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Senator Mccarthy Communist Party
1,526 words
... nate to sneak by, because La Follette was a
popular man. His Democratic foe was to be
Professor Howard McMurray. McCarty used his
ability to put issues simply, among other things,
to beat his opponent by nearly a 2 to 1 ratio. The
Senatorial career of Joseph R. McCarthy was on its
way. In his first three years as senator, McCarthy
was an everyday senator. He was guided by money
from lobbyists, and the most interesting of these
are stints with Pepsi-Cola and the real
estate-prefab home indust...
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Lost Generation Gulf War
954 words
During World War I, many of the men who fought
were only about nineteen years young. These men
experienced horrors beyond belief in a matter of
years, which is ten times worse than a normal man
experiences his whole life. This generation of
men, from 1914 - 1918, who fought in a great war
and lived in constant fear of their last breathe,
while we enjoy parties, the freedom of being a
teenager, and able just to kick back and enjoy
life at its prime. This is the lost generation. As
tensions grew i...
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Hard For Paul Dressing Station Kat
571 words
"All Quiet on the Western Front" was written in a
first person style. The story was told by Paul
Based, a nineteen year old student, convinced to
enlist with the German army by his schoolmaster,
Kantorek. Along with many of his friends from
school, he is trained under Corporal Himmelstoss,
a strictly disciplined commander who dislikes Paul
because of his "defiance. " When sent to the
front, Paul, along with his other friends, made
new friendships that would last throughout time.
His newly made f...
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Nineteen Eighty Four People Of Oceania
1,108 words
To control human thoughts, intuition, emotions and
actions are to control humanity, and that is
exactly what the Inner Party had done in George
Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty- Four. The Inner
Party, most often refereed as the Party, had the
power to control humanity or at least the
civilians of Oceania. Most people that were born
during the rein of the Party know no other way of
life. They all grew up without emotions, freedom
or an identity. Winston who vaguely remembers when
times were differ...
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Government Influence On Family Life
917 words
Do government programs influence family life? Some
of these programs are Medicare, Medicaid, and
Social Security. These programs have changed
family life not only in a positive way, but also
in a negative way. These programs are targeted at
giving older citizen some form of money or medical
care, while other programs are geared at taking
money from the working class. Yes, government
programs do influence family life today and have
been since the nineteen-fifties. One of these
programs is Medicar...
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American Way Of Life Fear Of Communism
1,639 words
The single most important factor in understanding
the United States involvement in Vietnam is fear.
In the years leading to the Vietnam Conflict the
United States was immersed in paranoia toward
Communist Russia and the communist movement as a
whole. This paranoia has its roots in the
depression of the nineteen thirties and was fueled
by the exploits of men like Mac Carthy and other
politicians who saw this as an opportunity to
further their careers or push policies. This
paranoia was the most i...
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Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes
642 words
There are many different illnesses that have
plagued people in the past, present, and will
continue on into the future. Most illnesses are
physical, but there are also many that are mental.
Depression is found to be one of the most common
mental illnesses known to man. Depression breaks
down ones emotions to the point where nothing
makes them happy and they feel life is worthless.
By reading Sylvia Plath by Carol King Barnard, one
can see how dramatically change when they allow
depression to con...
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Collective Bargaining Boston Police
812 words
Case Study/Labor Management & Collective
Bargaining A. Name of the Union and the Occupation
Covered -The Boston Police Union # 16807 of the
AFL -The occupation covered is the police officer.
-new police officers were payed the same as old
police officers in a 65 -payment of uniforms and
equipment had to come out of their salaries -The
City of Boston violated the contract -The Boston
Police Social Club affiliated the Boston Police
Union -The Police Commissioner refused to
recognize the new union ...
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Three Hundred Years Three Times
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In this paper I will be discussing the treatment
of Wicca, Witchcraft, by the Christian religion,
since day one. First I will give a brief
description of the religions. In the next
paragraph I will give a brief history lesson, then
I will get into the nitty-gritty. In the next few
paragraphs, I will discuss the movie, The Craft,
and some reviews by various Witches in the
country. Then I will speak of the movie Warlock,
and I will give my own review. Then I will give my
own thoughts, and "wrap it...
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Snow Falling On Cedars Watching A Movie
1,524 words
... vel, and still portray the main plot and theme
of the novel. The director of the movie Snow
falling on Cedars did a superb job in staying with
the plot of the book without changing it much,
especially since he had a book with a difficult
plot to work with in the first place. I noticed
that the scenes were significantly shortened in
the movie compared to the book, but that was just
due to the directors time restraints. The director
also played around with the order of the plot too
which I fou...
