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- 421: Ultimately Disgusting
- ... United States in 1993 when SEG began promoting it as, The Ultimate Fighting Championship. Ultimate fighting is an unsafe sport and people should not be permitted to view or compete in such violent competitions. Dr. George Lindberg editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association says, Someone s spinal cord could be fractured, an arm could be broken, and choking could result in brain damage. The possibility of injury is ... Fight. Phoenix New Times Online. Internet. 21 Feb. 1998. Sokolove, Michael. Brutal Bouts Become a Big Event. Philadelphia Inquirer 25 Feb 1996:C01. United States. Supreme Court. Abrams v. United States,250 U.S. 616. Washington: USSC, 1919. United States. Supreme Court. Hustler Magazine, Inc. v.Falwell, 485 U.S. 46. Washington: USSC, 1988. Will, George. Does a Free-Market Theory Include Sales of Barbarism? Editorial. Akron Beacon Journal 26 Nov. 1995:A19.
- 422: Walter Whitman
- ... Whitman printed Emerson's letter of praise, which called the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom yet contributed to American literature." Early in the American Civil War Whitman learned that his brother George was wounded and in a hospital in Washington, D.C. He found George nearly recovered but saw other soldiers badly in need of care. He stayed in Washington as a government clerk and also served as a hospital volunteer. Inspired by the suffering he saw, he wrote ...
- 423: Events Leading To The Cause Of
- ... continental congress in 1775. At their meeting they sent an "olive branch partition" to the king that asked him to help protect them from parliament. They also set up an official Continental Army. They chose George Washington to be the commander in chief. American forces surrounding Boston outnumbered British troops within. Washington was eager to attack but waited for a more strategic decision. In January 1776, Henry Knox brought twenty-one heavy cannon from Fort Ticonderoga. They strategically placed these cannon on Dorchester Heights. From this ...
- 424: Hemp: The Truth About the Earth's Greatest Plant
- ... time for this country to take a second look at this product. After reading these facts I challenge anyone to come up with a reason to maintain the hemp prohibition. Two of our founding fathers, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were hemp advocates. They said hemp was a necessity to the success of our nation. Now we have an even greater cause than that; the success of the planet. We cannot continue ... potential, and this will only happen if the word is spread. I can only hope that enough people are educated before it's too late. "Make the most of the hemp seed, sow it everywhere." –George Washington
- 425: Hostile Takeover Of The New Wo
- ... regulations hit Native fishermen in the Northwest particularly hard .In the 1960s; Indian activists staged fish-ins to publicize the situation. Eventually the case was taken to court. In United States v. The State of Washington (1974), Judge George Bolt reaffirmed the rights of Northwest tribes to harvest fish under the provisions of the 1854 Treaty of medicine Creek without interference by the State of Washington. The Boldt Decision restored a measure of Indian control over their environment and natural resource use. (Lewis, 3) By 1900, whites actively competed with Indians for the scarce Western resource, water. In 1908, the ...
- 426: Pablo Picasso
- ... brief "Negro Period" , Picasso painted landscapes and still lives (at La Rue-des-Bois, where he spent the summer of 1908) marked by the influence of Paul Cezanne. It was these landscapes and those of George Braques that originated the style that, in 1908 was called "cubism". In the summer of 1910, Picasso worked with George Braque, creating geometric paintings which called the viewers attention to the painted surface itself. In that same year (1910), Picasso's works were exhibited at the Photo-Secession Gallery in New York City. In 1911 ... Cleveland Museum of Art). Saltimbanque and Rose Period: "Woman in a Chemise" (c. 1905; Tate Gallery, London); "Woman with a fan" (1905; Averell Harriman Collection, New York); "Family of Saltimbanques" (1905; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C); "La Toilette" (1906; Albright-knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York); "Self Portrait with a Palette" 1906; Philadelphia Museum of Art); "Gertrude Stein"( 1906; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Negro Period: " ...
