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- 301: The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy
- The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy President Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brooklin, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The other eight Kennedy children were Joseph, Jr. Rosemary Kathleen Eunice Patricia Robert F. Jean Edward M. "Ted". As the Kennedy children grew up, their parents encouraged them to develop their own talents and interests. Loyalty to each other was important to the Kennedys. But the brothers and ... England. He sponsored bills to help local industries, such as fishing, textile manufacturing, and watchmaking. Kennedy served on the Senate Labor Committee, and the Government Operations Committee, chairmanned by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Robert Kennedy, his brother, served for a time on the Government Operations Committee staff as an assistant counsel. At the time, McCarthy was the most controversial figue in American politics. Many people praised him for his ... increased aid to underdeveloped countries. Kennedy also worked for moderate legislation to end alleged corruption in labor unions. He was a member of a Senate committee investigating racketeering in labor-management relations. Kennedy's brother Robert was counsel for the committee. The Kennedys and other committee members engaged in dramatic arguments with controversial labor leaders, including James R. Hoffa, of the Teamsters union. In June 1956, a movement to nominate ...
- 302: Mononucleosis 2
- ... these deadly diseases, and even though there is not a definite prescription to get rid of mono there are ways to treat it without leading to death. Works Cited 1. Beers, MD Mark H., and Robert Berkow, MD, ed. The Merck Manual Of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th ed. Whitehouse Station, New Jersey: Merck Research Laboratories, 1999. 2. Cassidy, Jo. What s in a Name? Mononucleosis. Current Health 17: 9 (1990): 14-15. 3. Dinamoor, Robert S. When Mono Attacks Take It Lying Down. Current Health 20: 9 (1993): 30-31. 4. Dreher, Nancy. What You Need To Know about Mono. Current Health 23: 3 (1997): 28-29. 5. Kaye, Kenneth ... Epstein-Barr Virus Infection and Infectious Mononucleosis. Infectious Diseases, 2nd ed. Ed. John G. Barlett, MD, Neil R. Blacklow, MD, and Sherwood L. Gorback, MD. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1998. 1646-1650. 6. Schooley, Robert T. Epstein-Barr Virus (Infectious Mononucleosis). Ed. John E. Bennett, MD, Raphael Dolin, MD, and Gerald L. Mandell, MD. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 4th ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1995. 1364-1373. ...
- 303: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... they, too, soon came to respect him. He became a member of the debating society, studied grammar with the aid of a local schoolmaster, and acquired a lasting fondness for the writings of Shakespeare and Robert Burns from the village philosopher and fisherman. Offutt paid little attention to business, and his store was about to fail, when an Indian disturbance, known as the Black Hawk War, broke out in April 1832 ... and cultural background. Notwithstanding her vanity, ambition, and unstable temperament and Lincoln's careless ways and alternating moods of hilarity and dejection, the marriage turned out to be generally happy. Of their four children, only Robert Todd Lincoln, born on Aug. 1, 1843, lived to maturity. Edward Baker, who was born on March 10, 1846, died on Feb. 1, 1850; William Wallace, born Dec. 21, 1850, died on Feb. 20, 1862 ... responded to her impulsive and imprudent behavior with tireless patience, forbearance, and forgiveness. Borne down by grief and illness after her husband's death, Mrs. Lincoln became so unbalanced at one time that her son Robert had her committed to an institution. Congressman Having attained a position of leadership in state politics and worked strenuously for the Whig ticket in the presidential election of 1840, Lincoln aspired to go to ...
- 304: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... The environment where the actions unfolds are the roughed mountains. A lot of killing takes place in this story. It certainly was a time of fear and desperation. Many heroic military deeds are depicted here: Robert Jordan and his group of internationalists sabotaged bridges, trains and building. Lots of peasants are starved, tortured and killed, and many children were left orphaned. Part IV 1 "He lay flat on the brown, pine ... a double handful, washed the muddy roots clean in the current and then sat down again beside his pack and ate the clean, cool green leaves and the crisp, peppery-tasting stalks"(p.12) 3 "Robert Jordan breathed deeply of the clear night air of the mountains that smelled of the pines and of the dew grass in the meadow by the stream. Dew had fallen heavily sin the wind had dropped."(p.64) 4 "Now the morning was late May, the sky was high and clear and the wind blew warm on Robert Jordans shoulders."(p.311) 5 "Then he heard the far-off, distant throbbing and, looking up, he saw the planes"(p.329) 6 " Sweeeish-crack-boom! It came, the swishing like the noise ...
