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- 2251: Authur Miller
- ... home.com With the Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists. He has also written other powerful, often mind-altering plays: The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. And who could ... of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse for two ... he would write one more play. If that were not successful, he would give up. That’s when in 1947 he wrote All My Sons, his first real success, which established him as a significant American playwright. Soon after he wrote The Crucible in 1953, which became a Broadway hit, and won a Tony Award. This thrilling retelling of the witch trials and hangings in Salem, Massachusetts (1962) riveted audiences. ...
- 2252: Mexico
- ... density is about forty-eight people per square kilometer, or one-hundred and twenty-four people per square mile. Mexico's official language is Spanish, although another language that is fairly widely spoken is Native American. Mexico's ethnic groups can be broken down into three major groups: Mestizo, Native American, and European. Mestizo's are people of mixed European and Native American ancestry. Mestizo's make up about sixty percent of Mexico's population, while Native American's makes up about thirty percent, and European's make up about nine percent. There are many religions being ...
- 2253: Teen Smoking
- ... in these documented journals that increase in the price of cigarettes will reduce teen smoking by seven percent. The tobacco industry is almost fully reliant on teenagers. According to a web site sponsored by the American Lung Association of Gulf Coast Florida, those who die from smoking each year, plus those who quit the daily habit, are replaced by one million teenagers who begin smoking annually (“American Lung Association”). The tobacco industry has its own words to say about price increase on cigarettes. The industry claims that price increases are disastrous and ineffective for the tobacco industry and other industries. The Secretary ... not some other less important bill. This problem will continue to get worse if the tobacco industry does not stop its persuasive advertising. Bibliography Works Cited Children’s access to Tobacco Kills. 3 Feb. 1999. American Lung Association of Gulf Coast Florida. President Takes Another Shot at Teen Smoking. 22 Jun. 1999. Kaleidoscope Interactive. Reducing Teen Smoking. 10 Jul 1998. Tobaco Free KidsŇ. Bynum, Russ. CDC: Joe Camel Years See ...
- 2254: Australia
- ... Population growth rate is estimated at 1.31% (1995 est.). Literacy rate age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.). English is the official language, with modern Australian English a conglomerate of British, American, and their own phraseology and spelling. Because Australia is one of the most multicultural nations in the world it is possible to find vibrant ethnic communities using almost every other world language.Australian school children ... draw on the British tradition of a Cabinet Government, led by a Prime Minister, which is responsible to a majority in Parliament's lower house. The Federal Constitution, however, also contains some elements that resemble American practice (e.g., a Senate, in which each state has equal representation). The Head of State is Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning British monarch, but she exercises her functions through personal representatives who live in ... income deficit offset by an improvement in net export volumes and terms of trade. Australia-US Bilateral Trade The trading relationship between Australia and the United States traces its origins to early last century when American whaling and sealing vessels first put into Australian ports during their Pacific voyages. The first American vessel to dock in Sydney Harbor, the Philadelphia in 1792, brought a cargo of beef, pitch, tobacco and ...
- 2255: Marijuana
- Marijuana Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve various purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time to fit in with the current lifestyles. This pattern is also true in American history. The use of marijuana has adapted to the social climate of the time. Marijuana, whose scientific name is cannibis sativa, was mentioned in historical manuscripts as early as 2700 B. C. in China. (Grolier ... of power. Only the prohibition of marijuana, which some sixty million Americans have violated since 1965 has come close to approximating the prohibition experience, but marijuana smokers consist mostly of young and relatively powerless Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). Alcohol prohibition was repealed and marijuana prohibition was retained, not because scientists had proved that alcohol was the less dangerous of the various psychoactive drugs, but because of the prejudices and preferences of most Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). In 1937 the government issued the Marijuana Tax Act, which levied a dollar an ounce tax on marijuana, coupled with fines of $2,000 for drug posession and jail sentences for ...
- 2256: Drug Prohibition
- ... could be better used to reduce the amount of demand by better educating children and adults alike, and also by treating addicts. Governments exist to protect the rights of the people. By prohibiting drug use, American's civil rights are betrayed. How is prohibition protecting American's rights? Prohibition increases crime and corruption. It also wastes billions of dollars in taxpayer's money in the futile effort of eradicating drugs. It also violates American's rights as free persons to do themselves as they wish. Prohibition is constitutionally incorrect and obviously isn't working. When are American's going to stop wringing their hands and start solving the ...
