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- 871: Chernobyl
- ... noted that controls should have come from Belarus, not the United Kingdom. Dubrova counters that finding uncontaminated people in Belarus would be next to impossible. Radiation effects also show up in the wildlife regions. Biologist Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University in Lublock says he found mutation rates in two species of mice that were probably thousands of times greater than normal. "It was the worst civilian disaster in the ...
- 872: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- ... bomb was much more explosive than scientists thought it would be. The 100 foot tower which housed the bomb was totally destroyed by the blast. ("World War II", 1997, 1-2). After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Hoare, 1987, 18) When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee to ...
- 873: Tennyson as a Victorian
- ... as "The May Queen," "Lady Clara Vere de Vere," and "The Lord of Burleigh." The new volume was not received well publically. But the grant to him at this time, by the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, helped stop his worries in financial matters. In 1847 he published his first long poem, The Princess, a poem about anti-feminist fantasia. A man by the name of Edward Moxon offered to publish ...
- 874: The Vietnam Era
- ... lost American home backing. Americans turned against the war because it was not part of "our" problems. American soldiers were being killed because we were trying to solve their problems. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968. Kent State University was the site where protesting college students were ordered to be killed by guardsmen. the students were protesting the war. My Lai was the site ...
- 875: The Congress of Vienna
- ... Napoleon. Each country was beginning to pursue their own interests and drift apart from establishing a method to prevent the power in France from ever growing to such a magnitude again. The British foreign secretary Robert Stewart (Viscount Castereagh) brought about the Treaty of Chaumont, restoring the Bourbon Dynasty from France's past. It was then decided for all allies to remain at peace until there was a reorganization of land ...
- 876: Japan: After World War II
- ... triumphed over the attendant fustrations and grievances. Consequently, the Occupation served to lay down a substantial capital of good will on which both America and Jap an would draw in the years ahead. BIBLIOGRAPHY Christopher, Robert C. /The Japanese Mind/. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1983 La Cerda, John. /The Conqueror Comes to Tea/. New Brunswick: R utgers University Press, 1946 Manchester, William. /American Caesar/. New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1978 ...
- 877: The French Revolution
- ... time, already too high. When King Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased the financial crisis of France, but he had difficulties when he tried to introduce a major reform, that of taxing the nobles. He had such difficulties because the king could not tax ...
- 878: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... Policy' 3rd Report of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee.vol.1, London: HMSO, June 1993. 2. Ramesh Thaker and C.A. Thayer (ed) A Crisis of Expectations, Boulder: Westview, 1995, p.46. 3. Robert Debs Heinl Jr. and Nancy Gordon Heinl Written in Blood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.,p.6. 4. Michel-Rolph Trouillot 'Haiti's Nightmare and the Lessons of History' NACLA Report on the Americas. vol.XVII ...
- 879: Social Deviance
- ... to indentify with the only status and role avaliable, that of the deviant. The labeling theory focuses on the interactions with people in a society, and believes that the reactions of others influence ones behavior. Robert Merton believed that ones position in society would affect his or her ability to follow the norms. Merton believed in two types of norms: culturally defined goals and institutionalized means. Culturally defined goals are the ...
- 880: Welfare: Not A Way of Life
- ... than support them for a lifetime. The previous program did not have time limits. Over time, the system became increasingly unpopular. Political opinion turned against the idea of anyone getting rewarded for being idle (Samuelson, Robert J).
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