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- 2821: Ideas Of Automobiles
- ... soon became the most popular car of the time. In 1929, America experienced a crash in the stock market that left the thriving country poor and desperate. With the decline in income, the demand for new automobiles almost stopped. This huge decrease in demand for new vehicles forced major cutbacks in spending, factories were shut down, employees were laid off, and production was almost halted. Many of the smaller plants couldn't afford to stay in business. The United States time ... of the foreign cars, at this time, was very poor. The 1960s are best remembered as the muscle car era. This was a time of low gas prices and high horsepower. During this time, many new and exciting cars were built such as the Pontiac GTO, Chevrolet Camero, and the Ford Mustang. The Ford Mustang was, by far, the most popular car of the decade. It was during this time ...
- 2822: Wake Island
- When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America was at last forced to officially enter World War II. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt officially declared war on the Japanese and in his famous radio address to the American people, he professed that December 7 was a day that would live in infamy ... Japanese strategists assumed that the tiny island would be overwhelmed in a matter of hours. However, they underestimated the fighting spirit of the military personnel and civilians stationed on the island. For sixteen days these brave men fought against overwhelming odds, but demonstrated both to the Japanese and to their fellow Americans back at home that the Americans could and would put up a courageous fight. During the first air raid ... which were dropped from a fighter-type aircraft. For Captain Elrod’s heroics during the heat of battle, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the first given to a Marine airman during World War II. While the characters of Smacksie Randall (William Bendix) and his buddy, Joe Doyle (Robert Preston) are purely fictional, they do add comic relief to an otherwise dismal situation. The film received much ...
- 2823: The Internet Revolution
- ... convenience of the internet. People no longer have to leave their homes, work or where ever there is internet access to make important purchases. Technology has advanced so that companies are conducting business around the world with out ever meeting. No longer do consumers or businessmen have to shake to complete a deal or a sale, but merely click down on the mouse and the numbers change. Some internet companies have never seen their customers and yet some traditional retailers have not yet acknowledged the internet. However, convergence is the new religion ( The Real 53). Big companies are changing the business world as we see it through the internet. June 1, Merrill Lynch announced it was joining the internet revolution and would begin selling stocks for $29.95 a trade (Cropper 60). A division of the ...
- 2824: Relations Between Canada and Japan
- ... Canada has been that people from various ethnic traditions have made contributions to the development and uniqueness of our national identity. From Canada’s inception people came from different regions in Europe to start a new life, it was the first time that people of different ethnic groups were forced to interact with each other. In the late 1800s Japanese men were enticed to come to Canada, the initial aim was ... develop remote areas of North America particularly in the west. It is within this period of time we begin to see the discrimination begin against the first Japanese generation (Nikkei) in Canada. During the Second World War, Japanese Canadians were persecuted and were the victims of national discrimination. Japan had entered the war as an ally of Germany and had bombed the United States. As a result of the bombing at ... deteriorated which had a direct affect on Japanese living in the States. The dietitian of US-Japan relation had some influence on the prejudice Japanese experienced in Canada. The Canadian government interned Japanese Canadians during World War II, because of close political ties and influence of the US. Because Japanese were racially, and culturally different they were viewed as suspicious within communities across Canada. The residence of British Columbia were ...
- 2825: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement
- ... own programs, and the scattered teach-ins had become more of a problem for President Johnson when their organizers joined in an unofficial group, the Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing on Vietnam. This new committee began planning a nationwide teach-in to be conducted on television and radio, of which would be a debate between protesters and administrators of the government. The antiwar movement, through the national teach-in ... many of the participants tried to march the various government grounds, most importantly taking place at the Lincoln Memorial. For most Americans, the events were symbolized by television images of dirty-mouthed hippies taunting the brave, clean-cut American soldiers who confronted the unruly demonstrators (VN H. and P.). Americans were soon shocked to learn about the communists' massive Tet Offensive on January 31, 1968. The offensive demonstrated that Johnson had ... reelection in March of 1968, and he was offering the communists generous terms to open peace talks. In the meantime, as the war continued to take its bloody toll, the nation prepared to elect a new president. The antiwar movement had inadvertently helped Richard Nixon win the election. As Johnson's unhappy term of office came to an end, antiwar critics and the Vietnamese people prepared to do battle with ...
