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- 601: Vietnam
- ... to fight the Ho Chi Men lead communists, without even allowing the Vietnamese people a chance to elect their own leader under a free parlimentory electoral system. The Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 Robert McNamara saw the Vietnam conflict escalate from 100 American advisors in 1961 to over 275,000 troops during the time of his departure. Vietnam was caught in a revolution, not unlike the civil war, split ... than that McNamara had no political or public service record up to that point. In a meeting in early December 1960 President elect John F. Kennedy at his home in Georgetown, Whasington D.C. asked Robert McNamara to serve in his cabinet as Secretary of Defense. McNamara describes himself to be at least timid to accept such an important role in Cabinet, questioning Kennedy to find out why the President elect ...
- 602: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... for almost a year and a half. Friends in Bergamo finally arranged for Donizetti to be brought back to his home town, where he stayed at Baroness Scotti's palace until his death in 1848. Robert Schumann (1810 to 1856) was one of the first Romantic musical composer. Born in Zwickau, Germany in 1810, Robert Schumann stared his musical education on the piano. The son of a bookseller he began to experiment with composition at an early age, and also cultivated a passion for poetry and literature. At sixteen, after ...
- 603: Nuclear Energy 2
- ... on where mill tailings have been stored. Many towns in the middle of the United States have been built on mill tailings. Some people unknowingly have used mill tailings as building materials. Corinne Browne and Robert Munroe, who are very well internationally known authors, state that : In some places, such as Grand Junction, Colorado, people used the mill tailings as landfill and construction material. In Grand Junction, five thousand houses, a ... buildings emitting radioactivity. (81) In towns that have been built on mill tailings there is a great increase in health related costs because of an increase in cancers and radiation induced diseases. Corinne Browne and Robert Munroe go comment on the effects of living in an environment that has radiation. In the early 1970s, a pediatrician in Grand Junction noticed an abnormally large number of children being born with cleft lips ...
- 604: Whitewater Vs. Watergate.
- ... monarch, such as Louis XIV. Only four years at a time and was not subject to the process of any court in the land, except a court of impeachment. Later, after Nixon resigned, interviewer David Frost asked him how he could justify the crimes he had committed. Nixon replied, "You have it wrong, Mr. Frost. When the president does it, it cannot be illegal." The Watergate affair remains the paragon for political conspiracy and secret operations that Whitewater has yet to approach. An attempt to compare the Watergate tragedy to ...
- 605: Mafia
- ... New York: Harper and Row, 1969. Ianni, Francis. Black Mafia. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Jaffe, Harry. "First They Got Rich-Then They Got Greedy." Washintonian Feb. 1993: 60-63 and 148-149. Kelly, Robert J. "Organized Crime: Past, Present, and Future." USA Today Jul. 1994: 76-78. Crime. Ed. Trudy Collins. Vol. 5. Boca Raton: SIRS, 1997. Art. 29. McGarvey, Robert. "Global Organized Crime." American Legion Feb. 1996: 16. Crime. Ed. Trudy Collins. Vol. 5. Boca Raton: SIRS, 1997. Art. 64. McKillop, Peter. "The Last Godfathers?" Newsweek 6 Feb 1989: 25. Mueller, Tom. "Cosa Nostra." The ...
- 606: How "First Love" is Represented by Different Artists
- ... loves are important to most artists, no matter how, when or who. How first loves impacted the artists play a significant role in determining the lives of the artists and their topics of writing. In Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Hayden writes about his father and the abandonment his family showed him even though he worked so hard to provide for them. Hayden writes, "
cracked hands that ached from labor ... realization before wising up to what their experiences with their first loves meant. They probably did not know that their first loves were their first loves until later in their lives. In the case of Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke, it took them their whole adolescent years to realize who their first loves were. But no matter how long or how they realized it, most of the artists were impacted greatly ...
- 607: Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons": Reasons for A Person's Actions
- ... s Actions Reading about individuals whose ways of life are dramatically different from our own provides readers with fresh insights into their own experiences and ideas. A reader of A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, may not be accustomed to the actions of the play's characters. Though, it is important to figure out and understand why the character reacts or acts as he/she does. This enables the ... the characters' actions. These characters may often be archetypes of extreme behavior, as in A Man for All Seasons. These characters allow the reader to turn the kaleidoscope on his/her life. Work Cited Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons. New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1962.(58,77,81,92)
- 608: Fate: Would Homer and Virgil Be The Same Without It?
- ... June 1993: 508-512. Brisson, Jean-Paul. "Aeneas, Rome's man of destiny." UNESCO Courier. September 1989: 23-27. Camps, W. A. An Introduction to "Vergil's" Aenid. Oxford England: Oxford University Press, 1969. Forman, Robert J. "AENID." Magill's Survey of World Literature. Ed. Frank M. Magill. Vol 6. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993. Milch, Robert J. THE AENEID Notes. Lincon, Nebraska: Cliff Notes, Inc., 1963. Poschl, Victor. The Art of Vergil. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. Strong, Elaine. THE ILIAD Notes. Lincon Nebraska: Cliff Notes, Inc., 1986. "The ...
- 609: Prince William
- ... after a line of William's in the British Royal throne. One of these, for "History-to-History" sake, is King William, "the Conqueror." Born around 1028, King William was the illegitimate son of Duke Robert I of Normandy, and Herleve, daughter of a tanner in Falaise. Known as 'William the Bastard' to his contemporaries, his illegitimacy shaped his career when he was young. On his father's death in 1035 ... William spent long periods on his Domesday Book, in Normandy to maintain his authority there, dealing with rebellions and French invasions. King William died in 1087 in Normandy, leaving his duchy to his eldest son, Robert and England to his next surviving son, King Rufus. Once, commentator, Julie Burchill, expressed a common feeling when she said, "I hope for the best for Wills, but I would be very surprised if he ...
- 610: Did Napoleon Betray The Revolu
- ... in Power: Napoleon, Longman, New York, 1997 Encyclopaedia Britannica, CD Rom, Standard Edition, 1999 Furet, Francois Napoleon Bonaparte in G, Kates(ed.) The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies Clarendon Press, Oxford (1997) Gildea, Robert Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914, Oxford University Press, New York 2nd edn, 1996 Napoleon, Conversation, 1800 Herold, J.Christopher (ed.) The Mind of Napoleon (London,1955), item no.106 Holmberg, Tom The empire between ... Documents of Napoleon (London, 1961) p.428. Lyons, Martyn Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution Macmillan, London, 1994 Schroeder, Paul The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848 Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994 Tombs, Robert France 1814-1914, Longman, NewYork, 1996 War Times Journal Napoleonic Wars website http://www.wtj.com/portal/wars/modern/napoleonic/
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