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- 501: Life of William Shakespeare
- ... Shrew", and "The Two Gentlemen of Verone". Three plays which are in the category of tragedy are "Romeo and Juliet", "Titus Andronicus", and "Julius Caesar". In the category of history, three plays are "Henry V", "Richard II", and "Richard III".
- 502: The War at Gettysburg
- ... Buford Brig.Gen.Henry Hunt Brig.Gen.Gouverneur Warren Col. Arthur Devereux Lt. Alonzo Cushing Major General Ulysses S. Grant commanding at Vicksburg Confederate The Army of Northern Virginia Gen. Robert E. Lee Lt.Gen. Richard Ewell Lt.Gen. Ambrose Hill Lt.Gen.James Rangstreet Major General Richard Anderson Major General Jabal Early Major General Henry Heth Major General John Hood Major General Lafayette McLaws Major General George Pickette Major General Robert Rodes Major General J.E.B. Stuart Brig.Gen.William Barkdale ...
- 503: Censorship in Public Schools
- Censorship in Public Schools -A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain "obscenities or offensive sexual references" (Berger 59). -A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school board's decision to remove Richard Price's The Wanderers, and to "restrict" the use of Stephen King's Carrie and Patrick Mann's Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the burning of ...
- 504: Area 51 - Short
- ... that in order to avoid spy plane and satellite reconnaissance, most activities and experiments have been conducted underground. It is the experiments above ground, mainly test flights, that help to perpetuate the UFO stories.(Leiby Richard p.a1) In early 1947, officials at the Roswell Army Air Field collected the remains of what they initially reported to be a wrecked "Flying Disc." That predd release was quickly revised to say it was only a weather baloon. But the lore grew to include tales of almond-eyed little gray men being spirited away for autopsies and even interrogations.(Leiby Richard p.a1) Paragraph #3:One of the last outlooks legally accessible to civilians is Tikaboo Peak. From this vantage point Area 51 is clearly visible with several unmarked buildings, a large runway, and planes shuttling ...
- 505: Hundreds Years War
- ... well as maintain the garrisons. The English subjects were taxed out and tired of the misappropriation of the war funds by the corrupt royal officials and military commanders. Moreover, the military began to decline. "King Richard II was not a good general. Most of Edward III's captains were dead or in captivity and the new generation of officers showed little aptitude for war." 15 But King Richard II had to fight France not only for glorious tradition but to save the wine trade with Gascony and the wool trade with Flanders. These resources were needed to help finance the war. However, his ...
- 506: John Paul Jones
- ... left Jones' ship one-on-one with a superior waship, another ship fighting the other British escort, and the alst ship under Jones' command just sailing around. It was quite a battle between the Bonhomme Richard (Jones) and the Serapis (Bitish). this was the battle where Jones said what he's always been remembered for saying: "I have not yet begun to fight." Jones had a rough time of it; one of the ships under his command, Alliance, was under the command of a basically insane captain, and when he wasn't sailing around watching the battle, he fired on the Richard more than he did on serapis! But, in the end, after three and a half hours of fighting, Jones came out on top, mainly because of superior battle tactics. His ship was so badly damaged ...
- 507: Two Parents Or One?
- ... want to but their love instead of earning it by showing them love. Children of single parent homes also face stress by always worrying about everything that is going on in their lives. According to Richard Kinsey single parent children worried more about school, family, future, finding work, crime, and their environment by a large margin (16). However, the biggest worry of these children was about their own personal loves and what was going to happen to them as they grew up (Kinsey 16). Richard Kinsey also did a survey on crimes committed by children in both two parent homes and single parent homes. He found that children in two parent homes self-reported committing crimes at a rate of ...
- 508: Arab Crusades
- ... that their time had come to defeat the Muslims onceand for all. Included in the ranks of men going on the crusade were Fre*censored* I, the Roman emperor; Philip II, the French king; and Richard I, of England. These forces were thought to be one of the most powerful armies assembled during the middle ages. Again, this crusade suffered misfortune. On his journey to Jerusalem, the Roman emperor died, and his army accompanied the body back home for burial. Even with the size of Richard's and Frederick's remaining armies, they were not able to recapture Jerusalem. When the armies left Jerusalem and its surrounding areas to return home, they accomplished none of their goals. Since none of the ...
- 509: Power Shifts in Intergovernmental Relations: A Result of Fiscal Federalism
- ... over education, a power reserved for the states. Moreover, Congress passed Medicare and Medicaid, health insurance plans for the elderly and the poor or disabled, respectively, expanding the federal role in social welfare programs. During Nixon's tenure, existing programs of assistance for the aged, blind and disabled administered by the states were federalized, requiring more money from the national government. Additionally, general revenue sharing was signed into law, once again increasing state dependence on federal funds. Nixon's New Federalism implemented major expansions of federal regulatory power over state and local governments. Concerned about the dominance of the national government, the reaction to this continual increase in federal power and influence is ...
- 510: Homosexuals: A Suspect Class?
- ... 2. Amendment 2 does away with any attempt to protect homosexuals as a group that needs special rights because of discrimination. It was enacted after a statewide referendum, in which 53% voted for the measure. Richard Evans sued the state and Governor Romer (who, ironically, opposed the amendment) under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, saying that Amendment 2 infringes upon the homosexual's "fundamental right to participate in the ... down under the Fourteenth Amendment's Free Exercise Clause, which declares that a state may not "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." Jean E. Dubofsky, the lawyer for Richard Evans in the case, said "the Court need not rule homosexuals a specially protected class to find that Amendment 2 infringes upon their rights." Specifically, Dubofsky believes the amendment takes away the ability of homosexuals ...
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