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- 461: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... wanted her to marry Douglas, but she wanted Lincoln. She predicted that someday he would be president of the United States of America. On February 4, 1842 they were married. In 1847 he went to Washington D.C. to represent Illinois. At this time the Mexican war was going. Lincoln antiwar speeches displeased his supporter and he knew he wouldn't be reelected. In 1849 he went back to _ ght Lincoln ... into two parts. 3) To take the Tennessee river and then into Georgia and divide the confederacy even more. 4) The final goal was to take the Confederate capitol of Richmond. In July 1861 Gen. George B. McClellan had won some small victories. People wanted them to take Richmond. So on July 16, 1861 General Irvin McDowell led Union troops south towards Richmond. On the way the confederate General P.G ... forced to surrender. After that all confederate resistance was crushed one by one. On April 14, 1865 President Lincoln and his wife went to a performance of Our American Cousin, at Ford's Theatre in Washington. This is when an actor named John Wilkes Booth shot Lincon for revenge after the souths defeat in the war. At the same time some of his friends were plotting to shoot other leaders ...
- 462: Winesburg, Ohio
- ... differently than men. Women are presented as sex objects, powerless, and over-emotional. I will use Louise Trunion, Louise Hardy, and Virginia Richmond as examples to show Anderson s view on women. Also, Wash Williams, George Willard, and Tom Willard are examples of men in Winesburg, Ohio that show it was acceptable at the time to have these views. Firstly, Trunion possesses a much discussed character flaw; she is extremely promiscuous. In "Nobody Knows," George Willard first discovers Trunion's affection for him in a suggestive note from Trunion that states "I'm yours if you want me". Also, the town "whispered tales concerning" Louise. Definitely, this is not a ... child, and this reflects on Anderson s negative view of women. There are also a number of men in this novel that support the fact that Anderson had a negative view of women. Tom Willard, George's father, and Wash Williams, a telegraph operator, both treat women poorly or outright hate them. George's father, Tom Willard, makes a sexist remark when scolding his son in saying, "You're not ...
- 463: Collective Behavior
- On Saturday, April 15, protesters gathered in Washington DC in opposition of the IMF and World Bank. The two institutions were to have their spring meeting this weekend and the approximately ten thousand protesters, whose main point is the elimination of poverty, paraded ... benefiting from such ideas are the large corporations. Fortunately, though many were arrested, none were seriously injured, as was the case with protesters in Seattle in November. This was due to the fact that the Washington police prepared well in advance, securing the appropriate buildings as well as purchasing new riot gear. This event is an example of a social movement. This was simply an organized group of people that gathered ... believe have led to the degeneration of the environment and the social deprivation in the developing world. One protester was quoted Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, as she is a member of George Washington Students Against Sweatshops. However, as passionate as they were, few protesters actually got violent and many were arrested before anything erupted. The dominant emotion of the event was anger, but the people were ...
- 464: Charles M. Manson
- ... to his mother's abuse. At only fourteen Manson rented himself a room and supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities. Once there Manson met Rev. George Powers who had him sent to Boys Town near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in Boys Town before running away with his new friend Blackie Neilson. They were arrested in Peoria ... back to Indianapolis. Charles was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. After his release in 1954 he went to West Virginia and not before long married Rosalie Jean Willis. She became pregnant and Charles started stealing cars. By the time the baby was born ... house. They finally settled at Spahn Ranch in the Santa Susana Mountains. Spahn Ranch was an old movie set, just north of the San Fernando Valley. The owner of the Ranch, eighty five year old George Spahn, was blind and feeble and allowed the family to stay with him. George Spahn soon grew desperately afraid of Manson, he only allowed them to stay because he enjoyed the attention he got ...
- 465: Book Report A Voyager Out
- ... also loved her voyages to Africa. Part of Mary Kingsley s reason for loving her travel abroad came from her childhood life. Mary was born the daughter of a high-class man and his cook. George Kingsley was a writer and came from a family of writers. He did not produce much however. He left a lot of his works unfinished, and many others unstarted. Because he did not do much ... the house bricked closed. The house was kept dark and stuffy. Growing up like this made a normal childhood almost impossible for Mary Kingsley. Part of her mother s illnesses came from constant worry about George. He went on many trips overseas and partook in many heroic adventures. He would write home to his family about his adventures and this caused his mother great grief. Because of the grief this caused Mary Bailey, George stopped writing of his heroics to her, and instead wrote of them to his daughter. Mary Kingsley had to become a self-sufficient person. With her mother being bedridden and her father being overseas, ...
