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Labor Union History In California
883 wordsThe various labor movements in California have been among the most important in our nation. As a state with a tremendously diversified economy, California's workers are employed in every industry imaginable; from our huge agriculture base, to our docks, to aerospace, to construction, to the entertainment industry-the list is endless. And in each industry, workers struggled to organize themselves into collectives to shape the labor landscape of California. Some of California's labor movements hav...
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Seismic Waves Southern California
463 wordsSeismologists... Scientists and Mathematicians Beno Gutenberg was the foremost observational seismologist of the twentieth century. He combined exquisite analysis of seismic records with powerful analytical, interpretive, and modeling skills to contribute many important discoveries of the structure of the solid Earth and its atmosphere. Perhaps his best known contribution was the precise location of the core of the Earth and the identification of its elastic properties. Other major contributions...
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One Of Picasso Picasso And Braque
1,291 wordsPablo Picasso was considered the greatest artist of the 20 th century because of his unique styles and techniques. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881 to a professor of art named Jose Ruiz Blanco and his wife Maria Picasso Lopez. Because of his fathers' occupation, Picasso's talent was quickly noticed and appreciated. Don Jose, an art teacher, moved Picasso and his family to La Coruna and then to Barcelona where he was Picasso's instructor at the fine arts academy....
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Stock Market Crash Franklin Roosevelt
1,064 wordsIt is easily shown that the author, Pierre Berton, didn't show much opinion in this book. He mainly focused on just the facts. He would however give some personal views of reasons for certain things or explanations. He probably got most of his information from a textbook or actual documents. He did a good job compiling these facts into a time line of events. He explains who each important person is that was involved in the times of the depression and all important laws passed. He began talking a...
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Nov 2007 29 Nov
717 wordsFashion of the 1930 s through the 1950 s (1) Fashion of thirties corresponded to socio-political realities of this historical period. The Great Depression deprived people of their vision of future as such that is going to be defined by technological progress alone. This produced a great disillusionment among citizens, which is why fashion of thirties can be defined by designers attempts to find inspiration in the past, while it is also can be described as being very practical. Womens fashion of ...
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Jilting Of Granny Weatherall Social And Cultural
899 wordsThe Characteristics of Literary Prose in the Decades between the World Wars The period between the World Wars in the United States became a great, modern nation and witnessed a lot of changes. National demographics of the 1920 s has been also changed by industrialization, urbanization and immigration. The wars transformed the nation in various terms, politically, socially and economically. For example, as sale, manufacture and exchange of alcohol was forbidden, this gave incentive to the emergen...
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Period Of Time George Gershwin
1,367 wordsGeorge Gershwin George Gershwin, a famous American composer of the 1920 th, belongs to the category of exceptionally gifted artists, who died young and could not realize many of their plans and ideas. Despite of his short life-time, musical and creative inheritance of Gershwin is significant: he wrote about thirty musicals and operettas for theater and cinema, and became an author of many popular songs, which are still being played in our times. Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, in a family of...
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Nation Of Islam Spiritual Values
1,540 wordsIslam and The Nation of Islam, How different are they? Islam by virtue of a lot of the historical, socio-political, cultural and psychological reasons is closely connected to destinies of Arabian peoples. Islam for them is more, than religion. Many traditions, customs and laws of Islam are directly or indirectly connected to the history of Arabs and other peoples which have absorbed Islam. Before becoming one of world religions, Islam was and remains a set of thinking and traditions of Arabs. It...
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Game Of Golf Modern Day
1,835 wordsGolf Tourism and Travel Golf is one of the ball games that do not have a fixed area for the playing field. The goal of individual or team playing the game is to hit the ball towards a hole through the use of clubs. This originated in Scotland and has been played in British Isles for many centuries. Many think that the game of golf is a pastime for elites and upper classes. However, in recent years, the game is becoming a popular game for many people (Golf, 2006). The golf travel industry has bee...
