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- 5081: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... a well known and admired humanitarian. (Webster III, 100). When her husband became the President, Eleanor Roosevelt made herself a strong speaker on behalf of a wide range of social causes, including youth employment and civil rights for blacks and women. She also had compassion for the Jewish and helped them go through the time when Hitler had power. She did all of her work with self-confidence, authority, independence, and ... alike, and proved that Eleanor was a kind woman who wanted to help everybody. Like women, Eleanor believed that all blacks were equal to whites. Because of her support, she was able to bring about civil rights movement for blacks. This benefited mankind by getting the rights blacks should have. This created a stronger feeling about humanity and how people should be treated as equals. Eleanor had aided so many people ...
- 5082: A Report On Schindlers List
- Thomas Keneally s Schindler s List is the historical account of Oskar Schindler and his heroic actions in the midst of the horrors of World War II Poland. Schindler s List recounts the life of Oskar Schindler, and how he comes to Poland in search of material wealth but leaves having saved the lives of over 1100 Jews who would most ... side in order to keep using his Jews in his factory. Amon agreed to let Schindler use them, and thus saving his Jews from some of the harshness of the Plaszow labor camp. As the war began to go badly for the Germans, they decided to accelerate their final solution by sending the Jews to more sinister concentration camps such as Auchwitz. This is when Oskar Schindler finally comes to the ...
- 5083: Biography Of Tiger Woods
- ... be the best golfer. The only way Tiger dealt with racism was to let his clubs do all the talking for him. The book starts off with Earl Woods, Tiger s father, during the Vietnam War. A sniper almost took out Earl but his friend saved him. Later on that day, he gets in a predicament with a bamboo viper, and once again, his friend saves him. The friend s name ... and he was good in combat; he was a tiger in combat. Nguyen Phong had the nickname of "Tiger". Earl vowed that if he ever had another son, he would call him "Tiger". After the war, back in the United States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him Tiger . Tiger Woods took interest in ...
- 5084: The Pearl: Notes Chapter 2
- ... reaction to the appearance of the scorpion was fear for her first born. Then, after the sting, she wanted to take Coyotito to the doctor. He would not treat it. This demonstrated not only a war between culture's, but a war between social classes. If the baby were white or the parents well paid, but lacking immediate money, the doctor would have probably treated it. 4. The beat of the song is his heartbeat. The melody ...
- 5085: Bootleggers Boy
- ... Ouachita River. His dad worked at the toll bridge over the river. In 1941 he and his family moved to Long Beach, California. They moved there so his dad could work on ships during the war. When the war ended he moved back to Crossett, Barry just finished the third grade. His dad went through many jobs but didn t gain any money. Then he decided to go to Louisiana and buy a few ...
- 5086: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- ... representatives of virtually every right-wing extremist movement that has practiced unconventional warfare are to be found. The League is the one constant in this netherworld; whether looking at Croation terrorists, Norwegian neo-Nazis, Japanese war criminals, or American ultra-rightists...." (p. x, WACL is more than a club for aging facists and their modern- day hero- worshipers, it serves as the primary coordinating body through which anti- communist groups meet ... terrorism, subversion and guerilla warfare, such covert and non-military activities as sabotage, economic warfare, support to resistance groups, black and gray psychological operations, disinformation activities, and political warfare.' "Certainly the Nazi forces of World War Two and the rightist death squads of El Salvador and Guatemala today are among this century's most accomplished practitioners of this unconventional warfare," write the Andersons. They note that many historia ns have made ...
- 5087: Stephen King
- ... at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.S. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately ...
- 5088: The Biography of John Marshall Harlan II
- ... in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child. During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre. After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From 1951 to 1953, Harlan served as a chief counsel to the New York State Crime Commission. During his time as chief counsel, Harlan helped to investigate illegal gambling, as ...
- 5089: Atomic Bomb 2
- ... together to construct the most deadliest thing known to man. The project originated in the Pentagon in 1942 when General Groves was told, by the White House, he was to lead the Manhattan Project. World War II had already been raged for three years when the Nazis, after being victorious in Europe, declared war on the United States. This was nine months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In September of that year, Groves, met with Leo Szilard and asked him if making the atomic bomb was possible. Leo ...
- 5090: Mein Ghetto: Black Racism And Louis Farrakhan
- ... and foundations to give preference to blacks when hiring). However, more radical attitudes towards Whites by Black North Americans have developed, primarily during this century, in response to, and as an off-shoot of, the civil rights movement and the emergence of groups such as the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan is a leader of a group of extremist. An African-American "preacher", he has founded his ... and other racial or religious or special interest groups. This essay will examine some of the events that form part of the foundation of his philosophy, will examine essays written about Farrakhan by prominent academics, civil libertarians, and modern day economists, writers. Who is Louis Farrakhan, what does he preach, and why? This essay will attempt to shed some light on these questions, and as well Black radicalism itself. Farrakhan was ...
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