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homas Cruise Mapother IV, better known as Tom Cruise, was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, to Mary and Thomas Mapother. Cruise's mother was an amateur actress and schoolteacher, and his father was an electrical engineer. His family moved around a great deal when Cruise was a child in order to accommodate his father's career. Cruise's parents divorced when he was 11, and the children moved with their mother to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Glen Ridge, New Jersey, after her…

Battle of Hampton Roads the Confederate ironclad the Virginia, aided by steam propulsion, revived the use of ramming to take down the Union ship the Cumberland (Potter, 1981, pg. 128). The Virginia was able to put three ships out of action and kill 250 Union sailors while sustaining minor damage to her topside and two guns (Potter, 1981, pg. 128). The use of ironclad battleships rendered wooden fleets useless. Their heavy solid shot ammunition would ricochet harmlessly off of their casemates,…

In the movie Mommie Dearest, Joan Crawford is revealed to be more of a psychotic, spastic, greedy woman than many people of that era realized. Based off of the real life of the Hollywood celebrity as told by her adopted daughter Christina, Mommie Dearest shows more adverse life Crawford lived at home compared to the life she lived in the spotlight. Joan suffered from many personality disorders, or certain qualities in your identity that show up after certain situations that can strain both…

Mortuary Rituals of the Gray Site The mortuary practices examined at this site involve both primary and secondary burials, as well as a variety of post-mortem methods used in the pre-burial stages. One case of a potential cremation has been documented in the site reports. A primary burial is one where the remains are found in relative anatomical order, as the body of the deceased was interred shortly after death as the remains were still fresh. A secondary burial is therefore the opposite – the…

It was pretty clear from the beginning that President Reagan was willing to utilize all of his power to makes sure the goals of the INF treaty were to be accomplished. Some examples of this was when President Reagan in 1981 proposed a zero option policy. This was especially critical and a large use of his Presidential power because this was the beginning to the creation of the INF treaty. This proposal laid the framework of negotiations on reductions in all types of arms. Reagan proposed the…

your heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never know what it’s saying.” - Sarah Dessen. To make a change, one must learn the sound of their heart. Patricia Era Bath studied ophthalmology in Massachusetts at Harvard College in 1981 after she learned that African Americans have more eye problems than White People. Not many years afterward, she created the Laserphaco Probe. She then created Community Ophthalmology and worked as an assistant at Harvard Hospital (Biography…

Along with Paleoindian and Archaic peoples, in the 1981 work O’Neill concludes that there are ten possible tribes to which rock art can possibly attributed to in specific ranges: Various Plains Apache groups, Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache bands, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Pawnee, Osage, and Kanza. He also suggests that the sites “… could be measured in hundreds of years rather than thousands” (O’Neill 1981, 26). This is a broad range of traditions and peoples to filter through…

from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989. Ronald Reagan's biggest accomplishment in presidency was to improve the self confidence that America had by strengthening the nation's economy. He did this by reducing inflation, increasing employment and cutting taxes to nearly 25 percent. He was also instrumental in appointing the first female Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. Besides this, be started a war against the drugs, The economic policies that Reagan started in 1981 are known as…

Greek Colonization Settlements or trading outposts were the two types of colonies traditionally founded by the city-states of the Ancient Greeks (Stein, 2005:12). Trade was the primary reason for the Greek colonial expansion into Illyria. Illyrian exports included wool, slaves, bitumen, metal ores, hides, stock, mercenaries, timber, and cereal grains. Imports from the Greeks consisted of ornaments for clothing, wine, olive oil, weapons, armour, vessels, and utensils (Hammond, 1992; Wilkes,…

reason for creating the structure was to give more voting power to smaller states. A second reason for creating the Electoral College is, it creates a buffer between the population and the selection of the president of the United States (Sterling, 1981). The Electoral College was established in the year of 1787. In the year of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, considered several methods of electing…