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- 1291: The Watergate Scandal
- ... in Watergate. With the money they were supposed to conceal White House involvement in the crime. After they investigated for awhile, they quickly found out that the break- in was approved by the attorney General, John Mitchell. Even thought John Mitchell was one of the most trusted advisors, Nixon denied to know anything about the break-in and cover-up of the crime. The public found out not to soon that Nixon was not telling ... executive privileges just to cover-up his crimes. When Nixon had no possible way of protecting the White House staff he fired them. Such as when he fired two of his aides, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichwan, because they were on the line of being charged for the crimes. But they were still convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. On may of 1973, they broadcasted the hearings on ...
- 1292: The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery
- ... of protest in the North, including the organization of the Republican party. Opposing any further expansion of slavery, the new party became so strong in the North by 1856 that it nearly elected its candidate, John C. Fremont, to the presidency. Meanwhile, in the contest for control of Kansas, Democratic President James Buchanan asked Congress to admit Kansas to the Union as a slave state, a proposal that outraged Northerners. Adding ... S. Supreme Court, on March 7, 1857, ruled in the Dred Scott case that the U.S. Constitution gave Congress no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. Two years later, on October 16, 1859, John Brown, an uncompromising opponent of slavery, raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virgini , in an attempt to promote a general slave uprising. That raid, along with Northern condemnation of the Dred Scott decision, helped to convince Southerners of their growing insecurity within the Union. In the presidential election of 1860, a split in Democratic party ranks resulted in the nomination by the Southern wing of John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky and the nomination by the Northern wing of Stephen Douglas. The newly formed Constitutional Union party, reflecting the compromise sentiment still strong in the border states, nominated John Bell of ...
- 1293: Unemployement - The Unavoidable Consequence Of New Technolog
- ... Human Resource Development. Speech Notes. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard. ASTEC. (1996). Developing long-term strategies for science and technology in Australia. Canberra, ACT: Government printing services. Clark, D. (1997). Student Economics Briefs 1998. AFR Books. Sydney: John Fairfax & Sons. Gill, C. (1996). Work, Unemployment and the New Technology. Cambridge, London: Oxford. Jones, B. (1996). Sleepers Wake! Technology and the future of work. 4th edn. Melbourne: Oxford. Mattill, J. (1993). “Too High on High Tech?” Technology Review. Vol. 186. no. 5. July. p. 77. Cambridge, Massachusetts: William J. Hecht. McKern, B. (1997). ‘Science and Technology need respect.” Business Review. 10 March 1997. p. 60. Broadway, NSW: John Fairfax & Sons. [CD-ROM] Database viewed: Newspapers/File: Business Review 1997. Mokyr, J. (1990). The Lever of Riches: technological creativity and economic progress. London: Oxford. Smark, P. (1997). “No room for optimism in our brave new society.” The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 January 1997. p. 47. Broadway, NSW: John Fairfax & Sons. Stewart, C. (1996). “Would the last hand out of the factory please turn off the lights?” The Australian. 27 June 1996. p.13. Canberra, ACT: Nationwide News. Wyndham, S. (1997). “Hazard warning ...
- 1294: Martin Luther King
- ... achieve and how to achieve it. Non-violence was the major driving force behind his plans. King was very much aware of the power of non-violent tactics in an attempt for social changes. President Kennedy gave respect to the movement and reacted to protests in Birmingham by agreeing to submit broad civil rights legislation to Congress, which eventually passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King had modeled his philosophy ... in line with his values and beliefs and was presented in accordance with the task at hand which at that time was the importance of morals and ethical relativism in our society. Bibliography Bibliography Ansbro, John J., Martin Luther King, Jr., The Making of a Mind, 1982, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY. Lowery, Linda, Martin Luther King Day 1987 Carolrhoda Book - Minneapolis, Minnesota McPhee, Penelope; Schulke, Flip, King Remembered 1986 W.W ...
- 1295: The Scarlet Letter: Background
- ... we are describing, sat Governor Bellingham himself, with four seargents about his chair."4 Richard Bellingham was Governor of the Massachusetts Colony in 1641,1654,1665-1672. Another real life character was that of Reverend John Wilson. "The voice which had called her attention was that of the reverend and famous John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston."5 John Wilson was one of the first settlers in 1630 and became a leading Puritan minister. Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, Pearl, Reverend Wilson, and Governor Wilson all associate with one another, two of them being real ...
