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- 751: Call Of The Wild By Jack Londo
- ... The Call of the Wild interact to reveal the theme the power of love is stonger than all other powers. Buck is the main character and he loves many people. Buck shows his love for John Thorton (his last owner) many times. For example, Buck pulls a sled 100 yards that has a thousand pounds of flour on it because John bet that he could (Page 50). Buck could not have moved the sled if he didn't love John. Manuel shows his love for money by selling Buck, the family dog. "He loved to play Chinese lottery" (Page 2). If he didn't love to play lottery Buck might still live in California. ...
- 752: Brave New World
- ... work at the hatchery and have been dating, but she starts dating Bernard Marx instead. Bernard is a deformed but highly intelligent man who takes Lenina to a savage restoration. At the reservation, they meet John and his mother Linda, whom was the girlfriend of the DHC and John is his son. Lenina and Bernard take, with permission, Linda and John out of the reservation. Bernard and a friend introduce John to the new world. Lenina tries to make advances toward John but his savage attitude doesnt allow it. The downfall of John begins ...
- 753: The Green Mile Card Report 2 -
- The Green Mile, March 1999 Stephen King, 1947-? Summary: John Coffey is brought to Cold Mountain accused of rape and murder. It becomes known that he has a healing touch. Paul Edgecombe, the superintendent, has sympathy for Coffey and later finds out that Coffey is ... internal struggle between what his job wants him to do and what he sometimes knows is the right thing. Kind and gentle, he recounts this episode of his life from Georgia Pines, his retirement home. John Coffey is a huge, muscular black man but is very slow in the mental sense, brought into a situation where death surrounds him, yet he has the power to heal by his own touch. Other ... Hal (Warden) Moores was the warden of Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Melinda Moores, Hal s wife, is portrayed as a sick elderly woman. She is used in the story to demonstrate the miraculous healing power that John Coffey held. Janice Edgecombe was Paul s wife. She died in a bus accident, setting up the character of Elaine Connelly, who Paul met at the retirement center in his later years. Eduard Delacroix ...
- 754: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... is spotted. A Soviet-managed construction site is visible and photographs are taken of the site. It is soon confirmed that the first of many medium/intermediate range ballistic missiles have been spotted. Frantically, President Kennedy secretly meets with his advisory staff to question the approach. On October 22, Kennedy announces a naval blockade aimed at preventing offensive missile weaponry into Cuba on Russian ships. Inspections of ships in Cuba by U. S. personnel were also made. The Russian strategy was to install missiles in ... their fright of world war and even nuclear war. This is arguably the only time in history where the threat of nuclear war is possible. Things began to become very tense for both sides. President Kennedy became aware that the American army is pressuring the US government to use force against Cuba. This situation escalates so much that the president feels he is in danger of being overthrown by his ...
- 755: The Beatles
- The Beatles to this day are one of the most famous and popular rock 'n roll groups in the world. The Beatles include George Harrison, John Lennon(1940-1980), Paul McCartney, and Richard Starkey(Ringo Starr). All of the Beatles where born and raised in Liverpool, England. John Lennon was considered the leader of the band. George Harrison was the lead guitarist. John Lennon was a song writer, one of the two lead singers, and rhythm guitarist. Paul McCartney was a song writer, one of the two lead singers, and a bassist. Ringo Starr played the drums. ...
- 756: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... had violated his probation on a minor traffic offense committed several months earlier. The case assumed national proportions, with widespread concern over his safety. King was released only upon the intercession of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. An action so widely publicized in the black community throughout the nation that it was felt to have contributed substantially to Kennedy's slender election victory eight days later. In the years from 1960 to 1965 King's influence reached its high point. The tactics of active nonviolence aroused the interest of many black and liberal ...
- 757: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... and so successfully that their work survives centuries. These authors posses qualities we can seldom identify in their lifetimes. Yet we do know this -- William Shakespeare was one of them. William Shakespeare's parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. John Shakespeare was born in 1529. His father was a small tenant farmer in Snitterfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon. He became a successful glover and trader, and owned civic office in Stratford. He was not born ... gentleman, of Wilmcote. He left in his will to Mary the estate of Asbies in Wilmcote and six pounds, thirteen shillings, and sixpence. Within a year of her father's death, in 1557, Mary married John Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was the third child, born after Joan and Margaret Shakespeare. Margaret died before William was born, and Joan died sometime before 1569. William was born in 1564. His exact birth date ...
- 758: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- ... AEC's first General Advisory Committee, a post he held until 1950. In 1958, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. In that capacity he served until his appointment by President Kennedy to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1961, when he was designated Chairman of the Commission. His term of office expires in 1968. From 1959 to 1961, he was also a member of the President's ... Honours include: in 1947 named as one of America's 10 outstanding young men by the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce; 1947 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Award in Pure Chemistry; 1948 John Ericsson Gold Medal by the American Society of Swedish Engineers; 1948 Nichols Medal of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society; 1953 John Scott Award and Medal of the City of Philadelphia; 1957 Perkin Medal of the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry; 1959 Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award for his outstanding work ...
- 759: Lbj
- ... in the House. Later he became a Senator gaining a nickname "Landslide Lyndon" because he got tremendously many votes from Texas, which is his homestate. He was asked to run for the Vice Presidency during John F. Kennedy*s presidency. When JFK was assassinated LBJ took the oath of office aboard the presidential plane, Air Force One, at Dallas* Love Field about 112 hours after Kennedy died. After he took the role of president, he promised he would keep the policies that Kennedy was promoting, and he made his own program called the "Great Society". During his inauguration, he said, " ...
- 760: The Constitution in the 1850's: Unity or Discord
- ... the North and South. This helped push the United States closer to the Civil War (Grolier, Kansas-Nebraska Act). Peculiar Institution was an "euphemistic term that southerners used as a pseudonym for slavery"(Dictionary, 241). John C. Calhoun defended the "peculiar labor" of the South in 1828 and the "peculiar domestic institution" in 1830. The term came into general use in the 1830's when the abolitionist followers of William Lloyd ... and poisoned the relationship with United States and Mexico (ibid, Polk, James). Mormons Expedition was a hard journey and "dedicated Mormons made the 1,300-mile trek across the plains pulling two-wheeled carts" (Bailey, Kennedy, 321). The move was headed by the president and prophet of the church, Brigham Young. President James Buchanan ordered the Fifth and tenth Infantry and two batteries of artillery from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to subdue ... South and North, authorizing abolition of slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. "By 1850 southerners were demanding a new and more stringent fugitive-slave law"(Bailey, Kennedy, 390). The third bill was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which provided for the return of runaway slaves to their masters. The fourth bill allowed the territory east of California ceded to the ...
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