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- 1151: Colorado River
- ... making water easy to divert for irrigation. The Alamo Canal diverted water from the Colorado River to the Alamo River, and traveled 60 miles through Mexico across the Mexicali desert to the Salton Sink, a depression in the Imperial Valley. For this, Mexico received the right to take half the water from the canal, the rest went to the Imperial Valley. Although it may have seemed like an easy way to ... selenium, and four million tons of salt leached from the soil every year. The Salton Sea is now a lost city. In the late 1950’s, it was supposed to become the Golden State’s great new playland, an alluring combination of the desert and sea. M. Penn Phillips and other developers of Salton City bought 19,600 acres that they subdivided on paper for house lots, shops, schools, parks and ... slaughter house wastes, as well as trash, toilet paper, dead dogs and phosphate detergents. The sea was for years one of the greatest fishing spots in California, and has long been one of America’s great birding spots. Birders flock to its shores, listing their sightings on clipboards maintained at ornithological sites. At least 380 species have been reported, a number exceeded in North America only by the Texas coast ...
- 1152: Profiles In American Enterpris
- ... and Sons clients do well then in turn so does the brokerage firm. A.G. Edwards Inc. is not the biggest corporations in America, but yet it is still a very large corporation and has great importance in the industry for which it participates. This paper will give an in depth explanation about how A.G. Edwards functions as a corporation. Along with competition from the government, banks and other brokerage ... the risk for the high interest rate. This drop in interest rates did wonders for the brokerage firms involved and also corporations that had acquired debt over the years. The fall of interest rates was great for the brokerage firms because of the increase in business with the public s desire to invest. So the corporations used it to issue off more stock to the public to pay off their debts ... that is on a right track and once it can break away from the competition it will be huge. I also think that it is very possible for A.G. Edwards to be-come a great company if it continues with the upward trend in earnings that it has been displaying for the past decade. From the chart I can draw these conclusions just by look-ing at the net ...
- 1153: The United States' Rise To A World Power After 1930
- ... Industry Recovery Act. The Agricultural Adjustment Act compensated farmers for not producing at the top of their ability. This was to help raise both wages and prices of commodity and farm products. In 1934 the depression had been somewhat halted, but the nation had a long way to go to full recovery. A year later Roosevelt enforced the second New Deal including the right for workers to join any union to ... was a growing discontent with how the country was being run. This resulted in both fascist and communistic waves as alternatives to parliamentary democracy, which had not been able to solve the problems of the depression. It did not help that Britain's international importance declined in the thirties. The isolationist values remained in America during the thirties and neutrality laws were instated. Americans wanted to keep out of the war ... lend-lease" program. The president gained power to help any state that was essential for America's survival. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the isolationists were overruled and the war effort ended the economic depression. The government started pumping money in the private industry. From now on, it was hard to find workers to fill the jobs as opposed to the other way around. Even women were allowed (even ...
- 1154: Heros Essay
- ... every from of value except sentimental. Enrique "Rick" Rivas is a hero because he stood upon the brink of the abyss and returned. In the story, we see Rivas descend into the deepest circles of depression, so that all his hopes and dreams are clouded by a dark mist originating from his abuse of drugs and alcohol. Rivas drops out of school, saying he felt "no guilt in lying to" his ... to get over the almost insurmountable challenges. According to Webster's Third International Dictionary, ( published in 1981 by Encyclopedia Britannica Incorporated ) a hero is " a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability, an illustrious warrior, or one that shows great courage ". Many people throughout the ages have fit within these guidelines, but do the people who I have described, and shown to be heroes, do the same? Only Rivas, unless one really wants to ...
- 1155: Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
- ... us for a special dramatic discussion. When we perform, we’re participating in the creation of a world and we celebrate that with the crowd.”(Hopkins, XI). As in the previous the Doors were a great band who performed and entertained for millions of screaming fans during their years on top of the charts. To make things even better, they, the Doors, were probably nothing without lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison ... t”(15). Jim pulled many odd and elaborate stunts on teachers, friends, and his family. Though Jim pulled many stunts that others would call very undesirable, he was a smart young man who had a great deal of reading experience and actually understood books that the other students did not have a clue about. Jim even took on some of the look of his readings, which included Alexander the Great, “…his inclination of his head a little on one side towards his left shoulder”(17). During his senior year he began to keep up with a journal that had enclosed every thought, poem, and ...
