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- 2511: Saving Private Ryan
- ... the Heroic War, the war that saved the world, is different. Yes, we know it was dreadful, but we don't really want to know: We'd rather cling to the image of jutting-jawed John Wayne firing his machine gun at a collapsing line of Axis dummies. After "Saving Private Ryan," the myth of World War II will never be the same. Using the overpowering techniques of modern film, Steven ...
- 2512: The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
- ... Pluto, as it came to be known as, has its origins in the last dying days of the Eisenhower administration and that murky time period during the transition of power to the newly elected president John F. Kennedy. The origins of American policy in Latin America in the late 1950s and early 1960s has its origins in American's economic interests and its anticommunist policies in the region. The same man ...
- 2513: Capital Punishment - Injustice
- ... 768-69. Cavanagh, Suzanne, and David Teasley. “Capital Punishment: A Brief Overview.” CRS Report For Congress 95-505GOV (1995): 4. Frame, Randy. “A Matter Of Life and Death.” Christianity Today 14 Aug. 1995: 50 Grisham, John. The Chamber. New York: Island Books, 1994. Stewart, David O. “Dealing with Death.” American Bar Association Journal 80.11 (1994): 50 Tabak, Ronald J. “Report: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and Lack of Due Process in ...
- 2514: Report On Opera
- ... the joy of their love, then suddenly sinks, then falls, slowly but surely, until you are convinced of their impending doom. Bibliography: Eaton, Quaintance. The Miracle of the Met Meredith Press, New York; 1968. Dizikes, John. Opera in America Yale University Press, New Haven; 1993. Harries, Susie & Meirion. Opera Today St. Martins Press, New York; 1986. Matz, Mary Jane. Opera: Grand and not so Grand William Morrow & Company, Inc. New York ...
- 2515: Red River
- The movie I decided to watch was Red River, produced and directed in 1948 by Howard Hawks. It starts out with John Wayne who stars as Tom Dunson, and Montgomery Clift as Matt, his discovered and kind of adopted son. The old west at this point is depicted as every man is responsible for his own destiny ...
- 2516: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... leader, Castro. Even anti-Castro habanero’s in Cuba would defend Cuba out of nationalistic pride. This, the Americans had all misjudged. The Bay of Pigs invasion had been drawn up by President Eisenhower, but John.F.Kennedy approved the CIA plan soon after taking control. "The thought of this pleasant land becoming "Stalinist" disturbed [Kennedy], like seeing a treasured childhood retreat decay into tawdry slumdom overrun by rowdy toughs."4 ...
- 2517: Piranesi Carceri Xi
- ... Piranesi’s inspiration was previous Roman art itself. Roman art and architecture had a profound impact not only on the succeeding art of the Middle Ages, but on this Renaissance and baroque period as well. John Welton-Ely, in The Mind and the Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, went one step further in suggesting the Carceri was ...a gesture of defiance to the partons and architects of Rome who had failed ...
- 2518: The New Deal
- ... and spent about $11 billion employing people to construct public buildings, bridges, and hard-surfaced roads. Part-time jobs were also found for white collar workers; artists painted murals in public buildings and people like John Steinbeck counted dogs. Trying for a national comeback, the National Recovery Administration was formed in order to help with industry, labor, and unemployment. Workers were guaranteed the right to organize and bargain together with their ...
- 2519: The New Deal
- ... very poorly when it came to the labor situation. They were given the so-called women's jobs, such as teachers, clerks, typists, nurses, and textile workers. Unions for blacks and women were rare until John Lewis formed the CIO, a union anyone could join, no matter what race they were. The CIO one of the top unions in the nation. The new deal had again prettied much failed with the ...
- 2520: Major Personalities Behind The Secularization Of Music
- ... at that point. When she went and married England's king, Henry II, that was adding insult to injury. Henry II is better known by his sons King Richard II, "the Lion Hearted" and King John, the one who signed the Magna Carta. With their marriage, Eleanor was almost as rich as the pope. Half of the pope's power came from the fact that he was richer than every other ...
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