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Marlon Brando Humphrey Bogart
2,163 words... t also helped increase survival rates for surgery. The first eye bank was established at New York Hospital in 1944. Unemployment almost disappeared, as most men were drafted and sent off to war. The government reclassified 55 % of their jobs, allowing women and blacks to fill them. First, single women were actively recruited to the workforce. In 1943, with virtually all the single women employed, married women were allowed to work. Japanese immigrants and their descendants, suspected of loya...
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Royal Air Force Battle Of Britain
664 wordsSome historians talk of crucial battles where the right man in the right place at the right time can alter the course of history. Others say that the forces of history are inexorable and mere mortals can barely hope to influence, much less deflect or halt them. The Battle of Britain is very close to evidence for the former view. It is known as the greatest aerial battle ever fought, and was a large contributor to the Allies victory of the Second World War. It came at a time when Britain, disillu...
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4,086 wordsDoes life outside earth exist? Are UFO's really from outer space? Many people in the world today do believe in UFO's. "About half of the adult population do believe that UFOs are out there in space" (Ritchie 22). There are basically two sides to the matter. The first is that UFOs are hoaxes and don't exist at all, and the other is that they do exist and come from somewhere in outer space. Government cover-ups have been used to keep the secrets of UFOs under wraps throughout history, but despite ...
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World War Ii Atomic Bomb Was Dropped
1,555 wordsWorld War II was the biggest war ever fought. Nearly 30 million people were killed in it. About half were civilians while the other half were soldiers, sailors, and airmen. The war was fought all over the world, but the most important battles took place on the Islands in the Pacific and in Europe. The two sides were called the Axis and the Allies. The war lasted from 1939 to 1945; the chief countries of the Allies were the United States, Great Britain, Russia, France, and China. The Axis countri...
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20 Th Century Avant Garde
2,580 wordsThe environment was major contributing factor to the evolution of Australian art in the 20 th century. The elemental landscape; isolation and distance, the imposition of the mythical and the visionary on the landscape, national identity (the universal and the regional) and the demise of Arcadia and romantic idealism interweave magnificently to present the impact of surroundings on the artwork of such a then delicate nation. In retrospect it was the surroundings / climate /atmosphere / feeling an...
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Britain And France British And French
1,098 wordsAt the end of World War I the victorious nations formed the League of Nations for the purpose of airing international disputes, and of mobilizing its members for a collective effort to keep the peace in the event of aggression by any nation against another or of a breach of the peace treaties. The United States, imbued with isolationism, did not become a member. The League failed in its first test. In 1931 the Japanese, using as an excuse the explosion of a small bomb under a section of track of...
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German Air Force World War Ii
777 wordsThe Battle of Britain was a battle between the German air force, the Luftwaffe, and the British air force, the Royal Air Force (RAF). This battle took place over the skies of the United Kingdom in the summer and autumn of 1940. In order for Hitler to execute Operation Section, a planned invasion, successfully, he had to get rid of the British air force fearing that they will stop the operation if he tried to execute it. The first attack occurred in the August of 1940. Hitler decided to bomb the ...
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00 P M Mutual Fund
1,537 wordsJanus Capital Group is a mutual fund company that specializes in the active management of investor assets. They are responsible for the investment advisory, distribution, and marketing of their various funds throughout the world. The company's asset management disciplines include growth, core, international and value. As of February 29, 2004 total assets under management at Janus was $ 147. 5 billion (Janus. com). Tom Bailey established Janus Mutual Funds in 1970 with only 30 investors and less ...
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Level Of Violence Los Angeles
2,390 wordsKeeping Our Teenagers off the Streets In Leesville, LA, many parents and governmental agencies are concerned with the question of how to keep teenagers of the streets, just like in many other small communities in LA. The thing is, in LA the presence of youth gangs is one of the most heated social problems. To keep teenagers off the streets actually means to keep teenagers out of the youth gangs. (Harmon 73) Within the scope of this research, we will first provide background information on gangs ...
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The Poetry Of Black America
1,994 wordsThe Poetry of Black America "YOUR LAUGHTER and your song, your pity for the human condition, your poetic prophecy, the deep seriousness that pulses through your poems exemplify the ancient Grecian concept of the poet as the shaper and maker of our destinies, pointing the way to that one divine event toward which the whole creation moves: the brotherhood of man. " (Rampersad 364) This was the citation, with which Langston Hudges was awarded his second honorary doctorate by Howard University. One ...
