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- 2531: Frank Sinatra
- ... recorded music, live performances, movies or simply living large, Frank Sinatra has done that all. He has become an international figure, having the reputation as a celebrity, icon, bad boy and the greatest singer of American popular songs. He is known as being America’s first teen idol and also as a true American Legend. You may all know the name "Frank Sinatra" but you may all not know why Frank Sinatra is a cultural icon. After reading the book "Sinatra:Behind the Legend" by Randy Tarabelli, I learned a lot about this American legend. Francis Albert Sinatra was born on Dec.12th,1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. His parents were Italian immigrants and he grew up poor in the streets of Hoboken. Those tough early years made ...
- 2532: The Most Heroic Character In I
- ... silk and pearls, yes, for sure, our Dede here is going to be the millionaire of the family." Nevertheless, changes do not come byitself, but come through numerous struggles between the family value and the revolution. For most of the time, she has valued family as a more important factor in her life. Should she be blamed for her so-called woman's selfishness and weakness? No, a good wife should ... once they are caught, she may even bring the whole family into terrible tragedies. That is just too much of a risk for her at that point of her life, she wants to join the revolution but simply she can't. The opinion on what she has done varies according to different point of view. From a radical perspective, she is surely a loser, but from a traditional perspective, what she ... they be admired? Sure, the country revolutionists' spirit must be raised crazily by their braveness against evil and death. However, are they really admirable? Have they accomplished their goal yet? Who will then lead the revolution? And could they face the people who are dying for the revolution in the heaven and tell them "Sorry, because of our sudden urge, your death have been in vain." They not only disappoint ...
- 2533: Fireside Chat
- ... Our former commander-in-chief, Herbert Hoover, reacted poorly to the stock market crash of 1929. He misjudged the intensity of the collapse, calling it “a needed adjustment” and stated that by his standards, the American economy was fundamentally sound. Hoover’s hands-off policy towards the economy drove our nation deeper into the depth of depression. He felt that no federal action of any kind was needed to stabilize the ... economy. Hoover also felt that the federal government should never supply aid of any kind to the poor, unemployed, and the hungry. His administration upheld the belief that welfare would destroy the character of the American people. Near the end of Hoover’s disappointing term in office, he signed a law creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. This organization could loan up to 2 billion dollars to banks, insurance companies, and railroads ... up those pieces. As your newly elected president, my administration will work to relieve the suffering caused by the depression, creating jobs and stabilizing the economy. One of my first concerns is to restore the American people’s faith in banks. I am ready to shut down all banks and only re-open those that are stable. I have sent a banking relief bill to Congress that, if passed, will ...
- 2534: The Truman Doctrine
- ... together, they were hardly a match for the 90,000 battle-hardened and strong North Koreans. General MacArthur was put in charge and ceded much space in order to buy time for reinforcements. Meanwhile, the American public was not seeing the value of killing their boys in Korea. "We demand that you stop murdering American boys and Korean People . . ." Truman increased military spending to finance the war reinforcements. With newly received reinforcements, MacArthur brilliantly turned the tide of war. MacArthur moved speedily up the Korean Peninsula until Chinese intervention. They ... is exactly the Doctrine's ramification. All over the world U.S. troops sit waiting to protect Democracy. The Truman Doctrine ensures that even without a valid threat to U.S. security we must waste American lives to "protect the free peoples of the World." (McCullough, 571) Would the world have been a worse place if we had not acted to protect South Korea and South Vietnam? Would the U. ...
- 2535: Feminine Mystique
- The Postwar effects on Women The “feminine mystique” that American culture promotes is entirely dependent upon its ideas, beliefs, and needs of the time. American culture has always tended to influence women into doing what the day and age required. After men went to war there was a gap in the work force that needed to be filled. During World ... return to work, they often lost their seniority and had to accept reduced pay in lower job categories” (310). Due to the severe segregation by gender, the postwar economic life for women was appalling. Postwar American life became organized around marriage and family. As men came back from the war they merged with the peacetime economy, taking jobs away from women and sending them back to the home. With the ...
- 2536: Thomas Paine
- During the 1770s Thomas Paine was a political philosopher and writer. He encouraged people to fight for American independence from Britain. He is one of the more creative figures of his period. Paine talked about American revolutionary ideas with his 1776 writing, Common Sense. In the writing, Paine made a point that Great Britain was trying to corrupt the American colonies and that they contributed nothing to America’s well being. Summary Paine published this 50-page story, Common Sense, on January 10, 1776. In this essay, it said that the American colonies had ...
- 2537: Europe And The New World
- ... the main possessions that interested this stronger culture was land and gold. The natives had plenty of both and the westerners knew themselves strong enough to take it. It is clear that the conquest of American lands was easy for the Spanish and other westerners compared with struggles to win other territories (such as North Africa from the Moors). Therefore confidence in the strength of the largest civilisation was not the only factor in fight over Native American soil. Ironically, it seems that a component in the natives destruction was also a reason as to why Columbus and other explorers had such warm feelings towards them. This being their ability to trust and their innocence towards war and hate. Despite this, it must be understood that the American natives weren’t ‘marched to the slaughter house’ as many historians would have us believe. There was indeed conflict between the westerners and the natives, that natives did fight for their land and rights, ...
- 2538: A Comparison of the French and Russian Revolutions
- ... economy. These two reasons along with other factors caused both of these revolutions. Although they were both similar, they also had differences. A difference between the two is that the Russians had an unsuccessful "pre-revolution" in 1905. Another difference between these two revolutions is the fact that the French turned towards a democracy while the Russian government became communist. In 1905 , Russia had a prerevolution that was put down of ... the way the war was going and with the Czar's rule. This uncontent along with economic hardships caused riots and demonstrations to break out. The Czar called for the army to put down the revolution as they did in 1905. But the army joined the revolt and the Czar was kicked out of power soon afterwards. A temporary government was set up to decide on what kind of government Russia ... the theories and ideas of Karl Marx. So with his slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land", Lenin gained the support of the peasants and gained control of Russia and setup a communist state. The French revolution was also caused by a bad ruler and a bad economy. During the early 1780's a big percent of annual budget went towards king Louis XVI's lavish estate at Versailles. France also ...
- 2539: Summary of "Ceremony"
- Summary of "Ceremony" Ceremony is the story about Tayo, A Native American World War II Veteran, and his struggle to find himself. He struggles to adapt to a world where his people have to fight between the what "whites" say is the true path, and what his culture says the right path. Ceremony displays Tayo's struggle by comparing his struggle to find his own path, to the other Native American's and their fight to their own path. The book starts as Tayo is in bed going over the war in his mind… He remembers how the Japanese looked like him, same skin color and ... because he loved Rocky, and yet could not understand Rocky wanting so badly to leave the old ways. Rocky believed in the white man's science, when all Tayo wanted to believe in was Native American science, for example the cattle raising… Josiah was bringing cattle home that he'd bought and was reading books on it, and saw the "white man's" definition of "perfect cattle" and laughed, and ...
- 2540: Frankenstein
- Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, was written during a period of dramatic revolution. The failed French Revolution and Industrial Revolution seriously mark the novel with hints of moral and scientific revolution. Through Frankenstein, Shelley sends out a clear message that morally irresponsible scientific development can unleash a monster that can destroy its creator. Upon ...
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