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- 1811: Traffic Control: The Need For Change
- ... and highways skyrockets, new methods of traffic control and organization have become necessary, by utilizing new methods of transportation or by revising the current system. In the past 15 years, the number of vehicles on American roads has increased 41.9%, the number of licensed drivers has increased 29.3%, but the size of the general population has only risen 15.9% (Clark 387-404). Between the years 1975 and 1985 ... the increase of women in the work force and the expansion of businesses to the suburbs, traffic jams have increased dramatically over the past few years (Koepp 55). As a consequence of traffic jams, the American population was delayed 722 million hours in 1985 (55), costing the average citizen approximately $800 (Doan 64). In 1984, drivers, while waiting in their cars during traffic jams, used three billion gallons of gasoline (Koepp ... sheltered bus stops were built, and five maintenance shops were constructed (57). In the future, the city plans to keep making improvements, including increasing the number of bus express lanes on the highways (57). The American Public Transit Association ranked Houston as the city with the safest bus system in the entire United States (57). Carpooling, commonly called ridesharing, provides another alternative to the use of the automobile. Many cities ...
- 1812: George Lucas
- Part I, Summary: THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back…the list goes on and on. Although many have not heard of each of these films, everyone certainly has to know the man behind them. George Lucas has ... production of a movie, as fresh and insightful today as it was in 1968 (1, 77)." This, too, also helped advance Lucas in his career. In addition, Coppola was in the mists of setting up American Zoetrope, a production company, with George’s help. This company made a deal with Warner Brothers to make five films for $3.5 million dollars, including Lucas’s THX. Coppola, however, made George write it ... a filmmaker (1, 98)." After THX, Lucas wanted to make a movie that would "dispel his image as a technobrat, a cold, mechanical filmmaker devoid of warmth and humor(1, 101)." He offered the movie, American Graffiti, to United Artists, whose president suggested a two-picture deal (the other being Star Wars). Lucas had Richard Walters, a classmate at USC, write the film with Gary Kurtz as producer. After he ...
- 1813: Organized Crime Wthin The Unit
- ... movement toward crime can be explained by Cloward and Ohlin’s Differential Opportunities Theory. This states that there are both legitimate and illegitimate means to achieve desired goals. In the immigrants’ case, they “want what American society offers and expects of all – success – yet they are prevented from legitimately achieving this goal because of opportunity blockage, that is poverty and discrimination” (O’Kane 27). In turn, the immigrants turned to a ... United States. The face of organized crime has changed within the past few decades, however, and is currently in a period of transition. Whereas the Italian-Americans were once the rulers of the underworld, African-American and Hispanic involvement has been on the increase. This cultural shift is significant because it alters the infrastructure of organized crime within the United States. Criminal groups form in different manners than in previous years. Within Italian-American organized crime, kinship is the primary segue into organized crime. Among African-Americans and Hispanics, however, there are two distinct types of linkages among criminals. First are causal relationships, “which serve to introduce individuals ...
- 1814: Mescaline
- ... or increased breathing, as well as increased heart rate and blood pressure. Long term effects also include chromosomal damage and possible birth defects. Possibly due to it's euphoric qualities, Mescaline is used in Native American and Mexican Indian rituals and is believed to hold great spiritual power. Mescaline also provides feelings of a union with nature, due to a dissolution of personal identity. The Nahuati Indians called it teonanacatl- “God's flesh.” Peyote is a sacrament of the Native American Church, and its use in ceremony is considered to be a form of communion with God. An elaborate ritual is held and the user uses his or her visions for spiritual guidance and enlightenment. The Native American church continues to practice this fundamental ritual despite persecution and the illegality of it and has done so since it was adopted from South American tribes. The hallucinations brought on by the use of ...
- 1815: AIDS
- ... made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "Top Secret" is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named "AIDS: US- Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology ... declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of these two forms could have evolved into the other. According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS ...
