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- 1191: The Pit And The Pendulum
- ... discovery of the pit, in which reality takes its toll(28a);What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates, whose sutures or joints occasioned the depression. The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely dau! bed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise (Poe 5(28)).(27) The monks ...
- 1192: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... African Americans until the Nazis exposed the evils of biological determinism (p.92) Secondly, despite Ballen's openness to an internalist explanation, ultimately politics held the key. The historical circumstances of the 1930s, principally the depression which made nonsense of any claim that the unemployed owed their jobless status to their head shape or genes, and the unmitigated evil of Nazi science swung the balance in favor of environmental explanations (p ...
- 1193: The Deaf Culture
- ... from birth, this is not always the case. A childhood illness could have affected the persons hearing, adult deafness also occurs, this is the most difficult for the person to deal with in some cases depression sets in and suicide becomes the result. An adult that goes deaf feels they can lose alot; friends, a job, a marriage. I have watched three movies about the deaf culture, each has helped me ...
- 1194: Gay Marriages-Acceptable to God and America?
- ... themselves to the fact that gays have no say in their sexual orientation that hate starts to grow. It is sad that there are those in the closet who commit suicide, or suffer years of depression and anxiety blaming themselves for being gay. I believe in equal rights for everyone, after all what is this country founded on? Homosexuality is prevalent in U.S. history, I heard that some presidents were ...
- 1195: I Hate Verbal Aggression!
- ... professor at Bowling Green State University, says that it is a "message behavior that attacks a person's self-concept with the purpose of delivering psychological pain" (177). This includes such feelings as inadequacy, humiliation, depression, despair, hopelessness, embarrassment, and anger (Infante 53). Young people, trying to impress their peers, may make fun of others' faults. Psychology professor Mark Weichmann explained that Humans like to feel that they are better, or ...
- 1196: Racism and the Ku Klux Klan
- ... highest strength growing in the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes ( Chalmers pg. 200). By the 1924 Democratic Convention the Klan was the issue of discussion as much as picking the Presidential candidate. During the depression, the Klans financial corruption led to less and less members joining the Klan ( Chalmers pg. 4). Since the Klan was born, its method was violence. The Klan threatened, exile, flogged, mutilated, shot, stabbed, and ...
- 1197: The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethov
- ... tired style or going beyond it to new creations. At about the same time that Beethoven had exhausted the potentials of the high-Classic style, his increasing deafness landed him in a major cycle of depression, from which was to emerge his heroic period as exemplified in Symphony No. 3, op. 55 ("Eroica"). In Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament of October 1802, he reveals his malaise that was sending him to the ...
- 1198: 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 ...
- 1199: Adolf Hitler 2
- ... illegally trying to gain power would no longer work for the time being. In December 1924 he rebuilt his NAZI Party without interference from those government officials he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression Struck in 1929, he explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot. This explanation was widely accepted by many Germans. Promising a strong Germany, jobs, and a national glory, he attracted millions of voters. Representation of ...
- 1200: Betty Friedan
- ... and strength, was only a faηade, and something she never wanted to be. From there, she told herself that she would be more than a wife and mother. Betty was eight years old when the depression hit. The Goldstein's were never poor, but all the little luxuries had to be done away with. Harry and Miriam would often argue in the middle of the night over expenses. Battlefields at the ...
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