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- 891: The 1920's
- ... book, Terribly Honest, she observed: "Imports [during 1918] dropped dramatically, but the economy, stimulated by the demands of foreign nations at war, filled its own needs effortlessly. This imbalance between American and European accounts was one of the precipitating causes of the Crash of 1929, and it persisted long after the Depression was over." Herbert Hoover, a Republican, was president from ... People ran out of hope, housing, and money. Very much the same sequence occurred in Europe, and depletion of investment capital reduced the buying power of the European consumer. The American export market weakened, and there was really not much European industry could export to acquire dollars. American industry needed help. Within months of the Great Crash of 1929, industry demanded protection. They got it in the form of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. By ...
- 892: The Changing Face of Basketball
- ... Jordan's $300,000 + per game (Minser 37). Basketball is a sport in which all ages can participate in any way, shape, or form and is a big part of American society today. In 1891 James A. Naismith invented basketball at a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts (Hollander 4). He told a custodian to nail two peach baskets 10 feet high ... force for DePaul, leading them to a 1945 National Invitational Tournament crown, scoring in one game an amazing 53 points. He Graduated DePaul in 1946 as a three time All American, and was the biggest basketball star up to that time (Minsky 16). there were only a few centers that would ever classify as great, but George Mikan, Bill Russell, Wilt ... being the best defensive center in the league, prided himself on being able to guard the best offensive center in the league: Chamberlain. Russell verses Chamberlain will go down in history as one of the best matchups in the history of the sport. Throughout the ten years the opposing centers played, they met 162 times (Minsky 30). In those games, ...
- 893: Squanto
- Squanto Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle, they became very fond ... destroy some Indian tribes and used trickery to obtain undeserved favors from many people in his own tribe. While Squanto was essential to the survival of the English in their American colonies, he betrayed his Native American friends in the process of providing the English with what they needed to survive (Johnson p. 2). Squanto spent much of his life living in the Plymouth Colony teaching ...
- 894: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... and a boy with not much education would grow up to be not only the 16th President of the United States but also one of the most famous speakers in history. I will chronicle for you some of the most remembered and effective public addresses of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s rise to presidency was a lengthy one. His first political ... to become U.S. Senator; however he is again unsuccessful and does not get chosen by the Illinois legislature to be U.S. Senator. Abe Lincoln was well known in history for his views on anti-slavery laws. On June 26th, 1857, he first speaks against slavery at the Dredd Scott ruling. Dredd Scott was an African-American slave whom was taken by his master, an officer in the U.S. Army from the slave state of Missouri to the free territory of Wisconsin where he lived ...
- 895: The John Scopes Trial
- The John Scopes Trial July of 1925 saw the most celebrated American battle between creation and evolution: the Scopes “Monkey” Trial. The defendant, John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools ... and the separation of church and state, and a crushing blow to the fundamentalist movement. The Scopes “Monkey” Trial, having been called “the most serious setback to civilization in all history,” (Smout 45), as well as a “threat to civilization itself,” is the “trial of the century.” New ideas frequently require considerable time to gain public approval, especially when religion is ... animals” (Smout 58). The decision of Scopes to violate the law did not come entirely from his own self-righteousness; it was in fact a ploy by the newly formed American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU had chosen Scopes to be the defendant in order to test the constitutionality of the Butler Act. When word got out about the case, ...
- 896: Freedom of Speech
- Freedom of Speech The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prevents the government from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Since the early history of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans. Many people think that the freedom of speech Amendment is a freedom that is ... the racism that has plagued the world today this is the most extreme and most desperate way to use your freedom of speech. The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prevents the government from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to ...
- 897: Alexander Crummel Unsung Hero
- Alexander Crummel:unsung hero As we look back on the history of African-Americans we all can recall the names of Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. Also in our history are the unsung heroes that don’t get talked about much. That’s why I decided to take a moment to look back at Alexander Crummell. During his lifetime Alexander ... charitable institutions for the race. To further increase the activity of the Church Crummell organized the Black Episcopal Clergy to fight racism in the Church. Crummell’s contributions to African American life went beyond the doors of the Church. He also played a key role in establishing the American Negro Academy, a national organization for the best educated and prominent ...
- 898: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... in the open city of Dresden, where he helped produce vitamin supplements for pregnant women. Sheltered in an underground meat storage locker, the Hoosier soldier managed to survive a combined American/British firebombing raid that devastated the city and killed an estimated 135,000 people - more than the number of deaths in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. After ... took him more than twenty years, however, to produce Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death. The book was worth the wait. Released to an American society struggling to come to grips with its involvement in another war - in a small Asian country called Vietnam - Vonnegut's magnum opus struck a nerve, especially with young people ... war. It is a question even Vonnegut has trouble answering. "As for my pacifism," he has said, "it is nothing if not ambivalent." When he asks himself what person in American history he would most like to have been, Vonnegut admits to nominating none other than Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, college professor and Civil War hero whose valiant bayonet charged helped ...
- 899: John D. Rockefeller
- ... and by the time he was 21, he was giving not only to his own but to other denominations, as well as to a foreign Sunday school and an African-American church. Support of religious institutions and African-American education remained among his foremost philanthropic interests throughout his life. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO As his wealth grew in the 1870s and 1880s, Rockefeller came to favor a cooperative and ... the others interested in it also would provide substantial financial support. It was on such a conditional basis that Rockefeller participated in the founding of the University of Chicago. The American Baptist Education Society had resolved in 1889 to establish a "well-equipped college" in Chicago. At the urging of the society’s director, the Rev. Frederick T. Gates, Rockefeller ...
- 900: Preserving Flowers
- ... Emerson, William J. 1979. "Drying flowers in a microware oven." THE PRAIRIE GARDEN. 36: 96-97. NAL Call No.: 80.W73 Loebel, JoAnn Schowalter. 1987. "Flowers for drying: everlasting perennials." AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 66(10): 10-13. NAL Call No.: 80.N216 Nau, Jim. 1989. "A flower grower's bibliography: basic references." GATHERINGS: THE CUT FLOWER QUARTERLY. 1(1):2-3. O ... dried flowers." FLOWER AND GARDEN. 28(2): 26-28. NAL Call No.: SB403.F5 Russell, A. Brooke. 1987. "How-to hints for July gardeners: dried florals capture summer's glory." AMERICAN HORTICULTURIST. 66(7): 8, 10-11. NAL Call No.: 80.N216 Sheffield, Richard R. 1980. "Plant everlastings for year-round enjoyment." ORGANIC GARDENING. 27(1): 186-188. NAL Call No ... Call No.: SB403.F5 BOOKS ----- COMMERCIAL FIELD PRODUCTION OF CUT AND DRIED FLOWERS: A NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM. Sponsored by The Center for Alternative Crops and Products, University of Minnesota and The American Society of Horticultural Science, December 6-8, 1988. [Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota?, 1988?]. NAL Call No.: SB442.85.C6 Conder, Susan. DRIED FLOWERS: DRYING AND ARRANGING. Boston: David ...
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