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- 251: Dwight D Eisenhower
- By: Joe Murray E-mail: jman@porncity.net Dwight D Eisenhower was our thirty-fourth president, serving from 1953 to 1961. He was born in Texas in 1890, and brought up in Abilene, Kansas. He was very good in sports in High school and recieved ... and served under the guidance of many great generals. After Pearl Harbor he was called to Washington for a war plans assignment. He commanded the allied forces landing in North Africa in November 1942. On D-Day, 1944, he was the supreme commander of the troops invading France. After the war he became President of Columbia University. In 1951 he took supreme command over the new NATO forces. Republican emmissaries to ...
- 252: Ben Franklins Religion
- ... these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand" (NIV). In a letter to his parents, he paraphrases "that at the last Day, we shall not be examin'd [by] what we thought, but what we did; [namely] GOOD to our Fellow Creatures" (426). [13] In fact he goes so far as to suggest that "A virtuous Heretick shall be saved before a wicked Christian." [14] Well done is better than well said. How many observe Christ's Birth-day! How few, his Precepts! [15] Just as Franklin is able to incorporate Christ without colonial Christianity into his religion, he is able to incorporate Scripture without commandment. Again, from the perspective of his Autobiography, ...
- 253: Student Feelings On School Vio
- ... 28). These were used and combined with the student results . Description of the Questionnaire The questionnaire was devised by creating three subtopics: security personnel, security equipment / methods, and feelings of security at different times of day in different locations. Subjects were asked to respond to five questions in each subtopic. The questions in the questionnaire were presented in the Likert-type question format: Example: I feel very secure with the presence of faculty members monitoring the halls between classes. 0 0 0 0 0 SA A U D SD Subjects were instructed that SA = strongly agree, A = agree, U = undecided, D= disagree, and SD = strongly disagree. Subjects were asked to place an X in the box that most closely described the degree to which they agreed with the statement. Procedures for Scoring the Questionnaire A ...
- 254: Tales of the City
- ... to go out yet again to find tonight's Trix. The night passes and Connie still does not have a man, one that substitutes for a meaning relationship, to prevail by her side. The next day Mary Ann takes her lonely suitcase and what possibly is forever, leaves behind Connie for 28 Barbary Lane. She has experienced one side of San Francisco that does not appeal to her. Moving on to the next situation, she continues on her path for a new life, leaving Connie on her own. "The Employment Line" ch.7 p.24-27: During her first day in her very own apartment Mary Ann seeks to fulfill her horoscope by availing herself to the Metropolitan Employment Agency. Her posting was deceptively innocent. A red- faced Mr. Creech decided that he wanted a ... work. Not being able to withstand the rejection, she cried herself to sleep. After she woke up she wrote a deceptively optimistic letter to her parents. Anna intuitively knew of Mary Ann's troubles that day. She consoled Mary Ann with a neatly rolled joint and a letter of support welcoming her. Mary Ann truly needed a friend in her new life. "Enter Mona" ch.8 p.28-31: This ...
- 255: After The Atomic Bomb
- ... three nations agreed on voluntary disarmament for a full year (1). The voluntary disarmament seemed like a great leap forward for all three nations until the Soviet Union resumed testing in 1961 (1). President Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed his frustration shortly thereafter, “[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration, of any decade, of any time and of any party” (“Coalition ... Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Nuclear Free Local Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament United States, Dept. of Defense, Counterproliferation WebNetwork [CPN] United States, Dept. of Energy, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Research and Development Program [CTBT R&D] United States National Data Center World Court Project (Listed from “Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers” 1). Public Change in Thinking Today the media greatly influences public opinion in matters of nuclear weapons. Movies such as “Threads,” “Dr. Strangelove”, “Testament,” and “The Day After” have all impacted on public opinion and caused a fair deal of controversy over content and ideas expressed (“TV’s Nuclear Nightmare” 66). “The Day After,” a movie made by ABC Productions and ...
- 256: The Wars
- ... a lot of things to herself. At Rowena's funeral she stood apart from the rest of the family pretending she did not need any help. Mrs. Ross hid behind a large, black hat that day. Before Rowena's death and Robert leaving for the war Mrs. Ross used to be out in the public, handing out chocolate bars to the soldiers going off to war. However, when Robert left to ... with veils, and dark glasses. The novel occasionally breaks form and lets the reader know how the war has affected Roberts' family primarily his mother. Mrs. Ross drove herself to insanity and drunkenness with each day that Robert was gone. This is best illustrated whenever Findley focuses on the issue of Mrs. Ross and her "empty glass". Some examples are: Mrs. Ross stared at her empty glass. How long had it ... the main factors that initiates Robert to join the army; because he could never forgive himself for his sister's death. Robert felt that is was his fault because he had not been there that day looking out for Rowena as he usually did. He felt this guilt eating him inside for the rest of his life from that day forward. Robert reflects on specific moments they spent together through ...
- 257: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city life and was fascinated by the circus. He also enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life of poor people in his neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria Picasso, was an Andalusian of Majorcan ... Fine Art, New York City), "Nude on Red Background" (Louvre, Paris), and "La Toilette." Suddenly, between the end of 1906 and the spring of 1907, Picasso painted a revolutionary and uncompleted work called: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" which was an inspiration given to him by a Postimpressionist painter, Paul Cezanne. After a brief "Negro Period" , Picasso painted landscapes and still lives (at La Rue-des-Bois, where he spent the ...
- 258: Pablo Picasso
- ... October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city life and was fascinated by the circus. He also enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life of poor people in his neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria Picasso, was an Andalusian of Majorcan ... Fine Art, New York City), "Nude on Red Background" (Louvre, Paris), and "La Toilette." Suddenly, between the end of 1906 and the spring of 1907, Picasso painted a revolutionary and uncompleted work called: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" which was an inspiration given to him by a Postimpressionist painter, Paul Cezanne. After a brief "Negro Period" , Picasso painted landscapes and still lives (at La Rue-des-Bois, where he spent the ...
- 259: Pablo Picasso
- ... October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city life and was fascinated by the circus. He also enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life of poor people in his neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria Picasso, was an Andalusian of Majorcan ... Fine Art, New York City), "Nude on Red Background" (Louvre, Paris), and "La Toilette." Suddenly, between the end of 1906 and the spring of 1907, Picasso painted a revolutionary and uncompleted work called: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" which was an inspiration given to him by a Postimpressionist painter, Paul Cezanne. After a brief "Negro Period" , Picasso painted landscapes and still lives (at La Rue-des-Bois, where he spent the ...
- 260: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, and learned about racial discrimination at an early age. When he was 5 years old, his most frequent playmate was a white boy whos father owned a neighborhood grocery store. One day, out of the blue, the boy’s parents told Martin to go away and not play with their son any longer. Bewildered, Martin asked why. "Because we are white and you are colored," they said ... He got high grades there, and won a prize of $1,200. He used this money to study at Boston University, where he attained the title of doctor. "Shortly after receiving the title of Ph.D., in December of 1955, King got his first chance to try and change the laws to make things better for the blacks. Mrs. Rosa Parks, a black woman in Montgomery, Alabama, was a member of ... he was a nonviolent man. The blacks in Montgomery stayed off the buses for more than a year. Finally, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Segregation on public buses was illegal. (Jim Haskins The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot) " Because this Non-Violent protest worked, Dr. King and other ministers believed that they could bring about more change like it the same way. So in 1957 King ...
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