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- 1011: Cuban Missile Crisis 3
- ... highest state of readiness. Soviet field commanders in Cuba were authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons if invaded by the U.S. The fate of millions literally hinged upon the ability of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, to reach a compromise. In 1960 Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev launched plans to supply Cuba with ballistic missiles that would put the eastern United States within range of nuclear missile attack. In 1962 U.S. spy planes flying over Cuba spotted the first ballistic missile. United States president John F. Kennedy announced a naval blockade to prevent the arrival of more missiles. He demanded that the USSR dismantle and remove the weapons and declared a quarantine zone around Cuba. For several tense days Soviet ... points to be made for the way he handled the Cuban Missile Crisis. First and foremost, Kennedy never rushed into anything or had a hasty or rash decision about the policy of the US. Furthermore, John Fitzgerald Kennedy always kept the nation aware of the situation, and through his eloquent leadership, he prevented panic from bursting out throughout the nation. He gave the citizens a sense of security by telling ...
- 1012: Howard Stern: The King of Mass Media or the Anti Christ?
- ... next. Stern knows this and will give the audience what they want to hear. On The Howard Stern show there is a bit that Stern does where he sends out one of his radio cohorts John Melendez (other wise known as Stuttering John). Yet another example of how Stern takes peoples misfortunes such as John’s speech impediment and make a national affair of the situation. Armed with a list of insulting personal, racist, sexist, or just to personal question John goes out with a cameraman and Stern tells ...
- 1013: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
- ... It just happens. If this world did not have The Simpsons children would behave in the same manner, they just might laugh quite as much. WORKS CITED "22 Short Films About Springfield." The Simpsons. By: John Swartzwelder, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prof: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 12 May, 1996. "Bart the Genius." The Simpsons. By: John Vitti, Dir: David Silverman, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 14 Jan, 1990 Dale, Steve, and Shane Tritsh. Simpson Mania. Lincolnwood: Publications International, Ltd., 1991. "Flaming Moe's." The Simpsons. By: Robert Cohen, Dir: Rich Moore and Alan Smart, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 21 Nov, 1991 Groening, Matt. The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. "Homer at the Bat." The Simpsons. By: John Swartzwelder, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 20 Feb, 1992 "Homer the Heretic." The Simpsons. By: George Meyer, Dir: Jim Reardon, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 8 Oct., ...
- 1014: Contradictions To The Death Of
- ... said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound crazy, we can see many example of this in our world's history. One example would have to be the John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination. For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe that a single gunman shot and killed Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 ... Parkland Memorial Hospital,where he was pronounced dead. Later, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booked for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the city to the county jail. At a glance, the above story sounds as ... be an open-and-shut case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed Kennedy. However, you must take a deeper look into this case. Many people who witnessed the murder of John F. Kennedy dispute the facts above, saying that they heard shots from places besides the book depository, and other things that may contradict what is stated above. One of these witnesses, Abraham Zapruder, captured ...
- 1015: Stephen Vicent Benet: An American Poet
- ... and vast knowledge of his homeland: Benét, Stephen Vincent, (b. July 22, 1898, Bethlehem, Pa., U.S. - d. March 13, 1943, New York, NY), American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown’s Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War (Fenton). Born into a military family, Stephen was raised on military posts by his father, Colonel James Benét. “His father read poetry aloud ... received his master of arts degree, submitting his third volume of poems instead of a thesis” (Fenton). A Guggenheim fellowship took him to France, with his wife, the former Rosemary Carr. While there he wrote John Brown's Body (1928), which won (1929) a Pulitzer Prize for poetry (Hart 198). “Over 300 pages, the poem covers the Civil War from John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., to peace at Appomattox” (198). The second Pulitzer was given posthumously in 1944, for Western Star (1943) , an unfinished narrative poem about movement to the American ...
