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- 1081: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a story about life in the great depression and how difficult it was to make ends meet. Steinbeck tells the story through the Joad family and how they struggle to survive. Also he has short chapters about the background and what was going ... get the part. They ran into a nice man with one eye. The man hated his boss, who had left for the day, and gave them the two parts and some copper wire for a great price. He also gave them a flashlight and a wrench too. As soon as they got back the two of them and Casy put in the parts and drove up to where the families ...
- 1082: Psychoanalysis and Treatment
- ... emanating from the surrounding environment. Furthermore, the damage done to the basic psychological structures by traumatic experiences leaves those structures weakened and with defective functioning. Such conflicts and defects can cause intense ANXIETY and severe DEPRESSION. In order to keep functioning effectively, the ego attempts to maintain control by achieving some sort of compromise between the contending forces. Often such compromises appear in the form of inhibitions or compulsions that affect ... resulting disturbance is called a narcissistic personality disorder, or a disorder of the self. TREATMENT Patients seek psychoanalytic treatment because they suffer from one or more of a variety of psychological symptoms such as anxiety, depression, sexual and other inhibitions, obsessive thoughts, compulsive actions, irrational angers, shyness and timidity, phobias, inability to get along with friends or spouses or co-workers, low self-esteem, a sense of feeling unfulfilled, nervous irritability ... a need to be appreciated by one's supervisors similarly to a child's needing approval from his or her parents. Frustration of these expectations may evoke immature rage or other immature behavior. Transference causes great distress, but it also makes treatment possible. The method of treatment seems simple at first. The patient reclines on a comfortable couch in the analyst's office with the analyst seated behind the patient. ...
- 1083: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... report nearly two years later. The report was self-contradictory, and nothing came of it. Hoover's administration, like that of Martin Van Buren almost a century earlier, was dominated by one development--an economic depression. The disastrous slump that began when the stock market crashed on Oct. 29, 1929, left from 12 to 14 million Americans unemployed before the end of Hoover's term. In the 1930 congressional elections the ... need in time of economic crisis, though not directly to the masses of unemployed. 32. President - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Term - March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945 While Roosevelt was governor of New York, the Great Depression tightened its grip on the country. Roosevelt, seeking new ideas, enlisted a "brains trust" of Columbia University professors to help him devise programs against hard times. These professors included Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley, and ...
- 1084: Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
- ... birth (Ahmann). The problem that is associated with the home apnea monitor is that most likely will cause distress within the family unit. It has been suggested to cause parental fatigue, anxiety, social isolation, and depression ( Defrain 215). This also leads to conflicts with others outside of the family such as friends, relatives, and those in the workplace that indirectly result from this problem in the home. A Study was done by Elizabeth Ahmann to look for how home apnea monitors disrupted family life. Data from telephone interviews and mailed questionnaires were used to examine twelve aspects of family life such as parental depression, health, and attachment to the infant in ninety-three families that had infants who were considered to be at a high risk for SIDS, and who were on home apnea monitors. There was also a ... more tragic event because for the most part the death goes unexplained. It has been said that the death of a baby due to SIDS is extremely hard on the parents, for they feel a great amount of self blame. It takes approximately three years or more for the parents to recover from the death of a baby due to SIDS ( Defrain 229). What is clear is that people are ...
- 1085: Elvis Presley
- ... Gladys Smith gave birth in two-room house built by her husband and her brother - in -law. His way of life was rough in Tupelo, Mississippi where he was born. He was born during the Great Depression. Elvis and his parents attended the Assembly of God Church; the music and preaching registered very deeply in Elvis. In 1945, ten year old Elvis stands on a chair at a microphone and sings " Old ... Elvis' merchandise had grossed $22 million in sales. This would be forever part of the market of Elvis Presley, and non- - stopping never ending demanded. Elvis buys Graceland Mansion for himself, his parents, and his great - grandmother to live in on March 1957. It would be ready for them to move into by April of 1957. After two successful films, Elvis began work on Jailhouse Rock for MGM in May ...
