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Anti Communist Television Networks
1,246 words... that even having been convicted of a crime (Ellen Schrecker the Age of McCarthyism). The film industry soon started to change as people began to fear losing their job and reputation. The economic hardships befalling Hollywood hit the movie industry hard. The studios were already losing money due to the invention and wide-spread use of the television and many studios were going bankrupt or on their way down that path. Needless to say, the McCarthy controversy didnt sit well with the heads of ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Act
555 words(1) Truman's civil rights committee: In 1947 Truman's Civil Rights Committee recommended laws protecting the right of African Americans to vote and banning segregation on railroads and buses. It also called for a federal law punishing lynching. He issued executive orders ending segregation in the armed forces and prohibiting job discrimination in all government agencies. (2) Brown V. the Board of Education (1954): In 1954 the Supreme Court made one of the most important decisions in its long his...
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Cold War Foreign Policy
1,106 wordsIntroduction Their [Russias and Americas] starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe, Alexis de Torqueville, late 19 th century. De Torqueville's prophecy came true by the 1940 s when the two super powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union, had come head to head, swaying the destinies of half the globe and more. (de Torqueville, chapter 18) The United States had recen...
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Ho Chi Minh President John F Kennedy
1,842 wordsThe reports in this novel are prefaced with a quote by Robert Shape, which sums up the feelings of those Americans involved in the Vietnam conflict. He states, Vietnam, Vietnam... There are no sure answers. In this novel, the author gives a detailed historical account of the happenings in Vietnam between 1950 and 1975. He successfully reports the confusing nature, proximity to the present and the emotions that still surround the conflict in Vietnam. In his journey through the years that America ...
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Oxford Basil Blackwell Class Consciousness
1,525 words... power and size. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates Labour produces not only commodities: it produces itself and the worker as a commodity - and this at the same rate at which it produces commodities in general (Marx, 1997: 60 - 62). This process has the direct effect of alienating the labourer from the object in the capacity of the product of his labour: The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the ob...
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On The Waterfront And High Noon
1,357 words... of the law, and true good is shown instead to be in the in the individual character and his actions. Society is clear-cut, black and white, good and bad. It is a deliberately anti-intellectual film, emphasised by the constant repetition of how smart it is to give in and run. The gratification of traditional ideals is complete when the obvious rightness of siding with Kane is supplanted by the desire to bring big business to town. It just seems so narrow minded and egotistic that not one pers...
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Los Angeles Dance Company
316 wordsBorn on the 5 th of January 1931, the man who changed the face of modern dance forever. He was born in a farming community in Rogers, Texas. When he was twelve he and his mother moved to Los Angeles. He had a difficult childhood. His mother was always working or out at a club. Through these hard times a wide range of dance genres, including the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, influenced him He enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). It ...
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Institute Of Technology Hydrogen Bonding
1,257 wordsChemist Linus Pauling; born in Portland, Ore. After taking his Ph. D. at the California Institute of Technology (1925) and then two years of study abroad, he returned to that institution for most of his professional career (1927 -- 63). Details of those years are as follows: At the California Institute of Technology his advisor was Roscoe Dickinson, whose area of expertise was X-ray crystallography. At this time Dickinson was investigating the crystal structure of various minerals. In his work w...
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Eng Trans 1958 Eng Trans 1948 Camus
658 wordsAlthough born in extreme poverty, Camus attended the lee and university in Algiers, where he developed an abiding interest in sports and the theater. His university career was cut short by a severe attack of tuberculosis, an illness from which he suffered periodically throughout his life. The themes of poverty, sport, and the horror of human mortality all figure prominently in his volumes of so-called Algerian essays: L'Every et l'endpoint (The Wrong Side and the Right Side, 1937), Notes (Nuptia...
