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- 4781: Should The Govt. Interfere In
- ... a connected feeling. My first reason promoting total government interference is that the govt. supports handicapped and people with physical disabilities. I attended a speaker in our school's conference and she told us a great deal about the mentally ill. Many of them live in a free market system and they are homeless because they are unable to get jobs to support themselves. Competition is much too great in the market economy. In the controlled system, the mentally ill would get the same benefits as any other working person. Because of this, the mentally ill are able to eat, to be clothed, to ...
- 4782: Communism - From Marx To Zemin
- ... was slowing down, Glasnost went ahead at full speed, revealing not only the crimes of the Stalin era, but also the full horrifying dimensions of the contemporary crisis. In foreign affairs, not only was there great progress on arms control, but Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan. Most spectacular of all, in 1989, Gorbachev allowed Soviet control over Eastern Europe to evaporate, as communism was overthrown and independent governments were established ... to set up a government immediately in order to support the close to a billion people living in China. He then turned to the Soviet Union for financial help. Mao went on to create the Great Cultural Revolution: an effort to get China up to the status a major world power. This was a major motivating force for Mao until his death in 1976 (Long March, 22-165). Deng Xiaoping eventually ...
- 4783: Patton
- ... War II many things come to mind: Gas Chambers, Nazis, "Japs", and General George S. Patton. George S. Patton is one of the most controversial issues of World War II. People have called him a great and heroic man, while others called him a pre-madonna. No matter which view you have of Patton one thing is true, Patton played a significant part in the Second World War. George Patton was ... thought Normandy was just a diversionary tactic and still was waiting for the invasion from Patton. [Blumenson] After D-Day, the Third Army was formed with Patton in charge. March 1945, Hitler planed his last great offensive, The battle of the bulge. Hitler sent all his forces to attack the weak middle of the fronts. Allied positions one after another were overwhelmed and overrun. Bastone was held by the 101st Airborne ...
- 4784: Martin Luther King- I Have A D
- ... was to spread the gospel of brotherhood and justice (152). From his peaceful persuasion, to imaginative solutions in changing times to the power of hope, optimism, nonviolence strategy, and finally to the need for a great dream, these valuable applications are comprehensive instruments for taking courageous action under even the most difficult of circumstances. Above all, King follows his method of careful reasoning and is convinced that his arguments will persuade ... hoped that the white moderate would recognize that desegregation simply removes legal and social prohibitions. He knew that collective ideas were more creative and more profound. King hoped to awaken the white moderate from their great moral and political sleep that had deepened. He wanted them to recognize the continuing urgency for democracy. In the meantime, he was appalled by the silence of the moral people. As a result, people with ...
- 4785: Michelangelo
- ... pale, but live, human. It is so realistic, it looks almost lifelike. There are so many details from the hair on his head, to the toenails on his toes. This work of art would have great value to anybody. It is so popular and priceless that it would be amazing just to see it in a museum. David is such a breathtaking statue, that it brings all emotions out of people ... in their home. On the other hand, if I were a huge art lover, I probably would buy it. It is one of the finest works of art ever, and to own it would be great in itself. To own such a statue would be an honor for an art lover, but it would feel a bit strange for me to own it. Michelangelos David is without a doubt, one ...
- 4786: Malcom X
- ... about." -Malcom X, interview with Claude Lewis (December 1964) This statement and others helped propel the recognition of prejudice in the heart of America. Whenever I research into a past leader I always feel a great sadness that a great mind has perished with the person. But in this one case, there is a small sense of relief. Violence bleeds violence. 3 men whom he has preached gunned down a man that has preached violence ...
- 4787: On J.J. Thompson
- ... a sheath of copper, for example). Thomson suspected that the traces of gas remaining in the tube were being turned into an electrical conductor by the cathode rays themselves. To test this idea, he took great pains to extract nearly all of the gas from a tube, and found that now the cathode rays did bend in an electric field after all. Thomson concluded from these two experiments that he could ... Encyclopedia. 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. 2) "Thomson, Joseph (1856-1940)". Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. 1993, 1994 Compton's NewMedia, Inc. 3) Brazil, Georgia L, and Moore, Dan. "History in Chemistry". Volume Library, Volume 1. Southwestern/ Great American Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, 1998. p. 472-473.
- 4788: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... many ways because of the fact that his life was getting better and his drug abuse was slowing down His music started to take a different approach. It started to change from a lot of depression to things that were going on in the era he was in or things that have happened instead of things that were happening to him. Like the song Killer of Giants. If none of us ... so Ozzy did what he could do to help out even if it did mean he had to steal. He used drugs often because of the life he lived and also because of his deep depression and state of mind. But Ozzy would not be who he is today if he had lived a different life. If his family was rich I bet he would have never started a musical career ...
- 4789: Tim Paterson
- ... Quick and Dirty). After finding bugs in the program, he fixed the problem and named it QDOS.11. By the end of August 1980, the program was working well and being shipped. Not knowing the great potential of his new program, Paterson was not expecting much from it. "I was aghast," says Paterson, "When I heard that IBM was using it (QDOS.11) and not throwing it out the window." Because of the great results from QDOS.11, Paterson and Company wanted to refine the system and create 86-DOS, .33. By December 1980, they completed the task. It combined all the information the company knew and condensed it ...
- 4790: The Life Of Chief Seattle
- ... the Indian religion everything is told through myths and legends. Because of this everything is passed down from chief to chief and person to person. By this exchange of information and story telling there is great room for individual interpretation. Every generation these tales will change and the myths will be told in a different tone, style or version. When white settlers came to the Northwest after the California Gold Rush ... Puget Sound. University of Washington Press: Seattle, 1985 (2) Jeffers, Susan. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky. Dial Books: New York, 1991 (3) Sturtevant, William. Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution: Washington, 1990 (4) Dockstader, Frederick. Great North American Indians. Litton Educational Publishing: New York, 1977 (5) Ruby, Robert. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 1981 (6) Deloria, Vine. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Double Day And Company ...
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