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- 131: Five Imporant Events Of The 19
- ... for the U.S. after Vietnam had fallen under rule of Viet Minh in August of 1945, seeing Communism as a threat to his values as a Catholic and to an independent Vietnam. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration fearing Communist takeovers in Southeast Asia saw Ngo Dinh Diem as a Vietnamese nationalist capable of overturning Communist Viet Minh. In 1954 Viet Minh defeated the French and he won control of ... John Kennedy was rushed to the hospital but never gained consciousness, at 1:00PM he was declared dead. On the 24th of November, John F. Kennedy’s body was carried through the streets of Washington D.C. as more then 1 million people watched as it passed by. At Kennedy’s funeral in Arlington National Cemetery hundreds of thousands of people including representatives of 92 different nations. On President Kennedy’s ... supplied him with money to fund protests. He also met with white Protestant leaders and other white public figures to help him in stopping discrimination. On August 28, 1963, He delivered a speech in Washington D.C. during a massive protest of more than 200,000 supporters. The speech he gave will be remembered forever, the “I Have a Dream” speech. During the speech he was noted for these statements, “ ...
- 132: US Generals Of WWII
- ... he was chiefly responsible for the training, organization, and deployment of U.S. troops in all sectors of the fighting, and for the appointment of commanders in all major operations. As one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's principal advisers on strategy, Marshall participated in the Allied conferences at Casablanca, Québec, Tehran (Teheran), Yalta, and Potsdam. In 1944 he was promoted to the rank of General of the Army. When he ... to be part of the plan. As time goes by, many other countries refuse to be involved. The organization held limited meetings and in March 18, 1947 they hold their final meeting. (secondworldwar.com) Dwight D. Eisenhower (or “Ike”) can arguably be considered as the best general of World War II. On the morning of October 14, 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower was born in a two-story frame house at the corner of Lamar Avenue and Day Street in Denison, Texas. Ike was the only one of David and Ida Eisenhower's seven children born in Texas. The future leader of the free world in war and peace was born in ...
- 133: Rap Music; It’s Impact On Society Since It’s Birth.
- ... have them thinking, from the tenement-lined streets of Harlem, New York, to the mansion parties of Beverly Hills, California” (Shomari, 1995, 45). Rap music, once only popular with blacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, has grown to become America's freshest form of music, giving off energy found nowhere else. While the vocalist(s) tell a story, the sic jockey provides the rhythm, operating the drum ... video for the March of Dimes' fundraising drive to battle birth defects and he has campaigned against teenage drinking as a spokesperson for the National Council on Alcoholism. On the television show "Reading Rainbow," Run-D.M.C. told viewers how books enabled them to become "kings of rock." On another occasion, group member Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels said, "Little kids like to follow me around the neighborhood. I tell them to stay in school. Then I give them money to get something in the deli." Run-D.M. ...
- 134: Why Exercise is Important
- ... the one characteristic of my grandpa is that he never gave up. Immediately after recovering from his first cardiac arrest, he hit the streets of his Los Angeles home and walked 2 miles every single day. He would carefully watch what he ate and never let a sour morning hinder his 2 mile walk. The one thing that will always astonish me about my grandpa is that even at 73, after ... it’s going to do for us immediately. First, exercise is real big on fighting off bugs. In a series of studies* targeting the immune system’s capacity to respond to bacterium, David Nieman, Ph.D., a professor of health and exercise at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, examined 150 people that walked regularly for 12 weeks. His finding: those who exercised moderately had half the number of colds ... a 50-minute bench-step class. “You can experience the psychological benefits of exercise in a single bout of 10 or 20 minutes, whether you’re in shape or not,” says Robert W. McGowan, Ph.D.*, chairman of the University of Richmond department of health and sports science. Third, exercising is directly involved with boosting your metabolism. Metabolism is defined as the summation of chemical changes that occur in tissues, ...
- 135: The Work of J.D. Salinger
- The Work of J.D. Salinger Many critics consider J.D. Salinger a very controversial writer, for the subject matters that he writes.. J.D. Salinger's works were generally written during two time periods. The first time period was during World War II, and the second time period was during the 1960's. Critics feel that the works ...