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Novak First Novak's
410 wordsKim Novak was originally Marilyn Pauline Novak, born in Chicago on February 13, 1933. She was the daughter of a Slavic railroad worker and a former teacher. Novak's first job after high school was modeling teen fashions for a local department store. Before going into films, she worked as an elevator operator, dental assistant, store clerk, and toured the country as Miss Deepfreeze, a refrigerator spokes-model. In the early 1950 s, Novak moved to Los Angeles to pursue modeling and acting. Her fir...
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Biography Of Marilyn Monroe A Hollywood Beauty
1,298 wordsMarilyn Monroe made a definite impact on todays society. For some it was good, for others, bad. She set high standards for herself and was an inspiration to many young people. Many are expected to be like her, some are forced unwillingly and others force themselves. Marilyn Monroe changed Hollywood's outlook on women forever. Her image, body, smile, and personality are what is looked for in a young actress or any new models today. Now, because of Marilyn's high standards, it is much more complic...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,946 words... reached its peak in the uproar over Olympia at the 1865 Salon and indeed threatened to get out of hand. Degas, only two years his junior, had yet to show anything like the same originality, and at the 1865 Salon exhibited a hopelessly dull, hopelessly conventional historical painting entitled The Evils befalling the City of Orleans. The fact remains that there is richness in Degas personality that Manet's lacks. A gentleman painter, a man about town, Manet only skimmed the surface of some of...
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Birches By Robert Frost
731 wordsBIRCHES BY ROBERT FROST Poetry, according to Coleridge, is the best words in their best order. Although this remark hardly satisfies the requirements of formal definition, it does assert an important fact: the order of the words in a poem is as material as the words themselves. A good poet labors harder than any other kind of writer to say exactly what he means, because he wishes to expose his thoughts rather than hide them. His passion for excuses is like the mathematicians. But unlike the math...
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Diego Rivera Mexican Revolution
768 wordsFrida Kahlo Contents Introduction 2 Childhood 2 Education 3 Love and Family Life 3 Life as a Painter 3 Conclusion 4 References 4 Frida Kahlo Introduction Frida Kahlo, one of the all-time-great painters in the world, was born on July 6, 1907 in a small town at the outskirt of Mexico City. By the time she was 19, she has matured into an outstanding painter performing all kinds of magic on the canvas using unique ideas and striking colors. Bulk of her work was self portraits that reflected her own ...
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Part Of American Falsely Accused
1,510 wordsSenator Joseph McCarthy (1) The history of twentieth century contains numerous examples of Communists actively striving to undermine socio-political stability in capitalist countries, by assassinating their political opponents, engaging in economic sabotage and sponsoring international terrorism. However, there are also many examples of governmental officials in Western countries being able to effectively deal with Communist infiltrators, while preventing them from destroying society's integrity...
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1960 And 1970 War In Vietnam
2,076 words... Korean War films raised questions about the willingness and the ability of Americans to live up to those ideals (See: The Korean War); and the Cold War films showed how those ideals can be called on to prevent war while at the same time containing the Soviet Union. They also favored subjects that featured those weapons most closely associated the nuclear war they were designed to prevent: the long-range bomber and the nuclear submarine. The first and most successful of the Air Force films, S...
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Henri Matisse Georges Braque
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Dna Molecules Nitrogenous Bases
1,277 wordsFrancis Crick. A name were all familiar with for his work with DNA. In keeping with the spirit of the architectonic, Crick has branched out beyond his original field of study. Crick has done some amazing work in other fields since his famous work with Watson in the 50 s. Most recently, Crick has begun to address the current hot topic in science: consciousness. Though Crick may or may not make earth-shattering observations in his book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, he at least makes a concise, coge...
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American Civil Liberties Racial Discrimination
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Struggle Between Good Good And Evil
1,181 wordsMattie Elizabeth Milano The Balance Between Good and Evil George Orwell, an author of many novels, once stated that, Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. This is evident in Sir William Golding s 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies. A large group of English schoolboys find themselves on a deserted tropical island after their plane plummets from the sky. The boys construct a society that while in advanced, holds many characteristics of today s...
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