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- 1031: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy- -or of a collective death-wish for the world" (Walton 142). -President John F. Kennedy Although it is regarded as a highlight of President John F. Kennedy's career, the Cuban Missile Crisis may not have been the heroic act it appeared. Contrary to his own statement as quoted above, his choices in dealing with Khruschev and the Communist threat ... be on their way to Cuba. Even if this proposition failed, an air strike could still be attempted (Weisberger 219). Now that he had a set agenda, the President was ready to face the nation. John F. Kennedy stood in front of the network cameras on the night of Monday, November 22, and delivered one of the most terrifying speeches a president has ever given. Within the past week, unmistakable ...
- 1032: The Moon is Down: The Effects of War
- ... triviality of things and he changed by dying for his people. Molly Morden loses control when she kills Lieutenant Tonder. War had a different affect on everyone. Works Cited Astro, Richard. "Intimations of a Wasteland." John Steinbeck. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 19-34. Clancy, Charles J. "Steinbeck's The Moon is Down (1942)." A Study Guide to Steinbeck (Part II). Ed. Tetsumaro Hayashi. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1979. 100-11. Lisca, Peter. The Wide World of John Steinbeck. New York: Gordin Press, 1981. Steinbeck, John. The Moon is Down. New York: Penguin Books, 1942. The Effects of War Thesis: The damaging effect of war on the conquered and the conquerors of The Moon is Down, by John Steinbeck. I. ...
- 1033: America
- ... attended by 12 colonies. Georgia sent no people but agreed to support any plans made at the meeting. The leaders of the Congress included Samuel Adams, George Washington, Peyton Randolph, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, John Jay, Joe Galloway, and John Dickinson. Peyton Randolph was elected president. The people sent a petition to King George, called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, and invited the people of Canada to join with the King's permission. In ... over the people did not get a response from the king. Later a second Continental Congress was held. The Second Continental Congress got together after the war had started, in 1775, like had been threatened. John Adams told them to make an American Army. They put George Washington in charge. Even after the war had started the Second Continental Congress wanted to have peace with England. They still remained loyal ...
- 1034: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... and a review of it twenty-nine years later. The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, December 17, 1877. THIS is an occasion peculiarly meet for the digging up of pleasant reminiscences concerning literary folk; therefore I will drop lightly into history myself. Standing ... Montana girl which came to me indirectly. She was in a room in which there was a large photograph of me. After gazing at it steadily for a time, she said: "We've got a John the Baptist like that." She also said: "Only ours has more trimmings." I suppose she meant the halo. Now here is a gold-miner's compliment. It is forty-two years old. It was my ... you will all tell your children about it when you get home. Well, when the great discoverer was once loafin' around down in Virginia, and a-puttin' in his time flirting with Pocahontas- oh! Captain John Smith, that was the man's name-and while he and Poca were sitting in Mr. Powhatan's garden, he accidentally put his arm around her and picked something- a simple weed, which proved ...
- 1035: SOLO Report
- ... powerful, influential man is killed by an assassin. The book, after the killing, follows the killer to an unusual place-a concert hall. There it is found that the killer is internationally famous concert pianist John Mikali. This man, Mikali, has been tormented by death and pain all of his life. His family has been based through a stout naval history, as his father, and relatives past have all been commanders and captains of great naval ships. The one break in the chain was his Grandfather and him, John, who is a concert pianist. John is clever but physcotic, because his hobby, as gruesome as it may seem, is killing. It began one day when his nanny was killed. It seemed she was killed by a hit and run ...