- 136: Greed
- ... standstill. Greed has given our society faster travel, better service, more convenience, and most importantly, progress. Greed has created thousands of billionaires and millions of millionaires. But why is greed associated with evil? In their day, most capitalists like Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller were depicted as pure evil. Vanderbilt stole from the poor. Rockefeller was a snake. But the name-calling did not come from the consumers; it was the competing businesses that complained. The newspapers expanded ... standstill. Greed has given our society faster travel, better service, more convenience, and most importantly, progress. Greed has created thousands of billionaires and millions of millionaires. But why is greed associated with evil? In their day, most capitalists like Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller were depicted as pure evil. Vanderbilt stole from the poor. Rockefeller was a snake. But the name-calling did not come from the consumers; it ...
- 137: Style Of J.D Salinger
- Many critics consider J.D. Salinger a very controversial writer,for the subject matters that he writes.. J.D. Salinger''s works were generally written during two time periods. The first time period was during World War II, and the second time period was during the 1960''s. Critics feel that the works during ... happiness; the characters undergo a spiritual happiness. The characters generally start out as in bad conditions, through the end of his works they undergone changes that change them for the better. The works of J.D. Salinger show the quest for happiness through religion, loneliness, and symbolism. Salinger''s works often use religion in order to portray comfort. In Salinger''s Nine Stories Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" ...
- 138: Milton's Presentation of the Fallen Angels
- ... their actions and proposals. Whilst we are often impressed by the skill with which the individual leaders perform their tasks and speeches, we are never left in any doubt as to the truth of G-d, and the futility of their debates. By examining the angels as a group, Milton is able to leave the infernal dungeon, to take a flight throughout history, giving his own point of view. It is ... of the angels with the false gods and characters who featured in these past times. What is made clear throughout, is the fact that these civilisations are tainted by their neglect of the true G-d, in favour of these idols, which leads to their resultant downfall. First, we meet the icons to which Solomon sinfully built temples, and failed in his duty to the Lord. Moloch, the sun god, is ... of false god. The mention of the god Vulcan is especially appropriate as a parallel to the story of the Fall, for he was hurled from Heaven by Jupiter, as the angels were by G-d. The danger posed by these fiends is forcefully illustrated by the fact that Milton brings more modern history into the tale - real and recorded events, as opposed to purely legendary fables. The swarms of ...
- 139: J.D. Salinger
- Many critics consider J.D. Salinger a very controversial writer, for the subject matters that he writes.. J.D. Salinger’s works were generally written during two time periods. The first time period was during World War II, and the second time period was during the 1960’s. Critics feel that the works during ... happiness; the characters undergo a spiritual happiness. The characters generally start out as in bad conditions, through the end of his works they undergone changes that change them for the better. The works of J.D. Salinger show the quest for happiness through religion, loneliness, and symbolism. Salinger’s works often use religion in order to portray comfort. In Salinger’s Nine Stories Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" ...
- 140: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... A nickelodeon program consisted of about six 10-minute films, usually including an adventure, a comedy, an informational film, a chase film, and a melodrama. The most accomplished maker of these films was Biograph's D. W. GRIFFITH, who almost singlehandedly transformed both the art and the business of the motion picture. Griffith made over 400 short films between 1908 and 1913, in this period discovering or developing almost every major ... in films, it also provoked public boycotts and repeated legal tests of the definition of obscenity.^Hollywood attempted to counter the effects of television with a series of technological gimmicks in the early 1950s: 3-D, Cinerama, and Cinemascope. The industry converted almost exclusively to color filming during the decade, aided by the cheapness and flexibility of the new Eastman color monopack, which came to challenge the monopoly of Technicolor. The ... market. The European film renaissance can be said to have started in Italy with such masters of NEOREALISM as Roberto Rossellini, in Open City (1945), Vittorio DE SICA, in The Bicycle Thief (1948) and Umberto D (1952), and Luchino VISCONTI, in La Terra Trema (1948). Federico FELLINI broke with the tradition to make films of a more poetic and personal nature such as I Vitelloni (1953) and La Strada (1954) ...
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