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African American Poetry Negro Race
670 words[Course Title] African American Poetry In her poem, tellingly titled A Southern Road the relatively idyllic portrait of the southern folk is disrupted by Helene Johnson with the representation of lynch violence, a representation obviously lacking in the popular film of the late 1920 s and the 1930 s: A blue-fruited black gum Like a tall predella Bears a dangling figure (Wagner 197) The poem is an ironic pastoral variation on the "Black Christ" lynching poem that was a significant subgenre of Afr...
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Five Year Plan Labor Movement
1,532 words... wishes found themselves in prison or in exile. Impeachment proceedings removed opposition from the Supreme Court. A malleable Senate and Chamber of Deputies soon gagged the few members who dared to criticize the presidency. Intervention in the provinces removed governors or legislators opposed to Peron. The universities and schools quickly lost their independence; students and faculty either acquiesced or Left Argentina. Radio stations and newspapers became government propaganda outlets. Sec...
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Capital Punishment Opponents Argue
649 words++ x> execution prevents eighteen murders per year. (Hirsch, 122) Opponents argue that capital punishment is immoral. But if you follow the Old Testament, it is moral. In one passage from Genesis, Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. Another from Exodus, Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe (Samaha, 440). It was not very moral of the prisoner to commit a murder in the first place. Why should it...
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World War One British Society
862 wordsComment on any one of the leisure activities featured in Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Explain if it was a new development of the interwar era. The interwar period witnessed an explosion of a variety of leisure activities within British society, some of which were new and some of which were not. One such leisure activity was that of the cinema, and featured as a popular pastime in Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Whilst the cinema was not a new leisure activity during the interwar era, there were however...
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Breast Implants Cosmetic Surgery
1,766 wordsBreast Implants One of the first uses of silicone in a medical implant came in the form of lifesaving tubes implanted into young children to funnel excess fluid from the brain into the chest cavity, where the fluid could be safely metabolized and excreted. Since these shunts were first used, in the late 1950 s, silicone in various forms has come to be an important part of many implants. It is used in tracheotomy tubes, in artificial lenses for the eye, in artificial heart valves and in facial im...
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Trillion Dollars Billion Dollars
526 wordsThe National Debt For the past centuries, the american people dug themselves into a big hole which is the National Debt. In this paper I will discuss the history of the national debt, effects on the debt / deficit , wais to reduce it and control the deficit. the national debt has increased every year from 1945 to 1995. The biggest increase of the debt was from the years 1985 to 1995 when it went up about three trillion dollars. Right after the Civil War the debt held at three billion dollars. In...
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Rest Of His Life Tender Is The Night
614 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, both of which depicted disillusion with the American dream of self improvement, wealth, and success through hard work and perseverance. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald was of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the author of the Star Spangled Banner to whom he was distantly related. In 1913, Fitzgerald entered Princeton University, but h...
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British Authorities South Africa Gandhi
864 wordsMahatma Gandhi was a great Hindu leader and model for the world to follow. His fervor for an independent India encouraged others to stand behind and support him in his efforts to obtain an independent country. Gandhi was born in India yet he received the majority of his preparation for the Indias movement in South Africa. Gandhi was jailed and beaten in South Africa but persevered and the government made important concessions to Gandhi's demands, including recognition of Indian marriages and abo...
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United States Senate Presidential Candidate
1,620 wordsThroughout much of his life in politics, Pinchot's name had been occasionally thrown around as a possible Presidential candidate. It never happened. He was eventually elected to public office as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922, largely through the support of rural counties and the new womens vote. During his 1923 - 1927 administration, his major goals were the regulation of electric power companies and the enforcement of Prohibition. In a crusade for clean politics, he reorganized state governm...
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Grapes Of Wrath Pulitzer Prize
635 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath By John Stienbeck Review By Nic Sherlock This book was published in 1975 but written in the 1930 s. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the author also won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The book is a story of the Joad family, and their trip to California. It tells of the migration of thousands of homeless families from Oklahoma to California. It follows the Joad family, who, evicted from the land by the bank decide to head for the Golden West to a land of plenty. When there ...
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Grapes Of Wrath Hostile Environment
458 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930 s live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930 s. The Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. The bank took possession of their land because the owners co...
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