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North Atlantic Treaty Nuclear Arms
1,136 wordsAs the second World War was coming to an end, the representatives of some fifty nations met in San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter in an attempt to unify many countries. The date was June 26 1946, and the countries that signed the charter did so to put themselves in a better position if any conflict were to arise in the future. During the time the charter was drawn and the treaty was signed, April 4 1949, ten countries who had signed the charter were in need of more protection that ...
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Mass Production Wheel Drive
1,419 wordsThe purpose of this paper is to provide a clear picture of automobiles in the 1950 s and the impact the automobile had on American society. The 1950 s were a time of economic growth for America, where income exceeded car prices and vision was limited only by ones imagination. This was a time when you are what you drive. President Eisenhower and his administration were friendly to big business for the first time since Herbert Hoover. For example, new highways were built by Eisenhower administrati...
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People Laugh Make People
963 wordsThe Three Stooges developed their own brand of comedy. They specialized in slapstick, and produced a number of comedies, which are now becoming recognized as classics. During their prime movie making years, the 1930 s and ' 40 s, the Three Stooges made great comedy movies. The Stooges currently hold the record for appearing in more movies than any other comedy team in history. The Three Stooges started their career as a trio in 1925 in a studio in California. They were all actors that wanted to ...
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U S Involvement States And The Soviet Union
1,070 wordsBibliography: Bowker, Mike, and Brown, Robin, eds. , From Cold War to Collapse (1992); Brands, H. W. , The Devil We Knew (1994); Crockett, Richard, The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941 - 1991 (1995); Gaddis, John Lewis, The United States and the End of the Cold War (1992) and We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997); Glynn, Patrick, Closing Pandora's Box (1992); LaFeber, Walter, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 7 th ed. (1992); May, Ernest ...
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Sir David Cardinal Denies Working For Darlington Day
761 wordsTimeline of Events in The Remains of the Day 1899 (Approx. ) All within a short length of time: Stevens' brother killed in South African War; Father has incident about car; Father must be butler to general. (40) 1914 Darlington in Great War (WWI), along with Herr Bremann 1920 (towards the end of the year) Darlington makes the first of a number of "disturbing" trips to Berlin. 1920 's (at the start of the twenties) Given's Wax disappears, and leads to excessive silver polishing. Hayes Society exe...
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Civil Rights Movement Bus Boycott
555 wordsBios of Important Civil-Rights Activists He was born on January 15, 1929 at a family home in Atlanta Georgia. King's grandfather was a Baptist preacher. His father was pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. King earned his own Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in 1951, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Boston University in 1955. While at seminary King became acquainted with Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent social protest. On a trip to India in 1959 King me...
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Hall Of Fame Straight Man
577 wordsIn 1931, at Empire theater in New York City, Lou Costello and his crew grew worried that they would not be able to find a replacement for his straight man who became ill and was unable to perform. Fortunately, a fellow by the name of Bud Abbott was working the box office at the theater and offered to substitute. These two men performed so well together that Abbott played straight man to Costello's buffoon from then on. William Bud Alexander Abbott, the clown in the straight man /clown relationsh...
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Cold War Space Race
1,370 wordsWar is an event that represents the situation of a state and how it is revolutionized. It introduces new factors that sometimes force nations others to join in the enhancing of ideas. In particular, the new face of the ideological or new age concept was brought up. The United States of America and the former Union of Soviet Socialists Republic engaged in an ideological conflict known as the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. It was a time of differences between democracy and communism. The other main c...
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Martin Luther King Jr Montgomery Bus Boycott
1,354 wordsMan must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. These words were spoken by a great man. One who accepted all people for any color or race. He acknowledged the fact that all people are same & all have been bestowed to equal civil rights. This man is Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Michael Luther King Jr. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15 th, 1929, at the King family household, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atl...
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Spanish Civil War World War Ii
1,612 wordsThe regime of General Franco considered its greatest political achievement to be the establishment of an era of peace and order without precedent in the history of Spain. Opposition to Franco was ineffective for so long due to a wide variety of factors, the Franco regime itself was very oppressive yet it cannot solely explain the lack of opposition as it did not prevent strikes, student demonstrations and the activities of ETA in the 1960 s. There was tacit acceptance by the large sections of th...
