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- 161: John L Lewis
- By: Allan Breden Allan Breden February 24, 2000 A working man's man John L. Lewis John L. Lewis started life in Lucas County, Iowa February 12, 1880 the son of Thomas Lewis, a coal miner and policeman. John was welsh born. In the 1880's and the 1890's their family lived in a company owned shanty with an outdoor privy. Whet John was in his teens they moved to Des Moines. ...
- 162: Lyndon Johnson
- Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson led the country for five years (1963-1968) after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy died of gunshot wounds on November 22, 1963. He formulated many policies and carried out many others that Kennedy could not finish. He faced many foreign problems as well, including the Vietnam War and the Cold War. How he dealt with foreign problems put him near last if not last in foreign affairs, ...
- 163: Saint John Bosco
- A man with a vision, with an awareness of the good that lives in people, with an ability of dreaming dreams of beauty for those he met along his way, this is John Bosco. St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was born to poor parents in Recchi, Italy, the Piedmont area of northern Italy. When John was two, his father died prematurely. As a boy, John lived on a farm with his family doing the only thing they knew how, farming. Poverty and a lack of formal education in the ...
- 164: The Cold War - Foreign Policy - Eisenhower and Kennedy
- The Cold War - Foreign Policy - Eisenhower and Kennedy Throughout the course of waging the Cold War, foreign policy, specifically Eisenhower's and Kennedy's remained similiar despite the fact that the war was a bipartisan undertaking. The overall policy by which the Cold War was defined was strikingly similar between both presidents. The ways in which the Cold War was carried on between the United States and Communism remained the same between both presidents. The handling of a major war development was continued throughout the span of Eisenhower's and Kennedy's terms. However, their aims in how to structure an offense were not as similiar as their other policies. The policy of containment was the overall blueprint for which the Cold War was constructed. ...
- 165: John Paul Jones
- John Paul Jones The Bonhomme Richard vs. The HMS Serapis John Paul was born in the small fishing village of Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from Fife but John Paul's father had taken ...
- 166: John Paul Jones
- John Paul Jones The Bonhomme Richard vs. The HMS Serapis John Paul was born in the small fishing village of Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from Fife but John Paul's father had taken ...
- 167: The Crucible: John Proctor Is A Tragic Hero
- The Crucible: John Proctor Is A Tragic Hero Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is clearly a representation of the true meaning of tragedy. John Proctor was, in fact, the medium, the tool, of which Miller utilized to convey a universal depiction of tragedy. A broad definition of a tragic hero is a protagonist who, through faults and flaws of ... well as many other literary critics seem to convey that tragedy revolves around two universal aspects: fear and freedom. "The Crucible" is a direct parallel to the multiple ideals of tragedy and thus centers around John Proctor's fear and freedom while he exists as a tragic hero. The first stage in the process of establishing the tragic hero for Miller was relaying the characteristics of John Proctor. It was ...
- 168: Newfoundland
- ... Catherine Snow had the distinction of being the last woman hanged in Newfoundland, out of the 2nd story of the old courthouse in 1834. She had lived common law and then married an abusive planter, John Snow, in Port au Grave. When her husband was murdered, she was implicated along with her cousin Tobias Mandeville, with whom she was having an affair, and an indentured servant from Ireland named Arthur. All ... women like that of Catherine Snow that trudged from the outports to find that gender and religion were only an anchor to them. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many young women came to St. John's from the outports to work in domestic service in upper class homes. They worked as housekeepers, cooks, maids or general servants, many of them in the homes on Rennie's Mill Road. Often the ... young women married and turned to the care of their own homes or, like Naomi, sought work as domestics in the Boston States. Naomi worked there from 1920 until 1933, when she returned to St. John's to work. Many working class women contributed to the family income by working in the shops which dotted Water Street of St. John’s during the early 20th century. Dry goods, millinery, grocery ...
- 169: Brave New World Essays
- Brave New World Essay Test Q: How does life in Brave New World change John? A: Life in The Brave New World changes John in an unusual way. Being a child from the savage reservation, John was taught that morality, rather than conditioned by the Controller. John learned his rights and wrongs from his mother, and his own experiences. John knew a personal relationship was valued, and everyone loved one ...
- 170: Kristallnacht
- ... in the United States. The Klan was first organized on December 24th, 1865 in the Law Office of Judge Thomas M. Jones. There were six people who organized the Klan. They included Calvin E. Jones, John B. Kennedy, Frank O. McCord, John C. Lester, Richard R. Reed, and James R. Crow. This information is proclaimed on a wall in Pulaski, Tennessee. It was unveiled on May 21, 1917 by the widow of Captain Kennedy, who was ...
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