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Louise Brooks And Josephine Part 2
2,533 words... the implication of such confinement reflects the fate of the French at the end of the Third Republic and beyond: either outright expulsion or the colonial policy of exclusion from within (Asante, 1993 p. 157). However, more importantly, attesting to Bakers singing style, one reviewer proclaimed: Her singing, like a wounded bird, transported the crowd (New York Times, 28 Feb. 1932). The singing and dancing talent that escalated Baker to stardom made her the focus of the American press. Baker ...
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World War Ii Central Intelligence Agency
1,621 words... was cracked. Also cracked was JN- 25 - The Japanese Fleet's Cryptographic System, a. k. a. 5 number codes. JN stands for Japanese Navy, introduced June 1, 1939. This was a very simple old-type codebook system used by the American Army and Navy in 1898 and abandoned in 1917 because it was insecure. Version A has a dictionary of 5, 600 numbers, words and phrases, each given as a five-figure number. These were super-enciphered by addition to random numbers contained in a second codebook. The di...
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Marlon Brando Rita Hayworth
3,086 wordsColumbia Pictures originated with a man whose coarseness and bullying earned him such unloving nicknames as &# 34; Harry The Horror, &# 34; &# 34; White Fang, &# 34; and &# 34; His Crudeness&# 34; : Harry Cohn. The New York-born son of Jewish immigrants, Cohn worked throughout the teens at numerous jobs, in and out of the entertainment industry. By 1918 he was an assistant to Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal, who also employed Harry&# 39; s older brother Jack. The Cohn's left Universal in ...
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Men And Women Great Britain
1,066 wordsThe 1940 s Drafted Drafted The 1940 s brought forth a huge battle, otherwise known as World War II. Millions of men were killed because they risked their lives fighting for their country. Many families were extremely affected by the outcome of this war. While millions of people were being drafted to fight, there were many who opposed. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and within days England and France declared a war on Germany. Throughout the next couple of weeks, Great Britain, Can...
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Vincent Millay Edna St
1,110 wordsEdna St. Vincent Millay, a poet and play write, was best known for her lyrical poetry. She wrote many poems, on topics such as love, fidelity, erotic desire, and feminist issues. The part of Millay that wasn t highly publicized is that she addressed herself as a bisexual and had many affairs with woman before her marriage. It is not said if she continued sexual insolvents with women after her marriage (though it is quite possible), nor it is not said which of her poems are written about women ra...
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Battle Of Britain House Of Commons
2,689 wordsThe legacy of Winston Churchill has survived into the 21 st century with its almost mythical qualities well intact. History remembers him, without overstating, as the eloquently spoken, sharp-witted British Prime Minister who, through determination, perseverance, and principle, took his countrys burden upon his shoulders and turned what could have been the British Empires final hour into, as Churchill emphatically declared, " their finest hour. " While Churchill's legendary status is w...
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Warm Springs Georgia Franklin D Roosevelt
3,631 wordsAssuming the Presidency Fdr Introduction Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York now a national historic site attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patricks Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. Fol...
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World War Ii Femme Fatale
2,526 wordsFilm Noir Almost every critic has his own definition of film noir, and a personal list of film titles and dates to back it up. (Schrader 2). The United States of America emerged from World War II drastically different from when they entered. The American society had changed in every aspect, even the American ideology differed from earlier ages. These changes had cultural impact, and in the middle of these confused times there occurred something previously unseen in the magical world of celluloid...
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2,948 words(1879 - 1940) Leon Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) Leon Davidovich Trotsky (Bronstein) is one of the most contradictory characters in the history of Russian and international revolution movement-he was well known as a loyal leader of the masses and the Party, but on the other hand, his own ambitions often conflicted with interests of the Party members and other Communist leaders. Trotsky was born in 1879. His real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein. His father was a well-to-do Jewish farm...
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World War Ii Pearl Harbor
805 wordsWorld War II was simply the bloodiest war the world has ever known, killing some 60 million men, women and children. The war transformed America into a superpower that would influence events around the world for 50 years. When World War II began in 1939, Germany was the aggressor, it was later joined in June 1940, by Italy, and Japan in December 1941. But on the morning of September 1 st 1939, the world was forever changed as Germany invaded Poland and executed its first Blitzkrieg or Lightning ...
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