- 427: American Families
- ... travel and work and home worries don't have enough time for family. And so children are not left with "quality time," which means little time, from parents, and with what sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University calls "quality phone calls such as "Honey, I won't be home. I love you." Though the intent is not to neglect the child, this can turn out to be neglect in effect. The ... suffer along with them. CITING: Brokaw, Tom. "New Realities of Changing Families," Good Housekeeping, Oct 98, Vol. 221 Issue 4, p106. Congressman William D. Ford, Annual Publication, September 1998. Etzioni, Amitai. "The Day Care Generation," George Washington Review, Winter/ Spring 1997. Glendon, Mary Ann. "Family in Western Law" 1987, p 117. Hamburg, David. "The New Family" Current, Jul/Aug 1996 Issue, p59. Kantrowitz, Barbara. "Step by Step" Newsweek, Winter/ Spring ...
- 428: The Writing of the Constitution
- ... prescribing the rules by which they make their decisions . The nation's founders , fifty-five men , met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to write a new constitution and to form a new government. George Washington was elected chairman of the convention.The founders were all very well-educated. Over half the delegates had collage degrees, which was rare in the North American continent at that time. They also had experience ... held high offices in state governments , including three who were governors. The founders believed in the idea that the purpose of government was the protection of individual life, liberty and property. Following the election of George Washington as president of the convention, Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented a draft of a new constitution .The Virginia Plan proposed a two house legislature. A lower house directly elected by the people ...
- 429: The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery
- ... T. Sherman. On August 30, in the Second Battle of Bull Run, the combined Confederate forces of Lee, Jackson, and General James Longstreet inflicted heavy casualties on Union troops and sent them reeling back to Washington, where Pope was relieved of his command. Following up on this victory, Lee in September 1862 startled the North by invading Maryland with some 50,000 troops. Not only did he expect this bold move ... chose to challenge Lee's nearly impregnable defenses around Fredericksburg, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River. In still another disaster, Union forces suffered more than 10,000 killed or wounded and were forced to retreat to Washington. Burnside too was relieved of his command. On May 1 Union troops under General Benjamin F. Butler moved into the largest city and principal port. During the last months of 1862, Grant consolidated his position ... to a negotiated peace. In June, a Confederate army of 75,000 men marched through the Shenandoah Valley into southern Pennsylvania. The Army of the Potomac, numbering about 85,000 and now commanded by General George G. Meade, moved to check Lee's advance. These two massive armies converged on the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and on July 1 a battle began that many observers consider a turning point ...
- 430: Evolution
- ... somewhat limited. It is difficult to classify all species even through modern means of paleontology and application to the theory of organic evolution. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 Brent, Peter. Charles Darwin, A Man of Enlarged Curiosity. Toronto: George J. McLeod Ltd., 1981. 2 Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. New York: Paladin, 1978. 3 Farrington, Benjamin. What Darwin Really Said. New York: Shoken Books, 1966. 4 Gailbraith, Don. Biology: Principals, Patterns and Processes. Toronto ... Smith, J.M. On Evolution. London: Doubleday, 1972. 16 Stansfield, William D.. Genetics 2/ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983, p.266-287. 17 Thomas, K.S.. H.M.S. Beagle, 1820-1870. Washington: Oxford University Press, 1975. ENDNOTES _______________________________ 1. Johnathan Miller, Darwin for Beginners, New York, Pantheon Books, 1982, p. 8. 2. Mark Ridley, The Essential Darwin, London Eng: Allen & Unwin, 1987, p. 23. 3. J.M. Smith, On Evolution, London, Eng.: London/Doubleday, 1972, 48. 4. Peter Brent, Charles Darwin, A Man of Enlarged Curiosity, Toronto: George J. McLeod Ltd., 1981, p. 313. 5. Don Gailbraith, Biology, Principals, Patterns and Processes, Toronto: John Wiley and Sons Canada Ltd. 1989, Un. 6: Evolution, p. 403. 6. opsit., p. 92. 7. opsit., p. ...
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