... foreign treaties and supported the United States participation in post war organizations. e. Dewey indirectly questioned Roosevelt's abilities to continue by referring to the "tired old man." f. The Republicans attacked Roosevelt of using a navy destroyer to retrieve his dog who was left behind in the Aleutian Islands. g. To these ... rationing of meat, sugar, canned goods, shoes and gas. Victory Gardens were planted in every vacant lot. Families participated in the recycling of animal fat, cans, paper, cigarette and gum foil, and every type of scrap metal so that those materials could b...

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... psychological and historical. Walter Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, N.Y., on May 31, 1819, the second of six children. When he was four years old, his family moved to Brooklyn, where he attended public school for six years before being apprenticed to a printer. Two years 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 {Doren, 45}. ... tried ...

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... Episcopacy at the end of the 19th century represented the merger of what appeared to be an irreconcilable conflict between two rival elite groups: the old pre-industrial New England - based on upper-class norms, with its high-minded, non-urban mores, and the big, rough New York ... entire GNP in the year before the Gulf War. (Business Week 1989 ) In 1992 TNCs employed 73 million people, 10% of global non-farm jobs and 20% of jobs in more prosperous countries. The 100 largest TNCs controlled one quarter of all global output. The power of these ... America. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: P...

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... Episcopacy at the end of the 19th century represented the merger of what appeared to be an irreconcilable conflict between two rival elite groups: the old pre-industrial New England - based on upper-class norms, with its high-minded, non-urban mores, and the big, rough New York ... entire GNP in the year before the Gulf War. (Business Week 1989 ) In 1992 TNCs employed 73 million people, 10% of global non-farm jobs and 20% of jobs in more prosperous countries. The 100 largest TNCs controlled one quarter of all global output. The power of these ... America. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: P...

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... it was held in Bethel, New York (Yildez, 1). The land it was held on was a six hundred acre dairy farm. Max Yasgur owned the farm in Sullivan County. John Roberts was twenty-six years old. Roberts had a multi-million dollar trust fund, a degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and a lieutenant's commission in ... the army. Needless to say, Roberts supplied the money for the festival. Joel Rosenman was twenty-four years old. He was ... . By 1967 the two were sharing an apartment, trying to figure out what to do with their lives. Artie Kornfield was twenty-five years old. Kornfield was v...

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... it was held in Bethel, New York (Yildez, 1). The land it was held on was a six hundred acre dairy farm. Max Yasgur owned the farm in Sullivan County. John Roberts was twenty-six years old. Roberts had a multi-million dollar trust fund, a degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and a lieutenant's commission in ... the army. Needless to say, Roberts supplied the money for the festival. Joel Rosenman was twenty-four years old. He was ... . By 1967 the two were sharing an apartment, trying to figure out what to do with their lives. Artie Kornfield was twenty-five years old. Kornfield was v...

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... old for musicals. The previous SPPA, conducted by the NEA in 2002, found that the median age of attendees for both non-musical and musical plays was 44. In 1992, the SPPA reported a median age of 42 for both plays and musicals, and in 1982 the median age for both was 39 ... findings on the national decrease of adult attendance at regional theatres, and further states that, "the declines are concentrated among audiences 18-46 years old, meaning that young people represent a smaller slice of the audience and that 18-34-year olds are a declining share of the overall audience ... sacrilege, o...

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... then used as the basis of new industries. Some of the successful industries in the 1920s, like steel and construction, were in fact old industries, which had been modernised. Other industries, like the automobile and aircraft industry had been in a pioneering stage in 1900 and only ... in American farmers" income. The problem was that too much wax being produced. This was made worse by new, improved farming techniques and better farm machinery. The republican governments were more interested in business than agriculture and did almost nothing to help farmers. . Some industries, once pros...

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... The imperfect lens of history tends to portray these individuals as incompetent. A mythos permeates the American historical psyche that the British were opposed to progress, trying to enforce a centuries-old authoritarian regime on progressive, forward thinking, and liberty-loving colonies. England, steeped in outdated notions of aristocratic superiority and class divisions, was sure to fail against antimonarchist virtues and ... an undefended height overlooking Gates' army. His plan was to use artillery to force the Continental Army back to the Hudson River. This engagement, known as the...

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... White, 13.48% African American, 0.42% Native American, 9.35% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 15.48% from other races, and 5.63% from two or more races. 39.76% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 230,546 households out of which 29.60% have children under the age of 18 living with ... them, 39.80% are married couples living together, 16.60% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 37.70% are non-families. 29.50% of ... 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...

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... now extinct. Of the thousands of archeological sites in North America, not one has contained the remains of any extinct animal that proves to be younger than 10,000 years old (Grayson, 1993). It was once assumed by many people that all thirty-five genera became extinct in the short ... to the environment, biotic systems changed. These great changes in the physical environment are at the heart of many scientists" belief that the large-animal extinction at the end of the Ice Age was brought about by physical or environmental changes, not by human hunting. The extinction of many ... anima...

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... officers. Tesla had a poetic touch, as he matured he added to these earlier qualities, those of self-discipline and learn to like precision. His family had a big farm. There were workers on the farm, one of them named Maine. He was cross-eyed. Tesla's father told him to look at what he was chopping, but he kept looking away, Tesla's father got ... . She worked very hard from the break of day, to late at night. She made moist of the items in the house by hand. When she was past 60 years old, her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash. Tesla had a disorder, he wo...

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... scholars, are about that of the world and those things contained within them. "Characteristic of Shakespeare's conception of Hamlet's universalizing mind that he should make Hamlet think first . . . entirely." (Mack. 39) Hamlet has come to terms with the fact that the world, even including his mother, is nothing but an un-weeded garden filled with evil. Hamlet's one true problem is ... and feed? A best, no more. Sure he that mad us with such large discourse, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in us unused. (IV.IV.33-39) . Hamlet believes that life is useless if men d...

