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- 2861: Tourism
- ... to find out the benefits of tourism. It's usually us people from the richer countries in the west that travel abroad as tourists. This became possible during the early twentieth century, when the industrial revolution had reached most western countries in a big way, and the governments had begun to get more and more democratic. They started to have governmental foundings with the intention of giving people who worked in different sectors their wages in sp Although, most Americans would probably not be so negative about it. The American Dream that influences their society speaks for the strength of the individual. That is, if you really want to be rich, you can be, as long as you're not afraid of working hard. So ...
- 2862: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... was to prevent Democrat James Buchanan from winning the Presidency, it failed. Then two days after Buchanan s inauguration the Supreme Court ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and denied that Negros could never be considered American citizens. On June 16, 1858 the Illinois State Republican Convention nominated Lincoln to run against Stephen Douglas for the United States Senate. The seven Lincoln-Douglas debates during the late summer and fall of 1858 ... fought in the countryside near the small Maryland town of Sharpsburg and along the Antietam Creek. It killed and wounded 26,000 men, it was and still is the single bloodiest day in all of American History. The Sioux Indians were starving and mad that they were taken from their land and killed more than 200 settlers in one day. They held trials for two months to decide upon the fate ... Vice President Johnson killed. On the evening of April 14, 1865 Lincoln accompanied his wife and their guests, Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancee, Clara Harris, to Ford s Theater to see the comedy Our American Cousin. Shortly after 10 P.M. John Wilkes Booth entered the Presidential box and fired a pistol at the left side of Lincoln s head as he was looking to his left. Booth then ...
- 2863: The Crucible
- ... was the gathering power of raw belief in the great Soviet plot that Truman soon felt it necessary to institute loyalty boards of his own. The Red hunt, led by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and by McCarthy, was becoming the dominating fixation of the American psyche. It reached Hollywood when the studios, after first resisting, agreed to submit artists' names to the House Committee for "clearing" before employing them. This unleashed a veritable holy terror among actors, directors, and others ... idiocy (Joe Ryan, the head of the longshoremen's union, was soon to go to Sing Sing for racketeering), I got a wire from Cohn saying, "The minute we try to make the script pro-American you pull out." By then--it was 1951--I had come to accept this terribly serious insanity as routine, but there was an element of the marvellous in it which I longed to put ...
- 2864: A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explination
- ... like a heavy load. (g) Or does it explode? (g) Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born into an abolitionist family. As the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855, Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think ... of the blacks in Harlem. For a people who have been oppressed for centuries, the denial of yet another dream is not taken lightly. With the final line, Hughes seems to be hinting at a revolution, alluding to the idea that blacks in Harlem are like a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. Here, the mood of "A Dream Deferred" has increased in intensity. The possible fates listed previously are unpleasant ...
- 2865: What Is Witchcraft
- ... Christianity claims Witches were "evil" and the "Satan" worshipped. The concepts of "Satan" and "evil" were actually constructed under the Christians' point of view (Vogel and Our History). The most well known event in the American history of Witchcraft persecution was the "Salem Trial". In the town of Salem, Massachusetts, 19 people were executed in 1962. Around twenty people in the town who had suffered from hallucinations, spasm or whose cattle ... popular tradition, the Alexandrian, around 1960 in England. He drew much attention from the media and is being called as "The King of Witches" (Johnson and The Grimoire). Silver Ravenwolf and Scott Cunningham is both American who had achieved a lot in promoting the Craft in the American society through writing books and promoting it through the media (Boyle). 3.6 Definition of Wicca It is said to be "the religion of Witches". According to my interviewee, it is a term rose ...
