almost everything, whether it be art, music, or literature, was shown with extreme passion. This could very well be the reason ... against a French invasion. This painting was painted in 1814 after king Ferdinand was restored to the Spanish throne. In literature Schiller's famous poem "Ode to Joy" written on the eve of the French Revolution showed his firm beliefs in human rights to dignity and freedom plus his hopes for universal brotherhood. He is placed in the transition between the Enlightenment and The Romantic Era. His poem is eternally recognized ... had a very considerable impact in this area at the time. He is the single most important figure for understanding the transition between the Enlightenment and romanticism. He was revered as a forefather of the revolution due to his analysis of social injustices and beliefs in human dignity and freedom. He raised individuality to a state of "prime importance". His thoughts on individualism seem to be the philosophical foundation for ...
Search results 1191 - 1200 of 8618 matching essays
|
