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- 7391: Gwendolyn Brooks
- ... Brooks- A Critical Analysis of Her Work Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the community’s vision of itself. The first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America’s most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. Known for her technical artistry, she has succeeded in forms as disparate as ...
- 7392: George Bush
- ... pay raises. Crime rate is down and although he did not back a hate-crimes bill the President Clinton urged him to sign his inclusive rhetoric and multicultural appointments have please the Hispanic and African American communities. His pulling together of political factions saying it is better to work together than to work alone has impressed many leaders of both major parties. Bush is quoted in Time magazine saying, “I’m ...
- 7393: China
- ... capitalism and boom was born when their president, Deng Xiaoping permitted the provinces to dismantle their communes and collective farms. This led China to venture into free-market economics. By mid 1960's, the Chinese Revolution settled down to the job of ruling China. Its main goal was essentially nationalist: a prosperous modern economy. While there continued to exist substantially economic inequalities, distribution of wealth was probably a bit more equal ...
- 7394: Colombia
- ... to be explored by the Spanish. Christopher Columbus for whom the country is named, never visited the area. In 1510 Spaniards founded Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien, the first permanent European settlement on the American mainland. In 1536 Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada explored the valley of the Magdalena and conquered the powerful Chibcha Indians and in 1538 founded New Granada and Bogota. In 1717 Bogota became the capital of the ...
- 7395: George Washington Carver
- ... raiders kidnapped his mother. The childless carvers reared George and his older brother, James. Growing up, George was captivated by plants. Many neighbors referred to him as the “Plant Doctor”. Since Carver was an African American, he was not accepted at any local schools, therefore he had to attend school eight miles away from home. He did very well in school. In 1885 he was accepted to Highland College in Kansas ...
- 7396: Breast Cancer In Women
- ... good? What if the woman in the family became ill with one of the most uprising and terminal illnesses. Breast cancer is a type of cancer which develops from a mutated gene. “One in 10 American women who live to be 70 develop breast cancer, with more than 180,000new cases diagnosed each year.” (Predicting breast-cancer, MSNBC Health News) Most of us, when thinking of the future do not take ...
- 7397: Chemical Warfare
- ... police and military forces increased their use of non-lethal riot-control agents to control a lot of internal problems they had. The same agents were used also in the battlefields of Southeast Asia. The American and South Vietnamese military forces used them in 1965. Another place where a lot of herbicides were used was in the Vietnam War. In this war, the Agent Orange was used to destroy the big ...
- 7398: Picasso - Life Stile
- Constant Change: The Life and Styles of Pablo Picasso Now is the time in this period of changes and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before. - Pablo Picasso, 1935. (Barnes) Undoubtedly Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and well-documented artists of the twentieth century. Picasso ...
- 7399: Coyote
- ... because of their extreme flexibility in habitat and food consumption, the coyote not only manages to co-exist with human beings, but it is thriving because of it. Works Cited Dunlap, Thomas R. August, 1986. "American wildlife policy and environmental ideology: poisoning coyotes, 1939-1972." Pacific Historical Review. Pp. 345-69. Gilbert, Bil. March, 1991. "Coyotes adapted to us, now we have to adapt to them." Smithsonian. Pp. 68-72. Jones ...
- 7400: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... memebranes by protein channels embedded in the cell membrane. Since the stucture and functions of proteins are determained by genes problems with ion transport can be assumed to have a genetic basis. In 1989 an American Canadian research team found thre defect in the gene called the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene ,produces a protein that usually helps maintain normal levels of chloride. In about 60% of cystic fibrosis pateints ...
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