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- 1981: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- Beware, Witch Hunt in Session On March 1, 1950, The New York Times reports that John E. Peurifoy, in charge of the State Department security program, was asked by a Senate Committee how many department employees had resigned while under investigation as security risks since the ... Peril Guy George Gabrielson, Republican National Chairman, asserted today that sexual perverts who have infiltrated our Government in recent years were perhaps as dangerous as the actual Communists. On May 5, the Times reports that New York State s Republican Governor Dewey accused the Democratic national administration of tolerating spies, traitors and sex offenders in the Government service. (Katz, 91-93) At work you completely avoided people. If you did make friends, you had to be sure never to bring them home, never to tell them who and what you really were. We were all terrified in those days. Lyn on new York in the 60 s. When I was arrested and being thrown out of the military, the order went out: don t anybody speak to this woman, and for those three long months, almost ...
- 1982: The Sport of Running
- ... you have it in you? Will you keep up your body with what your mind wants? Will your mind be focused? If you can do these thing you will succeed. 4,8 With the many new technology boom it has made it easier to improve. With the new power gels that are taken every fifteen minutes to replace the carbohydrates that you have lost. The new Cool-max material that grabs moisture off your body and pushes it away to keep you feeling cooler and stranger. To the newer shoes how use special grids, spikes etc. to help keep motion- ...
- 1983: The Dodge Durango
- ... are not only a form of transportation but a symbol of one’s social class. According to Fortune magazine “Americans never stopped craving freedom, power, and a feeling of superiority over the rest of the world.” Because of the Americans’ desire for such qualities in a car, sport/utility vehicles (SUVs) have taken over the market. “According to J.D. Power & Associates, 68,277 luxury SUVs were sold in 1997” and ... only SUV, the Dodge Durango, out on the market. The “Durango offers some attractive alternatives in the increasingly crowded sport utility market” (Maloney). It is “proving to be one of this year’s most significant new sport/utility vehicle offerings. Motortrend claimed it to be “tough, handsome, a good value,” with “V-8 power in a mid-size package.” The Dodge Durango is equipped with all the right necessities to be ... look more powerful rather than a mobile box. (Maloney). The Durango’s “look is unmistakable” (Timberline). It is “muscular, aggressive, and sculpted” (Timberline). It catches attention with its “hunky but hip looks” (Ward’s Auto World). The “Durango gets two color coats, both of which are water-based to reduce harmful petrochemical emissions” (Timberline). Its shiny sleek lines draw everyone’s attention. The Durango looks powerful and suave. A very ...
- 1984: A Prose Analysis on Milton's "Sonnet XIX"
- ... and deprived all he had. Hence, Milton devoted his life in writing; however, his blindness raped his God's gift away. A tremendous cloud casted over him and darkened his reality of life and the world. Like the servant, Milton was flung into the darkness. Line seven, "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" describes the limitations and burdens of a person who has lost his sense of place in life ... defeat. A sense of "dark clarity" - a sinister paradox occupies Milton's mind. His brain was once clear, set, and on task; but now, it is clouded, unorganized, and fragmented. However, in the darkness, a new form of clarity arises. "That murmur. Soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts;" (lines 9- 10) suggests that the willingness to try is good enough to satisfy God ... out of the abyss. For example, if a person listens to Bach or Mozart, the musical experience is different when the listener's eyes are closed. When the outer eye is shut from the physical world, then the inner eye (the mind) works in the dark. In the darkness, the seeds of imagination grow; therefore, the seeds give the listener a new experience. Again, the primacy of experience is found ...
- 1985: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945. The world would never be the same. This paper will discuss the significance of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how they led to the success of the Allied forces. It will also discuss ... bomb, the decision to drop the bomb, the weakening of Japan, the actual bombing an destruction of both cities, the surrender of Japan and the impact the atomic bomb would have in the future. During World War II, the United States was afraid that Germany would develop the atomic bomb first. Germany had taken over Norway, which was a heavy water supply and Czechoslovakia, which was a uranium supply. Both of ... had given up in their attempt to make it. Still, despite scientists' pleas with the President to discontinue it, the U.S. maintained the work on their atomic bomb (Conrad, 1982, 12-16). In Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated in the desert. The bomb was much more explosive than scientists thought it would be. The 100 foot tower which housed the bomb ...
