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- 2031: Rock And Roll
- ... song to ever-hit number 1. From the music of Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, to Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, no other style of music has so greatly impacted the lifestyle of the American people. Elvis Presley was the most recognized and the most influential rock and roll artist that ever lived. In 1956, Elvis made his way into the national spotlight with his single “Heartbreak Hotel”. He set ... would become the image of rock and roll. He also stamped rock in as both the sound of the emerging teen culture that became the dominant social force of his time and as an original American musical form.4 During Elvis’s 21-year career, he became the biggest-selling recording artist in the history of music. He had 67 top 20 hits on single charts along with many more on ... face to avoid displaying his gyrations to the national audience.6 Elvis was an unstoppable force who served to reshape the pop mainstream, and who almost single-handedly redefined what it ment to be an American Visionary, and American artist, in a fierce new time. No other modern legend was to be so widely damned at first as a threat or joke, only to later be understood as one of ...
- 2032: Affirmative Action
- ... since the founding of our country. And the issue of discrimination has been around for much longer than that. Since slavery in the 19th century was addressed, we have been dealing with the injustices of American citizens and working to right all the wrongs done to minorities. The best way to discuss the ongoing issue of affirmative action is to take a look at the history, and see how it has ... was a controversial issue in that one can easily see how it could or could not benefit society. One view was that it would make society blind to that which makes us all individuals and American citizens: ideally uniform all Americans in the eyes of the law. The opposing view was that it would terminate programs created for minorities, and that the proposition creates loopholes that will continue discrimination against women ... place, and is an ongoing problem. It is necessary to understand where these viewpoints come from. Our former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter took great pains to further the notion of equality among all American citizens. Ford extended affirmative action to veterans and people with disabilities, although his efforts did not prove to be completely successful. And Carter put forth the Federal Contract Compliance Program in the hopes to ...
- 2033: Maria Mitchell
- ... On October 6, 1848, a year and five days later the King of Denmark decided to award the prize to Maria. At the age of thirty, she won an international honor. She became the first American, as well as the first woman to win the medal. In 1848, she was the first woman to be admitted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Now that she was a celebrity many people came to see her, famous artists came from New York to paint her portrait, and people recognized her achievements. Mariaƒs status ... Her patience and self-control offers encouragement to young women considering astronomy as a career. Maria Mitchell was given many awards and honors during her lifetime other than being the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also the first woman admitted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and to the American Philosophical Society (founded by her distant relative Benjamin Franklin. ...
- 2034: The Awakening
- ... novel. Creoles were French Creole Society descendents of French and Spanish Colonists of the 1700s. They had strong family ties because of Catholicism and were a tight community because they where considered outcasts of Anglo- American society. Clement Eaton says that "the Creoles, to a greater degree then Anglo-Americans, lived a life of sensation and careless enjoyment. They loved to dance, gamble, fish, attend feasts, play on the fiddle and ... legal guardian and was given custody of the children when in a divorce. In the 1890 segregation was legalized (Jim Crow laws), but blacks horizons were expanding also. "In Louisiana after the Civil War, African American men had voted in large numbers, held public office, served on juries, and worked on the railroad"(Culley 119). In Creole society people are generally very warm and open, having plentiful long relationships. A mother ... one in which respectable women took wine with their dinner and brandy after it, smoked cigarettes, played Chopin sonatas, and listened to the men tell risque stories. It was, in short, far more French than American, and Mrs.Chopin reproduced this little world with no specific intent to shock or make a point. . . . Rather, these were for Mrs.Chopin the conditions of civility. . . . People openly like[d] one another, enjoy[ ...
- 2035: The Abstract Wild
- ... 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 ...
- 2036: Jane Addams and The Hull House
- ... She tried to invent a place free of ethnic racism and stereotyping. In a time when Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull House embraced them and showed them the true meaning of American democracy. She wanted to devise some educational enterprise that would build a bridge between European and American experiences in such a way as to give them both more meaning and a sense of education. The Hull House attempted to secure justice and opportunity in the work place for immigrants through the League ... terrible conditions, unwelcomed by the community leaders who exploited their labor but ignored their needs, were without hope or means of escape. Immigrants were blamed for overwhelming the public welfare agencies and mutual aid societies. American feared these foreigners who were perceived as having no contribution to make to American culture and were shut out by them. Hull House was a woman-centered institution. Women were liberated from subservience in ...
