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- 1221: Andy Worhal
- ... spontaneity. Warhol mastered thighs method, and art directors of the 1950s found in adaptable to nearly any purpose. This method functioned provided him with a hand-scale equivalent of a printing press, showing his interest in mechanical reproduction that dominates much of his future work. Such techniques used for almost all of his works derived from his beginning in the commercial arts. His pattern of aesthetic and artistic innovation, to ... a grid design. Many of these works, such as his pictures of dollar bills and soup cans, as in Cambells Soup Cans 200"(1962), show many ideas underlying advertising, as well as showing his interest in techniques that enabled multiplication of an image, such as silk-screen printing, techniques that dominated much of his work. Through these works Warhol gained his much desired recognition, becoming an instant celebrity, having gone ...
- 1222: Bus Boycott 2
- ... to have much historical significance. Of the people who did, were considered of the rarest and oddest sort.4 The boycott needed something to really publicize it, something that would make it a point of interest. It needed something that open peoples eyes to what was happening in Montgomery. If something did happen it could have a positive effect on the outcome of the Bus Boycott. On February 21, 1956 M.L.K and 88 other priests and leaders of the boycott were indicted under an old state law prohibiting boycotts. The arrests of these men caused a story of national interest, pointing all eyes of the country on the boycott going on in Montgomery. Since, M.L.K was the president the M.I.A, much of the attention given to the boycott was focused on ...
- 1223: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... and grandfather were Baptist preachers. At the age of eighteen he entered Morehouse College, in Atlanta. Under a special program for gifted students he received his B.A. in 1948. As an undergraduate his earlier interest in medicine and law were eliminated by a decision in his senior year to enter the ministry, as his father had urged. King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa ... felt to have contributed substantially to Kennedy's slender election victory eight days later. In the years from 1960 to 1965 King's influence reached its high point. The tactics of active nonviolence aroused the interest of many black and liberal whites in all parts of the country, as well as support from the administrations of President Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. From the Birmingham jail King wrote a letter in ...
- 1224: Horse Slaughter
- ... said to be "tough and tasteless." (McGraw, 1) However, horsemeat is highly coveted in countries such as Mexico, France, Italy, Belgium, and Holland. (1) The business is booming, and as it grows, so does the interest of the public as to how the horses are treated. Its estimated by the USDA that 346,000 horse were killed here in 1990 for shipment overseas, and 70,000 more were sent to Canada ... it is the treatment. (McGraw, 1) For example, the horses are led into auction rings, hair brushed, tails and manes combed, hooves shod and polished. These are the pets the family has lost funding or interest in, so they are up for sale. The selling owner assumes that the horse is off to a new home where it can be better cared for or where it will get the time, they ...
- 1225: Isaac Newton's Life
- ... highly productive period in which he was Lucasian professor at Cambridge. The third period (nearly as long as the other two combined) saw Newton as a highly paid government official in London with little further interest in mathematical research. Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day ... man, he was completely uneducated and could not sign his own name. How Newton was introduced to the most advanced mathematical texts of his day is slightly less clear. According to de Moivre, Newton's interest in mathematics began in the autumn of 1663 when he bought an astrology book at a fair in Cambridge and found that he could not understand the mathematics in it. Attempting to read a trigonometry ...
- 1226: Jean Toomer
- ... that Wisconsin was an atmosphere not meant for him, and he thus moved to Massachusetts to study at the Massachusetts College of Agriculture. During his period of transition between the two colleges, Toomer found an interest in physical fitness. Before officially enrolling at Massachusetts, he changed his mind, opting instead to begin taking classes at the American College of Physical Training in Chicago. Five months later, in January of 1916, he ... teacher, grocery clerk, and God knows what all. Neither the universities of Wisconsin or New York gave me what I wanted, so I quit them." It was in Chicago that Toomer began to broaden his interest in literature. Although evidence shows that, in addition to Dante's Inferno , Toomer was affected by Herman Melville's Moby Dick to such a degree that he actually compared himself to Ishmael by having "mentally ...
- 1227: Cannabis
- ... Symptoms include sleeping problems, anxiety, sweating, and loss of appetite and upset stomach. Although most symptoms usually disappear within a few days, sleep disturbances may last longer. Regular use may cause a general loss of interest, motivation, memory and concentration. The user may also show a lack of concern for the future, and have problems with abstract thinking. These effects may be harmful for young people, who are still making choices ... be true. But, regular users often develop a psychological dependence. Without the drug, users can feel anxious, or panicky. Logical thinking tends to be slowed. In addition, regular use may cause a general loss of interest, motivation, memory and concentration. The user may also show a lack of concern for the future, and have problems with abstract thinking. Also, Problems with concentration and memory can persist. Furthermore, two or three marijuana ...
- 1228: Boxer Rebellion
- ... Following the division of Africa among European powers, they turned their sights to what they saw as an extremely weak Chinese government. European powers and America began to scramble for what was called spheres of interest. These spheres of interest involved holding leases for all railway and public advantages in different regions of China. Russia got Port Arthur, Britain got the New Territories near the Hong Kong region, Germany got Shantung and America got nothing ...
- 1229: Judicial Choices
- ... appointments to vital and painstakingly prolonged trials, because of the changes in the political parties and institutions. The parties found the Supreme Court to be a tool for increasing their power, which caused an increased interest in conformations. The change in the Senate to less hierarchical institution played part to the strategy of nomination for the president. The court played the role of power for the parties, through its liberal or ... Democratic party's hegemony caused it to find new methods of furthering its agenda. Prior to the 1960s, the Democratic party maintained control of the electorate with an overwhelming percentage.1 The New Deal produced interest from a "mass constituency" for the Democratic party because of the social programs. Many white southern democrats became republicans because of the increased number of blacks in the Democratic party. Many white union members and ...
- 1230: Black Legend
- ... the neglect of volcanic gases in his model casts significant doubts on the validity of his analysis. Knoll(1979) believed increases in atmospheric oxygen were probably occasioned by increases in primary productivity and/or decreased rates of oxygen consumption. He believes the increase from very low O2 levels to 1 to 2% PAL may have been related to productivity increases associated with rapid growth and stabilising of the continents during the ... seawater on the burial efficiency of organic matter within marine sediments seems to be slight. Nutrients are a more likely link between PO2 and the burial rate of organic matter, and hence between PO2 and rates of long term O2 generation(Betts and Holland,1991). Holland constructed a plausible argument that links the marine geochemistry of PO43- to that of iron and hence to the O2 content of the atmosphere today ...
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