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- 1451: Brian Mulroney And The Free Tr
- ... than an idea man or a policy man. His critics said he was as shallow as a "bird bath and always had been, a fair clone of Sam Malone, the Irish bartender on the popular television series "Cheers." " But many who got their kicks out of being delegates at leadership conventions were also fans of sitcoms and soaps. Mulroney was obviously not dim-witted, and he had moved sensibly and fashionably ...
- 1452: Black Panthers
- ... The Black Panther, mass rallies, speaking tours, slogans, posters, leaflets, cartoons, buttons, symbols: like the fist, graffiti, political trials, and even funerals. The Black Panther Party even had enough power to spread its ideas on television and the radio. The main idea the Black Panther Party had to spread was that, "We were human, we were ready for equality, we were equal to whites, disproving racist ideas held by whites." Some ...
- 1453: Black Civil Rights
- ... officials declared that protest marches violated city regulations against parading without a license, and, over a five-week period, they arrested 2,200 blacks, some of them schoolchildren. As the media recorded events, Americans watching television and reading newspapers were horrifies. The images of violence in Birmingham created much sympathy for black Americans' civil rights struggle. In August of 1963, civil rights protesters arranged massive march on Washington D.C. to ...
- 1454: Berlin Wall
- ... the legislators spontaneously burst into patriotic song."(Bornstein,(1990),p.23) "Exhausted by weeks of political stress in which decades-old policies were reversed daily, overwhelmed by the mobs demanding immediate exit, and noticing Western television crews waiting on the other side, the commanding officers gave way to the masses and opened all the gates."(Borneman,(1991), p.2) "Economic union has powerful implications both inside and outside Germany. Rebuilding the ...
- 1455: Apartheid In South Africa 2
- ... earn three times as much as blacks while coloureds earn well over half of what whites earn. During Apartheid, media censorship was at an all time high. People were even banned from showing Soweto on television. It was common to see a newspaper shut down, and then start again after being halted by the government. Up until 1985, mixed marriages were banned. This meant that a person of one race cold ...
- 1456: American Indians Between 1609
- ... planted squash, pumpkins, beans and corn crops. Trades between neighboring tribes were common, this brought in additional goods and also some raw materials such as gems, cooper. seashells and soapstone.To this day, movies and television continue the stereotype of Indians wearing feathered headdresses killing innocent white settlers. As they encountered the Europeans, automatically their material world was changed. The American Indians were amazed by the physical looks of the white ...
- 1457: Atomic Bomb 2
- ... all of them. They have no value to society and should be destroyed. This apocalyptic temper and social activism was effected greatly in the early Sixties by the Cuban Missile Crisis. When Americans saw, on television, that they could be under nuclear attack in under twenty minutes, a new anxiety about the cold war surfaced that had not been present since the days of McCarthy. And this new anxiety was evidenced ...
- 1458: Asian American
- ... the normal hardworking American family had many luxuries that no other generation had ever had. Automotive industries such as Ford and General Motors brought the first automobiles to the American public and inventions like the television made way for companies such as Magnavox and JVC. The country was expanding at such a rate that it was hard for the economy to keep up. Importing and exporting goods was a key in ...
- 1459: Africa 2
- ... are enrolled in European, Asian, and North American colleges and universities. Most African governments support these overseas students. Even though literacy is still at a low level by Western standards, modern communications media such as television and, especially, radio have spread information about the rest of the world. Through them, Africans have learned about Europe, Japan, and North America where the standards of living for most people are higher. They hear ...
- 1460: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- Beating the Odds Faced with the task of writing a paper on a specific act of courage my initial reaction was that of total uncertainty. Later that evening, as I lay in my bed watching television I pondered what topic to do for the paper. Then the sportscaster on the news began an interview with Jim Abbott a well-known major league pitcher. I thought to myself, this is perfect! Jim ...
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