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Timeline Of The Life Ernesto Che Guevara
1,156 wordsToday I would like to tell you the Biography of Ernesto Guevara also called El com andante che. First of all does anybody no anything about che? Young Ernesto Guevara Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is born June 14, 1928 in Rosario, one of the most important cities in Argentina, in a well off family. A family with aristocratic roots but socialistic ideas. After attending a primary school in 1947, Ernesto Guevara meets the young Berta Gilda Infante, also known as Tita. She is a member of the Argentin...
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Martin Luther King Jr Declaration Of Independence
582 words[/b] Throughout history, there have been many great leaders that helped our nation become what it is today. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was by far a significant leader with outstanding accomplishments. He understood that the ideals of equality in which our nation was founded must not only be ideals but realities as well. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life for the struggle of the discrimination of blacks and by doing so, he accomplished much more than that in his lifetime. Dr. Martin Luth...
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Consolidate His Power Good Or Evil
2,155 wordsJuan Peron Argentinian strongman Juan Peron joined the army in 1913. Some thirty years later, he was one of the leaders of an army coup. Peron held a number of important positions under the regime. His strong support for labor unions and social reform resulted in widespread support for him among the Argentine masses. When he was imprisoned by other members of the junta in 1945, this support, along with his wife's efforts, led to his release. In Argentina, a type of populist politics, based on a ...
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy Announced
1,408 wordsFaced with the problem of choosing a career, Kennedy worked for several months in 1945 as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers, covering the conference at San Francisco that established the United Nations. There he noted the belligerent Russian attitude. Ultimately he decided on a political career and returned to Boston. In so choosing, he took the place of his brother Joseph, who had seemed destined for politics but had been killed in World War II. His opportunity came when James M. Curley vaca...
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Jonas Salk Salk Vaccine
626 wordsIn America in the 1950 s, summertime was a time of fear and anxiety for many parents; this was the season when children by the thousands became infected with the crippling disease poliomyelitis, or polio. This burden of fear was lifted forever when it was announced that Dr. Jonas Salk had developed a vaccine against the disease. Salk became world-famous overnight, but his discovery was the result of many years of painstaking research. Jonas Salk was born in New York City. His parents were Russia...
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Vladimir Nabokov Sexual Desire
1,498 wordsVladimir Nabokov s Lolita When Vladimir Nabokov finished writing the novel Lolita he knew the explosive subject matter that he was now holding in his hands. After being turned down by publishing houses on numerous occasions to unleash his controversial story to the public, it was finally published by the French in 1955. Many critics were shocked and called it pornography while others praised his work. How could a pure thinking author conjugate ideas on issues so dark and depraved? What were his ...
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Nobel Peace Prize Martin Luther King Jr
1,102 wordsKING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929 - 68). Inspired by the belief that love and peaceful protest could eliminate social injustice, Martin Luther King, Jr. , became one of the outstanding black leaders in the United States. He aroused whites and blacks alike to protest racial discrimination, poverty, and war. A champion of nonviolent resistance to oppression, he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr. , was born in Atlanta, Ga. , on Jan. 15, 1929. His father, Martin, Sr. , w...
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Martin Luther King Jr Public Transportation
393 wordsMartin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was truly a man faced with adversity. King, an African American, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929, a time and place in which African Americans were being severely discriminated against. However, he would prove to be the most influential people in history for Civil Rights. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15, was ordained a Baptist minister at 17, graduated from Cover Theological Seminary as class president at 22, married C...
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East Of Eden James Dean
1,252 wordsBrad Gooch The subject OHara was fascinated with that fall was the death of James Dean, aged twenty-four, on September 30, 1955, in a crash in his Porsche Spyder near Paso Robles on his way to Salinas for a race. OHara responded by writing a number of elegies from October through the following April. " For James Dean, " written the Wednesday after the crash, shows the influence of classical elegies, which the movie stars death had inspired OHara to read, including Milton's " Lycid...
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20 Th Century Century Fox
628 wordsMonroe, Marilyn (1926 - 1962), American motion-picture actor, who became the most famous international sex symbol of the 20 th century. Born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles, the daughter of an emotionally unstable mother, she spent a troubled childhood in foster homes and orphanages and at the age of 16 entered into an ill-fated marriage. In 1944, while working in a defense plant, she was noticed by a United States Army photographer who induced her to pose for posters for the troops. Instant...
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