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- 441: Joshua Larwence Chamberlin
- ... other countries, such as Florida (from Spain), and the Louisiana Purchase (from France), which almost doubled the United States in size. The United States was forming different sections during the early 1800s. In the Northeast big cities and industry thrived, and the South consisted of large farms. These different sections had different views. Slavery was the biggest issue that the north and south disagreed on. People in the south said that ... B, led by Captain Walter Morrill, had been sent out on the extreme left, as protection. We found a stonewall to hide behind, and were joined by some Union Sharpshooters, who had been driven off Big Round Top by the Confederates. This was all too much for the exhausted Rebels; many threw down their weapons and surrendered. The 20th Maine, once it got started charging, was hard to stop. We took, around 400 Rebel prisoners. In spite of our heroic charge, the day was not over for us. After an anxious night, we rested on Big Round Top. We lay there during the bombardment that preceded "Pickett's Charge" on July 3rd, but were too far away to be engaged in the fight on Cemetery Ridge. Before leaving Gettysburg, we ...
- 442: Britain and Joining The Economic and Monetary Union
- ... gains, simply because the costs would be one-off. However, the cost for major EU banks has been estimated to ECU 10 billion, translating to £7.17 billion at February 1998 exchange rates, for a "big bang" conversion. For the UK banks alone, this will amount to ECU 1 billion (£717 million). If a dual currency system needs to be installed, which is very likely, this figure may double. Thus, businesses have ...
- 443: Andrew Carnegie The Rise Of Bi
- By: Mike Placet Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie The Rise of Big Business Andrew Carnegie was born in Dumferline, Scotland, in November of 1935. His parents were Will and Margaret Carnegie. He also had a brother, Tom. The main income for the geographic location where he grew ... how shipments were made and received, and mastered the controlling of the division's operations. In 1859, Scott was promoted to vice-president and appointed Carnegie superintendent of the western division. This was Andrew's big break. His knowledge of operations and innovative thinking pushed him to the top of his field. From the years1859-1865, Carnegie expanded the road and increased traffic to an all time high. By doing this ... and shares of stock. He had an amazing ability to understand the working structures of the business world. Nothing could escape him. All of this knowledge seemed to be building up in to something immense; "Big Business". Even though Carnegie was destined for greatness, he lied at times, concealed information, and misrepresented facts to get to the top of his game. In November of 1872, Carnegie went from capitalist to ...
- 444: Dreams 2
- ... dreams. As well, many feel dreams are better left uninterprated. Many have wondered whether or not one should interpret dreams. There are six main types of dreams, instinctive, digestive, integrative, creative, true-dreaming, and lastly big dreams (Wilde 14). An instinctive dream is usually associated with primary life functions, digestive dreams related to remembering the previous days. In some dreams one learns how to cope with conflict, dreams such as these are called integrative dreams. In such dreams one may struggle with a decision, in the dream however, it is the conflict that would have been greatly dramatized. Creative, true, and big dreams are easily explained, there is not much more to them than what their name implies. There are two ways to interpret dreams, literally and symbolically. Taking a dream for what it is, waking up ... their dream (Faraday 139). Psychologists, though they feel children and adults dream for the same reason, as previously stated, believe that children s dreams are more significant. Children are just small people living in a big world Van de Castle stated there fore causing children to vent their anger, fear, or resentment in dreams better, because they feel powerless (Short 30). Many feel that dreams should be analyzed. Like an ...
- 445: Donkey
- ... heavy and beastly. If one was to take a trip back to a logging camp around the turn of the century one would see various tools such as: heavy jack-screws, a light ratchet screw, big seven-foot saws, axes, and heavy chains for chaining logs together. A logger's typical work day, as Grainger describes it, would start before the break of dawn by getting in one's rowboat and ... purpose to trap the cut logs so that no logs could wander of to sea(72). A logger's daily tasks consist of: carrying their heavy, awkward tools up the hillside, chopping and sawing, felling big timber, cutting up logs, barking them, and using their heavy jack-screws to coax the logs down toward the shore to be placed inside their boom. Once the boom was filled, usually with approximately 300 ... steam donkey must have to haul a water-bogged ship ashore. After the acquisition of the donkey, Carter's men used a majority of the same tools they had used before the arrival of his big investment. Although most of the tools remained the same, the donkey terminated the use of the loggers' heavy jack-screws; the main tool used in coaxing the logs down to the water. The process ...
