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- 1191: Career As A Military Officer
- ... the Air Force Academy is very competitive. Grade point average, standardized test scores, physical fitness, citizenship, and extracurricular activities all play a role in acceptance. First one must fill out a precanidate questionnaire and write letters to the vice president, congressmen, and senator requesting nominations ot attend the academy. When an application is received from the academy it must be filled out and returned. A physical is required as is a ...
- 1192: Computers And The Military
- ... Computers have made an impact in all areas of people's lives increasing their access to knowledge and reducing the manual labor needed both in industry and in everyday tasks like washing dishes and writing letters. Computers have created lots of new jobs, but also taken the place of the majority of the former working class in their industry jobs. Though the engineers of the first computer never anticipated the rapid ...
- 1193: Brett Favre
- ... as most kids of today. In high school he played quarterback as he decided he was going to do when he was young. He not only played football, he also played baseball. He earned five letters in baseball (he led team in batting all five seasons) and three in football at Hancock North Central High School. He went on to college at Southern Miss. He holds 16 records for being a ...
- 1194: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- ... tell stories. Metaphorically speaking. In the mother’s closet Rocio finds pictures of her Mother’s two ex-husbands. In Rocio’s older sister’s closet Rocio finds a prom dress, a wedding dress, lover letters, and vibrators. Just kidding about the last item. In Rocio’s closet the reader is informed that Rocio had her first sexual experience in her closet. I’m not kidding about that one. The theme ...
- 1195: Advertising 3
- ... was a fancy new style of car. Preston Thomas Tucker, the maker, put a two page article in the FIC magazine about his car idea and within a week he received one hundred fifty thousand letters inquiring about his car and how they could get them. He had new and improved safety devices, safety belts, shatter-proof glass, and moving head lights. This is how he won over the people with ...
- 1196: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... issue in 1 986. Several books of his photographs and a recordlCD of his poetry-jazz album, The Lion for Real, appeared in 1989. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and is a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College and a member of the Executive Board of PEN American Center. A practicing Buddhist, Alien cofounded Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder ...
- 1197: Assessing Maslows Pyramid From
- ... neurons in the auditory cortex, creating sound. In synaesthetes the visual cortex is also activated, creating this curious condition (Carter 1998). Such was the case with Vladimir Nabakov who claimed that different sounds, such as letters, each evoked disparate hues (Carter 1998). Realizing personal potential in people like Vladimir may include creating works of art representing their unique experiences, while people not born with this condition will self-actualize in other ...
- 1198: Mercantilism Helped To Shape The American Nation
- ... 1764, The Stamp Act in 1765, and the Quartering Act in 1765. The most ill-received of these laws was the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all written material. This included letters, deeds, newspapers, and all other written transactions or documents. Needless to say, the colonists were not happy. This caused the famous cry to be raised, "No taxation without representation." The colonists wanted a voice in ...
- 1199: Mercantilism
- ... monopoly they had over British tobacco merchants. However even they began to get sick of the taxes without representation and the high resale price that Britain put on tobacco. They began to write petitions and letters of complaint in "rebellion" to Britain. The rich people of the middle colonies had the advantage of having the two biggest cities and ports within their realm. But they too were upset by the regulations ...
- 1200: McCarthyism
- ... was up for re-election in two years. La Follette was a Republican, and so was McCarthy, so the real race would be for the primary. McCarty's campaign used lots of money. He sent letters and postcards to almost everyone in Wisconsin, made half a dozen speeches a day, and attacked La Follette ruthlessly. The luck happened to be that his opponent chose to sit on his laurels, and only ...
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