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Dorothea Lange Great Depression
513 wordsThis report is about Dorothea Lange. The main reason I choose her was because, she was a women and I thought I could probable wright better about her for that reason. Dorthea was born in 1895 and died in 1965. Dorthea's first photographic job was as a commercial portrait photographer in San Francisco in the 1920 's. Her first independent work was taking pictures of native American's in the southwest with her first husband Maynard Dixon. In the early 1930 Dorthea got tired of the working in the s...
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Mentally Disturbed Atomic Bombs
465 wordsBorn-San Francisco, California-December 3, 1919 Died-North Bennington, Vermont- August 8, 1965 - 45 Have published novels, humorous fictionalized autobiographies, and children books 1961, Edgar Allen Poe Reward, Louisa, Please 1965, Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Achievements After enrolling in Syracuse, beginning of independent life for author At Syracuse, met Stanley Edgar Hyman-would marry in 1940 Hyman Achieved notoriety in his own right as a teacher, writer, critic...
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Planned Parenthood Supreme Court
1,362 wordsROE V. WADE AND THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State. " 1 U. S. Supreme Court Justices O'Conner, Kennedy and Souter Planned Parenthood of Abortion in the United States Before Roe When Roe v. Wade was decided in January 1973, abortion except to save a wo...
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Population Growth Population Control
1,193 wordsKilling your baby, what could be more depraved. For a woman to destroy the fruit of her womb would seem like an ultimate violation of the natural order. But every year, hundreds of women commit neonaticide: they kill their newborns or let them die. Most neonaticide's remain undiscovered, but every once in a while a janitor follows a trail of blood to a tiny body in a trash bin, or a woman faints and doctors find the remains of a placenta inside her. In China, babies are often abandoned near orph...
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Why The United States Sent Troops To Vietnam
1,159 words... in mind, the means by which we went about carrying out our will was wrong. This situation was different then World War II, and in hindsight should have been handled differently. In an attempt to quickly quell the Vietcong (meaning Vietnamese Communists), President Kennedy sent Special Forces troops to Vietnam in 1961. These troops were to train South Vietnamese forces and help them fight the Vietcong. However, the South Vietnamese proved to be inept and seemed incapable of learning to fight,...
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Civil Rights Movement Time Life Books
1,658 wordsMalcolm X is considered one of the greatest civil rights activists in history. He was known for his somewhat violent message of blacks defending themselves. Despite his original message, he eventually became more peaceful toward whites. However, as his legacy was just beginning to change things for the good, he was abruptly killed by gunmen. Due to his indecisiveness and early death, Malcolm X had a great, yet inadequate impact on the civil rights movement. Malcolm little was born on May 19, 192...
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Marijuana Prohibition Marijuana Smokers
1,156 words... e of the nation's leading ocular pathologists" (Brazaitis unknown). Later in Randall's life he discovered by accident that smoking marijuana not only lessened the strain on his eyes, but eliminated the tricolored halos that marred his vision. Randall didn't believe that smoking an illegal drug could stop the deterioration of his precious eyesight. Then after six months of trial and error, he became a believer. Randall began to grow his own marijuana, due to the fact that he could not afford ...
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Community Law National Law
1,116 wordsGary Slapper states that ever since the UK joined the European Community it has progressively, but effectively passed the the power to create laws which have effect in this country to the wider European institutions such (Slapper' 99 P. 33) So in all practical terms the UK's legislative, executive and judiciary's powers are in the main controlled by and operated within the framework of the European community laws. The increasing importance of Uk judges to consider the issues and principles of EC...
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U S Government University Of California
1,159 words(b. April 22, 1904, New York City -- d. Feb. 18, 1967, Princeton, N. J. , U. S. ), U. S. theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos laboratory during dEvelopment of the atomic bomb (1943 - 45) and as director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1947 - 66). Accusations as to his loyalty and reliability as a security risk led to a government hearing that resulted in the loss of his security clearance and of his position as adviser to the highes...
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Supreme Court Birth Control
552 wordsGriswold v. Connecticut Estelle Griswold began her fight for contraception (birth control) in the 1940 s. She traveled to different slums of the world and realized that these places were largely overpopulated. This sparked an interest in her. She believed that inadequate information about contraception was a major cause of human misery both abroad and even in segments of the Connecticut population. When she returned to New Haven, she joined the Planned Parenthood League and soon became its Execu...
