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- 1511: The Old Ball Game
- ... have developed a real enthusiasm for baseball outside the context of American culture and political domination" (Tasker 30). Why would the Japanese be searching for a new "pastime" or dream to take over their country? George Constable, a critic of baseball in Japan, explains, "The Japanese are finding increasing time to participate in a variety of leisure activities, including several sports from the United States. Among the most popular is baseball ... wonderful part of the American spirit which is rapidly becoming the new Japanese spirit. Japan has looked to America to develop several of their dreams. Works Cited Akutsu, Daisuke. Personal Interview. 17 Nov. 1995. Constable, George. Japan. Alexandria, Virginia: Time Life Books, 1985. Fimrite, Ron. "Land of the Rising Fastball." Sports Illustrated 9 Sept. 1985: 62. Mr. Baseball. Dir. Orson Welles. Perf. Tom Selleck. Universal City Studios, Inc., 1992. Nefk, Craig ...
- 1512: Utopia
- ... suggest a naive and impractical approach to reality. Most comes by way of literature with stories such as a way to expose modern societies social ills. Some prominent examples of this type of writing include George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World". The places mentioned in those stories were all imaginary. Such a place does not exist in the world as we know it today. Therefore the word imaginary comes into play. I have heard of places that have experimented with the concept of a utopian environment but none have truly succeeded. One example is the community in Chicago which George Pullman attempted to control. He attempted to create a community in which every person was taken care for, all had adequate housing, medical attention and so forth. In return everyone would work for Pullman's ...
- 1513: CANADA
- ... this flag that the French lived until the fall of Quebec in 1759. The flag was used by the English from around 1700 was the Union Flag which contained two crosses-the cross of St. George and the cross of St. Andrew and St. Patrick was introduced. This flag is still used in Canada for special occasions. The Red Ensign was approved in 1945 for use by Canadians overseas and on ... the centre. The flag must always be twice as long as it is wide so that it makes a square when folded in two. The colours white and red were given to Canada by King George V, on November 21, 1921, when he granted arms to Canada on the recommendation of the canadian government. The Maple Leaf has always been an emblem of Canada. There is no significance to the eleven ...
- 1514: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right?
- ... means. There are many different forms of capital punishment. Some of the most popular ones have been hanging, firing squad, electrocution (the chair), the gas chamber, and the newest lethal injection. In the readings of George Orwell, Edward I. Koch, and Jacob Weisberg, there are incites to capital punishment that are not usually thought of or expressed aloud. Also in the movie "Dead Man Walking," the act of lethal injection, a ... eyes. Both the readings and the movie hit on emotions that some people have never thought about feeling. With the many people in the world there are many different feelings on capital punishment. Upon reading George Orwell's "A Hanging," the reader can obviously see that the writer is against capital punishment. Orwell brings out many of the points that are considered for argument against the death penalty. Orwell writes "It ...
- 1515: “Smoke” The Prohibition!
- ... drug offenders. The police, therefore, most work to find these 35 million "criminals," thereby exhausting their resources. Also, in major urban centers, the number of drug offenses brought to trial are outstanding. For example, in Washington in 1994, 52 percent of all indictments were drug related as opposed to 13 percent in 1981. All aspects of our legal system are being exhausted on drugs when it could be used more effectively ... Uma Thurman. Buena Vista Films. 1994. Spiegel, Steven L. World Politics in a New Era. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. 1995. Trebach, Arnold S. and Inciardi, James A. Legalize It?: Debating American Drug Policy. Washington: The American University Press, 1993. Wink, Walter. "Getting Off Drugs: The Legalization Option." Online. http://www.quaker.org/fj/wink.htmil#wink. July 6, 1997.
- 1516: Robert Mapplethorpe And Obscenity Charges
- ... A 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 ... credited 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 ...
- 1517: Illinois vs. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb
- ... m., they began to continue with their plan. They had arranged a system of relays for Mr. Franks to deliver the money. The relays began with a phone call from the two, using the name “George Johnson.” Mr. Franks would then be instructed to take the cab, being sent over by Leopold and Loeb, to a certain drug store. There he would recieve a phone call telling him to catch the ... telling him to throw the money, $10,000 in a cigar box, as far east as he could when he reached the ‘Champion’ building. Things didn’t work out exactly as the boys had planned. “George Johnson” called and told Mr. Franks to catch the cab. Minutes later, the police called and informed Mrs. Franks that they had found Bobby’s body. It had been spotted by a labor worker who ...
- 1518: The Presidency and Inexperience
- ... complex task of running a corporation with its many divisions and subdivisions. Still, the fact remains that when a newly-elected president assumes office, he indeed has no ‘presidential’ experience. Granted, he may be a Washington insider (like Bob Dole), who has spent a great deal of his life in Congress working with (or against) the president on various bills, campaigns, etc. Nevertheless, he has still not had the experience that ... variety of ceremonial duties such as holding state dinners and bestowing the Medal of Honor. (Neustadt 84) In fact the President’s activities as head of state are not limited to the White House and Washington, D.C. He is expected to travel within the country and also travel extensively abroad and appear before the people of many countries. As head of state, the president symbolizes the sovereignty and power of ...
- 1519: Drug Prohibition
- ... offenders (Wink). The police, therefore, most work to find these 35 million "criminals," thereby exhausting their resources. Also, in major urban centers, the number of drug offences brought to trial are outstanding. For example, in Washington in 1994, 52% of all indictments were drug related as opposed to 13% in 1981 (Evans and Berent, eds. 21). Child and teen drug use has been escalating since 1992 as well. (Teens and Drug ... see through the problems associated with drugs and not see they are due to Prohibition and not use itself. References: 1. U.S. International Trade Commission, The economic effects of significant U.S. import restraints, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 1993. 2. de Melo, J. and D. Tarr, "Welfare costs of U.S. quotas on textile, steel, and apparel," Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1990. 3 ...
- 1520: Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment
- ... the overhead. The following chart shows statistics of the number of executions per state for the 1997 year. Currently there are only 12 states without the death penalty. Those states are Hawaii, Alaska, West Virginia, Washington D.C., Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota. The U.S. has over 1.5 million incarcerated in prisons, by far the largest system in the world, and that ... that it is not a deterrent to murder, and the goal of our society should be keeping killers off the streets. ["Murder deserves Life In Jail, Not Death Penalty," May 26]. Gerald Deutsh, of Port Washington, speaks out against the article in a letter to the editor. "I am not sure that the death penalty is a deterrent, but if it is not, we certainly need to have some sort of ...
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