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- 3931: Contradictions To The Death Of
- Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany during World War II, said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound crazy, we can see many example of this in our world's history. One example would have to be ... one on the Zapruder film.) Lastly, one has to consider what the biggest motives would be to kill the President. One motive has to deal with President Kennedy trying to get out of Vietnam. This war was the biggest business in America at the time. It brought in over eighty billion dollars a year. Thus, since the President was trying to get out of the war, he would have been costing business men a lot of money. Also, vice-president Johnson would have profited a lot because he was the next to become president. Thus, people, including the vice-president, ...
- 3932: The Changing of the America Through Literature
- ... in order to teach people lessons. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn dealt with slavery, greed, racism, and senseless violence. The time period that Twain wrote about was his own, the middle 1800s before the Civil War. He was able to see all the destruction firsthand that the people were doing to their lives. He was able to explain these life lessons that had to be learned by his readers in entertaining ...
- 3933: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... with a system that had much clearer pictures. The first television pictures were broadcast in 1936 and by 1939 there were nearly 80000 sets picking up daily programmes in Britain. This stopped the day war broke out. The BBC kept its monopoly until 1954 when ITV was formed to oversee regionally advertised broadcasting. In 1980 there were four channels and the new development of teletext (pages of information sent to ... operated businesses producing one off products to the specific requirements of their customers. The Structure of Industry ? Nationalised Industries, Monopolies, Co-operatives and Small Firms. Britains first industries were nationalised by the conservatives before the war. These were the National Grid, London Transport and two airline companies. After the war the Labour party added to these with B.E.A. and the Bank of England, these were small steps in comparison to the eventual nationalisation of the coal, steel, electricity, gas, and transport industries. ...
- 3934: Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
- ... of the people arrested were actually communists. The Red Scare continued when on April 1, five legitimately elected members of the New York State legislature were expelled for being members of the Socialist Party. World War I ended in 1920 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Russia and the United States were allies during the war. After the war, both became the world's new superpowers. As the tension between the two nations grew, so did the fear of Communism. The Ku Klux Klan was a racist organization founded in 1915 by William ...
- 3935: Sir William Wallace
- ... Latin and French and how to be a swordsmen.When William's father returned from the revolt at Turnberry Band William was 17 years old. Fighting between rival families and rival towns were heating up. Civil War was about to Break out in Scotland. Brawling and riots inside towns turned into full scale battles, Where in the Battle of Loudoun Hill William's father was involved and killed. William Stayed with his ...
- 3936: Cuban Trade Sanctions And Effe
- ... economy is in complete disarray as a direct result of Castros insistence on adhering to a discredited economic modelthat of communism. The impact of the U.S. embargo was offset during the Cold War years by five to six billion dollars in subsidies a year from Russia. The economic problems in Cuba were exacerbated by the demise of the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. annually gave nearly ... tragedy of the Cuban people is not the United States-Cuba conflict; rather, it is the struggle of eleven million people who seek to assert their human dignity and reclaim the inalienable political, economic and civil rights that were taken away from them by the Castro regime. The Cuban people have been victims of one of the most oppressive regimes of the twentieth century. The systematic violation in Cuba of each ...
- 3937: The Great Gatsby: Gatsby's Illusion of Himself
- ... that embodies America in the 1920s. In it, the narrator, Nick Carroway, helps his neighbor Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy Buchanan, with whom he has been in love with since 5 years before, during World War I. The affair between the two fails, however, and ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. The reason that this was inevitable is that Gatsby created a fantasy so thoroughly that he became part of ... came crashing down. The basis of all of this is Gatsby's obsession with Daisy and with meeting her. He did not want to deal with the reality that confronted him upon returning from the war. Fortunately, he had "an extraordinary gift, a romantic readiness," and he found in Daisy someone to focus this on. She is perfection to him, something for which he can strive, so he puts all of ... speculation: some favorites of the party-goers' theories on why he is so free and generous with his resources are that he once killed a man and that he was a German spy during the war. He does nothing to discourage these rumours; rather, he often adds to them. He lets people believe that he was an Oxford man and that his money was inherited from his father, when in ...
- 3938: Cuban Missile Crisis 4
- ... If we did not, we would suffer the consequences (Smoke 36). Those consequences could be very harsh and detrimental to our society. A country that has first strike capability knows that it can start a war any time it chooses. On the other hand, a country that knows that they are not capable of first strike, will not be as willing to start a war. This was the problem we had encountered in Cuba. We believed that the placing of Soviet missiles inside of Cuba's borders would give them this first strike ability. In our eyes, that seriously endangered ... were already missiles in Cuba, a strategic attack on Cuba could have been extremely harmful to our nation's health. If any one thing had been handled differently, it might have resulted in a nuclear war from which the world might never have survived. I believe strongly that if there were any mistakes made in the way we handled things, there were a very few. Their may be some mistakes ...
- 3939: Woodstock 2
- ... a sybol of the 1960's counterculture and a milestone in rock history. Among those attending were members of the counterculture, who were often referred to a hippies, and chaarcteristically rejected authority, prtested the Vietnam War, supported the Civil Rights movement, dressed unconventionally, and experimented with sex and illegal drugs. Woodstock Music and Arts fair drew more than 500,000 people. For three days the site became a counterculture mini-nation where mind were ...
- 3940: The Manhattan Project
- The Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, since much of the early research was done in New York City. It was top-secret engineering and industrial project in the United States during World War II, started by refugee physicists in the United States, the program was slowly organized after nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists in 1938, and many US scientists were scared that Hitler would attempt to ... 000-100,00 were killed instantly, and 51,000 were injured. An even more powerful bomb, "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th killing an additional 50,000-80,000 instantly. The war was soon over, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States. Bibliography Brodie, Bernard, and Brodie, Fawn. From Crossbow to H-Bomb (Dell, 1962). Friedman, Col. Richard S., and others. Advanced Technology Warfare (Harmony Books, ...
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