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Lend Lease Act Industrial Recovery Act
5,250 words... really prepared plans were ready to be implemented almost at once. Huge public buildings, great dams, and irrigation and flood-control projects are part of PWAs legacy. The most spectacular agency designed to promote general economic improvement was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), an organization set up (along with the PWA) by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which was passed by Congress in June 1933. The NRA was designed to help business help itself. Unfair competiti...
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York New York Similarities And Differences
1,299 words... imitating others. It is a form of non-verbal communication that provides a way for people to express their identities and values. In the 1820 s fashion was just being discovered and it maintained a strong hold on how society viewed people as well as how social classes were determined. This was the start of people taking risks, trying new things and testing the boundaries of society. From petticoats in the 1820 s to blue jeans in the 1960 s the element of fashion has only risen in the element...
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End Of The Movie Womens Roles
1,558 wordsWomen in Movies By: Anyone. Women in Movies Since the 1940 s, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. Beginning in the 1940 s and continuing though the 1980 s, women did not have major roles in movies. When they did have a leading role the women was either pretreated as unintelligent and beautiful, or as conniving and beautiful: But she was always beautiful. Before the 1990 s, men alone, wrote and directed all the movies, and the movies were written for men. In comparison, movi...
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Third Term Franklin Roosevelt
954 wordsFranklin Roosevelt was not wrong to violate the no third term tradition. The "no third term" tradition was set as a standard when Washington was in office. After Washington refused to run a third time, there were many other presidents who followed his lead. There should be no other president to lead the country at a time of strife, than the president that was in the office at that time. There was no written law that stated that a president could not run for a third term. The "no third term" poli...
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1,938 wordsThe fifth and youngest child of the Daniel and Amelia Stein family, Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 into upper middle class surroundings in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. When she was 3 years old the family moved to Vienna and then on to Paris before returning to American in late 1878 Her father moved the family to Oakland, California soon after their return. Her brother Leo, 2 years her senior, and Gertrude found like interest and became close allies through much of their early lives. Ger...
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1,426 wordsFantasia is a truly unique movie that combines beautiful music with interpretive animation. The movies music is exquisite but one would expect no less form the Philadelphia Orchestra who, at the time, specialized in such classical works as preformed in this movie. The songs were written well but one would also expect this because they were written by musical geniuses such as Mozart and Bach and are some of their more popular works. There is no disputing these two things but what of Disneys inter...
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World War Ii Humphrey Bogart
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Franklin Roosevelt Main Cause
664 wordsFranklin Roosevelt was 32 nd president of the US 1933 - 45, a Democrat. He served as governor of New York 1929 - 33. Becoming president during the Great Depression, he launched the New Deal economic and social reform program, which made him popular with the people. After the outbreak of World War II he introduced lend-lease for the supply of war materials and services to the Allies and drew up the Atlantic Charter of solidarity. Once the US had entered the war 1941, he spent much time in meeting...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
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Quot Quot Concentration Camps
4,870 wordsINTRODUCTION The HolocaustHolocaus INTRODUCTION The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. " Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme. " One of his main methods of " doing away" with these " undesirable" was through the use of concentration camp...
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Concentration Camps Gas Chambers
4,651 wordsHolocaust (1) INTRODUCTION The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme. One of his main methods of doing away with these undesirable was through the use of concentration camps. In January 1941, in a meeting with his top officials the f...
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Rio Grande Director Producer
2,914 wordsDorothy John Ford John Ford Dorothy R. Donahoo English 2145 Dr. Klink 04 / 03 / 99 John Ford was an American motion-picture director. Winner of four Academy Awards, and is known as one of Americas great film directors. He began his career in the film industry around 1913. According to Ellis, Fords style is evident in both the themes he is drawn toward and the visual treatment of those themes, in his direction of the camera and in whats in front of it. Although he began his career in the silent f...
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World War Ii U S Government
3,862 wordsIn the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, the German armies marched into Poland. On September 3 the British and French surprised Hitler by declaring war on Germany, but they had no plans for rendering active assistance to the Poles. The Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940, Hitler dominated Europe from the North Cape to the Pyrenees. His one remaining active enemy? Britain, under a new prime minister, Winston Churchill? vowed to continue fighting. Whether it could was questionable. The...
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1,230 wordsA hurried businessman runs across the airport at a full sprint. If he doesnt get to Gate D 3 in three minutes, he will miss his flight to Singapore. As he is running, little beads of sweat begin to form on his brow. People gawk at him and hurl insults his way when he bumps past them with seemingly no thought. All of a sudden, the man stops in full stride, whining to a stop. He breathes heavily and looks to his right. How can he go on the plane without something to read? Quickly the man bounds ov...
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Warsaw Ghetto Concentration Camps
1,815 wordsLife in the Ghetto By: It is widely known what went on between the Jews and the Germans during World War II. Millions upon millions of Jews were killed because of Hitlers hatred, Hitlers tyranny, and Hitlers fury. While many people today still cringe at the thought of life in concentration camps, many are not aware of the harsh reality that existed in the Jewish ghettos. The word ghetto is not only the scariest place in America but also a word used to refer to a Jewish community. These ghettos o...
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Judy Garland Rita Hayworth
3,425 wordsAs soon as movies learned to talk, they began to sing. In 1926, Warner Brothers released the short film April Showers, with Al Jolson singing a trio of songs. Jolson then starred in two silent features that included sound sequences in which he sang and spoke: The Jazz Singer (1927) and The Singing Fool (1928). By 1929, the first &# 34; all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing&# 34; musical was released: Broadway Melody, with a score by Arthur Freed and Nation Herb Brown. Produced by MGM, the studio...
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3,130 wordsJohn Ernst Steinbeck was an American author, famous for his novels concerning the poor and the oppressed Californian farmers and laborers of the 1930 s and 1940 s, who were victimized by industry and finance. His most famous novel, The Grapes of Wrath, won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. His main themes involved the struggles of the poor and the oppressed to survive in modern society, and the confrontation between man and his destiny. 1 Steinbeck wrote 17 novels, numerous short stories, several plays, ...
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Pearl Harbor Attack Franklin D Roosevelt
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Dance Floor West Coast
1,153 wordsThe history of Swing dates back to the 1920 s, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. Nightly dancing brought in most of the best dancers in the New York area. Really being moved by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy wa...
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