- 2257: Science Fiction In Human Socie
- ... as forward and its usefulness lays not so much in predicting the actual future as in exploring our reaction to possible futures" (Marvel 2). Fantasy and other realities are sometimes included in science fiction. In American literature many writers expressed their ideas of future advances in technology, events or future events, society and future societies in imaginative stories, poems, periodicals, films, and television shows. Television shows and movies today have depicted ... depicts something or someone setting up a room then a jazz band playing but the only thing is that there isn't people play the instruments its just clothes in front of the instruments. Many American writers articulated ideas of future advances in technology, events or future events, society and future societies in imaginative pieces. With self-driving trucks, computerized voice "yellow pages," artificial intelligence, and many other "inventions and innovations ... sks.sirs.com. Fuller, Amanba E. "Radio: The Boom of Science Fiction." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 1994-2000. Found on Internet: Http://search.eb.com. Inada, Lawson Tuscao. "Plucking Out a Rhythm." Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience. Ed. Gileen Thompson et al. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 1994. 1026. Irving, Washington. "The Devil and Tom Walker." Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience. Ed. Gileen Thompson et al. Englewood Cliffs, ...
- 2258: Subliminial Messages
- ... subliminals invading their minds that it was only a matter of time before the nations leaders would be forced to grabble with the issue (www.hiddenPer). Subliminal stimuli have been regularly used in the North American media for over twenty-five years without anyone getting wise to what was occurring. "Advertising firms produced the psychology of buying so thoroughly that they now knew exactly what made consumers tick" (Schudson, 88). The actual term 'subliminal advertising' dates back, only to the 1950's and was coined by an American market researcher, James Vicary. He claimed that he had " discovered a way to reach people subliminally, by flashing advertising messages on a screen so briefly that although they weren't seen consciously they made the ... each of us at a level beneath our consciences awareness, one that reaches into the uncharted mechanism of the human unconscious This is a language that today has actually produced the profit basis for north American mass communication media (www.embedsevery). The word sex is the most frequently embedded word in American industry. "Sex is alive and embedded in practically everything" (www.subl.survives). Other words such as f*!k, ...
- 2259: The U.S. Entering World War II
- ... way he did this was by creating various policies that would deter the Axis powers from being able to maintain the needs necessary to wage war on the Allies. One of these policies was the American financial and economic embargo, which supported China in its fight against Japan. It also, somewhat, forced neutral countries to side with the U.S. because it threatened that if any country would aid one of ... of months before the attack. Roosevelt sent all the expendable ships to Pearl Harbor and all the carriers and battleships to run drills near San Diego. Roosevelt figured that, if he was going to allow American ships to be destroyed, they might as well be the ships that are out of date and inexpensive to replace, in comparison with some of the Navy's other ships. The attack on Pearl Harbor enraged the American commoner so much that they changed their views completely and wanted Japan to pay for the surprise attack in Hawaii. After all, the American people only knew that negotiations were under way in Washington ...
- 2260: Stinky Solution
- ... seen over the next ten years. He said, As these teenagers have grown and aged and become young adults, they ve brought with them their addiction (Cooper n.p.). LuAnn Pierce, associate director of the American Cancer Society s Texas division, agrees saying, The majority of smokers -- nine out of ten -- start smoking before they're 18 (Tanamachi n.p.). Obviousl, America has a tremendous smoking problem which predominately begin in ... gets through (Tanamachi n.p.). President Clinton agrees that marketing for tobacco should be stopped, but he also is convinced that passing tobacco legislation that will reduce teen smoking and benefit the well-being of American kids will help the smoking dilemma as well. Unfortunately, with the tobacco industry s strong, forty million dollar effort in lobbying, they will blockade any plan to reduce teen smoking. In fact, senators recently could ... lobbying the Senators and Representatives of the people, distributing the most agricultural income in the country, and selling more than 640 billion cigarettes every year (Lang 103-104). Addiction begins with young people. Three thousand American kids become regular smokers daily (Lang 28), causing respiratory problems, fitness fatigue, cancer, heart disease, strokes, skin problems, fertility problems, etc. The list goes on and on (Lang 69-72). Young people already know ...
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