- 2866: Sir Isaac Newton
- Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton, the culminating figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century, was born on December 25, 1642 (according to the Julian calendar then in use: the date was January 4, 1643, according to the Gregorian calendar in use today), in the manor ... Principia is the greatest scientific book ever written. In the same year, 1687, Newton helped lead Cambridge's resistance to the efforts of King James to make the university a Catholic institution. After the English Revolution in 1688, which drove James from England, the university elected Newton one of its representatives in a special convening of the country's parliament. The following four years were filled with intense activity for Newton ... was knighted (1708) by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be so honored for his work. Newton died in London on Mar. 31 (N.S.; Mar. 20, O.S.), 1727, having singlehandedly completed the scientific revolution and molded much of the content and the image of modern science. Works Cited 1. Microsoft, Encarta 97 Encyclopedia. 2. 1997 Grolier, multimedia encyclopedia. 3. Christianson, G. E., in the Presence of the Creator: ...
- 2867: Mantle vs. Mays
- ... we start one must also take into account the differences between the two. While Mays played in the National League and had, for the most part, a relatively injury free career, Mantle played in the American league, and had an injury plagued career. One must also consider the fact that while they both played center field, Mantle started at Short Stop, and moved to right field before taking over center field ... beginning was the fact that he was a switch hitter. Mantle broke into the major leagues before he turned twenty. Mantle had a .298 career batting average, and 536 career home runs. He led the American League in home runs for four years. Mantle hit over fifty home runs in two of those four years. Mantle was moved around a lot early in the career from short stop, where he had ... to make any headlines in the field; the list of awards and achievements due to his offense was enough to keep the papers full. Mantle won the Triple Crown in 1956, and was also the American League MVP in 56, 57, and again in 62. He also played in 12 World Series, and helped to lead the Yankees to 7 World Series championships. Mantle holds World Series records in home ...
- 2868: Effect Of Film On History (1920s-1940s)
- ... a seemingly bottomless downward spiral. With the coming and passing of gBlack Mondayh a chain reaction was set off and America fell into depression leaving many wondering what would happen. The mood of the American public changed radically from one of happiness during the gRoaring 20sh to one of discontent during the 30s. Along with the Great Depression came enormous numbers of laid-off workers, many with their wages ... to get back to the simple true principles that our government was founded on (Jacobs, 509). The movie industry was due up for a radical change. Now almost two full years into the Great Depression, American movie making was about to change into a more greal lifeh based environment just to satisfy the needs of the viewers. During the period of time between late 1930 and the middle of 1932 ... the nation and changed things for the better. Throughout two decades of film, in one more than the other, making one subject continuously came up as it was ever present in the minds of the American public: organized crime. With such classic films as Scarface, in the depression era, and Chicago, in the twenties, helped the public get into and understand the secret world of gangsters. During the late twenties, ...
- 2869: Rosa Parks
- ... keeping in mind what's best for future generations. The leaders who pioneer these movements go on to become our historical legends and heroes. The same holds true for Rosa Parks, a middle class African American woman from Montgomery, Alabama who simply refused to give up her bus-seat for a white man. Through this controversial act, she touched off the civil rights movement as we know it. Rosa Parks lead ... She was also well known for her work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Parks was a hard-working woman and very well respected for her dedication to the African American community. However, she would kick off a national civil rights movement on December 1, 1955 on her way home from work. As she traveled home from work that day, a white man approached her isle ... of blacks and whites. However, Mrs. Parks truly is a hero in her own time. There is an old saying that applies to Rosa Parks, actions do speak louder than words. Works Cited "Rosa Parks - American Social Activist." n. pag. Online. 28 June 1999. Available. http://www.gale.com/gale/cwh/parksr.html.
- 2870: Importance of Womens Suffrage on Home and Life
- ... s right to vote ran across continous opposition that it took 72 years for the women and their male supporters to win. During the Women's Rights Movement, women faced incredible obstacles to win the American civil right to vote, which was later won in 1920. There were some very important women involved in the Women's Right Movement. Esther Morris, who was the first woman to hold a judicial position ... successful state campaign for woman's right to vote, in 1869. Abigail Scott Duniway, the leader of the successful fight in the early 1900s. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell, arrangers of thousands of African-American women who worked for the right to vote for all women. Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the early years of the 20th century, who got the campaign to its final success.
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