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- 1231: 1775-1900: The History of the Buffalo Soldier
- ... should go elsewhere. Slavery no doubtfully had a great impact upon their decisions. However, despite their troubles African Americans have made a grand contribution and a great impact on our armed forces since the Revolutionary War. The Afro-American has fought against its country's wars, and they have also fought the war within their country to gain the right to fight and freedom. America's first war, its war for independence from Great Britain was a great accomplishment. This achievement could not have been performed if not for the black soldiers in the armies. "The first American to shed blood in ...
- 1232: The Rise And Fall Of Hitler Re
- ... formally given by him before his death, SS officers immersed Hitlers body in gasoline and burned it in the garden of the Chancellery. Soon after the suicide of Hitler, the German forces surrendered. The war was officially over; however, the world was only beginning to realize the extent of its horror. The rise and sudden fall of Hitler had a sensational effect on people and nations around the world. On Easter Sunday April 20, 1889, at an inn called the Gasth of Zum Pommer, the wife of an Austrian Customs official gave birth to a son, Adolf Hitler. He was the fourth child ...
- 1233: A Study In Contrast The Views Of Catherine Barkley And Brett
- A Study in Contrast: The views of Catherine Barkley and Brett Ashley in their perspective classes During the early 1900 s, after the death of Queen Victoria, the European world went through a great change under the influence of the Free Women s movement and WWI. It was a time of great confusion, women were faced with choices unheard of before, and having to fight ... short-skirted, shimmying, seductive, sleek femininity promising unprecedented freedom for the twentieth-century. Others characters like Catherine Barkley, A Farewell to Arms, presented a more conservative Victorian way of life, akin to a male dominant world. These, Hemingway s most famous female characters, are reflective in their contrast to the decaying Victorian society of the 1800 s and the feminist movement of the early 1900 s. Hemmingway s attempt to create ... is therefore more easily sympathized with and is what makes her character interesting. Brett s morals are perhaps the most honest part of her character as they portray those ideals that directly conflict with the world around her. One example of this is her multiple relationships outside of her engagement to Mike, which would have been outrageous for the time. The Victorian family would look at her as nothing short ...
- 1234: Aeronautics: Aviation Powerplants
- ... possible without powerplant development, refinement and modification. Aviation powerplants originated with the Wright flyer and its small 2 cylinder inline engines of a mere 45 horsepower. This style engine dominated aviation well into the First World War. They were generally placed in pushing positions (rear-facing) and produced a relatively low number of revolutions per minute (2500 RPM redline). There was little need for new engine development at this time because aircraft design progressed slowly. Rotary engines became popular around 1910 and powered many fighters and bombers in The First World War. These engines are placed in a radial pattern around the crankshaft. These produced respectable horsepower numbers in the category of up to 185+. They were used in such famous aircraft as the Sopwith ...
- 1235: J.D.Salinger
- ... alien institution, and that what is needed, what is missed, is a larger, closer family. It was after graduating from Valley Forge that Salinger wrote some of his first works. Salinger was deeply emotionalize by World war two. This had a great deal to do with his first writings. "Many of Salingers early stories do not deal directly with the war... but a war atmosphere permeates them - and it is not one of patriotism nor is it representative of the kind thought found in so much writing to come out of the war. His early ...
- 1236: Dwight D. Eisenhower
- ... 19). Dwight David Eisenhower is one of Americas greatest heroes with his military career to his two terms as President of the United States. Dwight Eisenhower had many accomplishments to and from West Point through World War One. Ike Eisenhower wanted to serve his country in any way he could. He found the idea of being a sailor in the U.S Navy intriguing, but when he later applied for entering he ... easier procedure for working advanced calculus (Hargrove 36). At the end of his college career in 1915,Eisenhower graduated number 61 out of a class of 164 (Hargrove 38). Eisenhower's military journey began during World War One. When he graduated college World War One was still raging through Europe. Instead of fighting in the infantry overseas Eisenhower was to stay home on U.Sbases (Hargrove 41). After being promoted ...
- 1237: The 1960's
- ... positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited american people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the soviet union, which was aggravated by the u-2 incident, the berlin wall, and the cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the ussr. The decade ended under the shadow of the viet nam war, which deeply divided americans and their allies and damaged the country's self- confidence and sense of purpose. Even if you weren't alive during the '60s, you know what they meant when they ...
- 1238: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... how the material interests of peoples and countries interwove in the complicated fabric of international trade. The bustling port of St. Croix, which was a melting pot of residents and visitors from all over the world, early formed a picture of a global village in Hamilton's mind. He also saw the darker side of international dealings, as the island was a center for the slave trade. Hamilton came away with ... propagandist. Hamilton's wistful words in a letter to a friend in 1769 seem in retrospect an invocation. What better way was there for a young man to change his station in life than in war, where ultimately, it is one's abilities rather than one's background that determines success or failure? All the while that the little New York artillery company was with Washington, Hamilton was making an indelible ... scribbling." As the action for the 1778 campaign got underway, Hamilton pined for battle. He wanted to be in the fray, not behind a desk. Other developments pointed to a much more successful year of war. The French had officially recognized the United States as an independent nation, and pledged military support. As Hamilton was fluent in French, probably learned from his mother very early in life, Washington entrusted him ...
- 1239: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... discovery now made it possible to look inside the human body without performing surgery. Within the few days of the findings, x-rays were used to locate a bullet in a man's leg. The world of medicine had acquired a major new tool for examining the sick and injured. The year after Roentgen's discovery, a French researcher and a friend of the Curie's, Antoine Henri Becquerel found that ... they had done earlier in the day. When Marie and Pierre got to the laboratory, they saw a "faint blue glow" in the darkness; it was the radium. Radium proved to be one of the world's most important discoveries, especially for its miraculous medical uses. Radium was measured to be two million times more radioactive than uranium. The smallest amount of radium was capable of giving off immense radiation. Radium ... scientific research. It was essential for it's use in medicine and it was worth more than a million gold francs. The Radium Institution was finished on July 13, 1914. Less than a week later, World War I broke out. Marie gave up all thought of scientific work in her new institute and threw herself behind the cause of her adopted country. Before dedicating herself to the war, Marie made ...
- 1240: Clarissa Dalloways Double
- ... The woman is Clarissa Dalloway, a "perfect hostess" in her early fifties, confronts the decisions she made thirty years ago. The man, intended by the author to be Clarissa's "double", is the "shell-shocked" war veteran Septimus Warren Smith who suffers delayed flashbacks over the wartime death of a comrade. The novel follows parallel stories of Clarissa and her "double," whom she has never met. Their lives are connected through ... where the upper class dominated. For Clarissa, there is also the possibility the she will be sacrificed to the dominant class As Peter worries, she might trust too much to her charm in making the world beautiful. Sally also fears that Clarissa "lacked something"(243) to survive if she let her nature of roses predominates. Throughout the novel, the lines from "Shakespeare's Cymbeline" which suggest that "death is a welcome ... from the love and the openness with people that should otherwise come naturally to someone with a social instinct as strong as hers. Septimus, on the other hand, has lost the ability to feel. Septimus' war experiences destroyed him emotionally that he cannot relate to other people and the external world. Septimus possesses the soul of a poet, but he is so sensitive that he cannot accept a life without ...
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