1962

this famous soliloquy and that its content within literature are not from the original origin. However, some people do know though the soliloquy is from the famous play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Now fast forward a few hundred years into the year 1962, and enter The Cuban Missile Crisis. For the Kennedy administration, this crisis was the issue of foreign diplomacy and how it could have brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Given four types of options, to do nothing and look weak…

ability to strike the United States. At the same time that Cuba felt they needed protection from America so the two countries decided to work together and place nuclear missiles in Cuba that had the ability to strike most of the US. On October 14, 1962 an American spy plane flew over Cuba and captured pictures of Soviet missiles being assembled in Cuba. President Kennedy immediately called together a group of officials and advisors known as the executive committee or ExCom. For nearly two weeks…

Thant to assist in playing the mediatory role in the crisis. The aim of this was to “quarantine” Cuba and prevent the Soviets from bringing more supplies. President Kennedy demanded that the missiles be removed and the sites destroyed. On October 22, 1962, a television broadcast by the president notified Americans about the presence of the missiles and explained his decision to enact the blockade, making it clear to the Soviet Union and the world that the U.S. was prepared to use military force…

research to Watson and Crick unknowingly. This allowed them to begin development on their model of the said helix. Franklin later died from cancer in 1958 at the age of 37. Watson, Crick and Wilkins later received the Nobel Prize for their work in 1962 on the research of DNA…

For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and the Soviet Union, as both superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba (George, 2013, p. 1). The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is considered to be one of the pivotal moments in the history of the Cold War, this brought the world closer than ever to the brink of nuclear war. During the crisis, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union recognised the…

Khrushchev initially raised hopes of a better political and economic future for the USSR through his secret speech. His shocking condemnation of Stalin’s reign of terror and seemingly more liberal intentions of peaceful co-existence gave the impression of a new, markedly successful era for the USSR. However, these expectations were quickly dashed through a series of counterproductive and unsuccessful policies, most notably his grand but ill-fated agricultural schemes. Khrushchev displayd a…

(Prabhjyot Sandhu) Wal-Mart, one of the world’s most successful retailing corporations is the leader in the industry to this date. This giant empire was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. Wal-Mart changed the face of the retail industry as its competitors thought the idea of a successful business built around by offering a lower price and great service would never work. Sam Walton had disproven the traditional retail corporation’s approach to the success and growth of his empire, as the company had…

The Setting of the novel plays a big part in the role of the women. I am going to look at the role of women in the following novels; Catch-22, A Clockwork Orange, The Merchant of Venice and Catcher in the Rye; as well as the role of women in the time that the writers wrote the novels. I am going to prove that both the author’s setting and the character in the novel’s setting is affected by the way in which women are portrayed in the novel. The setting is, in turn affected by the historical…

This is a advertisement of Coca-cola in red-black-white colors. On the right hand. it presents a picture of Marilyn Monroe, a legend actress who had a beautiful face and sexy body and died in 1962. In this ad, she wearing a sparking red dress and black high heels. It seems she is sitting on stairs. On her right hand, she is holding a bottle and her lip is sipping on Coca-cola drink. The slogan of this campaign is "I've kissed Marilyn" on the right hand side of this advertisement. Moreover, it…

Drowning Girl was painted in 1963; the medium is oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas. The size of the painting 675/8 x 663/4. “The source for this work is Run for Love! published by DC Comics in 1962, the cover of which the artist significantly altered to arrive at the finished composition. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein cropped the image dramatically…