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- 481: When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
- ... 1964, which had delivered a mandate - desegregate the school system or lose all federal funding. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first strong piece of civil rights legislation in almost ninety years. President John F. Kennedy had been elected and called on Congress to bring forth this new legislation, yet by the time of his assignation on November 22nd, 1963, nothing had materialized. Yet Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy's successor, has stepped in to keeps the legislative wheels turning. The bill was met with concrete resistance in the Senate, with a Southern group debating endlessly in an attempt to kill the bill, ...
- 482: The Last Gentleman By Walker P
- ... life and resolution with his father's suicide. Suicide may be the least forgivable sin of all human betrayals; Ed Barrett arrogantly and selfishly committed suicide, leaving himself dead and unanswerable to his son. As John M. Schwartz states, what finally provoked Mr. Barrett to suicide was, "His dance of honor collapsed amidst its moral ambiguities. At the last, he was a moralist, but his world completely failed to stand at ... were wrong and one looked in the wrong place" (Percy 332). Here Will is making excuses for why his father killed himself, unable to come to the hurtful conclusion that his father betrayed him. As John Edward Hardy writes, Will's statement "Wait. Don't leave" (Percy 331) is his final plea to his father, but Ed Barrett still defies his son's "direct and loving appeal for him to stay ... Will feeling worthless and damaging his self-esteem (Hardy 87). Like many suicide survivors, Will feels responsible for his father's death, although he never quite consciously contemplates it (Stillion 43-44). As J. G. Kennedy writes, not knowing his father's suicidal intentions, Will suffers from a profound sense of guilt at not intervening and surviving the death of his father (221). Ed Barrett replies to Will's plead ...
- 483: Jackie Robinson
- ... 2). In 1963, while Robinson and King were going from church to church speaking they learned that an NAACP officer Medgar Evers was murdered (2). Shortly after the murder Robinson sent a letter to President John F. Kennedy asking him to give Martin Luther King secret service protection (3). Kennedy gave them the protection and later on August 28, 1963 Robinson took his family to see Martin Luther Kings famous I have a dream speech (3). Later in 1964, the Governor of New York ...
- 484: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... implies firmness of mind and will in the face of extreme difficulty. One renowned leader of the twentieth century pondered the meaning and interpretation of courage in his Pulitzer prize-winning book Profiles in Courage. John F. Kennedy expounded that courage is a diamond with many facets. (Kennedy 7) Kennedy exemplifies courage with intelligence, far-sightedness, and reason. In his foreword, Allen Nevins says, Moral courage is great and admirable in itself; but it must be pointed out that it almost never ...
- 485: Baseball And American Popular
- ... 1959, Robinson began writing a regular column for the New York Post. He wrote of social issues, foreign affairs, and the upcoming elections. In the 1960 election, he decided to back Richard Nixon instead of John Kennedy. His logic was that the black community should be represented by the Republican as well as the Democratic Party. This decision led to his fall out of favor with much of the black community. Later in life, he admitted to the bad decision saying, "I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finest ones. It was a sincere one, however, at the time."(Lester, p2) In 1964, he organized and founded the Freedom Nation Bank in ...
- 486: Baseball And American Popular
- ... 1959, Robinson began writing a regular column for the New York Post. He wrote of social issues, foreign affairs, and the upcoming elections. In the 1960 election, he decided to back Richard Nixon instead of John Kennedy. His logic was that the black community should be represented by the Republican as well as the Democratic Party. This decision led to his fall out of favor with much of the black community. Later in life, he admitted to the bad decision saying, "I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finest ones. It was a sincere one, however, at the time."(Lester, p2) In 1964, he organized and founded the Freedom Nation Bank in ...
- 487: A Brief History Of The Blues
- ... the term 'the blues,' as it is now defined, in 1807. (Tanner 40) The earlier (almost entirely Negro) history of the blues musical tradition is traced through oral tradition as far back as the 1860s. (Kennedy 79) When African and European music first began to merge to create what eventually became the blues, the slaves sang songs filled with words telling of their extreme suffering and privation. (Tanner 36) One of ... of big-band jazz. The blues also became electrified with the introduction of the amplified guitar. In some Northern cities like Chicago and Detroit, during the later forties and early fifties, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, and Elmore James among others, played what was basically Mississippi Delta blues, backed by bass, drums, piano and occasionally harmonica, and began scoring national hits with blues songs. At about the ... 53) In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross- ...
- 488: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... envy or awe. This building epitomizes world leadership and unprecedented power. This renowned leadership may be the only association made by certain countries, while in the United States many see an other significance: Watergate, Whitewater, Kennedy's brutal and mysterious assassination, and today, Clinton's "zippergate" scandal. When the President of the United States takes oath, he gives up a part of his life. His private life becomes the public's ... took over many of his routine duties as part of her self-described "stewardship" of the presidency. She died on Dec. 28, 1961, the 105th anniversary of Wilson's birth. More currently, there was the John F. Kennedy scandal, his presidency which extended from 1961-1963 was peppered with his reputation of being a womanizer. The list had many famous names like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Angie Dickinson, stripper Blaze Starr and ...
- 489: John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
- John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary John Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle" is a relentlessly fast-paced novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country ...
- 490: Arthur Millers The Crucible
- ... of cleverly constructed characters, Arthur Miller was able to capture the past and give us a glimpse of what it would have been like to live in the late 17th century. Among those characters include John and Elizabeth Proctor, spouse to one another, Abigail Williams, Judge Danforth, and Reverend Thomas Hale. Through these five people and more, the customs and general aspects of the Salem community are represented. One way the ... clothing that the people of Salem wore seemed very conservative and down to earth. There were no bright colors, but rather dark reds and browns which matched with the altogether oddities of Salem in Autumn. John and Elizabeth Proctor s clothes generally were designed to be rugged for the man and yet comfortable to the woman. Most of Salem s women, like Abigail Williams, were dressed as ladies should have been ... something was not quite right with the notion of executing people with good values who were known very well. The behavior of the people from when they observed the first hanging to the time until John Proctor was hung had made a drastic change. Towards the end of The Crucible, the town was shocked and in awe as good and trusting people they had known were sent to be killed ...
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