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- 2241: The Wright Brothers
- ... reliable tables of air pressure on curved surfaces. Starting in 1902 they began work on their first airplane and by 1905 they were confident enough to submit their design to the United States Department of War. (Pursell 1230) “By 1909 the Wright’s aircraft design was being manufactured.” (Wright, Wilbur 256) The Wright Brothers have had an extremely large impact on our lives, community, and history. Our lives have been influenced ... most rapidly developing form of transportation. Although Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air craft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903 (Pursell 455-456),” not until after World War I did air transportation achieve prominence in all countries.” (“Transportation”) Our lives have not only become simpler through the use of efficient transportation but by the ability to transport messages across a country in a ... Therefore the community has been effected by Orville and Wilbur Wright through enjoyment, jobs and business. Our history has also been significantly effected by the invention of aircraft. Consider the peace treaty that ended World War I that banned the manufactrue of military aircraft in Germany. During World War I both airplanes and lighter-than-air craft were used by the belligerents. Designers were traind because of the urgency of ...
- 2242: Situation Analysis: Ford Mustang
- ... prosperity had ended. WWII During the early 1940s, the United States as Hitler rose to power in Germany, and our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When Hitler invaded France and started the war, the United States was quick to respond. The United States started producing many different pieces of war equipment. The auto industry was the first to respond by reopening many of there shut down plants and producing troop transport vehicles, tanks, planes and just about anything else the government wanted. Under the direction of President Roosevelt, Ford Motor Company built a huge assembly plant in Michigan to produce B-29 bombers. The war pulled the United States out the great depression and jump-started its economy (Chandler 25). The 1950s and 1960s The war ended in 1945 and brought a fallen country back to its feet. With ...
- 2243: The Gilded Age
- ... on occupation allowing individuals utmost rights. America took on an ethos of a mixed economy of market and command that struck a successful economic equilibrium. American economy also changes with different periods of history. The Civil War had lit the spark of industrialization needed to enhance the American economy. Technology advanced by leaps and bounds and free labor was done away with to make room for Industrialization and Adam Smith’s market ... the business economy. Corporations were constantly seeking the improvement that would put them over the top, above competition. This cutthroat competition, by its nature left some corporations and individuals in the proverbial dust. The entrepreneurial war of all vs. all had begun. “Both businessmen (Benjamin Franklin Newhall and Benjamin Franklin) experienced the entrepreneurial war of all against all. Both saw merchants sometimes pursue interests different from manufacturers. And both stood ...
- 2244: The Iliad
- The Iliad The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War, which lasted 10 years. The Grecians eventually won the war, but the outcome could have very easily shifted due to a quarrel between King Agamemnon and Achilles. Pride and anger is what the two men were fighting about. This story is a very good example ... He was angry because his brother, King Menelaus of Sparta, had his wife, Helen, stolen by Paris of Troy. He called all the Kings of Greece and Isles of Greece to come together and make war upon the Trojans and bring Helen back. Among the many was Achilles. Achilles was the son of Thetis, a sea nymph. He was the man who Troy feared the most because he was called ...
- 2245: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... He attended George Washington University and earned a degree in 1917. In 1919 he became assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in the Department of Justice. It was Palmer who instigated the post World War I "red scare," an anti-Communist hysteria that led to the deportation of many aliens. Hoover was put in charge of the deportations. When Hoover became director of the Bureau in 1924, he quickly formed an elite force of powerful law enforcement officers. He enhanced the FBI’s fame by capturing many gangsters, bank robbers, and other lawbreakers. After World War II he waged a relentless fight against internal subversion. The 1970’s often criticized Hoover for his authoritarian methods. He died in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1972. In the rest of the paper ... to power. Bielaski did not forget the young man that his neighbor had recommended - though he did not bring Edgar into the Bureau (Summers 29). Instead he told John Lord O’Brian, head of the War Emergency Division, about Edgar (Summers 29). Many people helped Hoover to become what he was. Many of the people who helped him, made drastic changes in Hoover’s life. Because of the way Hoover ...
