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- 1431: Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin
- ... that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the 1920's. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and created absolute music. George Gershwin was born in ... proceeded with the infamous first opening whale of Rhapsody in Blue. That caught their attention and it received a standing ovation. With this performance Gershwin had just opened the doors to concert halls everywhere for American composers. No one ever took an American seriously until Gershwin used his unique style of composing to produce this piece (Smith Lecture). As Gershwin s fame and wealth spread, so did his social status. ...
- 1432: Mk Ghandhi
- ... dead bodies. Gandhi s law of suffering, interested me the most throughout the essay. He feels that suffering is the result of an action that I agree with. But he also feels a raise of revolution comes from suffering in individuals or groups. When one can identify that raise of revolution them selves or a figure of a godly man can open your eyes to it. Then the journey of your revolution begins with the direction of that identifier or initiated by yourself. This law of suffering is the only theory of Gandhi s that I slightly agree with. During the time of slavery in India, ...
- 1433: Maya Angelou 2
- ... she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who ... of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for the southern Leadership Conference. She Commission on the Observance of International women's Year. Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African -American woman to hit the bestseller lists with her 'I know Why the Caged bird Sings " helds the Great Hall audience spellbound with stories of her own childhood. Maya Angelou's second achievement was in 1971 ... award in communications. She received numerous honorary degrees and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the Sergejs Golubevs National Commission on the Observance of International Woman's Year and by President Ford to the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is one the board of the American Film Institute and is one of the few female members of the Director's Guild. In the film industry, through her work ...
- 1434: Martin Luther King And Malcolm X Comparison
- ... created ideas drawn from many different cultural traditions and was a christian Pasifist. He was Born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929, and was the son of a preacher. Dr. King and the other African-American community leaders held a meeting to organize future action for Blacks. They named their organization the Montgomery Improvement Association and elected Dr. King as its president. On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, a African-American, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. The police were called and Mrs. Parks was arrested Mrs. Parks was not the first African-American to be arrested for this "crime." But she was the first to be arrested who was well know in the Montgomery African-American community. She was once the secretary to the president of the ...
- 1435: US and Russia relations after the defeat of the USSR:
- ... training and exchanges" (Pickering 102). But the help of the US wasn't just a gift; America had something they got out of the help they were providing in building the Russian economy. All big American companies went to the Russian market. "American firms are convinced of Russia's extraordinary potential as the market for US trade and as a host for investments" (Pickering 102). Russians were prefer to buy American clothes, food, cars and electrical devises. All new-born Russian private companies preferred to partner with American companies. Each year Americans were increasing the sales of their own products on the Russian market. As ...
- 1436: D-Day
- ... in the Pacific-Japan-leaving Britain alone, with most of its resources spent in mounting the invasion. That would enable Nazi Germany to gather all of its strength against the Soviet Union. By the time American forces returned to Europe, if they ever returned. Germany might be master of the entire continent. Although fewer Allied ground troops went ashore on D-Day than on the first day of the earlier invasion ... in total history's greatest amphibious operation, involving on the first day 5,000 ships, the largest armada ever assembled; 11,000 aircraft (following months of preliminary bombardment); and approximately 154,000 British, Canadian and American soldiers, including 23,000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a long-range deception plan on a scale the world had never before seen and the clandestine operations of tens of thousands of Allied resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander for the allies in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, established a combined American-British headquarters known as COSSAC, for Chief of Staff to the Supreme ...
- 1437: John Paul Jones
- ... to America and changed his name to John Paul Jones of which he was called for the rest of his life. He arrived in America just as the Revolutionary War was starting and joined the revolution effort. He was made a first lieutenant on an American ship and gradually, through his almost unbelievable successes, became captain of his own ship. He successfully completed many missions and raids against the British and as a result they considered him a full-blooded pirate ... again came upon two armed ships they sailors were frightened but it turned out to be the Pallas and the Vengeance. On the morning of September 23, 1779, a day which would be remembered in American History for more than five hundred years, The Bonhomme Richard and its fleet spotted, and began to chase a large ship that appeared to be the ship that John Paul Jones had forced ashore ...
- 1438: Looking Ahead: The Future Of Post Keynesian Economics
- ... titled "What is Post Keynesian Economics" presented at the 4th International Post Keynesian Workshop at the University of Tennessee, I argued that Keynes's Treatise and the General Theory provided the groundwork for an intellectual revolution in economics. By questioning some basic assumptions and bringing money and financial markets into the determination of real output and employment, Keynes posed a serious challenge to the classical model that is still relevant today. Unfortunately this revolution was aborted and replaced by what has been called the "grand neoclassical synthesis" by such economists as Samuelson, Solow, Tobin and Modigliani in the 1950s and 1960s. I also argued that the "new" Keynesians are ... apply it to the facts of experience. (Keynes, 1936, p.3) The classical theory which Keynes refers to is still the foundation of orthodox economic thought represented in monetarism, the neoclassical synthesis and the counter revolution of the new classical critique of Keynesian economics. Looking ahead we can see two fronts that post Keynesians must deal with which is reflected in the two primary goals Keynes set out for the ...
- 1439: Henry Adams
- ... org, 1). Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a Puritan. Puritans believed that sex (women especially) was just a form of fertility and reproduction; otherwise sex was a sin (Adams, 384). American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless (Adams, 385). The only sculptures and paintings of women that Adams viewed with understanding were those like the Virgin Mary, who was always seen as non-sexual. ...
- 1440: The War of 1812
- ... the United States was declared to be the winners of many of the wars which took place during the War of 1812, the Royal Navy was quite successful in maintaining it's blockade of the American Coast as well as practically neutralizing the American Navy. Great Britain never thought of the War as being highly important, in fact it was just seen as a small added burden. To them, they saw the United States attempting to have revenge on ... 1812 did not have profound consequences for Great Britain, it had a strong effect on Canada. Canada felt that they were fighting for life and liberty and did a lot bringing together those of Anglo-American and French origin, it also had a strong effect in strengthening Canada. In the United States, the war had economic and political effects, as well as effects on their military.. Although the war caused ...
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