- 1816: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... atmosphere was filled with resources to stimulate literary creativity, such as the second World War and the Great Depression (Roache 102: 14). The social genre of the time gave way to the broad appeal to American life and the focus of freedom leading to original stories and historical themes (Folsom 3: 953). Of course, the past would remain a constant influence. Some common topics were the Civil War and the settlement ... brought up person who reflected his past in historical writing and poetry. The theme of Benet's poetry ranged widely. The most successful poem is the novel-length John Brown's Body, whose theme is American victory. Being paid for at such a high level, this poem had been well worth it's wait. He won a Pulitzer Prize for it and gave his personal version of history center stage (Magill 1: 170,174). Stephen Vincent Benet wrote books as well as poems, radio scripts, and plays. His editing and contributions to American literature and his family of Americans may have been a bigger gift than anyone could ever receive. Knowledge is the power Benet used and it was the power that gave American literature the victory ...
- 1817: Animal Experimentation
- ... experiments that were expected to cause pain in vertebrates. As animal experimentation increased in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, animal sympathizers in this country also became alarmed. The first American antivivisectionist society was founded in Philadelphia in 1883, followed by the formation of similar societies in New York in 1892 and Boston in 1895. Like their predecessors in England, these groups sought to abolish the use of animals in biomedical research, but they were far less prominent or influential than the major animal-protection societies, such as the American SPCA, the Massachusetts SPCA, and the American Humane Association (Turner, 1980). Unsuccessful in its efforts toward the end of the nineteenth century to abolish the use of laboratory animals (Cohen and Loew, 1984), the antivivisectionist movement declined in the early twentieth ...
- 1818: Ernest Hemingway 4
- Ernest Hemingway was a major American novelist and short story writer whose principal themes were violence, machismo, and the nature of what is called now male bonding. His renowned style for his firmly non-intellectual fiction is characterized by understatement and ... running away several times. Hemingway had many jobs before becoming a novelist and short story writer. He also had many influences, from his father s suicide to painters that influenced his writings. Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist and short story writer, whose style is characterized by crispness, childish dialogue and emotional understatement that has made him a major novelist and short story writer (Riley 231). Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak ... I, he converted to Catholicism and he often referred to himself for the rest of his life as a rotten Catholic (Lesnaik 20). Hemingway married four times during his life, each time to a Midwestern American girl. First he married Hadley Richardson on September 3, 1921. On May 10, 1927 he married Pauline Pfeiffer. On November 21, 1940 he married Martha Gellhorn. Finally on March 14, 1946 he married Mary ...
- 1819: The Rise of Capitalism and its Opposition
- ... the division of labor and the extension of markets almost limitless possibilities for society to expand its wealth through manufacture and trade. The ideas of Smith provided an ideological and intellectual background for the Industrial Revolution that transformed society and the world during the 19th century. However, the development of Industrial Capitalism gained serious opposition. Abusive child labor, long working hours, and dangerous and unhealthy workplaces were common. These conditions led ... of laissez-faire and the division of labor, Smith opened the way for industrialization and the emergence of modern capitalism in the 19th century. His ideas provided the ideological and intellectual background for the Industrial Revolution that transformed society and the world. The character of the industrialization process included the introduction of mechanical power to replace human and animal power in the production of goods and services. Nevertheless, as the mechanization ... capitalism, in which land and capital is owned collectively, by society, and that the products of the system should be distributed according to need. Thus, the philosophy of Marx and Engels influenced future opposition and revolution's against capitalism. For most of the 20th century capitalism had faced much opposition. World War I brought revolution and a Marxist-based communism to Russia. The war also spawned the Nazi system in ...
- 1820: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- ... not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war....We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection...." (The American Presidents, pg. 137-138) In his famous "House Divided" speech, which launched his campaign for the Senate in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared that "...a house divided against itself cannot stand....I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." (Images of the Civil War, pg 18) In his inaugural address Abraham Lincoln also spoke of peace and appealed to the American nationalism of Southerners. Lincoln's insistence on maintaining the Union was as firm as Davis's insistence on separation. "The central idea pervading this struggle," said Lincoln in 1861, "is the necessity is upon us ... Six hundred and twenty thousand soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War. "If the same proportion of Americans to the total population were to be killed in a war fought today, the number of American war dead would be five million." (Images of the Civil War, Introduction) Abraham Lincoln displayed leadership through his decisions and embraced the people through his eloquent speeches--which remain some of the most moving ...
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