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- 6101: Roaring Twenties
- ... York Times they got top-notch foreign correspondence. In the New York World they could read Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun and other outstandingly witty columnists. In the Twenties the expose of evil-doing in high places became the mark of a good newspaper: The St. Louis Post- Dispatch forced an allegedly corrupt federal judge to resign; the Indianapolis Times exposed Indiana's Ku Klux Klan leader as a murderer. Newspaper ... such promises of these that convinced many Americans to buy stocks. Stock prices rose gradually in the early 20's, but skyrocketed in 1927, and 1928. Average stock prices tripled from 1925 to 1929. The high profits seemed to confirm President Hoover's pledge of a new era of abundance, during which "poverty will be banished from this nation," (Cronon 341). The nations illusion of unending prosperity was shattered on October ...
- 6102: Privately Owned Gasoline Powered Vehicles Should Be Limited
- ... in human blood rose with the proliferation of cars and trucks on the highway(2). It has since been proved that auto emissions are the single largest source of lead in our environment, and that high levels of lead in young children can cause brain damage, mental retardation, kidney disorders, and interfere with the processing of Vitamin D(Applebee 2; Gurman 2). Because of the preponderance of unleaded fuel on the ... cut down on air pollution, all gas that is pumped out of a station should be graded 95 or higher. However, gasoline is never completely burned in the engine of a car, no matter how high the quality(Air Pollution). This is why alternatives must be considered in order to maintain a healthy environment. These alternatives include hydrocarbons like ethanol and methanol, solar power, and steam power. These solutions are aimed ...
- 6103: Lawrence Of Arabia (Movie)
- ... Once again Lawrence is shown as an outsider who doesn't belong. The audience starts to understand Lawrence's character and Bolt will change it through a twist like this. Lean has made Auda stay high on the horse. This symbolizes that he is in control. On the other hand Lawrence maintains on the dominant side of the screen so Lawrence is still strong during the insult. In Auda's tent ... of the courtyard, being stared down by British officers. Lawrence makes his exit into the crowd wondering if they will insult him as previously when he entered the officer's club. The music is a high pitched flute, very slow and gives the audience a weary feeling. As Lawrence stepped into the club, the music becomes upbeat and everyone congratulates Lawrence. Lawrence recognizes the appreciation by bowing not saluting. Lean is ...
- 6104: Anne Frank
- ... started a business in food products. In the spring of 1934, the Franks reunited and settled in Amsterdam. Anne Frank lived in Amsterdam a happy life, just like she did in Frankfort. She attended Montessori School and had a lot of friends. However her father was still worried, for in Germany the Nazis gained almost complete power. In 1940, the Germans invaded and conquered Holland. Anne's life had changed by the Germans taking control. She could not go to her school, and was to attend the Jewish Lyceum. No Jews were allowed out on the streets at night. Her life changed again. It was not a happy one for herself or her family. In 1941, the ...
- 6105: Buffalo Bill
- ... brother Elijah, led to Elijah stabbing Isacc. Luckily, he survived and nothing like this happened in Kansas. While in Iowa, Bill had received no education. After moving to Kansas he attended several sessions of country school organized by his father. In the two and a half months he attended, Bill learned to read and write which would help him in his future careers. In order to help his family after his ... revoked the award because he was not a member of the military at the time. In 1901 Buffalo Bill became president of the Cody Military College and the International Academy of Rough Riders, a riding school he established on his property in Wyoming Buffalo Bill was about six feet tall. He had a medium build, was strong, tough, and had long hair and a beard. He married Louisa Frederici on March ...
- 6106: Charles Lindbergh
- ... and repair it". Attending the University of Wisconsin, Lindbergh studied engineering for two years. Although he was an excellent student, his real interest was in flying. As a result, in 1922 he switched to aviation school. Planes became a center of his life after his first flight. His early flying career involved flying stunt planes at fair and air shows. Later, in 1925 he piloted the U. S. Mail route from ... now wanted 70,000 dollars. A third ransom note given to Lindbergh on March 8, dictated that a negotiator proposed by the Lindbergh's was not acceptable and that Dr. John F. Condon, a retired school principal, was suitable. Negotiations for the ransom money took place in the Bronx Home News newspaper columns using the code name "Jafsie." Dr. Condon eventually met with the kidnappers and they negotiated until the kidnappers ...
- 6107: Slavery - Life On The Plantations
- ... for weeks. Some refused to eat and others committed suicide by jumping overboard (Foster). When the ships reached American ports, slaves were unloaded into pens to be sold at auctions to the highest bidder. One high-priced slave compared auction prices with another, saying, "You wouldn’t fetch ‘bout fifty dollas, but I’m wuth a thousand" (qtd. in Foster). At the auctions, potential buyers would examine the captives’ muscles and ... slaves were given one set of clothing to wear for years, and most did not have shoes (Ploski and Williams 1439). As a result of the poor living conditions, disease and death rates were kept high (Starobin 7). Most adult slaves were worked to death in eight to ten years (Ploski and Williams 1437). Slavery was a terrible institution. It took people’s lives and tore them apart. Many black people ...
- 6108: History Of The Guitar
- ... the first Gibson catalog assured that instruments would be made of woods with the most durable, elastic and sonorous qualities such as maple, mahogany, vermilion, and suitable woods. They settled on maple but only the high-end mandolins were made of maple. It wasn¹t until the mid-to-late1920¹s, when they finally began to make them with maple wood. During the early 1900¹s Gibson and a company out ... body style of the guitar ever. The introduction to the stratocaster brought forth some of the greatest guitarists ever known. It featured the first double cut away, making it easier to reach all of the high strings and also had a third pickup added to it. Then in 1960, one man came along and changed the sound of the guitar forever, Jimmi Hendrix. With his 9 explosive riffs and incredible volume ...
- 6109: Temagami
- ... beginning for forestry conservation. Rae had been arrested a year previous in the protest over the Temagami Red Squirrel Road extension - which will be discussed further in part two - and appeared to place the environment high on his agenda. Promises were made to protect five previously unrepresented natural regions by 1994, to be added to the thirty-two already protected out of sixty-five [see appendix, map 2]. (GRAY 95) However ... Lake protesters did just that. Scores of people; sitting in the dead center of the road and refusing to move regardless of threats or coersions, destroying bulldozers or chaining themselves to them, sitting on platforms high atop the trees, hammering metal stakes into various trees to destroy chainsaws; and calling it all civil disobedience. The end result? Many arrests were made, yet few were ever charged for the acts of mischief ...
- 6110: History Of Music
- ... often two distinct melodies ran at the same time. When the third and fourth parts were added, the music became truly polyphonic. Along with the building of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris grew a school of composers, two of the most prominent of whom were Leonin and Perotin. They stretched the organum to previously unheard-of lengths and embellished it with flourishes of long melismas (the name given to many ... style, combining French Ars Nova concepts with Italian styles. In Germany in what came to be known as the Baroque Period, Johann Sebastian Bach was working as a musical director at St. Thomas’s Choir School in Leipzig where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death. Bach was considered a master of contrapuntal technique, and his ...
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