- 446: The Life of Hitler
- ... was here that his disliking of the Jews most likely began. Germany after the war was in chaos. With no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to take control. One day a big communist group staged a big riot but another group of ex-soldiers including Hitler managed to hold them back. Since there were not many chances for employment Hitler stayed in the army. Hitler was assigned the job of going go ... race from the European continent. It is interesting to look and see how a small time boy from Austria with no education, money or political background could become within a few years the leader of big nation such as Germany. Historians believe that Hitler saw a great opportunity to get his views across to the German people who have lost all hope. Of course people did not start to support ...
- 447: JFK: Was His Assassination Ine
- ... to consider the FBI as prime suspects. As if President Kennedy didn't have enough foreign enemies, or enemies from his own government, he also had many domestic enemies. Two of the biggest were the big businessmen and the "rednecks". Both of these groups were intimidated by the Kennedy administration. Kennedy tried to find a middle road between black and white radicals. His human-rights activities earned him the hatred of all racists. And as for big business, he angered them by obliging steel manufacturers to reverse price increases, as well as introducing a tax-reform legislation that would end unfair tax practices and would abolish the profitable oil reduction allowance. International ... may be noteworthy that Lyndon B. Johnson was a strong ally of Texas oilmen who despised Kennedy, and that it was rumored that Kennedy was about to drop Johnson from the 1964 election ticket. Could big businessmen along with Lyndon B. Johnson and friend J. Edgar Hoover, who also might have wanted Kennedy dead, plotted to kill Kennedy? The last major group that would have wanted JFK out of the ...
- 448: Cold War Propaganda
- ... idea to get the missiles found worked out perfectly for them. The missiles never posed a threat to us, but just gave the Soviets an opportunity to flex there muscles at the United States. Another big instance of Cold War propaganda was in the Afghanistan situation. The Afghanistans had a communistic government which was supported by the Soviets. There was a group opposing the communist government called the Mujaheaden. The ... is sort of like when someone tries to start a fight with you and if you back off you look like a wimp, but if you step up to the plate you look like a big man. Well the U.S. didnt want to be the wimp. During the Korean War the U.S supported South Korea because of an invasion by North Korea. North Korea was supported by The Soviet Union and allied with China in this war. This was a big war because communism was spreading in Europe and Asia and the U.S wanted to stop it because if communist grew than the U.S would lose its power and then fall to The ...
- 449: The World Of Auto Racing
- ... but when race night rolls around this number increases to nearly eight thousand. It all depends on the price of gas at the time since sometimes gas prices go up right before the weekend. During big racing weekends when the Cascars are battling for three hundred laps attendance at the track is close to twelve thousand people. On these days the gas station does double the business than it would on ... headed to the races. " You can tell so easily these are race fans because most of them are dressed in their favorite drivers t-shirts or hats. " says proprietor Deb Wheeler. If it is a big race weekend, during which the track will get roughly one hundred and fifty to two hundred people camping over the race teams tend to head down the restaurant to get a bite to eat. A ... five to twenty people and therefore they pack the restaurant. Therefore restaurants also profit from the Speedway. BJ's Country market the local grocery store also profits from Delaware Speedway. Since people camp over on big racing weekends BJ's is the ideal place to pick up those grocery's you forgot to pack. This market is a small grocery store with an attached ice cream parlor so it can ...
- 450: Bad Luck In Love!
- ... that Jenny really had the hots for me and had given me a really wild kiss just last night. "Sure," Jay said, "and I was out with Uma Thurman last night myself." Bob got a big kick out of that. He and Jay were really having a good time at my expense. "Fuck off," I said. Then I went to class. **** At lunch time I went looking for Jenny but couldn ... It's no great loss to the world though. She is pure slime in my book. My knives are sharp. I slide them in their my canvass bag, blade to handle alternating so they wont bang together and make any noise. I slide out the back door and make my way through the hedges to the street. There is no street light on, it seems some vandals broke it the night ...
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