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- 3471: Ellis Island
- ... cost of $500,000 was opened on January 1, 1892. It was two stories high about 400 feet wide and it looked like a Victorian seaside resort hotel.Baggage rooms filled the ground level. The great inspection hall was upstairs. Nearby on the grounds were hospital buildings, doctors quarters, a bath house, laundry, kitchens, a dining hall, a power plant, and dormitory space. On June 14, 1897 a fire started on ... economic hardship. Greeks, Poles, Russians, Slavs, Armenians, Italians, and many more were all tagged in a different color according to the language they spoke. The newcomers presented this country with serious problems. They came in great numbers as many as a million a year. A new reception center had to be built to hold the numbers of people who landed in the New York Harbor. For more than 30 years an ... Irving Berlin, songwriter extraordinary, was born in Temun, Siberia. He came to the U.S. in 1893. Without any music training he composed such popular classics like "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Easter Parade". The great Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne arrived in 1893 from Norway. A year later Felix Frankfuter arrived from Vienna. He later became a professor at the Harvard Law School and was a justice of ...
- 3472: George Lucas
- ... had spent the better part of two years making a very personal movie that had been dumped into the marketplace without attention or care (1, 98). Marcia Lucas stated, Directing that movie [THX) was a great thing for George. It was a breakthrough. Now he was really a filmmaker (1, 98). After THX, Lucas wanted to make a movie that would dispel his image as a technobrat, a cold, mechanical filmmaker ... least heard about it when The Star Wars Trilogy was re-released, but I heard nothing relating to it or any other movie, such as the hit American Graffiti. Although, THX:1138 was not a great success, I still have a desire to see it, just because George Lucas made it. It never even occurred to me that George Lucas had a rough time before he made it big. He was ... of attention and hide in the background. However, that is probably the only similarity between us. I hope that one day I can be as successful as he is with his career and gain his great amount of initiative and determination to get where I am going in life. Work Cited 1) Pollock, Dale. Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas. New York: Harmon Books, 1983.
- 3473: Ghandi 2
- ... lead the nationalist movement. Gandhi is probably the best known proponent of passive resistance and this idea helped him to achieve the goal of Indian nationalism. His inflexible self-control helped him to be the great leader that his is known as today and helped to fuel his fire for a new India. Gandhi studied law in London and then went to South Africa to work as a lawyer for Indian ... believed adamantly in a few things, one, passive resistance, two god as a creator and not as a religion, and three, the return of India to its roots. His actions of passive resistance presented a great force upon the British. Although hard to control at times, the idea eventually worked in the end. Gandhi practiced protesting, fasting, and the boycotting of British goods. To accomplish the last he made his own ... free India but it was not truly free because of the split. Approximately five months after the British announcement, Gandhi was assassinated on his way to prayer. This was truly a heavyhearted demise of a great leader that is mourned to this day.
- 3474: James Earl Ray
- James Earl Ray In the recent pass-on of the twentieth century, the world (the U.S. especially) has seen some great leaders live and fall in front of the eyes of millions. Arguably, some of the greatest and most beloved presidents have been in office during the twentieth century. Although none may have their birthdays celebrated ... towards the African-American rights movement are a staple in Black culture. Kings presence has made the United States a different place today. The impact of his life is evident internationally. However, like several great leaders of the century before him, there was a point where he fell. The date was April 4, 1968. The location: Memphis, Tennessee. King Jr. was visiting Memphis on a conference trip. He had done ... pleaded guilty, yet then fought to prove he was innocent. Why he did this has not been addressed by many sources. One possibility could be due to the assumption that Ray may have been under great stress during he time of accusation and it may have hindered his judgement. He may also have been guilty all along and he decided to make a foolish backward plea after he had pleaded ...
