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- 2501: Oregon Trail
- ... trail shifted as settlement spread. The mountain men were chiefly responsible for making the route known, and Thomas Fitzpatrick and James Bridger were renowned as guides. The first genuine emigrant train was that led by John Bidwell in 1841, half of which went to California, the rest proceeding from Fort Hall to Oregon. The first train of emigrants to reach Oregon was that led by Elijah White in 1842. In 1843 ...
- 2502: RedScare
- ... Boston on January 19, 1809, his parents, regular members of Federal street theater, named him Edgar Poe. Shortly before his mother's death in Richmond, Virginia on December 8, 1811, his father abandoned the family. John Allen, a wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond, brought Poe into the family (at his wife's request), and gave him the middle name Allen as a baptismal name, though he never formally adopted him. Even ...
- 2503: Roaring Twenties
- ... important aspect of the economy in the 1920's. As the economy was flourishing, many Americans found it a practical investment to put money into the Stock Exchange as the return could be quite large. John J. Rascob, the vice-president of General Motors Corporation during the Twenties, declared that anyone that put $15 dollars a month in the stock-market could make $80,000 dollars in twenty years. It was ...
- 2504: Woodstock 2
- ... a serious party.Woodstock was the greatest rock concert ever to take place in the United States. Four very different very young people sponsered Woodstock. The youngest was only twenty-six. Micheal Lang, Artie Kornfield, John Roberts, and Joel Roseman. The original idea was to promote a rcording studio. To promote the idea they would have a concert. After a search for a big enough space they rented a field from ...
- 2505: Woodstock
- ... become a rock center when musician Bob Dylan and a rock group called The Band settled there. To promote the idea of the studio the four partners of the music festival (Michael Lang; Artie Kornfield; John Roberts; and Joel Rosenman) decided to stage a concert, which they officially called the Woodstock Festival and Art Fair. The Monterey Pop Festival held in Monterey, California, in 1967 inspired the Woodstock festival (Sandow, 1 ...
- 2506: Against Capital Punishment
- At 8:00 p.m. it was nearing the end of John Evans last day on death row. He had spent most of the day with his minister and family, praying and talking of what was to come. At 8:20 he was walked from his cell ...
- 2507: Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
- ... that facts were often distorted in the past and still are today in an attempt to promote a negative view of slavery. He lists several other studies by prominent historical figures such as Karl Marx, John Elliott Cairnes, and Woodrow Wilson in which facts were distorted for the sake of antislavery sentiment. Olsen begins to construct one of his main topics of debate when he challenges a statement made by Civil ...
- 2508: Smoke Signals - Movie Analysis
- ... later, when two obnoxious white men steal their seats, Victor and Thomas don't fight them but retire to the back of the bus, where they wage warfare by singing a rude anthem devoted to John Wayne's teeth. For Thomas, the trip from Idaho to Arizona means an opportunity to come to grips with his ancestry. For Victor, it's a chance to forgive his estranged father in death. For ...
- 2509: Slingblade
- ... played by Natalie Canderday. Linda is a kind-hearted and trusting southern woman who is also picking up the pieces after the death of her husband. At this point, we are also introduced to Vaughn (John Ritter) a closet homosexual in an intolerant Southern country town. Vaughn is best friend and self-proclaimed protector of Linda. Frank persuades Linda to allow frank to stay in the garage out the back of ...
- 2510: Scarlet Letter- Judgment
- ... gone but Jesus, He turned to the woman and asked if no one condemned her, she answered no, and He replied, "Then neither do I condemn you
Go now and leave your life of sin." (John 8:3-11). The story of this woman in the bible is very similar to the story of Hester Prynne from the renowned novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this novel, Hester commits ...
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