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- 481: Columbine High School and Its Effects
- ... not help but think that this could have been prevented if America had stricter gun laws. The president, along with congress and the Colorado Legislature, responded to this thought. The National Rifle Association supported President Clintons proposals of tougher federal enforcement of existing gun laws and placing more federal prosecutors and law officers on gun cases. Many agree that both areas are major problems. Many of the points made on ...
- 482: Mark Twain 2
- ... in American literature, or in international literature. A pioneer in writing, William Dean Howells best sums Mark Twain up with, There was never anybody like him; there never will be (Hoffman 497). Works Cited Cox, Clinton. Mark Twain: America s Humorist, Dreamer, Prophet. New York: Scholastic Inc.1995 Hoffman, Andrew. Inventing Mark Twain: The lives of Samuel L. Clemens. New York: William Morrow 1997 Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain ...
- 483: The Context of The Second Amendment
- ... any meaning? In modern times, we have what the founding fathers feared the most, a national standing army with the President as Commander. We have no State Militias that could give any resistance if President Clinton tried to take military control and ordered troops to enforce tyrannical laws. Fortunately, this has not happened. The problem is that firearms have been a part of this nation from the beginning. In fact Congress ...
- 484: Diplomacy at Work
- ... can both deal with. Finally, each side went out and achieved the goal that the wanted to. For instance, both sides came to the United States and made the agreement publicly known, and used President Clinton as their witness to the events. As one can see, the application of political terms to major political events is not difficult. One can take almost any term in the political world and find it ...
- 485: Maya Angelou 2
- ... working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nomination. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history and in the film industry of the Africa ...
- 486: Maya Angelou 5
- ... dance with Martha Graham and Drama with Frank Silvera and went on to a career in theatre. She toured Europe and Africa with a road show of Porgy and Bess. In 1992, President re- elect Clinton asked Maya to compose a poem for his inauguration, just as JFK had done with Robert Frost in 1961. She delivered a stunning piece at the culmination of the Jan 1993 ceremony. During the 1060 ...
- 487: Alexander Hamilton
- ... HAMILTON: A BIOGRAPHY (Little 1978). HENDRICKSON, ROBERT A., THE RISE AND FALL OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1981). Jack Hitt, America's First Lecher: Sex romps? Cover-ups? Questions of character? Public confessions? You'd think Bill Clinton would have learned something from Alexander Hamilton, GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY 347 (Nov. 1998). LODGE, HENRY CABOT, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1898; reprint, AMS Press 1972). LODGE, HENRY CABOT, HAMILTON'S WORKS (New York, 9 vols. 1885-86 ...
- 488: Boris Yeltsin
- ... the lease of Sevastopol naval station. Boris has continued with Gorbachev's stance of reducing tension with western nations. Boris has had many meetings with the United States, including ones with George Bush and Bill Clinton. He has also cultivated relations with Germany, France, and Great Britain. In 1997, he aloud former soviet countries to be admitted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Boris has promoted trade and cooperation with China ...
- 489: George Washington
- ... Congress and the army to have him removed as commander in chief (see CONWAY CABAL). In June 1778, after France's entry into the war on the American side, the new British commander, Sir Henry Clinton, evacuated Philadelphia and marched overland to New York; Washington attacked him at Monmouth, New Jersey, but was again repulsed. Washington blamed the defeat on General Charles Lee's insubordination during the battleβ"the climax of ...
- 490: The FAA
- ... Wesley J., Collision Course: The Truth About Airline Safety, TAB/McGraw-Hill, 1995, p. 547. Phillips, Richard A.; Talley, Wayne K., Improving Commuter Air Carrier Safety Performance, Transportation Quarterly, April 1996, p. 247-256. Oster, Clinton V. Jr., Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 476. Ott, James, Competition to Forge New Airline Structures, Aviation Week & Space Technology, March 15, 1995, p. 121-129 ...
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