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- 6121: Jazz Movement In The 1960s
- ... said that "The 1960's was a decade where old values went up in smoke and new sounds symbolized a new state of mind (Time Video)." As the country changed so rapidly, there were both high and low spots in history. For example, the country came together and watched as Neil Armstrong landed an American space craft on the moon, and his words "One small step for man, one giant leap ... War was highly unpopular with the American people. Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson lost the election to Republican Richard M. Nixon. Young people carried on anti-war demonstrations at the Democratic convention in Chicago. The high expenditures for war influenced inflation that gripped our country. In the mid 1960's we saw the construction industry hard hit as war spending drove up mortgage interest rates. By the early 1970's, the ...
- 6122: Aristotle
- ... Macedonia's capital, and became the tutor of the king's young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great. In 335, when Alexander became king, Aristotle went back to Athens and established his own school, the Lyceum.Since a lot of the lessons happened when teachers and students were walking, it was nicknamed the Peripatetic school (Peripatetic means walking). When Alexander died in 323 BC, strong anti-Macedonian feeling was felt in Athens, and Aristotle went to a family estate in Euboea. He died there the following year. Aristotle, like Plato ...
- 6123: Antonin Scalia
- ... firm of Jones, Day, Cockley, and Reavis until 1967. The Scalias then moved to Virginia, and he was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1970. While In Virginia, Scalia taught law at the Virginia Law School until 1974. In 1971, Scalia became General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy for the White House, and from 1972 to 1974, he was the chairman of the Administrative Conference of the US. Scalia ... as the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in DC. Him and his family picked up and moved again to Chicago, Illinois. While In Chicago, Scalia taught at the University of Chicago’s law school (he was also a visiting professor of law at his alma mater, Georgetown University, and also at Stanford University during that time) until President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the US Court of Appeals for ...
- 6124: Madame Liang
- ... is very profitable. The restaurant is located in Shanghai where Madame Liang lives and dies. From all of the quotations they prove that Madame Liang is artistic. Mercy is a music teacher at a music school. "'Stay' she said, her hand on his arm ' You must no be afraid. I will teach you how to play music.'" Mercy is talking to Chen, one of her more talented students. Chen, who latter ... die and live happily ever after. Mercy is also another drastic change. Without Chen Mercy would be working on a farm right now. Chen got Mercy across the border. Mercy knows Chen from the music school. Grace if she had " gone pro" with her music she most likely would have stayed in the USA and not meeting Lui pang. In conclusion art was a huge aspect in the daily lives of ...
- 6125: Japanese Animation
- ... of films. American films soon began invading the Japanese entertainment industry. Yet the Japanese people longed for entertainment which would reflect their own culture. And so “animation...developed in Japan to fill the void of high-budget film-making” (Marin, 69). In the years that followed, animation would take a pop-cultural foothold in Japan that has grown and transformed, and yet exists today. Even with the onset of increasing economic ... lovers unfamiliar with the animation buy albums of “Bubblegum Crisis” music, several of which have been released (Karp, 40). When music that is popular enough to sustain an audience on its own is combined with high quality animation, anime’s superiority over American animation stands out. Such popularity of soundtrack music is virtually unseen in American television, and particularly so in the field of animation. Perhaps most important to Japanimation’s ...
- 6126: The 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 ...
- 6127: Hurricanes
- ... is a dome of water that sweeps across the coast near a hurricanes landfall. One forms when the hurricane piles up along the shore and blows it inland. A storm surge is most destructive during high tide. Because of this, the surge height is measured from the normal high tide mark. To help minimize the death toll and property damage the National Hurricane Center tracks all known storms and tries to alert neighborhoods in danger of being hit. They use radar, sea-based recording ...
- 6128: Global Warning
- ... conflict over the costs of addressing the greenhouse gas problem. "There appears to be a general agreement that energy efficiency is the wave of the future." Many in the environmental community see the benefits as high and the costs of mitigation as low. Others, including some in the business community, see the benefits as low and the costs as high . "One argument states that the efficiency could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by sixty percent over the next 20 years and save money; but another claims that a reduction of twenty percent below 1990 levels would ...
- 6129: 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 ...
- 6130: Ocean Environment
- ... the total biotic and abiotic environment. Light plays a vital role in the sea, since the producers require sunlight as the energy source to convert the low- energy simple plant nutrients into the more complex high-energy molecules that can be used by the consumers. The dominant plants of the sea are the microscopic phytoplankton, while copepods. The copepods are important, since they provide the major link in the transfer of ... The resultant salinity variations in these areas has a direct influence on the biotic distributions in estuaries. Shorelines are the point of contact between the marine and terrestrial environments and, as such, are flooded at high tide and exposed at low tide. They are only a part of the coastline or coastal zone, inland and for hundreds of miles along a shoreline. Shorelines are constantly changing. Coastal sediments are continually attacked ...
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