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Martin Luther King Jr Voting Rights Act
1,146 wordsMartin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both African American leaders during the 50 s and 60 s that tried to make things better for other African Americans. Though their views were very different they did a lot of things for their people. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that violence did not help the problem it added to it, but Malcolm X was known for his by any means necessary approach. Martin Luther King Jr. had enormous impact on the desegregation of the United States in the 1960 's. He had...
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House Of Harkonnen Paul And Jessica Dune
708 wordsBorn in Tacoma, Washington in 1920, Frank Herbert grew up to become a famous writer. He began his career as a journalist, reporting information about World War 2 and he also served in the Navy for a time. Frank studied at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he worked as reporter and editor on the West Coast papers. In 1965 his writing took a turn when he published Dune, his 1965 epic masterpiece, that astounded readers for many years. He had many other books but none where as publiciz...
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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
1,312 wordsBelieve it or not, Los Angeles was just waiting for an event like the Rodney King verdict to explode. All that was needed was that one spark to ignite the anger in the citizens of South Central and cause the area to explode. One of the recent and most significant riots took place on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The case was controversial because Rodney King was a black male beaten with excessive force by four white Los Angeles police officers. The not guilty verdict of the four ...
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Nation Of Islam Black Muslims
377 wordsMalcolm X (born in 1925 and died in 1965), was black American leader, born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Malcolm Little. Malcolm's father, who was a Baptist minister, was an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader of the 1920 s. The family moved to Lansing, Michigan, and when Malcolm was six years old, his father was murdered after receiving threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm's mother suffered a nervous breakdown and the eight children were taken by the welfare department. M...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,987 wordsMalcolm X, Islam, and the Civil Rights Movement When asked to name a black civil rights leader, many people will immediately think of Martin Luther King, Jr. , but equally strong and true in the fight for civil rights was Malcolm X. Although they came from very different social and religious backgrounds, each was fighting towards the same goal. This paper will focus on the life and achievements of Malcolm X in his effort to achieve civil rights, and will show how his involvement in Islam was the...
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Talent In Hockey Mario Lemieux Won
447 wordsBorn: Mario Lemieux Mario Lemieux Born: 1965 Mario Lemieux was born on October 5, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec. He had two brothers, Alain and Richard. They both also had talent in hockey, so when he was four years old, his parents sent him to the local hockey rink to learn how to skate. He was put under the watchful eye of Fernand Fichaud, Mr. Fichaud had seen his brothers play and knew that the Lemieux possessed extraordinary talent in hockey. He taught Mario how to grip the stick properly and how...
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Die With Dignity Missionaries Of Charity
1,725 wordsAgnes Gonna Bojaxhiu was born August 26, 1910 in Skopje, in Macedonia. Her childhood was comfortable and prosperous due to her father? s success. Her father encouraged his children to be generous and compassionate to those less fortunate. Her mother was very religious and she took the children to morning mass. Agnes often helped her mother deliver parcels of food and money to the poor and prayed with the whole family every evening. The family? s life changed dramatically after their father? s de...
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Rock N Roll Rhythm And Blues
1,426 wordsRock music emerged during the mid- 1950 s to become the major popular musical form of young audiences in the United States and Western Europe. Its stylistic scope is too broad to be encompassed by any single definition; the only feature common to all rock music is a heavy emphasis on the beat. Rock n Roll, 1950 - 62 The primary source of rock n roll was rhythm and blues, an idiom popular among black audiences that combined elements of urban blues (in the structure, vocal style, and use of amplif...
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Anne Sexton J D
860 wordsJ. D. McClatchy All My Pretty Ones opens on " The Truth the Dead Know, " which is their absolute isolation, against which the poet fights to save both herself and her dead parents. Her fathers death, three months after her mothers, intervened not only between the different concerns of these first two books but also between the completed realization of her inheritance: in the fine print of their wills, the poet fears to find her fathers alcoholism and her mothers cancer, which would at ...
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Academy Of Sciences Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
1,075 wordsBiography of Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston on April 10 th, 1917, the only child of Margaret and Arthur Woodward, of English antecedents. Roberts father Arthur died in October of 1918, at an early age of only thirty-three years old. Robert Woodward was attracted to chemistry at a very early age, and indulged his taste for the science in private activities throughout the period of his primary and secondary education in the public schools of Quincy, a suburb of Bost...
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