1959

It was July 8, 1959 in New York. Elena Gilbert and her family went on a family trip to their lake house. The members of the family are Kevin Gilbert, the dad, Jessica Gilbert, the sister/ daughter, Melissa Gilbert, sister/ daughter, and Jeffrey, brother/ son. Their mother had died from cancer in May of 1959. Elena and her dad were very close unlike the rest of their family. She was an open book she told her dad everything. From who her boyfriend was to what her siblings did wrong. After their…

February 20th, 1959, also known as “Black Friday” was the day the short lived Avro Arrow project came to an end. The Avro Arrow was a supersonic interceptor fighter jet which was Canada’s deterrent to the Cold War threat from Russia attacking the North American continent. The cancellation of the Avro Arrow, 59 years later remains a controversial topic today, as the Canadian government had a short term view versus a long-term horizon. Even though, the aircraft was far superior to enemy countries,…

Martha Euphemia Lofton was born on September 11,1890 in Washington D.C. She was known for being a mathematician. Martha’s father was a dentist and financier who helped start African American businesses around the D.C area, while her mother was very active in the Catholic Church and she passed that onto Martha too. Once Martha graduated from Miner Normal School she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in math from Smith College. Soon after she married her childhood friend Harold Appo Haynes in 1917.…

Desired suffering as we know it, but in the form of transformative cultural rites of passage (coined in 1909 by the Anthologist Gennep) appears mysterious in it universal multiplicities. Ritual combat – such as the bloody, skull shattering club-fights of Aché – persists as a dominant commonality and (in a Western functionalist reading of intelligibility) serves as sort of social function among neighboring clans, tribes and bands for releasing pent-up mental cathexes and aggressive energy. In…

1860’s to 1900’s After the Jamestown settlers moved to the new capital of the Virginian government Williamsburg in 1699 CE, the settlement itself, became nothing more than farmland surrounded with a ruined church tower, and broken gravestones (Standard 1904:3). Only a few travelers visited Jamestown out of historical curiosity during the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century CE (Standard 1904:3). However, according to Mary Newton Standard’s 1904 archaeological document, Jamestown…

The relations seemed to be cooling for the two opposing countries in the summer of 1959, when in June, The US granted Russia permission to put on a exhibition in New York. The Russians put up an traditional Russian house that would not look out of place in their country. While it did not feature gadgets, it was Russia’s chance to brag about and show off their space technology and gloat about the launch of Sputnik in 1957. This exhibition was part of a deal that was signed in January of 1958,…

Based on a review of the eight-part Netflix documentary, “The Cuba Libre Story,” this leadership study is to identify and compare the leadership styles, traits and influences of Cuba's leaders. The discussion will examine how they have affected the Cuban people, Latin America and the world for the past one hundred plus years. Cuba's leaders have claimed to use every means available to protect Cuba and the Cuban people from oppression and tyranny, while becoming tyrants and using authoritarian…

The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to the mysterious unsolved deaths of nine ski hikers in the Northern Ural Mountains on February 2, 1959. Their bodies were found scattered and with weird markings and injuries on them. On February 2, February 1959 9 hikers were found dead by Russian search teams. Most of them had clothes on but some were stripped of their clothes in the frostbitten snow. One case was especially weird. Her name is Lyudmila Dubinina and she was found both naked and mutilated…

the test to legislations passed only a few years ago. First came the creation of the ACT and why it was created in 1959. The next development was in 2001 when Illinois and Colorado were the first states to require their high school students to take the ACT. The final development was in 2013 when Minnesota required all juniors in the class of 2016 to take the ACT to graduate. In 1959, the American College Testing was created by a University of Iowa professor named E.F Lindquist(Niche). As more…

to an all white school in 1959 came with constant bullying and social pressure to not associate oneself with kids that were not the same colour as you. Linda, one of the main characters, developed a friendship with a Negro girl, breaking an unwritten law to prove segregationists wrong. By getting to know a new comrade, and even stepping up for a race other than hers, it freed her long-held opinion about the issue. Racism against blacks was inescapable in America in 1959, especially in an all…