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- 2751: The United States Government
- ... he became a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Antonin Scalia is now an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He took his oath in 1986 and is the first Italian-American Supreme Court Justice. He was part of President Ronald Reagan’s effort to make the judiciary system more conservative. Mr. Scalia is very outspoken against racially based affirmative action programs and the “Constitutional Right” to ... graduating from college, Reagan began working as a radio sports announcer. His big break, however, was in 1937 when he became a contract actor for Warner Brothers starring in such movies as Knute Rockne-All American, King’s Row, and probably his most famous, Bedtime for Bonzo. During WWII Reagan patriotically served his country (unlike some other presidents) as a captain in the army. It was soon after this that he ... Glen O. The Young People’s Book of Science. United States of America, McGraw-Hill, ©1968, pp. 1-436. Claiborne, Robert. Word Mysteries & Histories. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, ©1986. pp. 2-308. “Congress.” The New American Desk Encyclopedia. Volume 1, page 302. United States of America, Penguin Books Incorporated, 1989. Markoff, John. Cyberpunk. New York, Simon & Schuster, © 1991, pp. 1-366 “Webster’s New World Dictionary Second College Edition,” United ...
- 2752: How Media Influences Women
- We, the American public are hit from every imaginable direction every waking moment of our lives by slick advertising agencies trying to coerce us into or tell us why we need to buy their products. Their products will ... to loose weight. Media presents images that tell woman and girls that acceptance means being unnaturally thin. The average fashion model, whose image we are bombarded with, weighs twenty-three percent less than the average American woman. Twenty years ago, the average fashion model weighed only eight percent less. Only five percent of all women are born with the ideal fashion model body, which of course leaves the other ninety-five ... as a disciplinary force in the lives of women. Advertisers create images that dictate cultural trends indicative of the time. The dominating image of the painfully thin woman in advertising remains the ideal for the American women. The grim truth is that attaining the slender body of today is not realistic for most women. Their bodies are not naturally shaped like those of twelve-year old boys. Eating disorders are ...
- 2753: 1963: The Hope That Stemmed From the Fight for Equality
- ... acceptance of racial discrimination. Demonstrations, sit-ins, peace talks, and marches graced the front pages of the newspapers in major cities in the south and in the north. The hope of a future for African-American people in America was greatly affected by the struggles and persecution they endured during the year 1963. The struggles started in the hearts of every black person alive. The feelings began with children as they ... as human beings. But to many of these people Negroes are not human beings" ("They fought a fight that won't go out" 36). Works Cited Behrens, Laurence, ed. "Fear and Hatred Grip Birmingham" The American Experience : 274 "After Birmingham Riots -- trouble lingers on" US News and World Report 27 May 1963: 40-42. "Arlington Receives a Murdered Hero" Life 28 June 1963: 34. "Assasin kills a Negro leader" Life 21 ... the South" US News and World Report 3 June 1963: 60- 65. "They Fight a Fire That Won't Go Out" Life 17 May 1963: 27-36. "To Break Color Bars at School" Richmond Afro-American 11 May 1963. "What Negroes in the North are Really After" US News and World Report 11 May 1963.
- 2754: A Touch Of Jazz
- ... vibrato of the syllable you wish to stress. This combination of pitch and timbre in African language is what the philologists call 'significant tone'. It has had the most profound effect on the history of American Negro music. It seems likely now that the common source of European and West African music was a non-hemitonic pentatone system. Although the diatonic scale have been developed and preserved in Africa, modern West ... the development of a series of characteristics of Afro-European scales in places as far apart as West Africa, Suriname, Brazil, Cuba and North America. Out of these two scales the whole harmonic tradition of American jazz emerged. The two scales is the 'spiritual' or 'shout scale'. This scale comprised the tonic, median, dominant and part-sharpened subdominant. The other one is the 'blues scale', a diatonic major with added or ... suffered under it, must yet be considered as a beneficial influence from the purely musical point of view. Jazz a unique form of music that grew out of the life of the Negro in the American south in the middle 1800's. the origins of the actual music are to be found among the work songs, laments and spirituals of the Negro slaves of the south. With the abolition of ...
