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- 1711: Jimi Hendrix Report
- ... with extraordinary guitar playing. All Along The Watchtower was a protest song that was pure and simple. During the late 1960's music such as this were very popular because they protested against the Vietnam War, the draft, and government in general. The songs on Electric Ladyland showed a marked turn for Hendrix that indicated that as his comfort in his own abilities and heritage grew, the faith that he once had in the world was being torn apart by the Vietnam War and his increasing realization that everything in the world is not necessarily made better by his own success. By the time the next album was to be recorded, the Jimi Hendrix Experience had broken ...
- 1712: The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
- The Conquest of the Aztec Empire History is possibly the most important area of study in the modern world. We begin our study of history at an early age and continue throughout our lives. We need to keep an account of the past in order to truly understand who we are today. The old ... most prominent topics of interest when studying history is conflict. We want to know what factors led to certain wars, how the winning side succeeded, and what the immediate and long term effects of the war were. The major difficulty in studying wars is the fact that their accounts are generally recorded by the victors. The losers are usually not in a position to challenge the victors' accounts or even to ... they eat which are very good . . . There is jewelry of gold and silver and precious stones and other ornaments of featherwork and all as well laid out as in any square or marketplace in the world. (Cortes 67) The Spanish were overcome with covetousness. They raided the treasure houses, including Motecuhzoma's, melting down all of the beautiful gold jewelry and artifacts into ingots (Leon-Portilla 66-69). In addition, ...
- 1713: CIA Covert Operations: Panama and Nicaragua
- ... interesting. So with that I will continue on with this paper showing my findings on the CIA and thier covert operations. Covert operations have become a way of life and death for millions of people world wide who have lost their lives to these actions. By 1980, covert operations were costing billions of dollars. CIA Director William Casey was quoted as saying covert actions were the keystone of U.S. policy in the Third World.(Agee, 2) Throughout the CIA's 45 years, one president after another has used covert operations to intervene secretly, and sometimes not so secretly , in the domestic affairs of other countries, presuming their affairs were ... infrastructure like roads and bridges. They also destroyed port installations and mined harbors. As a result, average individual consumption dropped 61% between 1980 and 1988. On estimate puts the U.S. investment in the Contra war at $1 billion.(Agee, 7) Though the Contras successfully sabotaged the economy and terrorized large sectors of the rural population, they failed to defeat the Sandinista military or even take and hold the smallest ...
- 1714: Is Chivalry Alive Today
- Chivalry is the type of thing that would be great to have in our society but I dont believe that it exists too much anymore in the world today. Let me break down here some of the chivalry rules compared with the actions of the people of the current world. One rule of chivalry is that you have to honor and respect women. Back in the days of King Arthur this was carried out greatly but if you look at the lack of respect given ... not as respected as they should be. When you look at the cases of rape, assault, and battery you see just why the Knights were so honorable. There are some very honorable men in the world that treat women with respect and for that I commend them, but there are those who give men a bad name. The worst case of this that I have seen is when Bill Clinton, ...
- 1715: Civil War - Gettysburg
- ... sufficiently from his wounds had resumed command of the army but had been summoned to Richmond by President Davis following overtures from ( Vice ) President Johnson to discuss common grounds for a peaceful settlement to the War. Lincoln left the Capital for Canada, reluctantly, following pressure from Cabinet to avoid possible capture by the advancing Confederates who seemed unstoppable as the Union forces in and around Washington disintegrated into a disorderly rabble ... post-haste. Thousands of southern troops lined the streets as Lieutenant- General Thomas ""Stonewall Jackson proceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue to set up headquarters in the White House. By the 15th of July 1865 the Civil War was effectively over. The South was, to all intent and purpose, now an independent country free to make its own way in the brotherhood of nations. The saving factor of the above story is the fact that it is fiction. Reality is that Jackson was dead before Gettysburg and the South was eventually defeated. The what-if factor is could the South having won the War survived the peace? Slavery was a dinosaur and if the South had clung to it isolation by the major powers would have been inevitable, also the fact that divided America would have needed several ...
- 1716: Jack London 2
- ... volumes of stories, novels, and political essays. London also spent the winter suffering from scurvy, and later returned to San Francisco in the spring. In 1899 London was starting to make headway in the publishing world, despite more than 250 rejections a year. London was married to Bess Maddern in 1900, with whom he had two daughters, Joan and Bess. With her as his inspiration, he followed the precept in a ... of the Abyss), and was a success in the U.S. He traveled to Korea as a correspondent for Hearst's newspapers to cover the was between Russia and Japan. Later a piece called, "The War of the Classes" was published, which included his lectures on socialism. In 1907 London and his wife boarded a ship called the Snark, and sailed around the world. The great voyage was to last seven years and take Jack and Charmian around the world. The "Snark" was to cost an amount of $7000. The final bill came in at about $30.000 ( ...
- 1717: Imperial Presidency: Overview
- ... chronologically. He begins by discussing the areas concerning the presidency where the founding fathers agreed and also the areas where they disagreed. He then goes on to analyze the rise of the imperial presidency through war and recovery, with emphasis on the events of the twentieth century. After the war in Vietnam, Schlesinger divides the book based on the specific nature of the events that had an impact on presidential power. He divides it based on domestic policy, foreign policy, and the affairs that go ... with an in-depth view of what the framers intended and how they set the stage for development over the next two centuries. An issue that Schlesinger focuses on is the presidents ability to make war. The decisions of the founders in this area would have a huge impact on the power contained in the office of the president. The consensus amongst the framers was that the president, as Commander ...
- 1718: Reconstruction
- The Civil War was the bloodiest war to be fought on American soil. Although both sides expected the conflict to be over in a matter of days, it lasted four tumultuous years, from 1861-1865. The war pitted brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor. The period of Reconstruction, the time when our nation attempted to mend its broken relations with the South and rebuild after the destructive war, lasted until 1877. ...
- 1719: Chester Wilmot
- ... would not be helpful since he is from Australia. In The Struggle for Europe, Wilmot seeks to explain several points. First, he explores and explains how the western allies succeeded militarily but failed politically during World War II. He then elaborates on how and why the western allies crushed the Nazi regime; yet, they allowed the Soviet Union to overtake Eastern Europe and block the Atlantic Charter from taking effect in those ... Stalin's victory. Fourthly, he endeavors on a mission to explain how the Soviet Union replaced Germany as the dominant European power. Beginning with the Battle of Britain, the book takes the reader through the war up to the surrender of Germany. In this process Wilmot touches on Hitler's alliance with Mussolini, Hitler's conquest of France, the Lowlands, and the Balkans, and the Nazi dictator's collapse in ...
- 1720: My Lai: The Event, The Trial,
- ... was probably the biggest mistake the United States of America have made in its 200 plus years of existence. As a result, the country's concern turned towards, next to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, mostly in favor of it, but some against it. For the first time ever, America saw daily reports, footage, broadcasts on television of the "reality" of the war. The images presented at first, along with some carefully prepared lies that a tense government conjured up gave a frictional society the impression that American presence in Vietnam was appropriate, and that we would come ... inhumane actions, cruelty, violence, and the absolute truth of what was really going on in Vietnam. In reality, it was a blood bath (Almond). When the truth of the extremity and the reality of the war broke ground and reached the public eye, society's realization of the truth collided head-on into the government's world of lies, and all hell broke loose. The people's opinion began drifting ...
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