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- 6331: Bay Of Pigs
- ... 1,500 troops and they had approximately five tanks, eighteen mortars, fifteen recoilless rifles, four flame-throwers, twelve rocket launchers, twelve landing crafts, and five freighters to do battle with (Robinson, Linda 54). The next day, the first strike was made on Cuba. The strike was good for the Army because it destroyed at least half of Castro’s planes, including B-26’s, Sea Furies, and T-33 jet trainers ... The United States wanted the prisoners back, and Castro needed medical supplies. They negotiated and Castro released the prisoners to return to Florida in time for Christmas, 1962 (Goode, Stephen 82). On April 19, one day after the failure of the invasion, Castro announced over the radio, "The invaders have been annihilated. The Revolution has emerged victorious. It destroyed in less than seventy-two hours the army organized during many months ...
- 6332: Affirmative Action
- ... with the idea that with its help minorities who have struggled in the past would be able to get their foot in the door and become a respectable part of the American workforce and one day it would no longer be neccesary. Well that day has come. There are women, African Americans, Native Americans, and every other minority holding every type of position existing in our workforce. People are no longer considered less competent based on their minority status. For ...
- 6333: Assassination Of President McKinley
- ... the speech. Leon pushed his way through the crowd, determined to get close enough to shoot the President. A security guard blocked his chance, and the President was escorted away (Assassin Arrived… 1). The next day, Leon and McKinley returned to the exposition. In the afternoon, the President began shaking hands with people lined up by the Temple door. Near the end of this line, Leon waited patiently. His hand was ... not feel that one man should have all this power while others have none." The police led him to his cell, where he would await trial. Meanwhile, McKinley was on his deathbed, getting worse each day from the wounds to his stomach. Outside Buffalo’s First Precinct Police Station where Leon was housed the 65th Regiment stood on alert, dispersing some of the hundreds of furious protesters (President McKinley Shot…1 ...
- 6334: The Death Penalty
- ... put on death row, were later found innocent before the government put them to death. A man named Lloyd Eldon Miller, a man on death row for 11 years in Illinois was found innocent ONE DAY before he was to be executed. This just shows that capitol punishment is good in some cases but it can ruin an innocent mans life and his families. In another case, a man was found innocent one day after his execution. For some people, capitol punishment sounds like a good idea, but for all the families of the innocent people executed, it is not such a great thing. They are the ones that ...
- 6335: The Client By John Grisham
- ... lawyer. That lawyer becomes Reggie Love. After a while he begins to trust her, and he tells her some parts of the real story. The case of Barry Muldano is true and almost the following day his photo is in all the papers. Barry Muldano hires men to threaten the Sway family. They burn the Sway's trailer and threat Mark with a knife. It works, Mark understands that he can ... they remark that the men of Muldano are looking for the body too. They succeed in chasing away the man, but they know they have to think quick. Mark decides to tell everything. The following day he gets protection of the FBI and Reggie tells the FBI where they can find the body. At that moment Mark, his brother and mother are flying to Phoenix. What the title means is Mark ...
- 6336: Taming Of The Shrew
- ... of this play, the other three subjects were made very obvious. Shakespeare chose these elements for his play not solely because they were basic, he chose them because they grasped people’s lives in his day. While these subjects reached the heart, the thought of change was brought forth from these subjects. The change was not only in actions, but feelings as well. For example, Petruchio made it plain that he ... of this play, the other three subjects were made very obvious. Shakespeare chose these elements for his play not solely because they were basic, he chose them because they grasped people’s lives in his day. While these subjects reached the heart, the thought of change was brought forth from these subjects. The change was not only in actions, but feelings as well. For example, Petruchio made it plain that he ...
- 6337: Censorship In The United States
- Censorship In The United States Censorship within these United States is not only an immoral and big-brotherly practice, but also an insult to all of those who call themselves US citizens. Every day censors everywhere try to sanitize TV, radio, print, and even the Internet. They deem what should and should not be viewed by John Q. Viewer. Each day in every medium of life, they tare suppressing our free spirits and restraining our thoughts. We all have been giving the ability to intelligently think for ourselves and make our own intelligent decisions. We all ...
- 6338: Effect On Pot
- ... reports of cannabis-induced lung cancer? One interesting theory is that it's because tobacco tars are significantly radioactive, while marijuana tars aren't at all. Winters found that a pack-and-a-half-a-day smoker of tobacco is exposed to 8000 mrem of radiation a year, equal to the dose of 300 chest x-rays. A more recent study indicates that a pack-and-a-half-a-day smoker receives 16000 mrem of radiation more than a non-smoker, annually. It could also be noted that the mere contents of carcinogenic chemicals doesn't necessarily indicate an extreme health hazard. For example, roasted ...
- 6339: Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
- ... few months after his death, Mapplethorpe became the focus of an acrimonious debate over federal funding of the arts when an exhibition of his work was cancelled by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. The director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, was subsequently acquitted of obscenity charges brought against him for presenting the same exhibition. LAW: Defining censorship When it rules on an ''indecent art ... sculpture as an influence on his work and used traditional techniques of direct lighting and sharp focus. His photographs include homoerotic and sadomasochistic images. Soon after his death from AIDS, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. canceled a traveling retrospective of his work in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid a debate in Congress over public funding by the National Endowment for the Arts of works deemed "objectionable" by fundamentalist religious ...
- 6340: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense of Fairy Tales
- ... stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who ... which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." There is plenty of fodder for psychoanalysts, Freudian or otherwise, who have had a field day analyzing the significance of the myriad dream creatures and Alice's strange transformations. There is even Zen: "And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown ...
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