- 1986: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Allan. John Allan was a wealthy merchant based in Richmond, Virginia with the means, knowledge and affluence to provide a good life for Poe (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” Encyclopedia Britannica 540). In 1815, Poe and his new family moved to England to provide Poe a classical education (which was finished out in Richmond. Upon returning from England in 1826, Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” Encyclopedia Britannica 540 ... career when Poe starting to become a successful writer of poetry and short stories. In 1831, Poems included three of his greatest works: “To Helen,” “The City in the Sea,” and “Israfel” (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” World Book Encyclopedia 591). When his poems failed to reach recognition, Poe began to write short stories such as “MS. Found in a Bottle” in 1833 (591). It was around this time when he married his ... Clemm, who was a very influential character in Poe’s later works (591). In 1840, Poe published a collection of his first twenty-five stories called Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” World Book Encyclopedia 591). Even when this collection failed to sale or gain recognition, Poe still kept a daily routine of working on literature. In 1843 he sold 300,000 copies of “The Gold Bug” ( ...
- 1987: Schizophrenia
- ... mental ill. These individuals are often separated from their families and all alone on the dangerous street. These homeless schizophrenics stay away from social structures such as community health treatment centers. Since they start a new life of independence they often stop taking their medications, become psychotic and out of place, and begin to live on the street. Since the schizophrenics are deinstitutionalized they are thrown into a whole new world of independence. Since their brain functions different than the usual human being they can't cope with the problems of life. The schizophrenics drive themselves crazy wanting to kill themselves and others in order ...
- 1988: Technology Has Influenced Our
- ... masses of stars called nebulae to help with proving his theories. In the twenties some believed that we were all part of one huge galaxy and still others believed that the possibility of a whole world of galaxies outside our own was conceivable. What Edwin Hubble observed with his telescope led him to theorize that galaxies all began from a very densely compacted matter that exploded. In 1929 he professed we ... s with the quantum theory firmly in place it seemed as though the study of matter was almost complete. It was accepted that protons, neutrons and electrons were the building blocks of all matter. A new technological advance changed this. The invention of the accelerator. The accelerator could look into the nucleus. The accelerator experiments showed an unexpected result. There were many more particles involved other than just protons and neutrons. These new particles are called baryons. There was also discovered a new family of particles called mesons. In all about 200 particles have been discovered leading to the creation of The Standard Model Theory. By the ...
- 1989: Leonard Bernstein
- ... aunt who no longer needed it. She knew of Leonard’s love for music, but I doubt she knew what a great impact this gift would have, not only on Leonard, but also on the world of music. After the young boy began to show an interest in the instrument, a neighbor offered to give him lessons, which lasted for about a year. After that year, Bernstein was no longer satisfied ... was interested in many other things other than music. For example, philosophy and history were both subjects of great importance to him. After graduating from Harvard cum laude in 1939, Leonard spent a year in New York City. He met many influential people throughout the course of this year, including Aaron Copland. Aaron Copland is regarded as being Bernstein’s composing mentor. In fact, Copland was probably the most important influence ... in performance arts. This is where the finishing touches were put on Bernstein’s training. He began to develop very close relationships with many of his instructors, which would later serve as contacts in the world of music. The first time that Bernstein conducted was at the end of his first year at Curtis when he led the Curtis Orchestra in Wagner’s Tannauser. His joy was obvious to all ...
- 1990: Extreme Nationalism
- ... the nation an ideological resolution to their question through a social revolution that subsumed class and national distinctions within a socialist framework. Major ethnic groups located within the country were constituted as nations within this new federation. Communism within this federation would eventually provoke the tensions which would bring about the downfall of Yugoslavia. “At the end of the Second World War the united Communist Party of Yugoslavia renewed Yugoslavia as a very centralized state under the name of a federation. That party had, in fact, for a long time attacked the centralism of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and incited national-separatist passions to destroy it” (Stojanovic, 87). Ideological sovereignty weakened and raised questions about Yugoslavia’s existence as a state, as seen with the Soviet Union. After the Second World War “the abstract idealism of the Yugoslav Communists led to acts of great cruelty, and that idealism is no justification for the crimes of Communist repression. Many devoted Communists and partisan combatants suffered greatly, ...
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