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Labor Union History In California
883 words
The various labor movements in California have
been among the most important in our nation. As a
state with a tremendously diversified economy,
California's workers are employed in every
industry imaginable; from our huge agriculture
base, to our docks, to aerospace, to construction,
to the entertainment industry-the list is endless.
And in each industry, workers struggled to
organize themselves into collectives to shape the
labor landscape of California. Some of
California's labor movements hav...
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Seismic Waves Southern California
463 words
Seismologists... Scientists and Mathematicians
Beno Gutenberg was the foremost observational
seismologist of the twentieth century. He combined
exquisite analysis of seismic records with
powerful analytical, interpretive, and modeling
skills to contribute many important discoveries of
the structure of the solid Earth and its
atmosphere. Perhaps his best known contribution
was the precise location of the core of the Earth
and the identification of its elastic properties.
Other major contributions...
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One Of Picasso Picasso And Braque
1,291 words
Pablo Picasso was considered the greatest artist
of the 20 th century because of his unique styles
and techniques. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in
Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881 to a professor
of art named Jose Ruiz Blanco and his wife Maria
Picasso Lopez. Because of his fathers' occupation,
Picasso's talent was quickly noticed and
appreciated. Don Jose, an art teacher, moved
Picasso and his family to La Coruna and then to
Barcelona where he was Picasso's instructor at the
fine arts academy....
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Stock Market Crash Franklin Roosevelt
1,064 words
It is easily shown that the author, Pierre Berton,
didn't show much opinion in this book. He mainly
focused on just the facts. He would however give
some personal views of reasons for certain things
or explanations. He probably got most of his
information from a textbook or actual documents.
He did a good job compiling these facts into a
time line of events. He explains who each
important person is that was involved in the times
of the depression and all important laws passed.
He began talking a...
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Nov 2007 29 Nov
717 words
Fashion of the 1930 s through the 1950 s (1)
Fashion of thirties corresponded to
socio-political realities of this historical
period. The Great Depression deprived people of
their vision of future as such that is going to be
defined by technological progress alone. This
produced a great disillusionment among citizens,
which is why fashion of thirties can be defined by
designers attempts to find inspiration in the
past, while it is also can be described as being
very practical. Womens fashion of ...
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Jilting Of Granny Weatherall Social And Cultural
899 words
The Characteristics of Literary Prose in the
Decades between the World Wars The period between
the World Wars in the United States became a
great, modern nation and witnessed a lot of
changes. National demographics of the 1920 s has
been also changed by industrialization,
urbanization and immigration. The wars transformed
the nation in various terms, politically, socially
and economically. For example, as sale,
manufacture and exchange of alcohol was forbidden,
this gave incentive to the emergen...
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Period Of Time George Gershwin
1,367 words
George Gershwin George Gershwin, a famous American
composer of the 1920 th, belongs to the category
of exceptionally gifted artists, who died young
and could not realize many of their plans and
ideas. Despite of his short life-time, musical and
creative inheritance of Gershwin is significant:
he wrote about thirty musicals and operettas for
theater and cinema, and became an author of many
popular songs, which are still being played in our
times. Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, in a
family of...
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Nation Of Islam Spiritual Values
1,540 words
Islam and The Nation of Islam, How different are
they? Islam by virtue of a lot of the historical,
socio-political, cultural and psychological
reasons is closely connected to destinies of
Arabian peoples. Islam for them is more, than
religion. Many traditions, customs and laws of
Islam are directly or indirectly connected to the
history of Arabs and other peoples which have
absorbed Islam. Before becoming one of world
religions, Islam was and remains a set of thinking
and traditions of Arabs. It...
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Game Of Golf Modern Day
1,835 words
Golf Tourism and Travel Golf is one of the ball
games that do not have a fixed area for the
playing field. The goal of individual or team
playing the game is to hit the ball towards a hole
through the use of clubs. This originated in
Scotland and has been played in British Isles for
many centuries. Many think that the game of golf
is a pastime for elites and upper classes.
However, in recent years, the game is becoming a
popular game for many people (Golf, 2006). The
golf travel industry has bee...
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African American Poetry Negro Race
670 words
[Course Title] African American Poetry In her
poem, tellingly titled A Southern Road the
relatively idyllic portrait of the southern folk
is disrupted by Helene Johnson with the
representation of lynch violence, a representation
obviously lacking in the popular film of the late
1920 s and the 1930 s: A blue-fruited black gum
Like a tall predella Bears a dangling figure
(Wagner 197) The poem is an ironic pastoral
variation on the "Black Christ" lynching poem that
was a significant subgenre of Afr...
