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- 2061: Ben Franklin 2
- Ben Franklin When one takes a look at the world in which he currently lives, he often sees it as being normal since it is so slow in changing. When a historian looks at the present, he sees the effects of many events and many wise people. Benjamin Franklin was one of these wise people. His participation in so many different fields changed the world immensely. He can be compared to Leonardo da Vinci, as his versatility is like that of a Renaissance Man. Benjamin Franklin was a Renaissance man of the 1700s. He was a noted politician as well ... The direct effect of Franklin's work with lightning as electricity was his invention of the lightning rod. News spread about his lightning rod, people installed it on most buildings and ships, and he became world famous. In 1740 he altered his heating stove by arranging the flues so that the stove would heat the room twice as well while using only a fraction of the fuel. It was first ...
- 2062: Albert Einstein 4
- ... relativity and gravity. By 1919, Albert Einstein became worldly renowned as he began to receive honors and rewards for his accomplishments. For example, in 1921 he received the Noble Prize award in physics from different world scientific groups. The two social movements that resulted in his full support were pacifism and Zionism. During World War I he was involved in publicly announcing Germany s involvement in the war. Following the war, he continued to offer support to the pacifist and Zionist principles and as a result he was made ...
- 2063: Athena
- ... myths, I decided I would talk about "The Gift of Athena" which, in my opinion, best illustrates Athena's colorful personality. Here is how "The Gift of Athena" goes: Long, long ago, when this old world was a very young place, and when the few people there were had just begun to live together in groups for their own protection, the great gods selected the places for humans to build the ... Poseidon was Zeus's brother, and Zeus did not want to disappoint him, either. Poseidon appealed to Zeus, saying that this location would provide the city with the greatest natural harbor in all of the world and destine it to be a great seaport. Therefore, as god of the sea, it was only right that he, Poseidon, should be its chief god. But Athena argued just as earnestly that the greatness ... earth shook violently all around until, at last, a great crack opened up in the surface. Out of this steaming chasm leaped a magnificent horse, his powerful white body fully arrayed in battle gear, a war-horse like none had ever seen before. "Behold my gift," said Poseidon, "and call the city after my name, for who can give these mortals a better present that the horse, which will ensure ...
- 2064: Cuban Missile Crisis 4
- The Cuban Missle Crisis The world will never be the same since October of 1962. It is now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. learned that the Soviets were building nuclear missile bases on Cuba because the Soviets ... find out until it was too late to do anything about it. The ploy almost worked. The nuclear bases were very near completion when a U.S. U-2 spy plane discovered the bases. The world held its breath as these events unfolded before their eyes; If any decision had have been different, it might have led to WW III. That is not a very comforting thought, knowing that we were ... If we did not, we would suffer the consequences (Smoke 36). Those consequences could be very harsh and detrimental to our society. A country that has first strike capability knows that it can start a war any time it chooses. On the other hand, a country that knows that they are not capable of first strike, will not be as willing to start a war. This was the problem we ...
- 2065: Cuban Missile Crisis 3
- The closest the world has come to nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States. U.S. armed forces were at their highest state ... naval blockade represented a combination of diplomacy and a military response and was now presented as a separate option." The secret committee feared that if direct military confrontation occurred, it would escalate possibly into nuclear war, the end of human existence upon Earth. As you can see, unlike the majority of the members of EXCOMM, Kennedy took the well being of the planet into consideration before deciding to act. This ...
- 2066: Casablanca Movie Review
- One of the world's best movies is Casablanca. Many things made this movie to the fine a movie as it was. Things such as the actors, lighting, costume, camera, and even the sound. People watching this movie can ... black and white film, it was extremly important, because It set the mood so well. I believe that because of the filming of the movie being so close to the events in Casablanca during the war the costuming was dead on. The time period in the film was the same as the time period it was actually filmed in. The amazing thing about the sound was that it was done live ... by the fact that being brought up with millions of technicolour movies, I am not that used to black and white, thus making me feel detached. The fact that I had never been through a war could be contributing to the detachment as well. Another thing that made me personally feel detached was that it kept me sperate from the characters. It never had the characters speaking to the audience ...
- 2067: American Labor Movement: Development Of Unions
- ... a day. Unrealistic demands were put on the workers who could barely afford to support their families. (1) The United States had the highest job-related fatality rate of any other industrialized nation in the world. Everyone worked eighty hours or more a week for extremely low wages. Men and women earned twenty to forty percent less than the minimum deemed necessary for a decent life. The number was even worse ... with the trains since they were an important and necessary vehicle in transportation, and the strike was eventually broken. (2-3) The most militant of the strike-prone unions was the International Workers of the World (IWW), commonly known as "wobblies". (3) They formed in 1905 in Chicago as a combination of unions fighting for better conditions in the Wests mining industry. The IWW was particularly strong among textile workers ... gained much character after winning the battle and striking against the textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 with their peak membership of one hundred thousand. They called for work stoppages in the middle of World War I which led to a government crackdown in 1917, and essentially destroyed them. (Department of Humanities, 3) A powerful reform called Progressivism swept the country in the early years of the twentieth century. ...
- 2068: Casablanca Movie Review
- One of the world's best movies is Casablanca. Many things made this movie to the fine a movie as it was. Things such as the actors, lighting, costume, camera, and even the sound. People watching this movie can ... black and white film, it was extremly important, because It set the mood so well. I believe that because of the filming of the movie being so close to the events in Casablanca during the war the costuming was dead on. The time period in the film was the same as the time period it was actually filmed in. The amazing thing about the sound was that it was done live ... by the fact that being brought up with millions of technicolour movies, I am not that used to black and white, thus making me feel detached. The fact that I had never been through a war could be contributing to the detachment as well. Another thing that made me personally feel detached was that it kept me sperate from the characters. It never had the characters speaking to the audience ...
- 2069: Our Solar System at a Glance
- Our Solar System at a Glance INTRODUCTION From our small world we have gazed upon the cosmic ocean for untold thousands of years. Ancient astronomers observed points of light that appeared to move among the stars. They called these objects planets, meaning wanderers, and named them after Roman deities -- Jupiter, king of the gods; Mars, the god of war; Mercury, messenger of the gods; Venus, the god of love and beauty, and Saturn, father of Jupiter and god of agriculture. The stargazers also observed comets with sparkling tails, and meteors or shooting stars apparently ... century, astronomers pointed a new device called the telescope at the heavens and made startling discoveries. But the years since 1959 have amounted to a golden age of solar system exploration. Advancements in rocketry after World War II enabled our machines to break the grip of Earth's gravity and travel to the Moon and to other planets. The United States has sent automated spacecraft, then human-crewed expeditions, to ...
- 2070: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... C. He attended George Washington University and earned a degree in 1917. In 1919 he became assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in the Department of Justice. It was Palmer who instigated the post World War I "red scare," an anti-Communist hysteria that led to the deportation of many aliens. Hoover was put in charge of the deportations. When Hoover became director of the Bureau in 1924, he quickly formed an elite force of powerful law enforcement officers. He enhanced the FBIs fame by capturing many gangsters, bank robbers, and other lawbreakers. After World War II he waged a relentless fight against internal subversion. The 1970s often criticized Hoover for his authoritarian methods. He died in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1972. In the rest of ...
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