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Made Out Of Wood Ed Sullivan
1,784 words
Youth culture in the nineteen fifties was a time
that opened up the world to be integrated for
whites and blacks. In this paper the fifties are
analyzed through the clothing, styles, cars,
family life, and most importantly entertainment.
Talking to various members of my family I asked
them if they could remember the way that the youth
dressed in the nineteen- fifties. The responses
were all similar. The popular man role wore tight
white T- shirts which were described to me (I hate
this expressio...
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Lyndon Johnson South Vietnamese
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An Indignant Generation. " With all its
disruptions and rage, the idea of black revolution
was something many white Americans could at least
comprehend, if not agree with. When rebellion
seized their own children, however they were
almost completely at a loss. A product of the
posts war "Baby Boom, " nurtured in affluence and
concentrated in increasing numbers on college and
university campuses. It was a generation marked by
an unusual degree of political awareness and
cultural alienation. Some ...
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Long Ago Make Money
1,060 words
The book The Grapes of Wrath focuses on a
particular section of America called the Dust Bowl
during the early nineteen thirties. During this
time, when tenant farming was a way of life for so
many Oklahomans, there came a drought which
drastically cut down production of crops and
forced the bank to evict the tenants in order to
cut losses. The problem may seem straightforward
at first, and maybe it is, but the cause of the
problem should not be simplified. Naturally, the
three participants in th...
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Oconnor 361 Misfit Society
447 words
In Flannery Oconnor's A Good Man Is hard To Find,
the character known as the Misfit plays the
ever-so-common villain role. In this particular
story, the Misfit has a strange twist to his style
of being a villain. When defining the word misfit
one may say, a person poorly adjusted to his or
her environment. With this information at hand the
reader knows early to expect trouble from this
character. The name alone explains the theme and
plot of the story. The Misfit says his name comes
from the pun...
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Loss Of Life Moral Implications
894 words
Of all the terms coined by scientists which have
entered popular vocabulary, 'clone' has become one
of the more emotive. The question shakes us all to
our very souls. For humans to consider the cloning
of one another forces them all to question the
very concepts of right and wrong. The cloning of
any species, whether they be human or non-human,
is ethically and morally wrong. Scientists and
ethicist's alike have debated the implications of
human and non-human cloning extensively since 1997
when ...
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Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
718 words
Eric Blair? s fictional name was George Orwell,
born June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India. At that
time? India was part of the British Empire?
(Orwell page 1 of 4). This was near the turn of
the century, so not many people could afford to
move to India with out the? British Empire?
(Orwell pg. 1 of 4). Eric? s father Richard Blair
was an agent of the Opium Department of the Indian
Civil Service. Blair? s Grandfather served in the
Indian Army for sometime before Blair? s birth.
His family was? not ve...
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Time Life Books Serial Killers
798 words
The nineteen-seventies was an incredible decade.
It was a decade of change, one of freedom, a time
for great music. It was also an incredible decade
for shock, fear and serial killers. John Wayne
Gay, an amateur clown, was a pedophilia c
homosexual. He tortured and killed thirty three
little boys and stored their remains under his
house. David Berkowitz, a. k. a. the Son of Sam,
stalked New York City from nineteen-sixty-seven to
nineteen-seventy-seven. He claimed to have been
following a voice f...
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Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1984
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In this following essay from George Orwell's 1984,
you can expect to see that Big Brother is in many
ways similar to numerous dictators, both past and
present. As you read, you will be able to see the
comparisons to Adolf Hitler, Nicolae Ceausescu
and. 1984 by George Orwell is a story of a mans
struggle against a totalitarians tic government
that controls the ideas and thoughts of its
citizens. They use advanced mind reading
techniques to discover the thoughts of the people
and punish those who ...
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Sherman Antitrust Act Laissez Faire
601 words
As one can see there are many striking parallels
between the Gilded Age or the era from the
eighteen eighties to the eighteen nineties
compared to the Silicon Age of the nineteen
eighties to the nineteen nineties. The
preconditions for these two massive economic booms
share similar birth paths laid in laissez faire
policy, no regulation or deregulation and
innovative booms. Before the 1880 s there was no
real conflict between the welfare of the American
people and that of its business units. Tha...
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Cult Leaders Religious Movements
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Cults: Reasons People Join Cults are intriguing
and arouse curiosity in the minds of people who
have accepted life in society and joined humanity
the way it is. It is amazing to think that people
leave their life of normalcy to put their trust in
something that is alien but promises them
something in return or will save their souls from
whatever will harm them. There are many causes
that affect people s minds to make them join
cults. Cults are very promising, can be very
eye-opening, and may be ...
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