- 1016: The History of Computers
- ... first vacuum, and a paper was wrote by Alan Turingthat described a hypothetical digital computer.13 In 1939 there was the first true digital computer. It was called the ABC, and was designed by Dr. John Astanasoff. In 1942 John O. Eckert, John W. Mauchly, and associates had decided to build a high speed computer. The computer they were to build would become to be known as the ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integration And Calculator). The reason for ...
- 1017: Overpopulation And The Economi
- ... high fertility rates and this, they believe, is a great blessing from God. Also, here women are not educated, as well as the developed countries, and there is no or very little knowledge of contraceptives. (John L.Seitz Global Issues, an Introduction. Pg. 14) The developing countries effect both the global and local economics. It effects the local economics, for simple reasons as, food shortages, housing, or education. Food shortages are ... grow back. Therefore, he believes, that as the population grows, there is a less means of subsistence being produced. Food shortages, could effect the economy a great deal, as disease and malnutrition would take place. (John L. Seitz. Global Issues, an Introduction. Pg. 31) Along with disease, there is the problem of sewage, in these overpopulated countries. The sewage could be means of garbage, or even of waste. The waste could cause a great deal of problems, such as disease, rats, contamination of water, and so on. This could also cause a great amount of death in the urban centers. (John L.Seitz. Global Issues, an Introduction. Pg.25) Another problem in the less developed countries is housing. As the population density is quite high in the third-world, there are many problems with housing. ...
- 1018: Isabella I
- ... town of Madrigal de las Altas Torres on 22 April, 1453; and died 26 November, 1504, in the castle of La Mota, which still stands at Medina del Campo (Valladolid). She was the daughter of John II, King of Castile, by his second wife, Isabella of Portugal. Isabella married an arranged suitor, Ferdinand, in the palace of Juan de Vivero, in 1469. On the death of Henry IV, Isabellawas proclaimed Queen ... which she possessed a great number. Her Castilian has been ranked as a standard of the language by the Spanish Royal Academy. She was extemely concerned about for the education of her five children (Isabella, John, Joan, Maria, and Catherine), and in order to educate Prince John with ten other boys, she formed a school in her palace. Her daughters, too, attained to a degree of education higher than was usual at that time. This example of the queen, a model ...
- 1019: Civil War-sectionalism
- ... one cession they did not wish to make. In order to keep a unified nation, the slavery issue was deliberately absent from the Declaration. Some of the Northern delegates were outraged, but none more than John Adams. A renowned proponent of equal rights, he was one of few that saw the irony in establishing a free society without freeing those in bondage. John Adams seems now more like Nostrodamus when he voiced his concern about the slavery issue for future generations. He did not know it, but the couldn’t have been more right. As time went on ... one cession they did not wish to make. In order to keep a unified nation, the slavery issue was deliberately absent from the Declaration. Some of the Northern delegates were outraged, but none more than John Adams. A renowned proponent of equal rights, he was one of few that saw the irony in establishing a free society without freeing those in bondage. John Adams seems now more like Nostrodamus when ...
- 1020: Civil War: Northern Attitudes
- ... Eastern crusaders on their way to Kansas traveled through Iowa to avoid passing through Missouri (a slave state), and an underground railroad across the southern part of Iowa helped runaway slaves escape. The famous abolitionist John Brown not only used Iowa as a base for some of his antislavery activities, but he trained his band in Iowa for the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). When the Civil ... the Battle of Chaplin Hills, was the bloodiest engagement in the state’s history. More than 7600 casualties were counted. No other large-scale battles took place in the state, although raids by Confederate General John Hunt Morgan gained much notice. During the later years of the war, guerrilla bands, including the notorious group led by Captain William Quantrill, made sporadic raids in Kentucky. In November 1861, without legal sanction, supporters ... Union Army, while about 40,000 residents joined the Confederate forces. A number of native Kentuckians played a prominent role in the Civil War. Besides the opposing presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Confederate Generals John Bell Hood and Albert Sidney Johnston had both been born in Kentucky. Kentucky was the only state represented in the cabinets of both the Union and Confederate governments: James Speed was the Union attorney ...
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