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- 8191: Pan American World Airways, Inc
- ... a way to do it. Through the use of the famous Clipper Flying Boats, Trippe achieved the impossible, and started the worlds first trans-atlantic flights to europe, asia, and south america. Pan Am achieved great heights with the help of pilots like Charles Lindbergh, who opened many early routes, and hero pilot Eddie Musick, who pioneered routes across the Pacific, and not to mention Andre Priester, the engineering marvel behind ...
- 8192: Allen Ginsberg
- ... his studies, and he got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He experimented with marijuana, and crused gay bars. Himself and his friends believed that they were working towards some kind of uncertain but great poetic vision, which he called the New Vision. But all of the joyful craziness with his friends it was symbolizing the real craziness of his mother. Knowing that he was basically sane, Ginsberg embrassed a ...
- 8193: Alcoholics Anonymous
- ... was spreading across the U.S. and Canada. By 1950, one hundred thousand recovered alcoholics could be found worldwide (Pitman 85). As spectacular as this was, the period of 1940-1950 was nonetheless one of great uncertainty (Wekesser 42). Could the mercurial alcoholics live and work together in groups? This was the unsolved problem. By 1946, however, it had already become possible to draw sound conclusions about the kind of attitude ...
- 8194: The Japan-American Trade War
- ... landlords and gave it to the tenant farmers. By the time American occupation ended in 1952, Japan had returned to prewar levels of production. With their recovery now ensured, Japan embarked on a period of great economic growth which is growing at a faster rate every day. The Japanese are now at the head of a powerful economy which is the second largest in the world, exceeded only by the Americans ...
- 8195: American Reconstruction
- ... 1869, voters had approved all these constitutions and the ex-Confederate states were let back in the Union. Fourteen African American congressmen and two African American senators would serve in Congress during Reconstruction. Reconstruction faced great problems in Washington D.C. President Johnson obeyed the letter of the Reconstruction laws, but he worked against them in spirit. In 1867 Congress passed a law that challenged the President's power. It said ...
- 8196: All the King's Men: Man As a Slave to Knowledge
- ... certain Byram B. White tried to get rich, Stark had him sign an undated resignation form to hold him in his power. Willie said himself, Well, I fixed Byram. I fixed him so his unborn great-grandchildren will wet their pants on this anniversary and not know why (136). Also, Stark manipulates people with knowledge, telling them what they want to hear. Under the picture was the legend: My study is ...
- 8197: How Mountains Are Formed
- ... periods of time by forces of the earth. Mountains just don t appear in any place. Most are formed when plates, or huge pieces of the Earth s crust, pull and push against each other. Great mountain ranges are formed by the movement of tectonic plates. Convection currents deep in the mantle of the earth, begins to well up towards the surface. As the pressure increases, it sets the crustal plates ...
- 8198: The Significance of Food in "Like Water for Chocolate"
- ... but in the kitchen of the family ranch, the emphasis is on cooking. The family servant, Nacha, Tita's surrogate mother, teaches the her secrets and makes her the next in an ancient line of great family chefs. From Nacha and her mother Tita learns the art of cooking. While all the food did not center around Tita, most of it was. Even from the time of birth of Tita she ...
- 8199: Biligual Education
- ... will cause an even greater negative impact to all immigrant student. Researchers believe that students, once they have completed the one year English instruction, and that are not fully efficient with the language, will experience great challenges and problem in the mainstream classes. Understanding the lectures may become dramatically hard and consequentially result in lowers grades and the rise of dropouts among the minority groups. Loss of control, in local schools ...
- 8200: American Indian Wars
- ... Minnesota felt the fury of an even more fundamental internal conflict. The Santees, an eastern branch of the Sioux Nation, having endured ten years of traumatic change on the upper Minnesota River, launched the first great attack in the Indian wars. Eleven years earlier the tribe had sold 24 million acres of hunting ground for a lump sum of $1,665,000 and the promise of future cash annuities. The Santee ...
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