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Five Year Plan Labor Movement
1,532 words
... wishes found themselves in prison or in exile.
Impeachment proceedings removed opposition from
the Supreme Court. A malleable Senate and Chamber
of Deputies soon gagged the few members who dared
to criticize the presidency. Intervention in the
provinces removed governors or legislators opposed
to Peron. The universities and schools quickly
lost their independence; students and faculty
either acquiesced or Left Argentina. Radio
stations and newspapers became government
propaganda outlets. Sec...
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Capital Punishment Opponents Argue
649 words
++ x> execution prevents eighteen murders per
year. (Hirsch, 122) Opponents argue that capital
punishment is immoral. But if you follow the Old
Testament, it is moral. In one passage from
Genesis, Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man
shall his blood be shed. Another from Exodus, Eye
for an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot
for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe
for stripe (Samaha, 440). It was not very moral of
the prisoner to commit a murder in the first
place. Why should it...
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World War One British Society
862 words
Comment on any one of the leisure activities
featured in Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Explain if
it was a new development of the interwar era. The
interwar period witnessed an explosion of a
variety of leisure activities within British
society, some of which were new and some of which
were not. One such leisure activity was that of
the cinema, and featured as a popular pastime in
Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Whilst the cinema was
not a new leisure activity during the interwar
era, there were however...
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Breast Implants Cosmetic Surgery
1,766 words
Breast Implants One of the first uses of silicone
in a medical implant came in the form of
lifesaving tubes implanted into young children to
funnel excess fluid from the brain into the chest
cavity, where the fluid could be safely
metabolized and excreted. Since these shunts were
first used, in the late 1950 s, silicone in
various forms has come to be an important part of
many implants. It is used in tracheotomy tubes, in
artificial lenses for the eye, in artificial heart
valves and in facial im...
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Trillion Dollars Billion Dollars
526 words
The National Debt For the past centuries, the
american people dug themselves into a big hole
which is the National Debt. In this paper I will
discuss the history of the national debt, effects
on the debt / deficit , wais to reduce it and
control the deficit. the national debt has
increased every year from 1945 to 1995. The
biggest increase of the debt was from the years
1985 to 1995 when it went up about three trillion
dollars. Right after the Civil War the debt held
at three billion dollars. In...
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Rest Of His Life Tender Is The Night
614 words
F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels
The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, both of
which depicted disillusion with the American dream
of self improvement, wealth, and success through
hard work and perseverance. Francis Scott Key
Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Fitzgerald was of mixed Southern and Irish
descent. He was given three names after the author
of the Star Spangled Banner to whom he was
distantly related. In 1913, Fitzgerald entered
Princeton University, but h...
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British Authorities South Africa Gandhi
864 words
Mahatma Gandhi was a great Hindu leader and model
for the world to follow. His fervor for an
independent India encouraged others to stand
behind and support him in his efforts to obtain an
independent country. Gandhi was born in India yet
he received the majority of his preparation for
the Indias movement in South Africa. Gandhi was
jailed and beaten in South Africa but persevered
and the government made important concessions to
Gandhi's demands, including recognition of Indian
marriages and abo...
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United States Senate Presidential Candidate
1,620 words
Throughout much of his life in politics, Pinchot's
name had been occasionally thrown around as a
possible Presidential candidate. It never
happened. He was eventually elected to public
office as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922,
largely through the support of rural counties and
the new womens vote. During his 1923 - 1927
administration, his major goals were the
regulation of electric power companies and the
enforcement of Prohibition. In a crusade for clean
politics, he reorganized state governm...
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Grapes Of Wrath Pulitzer Prize
635 words
The Grapes of Wrath By John Stienbeck Review By
Nic Sherlock This book was published in 1975 but
written in the 1930 s. It won the Pulitzer Prize
and the author also won the 1962 Nobel Prize for
Literature. The book is a story of the Joad
family, and their trip to California. It tells of
the migration of thousands of homeless families
from Oklahoma to California. It follows the Joad
family, who, evicted from the land by the bank
decide to head for the Golden West to a land of
plenty. When there ...
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Grapes Of Wrath Hostile Environment
458 words
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck
that exposes the desperate conditions under which
the migratory farm families of America during the
1930 s live under. The novel tells of one families
migration west to California through the great
economic depression of the 1930 s. The Joad family
had to abandon their home and their livelihoods.
They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors
were rapidly industrializing their farms. The bank
took possession of their land because the owners
co...
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