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- 981: Bridge Structures
- ... constructed by the German-American engineer John Roebling over the Ohio River, at Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1846. It was the first long-span wire-cable suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, and the Golden Gate Bridge are all suspension bridges. The longest suspension bridge in the world opened in 1980 over the Humber Estuary in England with a span of 4626 feet. The first steel ...
- 982: Gangs
- ... in Brooklyn is kidnapped by a Chinatown gang which demands ransom payments from her family. She is murdered when the family fails to pay. -Two FBI agents and a police sergeant are murdered inside the Washington, D.C. police headquarters by a gang member. -A Pittsburgh police sergeant walking home with his daughter is killed with his own gun after he stops and confronts a gang spraying graffiti on a street ... young people from choosing a life of violence and crime, the beginning of the 21st century could bring levels of violent crime to our communities that far exceed what we have experienced." Reggie Walton, a Washington, D.C. Superior Court judge who handles juvenile cases, blames it on the disappearance of fathers. Walton says fathers leave children to be raised by young mothers who themselves are often struggling with mental or ... High Schoolers III. Conclusion "We've got so many kids out there who've lost hope, who believe in only living for today," says John Turner, chief of police for the city of Mountlake Terrace, Washington. "They join a gang and get involved in criminal activity because there aren't any people taking them by the hand in simple terms and pointing them in the right direction, giving them self- ...
- 983: The French and Indian War
- ... that they later went on to explore. The colonists also gained battlefield experience that would help ready them for the revolutionary war. There was an emergence of a confident new group of colonial leaders including George Washington.
- 984: Violence on Television
- ... Britain: Saxon House, 1978. Broadcasting. "T.V. Castigated for Link With Violence in Children." May 10, 1982: 92-94. Brown, Ray, ed. Children and Television. Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications Inc., 1976. Chaffee, Steven H., George Gerbner, Beatrix A. Hamburgh, Chester M. Pierce, Eli A. Rebinstein, Alberta E. Siegel, and Jerome L. Singer. "Defending the Undefendable." Society Sept.-Oct. 1984: 30-36. Cullingford, Cedric. Children and Television. New York: St. Martin ... Sage Publications Inc., 1983. Feshbach, Seymour and Robert D. Singer. Television and Aggression. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1971. Skornia, Harry J. Television and Society. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1965. Time. "Warning from Washington: Violence on Television is Harmful to children." May 17, 1982: 77. Wurtzel, Alan, and Guy Lometti. "Researching Television Violence." Society Sept.-Oct. 1984: 22-31.
- 985: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... Web sites before it appeared in their print editions. But a rapidly-growing public demand for almost "instant" Web coverage of breaking national news stories has forced even the largest newspapers and magazines— like the Washington Post and Newsweek—to abandon the old rule." "Out with the old, in with the new." It is easy to think breaking stories online could dilute journalists' on-paper presence; now many have realized that ... compare and contrast news accounts from all over the United States. That discovery is scaring the establishment press as much as Drudge's critical reports have scared the truth police at the White House. The Washington Post, CNN and other big news organizations have resorted to lawsuits to try to prevent the kinds of news links provided by Drudge and WorldNetDaily. Their excuse being that they did not want ordinary consumers ... traffic than the death of Princess Diana. At AP Online, the scandal outran the Super Bowl 3-to-1. At CNN Interactive, it contributed to a tenfold hike in traffic in one day. And the Washington Post's Web site was hit so hard, it had to add extra servers. That is not to say the online news was always accurate. Plenty of people argue the coverage was reckless, at ...
