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- 5211: Jon Philip Sousa
- ... inspired him to write the great Stars and Stripes Forever. Through 1900-1905 Sousa and his band had three awesome tours in Europe. Finally, in 1910 he had his first world tour. In 1917 World War I broke out and Sousa took a break from music to join the US Naval Reserve at age 62. He was assigned the rank of lieutenant and was only paid a salary of one dollar a month. After the war, Sousa continued touring with his awesome band. He did great things in the name of music education and received many honorary awards and degrees. He also fought for composers' rights by testifying before Congress in ...
- 5212: Group Polarization And Competi
- ... competition is human nature", or perhaps think that these behaviors are essentially harmless. But consider these two examples. It has been speculated that President Lyndon B. Johnson was unwilling to get out of the Vietnam war because he didn't want to be remembered as the first American President to lose a war. If this is true, it means that thousands of people, both American and Vietnamese, died in order to protect one man's status. In Oklahoma City, a federal building was bombed in 1994, killing hundreds ...
- 5213: 1984 7
- ... Ministry of Truth, rewrites history without complaint. Records are changed to better suit the present. People are so naive that they would believe anything the government says. For example, one day they can be at war with Eurasia, and the next minute they are at war with Eastasia. The people of Oceania, are not living with any human rights. Without freedom, they are no better then a caged animal. There are just puppets that the government controls. Everyone should be entitled ...
- 5214: 1984 6
- ... Ministry of Peace, The Ministry of Love, and The Ministry of Plenty. The Ministry of Truth controls the news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace controls all of the concerns of war. The Ministry of Love maintains law and order. Then the Ministry of Plenty is responsible for economical affairs. The government had three slogans, War is Peace , Freedom is Slavery , and Ignorance is Strength. Poverty is at a maximum, and the standard of living is decaying. Parents are afraid of their own kids because they could be spies for the ...
- 5215: The Life and Death of Tupac Amaru Shakur
- ... Biggie Smalls. "That's why I fu**ed your bit*h you fat mother fu**a." is the beginning of the song. It goes about dogging on B.I.G. Could this spark a rival war? Well we won't know yet. Also in account to this, at Caesar's Palace earlier before the fight Tupac had given one punch to another rap artist Nas. Nas did something to spark the ... that Tupac gave, but reports are unclear why. That is another motive people haven't figured out. In the rap game there is an ego thing that people would like to call the "Eastcoast/Westcoast War". If you are from cities like Washington DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia or Baltimore you are considered eastcoast. If you are from Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Compton, Watts, Fresno, Long Beach ...
- 5216: Tiger Woods
- ... Tiger" was given to him by his father. It's the same nick-name of a South Vietnamese combat buddy, Nguyen Phong, who saved Tiger's father's life a few times in the Vietnam War. Rumor had it that Tiger was planning to official change his name to Tiger Woods when he turned 21 this past December but sources say he didn't do it for some reason. Tiger's Dad: Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel Earl Woods served 2 Tours of Duty in the Vietnam War. Tiger's Mother: Kultida (Tida) Woods. Her maiden name is Kultida Punsawad. Tiger's parents met in Bangkok, Thailand. They got married in 1969. Tiger Born: December 30, 1975 Long Beach, California. Tiger now lives ...
- 5217: Julias Caesar
- ... each would have proconsular control of provinces. Caesar then went off to raid Britain and put down a revolt in Gaul. Crassus, ever eager for military glory, went to his post in Syria. Provoking a war with the Parthian Empire, he was defeated and killed at Carrhae in 53BC. This removed the last buffer between Caesar and Pompey; their family ties had been broken by the death of Julia in 54BC ... The Senate then entrusted Pompey with providing for the safety of the state. His forces far outnumbered Caesar's, but they were scattered throughout the provinces, and his troops in Italy were not prepared for war. Early in 49BC Caesar crossed the Rubicon, a small stream separating his province from Italy, and moved swiftly southward. Pompey fled to Brundisium and from there to Greece. In three months Caesar was master of ...
- 5218: 1984 4
- ... hate and pain and is cold and dark. A better name for it would be the Ministry of Hate. George Orwell lived during a time when Europe was in a period of rebuilding after World War II. During that time Soviets gained six nations as satellites. England was helpless and had to worry about their own problems and had to watch the Soviet Union take control of half of Germany. The ... and what it stood for. He saw the problem of totalitarianism in his existing world. He also understood how the problem could fester and become larger due to instability in Europe's economy after World War II. He purposely makes the story, 1984, unrealistic and blown out of proportion to capture people's attention and make them think maybe it wouldn't be unrealistic in the near future. With his deep ...
- 5219: 1984 10
- ... existence is by bringing life and death to non-existent people. One such instance is the creation of Comrade Ogilvy. Winston creates this man with the intention of pure fantasy. He makes Comrade Olgilvy a war hero and a patriot that dies in battle but in all fact this man never existed. The final way the party controls the lives of the people is through a process called vaporization. Vaporization is ... by Desensitization. Desensitization is an effect brought on to people by the party which causes the loss of senses to one s self. One such instance occurs in the novel when Winston is explaining a war film he had just seen. He explains that in this one particular movie, one scene involves a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Another scene occurs when a woman and a ...
- 5220: King William I
- ... by far, the most powerful man in the universe. Let us just analyze the things that made a king and the things that make Bill Clinton. First of all, a king was able to wage war with whomever he wanted, without the approval of a legislative body. Is that not what Clinton did earlier this year? We waged a war with a country tens of thousands of miles away under the flag of NATO, which Clinton practically controls anyway. He used the United Nations as an excuse to intervene in something that didn't concern ...
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