- 1036: Technological Literacy
- ... educational debate about pedagogy and CMC, and provide some generic practical strategies for a technological literacy that can be adapted to a variety of learner needs, interests and abilities in the adult literacy classroom . PEDAGOGY John and Crajek are men in their forties and recent arrivals to Australia. Somehow they struck a friendship early in the term and it turns out they both have a keen interest in volcanoes and meteorology. Crajek was a geography teacher before he came to Australia and John has always considered himself a bit of an amateur vulcanologist. Each day, as soon as they arrive in class, they sit at one computer together and head `out' to NASA's web site where they ... quick scan of a few active volcanoes and get printouts of graphic and text information of any latest developments. After morning tea, the class regroups for the daily `global weather report' and volcano update by John and Crajek who give an oral, OHT and blackboard presentation of the web searched information. The teacher in this class is committed to getting all her students reading, writing and speaking on topics of ...
- 1037: Examination of Puritan Philosophy in Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
- ... God was punishing him. According to Bradford, the sailor's cursing, and mistreatment of the other passengers displeased God, so God punished him accordingly. In the same chapter, Bradford tells of another ship passenger named John Howland. At one point in the trip, the Mayflower came upon a violent storm. The winds of the storm were so fierce, and the seas were so high, that all the sailors and passengers had to "hull for divers days together". During this storm, a young man named John Howland was thrown into the sea, and as Bradford tells us, "it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length". Howland caught hold of a ... he was hauled up. Bradford reasons that the man was saved because he was blessed by God. He goes on to say that he "became a profitable member in both church and state, implying that John Howland was one of the so called "Puritan Saints". To the Puritans, Saints were people whom God was to save, so these people received God's blessings, and therefore were profitable in Puritan society. ...
- 1038: Protagonists Journal for Jane Eyre
- ... he was quick to take her in as his own. Mrs. Reed only would say that he pitied her, but we all know there was more. She enchanted the lives of Mr. Rochester and St. John. Both men, in or near there thirties, proposed her twice. She accepted both of Mr. Rochester 's proposals. She also did something remarkable; she refused St. John's proposals of marriage. Jane Eyre was a very special woman of her time. Jane's life story is greatly admired by women around the world due to the nature of her character. She searches ... did not accept her in the time she went back she made a friend of Mrs. Eyre's daughter, Elise. Jane also found acceptance in the harsh Mr. Rochester, and the unwilling household of St. John. She was always taken in her lowest hour and raised up to a great triumph later. While at St. John's she found the family in whom she had searched. She was financially secure ...
- 1039: The Touch of Magic by Lorena Hickok
- ... became a celebrity. Everyone was interested in Helen, who wouldn't be? During their long time of fame, Helen and Annie met a lot of neat, interesting people including a very nice young man named John Macy. He worked for a magazine and was one of the greatest supporters Helen and Annie ever had. When Helen grew up, John decided that he would ask Annie to marry him. Annie at first wasn't sure because he was eleven years younger than her. She finally said yes and they were married on May 2, 1905. Annie was now thirty-nine and John was twenty-eight. The marriage only lasted eight years before John decided to sail to Europe. It wasn't a divorce, but more of a separation. Annie knew that she could count on him ...
- 1040: The Grapes of Wrath: No One Man, But One Common Soul
- ... No One Man, But One Common Soul Many writers in American literature try to instill the philosophy of their choosing into their reader. This is often a philosophy derived at from their own personal experiences. John Steinbeck is no exception to this. When traveling through his native Californian in the mid-1930s, Steinbeck witnessed people living in appalling conditions of extreme poverty due to the Great Depression and the agricultural disaster ... the novel as a way of expressing the idea of an oversoul. The end of the novel defeats the accusation that the Okies are animals with no human characteristics at all. The characters of Uncle John and Pa help to build a dam to prevent the rising waters from entering the boxcar that they are living in. Steinbeck shows this image as a common goal among the combined souls of the ... selfishness, respectively. Noah represents a childlike innocence and a feeling of belonging to society. Connie represents youthful aspirations of the future, and Pa stubbornness and a refusal to give up the fight against life. Uncle John represents guilt, and Grandpa represents heritage. Ma represents hope, and strength (second to Tom). Tom represents idealism, and strength, while Grandma represents family unity, and Al represents the wildside and youthful rebellion (Critical 4). ...
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