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- 771: Betsy Ross
- ... Betsy was entirely educated at a friend's Quaker school. It was in this Quaker school that she learned how to upholster. With her parents permission Betsy became an apprentice in the upholstery shop of John Ross. Betsy soon fell in love with John Ross and they eloped on November 4th 1773 in Gloucester, New Jersey. Betsy and John ran the upholstery shop together for three years. In 1775 John joined the militia. While serving the Militia he was killed when a store filled with gunpowder blew up. John was very badly burned. ...
- 772: Falkland Islands War Paper
- The Falkland Islands Conflict No one really knows who discovered the Falkland Islands. Nearly every British historian will insist that the English explorer John Davis discovered the islands in 1592(1) while Argentineans typically credit Vespucci, Magellan, or Sebald de Weert. (2) The events of January 2, 1883 are not in dispute, however. On this date, James Onslow, captain ... who instigate war are doing do so in response to setbacks, aggravation, and defeat.(30) Few countries have been through as much as Argentina has. The nation was made an international pariah by the Humphrey-Kennedy sanctions enacted by President Jimmy Carter in reaction to the gross human rights violations of the dirty war. From the terror of the later Peron years to Jorge Videlas death squads, it is likely ... Linklater & Gillman, 93. 14. Hastings and Jenkins, 78. 15. Eddy, Linklater & Gillman, 113. 16. Virginia Gamba, The Falklands/Malvinas War (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987), 150-151. 17. Eddy, Linklater & Gillman, 154. 18. Patrick Bishop and John Witherow, The Winter War (London: Quartet Books, 1982), 17. 19. Eddy, Linklater & Gillman, 155. 20. Bruce Watson and Peter Dunn, eds., Military Lessons of the Falkland Islands War: Views from the United States (Boulder, ...
- 773: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... book feelings in me became more and more evident as I went on in my reading. I am no where near ok with any type of racism and all of the things that happened to John upset me in the deepest fashion. It truly touched me and angered me at the same time. It makes me want to know this wonderful man. To be a relative, to be his friend, and ... a racial difference baffles me. Differences between people are the one thing that holds are species together. We embrace it, but yet use it to discriminate, separate, and emotionally destroy others. In Black Like Me, John was a white man that stepped into the dark dismal life of a black man in the Southern region of the United States. He thought that he had prepared for it but nothing could prepare ... try to live the most satisfying life I can live. Could you have become this involved in the race issue just to write a newspaper or magazine article? Defend your answer. To become involved like John Griffin did simply for a magazine would be ludicrous. He put his life on the line as well as his family s lives. John had another purpose he wanted to serve when he set ...
- 774: What Was The Effect of The Space Shuttle Challenger
- ... of many applicants that had the opportunity to ride in the Space Shuttle to help teach children all over the country about the experiments she was going to accomplish in space. As the spectators at Kennedy Space Center watched, everyone was in disbelief including many of the technicians inside the control room communicating with Francis Scobee, the Commander of the Shuttle Challenger. This experience is best described through a passage between ... that their lives were kept private during this hard time, and they said that even with this terrible disaster, life must go on. Across the seas, there was also feelings of sorrow and disbelief. Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on January 30th, 1986 at the Vatican he talked and comforted the people about the loss of the American astronauts. He talked to the people, and made this lasting preach ... killed all 7 crew member aboard. Contrary to what people had originally thought, there were no human errors to be found in the transcripts. According to the transmission between Commander Scobbe and the Houston and Kennedy Space Center technicians, everything was fine in terms of communications, and the "...go with throttle up" (as described in the transcript of the communications) was a "normal" adjustment that would occur on any other ...
- 775: History Of Portugal
- ... and Queen Isabella I. Under pressure from his Spanish relations, he followed their example by expelling Jews and Muslims from his domains in 1497, thus depriving Portugal of much of its middle class. His son, John III, promoted the settlement of Brazil and (again influenced by the example of Spain) introduced (1536) the Inquisition into Portugal to enforce religious uniformity. By the time he died in 1557, Portugal had begun to ... III (Philip IV of Spain), treated it as a Spanish province, provoking widespread discontent. After unsuccessful revolts in 1634 and 1637, Portuguese conspirators with the support of France won independence for their kingdom in 1640. John, duke of Braganza, was elected John IV, first king of the house of Braganza, which ruled Portugal as long as the monarchy endured. John IV and His Successors (1640-1816) King John expelled the Dutch from Brazil, which they had ...
- 776: Jane Eyre 2
- Jane Eyre The story begins when Jane is 10. Her parents are dead and her aunt at Gateshead Hall has taken her care of. There she lives a miserable life with her cousin John who bully's her. After a fight with John she is put in the room where her uncle died. There she has a nightmare. Late at night she is taken back to her room by Bessie, the nurse. She isn't well so Bessie ... morning a servant visits Jane from her aunt who wants to see her on dying bed. Jane gets permission to visit her. Her aunt gives her a letter written 3 years ago by her Uncle John Eyre in which he wants to adopt Jane and make her his heir. After the funeral Jane returns to Thornfield Hall. The guests are all gone and Mr. Rochester asks her to be his ...
- 777: The Chamber
- In the book The Chamber John Grisham shares the need for the death penalty in our society. The death penalty has existed as long as humans have existed. The quote "an eye for an eye" is found in the Bible. In ... the death penalty include lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair, and hanging and fire squad. In a 1986 poll 70% of Americans favored the death penalty as a punishment for murder. On February 1, 2000, John Grisham celebrates the publication of his 11th novel THE BRETHREN. Eleven years ago, though, long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a ... PARTNER, and THE STREET LAWYER), and all of them have bestsellers, leading Publishers Weekly to declare him "the best-selling novelist of the 90s" in a January 1998 profile. They're currently over 60 million John Grisham books in print worldwide, which have been translated into 29 languages. Six of his novels have been turned into films (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, and ...
- 778: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons' systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their associates at the University of Pennsylvania decided to build a high-speed electronic computer to do the job. This machine became known as ENIAC, for "Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator". It ... the particular programs for which it had been designed. ENIAC is generally accepted as the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer and was used in many applications from 1946 to 1955 (Dolotta, 50). Mathematician John von Neumann was very interested in the ENIAC. In 1945 he undertook a theoretical study of computation that demonstrated that a computer could have a very simple and yet be able to execute any ...
- 779: Abe Lincoln Hero Of Our Past
- Abe Lincoln Hero of our Past There have been many tragic heroes throughout history. Some stand out more than others. one comes to mind, John F. Kennedy, for his great leadership abilities. Martin Luther King Jr. took a stand for what he believed was right. Another is Abraham Lincoln, one of Americas first tragic heroes. Tragic heroes have brought something to our ... and respected as a presidential candidate. The Republic Party's first choice was William H. Seward. But his qualities were undesirable to the public. Lincoln later was chosen to be the candidate to run against John C. Breckenbridge, Lincoln went on to become the sixteenth President of the United States of America. It was as president that Lincoln began to challenge slavery. He gave many speeches on slavery, and why ...
- 780: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... his family. Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a widow at the age of eighteen. Two years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410). In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin ... he sent one poem and six stories (Asselineau 411). His story, "Ms. Found in a Bottle," won , and he received one hundred dollars for it (Targ IX). Through the influence of one of the judges, John P. Kennedy, Poe became employed as an editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, published in Richmond (Asselineau 411). Under Poe's editorship, the Messenger 's circulation rose from 500 to 3500. While in Richmond, ...
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