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- 4151: George C. Marshall
- ... 3,000 cannons and 40,000 tons of ammunition, all the while hiding these movements from the Germans by moving only at night. After World War I he was a high-level aide to General John J. Pershing. Prior to the outbreak of World War II he progressed steadily from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff (October, 1938), to chief of ...
- 4152: George Lucas
- ... he could in order to have a future for himself. During junior college, Lucas formed other interests. Instead of racing, he filmed them on a 8-millimeter camera his father gave him. A old friend, John Plummer, told George that he should apply to the University of Southern California. His friend remarked that it was not that hard to get into as reputation indicated. Lucas applied, and was accepted, for his ...
- 4153: George Washington
- ... presided over the formation and initial operation of the new government. His stiff dignity and sense of propriety postponed the emergence of the fierce partisanship that would characterize the administrations of his three immediate successorsâ€"John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. He also made several decisions of far-reaching importance. He instituted the cabinet, although no such body was envisioned by the Constitution. He remained socially aloof from Congress, thus ...
- 4154: Overview of the 60`s
- ... in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. the '60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. in spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto ...
- 4155: American and Chinese Educational Systems
- ... a cup of coffee and a donut while the teacher is teaching in the class. Also, the teacher can do so. These are very common in the American classroom, but it is forbidden in China. John Lee wrote in his essay, “I remember when I first time got into the American classroom. I saw the students talked loudly, come in, and got out the classroom freely during the class without their ...
- 4156: Relating Themes in O’Connor’s “First Confession”
- ... themes and ideals of Frank O’Connor’s very being. Works Cited Locher, Frances, ed. “O’Donovan, Michael.” Contemporary Matthews, James. “Frank O’Connor.” Voices. Ed. Louis Athenum. Vol 162 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. John H. Rogers, gen. ed. Detroit: Gale, 1996. 252. O’Connor, Frank. “First Confession.” The Stories of Frank O’Connnor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 151. 355-63. “O’Donovan, Michael 1903-1966, Sidelights.” Contemporary Works ...
- 4157: The Fall of South Vietnam Controversy
- ... them to cease their aggression (Spector 92). Had the intervention succeeded, say, by 1967, the public's disaffection probably would not have arisen and President Johnson would have emerged as a highly popular figure. As John F. Kennedy is supposed to have said of the reaction to the Bay of Pigs invasion : "Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan" (Prados 22). The capacity of people in a modern ...
- 4158: Combining Individual Stories Into Larger Wholes
- ... alone without the cycle but the third one is greatly enhanced by the cumulative themes of the cycle. It is complete with the loneliness and the loveless sex and the loveless marriage: “ Louise Bentley took John Hardy to be her lover . That was not what she wanted but it was so the young man had interpreted her approach to him, and so anxious was she to achieve something else [love, closeness ...
- 4159: Political Correctness: The Teddy Bear Massacre
- ... Clark stated earlier, PC is not a new idea. Various social movements have tried to implement this restraint before. It has not worked in the past and it is not gaining much ground today. As John Ellis states in Clark’s book: "…we can ask that people who want to take us through the fantasy yet one more time first confront the lessons of history that show how disastrous ‘politically correct ...
- 4160: What Is The American Dream?
- ... Lawrence, Kansas until he was thirteen. His grandmother, Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, was very prominent in the African American community of Lawrence. Her first husband was killed at Harper’s Ferry while fighting with John Brown; her second husband, Hughes’ grandfather, was a prominent politician in Kansas during the Reconstruction. During the time that he lived with his grandmother, however, she was old and poor resulting in little to eat ...
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