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- 4551: Social Inequality In 1820s
- ... planters held to slavery was love and duty to the black man, the earnest, devoted will to not only get him into heaven but to also make him happy in this world. He was a child whom somebody had to look after." - W.J. Cash, The Mind of the South, pg. 85. Blacks were considered children. Social Equality cannot be achieved if inferiority is placed upon a race. Through the eyes ...
- 4552: Roswell
- ... the intelligence agencies impose a certain amount of secrecy. In recent decades, however, many observers say: τthat the use of government secrecy has become excessive. Secrecy tantamount to power and, like power, lends itself to abuse. Behind the shield of secrecy, it is possible for an agency or service to avoid scrutiny and essentially operate outside the law. Accountability to the taxpayers, and to the Congress, can be conveniently avoided.φ ...
- 4553: Nikola Tesla
- ... had to wait another 25 years until it was invented. His reward for a lifetime of creativity? The prized (to everyone but Tesla) Edison Medal! A real slap in the face after all the verbal abuse Tesla took from Edison. The stories go on and on. Industry's attempt (obviously very successful) to purge him from the scientific literature had driven him into exile for nearly twenty years. Lacking capital, he ...
- 4554: Mark Twain
- By: terrance evans MARK TWAIN Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clemens. He was born in Florida, Missouri on Nov 30,1835, the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. Several years later, in 1839, the family moved to nearby Hannibal, where Clemens spent his boyhood years. Clemens boyhood dream was to become a steamboatman on the river. Clemens' newspaper ...
- 4555: JFK
- ... on November 8, 1960, Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon, in a very close race. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President and the first Catholic. Just after the election, the Kennedy's second child, John Jr., was born. Kennedy wanted Americans to travel to a more distant destination. In May 1961, after Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut to fly into space, Kennedy asked Congress to spend more ...
- 4556: Civil Rights
- ... in their delegation to the Democratic National Convention of 1964, Hamer and others went to the convention to challenge the white Democrats' right to represent Mississippi. In a televised interview, Hamer detailed the harassment and abuse experienced by black Mississippians when they tried to register to vote. Her testimony attracted much media attention, and President Johnson was upset by the disturbance at the convention where he expected to be nominated for ...
- 4557: Ernie Pyle
- ... was so famous, his death on the battlefront came as a shock to people around the world. Ernest Taylor Pyle was born August 3, 1900 to Will and Marie Pyle. He was born an only child on the Same Elder farm just southwest of Dana, Indiana. His father, Will Pyle, was a tenant farmer because he couldnt make a steady living from being a carpenter, which is what he really ...
- 4558: Power Of The Few Over The Many
- ... the church and it's leaders to guide the masses, their society would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave New World, the whole society is conditioned to "work for everyone else"(Huxley 67) by the abuse and daily consumption of soma. Without the drug called soma, their society would have also collapsed due to withdrawal symptoms. The underlying reality between the two societies is that the masses are manipulated, controlled, and ...
- 4559: Important Presidential Electio
- ... Franklin married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, on March 17, 1905. Her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, gave the bride away. Their children were Anna Eleanor, James, Elliott, Franklin Delano, Jr., and John; a sixth child died in infancy. The Roosevelt's were active in New York social circles but at the same time devoted considerable energy to the plight of the less fortunate. Franklin's handling of small-claims cases ...
- 4560: The Gilded Age
- ... of all the goods and services produced each year, leaped from about $7 billion to over $35 billion. This meant an average increase of in output from $150 to about $380 for every adult and child in the nation(Burner411). These statistics point to economic gains of colossal proportions. Goods produced made up for job layoffs as the US economy became, like a machine, more industrialized each day. All of the ...
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