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- 3501: Attica
- ... York s Attica State Correctional facility which was approximately two weeks after George Jackson s death. The uprising of New York s Attica State Correctional Facility is known as the most notorious prison riot in American History. During this time New York s Governor Nelson Rockefeller ran the Attica State prison as forced labor camps as well as other state prisons. Attica State Prison during this time also had an all ... York s Attica State Correctional facility which was approximately two weeks after George Jackson s death. The uprising of New York s Attica State Correctional Facility is known as the most notorious prison riot in American History. During this time New York s Governor Nelson Rockefeller ran the Attica State prison as forced labor camps as well as other state prisons. Attica State Prison during this time also had an all ... York s Attica State Correctional facility which was approximately two weeks after George Jackson s death. The uprising of New York s Attica State Correctional Facility is known as the most notorious prison riot in American History. During this time New York s Governor Nelson Rockefeller ran the Attica State prison as forced labor camps as well as other state prisons. Attica State Prison during this time also had an ...
- 3502: We Are Not Alone
- ... The Lights in the Sky II. Dents in the Earth III. Unexplained Phenomenon A. The Writing on the Wall B. Geodes IV. What About Religion? A. The Christian Bible B. The Ancient Greeks C. The American Indian V. Conclusion On June 24th, 1947 while searching for the remains of a downed Marine C-46 transport, lost somewhere in the Mount Ranier area, a young Idahoan businessman named Kenneth Arnold spotted something ... official position as to what the luminous discs were. The United States has had more than it's fair share of unexplained aerial objects. In February of 1960 the N.A.A.D.S. (North American Air Defense System) spotted a satellite of unknown origin orbiting the Earth. They knew that it wasn't a Soviet satellite because it was orbiting perpendicular to trajectory produced by a Soviet launch. It also ... the dawn of time man has told stories of heavenly and demonic beings coming to rule, teach, torment, seduce and provide salvation. Every culture has myths of ancient gods who strode through the heavens. The American Indians had the cachinas who taught them to farm and saved them from numerous cataclysms. Greece had Zeus who threw lightning bolts from his finger tips and Apollo crossed the sky in his golden ...
- 3503: Steinbeck, His Critics, And Of
- ... a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1944, his first son, Tom, was born. His second son, John IV, followed two years later. In December of 1948, Steinbeck was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. On December 28, 1950, Steinbeck married his third wife, Elaine Anderson Scott. On October 25, 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On September 14, 1964, he received ... consistent. A single purpose has directed his experimentation, a single ideas has guided his literary thought. Always his fiction has described the interplay of dream and reality; his thought has followed the development of the American dream. (Tedlock 68) In John Steinbeck: Journeyman Artist, Joseph Warren Beach, like other critics, notes the versatility of Steinbeck's talents. He is not disturbed to find Steinbeck something more than an "objective realist" (Tedlock ... characteristics with a broad range of literary accomplishments, rather than to judge the "correctness of his position regarding contemporary urgencies and controversies" (Tedlock 20). In George Snell's chapter on Steinbeck in The Shapers of American Fiction: 1798-1947, he notes Steinbeck's strengths and weaknesses: "an enormous gift of story-telling", "catholicity of sympathy" and "'common touch,'" ease of character creation through "types" rather than "individuals," "love of exaggeration ...
- 3504: The Common Hemingway Protagoni
- ... the war to become intimate with a French or German girl, especially considering that there wasn't as much "red tape" in European relationships. It was just too complicated to adjust himself back to an American relationship which he deemed full of consequences. In other works by Hemingway, protagonists are "haunted by a sense of how simple it all was once, when he could take his Indian girl into the clean ... 14 (1968). 313-328. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol 30. Ed. Jean C. Stine, Daniel G. Marowski. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1984. 188-191. Fiedler, Leslie. "Men without Women." Love and Death in the American Novel (1959). Rpt. in Hemingway: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Robert P. Weeks. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1962. 86-92. Gurko, Leo. Ernest Hemingway and the Pursuit of Heroism. (1968). Rpt. in Contemporary ... A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics. (1963). 65-70. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol 3. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1975. 232-233. Young, Philip. "Ernest Hemingway." American Writers Pamphlet No. 1 (1959). Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol 13. Ed. Dedric Bryfonski. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1980. 273-276.
