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- 2061: A Political Biography On Jfk
- ... ambassador to the United Nations. Robert Francis Kennedy, the president's Brother, became attorney general. Prior to the election , Kennedy had planned to present to Congress a sweeping legislative program similar to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "100 days." The closeness of the election caused him to proceed more cautiously, but in his first months, in office he sent congress a record number of messages proposing broad programs to ... the neck and the head. The president was rushed to Parkland memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later. Within two hours, Vice President Johnson took the oath as president. On the day of the assassination, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24 year old ex-Marine, for the president's murder. Oswald killed Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit while resisting arrest, but two days later Oswald himself was fatally shot by Jack Ruby, in the basement of the Dallas police station. A commission was appointed to investigate the assassination, and on ...
- 2062: Jean De La Fontaine
- ... the parish of Saint-Crépin register on July 8, 1621. Most take this as his actual birth date, but according to the custom of the period, it probably means that La Fontaine was born a day or two earlier. (Mackay, pg.4) He was the son of Charles de la Fontaine, a royal government official who inspected forests and waterways. His mother Françoise Pidoux, who came from a nobler family from ... that still exists). (Encarta n. pag.) In 1693, after the death of Madame de La Sablière, La Fontaine resided in the Paris home of a high judicial court magistrate and his wife, Monsieur and Madame d’Hervart, his last patrons. During his life in Paris La Fontaine’s compositional habits revealed a characteristic restlessness period. He tried his hand at a spectrum of genres, Burns 4 Themes, and styles. "Diversity is ... genius and had acquired a great reputation. (Http//localhost. Pg. 3) La Fontaine loved to read other peoples works. When he was younger he admired such writers as François Rabelais, François de Malherbe, and Honoré d’Urfé, but as he grew older he fell in love with Greek literature namely such ancient masters as Terence, Horace, and Virgil. Although he liked many, his favorite was Homer, but he did not ...
- 2063: Black Supremacy
- ... my lifetime nor separate bathrooms were in my lifetime. And I am not about to feel sorry about what happened before my time. Economic damage is not the white man's fault either. In this day anyone can do whatever he/she likes. The truth to the economic matter is that many of the "oppressed" races feel they now deserve a free ride. Absolutely no physical damage has occurred in my ... black scientist named Yakub rebelled against Allah by producing...a new creature with an excess of bad(white) genes...These evil creatures were alloted...six thousand years of rule (i.e., until almost the present day), after which...the oppressed blacks will be liberated from their bondage"(Davies 51). Note the use of words in this passage: new creature, bad(white) genes, evil creature, and once again the reoccurring oppressed blacks ... that the white race is evil...no, not acting evil, is evil and will continue to stay this way. These words imply the need for eradication because evil is just the devil spelled without a "d". One must stand against the devil before anything drastic occurs beyond what has already happened, for instance; "an outburst of homosexuality among black men, fed by the prison breeding system, threatens to distort the ...
- 2064: Why Are the Homeless Homeless?
- ... the Homeless Homeless? There are many homeless people out on the streets of the large cities in this great nation. When unemployment still hasn't gotten near zero and new jobs are being created every day, people are starting to ask why there are still homeless people in the alleys and on the sidewalks of this country. This seems to be an ever haunting problem even though it would be so ... a little more, and that job would be theirs to enjoy. Keeping these articles of clothing clean would be difficult, but manageable. If you can't afford a coin operated laundromat (I'm sure there'd be plenty of left over change from begging), just find some large, clean puddle of water in the street to wash things in. As for cleanliness, I'm sure people throw away left over deodorant ... already wasn't impressed with your feat of scrounging up the resources to hold this special occupation. Now if all this doesn't impress your supervisor, I don't know what will. I know I'd be impressed after learning the amount of time this homeless person took just to get a reasonable outfit to show up to work with, the hours of begging just to get bus fare to ...
- 2065: Violence on Television
- ... that "despite slight variations over the past decade, the amount of violence on television has remained at consistently high levels" (Wurtzel, 23)? Why is it that, like the tobacco companies twenty years ago, the present day television broadcasting companies refuse to consent that violent films and programming can and do have harmful effects on their viewers (Rowland, 280) What can be done to combat the stubborn minded broadcasting companies and to ... and Aggression. Orlando: Academic Press Inc., 1982. Palmer, Edward L. Children and the Faces of Television. New York: Academic Press Inc., 1980. Pearl, David. "Violence and Aggression" Society Sept.-Oct. 1984: 17-23. Rowland, Willard D. Jr. and Horace Newcomb. The Politics of T.V. Violence. Sage Publications Inc., 1983. Feshbach, Seymour and Robert D. Singer. Television and Aggression. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1971. Skornia, Harry J. Television and Society. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1965. Time. "Warning from Washington: Violence on Television is Harmful to children." ...
