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- 5311: Atomic Bomb 8
- ... military value at all. Secondly the Japanese might have taken this to mean that the United States lacked the resolve to use such a weapon. Thirdly air defense in cities would have been put on high alert diminishing the chances of a successful nuclear raid. If the bomb failed to detonate, this would spell political disaster for America. Besides looking very foolish, America would have caused even greater diehard sentiments among ... the hostilities. The atom bomb proved to be the ultimate ambassador in a war where conventional politics were futile (O Neal 98). Works Cited Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Bomb. Worland, Wyoming: High Plains Publishing Company Inc. 1996. Grant, R.G. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Austin, Texas: Raintree Sterk-Vaugh Publishers. 1998. Meen, B.G. Conflicts: The Atomic Bomb. Texas Monthly. June 89: 79. O Neal, Michael. President Truman ...
- 5312: Joseph Hyden
- ... regarded as one of the greatest composers of the classical period. He is often called the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, and he founded what is known as the Viennese classical school, which consisted of himself, his friend, Wolfgang Mozart, and his pupil, Ludwig van Beethoven. During his lifetime, he produced a mind-boggling amount of music. He lived from the end of the baroque period to ... brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool. At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was to remain for the next nine years. During his early years, he became interested in composing music, but he had no formal training until his ...
- 5313: Quebec's Quiet revolution: What is it? How has it changed Quebec's
- ... the beginning of Medi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle with Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars. One of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire school system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education but Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted a government-run school system that would provide Quebec with people in engineering, science, business and commerce. With the new freedom of expression, lots of books, plays and music about French culture were all developed in Quebec. French contemporary ...
- 5314: Depression
- ... without treatment. Armed with knowledge of its prevalence, causes and common features, one might assume that it is a simple task to diagnose depression in general practice settings. Unfortunately it isn't. Certainly having a high index of suspicion and a professional willingness to consider the possibility of depression are important factors in our ability to diagnose depression. Additionally patients also have a significant part to play in enabling - or preventing ... reattribute physical symptoms to psychological causes. If a patient is feeling tired all the time, has no energy or interest in life and is sleeping very badly, these chances of their being depressed are very high. Often a direct question - 'do you think you may be depressed?' - is all that is needed to move the consultation onto a psychological agenda. Sometimes it is better to take a more indirect route. The ...
- 5315: Benedict Arnold
- ... to Congress, especially considering his need to regain his seniority rank. Both Livingston and Wilkinson witnessed this dispute. Livingston wrote to Schuyler the following day, in which he said, "Matters were altercated in a very high strain," and that Gates, "in rather passionate and very assuming tones" told Arnold to remove his pro-Schuyler aides. Wilson commented that Gates had ridiculed Arnold constantly, claiming he was unaware of Arnold's rank ... such bills. Arnold disputed this, saying that at one point, when Schuyler was away, he had taken over command of the army. Gates took this into consideration. Soon afterwards, Arnold became an outcast among the high command of the Northern Army (Randall 362) (Nelson 130). On October 1st, in a letter to Gates, Arnold voiced his concerns about the state of current affairs. He stated, "I have every reason to think ...
- 5316: William Faulkner
- ... grew older he began to lose interest in his schoolwork and turned his attention to athletics, such as football and baseball, which caused his grades to start to fall. Eventually, he quit both athletics and school altogether. In 1919, his first literary work was acknowledged and published. The poem is a forty-line verse with a French title that acknowledges the influence of the French Symbolists. "From Mallarme he took the ... published "Landing in Luck." The short story, nine pages in length were created directly from his direct experience in the Royal Air Force flight training in 1916. After awhile he began to get tired of school once again. He started cutting classes and finally stopped going. In the summer of 1921, Faulkner decided to take a trip to New York to receive some professional instruction from editors and critics, because Stone ...
- 5317: Aztec Indians 2
- ... constructed and anyone outside of that culture can only unravel interpretations. This paper will center interpretations around myths of the sun. The Four Suns At the beginning of creation there was an original "two-deity" high god, Ometeotl, who existed in both male form and female form. This couple produced four sons: Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, Quetzalcoatl, and Huitzilopochtli. With the births of these four gods, a cycle of creation and destruction ... and priests (pipiltin) made up one group; while the commoners and workers (macehualtin) made up the other. The pipiltin controlled the economic, political, social and religious systems within their ward. They were people born of high descent, who enjoyed many privileges and had authority over the commoners of their ward. The majority of Aztec population was made up by the commoners or the working class citizens. These people were not of ...
- 5318: Babe Ruth
- ... total of 714 major league homers not including 15 World Series homers. George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 6, 1895. His father, a saloonkeeper, placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School when George was 7. There he learned to play baseball. In 1914, through the help of one of the priests who taught at the school, Ruth began to play with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. The Orioles' manager, Jack Dunn, paid him 600 dollars for his first season. Although Ruth later earned such nicknames as the Sultan of ...
- 5319: Good Versus Evil: Wars in A Separate Peace
- ... deals with throughout the book, the battles with Finny. We learn as the story begins that Gene and Finny are best friends. They go almost everywhere together and they even share a room at their school. We enter the story at what is called a "summer session" which could be described as today's equivalent of summer school. But, as the story unfolds, we are forced to ask ourselves, are they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint ...
- 5320: Quebec's Quiet revolution:
- ... the beginning of Medi-Care. For these programs, the Quebec Liberals had to struggle with Ottawa for a larger share of the tax dollars. One of the greatest reforms was the modernization of the entire school system. The Church used to own the schools of Quebec. Most of the teachers were Priests, Nuns and Brothers. They provided a good education but Quebec needed more in business and technology. Lesage wanted a government-run school system that would provide Quebec with people in engineering, science, business and commerce. With the new freedom of expression, lots of books, plays and music about French culture were all developed in Quebec. French contemporary ...
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