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- 501: Main Causes Of The Great Depre
- ... 1960. Hoffman, Mark S. ed. The World Almanac. 1992 ed. New York: Pharos Books, 1992. Magill, Frank N., ed. The American Presidents: The Office and the Men. Vol. 2. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1986. McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression. New York Times Books, 1984. Perret, Geoffrey. American in the Times. New York: Simon & Scuster, Inc., 1982. Bibliography Bibliography Baughman, Judith S. American Decades 1920-1929, Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1996 ... 1960. Hoffman, Mark S. ed. The World Almanac. 1992 ed. New York: Pharos Books, 1992. Magill, Frank N., ed. The American Presidents: The Office and the Men. Vol. 2. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1986. McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression. New York Times Books, 1984. Perret, Geoffrey. American in the Times. New York: Simon & Scuster, Inc., 1982. Word Count: 3612
- 502: Rasputin The Mad Monk
- ... Myths Surrounding Him." 1996. http://www.duc.auburn.edu/~mitrege/russian-culture/reports/candlwi1.html. Hollenbach, Liz. "Rasputin: Poet. Magician. Healer. Prophet. Holy Monk." 1997. http://www.stlawu.edu/rkre:http/indv5/rasp.htm. Kwapien, Robert. "Will the Real Rasputin Please Stand Up." 1996. http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/russian-culture/reports/kwapien2.html. Massie, Robert. Nicholas and Alexandra. Atheneum. New York. 1968. (190-191).
- 503: The Bill of Rights
- ... not within Bush's religious beliefs, you are not a citizen. Federal, state, and local governments also promote a particular religion (or, occasionally, religions) by spending public money on religious displays. FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: Robert Newmeyer and Glenn Braunstein were jailed in 1988 for refusing to stand in respect for a judge. Braunstein says the tradition of rising in court started decades ago when judges entered carrying Bibles. Since judges ... books or videotapes have been confiscated based upon the presence of some sexually explicit items. Bars, restaurants, or houses are taken from the owners because employees or tenants sold drugs. In Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff Robert Vogel and his officers stop automobiles for contrived violations. If large amounts of cash are found, the police confiscate it on the PRESUMPTION that it is drug money -- even if there is no other evidence ...
- 504: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... Abraham and his wife were able to purchase their own house in Springfield. It was a one-and-a-half story frame cottage. In May 1843, the Lincoln s had a son and named him Robert, after the addition to the family they made the house a full two story house. Lincoln had three more sons Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas. Edward died at the age of three, the cause ... moved around for the next 36 years. Lincoln was then buried at a spacious memorial of eight acres but grave robbers struck again and as the coffin was half out the police showed up. Under Robert Lincoln s instructions a hole thirteen feet deep was dug below the main catacomb floor, a four-foot base of cement was laid and an iron cage sunk into it. The coffin would be lowered ...
- 505: Themes Of Italian Renaissance Art
- ... dominated every other aspect of the Renaissance, that dominated the artistic aspect. Works Cited Barrett, Maurice. Raphael. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1965 Calder, Ritchie. Leonardo and the Age of the Eye. New York: Simon, 1970 Coughlan, Robert. The World of Michelangelo: 1475-1564. New York: Time-Life, 1966 Flemming, William. Arts and Ideas. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1995 Walace, Robert. Fra Anglelico and His Work. Chicago: Williamson, 1966
- 506: Dreams
- ... by brain signals. Experts now believe that dreams are so closely related to our waking lives that we can use them to help organize and work out inner conflicts (Von Keisler 141). A Harvard neuroscientist, Robert Stickgold, Ph.D. and his colleague J. Allen Hobson, M.D. have created a new model of dreaming. Numerous sections of the brain aid in dreaming, but they have concluded that it is a bottom ... REM stage is also referred to as Paradoxical Sleep because the body is in a state of physiological arousal. In this stage, the brain is highly active and this causes REM (Dream Talk). According to Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., "The mind becomes clinically insane for two hours every night. We hallucinate wildly, see and hear things that aren't there. We become delusional" ("How to Build..."). The brain will also produce ...
- 507: The Arts And Crafts Debate
- ... becoming inconsequential so does the skill involved in the process, thus craft becomes art. Such practices can also become advantageous to the artisan gaining non-conventional skills within the field. Becker uses the work or Robert Arneson ‘Sinking Brick Plates’ and ‘A Tremendous Teapot’ to illustrate this point. He classifies Arneson as an artist because of the indifferent works he produces, i.e. they lack utility, but Arneson himself “ridicules the ... works of Jeff Koons who contracts the labor of highly skilled craftsmen to construct his giant sculptures. He is fairly adamant about his accomplishments as an artist, although he has his critics. Well-known critic Robert Hughes doubts very much the ability of Kooks to call himself an artist for the very reason of his lack of skill as much as the content of his work. He states in his television ...
- 508: E.E. Cummings
- ... a description in the poem; the clashing colors create a feeling in sync with '!'. Also, why "(whi)" suggests amusement and wonder, another feeling resulting from '!' (Weg 145). Cummings had written a letter concerning !blac to Robert Wenger, author of The Poetry and Prose of E. E. Cummings (see Works Cited). In it, he wrote, "for me, this poem means just what it says . . . and the ! which begins the poem is whatmight ... An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Marks, Barry A. E. E. Cummings. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1964. Triem, Eve. E. E. Cummings. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969. Wegner, Robert E. The Poetry and Prose of E. E. Cummings. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965.
- 509: The Need For Gun Control
- ... civilians of the country is that if more restrictions on firearms and handguns are passed, this would gradually lead to a total ban on all guns sometime in the future. In an article written by Robert J. Blendon, John T. Young, and David Hemenway, they include a Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll which show how gun owners, non owners, and the nation as a whole were surveyed. Sixty-five percent of ... slowly minimize the problem and keep guns out of the wrong hands. Bibliography [1] Annin, Peter; Morganthau, Tom. “The lull before the storm?” Newsweek 4 December 1995: 03/24/97 19:29:23 [2] Blendon, Robert J.; Hemenway, David; Young, John T. “The American public and the gun control debate” The Journal of the American Medical Association 12 June 1996: 03/24/97 18:54:01
- 510: Abe Lincoln
- ... Todd, another prominent lawyer named Stephen Douglas was courting her as well. After a series of clashes between the two lawyers, Abe and Mary Todd were married in 1842, and they had their first child, Robert Todd that following year. Soon after they bought a house and had three other children, Edward, William and Thomas in 1846, '50 and '53. Sometimes, after a heated argument with his wife, Abe would go ... and when he gave his inaugural address in 1865, the end of the war was in sight. Little after his inauguration, Lincoln was assassinated and but a month later on April ninth 1865, did General Robert E. Lee surrender his army to the Union. The great life of Abraham Lincoln was only polished off by his magnificence in the time of war, and the abolition of slavery. He was a great ...
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