- 2066: Communism East Europe
- ... the West that there might be a ô thawö in relations between the two blocs. Relations between the two blocs did improve with Khrushchev attending a number of conferences and meetings. For example a twelve-day visit to the US in 1959, a UN General Assembly, also in 1959 and a later UN General Assembly meeting in 1960 in the US. (13) Although then relations began to break down again due ... air service between Moscow and New York. In 1967 they, along with 60 other countries, signed the first international treaty providing for the peaceful exploration of outer space. (17) In the 1970Æs a period of D_tente began. In 1970 West Germany and Poland signed a treaty rejecting the use of force. West Germany and Russia ratified a similar treaty in 1972. (18) In 1972 Nixon and Brezhnev signed the SALT ... a growing support for Yelstin, Gorbachev negotiated a compromise which stipulated that in return for an end to political strikes, Gorbachev would negotiate a new Union treaty which would give power to the republics. The day before this treaty was to be signed, however, its opponents moved to forestall it. Pugo announced that he was assuming presidential control as Gorbachev was ill and declared a state of emergency. (48) Gorbachev ...
- 2067: Who Was Mother Theresa
- ... fact, the family lived in one of the two houses they owned. Nikola was a contractor, working with a partner in a successful construction business. He was also heavily involved in the politics of the day. Lazar tells of his father's rather sudden and shocking death, which may have been due to poisoning because of his political involvement. With this event, life changed overnight as their mother assumed total responsibility ... Sisters of Dublin, missionaries and educators founded in the 17th century to educate young girls. In 1928, the future Mother Teresa began her religious life in Ireland, far from her family and the life she'd known, never seeing her mother again in this life, speaking a language few understood. During this period a sister novice remembered her as "very small, quiet and shy," and another member of the congregation described ... environment of this school for the daughters of the wealthy that Teresa's new "vocation" developed and grew. This was the clear message, the invitation to her "second calling," that Teresa heard on that fateful day in 1946 when she traveled to Darjeeling for retreat. The Streets of Calcutta During the next two years, Teresa pursued every avenue to follow what she "never doubted" was the direction God was pointing ...
- 2068: Social Security: A Brief History
- ... Congress on January 17, 1935. The House Ways and Means Committee held hearings on the Bill from January 21 to February 12, 1935. During a Ways & Means meeting on March 1, 1935 Congressman Frank Buck (D-CA) made a motion to change the name of the bill to the "Social Security Act of 1935." The motion was carried by a voice vote of the Committee. On August 14, 1935 President Roosevelt ... and to provide a minimum period for participation in order to qualify for monthly benefits. The earliest reported applicant for a lump-sum benefit was a retired Cleveland motorman named Ernest Ackerman, who retired one day after the Social Security program began. During his one day of participation in the program, a nickel was withheld from Mr. Ackerman's pay for Social Security, and, upon retiring, he received a lump-sum payment of 17 cents. The average payment during this ...
- 2069: Hiroshima
- ... death and destruction. Therefore, governments around the world should join together in banning the atomic bomb. WORKS CITED Bartlett, John. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1980. Bradley, Omar. “Address on Armistice Day.” Bartlett 825:2. Dawson, Christopher. “The Judgement of the Nations.” Bartlett 812:11. Hershey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Random House, Inc., 1985. OUTLINE Thesis: Nuclear proliferation should be banned in order to prevent other countries ... B. Number of persons killed, injured, and missing due to bomb C. Radiation over widespread area 1. 20% died from direct exposure to radiation 2. 50% died from other injuries, 25% died from direct burns D. Although bombs set an example for rest of world...... 1. Opposing evidence 2. Opposing evidence III. Governments have a right to protect their citizens. However, survivors of bombs are permanently affected. A. Affects physical health ... clear message. A. Nuclear proliferation should be stopped B. Bomb does more harm than good 1. Kills innocent civilians 2. Survivors permanently affected a. mentally/ emotionally b. physically 3. Economic destruction C. Bartlett’s quote D. Sentence comparing quote to nuclear weapons today
- 2070: The Life And Times Of The Man
- ... to pursue his "germ of a great invention" --speech transmission. Back in Boston, Bell and Watson continued to work on the harmonic telegraph, but still with the telephone in mind. By accident on a June day in 1875, an intermittent transmitter produced a steady current and transmitted sound. Bell had proof of his 1874 idea; he quickly sketched a design for an electric telephone, and Watson built it. The partners experimented ... founded; and the first U.S. postage stamps were sold to the public. At the time of Bell's death Warren G. Harding was president of the United States; the Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated; the Harlem Renaissance began; Reader's Digest began publication; and Russian airline Aeroflot began operations. Throughout his life the first transatlantic cable exchanged between Britain and the United States (1858); Lincoln issued ... famous invention, the telephone, transformed the culture, social fabric, and economy of the United States and, eventually, the world. The importance of what he conceived and brought to birth is visible, or rather audible, every day and everywhere. His simple device for transmuting sound into electrical impulses, sending those impulses almost simultaneously over great distances, and transforming them back into the original sound, has given speech and music limitless range, ...
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