- 2826: Irene Joliot-curie
- ... school education at College of Sevigne, and independent school in the center of Paris. She entered the Sorbonne in October, 1914 to prepare for a baccalaureate in mathematics and physics. Her education was interrupted by World War I. In 1916, Irene left the Sorbonne to assist her mother, Marie Curie, who at that time was a nurse radiographer, with the fleet of mobile x-ray facilities, that she and her mother ... mother, Irene combined family and profession. Although both Irene and Frederick spent long hours in the laboratory, it is clear that their family was important to them. Holidays were an important time for them, Until World War II interrupted this, they were often together at their vacation home in L'Arcouest. Her mother, Marie Curie, died of aplastic anemia, a type of leukemia in July 1934. As soon and Irene and ... magnesium in short order. Al + He ------ P + n Mg + He ------ Si + n This discovery was to transfigure the periodic table of the time, eventually adding more than 400 radioisotopes. Through isolation and concentration of these new artificially' radioactive isotopes, many became available within a few years of medicine, research, and eventually weapons. Their discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the relationships between elements, leading to an understanding of the fission ...
- 2827: Burial In Different Cultures (
- ... Another practice used by the Egyptians to aid the departed soulinvolved mass human sacrifice. Many times if a prominent person passedaway the family and servants would willfully ingest poison to continuetheir servitude in the next world. The family members and religiousfigureheads of the community did just about everything in their power toaid the deceased in the transition to a new life. The community made sure the chamber was furnished with "everything necessary for the comfort and well-being of the occupants." It wasbelieved that the individual would be able of accessing these items in thenext world. Some of the most important things that the deceased would needto have at his side were certain spells and incantations. A conglomerationof reading material ensured a successful passage; The Pyramid Texts, TheBook of the ...
- 2828: The Cold War
- The Cold War When World War II in Europe finally came to an end on May 7, 1945, a new war was just beginning. The Cold War: denoting the open yet restricted rivalry that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, a war fought on political, economic, and propaganda ... operations dominating this war have been conducted by the Soviet State Security Service (KGB) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), representing the two power blocs, East and West respectively, that arose from the aftermath of World War II. Both have conducted a variety of operations from large scale military intervention and subversion to covert spying and surveillance missions. They have known success and failure. The Bay of Pigs debacle was ...
- 2829: Great Religions and Philosophies. : Greek Philosophy.
- ... Philosophy became a compromise between Greek monistic and oriental influences, in other words, a combination of intellectualism and mysticism. Thus began the pre-Socratic philosophy. The interests of pre- Socratic philosophers were centered on the world that surrounds man, the Cosmos. This was during the time of great internal and external disturbances in the Greek society, as it was right after the Peloponnesian war. The pre-Socratic era of Greek Philosophy ... man and dealing with the practical problems of life. The ancient Greeks mirrored their nature, beliefs, morals and customs in Greek Philosophy. Through understanding Greek Philosophy, we can see how the ancient Greeks regard the world around them. Greek Philosophy filled the void in the spiritual and moral life of the ancient Greeks, where in the same place other cultures had their belief in a religion. Wisdom, in the Greek sense, included not only a theoretical explanation of the world around them, but also provided a practical guide to life. From Homer to Hesiod, we see the reflections of the ancient Greeks and their use of Gods to fulfill their spiritual, social and psychological ...
- 2830: Hemingway and His Writing Style
- ... from various people and events from his personal life also had an effect on his writing. Many people hold the opinion that there has been no American writer like Ernest Hemingway. A member of the World War I “lost generation,” Hemingway was in many ways his own best character. Whether as his childhood nickname of “Champ” or as the older “Papa,” Ernest Hemingway became a legend of his own lifetime. Although ... For Whom the Bell Tolls is a study of the individual involved in what was a politically motivated war. But this novel differs greatly from Hemingway’s prior portrayal of the individual hero in the world. In this book, the hero accepts the people around him, not only a few select members of the distinguished, but with the whole community. The organization of this community is stated with great eloquence in ... the bell tolls; It tolls for I thee. Therefore, while the hero retains the qualities of the Hemingway Code, he has been built up by his unity with mankind. In the end, he finds the world a “fine place,” that is “worth fighting for”(Curly 795). In his personal confrontation with death, Robert Jordan realizes that there is a larger cause that a man can chose to serve. In this ...
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