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- 1971: The Dangers of Smoking
- ... important single preventable cause of illness and premature death in North America. In the United States alone, more than 500,000 deaths are attributed to tobacco use each year. This exceeds the total number of American lives lost in all of the wars fought since the country was founded. In 1962 the Royal College of Physicians of London had released a significant study, which concluded: "Cigarette smoking is a cause of ... to prevent tobacco use by children and youth. The National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids is an independent, inclusive organization that works to prevent tobacco use by youth. The Center works in partnership with the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Medical Association, The National Parent Teachers Association, American Lung Association, and one hundred other health, civic, corporate, youth, and religious organizations. Many people will agree that smoking is easy to start ...
- 1972: Sickle Cell Anemia
- ... acids in one spot on the chain. Linus Pauling was a pioneer in sickle cell disease research. In December 1968, Jessie Jackson led a protest against construction companies, trying to force them to hire African American workers. Jackson and his group were arrested for picketing outside one of the constructions sites. When Jackson was about to be released he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. Jackson was suffering from Mononucleosis ... During the seventies the federal government finally acknowledged sickle cell disease as a serious illness that need attention. Before sickle cell was known about it was referred to a black disease because it affected African American most although it was in other races. Nationwide sickle cell screening programs were started but lawmakers concentrated only on African Americans. Many blacks felt they race was being targeted and instead of helping them the screening was used discrimination against the African American race. Congress passed the National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act in 1972. This law established the first national program that provided finding to fight sickle cell anemia. In 1980 Dr. Martin Clin attempted a ...
- 1973: Civil War
- Civil War Civil war was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000 places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it ... It was not only the immensity of the fight but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the strategies of destruction which made the Civil War an event present ever since in the American consciousness. Here are some of the crucial events of the war: the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; Sherman's dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. In fact, Civil War wasn't simply the story of great battles and great generals, it was also an elaborate portrait of ourselves, American people- individuals and families, northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and poor, urban and rural. Twenty years before Civil War started, South and North didn't have a good relationship ...
- 1974: The Mississippi River (huckleb
- Throughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Mississippi River plays a highly significant role. The American landmark represents freedom, in many cases, to the runaway slave Jim. A cornerstone of Huck s maturity during the novel was the Mississippi River. This body of water reveals all that is wrong and ignorant in American society. The ignorance ranges anywhere from slavery to something as petty as a couple of small town swindlers. The Mississippi River was as routine as slavery and cotton plantations in this country s infancy;however ... from almost certain capture. This is almost parallel in time frame to Huck s growing fondness of Jim. Huck now sees Jim as his best friend, not a nigger or a slave. The ignorance of American society during the early- to- mid nineteenth century is astounding. In the modern United States, the thought of slavery is almost extinct. Simple, everyday tasks for many were turned into highly scientific experiments for ...
- 1975: History And Development Of The Internet
- ... users throughout the world. (Leiner, 2). It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today. (Marshall, 1). The Internet started as a Defense Department Cold War experiment in the 1950 s. (Academic American, 225). The government needed a way to relay information between tanks and headquarters so the APRA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) sought a way to let signals from the battlefield reach a headquarters computer using satellites ... was shut down but by this time the internet had become completely public and no longer relied on the original APRAnet. (Diamond, 6). It however still used the TCP/IP technology developed by Cerf. (Academic American, 225) Usenet was a network similar to APRAnet created by graduate students and faculty members of the University of North Caroline and Duke University, who had seen APRAnet but were unable to access the government ... of APRAnet and usenet the internet began to grow exponentially. (Diamond, 11). The internet evolved from a small government project to the fastest growing form of communication it is today. (Blom, 2) Bibliography "Internet." Academic American Encyclopedia. 1996. Diamond, Edwin and Stephen Bates. "The Ancient History of the Internet." American Heritage. Oct. 1995: pp. 34+. In Social Issues Resource Series, Inc. History- Article #17. Blom, Eric. "Ruts in Rural Info ...
