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- 3421: Educational System
- ... the student s of China and Germany shared a similar philosophy. China and Germany greatly promotes interaction between the students at a very young age. In America, the students are more interested in individual success. American students learn to become a distinct individual . These students s believe that this individuality is what defines them. Everyone is constantly competing against one another, trying to create an identity for themselves. A junior in high school may think that working at Mcdonald s makes him a MAN ; while in China and Germany, their students are probably training for a better job in the future. Very few American students are being introduced to group work and the concept of interaction among their classmates. They don t realize the strong bonding that occurs when people share and discuss ideas because the United States doesn ... the concept of group work is greatly stressed. They believe it leads to a much greater benefit. As 60 minutes investigated, they found out that students in Germany and China have higher test scores than American students, there are less crimes, and the percentage of unemployment is extremely small. These students learn at a very young age to get along with one another, to share ideas, and to resolve their ...
- 3422: Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe: An All-American Sex Goddess or Hollywood Tragedy? When someone mentions Marilyn Monroe, one usually thinks off the seductive all-American sex goddess who captured the world with her woman-childlike charm. Yet not many know her as the illegitimate child who endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse, and years in foster home ... to make a series of nude calendar photos, which appeared in the December 1953 debut issue of Playboy magazine. By the end of the year, Monroe had been voted the top star of 1953 by American Film Distributors. On January 14, Joe and Marilyn were married. The wedding captured the headlines worldwide. Joe was extremely jealous type of a guy and resented her popularity among other men. "He desired a ...
- 3423: Allen Ginsberg: Poet
- ... hung around people like Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and Neal Cassady, who later became known as the "Beat He wrote poetry for over three decades, and in doing so, changed the course of American poetry. Ginsberg believed in open, spontaneous poetry, speaking his thoughts and emotions in a raw and "uncensored" way. This rawness seemed to transcend the censoring imposed on his poetry by his digressors who considered his ... invasion. Some who were accused of supporting the Communist cause, whether they actually did or not, lost their jobs and were blacklisted. Citizens were taught to fear and hate Communists. These attitudes lingered in the American psyche throughout the Cold War (Montana, , Jackie). When Ginsberg says, "America you don't really want to go to war. America its them bad Russians. them Russians them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And ... this particular time, he seemed to be quite "pissed off" and disturbed, so he took it out in his writings, in a very straight-forward and open way. Ginsberg's poetry is classified as Contemporary American Poetry. Ginsberg was one of the most famous beat poets of our time, and continued writing and reading his poetry publicly up until the time of his death. On April 5, 1997 Allen Ginsberg ...
- 3424: Adolf Hitler
- ... security, food, shelter, and something to do. When the job ended, Hitler went back to Munich, where he was offered a more challenging job due to his great dislike for the Communists who were provoking revolution in cities throughout Germany. In this assignment, Hitler was given the task of keeping a close watch on individual groups, which could have been a threat to the military of the Weimar Government. In this ... Communists and all foreigners. To many Germans, these groups did seem like plausible excuses for their troubles. On November 8, 1923, five years after the Germany's defeat, Hitler chos! e the moment for a revolution. At a beer hall in Bavaria, he attempted to seize power in the Beer Hall Putsch, where he failed to gain power, but where he gains national recognition for his brave attempt. He was sentenced ... book in which he outlined his ideas on the future of Germany, his racial policies, preservation of the Volk, and the thousand year Reich. The book was published in 1925, two years after he failed revolution. The book was not a success, selling a few thousand copies in the next few years. Readers found it boring, poorly written, and difficult to read. In his prison experience, Hitler learned one valuable ...
- 3425: The Use Of Psychics In Police
- ... never use a psychic to aid in an investigation ever again. This case weakened the use of psychics by police around the world and for at least twenty years there is no recorded instants of American police using psychics in their investigations. It was not until 1925 that American police used a psychic in one of their investigations or least that was recorded by the papers. After World War II documents about Nazi testing of psychics were released to the world which triggered a massive growth in psychic research. By 1955 American police were slowly starting to use psychics in there investigations again. The book Criminal Minds by Diane Willensky reports that "by 1965 over half the police departments in America had recorded using a psychic ...
