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- 4901: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
- ... sight and dividing themselves into a battlefield formation as they came upon Lexington Green. What happened next is still debated. A shot was fired, and neither side would claim responsibility for this first act of war. But when it was over, two massive British volleys had been fired, answered by only one, weak volley of American musket fire and eight militiamen were dead and ten wounded, including Captain Parker. But this was only the start of the Revolutionary War. In the years to come, many Americans and British soldiers would die in their battle to stand up for a country and a future that they believed in. As for Paul Revere, his role in ...
- 4902: Lord Of The Flies Reflection
- ... reflected the different cultures that they had grown up in and was different in each version. An example of this if how they thought of the army, in the novel they mentioned links to world war 2, yet in the movie they only spoke of the army as someone who would save them and war was never really mentioned. Also a different change from the novel to the movie was the time setting between the two. In the novel the estimated time was the 1940's, and the boys reflected ...
- 4903: Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple
- ... heart disease and arthritis he decided to move to Ukiah, California as investigations started to take place. He started preaching that the end of the world is coming band it will end in a nuclear war. To keep members he told them Ukiah was the safest place to be if a nuclear war broke out, but then as the Temple grew he moved to Los Angeles. When suspicions were raised by newspapers on how Jim Jones was condoning illegal activities he moved again as far as he could ...
- 4904: Evaluation of The Lord of the Flies
- ... 1954 about a number of boys marooned on a tropical island and left to fend for themselves. While on the island, they discover quite a bit of evil within themselves. A few years after World War 2, a planeful of boys as young as 5 or 6 but most no older than 11 or 12 crashes near an uninhabited tropical island. As soon as they land, one of the eldest assumes ... Finally, I would be interested in knowing what particular event he witnessed or was part of in real life drove him to write this book. Could it have been an experience he had in World War II? What could have been so bad as to inspire a book of this passionate intensity? Although I disagree with Golding's view of the world as basically evil, his book is certainly a good ...
- 4905: The Beginning of a Journey
- ... of Louisiana Territory to the United States. President Jefferson sent ministers to France, offering to buy New Orleans, the vital port at the mouth of the Mississippi River. But instead, Napoleon Bonaparte, preparing for another war with England, made a surprising counteroffer. He would sell the entire Louisiana Territory, all 820,000 square miles, to the United States for $15 million. It was a sum twice the federal budget, but just ... At the age of 14, he moved with his family to Kentucky where they were among the earliest settlers. William Clark was the youngest brother of General George Rogers Clark, a hero of the Revolutionary War. William served under General "Mad Anthony" Wayne during the Indian wars in the Northwest Territory. In preparing for the expedition, Lewis visited the president's scientific friends in Philadelphia for instruction in natural sciences, astronomical ...
- 4906: Finland
- ... members. More than one-tenth of the population have no church affiliation. Finland's economy is based primarily on private ownership and free enterprise; in some sectors, however, the government exercises a monopoly. After World War II, Finland was still only semi-industrialized, with a large part of the population engaged in agriculture, mining, and forestry. During the early postwar decades, primary production gave way to industrial development, which in turn ... ones being the Social Democratic Party, the Left-Wing Alliance,the National Coalition Party, and the Centre Party. The People's Democratic League and its successor have been important parts of the government since World War II. The Swedish People's Party has become a distinct minority party, although it was formerly an important political group. The environmentalist Green Union displaced the Finnish Rural Party, a splinter group from the former ...
- 4907: Affirmative Action
- ... no longer allowed to establish irrelevant criteria that applicant must fulfill before being considered for hiring or promotion. These measures usually work to exclude otherwise qualified individuals. The roots of affirmative action lie in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At first, affirmative action aimed to eliminate racial imbalance in hiring policies; later the goals were extended to include college admissions and extended protections to all people of color, women, older ... for many people, but the climate of general acceptance of affirmative action may be shifting. In 1974, the city of Memphis signed a consent ruling that settled a suit brought against the city by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Cannon 8 The city agreed to set aside 50 percent of all job vacancies for qualified black applicants. In 1980, the city also agreed to ensure ...
- 4908: The Boston Massacre
- ... would no longer stand for the abuses of the British. The actions taken show the limit the townspeople had under the exploitation from England. This indirectly led to later rebellions that led to the Revolutionary War. BIBLIOGRAPHY Danzer, Gerald A., et al. TheAmericans. Illinois: McDougal Littell, 1998. Dunnahoo, Terry. Bostons Freedom Trail. New York: Dillon Press, 1994. Fradin, Dennis B. The Massachusetts Colony. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1987. Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth, Edward W. Knappman, and Lisa Paddock. Courtroom Drama: 120 of the Worlds Most Notable Trials. Detroit, Michigan: New England Publishing Associates, Inc., 1998. Peckham, Howard H. The War for Independence, A Military History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. The Boston Massacre. Picture. (December 3, 1999) www.stjohnprep.org/htdocs/sjp_tec/projects/internet/massacre.htm Thompson, Kathleen. Portrait of America: Massachusetts. Austin ...
- 4909: The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
- ... to the west. Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating. Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted ...
- 4910: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
- ... Dracula on. This person Vlad the Impaler ( also known as: Vlad Tepes and Dracula) gave Stoker many of the ideas on which to base his character, Dracula. Vlad Tepes grew up in a time of war and corruption. Vlad Tepes like his father developed a ferocious and merciless warlike personality. The resemblence of Vlad Tepes personality to that of Dracula's is very much similar. Dracula has an evil personality like that which Vlad Tepes grew into.Vlad Tepes began to rule Transylvania through a time of bloody massacreing and war. He started to torture people in his ruthless ways. Vlad Tepes once impaled his own army on stakes. This shows the true evil and ruthlessness Vlad Tepes practiced. It was said that he would drink ...
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