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- 5371: Emily Dickinson
- ... with separation. Emily did not conform to society. She did not believe it was society's place to dictate to her how she should lead her life. Her poems reflect this sense of rebellion and revolution against tradition. From all the jails the boys and girls Ecstatically leap,- Beloved, only afternoon That prison doesn't keep. In this poem Emily shows her feelings towards formalized schooling. Being a product of reputable ...
- 5372: Athens And Sparta
- ... participate in an assembly , hold office , vote , and serve on a jury. Slaves could not do any of these things because they were not counted as citizens . The Athenian government was as similar as the American government today (Meigas 32). Unlike the government of Athens the government of Sparta flourished as an aristocracy . This type of government is when a place is ruled by a small number of people from the ...
- 5373: Australia And Asia Relationshi
- ... China considered most West European countries "lackeys" of United States imperialism, while it sided with Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The collapse of communism has left only one superpower - USA - and although China wants American trade (and vice versa) She also seeks to build strong ties in the Asia-Pacific region and this is deemed by Australian governments to be to Australias advantage because of our developed economy. The developed ...
- 5374: Mickey Mantle
- ... 18 years ( his whole career). He also brought them to 12 World Series. For his career in the World Series he hit 18 homeruns ( World Book 168-169) Here are his Milestones of baseball: 1) AMERICAN LEAGUE MVP (MOST VALUABLE PLAYER) 1956,57,62., 2) LED AL IN HOMERUNS 1955,56,58,60., 3) CAREER GRANDSLAMS 9 4) PINCH HIT HOMERUNS 7. 5) THREE HOMERUNS IN ONE GAME MAY 13,1955 ...
- 5375: Austria Ottoman Report
- ... the north and south were very unorganized, and still didn't have any rights. The principle political figure in Austria was Prince Klemens von Metternich. He worked to crush all revolutionaries. He failed, and a revolution still occurs in 1848. Austria would have disappeared except for the divisions in the revolutionary peoples. They each wanted much different goals. At the end of this, Emperor Francis Joseph came to power. Under his ...
- 5376: Battle Of Hurtgen Forest
- ... Hurtgen campaign had lasted 90 days. The dams upstream were not controlled, so the Americans dared not go any further. The entire operation was a waste. Nine divisions plus supporting units were involved on the American side. There were 24,000 casualties, plus 9,000 victims of trench foot, disease or combat fatigue. Gen. Rolf von Gersdorff said of the battle, "I have engaged in the long campaigns in Russia as ...
- 5377: Biography of William Hearst
- ... Hearst, Jr. became a Pulitzer prize winner in 1956. And in 1974, Patricia Hearst, William's granddaughter, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. This led to one of the biggest police searches ever in American history. She was later forced to join the army and was found and arrested for her actions. Years later she was released from prison by President Carter. William died on August 14, 1951 at age ...
- 5378: The Public Broadcasting System: Digital Technology and HDTV
- ... cost. Furthermore, PBS is devoted to narrowing the information gap between the less fortunate and the privileged few. Only PBS can be entrusted with using his new medium to serve the culturally and socially diverse American audience. Likewise, PBS's expedition into digital television fully exploits the following fragment of the networks mission statement: "
to serve its members with programming and services of the highest quality and the imaginative use of ...
- 5379: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... that he was physically and mentally unfit for the presidency, he flew to Chicago and pledged to the people at the Democratic National Convention, a New Deal. That expression, a symbol of an era in American history, represented a cluster of ideas formulated by the candidate and his Brain Trust, a group of advisors recruited from New York's Columbia University. On the eve of the March 1933 inauguration, the nation ...
- 5380: Battle On March 9th
- ... Captain Franklin Buchanan. After all the modifications were complete, the ship was rechristened the CSS Virginia, but the original name the CSS Merrimack is the preferred name. The USS Monitor was the creation of Swedish-American engineer, John Ericsson. The ship was considered small for a warship, only 172 feet long and 42 feet wide. Confederate sailors were baffled by the ship. One was quoted describing her as "an immense shingle ...
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