- 3426: Woman's Struggle for Independence
- ... The 17th century was the first real growth of the women's movement. Up until this time women had been in the same category as property or slaves. But as the French society moved toward revolution women began to speak of the injustice against them. "The Vindication of Rights of Women (1792) called for the extension of the principle of the liberty to women and urging that equal public education be ... available for men and women" (Perry, 289). This list of the right that women were lacking was one of the first attempts at creating a legislation that included women in its laws. During the scientific revolution men were making discoveries and coming up with new ideas all over the world. This was not possible for women because the education was not able to compare with that of the men's. After ... as arguments to push there cause. When the idea of Nationalism began bringing countries together it helped women slightly. Yet still did not make them there equality to men. In the time of the Industrial Revolution women began receiving jobs in factories. Alto they were still not treated as equals. They were paid significantly less than men for the same days work. The majority of women still stayed at home ...
- 3427: Economics in Colonial America
- ... powerful nation. Raw materials were the most required item to strengthen the central government, and deter interactions, such as trade with other nations. The first country to introduce mercantilism in America was Spain. The Spanish American colonies were not allowed to trade directly with Europe. Instead they had to funnel all of the sugar and tobacco, two common commodities of the new land, through Spain. When this was done, heavy custom duties were imposed and the central government gained. Spanish American colonies were forced into providing precious metals and raw materials to the mother country. These colonies existed only to enrich Spain, even if the economic policies adversely effected the well being of the colonies. This ... molasses, and five shillings per hundredweight of sugar imported from French or Spanish colonies. There was no tax put on British rum, molasses, or sugar imported from British Colonies. The British, trying to control the American colonies, were largely ineffective. The Americans vastly ignored the act. The Americans were not going to obey a law passed by the English, when the English had no way of enforcing it. The English ...
- 3428: Pierre Trudeau
- ... If, in the last analysis, we continually identify Catholicism with conservatism and patriotism with immobility, we will lose by default that which is in play between all cultures...". By literally encouraging a liberal, left- wing revolution in his province, Trudeau believed that Democracy must come before Ideology. Gradually, his disposition would attract many politicians and advocates of Socialism, and thus it allowed him to radiate his ideology onto the populace of ... primarily concentrate on two factors (economic and linguistic) which offered practical conclusions without chaotic implications. Trudeau envisioned himself in power, speculating two choices he would offer to Quebec; full sovereignty or maximized integration into the American continent. But what Trudeau avoided treading upon was the infringement of state policies on the individual's rights and freedoms. Many members of the Federal government believed that Trudeau did not speak on behalf of ...
- 3429: Henry Ford
- ... if any mechanical invention in the history of the world has influenced in the same length of time the lives of so many people in an important way as the motor car. So writes an American historian, thinking of the automobile alone. But it does not stand-alone. It was the automobile factory that introduced mass production, a process that has changed the lineaments of our economic and social life more ... mother), the explosion sent pieces of glass and boiling water crashing around the kitchen! Miraculously the young observer was left untouched! This result is eerily reminiscent of the effect Ford would have on the industrial revolution in times to come. As he grew up his father allowed him to tinker with many of the tools on the farm. Ford s mother called him a born mechanic and provided him with darning ...
- 3430: Henry Ford
- ... investors including John and Horace Dodge raised $28,000 and in the first 15 months produced 1700 Model A cars. These cars were known for their reliability, yet were still too expensive for the average American. Over the next five years Ford and his engineers produced models with the letters B through S, the most successful of which was the Model N (priced at $500) , and the least successful was the Model K (priced at $2500). It was obvious from the Model N that the key to the companies success lay in inexpensive cars for a mass market. The answer that Ford and the American consumer were looking for was the Model T. The Model T, a small, sturdy four-cylinder car with an attractive design and a top speed of 45 mph, hit the market in 1908. It s ... hometown. He died a rich man; his fortune ranged somewhere between $500 and $700 million. Yet more importantly he died an accomplished man, who had left an imprint on the very definition of the word American.
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