- 2037: Sweet Diamond Dust
- ... Rico. Due to this occupation, the native islanders were affected in numerous ways and were looked down upon by the Americans. The Americans viewed the natives as incompetent and unable to be trusted. Many new American banks were popping up in Guamani that were reluctant to finance island run mills, but were giving money to the American run mills: "A number of powerful banks from the north had recently opened branches in Guamani…These banks, however, found no difficulty in financing the new sugar corporations that had recently arrived in town, but ... with the business aspects and money. On the other hand, Don Julio is worried about his family business. The day of the inauguration was a big spectacle with a zeppelin, donning the colors of the American flag on its tail on a banner stating "April 15, 1918- Follow Our Example," flying in the direction of the new mill. This zeppelin served two purposes. The first being that the banner was ...
- 2038: Argentina
- ... Argentina in a northern to southern direction is about 2,070 mi.. Its biggest width is about 860 mi.. The area of Argentina is 1,073,518 sq mi.. It is the second largest South American country, Brazil ranking first. The capital and largest city is Buenos Aires. Argentina has a lot of of mountains, upland areas, and plains. The western boundaries of the country fall entirely within the Andes. "The ... only other highlands of consequence in Argentina is the Sierra de Córdoba, in the central portion of the country."(New Standard) "In the north, the Argentine plains consist of the southern portion of the South American region known as the Gran Chaco. The Pampas plains that include the most productive agricultural sections of the country, extend about 1,000 mi. south from the Gran Chaco. In Patagonia, south of the Pampas ... production. "However, Argentine mineral resources, especially offshore deposits of petroleum and natural gas, have assumed increasing importance in recent decades."(Encarta Online) About 85 percent of the population is of European origin. Unlike most Latin American countries, "Argentina has relatively few mestizos (persons of mixed European and Native American ancestry)"(Encarta Online). Spanish and Italian immigrants have predominated. "According to the 1991 census, Argentina had a population of 32,663, ...
- 2039: Progression of Music From the 1940's To the Present
- ... s To the Present The progression of music from the 1940's to the present has seen extremes, it has been controversial at times, traditional at times and inspirational at times, but never have the American people turned away music in its entirety. There have been times when parents did not approve of the music that their children chose to listen to, but the parents had never turned away music. Music ... John Lennon, a member of the Beatles, was murdered in 1980. "The Rolling Stones" were formed in 1962 and very much contrasted the Beatles softer sound. The Rolling Stones were a more energetic type of American rhythm and Blues. In the 70's The electric guitar became more experimental with the different sounds that it could produce. "The change began in 1968. By 1970 the change in direction of rock music ... has captured the ears of many listeners. Music has progressed from fun to an industry in itself. People can now earn a living off of music, often luxurious life. Along with the music progressing the American people have progressed. The world of music continues to change and may never stop progressing until the world stops progressing. Footnotes 25 Years of Rock & Roll (USA:Lorelei Publishing Co. Inc.,1979) William Hay, ...
- 2040: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... towns all across America. He had a strong interest in science. He was constantly developing new ideas. He created a new messenger system between cities. He took part in establishing a hospital and then the American philosophical society. One of his greatest inventions is the Franklin Stove. In 1740 he invented a stove that sent heat out in all directions which would heat all parts of a room. The Franklin Stove ... the Colonists were against it, he argued their case to the British ambassadors. The Townshed Act of 1767 were "acts of oppression" to Franklin and he told the British Parliament that this would "sour the American tempers and perhaps hasten their final revolt." To oppose the tea act of 1773, Franklin wrote essays. An Edict by the King of Prussia" and "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to ... sail for France in October 1776. He was accepted well by the French, who called him Bonhomme Richard, French for Poor Richard. The French wanted to fight the British but were afraid to join the American Continentals unless they could be certain they would win. He made strong arguments to the French government, but it wasn't until the Continental victory in September and October of 1777 at Saratoga, that ...
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