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- 391: Women Characters In Lone Range
- ... the Spokane Indian reservation, Alexie depicts characters that are world-wearied and heavy with 500 years worth of humiliation and rejection. They have lived their lives in the confines of the reservation, resorting to alcohol, depression, and frustration. However, these women seek to hold together, both spiritually and generatively, the fabric of a culture that is assaulted on all sides. They are warrior-like in their determination to battle the hardships of their lives, all while holding their families and their heritage together with great compassion and spirit. Although one may argue that many of these women were unable to avoid the inevitable feeling of hopelessness, one can see with a deeper look into the reservation that they firmly wrestle ... stories face are the struggles to hold together their crumbling families. For example, Victor s mother must endure the various storms of her life: her husband s alcoholism, the lack of basic necessities, her own depression, and the overall desperation of the household. However, she is able to give her family a sense of hope. During all these kinds of tiny storms, Victor s mother would rise with her medicine ...
- 392: Automation
- ... exhaust pipe. The car of the future will need new designs which make even better use of the fuel which powers them. Cars influence the ways communities are developing. Since it is possible to drive great distances rapidly, many people choose to live far away from where they work. Many cities have a downtown core where people work and a suburban area where they live. People may spend a great deal of time commuting through rush hour traffic. In spite of many problems , it is hard to imagine a society without cars. Cars and trucks have become so important that most people would not want ... Ford was so controversial that it prevented the potential of Fords from becoming greater than it is today. By the mid twenties the Ford s was already the worlds most successful automobile company, but their great reputation would soon decline. Fords $5/day plan for all employees signified the overwhelming success of the company. Many believed this success was short-lived with the new policies dealing with the workers which ...
- 393: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... Edgar did not find this substitute and an underlying denial for death can have influenced his poems. Maria Clemm and William Henry Leonard Poe Edgar was the fourth generation of Poes in Baltimore. His paternal great-grandfather, John Poe, came to America from northern Ireland before the American Revolution. Among the Poes who had lived in Baltimore was Edgar's grandfather General David Poe, who left behind his wife, his daughter ... and Waverly Place and later moved to 113 1/2 Carmine Street. How Poe managed to support Muddy and Virginia is unknown. His literary work did not help his financial situation much, and an economic depression started in New York on May 10th 1837. Poe published only two tales during his stay in New York, "Von Jung, the Mystific" and "Siope. A Fable. (In the manner of the Psychological Autobiographists)." In ... Poe's first book of fiction. A 200 page volume entitled "The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket". The publishing had been delayed for about a year, to July 1838, because of the economic depression, and a pirated version appeared in London a few months later. Pym was a classic adventure story, bringing the hero into trouble frequently and leading the reader into a world of illusions where nothing ...
- 394: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- ... and private humiliation of and discrimination against a specific group of American citizens? In order to examine these questions, we need to look at the social, economic, political, and sexual mindset of our society. The Depression Era created vast impoverishment, economic dislocations, fewer marriages and fewer births. The traditional family structure received a severe blow, whereas some families banded together, many broke up or never began as a result of the ... of the 1930's and 1940's came many factors that created specific social, economic and political needs that clamored to be met. Some of the factors included: The economic and social realities of the depression. World War II. Emergence of a gay subculture. However, these are not inclusive, but only some of the factors that help make up the complex political and social structure that emerged in the 1950's ... anger perpetrated onto homosexuals. Dr. Edmund Bergler was one of the leading anti-homosexual crusades of the 1950's. His book Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life? Casts the homosexual as a mental invert of great psychological and social deformity. Bergler's definition of a homosexual is someone that suffers from a neurotic disease. The gay male exhibits "10 unconscious factors" which create a psychological picture of who a gay ...
- 395: Post World War I
- ... The panic only worsened things and on October 24, 1929, stockholders sold a record 16,410,030 shares. By mid-November, stock prices had plunged 40%. The crash of the Stock Market led to the Great Depression. The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well-being of the roaring Twenties. Many ...
- 396: Organizational Skills
- ... At that time, Americans began using more ˇ§patent medicinesˇ¨, reducing dependence on home remedies. Early pharmacists worked in village apothecaries, purchasing chemicals in bulk and mixing them on the premises to fill prescriptions. After the Great Depression, the science of pharmacology developed and pharmaceutical companies grew rapidly, opening sophisticated research facilities. Drug patent issues grew from fewer than 100 before 1940, to over 4,000 by the 1950s. Medications began to be ... exit will be created. Barriers to other companies who have not made such investments will also be created. This will lead to more exclusive supply chain relationships (Retailing 2005). The chain drugstores will depend a great deal on the sale of private label items. The private label can provide differentiation based on both quality and price. They provide the retailer with a greater markup as well. Discount programs which encourage ...
- 397: Political Parties
- ... to have an influence on government policy through lobbying or education of the public A party gains control of government by getting more of its candidates elected to office than its opposition parties do. In Great Britain, for example, more Conservative party candidates won representation in Parliament in the elections of April 1992 than did Labour party candidates. The Conservatives, therefore, were able to have their leader--John Major--continue in ... exist in Canada, the United States, and Britain--there are several in each country. It means that only two parties have consistently been strong enough to contest effectively for control of government. Two-Party Contrasts Great Britain and the United States both have, in general, two-party systems of government. They do not operate in the same way, however. In Britain elections are held for members of Parliament. After the election ... nominee, James Buchanan. By 1860 the Democrats were split on the slavery issue. Four candidates ran for the presidency, and Abraham Lincoln--the Republican nominee--was elected. The Republicans emerged from the Civil War with great political strength. The Democrats were marked as the party of slavery and secession. Republican control of the national government lasted for 72 years except for the 16 years when Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson ...
- 398: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- The Grapes Of Wrath The people and the Depression In the movie The grapes of Wrath, the Joads undergo the hit of the depression, they have to leave their farm. They go to California for jobs, but find there are few jobs, and it pays little, or at least less then what they were told. The government tried to ... many other places, or the towns folk could have just created a lynch mob, and eventually the people living in the development would leave. I believe that the economic situation of the country has a great effect on the fall, or succession of people like the Joads, but I don't believe government programs will effect them at all. For example, the great depression was a major economical event, and ...
- 399: Howard Hughes
- ... Hughes appeared before a Texas judge to appeal the legal guidelines set forth in his father’s will. Against the advice of Little Howard’s remaining family, the judge granted Hughes his wish and a great deal of wealth and power was put into a young man’s hands. Howard took the helm of Hughes Tool at the age of eighteen. Fully aware that he was unable of managing a multi ... a talking picture they would have to make sense. He also demanded that the cast be completely overhauled out of fear that one individual might not sound good reading his lines. Production continued through the great depression, and in May of 1930 the film was completed. Hughes had shot 3,000,000 feet of film, of which only 1% was used in the final production, and spent almost 4 million dollars. ...
- 400: Life And Legend Of Howard Hugh
- ... Hughes appeared before a Texas judge to appeal the legal guidelines set forth in his father’s will. Against the advice of Little Howard’s remaining family, the judge granted Hughes his wish and a great deal of wealth and power was put into a young man’s hands. Howard took the helm of Hughes Tool at the age of eighteen. Fully aware that he was unable of managing a multi ... a talking picture they would have to make sense. He also demanded that the cast be completely overhauled out of fear that one individual might not sound good reading his lines. Production continued through the great depression, and in May of 1930 the film was completed. Hughes had shot 3,000,000 feet of film, of which only 1% was used in the final production, and spent almost 4 million dollars. ...
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