- 466: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... worse than death-net so much from cholera as from its long continued consequences in debility and compression of the brain" (Letters 365) Poes condition continued to grow worse. Poe was brought to the Washington Hospital of Baltimore on the night of October 6, 1849 after being found in the middle of the road (Moran 78). Poe then recited his final poem.Father I firmly do believe I know, for ... and Dying Declarations of the Poet. New York: William F. Bogher,1885. Poe Society. A Look at The Raven, Internet, WISE, 3rd of April 1997. Bronx Historical Society, Internet, WISE, 3rd of April, 1997. Woodberry, George E. Edgar Allen Poe. New York: AMS Press, Inc.,1968. Poe Society. Edgar's Teens and the Parting with John Allen, Internet, WISE, 3rd of April 1997. "Poe, Edgar Allen". Encarta 96. Washington: Microsoft Corporation,1993-1995. Black, Midn A . How Did Poe Survive for Forty Years?, Internet, WISE, 3rd of April, 1997. Scarlett, Charles Jr. "A Tale of Ratiocination: The Death and Burial of Edgar Allen ...
- 467: How the Government May Have Created AIDS
- ... is an indispensable connection. So, right now I want to play for you a small excerpt from a speech that he gave on July 25th at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. His subject was George Bush and the New World Order, but at the end of the evening, he was asked a specific question about AIDS, and this is how he responded: "... biological warfare virus by the US Military. Sure ... about 1 billion people on this planet have died from AIDS, starvation and disease -- all over the world, all of sudden Eli Lilly, who is one of the major corporations doing AIDS research -- and coincidentally, George Bush on the Board of Eli Lilly -- when they finally eliminate huge sections of the population, which is what they always wanted throughout the 1960's and 1970's, because of over-population -- it's ... my belief, it is my conviction at a very deep level, that AIDS was deliberately created and implemented by the United States Government -- more specifically by certain individuals, most notably Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and George Herbert Walker Bush, who was the Director of the CIA at that time, when the Kissinger Memorandum was adopted by the National Security Council. I can't prove it absolutely, by I personally believe ...
- 468: Mexico's Drug Trade
- ... administration in order to produce the finished goods that will be smuggled into the United States (Salgado 945). Past Strategies Used to Combat Drug Trafficking The two Republican Party administrations that wielded the power of Washington bureaucracy in the 1980's approached the problem of drug trafficking in a much different manner than it is today. Reagan and Bushs main policy in combating the flow of illegal drugs consisted of ... Sides Interestingly, many employees of the U.S. border patrol have recently voiced concerns regarding the amount of drugs that pass through customs every day without being discovered. They blame this on the reluctance of Washington to pursue the possibility that numerous employees of the U.S. Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the border patrol have come under bribery and corruption by the wealthy and powerful Mexican narcotraffickers. Also, Washingtons priority of speeding up border crossings has led to a neglect of the already shrinking interdiction process. DEA agents feel powerless because their requests to mount special operations south of the border including ...
- 469: Collective Behavior
- On Saturday, April 15, protesters gathered in Washington DC in opposition of the IMF and World Bank. The two institutions were to have their spring meeting this weekend and the approximately ten thousand protesters, whose main point is the elimination of poverty, paraded ... benefiting from such ideas are the large corporations. Fortunately, though many were arrested, none were seriously injured, as was the case with protesters in Seattle in November. This was due to the fact that the Washington police prepared well in advance, securing the appropriate buildings as well as purchasing new riot gear. This event is an example of a social movement. This was simply an organized group of people that gathered ... believe have led to the degeneration of the environment and the social deprivation in the developing world. One protester was quoted Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, as she is a member of George Washington Students Against Sweatshops. However, as passionate as they were, few protesters actually got violent and many were arrested before anything erupted. The dominant emotion of the event was anger, but the people were ...
- 470: Using Bicycles As An Alternative To Automobiles
- ... it occasionally. I would like to inform other people of how easy it is to use a bicycle for transportation. References 1. United States, Integrating Bicycle and Pedestrian Considerations Into State and Local Transportation Planning (Washington: The Administration, 1994) 2. United States, Transportation Research Record, Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning With Safety Considerations (Washington: Transportation Research Board, 1987) 3. United States, Actions Needed To Increase Bicycle/Moped Use In The Federal Community (Washington: U.S. General Accounting Office, 1981) 4. Mike Hudson, Bicycle Planning (The Architectural Press: London, 1982) 5. National Research Council. Transportation Research Board. Pedestrian Behavior and Bicycle Traffic (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1980) ...
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