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- 5331: Tennessee Williams
- ... plays while attending the University of Missouri and after his graduation he had supported himself doing a variety of small jobs. In 1939 he won a national drama award for a group of plays called American Blues. Williams achieved his first great stage success with The Glass Menagerie, which was produced in New York City in 1945. This play won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize as the years best ...
- 5332: Kate Chopin
- ... issues that she views as important. She was encouraged not to become a "useless" wife; she was also involved in the idea of becoming an independent woman (LeBlanc 1). Kate Chopin is a well-known American writer. Kate Chopin was born on February 8, 1851, in St. Louis, Missouri. At the age of 53, on August 22, 1904, she died due to cerebral hemorrhage (Hoffman 1-2). Kate is the daughter ...
- 5333: Assassination Of Malcolm X
- ... home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad." This comment was enough to get Malcolm suspended for good. Being suspended, he formed his own organization, the Organization of Afro American Unity. He began it to take away Elijah Muhammad's power and to bring Nation of Islam members into his new organization. With this tension rising between the two leaders, Malcolm X did an unexpected ...
- 5334: Atomic Bomb 2
- ... H+ Super Bomb. For recognizable reasons, he declined this offer. In 1954, his security clearances were revokedand he was slowly pushed out of public services. Robert Oppenheimer died of cancer in 1967. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bondi, Victor. American Decades. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1995 Lapp, Ralph E. "Manhattan Project," The World Book Encyclopedia, 1988, Volume 13, p.141 Mark, Carson. "Atomic Bomb," Encyclopedia Americana, 1989, Volume 2, p. 641-642
- 5335: Sir Issac Newton
- ... its author could never regain his privacy. In the same year, 1687, Newton helped lead Cambridge's resistance to the efforts of King James II 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 county's Parliament. In the summer of 1693 Newton showed symptoms of a severe ...
- 5336: Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri into an abolitionist family. He was the grandson of Charles Henry Langston. His brother was John Mercer Langston, who was the 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 ...
- 5337: Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, & Company
- ... soon afterwards. Richard Warren Sears died on September 28, 1914, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at the age of 50. During his life, Sears succeeded in a big way, having built a company which has become an American institution.
- 5338: Atomic Bomb 5
- ... the United States. He was soon faced with the decision of whether or not to use the bomb. He decided to use it because he felt that it would save the lives of thousands of American soldiers by putting an end to the war. He knew that once the Japanese saw the awesome power of the Atomic Bomb, they would have no choice but to surrender. The first Atomic Bomb (called ...
- 5339: Augusto Pinochet
- ... thousand union leaders and leftists, and disposed of the bodies either in the Pacific or buried in mass graves in northern Chile. Contreras also organized "Operation Condor" which was a secret plan involving many South American countries. This project involved hunting down leftist enemies, escorting them across international borders and then torturing and murdering them. The military commanders who were involved in these "projects" are just as responsible for these crimes ...
- 5340: Apache And Cherokee Indians
- ... been examined a little more carefully. The Cherokee The story of the Cherokee Indians was probably the most disturbing of any we have seen so far. The Cherokee were the most unfortunate of the North American Indian solely because the lived on the Eastern half of the United States. Their geographical location left them to be the first major tribe to come in contact with the white men. The Cherokees saw ...
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