- 1086: History of Lacrosse
- ... however, a similarity between lacrosse and the most popular ball game played by the Norse, called knattleiker. Knattleiker was played in Iceland around 874 BC, and was frequently mentioned in Icelandic sagas, but never in great detail, so an idea of the rules and the game itself can only be obtained from recorded incidents and episodes. (Boyd 14) Professor Hertzberg suggested the possible connection between the two, in that the Norse ... certain. The early data on lacrosse is from missionaries and English explorers, and is scant and often conflicting. But they agree on one thing, there were three different forms of lacrosse. They were the southeast, Great Lakes, and the Iroquoian (Vennum 2). Thomas Vennum JR described the three types. The southeastern game was a double sticked version of the game. A two and a half foot stick is held in each ... between the two. This differs from today's game, in that only one stick is used, and it is about 3 feet long, plus an inch or two, depending on the player's preference. The Great Lake version, players used a singles three-ft. stick. The stick terminates in a round, closed pocket about three to four inches in diameter, hardly larger than the ball, which was made of wood, ...
- 1087: Influence Of Chinese And Irish
- ... when asked to help build the Transcontinental Railroad that connected the Pacific and the Atlantic Coasts. During the long process the immigrant workers encountered harsh weather and living and working conditions. Their work produced the Great Iron Trail in an incredibly short time with minimal resources and equipment. Their struggles are often overlooked and their overseers credited with the building of the railroad. The Chinese and Irish found what entertainment they ... poor conditions presented by the railroad positions. The two groups couldnt have been more different, yet they came together to create a revolutionary railway and opened a new era in the United States. Their great influence may have made the completion of the transcontinental railroad possible. The Chinese and Irish were drawn to the land of opportunity in order to become successful. They came from different ends of the world ... many aspects off their lives (Daley 14-15). The Irish had visions of a more stable future, coming to California in search of steady jobs (Potter 621). They left Ireland for America to escape the Great Potato famine. Long before the Gold Rush of 1849, the Chinese had known about the wealth that lay in America, or the Mountain of Gold (Sung 1-4; Howard 225). Legend told of a ...
- 1088: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
- Robber Barons or Captains of Industry Since the gilded age of American history historians have debated weather or not the great industrial leader who put our counrty back together in the torent years following the civil war were robber barons or captains of industry. Three of these great men who organized industrial America and changed the American way of life are J. D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. Each of these men took their own level of morality and individual business ... argue that Hill was a robber baron but I believe that he was on of the few captains of industry. Hill built the only trans-continental railroad that was not subsidies by the government, the Great Northern. He was a very deversified and did not share andrew carnegies idea of putting all of your eggs in one basket and then guarding it. He also encouraged imigrants to come to america ...
- 1089: Yamamoto
- ... in the government, was assassinating anyone who did not share in their views for a united Asia (Yamamoto received many death threats, because he wanted to avoid war with the U.S.A. or with Great Britain at all costs), and was using propaganda to convince the Japanese to believe in a united Asia. The Emperor could not stop what was going on in his country because Emperors stayed out of ... I moved in Japan, the culture shock would be enormous, starting with the simple language barrier, and the difference in religion. Isoroku Yamamoto was correct in his thinking that war between the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Japan should be avoided at all costs, and in the event of war between the U.S.A., Great Britain, and Japan, Japan would lead in the beginning, like the first 6 to 12 months, but would eventually lose the war. One quality I admire about Yamamoto is that he was able to ...
- 1090: Ronald Reagan
- ... defined his management style as "to identify the problem, find the right individuals to do the job, and then let them go to it." Reagan's main function in his presidency was described as "the great communicator." Reagan also received strong support from religious groups, who were unhappy about what they saw as decreasing respect for religion in public life and about increasing respect to sex and drugs, that had emerged ... strikes against several Libyan cities on April 15, 1986 and related to the supporting of Christian government in Libya. The President Reagan was one of the greatest presidents. Majorities of people were amassed of how great union leader he was. I was impressed with his courage and motivation that he gave to American people. More Americans were working than ever before and new businesses were being started up in the country. The President Reagan always had sense for humor and smile on his face. He was a great leader for our country. His great courage was shown during the assassination when he was very close to dying. Still then, in the hard moments of life, he had sense of humor. When he ...
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