- 3475: Bob Marley
- ... be reached and "One day the bottom a go drop out". Bob admitted that part of the song was reflective of his life, but he did not clarify which parts. In the 1970s there was great political and economic turmoil in Jamaica. During this time Marley had a rebel image. As an increasingly political figure, he survived a 1976 assassination attempt at his home in Jamaica. The band lined up as ... ve got to push on through. Also singing while comforting his woman in Trenchtown saying, "Good friends we lost", he reminds her with tenderness not to cry and that it is important that "In this great future you can't forget your past". By this time Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingstone had officially left the band to pursue their own solo careers. Lead guitar player Al Anderson and keyboard player Bernard ... life. Later that year Bob got the Piece Medal of the Third World from the United Nations (White 36). A concious effort was made on Bob's part not to be political because of a great distrust for the system and political parties, known to Rastas as Babylon (Boot 99). This is kind of ironic that this effort was made because the majority of his songs address social and political ...
- 3476: Beginnings Of The Stock Market
- ... U.S. Rubber. The first measurement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 40.94, and it sagged back down close to that number at 41.22 points in 1932 during the throes of the Great Depression. Forty years later the index broke 1,000, and today it's barreling down on the 9,000 mark.
- 3477: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... and it brought to power General Francisco Franco who ruled Spain from the end of the war until his death in 1975. Following the Spanish American War (1898), Spain lost the remainder of its once great empire. This defeat greatly increased dissatisfaction and the demands for change grew. People disagreed on the changes needed, however and Spanish politics became dominated by factions. In 1936 the Republic was in power in Spain ... see a scene such as the flailing to death in the plaza on the top of the cliff above the river." "The fascists were all held in the Ayuntamiento, the city hall
" "There was a great crowd outside and there was some levity outside and some shouting of obscenities, but most of the people were very serious and respectful." "
most had flails
and those who did not have flails had heavy ... fight is one of nervous despair. The men are riddled with angst and are snapping at each other. Jordan's plan which he had thought up the night before doesn't seem like such a great one now that morning is near. The situation has become progressively worse. He doesn't have enough men to overcome the enemy guard posts, and he has lost the equipment necessary to blow the ...
- 3478: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... her father. Because Pearl has committed no sin, she is the ultimate heroine in the novel. She overcomes the adversity of her birth to eventually be accepted by her father. She is also left a great deal of money when Chillingworth passes away, and it is believed that she grew up to marry well and lead a happy and productive life. Pearl is the only character in the novel that is ... that must live with guilt for the sins they have committed. Hawthorne s use of the settings added depth and mood to the work. The New England region s climate and weather perfectly reflected the depression and guilty consciences of the characters. The city of Salem was also an excellent place to set a story of sin and suffering. Hester Prynne, Reverend Mister Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth experience many ...
- 3479: The Early Nineteenth Centory
- ... sell all of this land, but he asked him anyway if he was willing to sell. To his surprise Napoleon did want to sell this land because he needed more money for his fight with Great Britain. So Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory, and doubled the nation's size. This purchase was a mastermind move by Jefferson that let the farming nation trade using the whole Mississippi. Another achievement of Thomas ... westward in the growing nation. Let's go back a little bit to when Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States. He needed money to fight in the war he was having with Great Britain. Since the United States had a small military, it did not want to be involved in the French-British War. America tried to stay neutral while trading with Europe, but France and Great Britain kept on violating their neutrality rights. The United States kept on trying to trade, but both sides put blockades on each others ports. This meant that the other countries took their ships. The ...
- 3480: Education History
- ... were Protestants, but there were many denominations. Lutherans from Germany and Scandinavia settled in the middle colonies along with Puritans and Presbyterians. The Reformation was centered upon efforts to capture the minds of men, therefore great emphasis was placed on the written word. Obviously schools were needed to promote the growth of each denomination. Luthers doctrines made it necessary for boys and girls to learn to read the Scriptures. While ... particularly true of schools in the New England area, which had been settled by Puritans and other English religious dissenters. The school in colonial New England was not a pleasant place either, physically or psychologically. Great emphasis was placed on the shortness of life and the torments of hell. Like the Protestants of the Reformation, who established vernacular elementary schools in Germany in the 16th century, the Puritans sought to make ... minority religious groups were unable to support their own schools, they normally accepted the rules of the public schools even when the requirements contradicted their own beliefs. In recent times however, there have been a great number of court cases over the religious requirements or practices in public schools. Although a majority of the cases have decided against the inclusion of religious practices, a large number of Americans are of ...
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