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- 5381: Watergate Scandal
- ... federal court made Nixon hand over the tapes. Nixon refused, and Cox ordered him to, but Nixon had his attorney fire him. Cox was a idle to Richardson, because he was his professor in law school. Richardson refused Nixon's order and resigned. President Nixon then ordered the deputy Attorney General to fire Cox. This massive event was known as the Saturday Night Massacre. Many people of the nation felt that ...
- 5382: Vietnam
- ... story with a brief explanation of where he came from and how he came about to become the Secretary of Defense. McNamara studies extend from University of California at Berkley then to the Harvard business school. He then went on to work for the Ford Motor company where he was selected to be one of the "whiz kids," a group of men selected to keep pace and compete with the newly ...
- 5383: Great Expectations: Life Story of Phillip Gargery
- ... out that Herbert was the pale young gentleman who I fought at Havisham’s. I didn’t really mind, because he was one of the only friends I had. There in London, I went to school, and met Startop, and Drummel. I didn’t like Drummel at all, for he was a saucy man. Startop was nice. One day we went to Jagger’s house to have dinner. There, I met ...
- 5384: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... nothing to do with the actual proceedings, Samuel Parris most likely started the whole fiasco by beating Tituba into confessing witchcraft and fanning the flames of accusation from his pulpit. Parris organized fasts and daily prayer meetings to help the afflicted children, at the center of who were his own daughter, Betty, and his niece, Abigail. A wealthy merchant’s life was not adequate for Samuel Parris so he began as ...
- 5385: The New Deal
- ... jobs. "Black cabinets" or "black brain trust" became advisors of the president. William Hastie and Mary Leod Bethune were of the top names in this group of African Americans. They helped thousands to stay in school and learn new traits. With the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, many women took jobs at the White House. In 1936 the democratic convention declared that every platform should have an alternate of the opposite sex ...
- 5386: Thanksgiving
- ... repeated, though, so it can't be called the beginning of a tradition, nor was it termed by the colonists or "Pilgrims" a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting, and would have been held any time that they felt an extra day of thanks was called for. Nevertheless, the 1621 feast has become a model that we think of for our own ...
- 5387: Slavery - Underground Rail Road
- ... Many slaves would also try to read the bible; if caught they were punished. A way many slaves did learn was by passing the slaves down from one to another. They could not have a school or anything like that. When a slave were to runaway from their plantation they would go at night and some even tried to go by horseback. Life as a slave was harsh and completely unfair ...
- 5388: Slavery - An Era Of Inhumanity
- ... naked children play throughout the day by having wrestling matches and eagerly listening to the moral stories told by the village grandmothers, who loved the children as if they were their own. Older children attend school and learn the history of their forefathers as well as verses from the Koran. After classes are over, they tend the goats, which they do with extreme alertness for they are fully responsible for their ...
- 5389: Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
- ... Negroes; on the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four;" and slave owners "probably made up less than a third of southern whites." From the US History textbooks in an elementary school to the Civil War journals of a major university, these lines are reprinted and repeated in an attempt to shape the perception of the public and to ease the insecurities of a nation embarrassed by ...
- 5390: Salem Witch Trials
- ... The girls’ torment "could not possibly be Dissembled", stated Cotton Mather (National Geographic). Unable to determine any physical cause for the symptoms and behavior, doctors concluded that the girls were under the influence of Satan. Prayer Services and community fasting were organized by the Reverend Samuel Parris in hopes of relieving the evil forces that supposedly plagued the community. Efforts to expose the witches were also performed. The first three women ...
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