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- 1141: Canabis
- ... to have gone into decline in the late 30's (Grolier Wellness Encyclopedia, pg 54). Then marijuana was outlawed in 1937 as a repressive measure against Mexican workers who crossed the border seekingjobs during the Depression. The specific reason given for the outlawing of the hemp plant was it's supposed violent "effect on the degenerate races" (Schaffer, pg. 86). Beginning in the 60's marijuana use saw a resurgence which ...
- 1142: Catcher In the Rye: Point of View, Locations, and Characterization
- ... fame encourage people to focus on a persons outside features rather than their inside behavior. People have adjusted to this society and harmonize in it. For those individuals who cannot accept society, results of depression or difficulties in being emotionally stable may occur. A question could then arise: is a person really unstable or has society made them that way? An instance of a person who has been driven to ...
- 1143: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... him. In the last year of his life, he lived inside of his dreams, similar to his mother, who he hated with all his heart. He was suicidal and had electric shock treatments for his depression and strange behavior. On a Sunday morning, July 2, 1961, Ernest Miller Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun. Ernest Hemingway takes much of the storyline of his novel, A Farewell to Arms, from his personal ...
- 1144: HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
- ... The years 1924-28 were prosperous for Germany, and revolutions do not flourish on prosperity. From 1925 to 1927 Hitler was even forbidden to speak publicly in either Bavaria or Saxony. Then a world- wide depression plunged Germany again into poverty and unemployment, and the Nazis began to gain votes. By 1930 Hitler had the support of many industrialists and the military caste. In 1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him ...
- 1145: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President of the United Sates, greatly expanded the role of the federal government with a wide-ranging economic and social program, the New Deal, designed to counter the Great Depression of the 1930s. He also led the nation through most of its participation in the global struggle of World War II. Roosevelt attended a high-class high school and later graduated from Harvard in 1903 ...
- 1146: Henry David Thoreau was a Rebel
- ... meanly, like ants" (173). The transcendentalists were deeply concerned about the quality of life in America. A great tide of material prosperity, checked only temporarily by the crises of 1837 and 1839 and the ensuing depression, had overtaken the country. Everything was expanding by leaps and bounds. Virgin territories were being opened to settlement from Illinois to Oregon. Turnpikes, canals, steamboats, railroads were rushed into being. The fur trade, overseas commerce ...
- 1147: Adolf Hitler
- ... source of all their problems. Since the country was in chaos after the war, and was forced to pay billions in damages, The Germans saw hope in Adolf Hitler. In the late 20's the depression hit which made the situation even worse. Hitler in his speeches blamed the Jews and Communists for their misfortunes and many listed. Unemployment was very high at that time standing at about 25%. Hitler also ...
- 1148: Robert Penn Warren
- ... Red" Warren, as he was known to his friends, married Emma Brescia in 1930, a marriage which ended in divorce 20 years later. In the last several years of that period, Warren was penned with depression and a lack of new material. His period of dissolution did not end until his second marriage to Eleanor Clark in 1952. Warren received many honors including a Pulitzer Prize for the fiction All the ...
- 1149: Karl Marx
- ... expelling the Bakuninists from the International and shortly, the International died out in New York. During the next decade of his life, his last few years, Marx was beset by what he called "chronic mental depression" and "his life turned inward toward his family." He never completed any substantial work during this time although he kept his mind active, reading and learning Russian. In 1879, Marx dictated the preamble of the ...
- 1150: Chernobyl
- ... that were reported. Five years later there were four to six million cases. There were also cases of other cancer outbreaks. The thing that was the most harmful was the psychological effects such as anxiety, depression, helplessness and despair leading to, social withdrawal and other mental stress. Chernobyl also had consequences in the USSR. This accident had the largest short-term release from a single source of radioactive materials to the ...
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