- 1296: Jim Morrison
- ... University, he attended film school at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1964, where he met Ray Manzarek. A year later, the two form a band called The Doors with Robbie Krieger and John Densmore after Jim reveals to Ray some songs that he had written (Rocco 172). Jim Morrison was on vocals, Ray Manzarek on organ, Robbie Krieger on guitar, and John Densmore on the drums. The Doors became a very successful band, recording fourteen albums altogether, not including bootleg recordings (Rocco 184). In 1971, the four Doors break up after Jim decides to move to Paris ... says that when she met up with Pam after Jim’s death, Pam confessed to persuading Jim that the heroin was only cocaine, a drug that Pam knew Jim had taken before (Langton 3). Dr. John P. Morgan reviewed this case in 1992 and said that he does not see any indication of a heart attack and that all the signs point to a heroin overdose (Rocco 165). The last, ...
- 1297: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Politics
- ... release his second collection of poetry, A Coney Island of the Mind. In most of Ferlinghetti's work, he has shown a concern with political issues. “ His poetry often addresses political subjects...” (Nasso 196). The Kennedy Assassination, McCarthyism and the Vietnam conflict were all topics in several Ferlinghetti poems (Oppenheimer 136). Lawrence Ferlinghetti's past incidents involving the government influenced his poetry and consequentially he has little respect for government. “Ferlinghetti ... public of a lurking evil entity, the government. Ferlinghetti has shown his readers that “The world is a beautiful place... if you don't mind a touch of hell now and then.” Works Cited Alspaugh, John. “Lawrence Ferlinghetti.” Magill's Critical Survey of Poetry. Vol. 3. Ed. Frank H. Magill. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1992. 1145-1151. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Endless Life: Selected Poems. San Francisco: New Directions, 1981. Hopkins, Crale D ...
- 1298: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... Leavenworth, Kansas, Whilden arrived in the old Spanish city of Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, on August 27, 1855, where he took up his duties as civilian private secretary to the local garrison commander, Colonel John Breckinridge Grayson of Kentucky, who would later serve the Confederacy as a brigadier general in Florida. Life in New Mexico Territory When Whilden arrived in Santa Fe, the city had been under U.S. jurisdiction ... 4. Fairfax Downey, The Color-Bearers (Mattituck, NY: J. M. Carroll & Company, 1984). 5. William D. Matter, If it Takes All Summer, the Battle of Spotsylvania (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988). 6. John Hammond Moore, editor, "Letters From a Santa Fe Army Clerk, 1855-1856, CharlesE. Whilden," New Mexico Historical Review, vol.40, no.2 (April 1965), pp. 141-164 (relating to letters from CharlesE. Whilden to his brother, WilliamG. Whilden, or Mrs.WilliamG. Whilden, the originals of which are in the South Caroliniana Library). 7. John Belton O'Neall, Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers, 1975), Vol.II, at p.614. 8. Noah Andre Trudeau, Bloody Roads South, the Wilderness ...
- 1299: King Henry IV
- Henry IV was born in April 1367 and was the only son of John of Gaunt, the son of Edward III, and Blanche, the daughter of Henry Grismond, Duke of Lancaster. Known as Henry of Bolingbroke after his birthplace in Lincolnshire, he was made a knight of the Garter ... by battle. Both men were banished from the realm. Norfolk for life and Henry for 10 years with a proviso that he would be allowed to inherit from his father. But on the death of John of Gaunt in 1399, the Lancastrian estates were confiscated by the King, and Henry decided to return, seemingly to claim his promised inheritance. Taking advantage of the King’s absence in Ireland, Henry landed on ... an active supporter of the Orthodox Church against the Lollards, and in 1401 De heretico comburendo, one of the most important medieval statues, was passed. In 1402 he married Joan of Navarre, the widow of John V, Duke of Brittany, who survived him without issue. In the north the Percy family rose against the King, but Henry defeated them in July 1403 at Shrewsbury and the following year at Dartmouth. ...
- 1300: Of Mice And Men 3
- Everyone has a dream, whether it be earning a degree at some prestigious university, or having a stable job in order to own a house and support a family. In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, he exhibits the fact that no matter how extreme or reasonable one's dream is, every person has the right and ability to ponder how their life could ... mad. How'd you like to not talk to nobody?" Curley's wife died because she wanted to be popular and her dream, ironically, caused her death. Crooks is another major character that contributes to John Steinbeck's conception of dreams. The social power group oppresses Crooks because he is black. Anytime the boss gets upset he takes it out on Crooks. Candy explains, "The boss gives him hell when he ... ever really accomplish his dream. Crooks's lack of confidence, which is inspired by society's viewof black people, eventually destroys his hope of ever accomplishing his dream. In his novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates that all humans havethe potential to do well and dream. However, people's dreams are not always fulfilled because they allow personal restrictions and faults to take domination. As Cliff Clavin from ...
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