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- 4631: Bluegrass Music
- ... feels that bluegrass is poised for a resurgence. "I truly believe in the timing of everything," he says. "There is a season for everything. I felt that after [Bill] Monroe passed away, on chapter in American music had closed and another was beginning. It's a new day, a new time, and the music is as fresh as it can be," (Flippo). As you can see, bluegrass music is a major contributor to American music. It has been around for a long time now and I don't see how it will ever decline in popularity. In the future, it will be quite interesting to see exactly where bluegrass ...
- 4632: The Advancement of War
- The Advancement of War The industrial revolution and the great inventions that were growing out of it were to make possible the rapid deployment of huge armies over great areas. Modern total war was first presaged, not by dramatic technical advances, but by the revival of what is now called the ideological element of conflict. This came with the French Revolution and the wars it generated. The history of war then marked time for most of the 19th century. Despite the wartime propaganda that colored postwar studies, World War I was probably not a war over ...
- 4633: Men's Basketball
- Men's Basketball Basketball is a sport that has been around for a long time. Although baseball is the American sport, basketball is a worldly sport. It is played all over the world. Some of the greatest athletes of all time were basketball players. I know not one person who has not heard the name ... open to the students. Basketball is played in almost every high school in the United States. From here both boys and girls are recruited to play for college. After college few make it to the American and National leauges. Some even find playing in Europe satisfys their love for playing basketball. Mens Basketball has always defined the way basketball was played. In the 1990's the NBA opened a concurrent leauge ...
- 4634: The Filipino Americans
- ... found work as field hands on the pineapple and sugar plantations of Hawaii or as migrant laborers in California's fruit and vegetable fields. Hard work and little pay was the common denominator of their American experience; many were the subjects of racial prejudice and even mob violence. Despite discriminatory legislation aimed at them, by joining together in labour unions and other cooperative ventures Filipinos were able to improve their standing in America and promise a better future for their children. In recent decades, the Filipino- American community has been energised by a new type of immigrant, well-educated professionals--doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and engineers--whose numbers have made Filipino-Americans the second fastest growing immigrant group in the United States.
- 4635: 1980s Sports
- ... sports also had their part in this decade. In 1982 the IOC voted to return the medals to the Thorpe family and to put his name back in the record books. Jim Thorpe was an American Indian who had easily won the decathlon and the pentathlon, but unfortunately his medals were taken away when it was discovered that before the games he played baseball for a small salary. The IOC considers ... the games. Lewis was awarded the gold medal and was the first man ever to win the 100-meter dash twice, he also won the long jump for the second time. In 1981 the all American sport baseball was watched by millions and that year Nolan Ryan broke a record of pitching five no hit games by beating the record of four no hit games. Pete Rose broke a record in ...
- 4636: The International Space Station
- ... next five months to ensure all is working according to plan. These are the first of forty-five launchings, aimed to be completed in the year 2004, at the cost of forty billion dollars in American money. Once fully assembled the International Space Station will consist of more than one-hundred different sections with a mass of 455,865 kilograms or 456 tons. It will measure 108.6 meters by 79.9 meters, which is equivalent in size to an American football field, including the end zones! When completed the International Space Station (ISS) will be able to carry a crew of up seven astronauts in living conditions of a far higher standard than the current ...
- 4637: Landfills
- ... become important date markers for scientists examining garbage strata in landfills [Rathje 112-13]. The public is sadly misinformed as to what comprises the bulk of municipal garbage. A typical survey shows that the average American sees the disposable diaper as the number one culprit for the premature closing of our landfills. This is a sad and costly misconception. According to the most recent scientific studies, disposable diapers account for only ... cash and eager for the infusion of Yankee dollars. This, of course, only transfers the problem from one population to the other. Stories of wandering garbage barges and orphaned garbage trains have made splashes in American newwpaper headlines. Covert garbage disposal has become a lucrative business, as the plethora of medical waste washed up along the New Jersey shoreline proves. These anecdotes, while shocking and perversely entertaining, are hardly representative. Recycling ...
- 4638: Winter Celebrations Of The World
- ... spirit always comes to children on this day and delivers to them gifts as rewards for good behavior. A major icon to children during Christmas in America is a man named Santa Clause. According to American folklore, Santa rewards children by giving them gifts on Christmas for being good boys and girls. If the child were bad, Santa would leave a stump of coal in their stocking, (but what type of ... community but serve also as its social glue. He goes on to state Kwanzaa was created to introduce and reinforce seven basic values of African culture which contribute to building and reinforcing community among African American people as well as Africans throughout the world African community. Here are the seven principle on which Kwanzaa is based: 1. Umoja (Unity)- to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and ...
- 4639: The Atomic Bomb anad Nuclear Bombs
- ... developed, tested, and used. In the late 1930s physicists in Europe and the United States realized that the fission of uranium could be used to create an extremely powerful explosive weapon. In August 1939, German-American physicist Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt that described this discovery and warned of its potential development by other nations. The U.S. government established the top secret Manhattan ... device. The leader of the Manhattan Project was U.S. Army Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves. His team, working in several locations but in large part at Los Alamos, New Mexico, under the direction of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, designed and built the first atomic bombs. The first atomic explosion was conducted, as a test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The energy released from this explosion was ...
- 4640: Summary Observing and Remembering
- ... also gained a strength that will help me overcome difficult things in my life ahead. In "Counterculture parents" (Blade Aug 15, 1991), you only need a child to belong. In the summer of 1991 the American Academy of Pediatrics called for a ban on television ads. They showed that one Saturday morning of TV cartoons advertised 202 junk-food ads. Lets face it, when kids see something on TV they automatically ... whose parents do not monitor what they eat and give into the child's wants. The AAP was attacked by the grocers' association and by the PR "parent responsibility" group. Those organizations said that the American people do not need bans, the people need parents who know how to say "no". Mothers and Fathers are expected to screen every aspect of their child's life. The media has become the mainstream ...
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