- 3505: Dietary Fibre
- ... particular emphasis on any one type of fibre when planning a daily diet. Trock said that people should increase the level of fibre by increasing foods from all the vegetable, grain and fruit sources. The American Dietetic Association recommends 20-35 grams of dietary fibre. Studies on the American population state that when Americans started going from 17 grams per day to 46 grams per day of fibre, their increased faecal weight went from 79 to 228 grams. In 1988, C. Everett Koop (surgeon ... 430 B.C.. Not until the 1960s, however, did scientists seriously begin to investigate the role of fibre in health. At that time, studies showed rural Africans, with diets higher in fibre than the typical American or European diet, had a lower incidence of colon cancer, diverticulosis, haemorrhoids, gallstones, appendicitis, diabetes and some forms of heart disease than Americans or Europeans. Today, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are nearly non- ...
- 3506: Global Warming
- ... greenhouse effect is occurring now and it's changing global climate."(1989 Koral). After the 1900's people started making factories and started using fossil fuels like coal, oil, and aluminum. It was the industrial revolution and overpopulation of humans that was the cause of the environmental problems that we have today. 2. Human Activity Causing the Problem The reason our Earth is getting hotter is that human activities are emitting ... the U.S. and the other powers have recognized it as such. Methane, also known as a natural gas, contributes 15% to the greenhouse effect. It is caused by cows and rice paddies. The major American demand for so much beef urges foreign farmers to clear forests for pastures. This also causes an increase in carbon dioxide, as well as a cow population so high that the methane-rich burps of ...
- 3507: Definition of Education
- ... or developed by a learning process. 3. A program of instruction of a specified kind or level. 4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning, according to the American Heritage dictionary. Its etymology comes from the Latin word "educatio which means to bring up"1 But what does that tell us. It says to me that education is training not learning. Education trains the ... age of art and philosophers is dead due to our age of "so called" education. We are being molded into people who can not think for ourselves. An example of this would be the giant "American War Machine." The government says we need all these weapons to protect America. They do not say who we need protection from. In fact there really is no one we need to be protected from ... know that can not happen. The Savings and Loans Scandal is a perfect example of this. Big business made a mistake and then instead of dealing with it they pawned there massive losses on the American public. Education is a farce, a cruel joke that the people in power attempt to trick us into believing is the "be all and save all" for success. We are not being educated instead ...
- 3508: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... S. Senator. Abe Lincoln was well known in history for his views on anti-slavery laws. On June 26th, 1857, he first speaks against slavery at the Dredd Scott ruling. Dredd Scott was an African-American slave whom was taken by his master, an officer in the U.S. Army from the slave state of Missouri to the free territory of Wisconsin where he lived on free soil for a long ... to get on with the question of slavery so other matters can be attended to. “It is true that all of us- and by that I mean, not the Republican party alone, but the whole American people, here and elsewhere- all of us wish this question settled and wish it out of the way. It stands in the way, and prevents the adjustment, and the giving of necessary attention to other ... the People, by the People, for the People- have come to symbolize the definition of democracy itself.” Unfortunately, Lincoln’s next tenure as President, is cut short by his untimely death. During the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865, Lincoln was killed by a bullet to the head by John Wilkes Booth. President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning on April ...
- 3509: The Police and Corruption
- ... leads to the fact that citizens who behave antagonistically towards an officer are more likely to be arrested than those who are civil or very differential. Donald J. Black reported in “Police control of Juveniles”, American sociological Review February 1970, that when Complaints are present 72 percent of adults who behave antagonistically toward the police are arrested in the field while only 45 percent who are civil and 40 percent who ... or inaction. “The national Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals postulates that: 1. The corruption of public officials at all levels of government- federal, state, and local- is perceived as widespread by the American public; 2. such corruption results in a staggering cost to the American Taxpayer; and 3. the existence of corruption breeds further crime by providing for the citizen a model of official lawlessness that undermines an acceptable rule of law. (More, p.346) The police especially out ...
- 3510: AIDS: US Made?
- ... that AIDS is a man-made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "Top Secret" is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is a sister publication to the American Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB). Top Secret carries the Naming Names column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named "AIDS: US-Made Monster," is lengthy and has a lot of professional jargon. "The fatal weakening of the immune system ... New York City's proximity to the prison many freed patients moved there. The patients were exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse, as is often the case in American prisons. It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They go on to explain that whereas ...
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