... , were developed for the American home. There was a great boom in newly invented labour-saving devices - such as vacuum cleaners, washing machines and toasters. Increasingly, kitchens were equipped with electric ovens and refrigerators, while families were entertained at home by the radio. What all these products had in common was that they were powered by electricity. Henry Ford set up the Ford Motor ... older industries eg.coal, leather and textiles were also suffering. when their wages did rise they did not rise by a huge amount, only a little compared to the big companies for example...

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... . A great example of the idiocy of humanity is located in the Niagara Falls regions of New York. This is a location of Love Canal. In 1953 Hooker Chemical and Plastics whose name has since been changed to Occidental Chemical sold a parcel of land next to Love Canal to the Niagara Falls School District. What the company didn't tell anyone is that they had dumped more than 21,000 ... tons or 42 million pounds of chemical waste into the canal, and that the landfill next door was being used as a dump for another 318 million pounds of chemical sludge. A school was built ... hazards to human ...

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... experience where she was able to see her life was more than superficial. She once wrote "Hell is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you"re not, the glimpses of truth I reached for everywhere, all that I could ever be was in myself". Throughout her life she was aware of a drive to ... kept in contact with Michael Dorris who was a writer himself. In 1981 they were married, and collaborated on several projects one of which was Love Medicine. They were separated in 1995 and in 1997 he committed suicide. Some of her works have appeared in the New England Review and ... the pro...

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... New York. Her early speeches were based on the belief that people best show love for God by love and concern for others. She soon began directing her speeches toward the abolition of slavery. In 1864, Sojourner Truth visited President Abraham Lincoln in the White House. She stayed in Washington, D.C., and worked to improve living conditions for blacks there. She also helped find jobs and homes ... in the book, his feeling on how different characteristics in different people attribute to the definition of what one considers great. All of these factors tied in to make the pattern of this ...

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... National Gay and Lesbian Attorney Referral Directory and also distributed wallet sized Rights Cards outlining what one should do when arrested, specifically if they are feeling harassed or pinpointed because of their sexuality. (GLAD Resources) For a few years leading up to this point, the Center for Disease Control noted an increasing number of immune-deficiency illness in gay male populations of ... Act." (GLAD Transgender Rights) This case has since been a keynote in court proceedings protecting transgendered people from discrimination. Another first for GLAD occurred that year in t...

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... enormous, fantastic creatures. By the end of the Ice Age, most of these large animals had become extinct. There has yet to be a consensus among scholars as to what exactly can be blamed for this disappearance. Among the theories that have been debated, two are predominant; they are the climatic change theory, and the overkill theory. The climatic change theory promotes the idea ... global warming, which brought about the end of the Ice Age, caused the animals to die off. The overkill theory states that humans over hunted the animals, and are thus responsible for the extinctions. It is l...

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... 100 females age 18 and over, there are 94.20 males. The median income for a household in the county is $40,293, and the median income for a family is $44,053. Males have a median income of $36,174 versus $31,037 for females. The per capita income for the county is $21,154. 15.50% of the population and 13.30% of families are below the poverty ... 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $41,566, and the median income for a family is $52,413. Males have a median income of $39,790 versus $33,747 for females. The per capita income f...

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... harmony in their proportion You have composers who don't have a sense of what it means to create a harmonic idiom You're aware of what contemporary vocabulary consists of, but you must find how to use it in a way that will allow you to create something that is structurally viable. And for me, structure is composition.26 On reading this statement, one who has seen, heard or performed ... In contrast to "Mother Goose's- lack of traditional Black influences, "Leaving- is a song that shows clear use of jazz and blues attributes and is the only song that Walker set to his own text. Of it, he...

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... of music invented by blacks in the southern United States as a reaction to the harsh racial discrimination imposed upon them. It is a musical form based on alienation, depression and suffering. Centuries of bondage under slavery have defined what the blues is about, and when manumission came in 1865, the ex-slaves needed a new form of expression to help cope with the new situation ... the war as needless and immoral and many artists wrote songs about the issue. Many became against war and the government entirely. This spawned an entire culture of peace and love which many times involved...

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... rap music its uniqueness has become one of the most accessible sources of violence for youth. Rap music has been taken over by what is known as gangsta" rap, which is a type of music based on rap but with lyrics that talk about racism, violence, sex, and governmental criticisms. Due to a lack of government regulations, gangsta" rap has taken over the minds and attitudes of our ... about people is through what is known as "observational learning." Through this kind of study it is found that there is a tremendous difference between recalling an action that was positively rewarded and one ...

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... was forced to resign from his post because of Yuan Shikai, who organized the abdication of the Qing emperor in return for his own appointment as president. At that time, a new revolutionary party Guomindang was formed. This party believed in parliamentary democracy and the principle of electing the ... equipped and organized attacks. The retreat of GMD's local officials to Chiongqing exposed large areas of China to CCP's influence. Chiang believed that China's unity could only be achieved by force of arms and overthrowing of those, who resisted nationalist government, including the comm...

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... thought ( The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter 2003). One action that was taken to prevent the sales of music with violent and provocative lyrics were the Parental Advisory Stickers that are now placed on certain artist's music in order to give parents an idea about what is appropriate for their children and what is not. These stickers were adopted in 1985 after pressure from the Parent ... one can look at the effect of these stickers. On one side, they give parent's an idea as to what is suitable for their children to listen to, as far as violence and foul language...

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... from which the Quakers developed. The Quakers was nicknames this because George Fox told a judge that he should be trembling before God. - Penn inherited his father possessions, among which was a debt of the king. In exchange for the money the king owed him, Penn proposed that the king grant him a large piece of land in the New World. This tract of land would come ... be known as Pennsylvania, or Penn's Woods. This was set up as a refuge for Quakers, but all other religious groups were invited to live there, for this reason, the colony became known as the "Holy Experiment." - Philadelph...