- 2755: Tiger Woods: The making of a Champion
- ... of a Champion TIGER WOODS THE MAKING OF A CHAMPION BY: JOHN GARRITY Eldrick Tiger Woods was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 30, 1975. His parents names are Earl and Kutildra. Earl is a ¼ American Indian, a ¼ Chinese and half Black. Kutildra is a ¼ White, a ¼ Chinese and half Thai. Both of Earl's parents were dead by the time he was 13. He named his son "Tiger" after his ... golfing days. Tiger won the 1991, 1992, and 1993 U.S Junior Amateur championships. When winning his third he brought out a record attendance of over 15,000 spectators. Woods was also the first African- American to win the U.S Juniors. He quotes " when I am up at the tee all I think about is where I want my ball to go". During this whole time Tiger attended Stanford college ... turned it on it worked. Golf pays quite well when he finished 60th in his 3rd pro course he received 2,544 dollars…….People often ask Tiger if he wants to be the greatest African-American to play the game and he responds with "No I want to be the greatest to ever play the sport"
- 2756: The True Evil - Frankenstein
- ... Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" (Lines 13-16) This stanza continues the questions that God asks after the creation of the evil Satan. Given that Blake wrote this poem at the beginning of the industrial revolution, these lines give evidence that the poem can be interpreted as a symbol of the industrial revolution and its positive and negative effects on society. "Hammer," "chain," "furnace," and "anvil" provide this illustration of the industrial revolution. "When the stars threw down their spears / And water'd heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" (Lines 17-20) Lines 17 ...
- 2757: Biography Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, a novel about the adulterous Puritan Hester Prynne, who loyally refuses to reveal the name of her partner. Regarded as his masterpiece and as one of the classics of American literature, The Scarlet Letter reveals both Hawthorne's superb craftsmanship and the powerful psychological insight with which he probed guilt and anxiety in the human soul. In 1850 Hawthorne moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, where he ... consulship at Liverpool, England, a post Hawthorne held until 1857. In 1858 and 1859 Hawthorne lived in Italy, collecting material for his heavily symbolic novel The Marble Faun. In 1860, on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne returned to the United States. His political isolation is indicated in his dedication of Our Old Home to Pierce, who had become highly unpopular because of his support of the Southern slave owners. Hawthorne's posthumously published works include the unfinished novels Septimius Felton, The Dolliver Romance, Dr. Grimshawe's Secret, and The Ancestral Footsteps and his American Notebooks, English Notebooks, and French and Italian Notebooks. With modern psychological insight Hawthorne probed the secret motivations in human behavior and the guilt and anxiety that he believed resulted from all sins against humanity, ...
- 2758: Ultimately Disgusting
- ... it as, The Ultimate Fighting Championship. Ultimate fighting is an unsafe sport and people should not be permitted to view or compete in such violent competitions. Dr. George Lindberg editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association says, Someone s spinal cord could be fractured, an arm could be broken, and choking could result in brain damage. The possibility of injury is very high (Sokolove 1). The American Medical Association wants an all out ban on boxing and ultimate fighting. Senator John McCain, the leader in the opposition wants it banned because he is concerned about injury to the competitors (Kirby 20). In ... hopefully we will soon see a nationwide ban. Ultimate fighting is a disgusting competition, with no place in our society. Extremely Repugnant. Editorial. Montreal Gazette 23 March 1998. Fiore, David C. Letter. Journal of the American Medical Association 25 Sept. 1996. Harrison, Steve. Fighter Doesn t Wrestle With Conscience. Detroit Free Press. 13 July 1995:1D. Kirby, Joseph A. Politicians Bully Ultimate Fighting . Portland Oregonian 16 Feb. 1997:A20. Kodi, ...
- 2759: A Tale of Two Cities: Love or Hate
- ... of aristocrats and innocent people alike. In a few basic words she is a violent murderous madwoman. This hate causes her death for if she hadn’t been involved in a hateful out-of-control revolution she would have never even met Miss Pross. Meanwhile there is another confrontation occurring, one which is taking place on the inside as well as the outside. Sidney Carton has to choose between being a loving or a hateful man. But as well as having to face himself, he has to face the hatefulness of the revolution. Sidney Carton at the begging of the book is a man who has nothing going for him. He has a drinking problem as well as being extremely laid back. “Sydney Carton, idlest and most unpromising ... see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, she bears my name. Pg. 352 By this vision Carton shows that even though he is being killed by the hate of the revolution, he is not beaten, and that his love will live forever in Lucie and her children. Carton also knows that this was the loving deed to do, laying his life of the line for ...
- 2760: Gun Control Violence In Schools Critique
- ... their personal belongings locked away then in might prevent some of this from happening around the school system. The facts show that in a report done by the Juvenile Justice Department that ten percent of American high school students had admitted to carrying a gun to school in the past month. The real facts are that homicides have decreased in young people in the past two years. In a 1997 report by the Centers of Disease Control it says that American Children under the age of fifteen are twelve times more likely to be killed by gunfire than twenty-five other industrialized nations. Basically my question is who really cares about twenty-five other nations? The ... could promote guns. Leave the teaching of the firearms and other life lessons to the parents. The events that have occurred in the past few months to a year have stirred people emotions up. The American society is now trying to figure out what they should do to try and prevent this from happening again. The people are looking for some strange reason from a teenager to walk into school ...
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