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- 5801: Atomic Bomb
- ... 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
- 5802: Use of Paralanguage and Kinesics in Everyday Life
- ... but may be a great insult to another culture. Paralanguage has many forms such as whistling which can be used by many people as a means of entertaining by whistling a song or even in American culture used to hound women on the streets because they appear to be attractive. These two uses of persuasion I will discuss about in my paper. I will discuss the history of both and also ...
- 5803: Automobile
- ... the inventor Oliver Evans obtained the first patent on a steam carriage in 1789. In 1803, he built a self-propelled steam dredge, wich is regarded as the first self-propelled vehicle to operate over American roads. In France and Germany, meanwhile, attention turned to the development of the internal-combustion engine. By 1980, more than 300 million cars and 85 million trucks and buses were operating throughout the world, forming ...
- 5804: Articles Of Confederation
- ... Articles of Confederation required the ratification by all the states, a measure that virtually eliminated any chance of change. The negatives of The Articles gradually magnified. The British refused to evacuate from forts in the American Old Northwest. Finally, Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts symbolized the feebleness of the nation, and inadequacy of the Articles of Confederation. Although, some states opposed a radical change in governmental form , it was inevitable by ...
- 5805: William Faulkner
- ... 5. Most of the novels written by William Faulkner take place in the area in which he himself was born and raised. He renames Oxford and calls this place Jefferson, Mississippi. Faulkner is a contemporary American author who has achieved greatness as an author. He is already considered to be one of the worlds greatest novelists and has been awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. This is ...
- 5806: Juvenile Crime: Crime Rates
- ... 24 showed a 62% increase in homicides; 14 - 17 showed a 124% increase in murders.) It is this age group that will be booming in the next decade (currently 39 million under 10). However, the American Civil Liberties Union, in a fact sheet on juvenile crime published in mid May of this year, stated that contrary to public perception, the percentage of violent crimes committed by juveniles is low. According to ...
- 5807: ASSATA Shakur
- ... activists can be locked up, and potentially killed, but it's a matter of time the criminal activities of the government reach the people, black or white. When the time comes there can be a revolution, in my mind probably for the worst, nevertheless, a struggle for liberation. The thought of a liberation could stand worthy to the ones fighting for it, however the amount of violence and damage our society ...
- 5808: Why Is It Called The Bean Trees?
- ... has not created the future she was aiming for. She is totally thrown off from her utopian plan, and realizes that she is forced to face reality: she must deal with motherhood, being of Native American decent, coming across the unexpected, and learning about the real world she never knew existed outside of Kentucky. The idea of beans is irrelevantly brought up several times. When Taylor is searching for a room ...
- 5809: Atomic Bomb
- ... 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 ...
- 5810: Articles Of Confederation DBQ
- ... Congress that he was unable to obtain the rights to the Mississippi, and in fact the Confederation never was able to procure those rights. John Jay's letter to George Washington speaks of crisis and revolution, probably referring to Shay's Rebellion, the first major uprising against the Confederation. The rebellion was crushed, but it showed the discontentment of the popular masses. The letter also speaks of the "better kind of ...
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