- 2246: St. Francis Of Assisi
- ... parents that he would like to follow his own life, not in the footsteps of his father. After his enlistment, he struggled heroically in one bloody battle, but his troop experienced defeat. Taken prisoner of war, he was held captive for several months, then released and sent home. His parents were joyful and made up to him for the long months of suffering by showering him with affection. Francis probably enjoyed receiving extra money the most from this. Being a prisoner of war did take a toll on Francis. His body became so sick that he almost died and it took over a year to recover. It was during this year that for the first time in his ... the outcome of those answers. One night during a dream, he saw his house turned into a palace. The walls of this palace were hung with glorious armory, banners, shields, and swords – all instruments of war. Suddenly he heard a voice, it explained that this was to be his palace, the gathering place for all his knights. The arms were theirs, the banners, and tokens of their countless conquests. To ...
- 2247: Chiang Kai-shek
- ... in 1925, Chiang became a powerful figure in the it and in 1926 took command of the Nationalist army. This was called the Northern Expedition, entering into Shanghai, Hankou, and Nanjing. Chiang initiated the long civil war between the Nationalist government and the Communists.. This was ended in 1936 by General Chang Hsueh-liang who hoped to unite in defense of the approaching Japanese. Many felt that unity could not be achieved ... from our grip...We should invigorate our revolutionary spirit and fuse it into strong combat formations. All our blood, sweat, and toil, and all our resources, she be expended for the sake of our sacred war of national recovery...All the evils of Communism must be eradicated so as to eliminate the danger of a destructive world war and restore a lasting peace and well-being for mankind. Only thus ...
- 2248: Medieval Battle Tactics
- ... many nations were competing for it. One of them was Rome. Rome inhabited New England first, and as being the first settlers they left some of their customs, which among them was the key to war. The Roman legion composed of a huge amount of infantry and some cavalry was an important factor in Roman War. However, if Rome and England were compared then the cavalry of Rome later developed into the Knight. The well trained infantry of Rome’s legion for attacking and invading now was set to defend in ... like heave machinery (not the metal kind, but the wood kind that was used in the medieval ages) that shot heavy, solid objects from far distances. These kind of siege weapons really changed the medieval war era. There was the Ballista that fired large arrows. Then there were the Mangonel and Trebuchet, these both projected stones over large distances. The ballista which needed a heavy framework to support the javelin. ...
- 2249: Dwight Eisenhower
- ... Sheldon Doud Eisenhower who later became an Army officer and diplomat (147, Richardson). In Eisenhower s commission, he directed tank training programs for officers and recruits at Camp Colt, located at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After World War I, Eisenhower served as one of Brigadier General Fox Conner s staff officers. Conner s self-discipline and attention to detail impressed Eisenhower. Conner supported Eisenhower in his admission to the Army s leadership factory ... Eisenhower became an aide to General Douglas MacArthur, the Army chief of staff. Along MacArthur s side, Eisenhower planned the military defense of the Philippines and a military academy for the new government. During World War II, Eisenhower rose to prominence. In 1941, Eisenhower was appointed to plan the strategy for the Third Army in war games in Louisiana. The Third Army defeated an enemy force that included a tank division commanded by George S. Patton Jr., a World War II hero and a friend to Eisenhower. In September of ...
- 2250: Holocaust 7
- ... has been a problem for the Jews ever since the seventeenth century. The Christians, while trying to convert the Jews to Christianity, took strong measures against the Jews. They burned the Talmud, a book of civil and religious laws, and torched other holy writings. Jews have always been considered lower class and were classed as dirty. The Holocaust of World War two emphasizes the mistreatment and brutality towards Jews more graphically than any other historical event.The Nazis began the terror by passing a series of laws that massively discriminated against the Jewish race. Jews were ... www.holocaust.history/children.org) Two million children died of cold, thirst, heat, fire, abuse, crushing, piercing, disease, gunshot and gassing. At the final count, almost nine out of ten Jewish children alive before the war were dead after the Holocaust. The Jews from western Europe often traveled in passenger coaches to the camps. But the (Rossel, 1989) Nazis packed their Polish victims into freight cars and cattle cars. Vicious ...
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