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- 861: Charles Manson
- ... grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His mothers ... bus and headed south in the spring of 1968. The "Family" settled at Spahn Ranch in the Santa Susana Mountains, just north of 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. Manson ordered one of his girls to care for the man so that the "Family" could might stay there as long as ...
- 862: Consumer Appeal
- ... that has entertaining commercials. Do you find yourself turning away from a program because of its lack of good commercials? WORKS CITED IN TEXT 1. Steinem, Gloria: Sex, Lies, and Advertising; Course Packet, English 11, George Washington University, 1997.
- 863: I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- ... 000 house. Many children can relate to this. (Rebeck, 622) In some cases, The Simpsons is educational. Karen Brecze credits Homer Simpson with saving her 8-year-old son, Alex's life. Bence, of Auburn, Washington, says the boy was choking on an orange when his 10-year-old brother, Chris, used the Heimlich maneuver, which he learned from "Homer at the Bat", where Homer is choking on a doughnut. Unlike ... Family Album. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. "Homer at the Bat." The Simpsons. By: John Swartzwelder, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 20 Feb, 1992 "Homer the Heretic." The Simpsons. By: George Meyer, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 8 Oct., 1992 "Homer's Odyssey." The Simpsons. By: Jay Choker and Wallaby Wolodarsky, Dir: Wesley Archer, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville ...
- 864: Gossip In Grovers Corners
- ... side as well. A negative effect that also ties into the last positive effect is that it may force people into situations they dont want to be in. For example, in the story, when George gets married to Emily and they have never seen each other before until Emily walks down the aisle. Georges mother forced George to marry Emily just so people would not think less of them. Today it is different because people dont really care if someone gets married. In fact, people say it is better to ...
- 865: Cultural Diversity in Local Politics
- ... of the Census.. op. cit. Oliver and Johnson, see above; Also by Oliver and Johnson, "Interethnic Minority Conflict in Urban America: The Effects of Economic and Social Dislocations," Urban Geography 10 (1989): 449-463. Ramos, George and Tracy Wilkinson, "Unrest Widens Rifts in Latino Population," Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1992. Sonenshein, Rafael J., Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton: NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993). US Bureau of the Census, Census of Population and Housing. (Washington, DC: US Bureau of the Census, 1970).
- 866: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... her children. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd ... 1949. Senator and Vice-President Johnson moved quickly into the Senate hierarchy. In 1953 he won the job of Senate Democratic leader. The next year he was easily re-elected as senator and returned to Washington as majority leader, a post he held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. The Texan proved to be a shrewd, skillful Senate leader. A consistent opponent of civil ...
- 867: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- ... sent a Civil Rights Bill to Congress, which, if passed, would make equality a legal right. "On 28 August, 1964, between 100,000 and 200,000 black people, led by Martin Luther King," marched in Washington in support of the Civil Rights Bill. But the violence still did not stop. In September, 1964, a black man was shot dead in Alabama, four blacks were killed when a church in Birmingham, Alabama ... the end of "Camelot" as his administration was referred to as. On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis. That night, eighty riots broke out. Federal troops were dispatched into Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, and Wilmington. "Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, ordered police to shoot to kill arsonists and the main looters." The actions by Richard J. Daley, were a sign of respect of King. Ironically, a year before ... against the drafting of young men to Vietnam. Many protests were staged throughout the 60's to end the war, especially the "March to End the War in Vietnam" held at the Independence memorial in Washington, 1965. During 1965, the Vietnam War intensified. The USA put more and more effort into it, and the South Vietnamese government's lack of control became apparent. In August it was estimated that the ...
- 868: William Henry Gates
- William Henry Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. ATrey,@ as he was called because of the III, was sent to a private school by his father, a lawyer, and mother ... the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major ... decisions on which machines to back and which to ignore helped to make companies and break them. Heads of firms that created computers and microprocessors regularly make pilgrimages to Microsoft=s wooded headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to sit at the feet of the master.@(Manes, 4) In 1986, Microsoft again revolutionized the computer industry and launched its first version of Windows. Microsoft called Windows an Aoperating environment,@ meaning it was ...
- 869: The 1960's
- ... rights supporter (Ascher 36). Black unity and white support continued to grow. In 1962, with the first large-scale public protest against racial discrimination, Martin Luther King, jr. gave a dramatic and inspirational speech in Washington, D.C. after a long march of thousands to the capital (King 189). The possibility of riot and bloodshed was always there, but the marchers took that chance so that they could accept the responsibilities ... 1000 military police, 1900 federalized Alabama national guardsmen, and platoons of U.S. marshals and FBI men. When the marchers reached the capital of Alabama, they were to have presented a petition to then governor George Wallace protesting voting discrimination. However, when they arrived, the governor's aides came out and said, "the capital is closed today" (King 66) About this same time, the term, "black power" was coming into use ...
- 870: Ulysses S. Grant 2
- ... slaves, he repeatedly intervened but could not prevent the reappearance of white supremacists in all but a few Southern states. Other problems were equally troublesome. In 1871 Grant appointed a civil service commission headed by George W. Curtis but because of the president's increased trust in corrupt Republican machines, he was ill fitted to end the system whereby federal jobs were distributed as rewards for political loyalty. Moreover, his inexperience ... the Senate, which refused to sanction his uncertain scheme to purchase Santo Domingo. Thereafter, however, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish established a distinguished record by settling outstanding difficulties with Great Britain with the Treaty of Washington in 1871, and keeping the country clear of the Cuban rebellion against Spain. After retiring from the presidency, Grant took a long trip around the world. Returning in 1879, he became an unsuccessful candidate for ...
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