- 986: RAP CENORSHIP
- ... Ideas can be crushed, artists can be crushed, and I think this is an emergency (Flanagan 1990). On Censorship My ideas on the necessity of free expression are guided in part by the ideas of George Bernard Shaw found in his essay, "On Censorship." Shaw views censorship as an inherently conservative action, that is, performed by those who desire to preserve tradition. He pointed out that morality is a phenomenon dependent ... Too Much Joy, has given consent their album to be labeled for marketing reasons (Flanagan 1991). Although the RIAA disagrees with such usage, some artists have even used the label to their advantage. The comedian George Carlin peers over an oversized parental advisory logo on his album cover and uses the warning as a title. A rap compilation album issued by Priority Records uses a blown-up version of the label ... as a Radical Influence, 1945-1970. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1972. Rosen, Craig "Use of Its Advisory Sticker as Mktg. Ploy Worries RIAA." Billboard Magazine. Vol. 101, November 24, 1990: p. 6. Shaw, George Bernard. "On Censorship." Essays: Classic & Contemporary. New York: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1967. Steinbauer, Mary Youatt. "The 10 Amendments: Their History, Their Meaning." Life. Fall Special 1991: p. 11. Terry, Ken. "Retailers Press Labels ...
- 987: The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine
- ... a considerable amount of foreign politics confronted Monroe’s administration. The most pressing problem had to do with the acquisition of Florida, which Monroe had attempted to gain before his presidency, in both Madrid and Washington. With the help of Adams, however, the administration was able to negotiate a treaty with Spain. General Andrew Jackson invaded Florida without Monroe’s direct approval before the treaty was signed, but with the expertise ... Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume the principle that the American continents are no longer subject to any new European colonization” (Rink 93). Previously, Britain’s foreign minister, George Canning, suggested to the United States a joint declaration forbidding future colonization in Latin America. This region, known as the Columbia River region, became the subject of a hot debate with the British minister in ...
- 988: Gays In the Military
- ... military from fulfilling this role is a potential threat to national security and must be looked at in an objective manner. The military's attitude towards homosexuals dates back to the Revolutionary War when General George Washington approved the discharge and court martial of an officer for attempted sodomy. Every year more than 800 service members are separated from the military based on sexual orientation. The Department Of Defense current policy is ...
- 989: Socialism
- ... this time also becoming influential. Such ideas included moderate socialist doctrines, for example, those of the FABIAN SOCIETY in England, founded by Sidney WEBB and including among its adherents the writers H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw; those of Ferdinand LASSALLE in Germany; and of Louis BLANC in France. These moderates sought to achieve socialism by parliamentary means and by appealing deliberately to the middle class. Fabianism had as one ... success in the British and American trade union movements, for example, the INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, an American-based syndicalist union active around the turn of the century. Guild socialism in England, dominated by George Douglas Howard Cole (1889-1959), the academic economist and historian, represented a modified and milder form of syndicalism. In Russia, where it was impossible to organize openly a popular socialist movement under the tsarist regime ... earnings and were not greatly interested in economic and social organization. Numerous, although small, utopian socialist communities did flourish, however, in the United States, mostly during the early 19th century. Also, a celebrated economist, Henry GEORGE, and writers of repute, such as Edward BELLAMY, advocated socialism, and socialist political leaders, such as Victor L. BERGER, Eugene V. DEBS, Daniel DE LEON, and Norman THOMAS, had at one time considerable popular ...
- 990: Gays: A Struggle for Acceptance
- ... for gay organizing in Chicago during the 1920s but they dissolved without major recognition. Then came the Mattachine Society. It was founded in 1950 in Los Angeles as a response to anti-gay campaigns in Washington, the constant police raiding of gay bars and that gays were an oppressed minority and should have someone to speak for them. The Mattachine Society would help gays out of jail, consult gays and refer ... The Village Voice helped to consolidate Gay willingness to fight back. Within a few days, representatives of the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis organized the city's first ever "Gay Power" rally in Washington Square. On July 27, 1969, speeches by Martha Shelley and Marty Robinson were followed by a candlelight march to the site of the Stonewall Inn. Five hundred people showed up, thought to have included almost ... groups working for homosexual rights, ever since the concept had been defined in nineteenth century Germany, home to the world's first politically organized movement. In the United States, since April 1965, Frank Kameny of Washington, DC had been organizing Homosexual Reminder Days on the ellipse across from the White House and at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. These were sedate affairs of a few dozen picketers with the men in ...
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