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- 3501: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- ... paper. In 1853 Clemens set out for the East as a journeyman printer. In 1857 he became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi, and remained on the river, as apprentice and journyman pilot, until the civil war. For about two weeks Clemens served as a second lieutenant in Confederate Army, but he some how managed to get out because of diasabilities. After his short military career Clemens went back to his brother ...
- 3502: Eliot Ness
- ... Did they merely fade away into quiet life? The fate of Ness was quite the opposite, he continued doing what he fell in love with. Taking down corruption on any level. He carried on his war on the mob for an entire decade after Capone, staging daring raids on bootleggers, illegal gambling clubs and generally putting organized crime on the run. Ness’ exploits in Chicago were chronicled in his book The ... was the last Ness saw of Capone who was infected with syphilis and died in prison, the world’s greatest crime boss died a near vegetable. In July 1934 Ness was promoted and continued his war on bootleggers, in less than a year he and his team made it too expensive to bootleg liquor in Ohio. In November of 1935 Mayor Harold Burton of Cleveland elected Ness to safety director. This ... of rampant mob activity. Ness immediately made it clear that good police work would be rewarded while bad police work would be severely punished. Ness fully intended to clean up the force prior to making war on illegal gambling and mob activity however an opportunity came up he could not ignore. A county prosecutor by the name Frank Cullitan was hell bent on closing down a gambling club known as ‘ ...
- 3503: H G Wells
- ... West, in 1914. In the next 50 years he produced more than 80 books. His novel The Time Machine mingled science, adventure, and political comment. Later works in this genre are The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The Shape of Things to Come; each of these fantasies was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History ... other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he ...
- 3504: Censorship In Radio
- ... shall make . . .” as interpreted by the FCC (king of all. 165) this makes no sense the word freedom, according to Webster’s Dictionary means the state of being free from constraints, possession of political and civil rights, unrestricted access or use yet, the FCC is in charge of what can and can’t be said over the airwaves. The FCC is the god of the broadcasting industry, they do not have ... stern.53.) This is so true what the FCC, N.P.R., C.B.S.C, and other government officials have got to learn, Deejays are not to be taking serious, they don’t cause war or famine they are entertainers, if a deejay says “*censored*” on the air it isn’t going to hurt any sane-minded person. Howard and other deejays say what is on most of are minds ...
- 3505: Burdens Of Poverty
- ... by poverty, in an eight-year-old boys life. This poor, Negro boy, James, lives with his mother and five other relatives while his father is away. The fact that his father is gone to war, his mother is a very proud woman, and James’ not wanting to be a financial burden on his mother, all take a toll in making James’ life tougher. James’ father is drafted into the early part of World War 2. This leaves James’ mother to raise the children and support the entire family. In effect the family has very little money. The family doesn’t own a car and barely has money to ride ... is starving. James would rather suffer than have his mother spend money on him because he knows they are poor. Poverty plays a big role in making James’ life tough. His father is gone to war, his mother is a proud woman, and James never wants to be a financial burden on the family. All the pains James endure play a role in making him a man. Poverty hinders James, ...
- 3506: Adolf Hitler
- ... up dropping out of art school. Hitler was an aggravated person. He was looking for a job where he was the boss and everyone would look to him for guidance. In his involvement in World War 1, he separated people into two different races. One race was called the Aryan race or superhuman. These were all of the people who had blonde hair and blue eyes. Everyone else was considered subhuman ... power in speeches he was appointed chancellor of the Nazis in 1933. Within a year he was made full leader of the Nazi Party. In 1938 Hitler takes over Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1939. World War 2 begins with Hitler and his troops marching in to Poland. By this time Jews were dying by the thousands. Europe was almost completely taken over by the Nazis. In 1941 Germany had taken over ... the acts of hatred he had against the Jews. April 30, 1945 him and his new wife had brought there life to an end when they decided suicide was the only way out. Finally the war was over and millions of Jews were lost to the insanity of a man who ends his own life. The reason is unknown.
- 3507: Television
- ... the New York World's Fair were Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke before a camera becoming the first president to appear on television. In 1940 the Colombian Broadcast company demonstrated its example of color television. World War II brought the development of television to a stand still. All materials had to go to the war effort. At the end of the war NBC made the first made for television movie. During the time between 1946 and 1951 the radio market was over taken by the demand for televisions. Over 3 million sets had been sold by ...
- 3508: 1984
- ... of future as life under the constant surveillance of “Big Brother.” This book 1984 is an anti-utopian novel. The main character Winston Smith lives in the large political country Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two huge countries, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant correction of news. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present ...
- 3509: Emily Dickinson 4
- ... her confidantes and friends through letters, rarely seeing them. The men she corresponded with during her life include Benjamin Newton, a law student; Reverend Charles Wadsworth, a Philadelphia minister; Thomas Higginson, a literary critic and Civil War hero, and Otis Lord, a judge who had been her father s closest friend. She regarded these men as intellectual advisers as well as friends. Although many of them found her poetry to be fascinating ...
- 3510: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... Blackwell gave her whole life on fighting ignorance and illnesses. She opened a hospital and clinic called the New York Infirmary for Women and children. She also helps to train nurse for duty in the Civil War. She wrote many books on health and the prevention of diseases. She died in 1910, at the age of 89. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell showed many people why some things were so important like medicine and ...
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