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- 8491: Kevorkian Essay
- ... of Planned Death--An Interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian," Free Inquiry, Fall l991, p. 15 15 Kevorkian, Prescription: Medicide, p. 214 16 Ibid. 17 J. Kevorkian, "A Fail-Safe Model for Justifiable Medically-Assisted Suicide," American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 1992, pp. 11 & 28 18 Gilbert, Ohio Northern University Law Review (1994), p. 674 19 Testimony of Jack Kevorkian, M.D., Michigan v. Kevorkian, Oakland County (MI) Circuit Court, 6/8 ...
- 8492: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... building of the Panama Canal and in so doing becomes the first President to travel abroad while in office. He was a man of no fear; he even joined the first dive with the first American submarine. He traveled to Africa for hunting while in office. He traveled around for nearly one and a half year. Roosevelt's candidate for president, William Howard Taft, took office in 1909. Dissatisfied with Taft ...
- 8493: Battle Royal
- ... ignorance . It has been a part of world culture since recorded history and , no doubt , before that . When one thinks of racism in the United States , invariably , though not only , the struggle of the African-American is singled out . That is the main issue Ellison so powerfully addresses in his short story "Battle Royal". In it the author allows us to see the world through the eyes of a young black ...
- 8494: GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology
- ... In an interview for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Spencer Michels points out that Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady, honored by President Clinton, provided the most dramatic use of GPS. He was rescued by American forces, after he was shot down by a Bosnian Serb missile over Bosnia in 1995. O'Grady used a hand held unit to find his exact position and radio it to rescuers before he could ...
- 8495: Langston Hughes
- ... he was discovered in 1925, while he was working as a busboy in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., when he accidentally left three of his poems next to the plate of Vachel Lindsay, an American poet. She helped him ge! t publicity for his works and she got him seriously started in writing(Encarta). In an article about Langston Hughes in The Reference Library of Black America it talks about ...
- 8496: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream for America
- ... police brutality. He is directly addressing the Black audience with these metaphors. In the next three or four paragraphs, he is bringing all three elements of ethos, pathos, and logos together with his dream. The “American Dream.” He is stating the reason for this argument; he is being sympethetic with the audience and he is letting the people know that this dream is a good thing for them to want. He ...
- 8497: Hot Zone
- ... nature. Having visited Africa, researching, studying, and actually staring the virus in the face, Gene knew the virus all to well. In the winter of 1989, the foreigner made its first appearance on the North American continent via an infected monkey who been shipped here from the Philippines. An "unknown virus" was sweeping through a monkey house in West Virginia, first noticed by some runny noses and loss of appetite, ending ...
- 8498: Helen Keller
- ... disease which was itself often caused by pove 84f rty. She became a suffragette and a socialist, demanding equal rights for women and better pay for working class people. She also helped set up the American Foundation for the Blind in order to provide better services to people with impaired vision. She toured the country, giving lecture after lecture. Many books were written about her and several plays and films were ...
- 8499: Davy Crockett
- ... Davy" Crockett was the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born to John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett. The Crocketts were a self-sufficient, independent family. Davy Crockett stands for the Spirit of the American Frontier. As a young man he was a crafty Indian fighter and hunter. When he was forty-nine years old, he died a hero's death at the Alamo, helping Texas win independence from Mexico ...
- 8500: Harper Lee
- ... the rewriting and revising the book, which was eventually published in July, 1960. Later that year, the book that was originally rejected for publication, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished fiction by an American author. This marked the first time in nearly twenty years that a female author recieved the award. The book also recieved the Paperback of the Year Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews ...
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