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- 611: Brave New World 4
- ... lives. They have their own culture, with worshipping of a mix between Jesus and some old Indian gods. And in this story we meet 4 persons. Bernhard Marx, Lenina Crowne, Helmholtz Watson and the savage John. Bernhard and Helmholtz are "thinkers". They haven't conformed properly. They actually do some thinking of their own. Bernhard is also peculiar in the respect that he is not of the average height as his ... other hand we have Lenina, a girl just doing her job, taking her soma, and having her sex. She and Bernhard goes to the reservation in New Mexico for their holidays, and meet the savage John. He is the son of the director of the London hatchery. His mother was also there on her holidays, but she got lost, and stayed there. So the young John learned to read, and he has read a lot of Shakespeares plays. They bring John and his mother back to England. After meeting a lot of problems in his new society, and when both ...
- 612: Western Expansion
- ... to the pacific, to others it was the North American continent and to others it was the hemisphere. Its public appeal was enormous as it meant an opportunity to gain admission to the American Union. John O Sullivan coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny" and many other politicians supported him like John Wentworth (Ill.), Stephen Douglas (Ill.), Daniel S. Dickenson (NY) and Andrew Kennedy (Ind.) The people of the Old South under Calhoun supported the annexation of Texas but were against going further as area beyond it was unsuitable for plantation style of farming of the South and ...
- 613: 1968
- ... ideological as moral, in Jessica Mitford's words, "An Indignant Generation." Although an image of arrogance, even ruthlessness, had followed him from his early days as counsel to a Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, Robert Kennedy had shown a remarkable capacity to understand the suffering of others. More than this, he had demonstrated an untiring commitment to the welfare of those who had gotten little more than the crumbs of the Great American Banquet. In fact, Kennedy Appealed most strongly to precisely those groups most disaffected with American society in nineteen sixty-eight, they believed in him with a passion unmatched for any other national political figure, in part for what he ... the United States House of Representatives in 1938. He served for four terms. He became Senate majority leader in 1953. Johnson was elected vice president in 1960 and became president on November 22, 1963 upon Kennedy's death. In 1968 Johnson decided to de-escalate from the Vietnam War after over ninety South Vietnamese cities were attacked by both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army forces. On March 31, 1968, ...
- 614: The War in Vietnam
- ... languished and internal security deteriorated. Nation building was failing the South, and, in 1960, communist cadres created the National Liberation Front (NLG) or Vietcong as its enemies called it, to challenge the Diem regime. President John F. Kennedy concurred with his predecessor's domino theory and also believed that the credibility of U.S. anticommunist commitments around the world was imperiled in 1961. Consequently, by 1963 he had tripled American aid to South ... Buddhist resistance. Finally, after receiving assurances of noninterference from U.S. officials South Vietnamese military officers conducted a coup that ended with the murders of Diem and Nhu. Whether these gruesome developments would have led Kennedy to redirect or decrease U.S. involvement in Vietnam is unknown, since Kennedy himself was assassinated three weeks later. Diem's death left a leadership vacuum in South Vietnam, and the survival of the ...
- 615: Watergate Scandal
- ... arrest eventually uncovered a White House-sponsered plan of espionage against political opponents and a trail of complicity that led to many of the highest officials in the land, including former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, White House Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, and President Nixon himself. On April 30, 1973, nearly a year after the burglary and arrest and following a grand jury investigation of the burglary, Nixon accepted the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman ...
- 616: Community-Based Policing: Law Enforcement For The Twentieth Century
- ... offender after he has succeeded in committing the crime" . . . (Braiden 120) WORKS CITED Braiden, Chris. "Enriching traditional police roles" Police management: Issues and perspectives. Washington, DC. Police executive research forum 1992, Pg. 108,120 Eck, John E. and William Spelman," Problem solving: Problem oriented policing" in Newport News. Washington, DC: Police executive research forum, 1987 Pg xvi-xvii Kelling, George L. and Mark H, Moore "The evolving strategy of policing" Perspectives on policing .Washington, DC : National Institute of Justice and John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University Pg 4-5 Kelling, L. George " Measuring what matters :a new way of thinking about crime and public order".The city Journal, Spring 1992, Pg 21-22 Moore H. ...
- 617: 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 riots excited ... be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Everyone agreed the march was a success and they wanted action now but, now remained a long way off. president kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. but after his assassination, President Johnson, drawing on the Kennedy ...
- 618: Racism and the Ku Klux Klan
- ... let us get up a club or a society of some description (Lester and Wilson pg. 53). The group of men were called the Pulaski Circle which included six members. One founding member was Captain John C. Lester, a soldier in the third Confederate Infantry, and later a lawyer, member of Tennessee legislature, and an official in a Methodist Church (Lester and Wilson pg. 16). A second member, Major James Richard ... in the Marion Rifle Company G, Fourth Alabama Infantry. Crowe was captured by the Union for spying, but was acquitted in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Another member was also a member of the Confederate Army, John Kennedy, who served in the Third Tennessee infantry during the Civil War. The fourth member Calvin Jones was a lawyer and a member of the Episcopal Church and also served in the Civil War with ...
- 619: Jimmy Hoffa, His Life and Disappearance
- ... with the jury in the that case. Consequently, Hoffa was never convicted of the misdemeanor charge. On his journey to the top Hoffa also made many enemies. One such enemy was the famed politician Robert Kennedy. One particularly intriguing encounter between these two men occurred in March of 1957. Hoffa was arrested for attempting to bribe a lawyer, John Cheasty, to become a member of the McClellan Committee staff and obtain confidential committee memorandums for him(Brill 201). The McClellan Committee was investigating the corruption and inept administration in the handling of employee benefit plans in America's labor Unions(Internet). When Cheasty went to Robert Kennedy and told him of the offer, Kennedy arranged for the FBI to take pictures of Cheasty at street-corner meetings as he passed government documents to Hoffa in return for cash(Brill 202). With ...
- 620: Richard Nixon
- ... point for Nixon, where he and the Russian leader discussed issues in a kitchen. With Eisenhower, he served two terms. Nixon's next goal was to become the President of the United States. In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon ran for the presidency. As it turned out, Kennedy and Johnson won by a mere 120,000 votes. It was believed Kennedy had bought Texas and Illinois. Johnson soon became president after Kennedy's assassination. Now, Nixon would try again. Nixon beat Hubert ...
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