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- 1561: Behind The Urals
- ... We are very fortunate to be born into a relatively high standard of living as a society, thus we cannot comprehend what it is like for countries trying to build societies from the bottom up. John Scott portrays this brilliantly in his book "Behind the Urals" as he examines individual people and their struggles as they worked in Magnitogorsk. These citizens worked in the most inhumane conditions, all with the intention ... important position as they had the responsibility to help the Soviet Union take flight as a country that could compete with other powerful countries of the world, all while working under the most inhumane conditions. John Scott moved to the Soviet Union leaving the United States and in his eyes, its unsatisfactory capitalistic way of governing. Scott may have been aided in making his decision as he saw the United States ... too very demanding. Another interesting character was the peasant who traveled for two weeks on foot with his cow. His story exemplifies the struggles that were taking place in both Europe and Asia. He, like John Scott but for different reasons, left his home, the famine, and unemployment to set out for the Soviet Union where jobs and food could be attained. Unfortunately, the peasant found nothing more than he ...
- 1562: Robert E. Lee
- ... trains had been stopped; firing had been heard; rumor had it that many strangers had arrived and were inciting slaves to rioting. It was reported to Lee that the leader of the gang was called John Brown, a notorious antislavery fanatic from Kansas, who had been unable to rally the slaves to rebellion and was finally besieged in a fire-house. Lee was to lead the United States Marines, to suppress John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry. He asked Brown for his surrender, anticipating that this would not happen. When Brown refused to surrender, Lee ordered the door of the firehouse, in which Brown's ... Louisville, Kentucky to take command of the 2nd. Cavalry. As Colonel of Cavalry, Lee spent most of the next six years in Texas. Lee was then sent to lead the United States Marines to suppress John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry. When Lee arrived at Harper's Ferry, he ordered the door of the firehouse, in which Brown's band had taken refuge, to be battered down. The ...
- 1563: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... Her malignant sense of being wronged by the St. Evremondes turns her almost--but not quite--into a machine of vengeance. Dickens inserts details to humanize her: she is sensitive to cold; when the spy John Barsad enters her shop, she nods with "a stern kind of coquetry"; at the very end of the book, making tracks for Lucie's apartment, she strides with "the supple freedom" of a woman who ... red hair and outrageous bonnet, she's as good as gold, a fiercely loyal servant. Dickens places Miss Pross in the plot by means of her long-lost brother. Solomon Pross is revealed to be John Barsad, Old Bailey spy and "sheep of the prisons." Miss Pross' two defining characteristics are her devotion to Lucie and Solomon, and her stalwart Britishness. When Madame Defarge marches in, armed, to execute Lucie and ... dead. (Victorian grave robbers were in fact nicknamed "resurrection men.") One of the plot's biggest surprises hinges on Cruncher's failed attempt to unearth the body of Roger Cly, the spy who testified with John Barsad against Charles Darnay. In France, years after his graveyard expedition, Cruncher discloses that Cly's coffin contained only stones and dirt. This information enables Sydney Carton to force Barsad, Cly's partner, into ...
- 1564: Richard Nixon
- ... ten of the delegates votes on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention. An unusual feature of the campaign was a series of face-to-face discussions between Nixon and his Democratic opponent, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was widely regarded as the winner of the debates, which helped him win the election. In 1962, Nixon returned to California after losing the presidential election and became Republican candidate for governor. It was ...
- 1565: Nostradamus
- ... number I.XXVI he says that in mid-day a great man, one that promises change to the world will be struck and killed in front of thousands of people. This is thought to explain John F. Kennedy's death. In prophecy number II.V Nostradamus predicts a third World War. He says a great country in the north will be struck by a great blast from the sky, plague and blood. Many ...
- 1566: The Accuracy of News Reports
- ... will react. The interviewer must ask the questions and make a story out of the interview. The story sells the interview and people react by watching interview because of the story. The man who interviewed John Rocker didnt care about what John thought about New Yorkers. The interviewer knew that he could make a story out of this and that was the aim of his question. He knew that John Rocker didnt like New Yorkers, who would after they poured beer on you in the bullpen and throw batteries at your mother. He knew he would get a heated reaction based on emotion not ...
- 1567: The Way An Individual Interprets Things Is Based Upon Their Opinions
- The Way An Individual Interprets Things Is Based Upon Their Opinions Thesis: The way an individual interprets things is based upon their opinions, ideals and prior experiences in life Experts have different opinions of John Berger. He has been described as both preposterous and stimulating in the same sentence. They have said he is pompous yet exciting. He is one of Europes most influential Marxist critics. (p.66) John Bergers views are based upon his Marxist beliefs. Berger explains that the higher class you are, (the more money and schooling you have), the more you will appreciate certain art. The majority...believe that ... space is being comprised. Any form of art is expressing a feeling or sensation of a prior experience. Without recreation, our world as we know it would be tasteless. Color would be conventional. From Britain, John Fiske brought the study of popular culture, both political and social, to America. The British style studies helped him to contradict the once believed ideals that popular culture was either condemned as trash or ...
- 1568: Robert E. Lee
- ... trains had been stopped; firing had been heard; rumor had it that many strangers had arrived and were inciting slaves to rioting. It was reported to Lee that the leader of the gang was called John Brown, a notorious antislavery fanatic from Kansas, who had been unable to rally the slaves to rebellion and was finally besieged in a fire-house. Lee was to lead the United States Marines, to suppress John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry. He asked Brown for his surrender, anticipating that this would not happen. When Brown refused to surrender, Lee ordered the door of the firehouse, in which Brown's ... Louisville, Kentucky to take command of the 2nd. Cavalry. As Colonel of Cavalry, Lee spent most of the next six years in Texas. Lee was then sent to lead the United States Marines to suppress John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry. When Lee arrived at Harper's Ferry, he ordered the door of the firehouse, in which Brown's band had taken refuge, to be battered down. The ...
- 1569: Margaret Sanger
- ... Sanger Research Bureau (which was fundamental to the development of The Pill). In her 80's, Margaret Sanger threatened to leave the country when she head that a Catholic (JFK) would be elected President. Fortunately, John F. Kennedy was the first U.S. President to recognize the world's population problem. Margaret Sanger lived to see the right to privacy triumph in the courts in 1965 with Griswold v. Connecticut. Margaret died a ...
- 1570: How America Should React To Ho
- ... grown-ups and children, men and women. It may lead to violence and even death. There are numerous cases when people were actually killed because of homophobia. To name few of them Matthew Shepard(homosexual), John Braun (heterosexual), Steve Kennedy (homosexual) and the list can be continued. As Jeffrey Nickel puts it, "[p]rejudice against homosexuality sharply limits how all men and women may acceptably behave, among themselves and with each other"( 529). It is ...
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