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    Bay Of Pigs

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    Warsaw & NATO The Warsaw and NATO treaty were The warsaw treaty was a military and political alliance that took place May 14, 1955. It was between the Soviet Union and many Eastern European countries. It was formed as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. Bay of Pigs (F.P) My paragraph is going to be discussing the Bay of Pigs event and its relation to a boxing match. The CIA (central intelligence agency) was ultimately responsible for this event. They failed to…

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    “We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization” is one of the famous quotes from the one and only Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther King Jr. was known as a Baptist Minister and a Social Activist. From the mid 1950’s until his killing in 1968, he played an important part in the American Civil Rights Movement. King was the most important voice…

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    Bytt til norskAvslutt fullskjerm Johnny Cash on stage, ca. 1960. 20th Century Fox. limited American singer, guitarist and composer, raised 1935 in Dyess, Arkansas. Johnny Cash made his first recordings for Sun Records in 1955 (the single Hey Porter / Cry, Cry, Cry), and soon became a leading name in country music. Several of his songs have become classics of the genre, for example. Folsom Prison Blues (1956), I Walk The Line (1956), Ring Of Fire (1963) and A Boy Named Sue. The latter is a…

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    Since America got its independence there has been racism which caused the civil war. Once the Union won. The slaves were finally ”free”. Even still they were not equal. The Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that separated bathrooms, drinking fountains schools And the military they justified the laws by saying they were equal when in reality they were the opposite. Activists used, during the Civil Rights movement, multiple strategies that resulted in both successes and failures. During the Civil…

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    Mattel’s Barbie was first introduced to the world in 1959 by Ruth Handler. Ruth came up with the idea of Barbie by watching her daughter and friends play with paper dolls that mimicked adults. She thought to herself that there were no teenage and adult dolls on the market, she then took her idea to husband Elliot Handler who was one of the co-founders of Mattel Toys. He was skeptical at the idea because there were lots of baby and toddler dolls on the market but there were no adult dolls. Even…

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    Royal Enfield Case Study

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    CHAPTER-1.1 INTRODUCTION Royal Enfield one of the well known brand and most astounding offering bicycle in India and outside India (USA, Europe, Australia and so on.) Royal Enfield cruisers had been sold in India from 1949. In 1955,, the Indian Government searched for a suitable cruisers for its police and armed force, in utilizing as a part of watching the nation's fringe. To the extent the cruiser brand goes, however, no doubt Royal Enfield is the main bike brand to compass three centuries,…

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    Good Neighbour Policy

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    A. (2012, June). Opening the Cabaret America Allegory: Hemispheric Politics, Perfromance, and Utopia in Flying Down To Rio. American Quarterly, 64. Richard, A. C. (1993). Censorship and Hollywood's Hispanic Image: An Interpretive Filmography, 1936-1955. Greenwood. Speier, M. (2002, October 9). The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood. The Daily Variety. Woll, A. L. (1974). Hollywoods Good Neighnour Policy The Latin Image in American Film 1939-1946. Journal of Popular Film,…

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    Calciferol Synthesis

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    A. F. Hess (New York) and A. Windaus (Gottingen, Germany) tested 30 different steroids with more than 1 double bond from various plant sources for antirachitic activity. Upon irradiation they found that ergosterol , a fungal steroid from ergot which when irradiated , was highly active in curing rats suffering from rickets14. In consultation with Rosenheim and Webster they also determined the ergosterol was the provitamin D which was convertible to vitamin D by UV irradiation15. In 1931 Reerink…

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    which is a semi pro team. (Robinson 53). Jackie was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 by Branch Rickey (the Dodgers owner).(Robinson 29) In 1949 Jackie won the National Leauge MVP in 1949. (Robinson 48) Jackie played two thirds of the games in 1955. (Robinson 78). Jackie retired in October of 1956 he was a six time all-star, one time world series champion, one time N.L. MVP,and the 1947 rookie of the year. He became the first African-American inducted into the National…

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    Jonestown Massacre Essay

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    Jonestown Massacre Peoples Temple was formed in Indianapolis,Indiana in 1955 by Jim Jones. Jim JOnes spoke out about social and racial equality,communism and justice for the people. Jim jones idea as equality for all sparkerd a high interest in african american community because of their lack of equality they had in 1950’s and 1970’s. On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones a cult leader persuaded over 900 people to drink cyanide fruit punch. This is the biggest mass suicide that has happened in…

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