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... commit idolatry; 4) not to commit incest and adultery; 5) not to commit bloodshed; 6) not to commit robbery; and 7) not to eat flesh cut from a living animal. Jewish law also requires certain holidays to be observed. The Month of Tishri- September and October, months that major holidays fall upon. Rosh Hashanah is the day of ... will begin November 30th. Tu B'Shevat is the New Year for trees so that is can be decided when they are four years old, which is when they are old enough to harvest from. Purim is the holiday that commemorates the bravery of Ester who convinced a King to save the...

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... history, can pursue their life. commitments and avocations devoid of monarchical control, demagoguery and the rigid social and class stratification that once characterized the old world. Through much of the colonial era, the neoclassical to the post- modernist years, this feeling of idealism and cheerfulness about America and Americans ... narrator of The Great Gatsby notes that Gatsby is the son of a "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people."(104) He also notes that Gatsby "never accepted them as his parents at all." (104) As an ambitious sixteen year old, Gatsby composed a series of plan...

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... remainder of her life. 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 rather, that "[t]he only crazy I was was when I married him" (p. 39). Myrtle explains that George was not the person she thought he was because he was wearing a borrowed suit at the ... ...

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... a Ph.D from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is also a colonel in the US Air Force. He later flew on other space missions, including STS-61A (in 1985), STS-39 (in 1991), and STS-53 (in 1992). In total, Bluford logged over 688 hours in space. Dr. Bluford became a NASA astronaut in August 1979. Dr. Bluford is married and has ... for the Advancement of Colored People). DuBois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was a gifted student who became a reporter for the New York Globe when he was 15 years old. He later attended Fisk University, then transferred to Harvard Unive...

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... worsened, she sprang into action. Lange took to the streets with her camera and began photographing those hardest hit by the depression. She photographed labor strikes at Fisherman's Wharf, displaced farm workers' camps outside the city, and breadlines set up by the few humanitarians willing and able to provide aid to the needy. She captured the sad and angry faces of ... first federally funded public housing project in Marysville, California. It was one of Lange's photographs entitled "Migrant Mother" (fig. 3) that is credited with convincing the president to rush the migrant farm work...

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... worsened, she sprang into action. Lange took to the streets with her camera and began photographing those hardest hit by the depression. She photographed labor strikes at Fisherman's Wharf, displaced farm workers' camps outside the city, and breadlines set up by the few humanitarians willing and able to provide aid to the needy. She captured the sad and angry faces of ... first federally funded public housing project in Marysville, California. It was one of Lange's photographs entitled "Migrant Mother" (fig. 3) that is credited with convincing the president to rush the migrant farm work...

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... hazy blur and vanished. When Cpt Ferriera was questioned by Portuguese Air Force Investigators he was quoted as saying: "Please don't come out with the old explanation that we were being chased by the planet Venus, weather balloons, or freak atmospheric conditions. What we saw up there was real and intelligently ... cave wall. Perhaps the most astounding and unexplainable pieces of physical evidence are a pair of geodes. Both are believed to be approximately 1,800 years old and when carefully examined were identified as electrical cells. One of the cells which was discovered in Iraq was ...

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... flight from the "tyranny of priests" and the "endless exactions" of the Catholic Church" (E p. 57). The newer, post-famine immigrants like Erin differed from the old. They were single, young and fresh, usually between ages 15 - 35 (B p. 62). Many were women who had heard of a great demand for servants in ... their Catholic religion. When a Protestant drove by one of these ghettos they surely looked in disgust at the squalid conditions of the Irish. Their homes were old, abandoned mansions that were converted into tenement housing; sometimes a wooden crate sufficed, but as a rule there we...

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... that had made Melville famous, but neither work expanded the author's reputation. In the summer of 1850, under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne's, "The Scarlet Letter," Melville bought the Arrowhead farm near Pittsfield so that he could live near Hawthorne, and the two men, who shared similar philosophies, became close. The relationship with Hawthorne reawakened Melville's creative energies, and in 1851 ... he would drift from one thing to another. He clerked in the family fur and cap business now run by his older brother Gansevoort, worked on his Uncle Thomas Melville's farm at Pi...

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... the United States in late 1918, he was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism and the infections from his leg. He died in his sleep on January 5, 1919, as people said "The old lion is dead" The Priest Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., on December 28, 1856. He was profoundly influenced by a devoutly religious household headed by his father, Joseph ... and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act. In 1915, Wilson supported the La Follette Seamen's bill, designed to improve the working conditions of sailors. The following year he signed the Federal Farm Loan Act, providing low-interest cr...

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... from fear. The Burch ell's Zebra, or Dauw, used to populate Africa's plains in great numbers. Settlers report seeing groups of thousands. Over hunting, the cultivation land, and competition with farm animals for grazing land during periods of draught caused the population to be wiped out. Cause of this species extinction? Humans over hunted it, cultivated their habitat and they did ... . The rhinoceros is also threatened by habitat fragmentation, which is when the contiguous habitats can be fragmented resulting in a new landscape that differs substantially in a number of ways from the ol...

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... influenced by their ideas and fashions, especially using the soft drug cannabis and the hallucinogenic drug LSD. "The New Era" referred to Kennedy promising vigorous attempt to manage a world whose old stabilities had broken down. Kennedy received credit for recognizing that international and domestic crises required an active response, even if that response was "mediating, rationalizing, and managerial," a policy of "aggressive ... only Time and Newsweek but world-weary friends who had navigated the traffic-blocked thruway and felt the new society emerging, half a million strong, stone...

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