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... son, Stuart and developed tuberculosis soon after. The new family then moved to a suburb outside of New York, where she regained her health and gave birth to her second son, Grant and three years later her daughter, Peggy. She was bored and unhappy with her living and social situation in the suburbs, so the family moved back to New York. There ... women who could never pull themselves from the depths of poverty because of their fragile health and burdens of their ever-growing families. When distraught mothers and fathers asked doctors what they could do to prevent future pregnancies, th...

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... growth between 16th and 17th centuries. Enclosure Movement forced many peasants off farms. Economic depression hit textile industry in late 1500s, many became beggars. 2. Laws of primogeniture stated that only the eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates. Younger sons had to seek fortunes elsewhere; helped form joint-stock companies (forerunner of modern day corporations), which enabled ... modern constitution, which established a democracy controlled by "substantial" citizens. 3. New Haven, another puritan community, was founded in 1638. Charles II disliked New Haven, since ...

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... we'd make it to the sunshine one day You just got there a little quicker". Tupac has a song, no matter what you are feeling, be a funeral, party, being raped, addicted to dugs, unconditional love, religious, broken homes, whatever it is, Tupac is guaranteed to have a song for you. In 1994, Tupac was shot five times, in the chest and head. He survived his gun shots like ... like I was hopeless. I was suicidal. I would wait all day so that I could come home from school and listen to some Pac. it is like a drug for me. It makes me feel so good and forget about my hardships. I felt like Pac...

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... more obsessed with his fantasy life (6-1). Many experts believe that this re-occurring sense of abandonment was what drove David to the violent acts of murder that he would later commit (Berkowitz 1). David attended a local community college in the Bronx for a few classes, more to appease his father than anything ... else. He later joined the Army in the summer of 1971. He remained there for three years, during that ... Bulldog revolver, but after checking background information on these guns, the police had still found nothing. The only common thread was that the psycho had randomly c...

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... only create a sense of urgency to current issues, but also create a whole new set of aging issues. Among the many cultural contributions of the baby boomers along with the free love, the drug scenes and Grateful Dead ties, was the concept of generation gap (Veith G.). In every other culture and throughout history, children were socialized to be adults. When children grew ... personal needs and wants one consequence on that attitude of self-centeredness is the high divorce rate of baby boomers (Monaldo, F. 2000). The high divorce rates of the baby boomer generation have deprived their ch...

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... to occupy, I have wished I was at home watching something more interesting, provocative, entertaining, relevant to me, and free of charge, on my computer. As a person who was brought up to love theatre, and who has spent my life devoted to creating theatre, I find these feelings especially disheartening. If I am having this experience with theatre, how can I possibly expect others in my ... % non-Hispanic Caucasians, and are 60% female.14 The Broadway League's report was generally in concurrence with the SPPA, finding that among Broadway theatergoers, 77% held a college degree and 39% he...

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... the women in Fitzgerald's book are somewhat disturbing, sometimes laughable, but more importantly, are indicative of Fitzgerald's view of what the consequences of achieving the American Dream held for Americans. The Great Gatsby is, in some respects, somewhat autobiographical in that Fitzgerald relied on his life experiences to form certain aspects of the novel. Just as Nick moved to New York to ... Myrtle Wilson's sister, Catherine, declares that Myrtle was "crazy about [George, her husband] for a while" (p. 39). Myrtle Wilson vehemently denies being "crazy in love" with George, but rath...

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... later he went to New York City to work in printing shops, but returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools. Between 1838-39 he edited a newspaper, the Long-Islander, at Huntington; becoming bored, he went back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist ... search for the ultimate meaning of life{Mark Van Doren}. Robert Graves said, "the truth is that Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards. Louis Untermeyer once said "his is a poetry which contemplates and sometimes criticizes the world, but regards everythi...

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... been one only of convince. To add fuel to this enraged fire, Claudius so boldly denies Hamlet's return to his asylum. This could not have angered Hamlet anymore. For where Hamlet saw that "the time is out of joint," Hamlet himself was "out of joint." How? Hamlet saw Elsinore as a prison rather than a sanction. Denmark's a prison. . . world. . . in which there are many confines ... , mother, and others within Denmark. For these people use no reason. What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A best, no more. Sure he that mad us with such large discour...

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... . All of them were eager to transport settlers to the vast prairie, to get it colonized as a matter of developing traffic. The land-grant railroads had their own areas to sell. But, they also aggressively advertised the free homestead lands of the federal government. The main objective was ... sold varied according to location and soil from five to twenty dollars or more an acre with easy credit terms. Many settlers preferred railroad lands that were favorably located over free homesteads. Railroad companies, especially those possessing land grants, were colonizers of the Great Plains on ...

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... perfection in pure geometry, she has often asserted, in essays and in interviews, that she does not paint "scientific discoveries or philosophies" but what she has called "the holiday state of mind." However it is defined, her paintings give an ineffable pleasure to those who allow themselves the time ... lines, from sharp to fuzzy, or in the frequency or spacing of the lines. Although Miss Martin had been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966 and had been exhibiting her work at the Robert Elkon Gallery in New York almost annually since 1961, ... critic Dore Ash...

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... New York Dolls, and the White Trash Debutantes dressed in outrageous women's clothing and played loud, distorted, simple progressions with hard, driving beats behind them. A transvestite screaming "I want to know what love is!"," with a syringe full of heroin sticking out of her arm was not something mom and dad wanted their daughter to go see on a Saturday night date with the boy from ... , 45) The owner of CBGB's, an aspiring entrepreneur and supporter of artistic endeavor named Hilly Crystal, founded the club in 1973. The name CBGB's stands for "Country Blue Grass and Blues,"" but it w...

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