... Democratic primary. To that end, Joseph Kennedy, Sr. pulled out all the stops. Using his connections in the Boston newspapers, he played up his family's charitable work, their staunch Catholicism, and JFK's status as a war hero. A fortune was poured into streetcar advertising for the young candidate, and ... and brought an element of culture and class to the marriage that would become one of the defining traits of the Kennedy Presidency. Jackie's family, like the Kennedys, were Catholic immigrants, but they had come to America and made their fortune much earlier, in the mid-19th century....

• Word Count: 8348
• Approx Pages: 33
• Grade Level: High School

... At first, the divisions between East and West Berlin were uncertain. There was nothing that divided the city. For more than ten years after the official split of the city, East Berlin saw a major emigration of East Germans, unhappy with the communist system. Emigration was easy. With nothing physical to separate East ... build the wall. It stunned people from both East and West Germany. Workers from East Germany that worked in West Germany were separated from their family that night, and they were separated for years. The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. It consisted of 67 miles of concrete...

• Word Count: 2635
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 1913 he would be arrested and exiled six times, escaping almost every time. (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. Stalin joined the more radical Bolsheviks, and by the time World War I arrived, in 1914, he had ... the arrest of the students who had informed his wife of the disaster. Shortly thereafter, on November 8, 1932, Nadezhda shot herself. It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesse...

• Word Count: 5151
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... "organization man- of corporate America. Rather than identifying corporate hierarchy as the villain, however, Playboy blamed women: "We want to make it clear from the outset that we are not a family magazine If you are someone's sister, wife, or mother in-law, please pass us along to the man in your life and get back to your ladies home companion."" Like ... system upside down: "The beats are against every aspect of current American Society Mom, Dad, politics, marriage, the savings bank, organized religion, to say nothing of the automatic dishwasher, the split level house and the H-Bomb...

• Word Count: 3629
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... life. In response to low birth rates, large numbers of orphans and the failure of 37/100 marriages in 1934 alone, the communist leadership compelled the media to promote stable family life. (32) Propaganda was used to coerce the people into believing in the positive virtues of marriage and children. Divorce was made more difficult and abortion was prohibited. Thus the ... of all monasteries were forced to close and in 1921 twenty-eight bishops were arrested or died in violent clashes with the Soviet military. (35) Attempts were also made to split the church from the inside. By 1939 only...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

... life. In response to low birth rates, large numbers of orphans and the failure of 37/100 marriages in 1934 alone, the communist leadership compelled the media to promote stable family life. (32) Propaganda was used to coerce the people into believing in the positive virtues of marriage and children. Divorce was made more difficult and abortion was prohibited. Thus the ... of all monasteries were forced to close and in 1921 twenty-eight bishops were arrested or died in violent clashes with the Soviet military. (35) Attempts were also made to split the church from the inside. By 1939 only...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

... life. In response to low birth rates, large numbers of orphans and the failure of 37/100 marriages in 1934 alone, the communist leadership compelled the media to promote stable family life. (32) Propaganda was used to coerce the people into believing in the positive virtues of marriage and children. Divorce was made more difficult and abortion was prohibited. Thus the ... of all monasteries were forced to close and in 1921 twenty-eight bishops were arrested or died in violent clashes with the Soviet military. (35) Attempts were also made to split the church from the inside. By 1939 only...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School