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- 5171: The New Deal
- ... order to extend the benefits of wealth more equally. Many economic, political, and social factor lead up to the New Deal. When staggering statistics such as 25% unemployment, and the fact that 20% of NYC school children were underwieght and malnourished (World Book, p.200) hit the White House, the government knew something had to be done. With the economy at on all time low people wanted change, Roosevelt's legislative ...
- 5172: The Trail Of Tears
- ... the Cherokee nation in 1827 continues his roll in the land, shared with another seventy tribes. They had opened up schools in the Indian Territory to continue their education for their children. The first Cherokee school opened in 1801 when the people were learning their language. Their written language which consists of 85 characters, was said to be created by a Sequoia (1760-1843) , a Cherokee leader. Sequoia translated the Bible ...
- 5173: Improving Cyberspace
- ... snuck past these limits. Just after the vote on the Exon bill, Senator Exon said "I knew it was bad, but when I got out of there, it made Playboy and Hustler look like Sunday-School stuff" (Elmer-Dewitt). He was talking about the folder of images from the Internet he received to show the Senate just before the vote. An hour later, the vote had passed 84 to 16. Demand ...
- 5174: Evaluation Of 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 trades. 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 ...
- 5175: The Gilded Age
- ... dealt a debilitating blow to the town’s economy, however the citizens found themselves with nowhere else to go. “We are born in a Pullman house, fed form the Pullman shop, taught in the Pullman school, catechized in the Pullman church, and when we die we shall be buried in the Pullman cemetery and go to the Pullman hell”(Meltzer151). For lack of a better action, the citizens of Pullman struck ...
- 5176: Civil War Journal
- ... will be enlisted in soon. I am frightened for what that boy has to go through. I am praying that he will be able to dodge that conscription set out. Emily is doing well in school. She is reading a lot, but, I think, she is pro-Union. She has been reading that Negro book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. I am quite upset that she is rebelling against her father's ...
- 5177: The Trancontinental Railroad
- Blake Higgins 4/29/00 Vail Mountain School Grade 8 The Transcontinental Railroad Although many changes occurred in the mid 1800’s in America, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War, the Transcontinental Railroad profoundly changed the U.S. This tremendous ...
- 5178: Puritanism
- ... theories to explain the "fits" of the young girls who accused so many of practicing witchcraft. Among the theories are adolescent hysteria and ergot poisoning. For further reading, visit: http://vader.castles.com/arowyn/Puritans/School http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html
- 5179: Jimi Hendrix Report
- ... were extremely poor. As a teenager, young Jimi listened to typical fifties music such as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presely and even a little Eddie Cochrane. He played in a few bands in high school, but then dropped out before his senior year. Jimi really never really imagined that he had enough talent to go into the music industry, actually he thought he had no talent whatsoever and had a ...
- 5180: Mozart
- ... Below it Leopold jotted: “This piece was learned by Walfgangerl on 24 January 1791, 3 days before his 5th birthday, between 9 and 9:30 in the evening”. (68) Mozart and his sister never attended school because their father dedicatedly and instructed them at home. Besides music, he taught them German, Italian, Latin, history science, mathematics and law. According to Ruth Halliwell, recognizing his children’s special abilities, Leopold began to ...
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