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- 1031: Maroons
- ... efforts to dislodge them from their mountain citadel. By the 1720s the Maroons constituted a serious threat to British control of Jamaica, and planters began to abandon their lands in the face of Maroon depredations. Robert Hunter, the Captain General and Governor of New York and New Jersey, who had been extremely successful in that position, was sent to Jamaica in 1729 to rescue the situation. Impressed with the gravity of ...
- 1032: The Atomic Bomb anad Nuclear Bombs
- ... of the Manhattan Project was U.S. Army Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves. His team, working in several locations but in large part at Los Alamos, New Mexico, under the direction of American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, designed and built the first atomic bombs. The first atomic explosion was conducted, as a test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The energy released from this explosion was equivalent to that ...
- 1033: University of Pennsylvania Essay Questions
- ... because I am from Turkey, people objected to my playing a 'masculine sport.' Surprisingly, most of the opposition came from my female friends and relatives. Despite their advice, I never considered quitting. When I entered Robert College, I had the chance of a lifetime with the opportunity to compete on a girls basketball team in an official league. My female friends said that basketball was a sport that was impossible for ...
- 1034: The Olympics
- ... C.V.Mosby Company, 1947. Former, Harvey. Olympic Controversies. New York: Impact Publishing Company, 1987. Girardeau, Wolfgang. Olympic Games. New York: International Library, 1972. Guttmann, Allen. The Olympics. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Lipsyte, Robert. Assignment Sports. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970. The Olympics. http://www.feminist.org/other/olympic/intro.html. 2-20-99. The Olympics. http://www.olympics.org. 2-20-99. The Olympics. http://www.specialolympics ...
- 1035: Henry Kissinger's Comparison of Realism and Complex Interdependence
- ... Complex Interdependence Henry Kissinger was a star academic at Harvard and Secretary of State. Yet, neither he nor anyone else has written a Summa Diplomatica presenting all sides of international relations. In Power and Interdependence, Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye modify Kissinger-type "realist" interpretations of international relations. Though the "complex interdependence" they develop initially seems to be at odds with the "realism" described by Kissinger, the two can be complements ...
- 1036: How to grow Marijuana
- ... the temperature does not raise above 75 degrees. The plants do need a minimum of eight hours of sunlight per day and should be planted in late April/early May, BUT DEFINITELY, after the last frost of the year. Growing an outdoor, or "au naturel", crop has been the favored method over the years, because grass seems to grow better without as much attention when in its natural habitat. Of course ...
- 1037: Communication Skills
- ... s role is one of teacher, coach, counselor, and trainer. Research on problem solving in groups suggests that there are two types of leadership roles, the task specialist and the social emotional specialists. Years ago, Robert Bales and his colleagues performed a set of experiments on leadership. The subjects were groups of male college students. They were brought together in a laboratory and given certain intellectual problems to solve. This research ...
- 1038: The Simpsons: The History
- ... Simpsons. By: John Vitti, Dir: David Silverman, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 14 Jan, 1990 Dale, Steve, and Shane Tritsh. Simpson Mania. Lincolnwood: Publications International, Ltd., 1991. "Flaming Moe's." The Simpsons. By: Robert Cohen, Dir: Rich Moore and Alan Smart, Prod: James L. Brooks. Fox. WHNS, Greenville. 21 Nov, 1991 Groening, Matt. The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. "Homer at the Bat." The Simpsons ...
- 1039: Wilson's Fences
- ... tells her this because she doesnt want them to have to give too much food away because they were just as poor as they were. The poet who speaks most powerfully to me is Robert Hayden with his two poems The Diver and Winter Sundays. In The Diver, Hayden personifies death to the depth of the ocean. He describes visible objects to allow one to descend with him beneath the ...
- 1040: Shaw's Saint Joan and Shakespeare's Henry IV: Honor and Valor
- ... as a heroic symbol. Although her pride was her downfall, it also to some degree helped her in her quest to become a hero. Joans persistence and charisma aided her when she met Captain Robert de Bauddcourt, Do you mean to say that that girl, who had the impudence to ask to see me two days ago, and whom I told you to send back to her father with my ...
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