- 1976: Animal Farm
- George Orwell's novel Animal Farm does an excellent job of drawing parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Animal Farm is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of the Russian Revolution. The animals of "Manor Farm", the setting of this novel, which symbolizes Russia, overthrow their human master after years of mistreatment. Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work,only with ... the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class ...
- 1977: Animal Farm 4
- INTRODUCTION: Animal Farm was first published in 1945. Animal Farm is a satire on Stalinism and the Russian revolution. As Russia was an allied of England in 1945, Orwell had a hard time publishing it. The British author George Orwell, pen name for Eric Blair , achieved prominence in the late 1940's as the ... accurate description of the farm and we do not know when the story takes place. When he started writing his book, he did not want people to know that he was writing about the Russian revolution. Many publishers who declined to publish Animal Farm in Britain and America did so because they considered there was no market for children s books . MAIN CHARACTERS: The novel Animal Farm is a satire on the Russian revolution, and therefore full of symbolism. General Orwell associates certain real characters with the characters of the book. Mr Jones: Mr. Jones is Orwell's chief (or at least most obvious) villain in Animal Farm. ...
- 1978: The Life of Mao Zedong
- ... was a official in the Sung Dynasty (960-1127), an impartial judge. 31 Finally, he applauds the Hunan peasant association for restoring order, which was to be a theme echoed by Mao during the Cultural Revolution when Mao relied on the military to restore order. Mao's belief in the ability of peasants to organize and rule was at the heart of the Communist success in attaining power. In 1927, the ... upon a campaign that would solidify his power, and further strengthen his role, the Rectification Campaign (1942-1943). The Rectification Campaign was a harbinger of the purges that Mao would initiate again during the Cultural Revolution; it was a symbol of Mao's belief in harmony and order. This campaign aimed at purging the party of Stalinist supporters. 35 Purging of dissident elements within the party created unity according to Mao ... in the Communist Party. It quickly transformed itself into an all- out attack on figures of authority which Mao promoted under the slogan, "to rebel is justified." 57 This marked the era of the Cultural Revolution. From 1964 to 1969, Chinese society was turned upside down, like the turning over of a giant hourglass. 58 A state of chaos reigned: universities and school were shut down, widespread purges of "rightist ...
- 1979: Analysis Of Jack Turners The A
- ... Turner explains how John Locke and Adam Smith shaped the ideas of our economy and how that has affected society s perception of nature. Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, and Adams decided the early fate of the American wilderness through Christian and Enlightenment ethics. They divided the land into a grid and sold it to men. The land became the private property of men, who farmed and extracted resources as they pleased. Turner comments on how language has added to ecological ignorance. The American language is based on ideas of economy, and as ecological problems arise people use economic terms to describe nature. Thus, ecological problems are not properly dealt with or even understood because they are viewed and ... idea of chapter six is that one of the main roots of the modern environmental crisis is the mistake of wilderness for wildness. It was Henry David Thoreau who was first mistaken. Thoreau was an American pioneer of the wild. His most famous quote is In Wildness is the preservation of the World. Unfortunately, that quote is now severely misconceived; for we have replaced Wildness with wilderness. The word Wildness ...
- 1980: Prepubescent Strength Training
- ... the developmental patterns of the children involved. The research in the field has provided feedback regarding the physiological, mental and social effects - negative and/or positive - that strength training influences over prepubescent growth and development. American society has entered into an era in which strength training has become the standard and most popular method of keeping the musculature of the body in aesthetic shape. Fitness centers and personal home gyms have ... strength has been proven to be an important part of health-related fitness and optimal physiological function for children (Thomas, 1993). In addition, two other national organizations, the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine have suggested that pre and postpubescent children and young adults can improve their strength and significantly reduce their chance of injury by the use of properly supervised strength training programs (Dunn et al, 1988). A similar report written by the American Physical Therapy Association concluded that the poor physical conditioning of young athletes is most likely the leading cause of injury in youth sports. They concluded their study by emphasizing the fact that a properly ...
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