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- 12021: Ben Franklin 2
- ... music, which lead to him building his own glass armonica. This interment was played by touching the edge of a spinning glass with a dampened finger. The armonica produced beautiful tones that even appealed to great composers like Mozart and Beethoven. Ben Franklin was a mild-mannered widely loved, jack of all trades. Of all Franklins accomplishments none stand out more than others because they are all amazing and in different ...
- 12022: Benito Juarez
- ... and he was thrown in jail. He then was released, and gained support of both Liberals and Conservatives and in 1841 he became a senior judge in the state s capital court. He was a great judge, he was impartial, didn t care about race, sex, or social class. He also followed dressing patterns similar to Abraham Lincoln, with a black wool suit, white linen shirt, black bow tie, and a ...
- 12023: The Godfather: Michael Vs. Sonny
- ... others help them out, they do the same. Although Sonny felt that the move towards narcotics was a good idea, he didn't go in that direction when he was in charge. They both had great respect for their father. When he wanted something done they jumped. When He was shot, Michael rushed home to see if he could help. He eventually got involved in the family business because of this ...
- 12024: Censorship
- ... been proven that violence on television, as well as sex and obscene language has an ill effect on society and it is the governments job to do something about it. Through the use of technology, great advances have been made, but there is still a lot to be done. Devices such as the V-chip and the rating system are small steps in a large gray area of politics. There has ...
- 12025: Benjamin Franklin
- ... the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. The next year, he signed the Treaty of Alliance with France, and the following year, he was chosen Minister to France. At age 76, Franklin negotiated a preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain along with John Adams and John Jay. He went back to France, and the next year he signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War. When he was in Paris, he was ...
- 12026: Benjamin Franklin 4
- ... countless experiments and was successful in validating his hypotheses. There was very little known about the nature of heat until the eighteenth century. Franklin was one of the pioneers in this field. He discovered a great deal about thermal conduction, evaporation, radiation, and thermal absorption. The knowledge about materials that conduct electricity and thermal energy is largely due to him. Water was used in infinitely the seventeen hundreds, but there was ...
- 12027: President Jackson and the Removal of the Cherokee Indians
- ... easily proved by examining the administration of Jackson and comparison to the traditional course which was carried out for about 40 years. After 1825 the federal government attempted to remove all eastern Indians to the Great Plains area of the Far West. The Cherokee Indians of northwestern Georgia, to protect themselves from removal, made up a constitution which said that the Cherokee Indians were sovereign and not subject to the laws ...
- 12028: Television, What A Waste of Timme
- ... minds. But with TV, all the images are created for you and almost all the arguments are one-sided. With TV, you no longer create your own ideas; you are told them. Television has a great impact on the health of America. The seductive topics and biased broadcasts shows daily across America are luring more and more people to the confines of their living room couch for a greater amount of ...
- 12029: Television and The Internet
- ... the series or episode, ty pically soon after it airs. The result of this negotiated-reading is the unveiling of new meanings, some intended by the producers, some unintended. This type of analysis is of great interest to most, as it allows for a deeper involvement into the series that you love. Other chat lines and newsgroups are more simplistic. The newsgroup for Beverly Hills 90210, for example, usually consists of ...
- 12030: Benjamin Harrison
- ... later the Indiana legislature elected Harrison to the United States Senate. He served from 1881 to 1887 and won the good will of veterans by supporting the many private pension bills that came to him. Great was the confusion in the Republican nominating convention of 1888. Senator James G. Blaine, the leader of the party, had been defeated by Cleveland in 1884 and refused to run against him again. The field ...
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