- 1156: Profiles In American Enterpris
- ... and Sons’ clients do well then in turn so does the brokerage firm. A.G. Edwards Inc. is not the biggest corporations in America, but yet it is still a very large corporation and has great importance in the industry for which it participates. This paper will give an in depth explanation about how A.G. Edwards functions as a corporation. Along with competition from the government, banks and other brokerage ... the risk for the high interest rate. This drop in interest rates did wonders for the brokerage firms involved and also corporations that had acquired debt over the years. The fall of interest rates was great for the brokerage firms because of the increase in business with the public’s desire to invest. So the corporations used it to issue off more stock to the public to pay off their debts ... that is on a right track and once it can break away from the competition it will be huge. I also think that it is very possible for A.G. Edwards to be-come a great company if it continues with the upward trend in earnings that it has been displaying for the past decade. From the chart I can draw these conclusions just by look-ing at the net ...
- 1157: Nothing
- ... away from his grandfather's home, The Big Place. Faulkner's grandfather was a successful lawyer and businessman. Townspeople called him the "Young Colonel" even though he had never served in the army. Faulkner's great-grandfather- like the Compson children's grandfather- fought in he Civil War. Nicknamed the "Old Colonel," he commanded the Partisan Rangers, guerrillas who attacked Northern troops behind their lines. The Old Colonel wrote novels, too ... of the Falkner family. No wonder that when his third-grade teacher asked Billy Falkner what he wanted to be when he grew up, the boy replied, "I want to be a writer like my great-grand-daddy." Their pride in the Old Colonel made the Civil War very real to the Falkner family. The war still affected everyone else in Oxford, too, even though it had ended in 1865. Its ... in Paris, where they could live cheaply and be part of the exciting experiments there in writing and painting. The American writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald lived there. So did James Joyce, the great Irish novelist. Joyce pioneered a new technique of writing called stream-of-consciousness. Instead of describing what a character was thinking, like most novelists, Joyce put the character's actual thought process on paper. ...
- 1158: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... to as his "Summer White House". From this room he broadcast the last speech of his fourth campaign for the Presidency on November 6, 1944. Famous guests at the house included King George VI of Great Britain and Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. The house contains abundant memorabilia from all periods of the President's life. As his wife Eleanor remarked, "He always felt that this was his home, and he ... him as governor of New York. Smith lost the election to Herbert Hoover; but Roosevelt was elected governor. Following his reelection as governor in 1930, Roosevelt began to campaign for the presidency. While the economic depression damaged Hoover and the Republicans, Roosevelt's bold efforts to combat it in New York enhanced his reputation. His activist approach and personal charm helped to defeat Hoover in November 1932 by seven million votes. The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. ...
- 1159: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... 16, became Thomas second wife. From Thomas' first marriage was born George O'Flaherty, Kate's half brother whom she loved with all her heart. Also living in the home was her grandmother and her great-grandmother. Kate had a special bond with her father. She was always curious and inquisitive about his job. So, at the age of 5, Thomas O'Flaherty decided to take his daughter to work with ... with death of her husband by focusing on religion. She enrolled Kate in the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart. It is here that Kate discovers literature and the joys of reading (Hoffman). Her great-grandmother taught her to speak French and play the piano. She also delighted Kate with stories that made a vial impression on her. One of which was the story of how her grandmother, had run a ferry service on the Mississippi, and lively stories of women who dared- and seldom remarried. (Howard) In 1863, Kate had to endure more heartache. Her great-grandmother dies. During the same year, her half-brother, George, was captured as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, contracted typhoid fever and dies. This caused Kate to go into seclusion for two ...
- 1160: King Lear - The Fool: A Motivated Character
- ... of his professional life in London and returned to Stratford as a wealthy landowner. He was born in April 1564, and died in April 1616. Throughout his life, Shakespeare wrote numerous plays. One of his great tragic plays is King Lear. Throughout the play, Lear is in conflict with his daughters by the division of his kingdom, while Gloucestor versus his sons over his fortune. Characterization is a great deal of the play. Shakespeare motivates the Fool in the play to be a pure character who makes a great impact on the King and others. The Fool plays a great role in King Lear. Enid Weisford believes that the Fool is an “all licensed critic who sees and speaks the truth around him,” ( ...
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