- 305: Predator - Prey Relationships
- ... ranking system. But when members of the same species endanger each other for individual protection, the member of the species that faces death is being used as prey by the member of the species surviving. Robert Heisohn describes this relationship in lions when territorial disputes occur. The leader lion will be 50-200 meters ahead of the laggards when approaching an invading lion(Heinsohn, 1995). The leader will face severe injury ... John Wiley. 973-975. Carr, Donald E. 1971. The Deadly Feast of Life. Garden City, Doubleday and Company, 179-180. Drummond, Hugh, Douglas Mock and Christopher Stinson. 1990. Avian Siblicide. American Scientist, 78:438. Heinsohn, Robert and Craig Packer. 1995. Complex Cooperative Strategies in Group- Territorial African Lions. Science, 269:1260. Mader, Sylvia S. 1993. Biology. Dubuque, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 761-762. May, Mike. 1991. Aerial Defense Tactics of Flying ... Sexual Selection in a Sonoran Desert Fruit Fly. Evolution, 49: 660. Ramachandran, V.S., C.W. Tyler, R.L. Gregory, and D. Rogers-Ramachandran. 1996. Rapid Adaptive Camouflage in Tropical Flounders. Nature, 379:815. Ricklefs, Robert E. 1993. The Economy of Nature. New York, W.H. Freeman and Company, 322. Turk, Jonathan, Amos Turk, Janet Wittes, and Robert Wittes. 1975. Ecosystems, Energy, Population. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 59-63.
- 306: Lyndon Johnson
- ... of 1968 ended racial discrimination in the sale or rental of houses and apartments. To add the civil rights developments by Johnson, he appointed the first Negro cabinet member and first Negro Supreme Court judge. Robert C. Weaver was selected to be the secretary of housing and urban development. (Peter Lisagor, 149-151) Thurgood Marshall was set as the first Negro Supreme Court justice(Robert S. Summers, 2). The Railroad Crisis, in April of 1964, plunged Johnson into on of America's toughest labor disputes. After years of disputing between union workers and train companies over work rules the companies ... into hawks (those who supported military action) and doves (those who called for the cutback of United States involvement in Vietnam and eventual withdrawal). The two chief critics of the war were Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy. Opposition to this country's increasing role in Vietnam increased. Demonstrations took place throughout the nation and riots broke out in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, and Newark that ...
- 307: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... the human race, whose magnitude is comparable only with that of a nuclear war", say the Segals. " They later explain what they mean by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr. Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We have given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned laboratories, whose ... California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same virus, which is cytotoxic. ( i.e poisonous to cells ) Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers ... research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel`, Prof. Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert Gallo for this purpose, note the Segals." Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord banning the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort Detrick was "demilitarized" and ...
- 308: Things Fall Apart
- ... Works Cited Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: First Anchor Books Edition, 1994. Achebe, Chinua [An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad s Heart of Darkness.] Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad 3rd Ed. Editor: Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton Critical, 1988. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness 3rd Ed. Editor: Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton Critical, 1988. Sarvan, C.P. [Racism and the Heart of Darkness.] Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad 3rd Ed. Ed. Editor: Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton Critical, 1988. Singh, Francis B. [The Colonialistic Bias of Heart of Darkness.] Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad 3rd Ed. Editor: Robert Kimbrough. New York: Norton Critical, 1988
- 309: Atomic Bomb
- ... Manhattan Project was and is still one of the most secretive projects ever created in United States history. The purpose of the Manhattan Project was simple: to build; test; and unleash its power if necessary. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves were the two men put in charge of this mission. These two men along with the top scientists from around the country were brought together to construct the most deadliest ... to build. General Groves only wanted to hear that an atomic bomb was conceivable in theory and then he knew to start the project. In October of 1942 Groves went to California to meet with Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most brilliant scientists in the country. Groves informed Oppenheimer that he had been selected to lead the expedition on trying to invent the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer immediately started preparing by telling ... 6, 1945 Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days after that, Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. Over 200,000 lives were taken because of the bombings. On September 2, 1945 Japan surrendered , unconditionally. Robert Oppenheimer was recognized as a national hero in the United States. In 1949, the White House asked him to lead a project in making the H+ Super Bomb. For recognizable reasons, he declined this ...
- 310: Assassination Of JFK
- ... other covert operations against Cuba in violation of the President's instructions. Needless to say, these CIA officers did not inform the President of their activities; nor did they inform Congress or the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy. They didn't even tell then-CIA director John McCone, probably because he was appointed by President Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs disaster. In short, as Anthony Summers has observed, "in September and ... connection with any role he might have had in the assassination. Why would the Mafia have wanted JFK dead? Quite simply, because the Kennedy administration was threatening the very existence of organized crime in America. Robert Kennedy was waging an unprecedented war on the Mafia, a war that targeted not just Mafia operations but also Mafia leaders themselves. Soon after Lyndon Johnson took over, the war on organized crime came to a virtual halt. Sam Giancana (real name: Momo Salvatore Guingano) was a Chicago Mafia boss involved in CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro. Giancana was also the target of attacks by then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, despite the fact that the Attorney General's own brother, John Kennedy, had been having an affair with Giancana's paramour, Judith Exner, starting in March 1960. Further infuriating Giancana, Robert Kennedy ...
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