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- 6651: Jackie Robinson
- ... electric streetcars in Brooklyn that were so dangerous that people had to be skilled dodgers of them in order not to get run over. Why was Brooklyn the place that integration could occur? After World War Two, Brooklyn had transformed from a white-middle class population to a mix of blacks, Latinos and Jews. About half of Brooklyn s population was Jewish; among the Dodger faithful, Jews were probably far more ...
- 6652: Duke Ellington: An American Legacy
- ... just to be heard when America was keeping their African American artists under a cover. Not only should Ellington be remembered as a great composer, but he should be remembered as a leading figure of Civil Rights like Martin Luther King Jr. who always saw the glass half full instead of half empty. In his autobiography he writes,"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." (Gayles, 1995). That sums up the ...
- 6653: Steven Spielberg
- ... helped him make miniature sets out of paper mache.He turned out his first production, with script and actors, when he was thirteen, and a year later he won a prize for a forty minute war movie titled Escape to Nowhere. At the age of sixteen, his 140-minute production, Firelight, was shown in a local movie theater. In college, his short film, Amblin was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival ...
- 6654: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... had done some work in the 1930s, but stopped when his colleague, Peter Kapitza, found himself unable to leave the Soviet Union, because Stalin had revoked the necessary exit permit.[16] In the 1940s the war effort dragged Dirac back into isotope separation. A group at Oxford was looking for an efficient means to do it. Dirac's method worked, but it was not considered the most cost effective. However, he ...
- 6655: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... much time in the theoretical studies and field work. In his research, he developed the heliotrope to secure more accurate measurements, and introduced the Gaussian error curve, or bell curve. To fulfill his sense of civil responsibility, Gauss undertook a geodetic survey of his country and did much of the field work himself. In his theoretical work on surveying, Gauss developed results he needed from statistics and differential geometry. Most startling ...
- 6656: Bob Dole: A Race to the Top
- ... that he and Dole will eliminate estate taxes, which has not even been proposed as part of Doles plan. Further, Dole says he can protect the benefits of all veterans, treat victims of the gulf war, and account for all soldiers missing in action in Vietnam, "no matter how much money it takes" (Gibbs 1996). The public obviously does not believe in these promises considering the fact that in a poll ...
- 6657: Al Capone
- ... see a white collar individual use their professional look to bring about money to themselves. Money was an immense thing and was always needed in the years of Capone's lifetime. With the depression and war, it made it difficult for people to even cut even with the cost of living. People always saw themselves in contention with life, and it wasn't becoming easier. For Capone, cutting even with the ...
- 6658: Charlemagne
- ... protection by the king, and had the ability to have their court cases heard in the palace court. (Ganshof 93) Outside of the palace, Counts, or the individual heads of states, conducted court to settle civil differences. Interpretation of the law was varied, as each man was able to read his own version of truth. Also, the adage "power corrupts" was prevalent in the days of Charlemagne. To combat corruption or ...
- 6659: Jacques Louis David
- ... in prison, is said to have been painted to honor her, its theme being one of love prevailing over conflict. It was also interpreted at the time, however, as a plea for conciliation in the civil strife that France suffered after the Revolution and it was the work that re-established David's fortunes and brought him to the attention of Napoleon, who appointed him his official painter. David became an ...
- 6660: Richard Lederer: His Works
- ... insight into the underlying system'. Changes in Language can appear at a high speed and are often hard to trace from our perspective. History teaches us that changes in language are caused not only by war or religion but ultimately for no real reason at all. English as a language evolved through many periods and mutated so much that we need trained translators to comprehend texts written only 500 years ago ...
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