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- 3391: The New Deal
- ... to many workers engaged in interstate commerce. The law was intended to prevent competitive wage cutting by employers during the Depression. After the law was passed, wages began to rise as the economy turned to war production. Wages and prices continued to rise, and the original minimum wage ceased to be relevant. However, this new law still excluded millions of working people, as did social security. However, a severe recession led many people to turn against New Deal policies. In addition, World War II erupted in September 1939. Causing an enormous growth in the economy as war goods were once again in great demand. No major New Deal legislation was enacted after 1938. The Depression was a devastating event in America, and by regulating banks and the stock market the New ...
- 3392: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... life with the seven other people in hiding--her parents, her sister, the van Pels family (called the van Daan family by Anne), and Fritz Pfeffer (called Alfred Dussel by Anne), as well as the war going on around her, and her hopes for the future. When she filled up her original diary, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two of the family's helpers,brought her ledgers and loose sheets of ... for most of the occupation,broadcast a request over the radio for people to save their wartime diaries. Anne Frank then began to rewrite her diary with the intention of having it published after the war. On August 4,1944, the Nazis raided the Secret Annex and arrested the residents. They emptied Otto Frank's briefcase onto the floor, including Anne's diary, in order to carry the family's valuables ... took away for safe- keeping. Miep put Anne's diary in her desk drawer, to await Anne's return. Anne Frank did not survive the Holocaust. Her father, Otto Frank, returned to Amsterdam after the war ended, the sole survivor among those who had hid in the Secret Annex. When he found out that Anne had died in Bergen-Belsen, Miep Gies gave him Anne's diary, which she had ...
- 3393: JFK Assination - Conspiracy
- ... was important that the American people understood why this case was re-opened over a decade later! The investigation was set up as direct result of the assassinations of two other major political figures; the civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King and the Presidents brother Robert Kennedy, in 1968. Naturally this aroused immense suspicion and the American public started questioning why so many key US figures had been assassinated in ... he attempted to build peaceful relationships with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Communists were also blamed for being involved as they saw Kennedy as a friend of industrials and held him responsible for the Vietnam War, the blocking of Cuba and many other things. These were just a few of the theories around at the time but it has to be remembered that none of them have ever been proven. It ...
- 3394: A Biography on Carl Sandburg
- ... went on to change sets in theater, operated a brick kiln, and worked as a carpenter, house painter and dishwasher. When he was older, he joined the fight against the Spanish in the Spanish-American War. He spent a long eight months in Puerto Rico. After the war, he went to Lombard College. Afterwards , he went on to work as an organizer for the Social-Democratic Party in Wisconsin, during 1907 through 1908. That was also the year he got married. He also ... great men, such as Abraham Lincoln, who was shot eighteen years before Sandburg's birth. He was so inspired that he wrote a book about the man's life. It was called Abraham Lincoln: The war years volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4. These were published in the year 1939, at the late age of 61. The series was so strong and powerful, it won a Pulitzer prize. Some of ...
- 3395: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... Crucifixion of Christ, trying to instill upon his follower's minds that he was Jesus Christ, that he was a higher power that they all needed to follow unquestionably. Manson convinced his followers that a war of the races was coming, which he named Helter Skelter. He got the name from a Beatles song, and had his followers prepare for the upcoming war by collecting guns and other weapons. Manson turned the ranch into a fortress. He started to change his following from being a group of freedom searching people into an organized army-like force. A prosecution ... orders to kill the couple and then left. Manson's followers stabbed Mrs. LaBianca fourty-one times, stabbed her husband to death, left a fork and a knife in his chest, and carved the word "WAR" into his stomach. The words "RISE", "HELTER SKELTER", and "DEATH TO PIGS" were scribbled on the walls and the refrigerator in the victims' blood. These brutal slayings demonstrate the evil in Manson's warped ...
- 3396: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... of off-rhyme. The subjects that Whitman and Dickinson used in their poetry are very different. There is a big difference because the things that each poet was interested in. Whitman often wrote about the Civil War. Dickinson often wrote about death and nature. The punctuation is drastically different as well. Whitman used mostly traditional punctuation in his poetry, but in the poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!" he used a big amount of ...
- 3397: Rachel Carson
- ... Service from 1935-1952, Carson knew of the early studies of DDT’s lasting effects on the environment. Called a “savior of mankind” because of it’s efficacy in controlling insect-born disease in World War II. DDT was the most widely used of chemical pesticides. By halting the transmittal of typhus through fleas DDT saved many lives during the war. Being an organic, synthetic insecticide of the chlorinated hydrocarbon group, DDT was so popular due to it’s low cost, high availability, potency, and apparent safety. Although as time went on DDT was showing signs ... to write so many books, and work so hard up until the day she passed away. This day in 1964 was a tragic one; the heavens took one of our most admired fighters in the war against pollution. Hopefully Rachel Carson’s ideas and lessons will be followed for years and years to come. The reality of Rachel Carson’s ideas hit a little closer to home a few years ...
- 3398: The Pedestrian
- ... to be judged. Many countries troubled with problems often view some people as different because of their actions. In the short story The Enemy Sadao and his wife Hana, live in a country plagued with war, which strongly relies on its customs. Some of the country's customs are being judgmental and racial toward enemies and distinct races. Sadao and Hana are considered different primarily because they cared for another person ... Sadao and his wife Hana experienced many consequences for helping save the life of a wounded enemy. Sadao could have been arrested and eventually killed, if he was caught hiding and helping a prisoner of war. "I thought they had come to arrest you" (298). In Japan during the time of the war, it was illegal to help or hide an enemy soldier. Sadao and Hana's servants quit because they cared for the life of a wounded soldier. The servant told them to turn the American ...
- 3399: Margaret Bouke-White
- ... was admitted into the country. She made a total of three trips and gained a reputation for being and expert on Russian industry. In 1931 she wrote her first book, Eyes on Russia. During World War II Margaret was sent Europe to cover the war. She got pictures of her own ship being torpedoed and became the first woman in a bomber. She also went with General Patton's troops to be one of the firsts to photograph a concentration camp. When she returned to the U.S. she wrote another book about the war, Purple Heart Valley. In 1950 Margaret was awarded an American Women of Achievement award but only seven years later she would no longer be able to hold a camera. She was diagnosed with Parkinson' ...
- 3400: Mark Twain
- ... Orion managed (Mark Twain 1). In 1853, when Samuel was eighteen, he left Hannibal for St. Louis (Unger 194). There he became a steam boat pilot on the Mississippi River. Clemens piloted steamboats until the Civil War in 1861. Then he served briefly with the Confederate army (Mark Twain 1). In 1862 Clemens became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1863 he began signing his articles with ...
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