Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

' 'Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I 'm going to Vietnam 's aid! ' ' Lyndon B. Johnson, a United States’ president from November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969, delivered this powerful quote presumably to garner support from the American people to execute his plan to export more American troops to aid Southern Vietnam. Although initially reluctant to station troops in Vietnam, Johnson changed his mind after the attack of the Southern Vietnamese…

Old Man and the Sea Research Assignment The Pulitzer Prize is an award which notes distinguished writers in any field of literature. A writer can follow in any subject, whether it be journalistic, fictional, poetic, or any other of the many sub-genres of writing, and still be able to apply for the award. The history behind this award of academia involves a man (surprisingly) named Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer was well-regarded in the late 19th century for his journalistic jousting “against…

Union. Theodore Hall was a young scientist on the Manhattan Project and he was one of the spies that passed along information to the Soviet Union about the development of the hydrogen bomb. The most famous espionage yet, would be the Rosenberg couple, Julius and Ethel who were executed on June 19, 1953 for espionage. They released the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviet…

repercussions continued in the legal system. During the Red Scare, at the Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian men were convicted of a crime they weren’t proved to commit solely because they were communists. This is similar to the Rosenberg Trial because Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, both communists, were accused of being Soviet spies and passing information regarding nuclear weapons to the…

The Crucible as an Allegory for the McCarthy Trials Wild accusations. Mass hysteria. Systemic abuse of power. Legal procedures of dubious repute. All hallmarks of the two major witch hunts in the American past, the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Trials. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a piece on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, is plainly stated to be an allegory for the days of McCarthyism, the witch hunts of communists in government and celebrity positions from 1950-1956. The world of…

party, the fear of communism and McCarthy’s announcement had driven people to be unkind or mistreat Keller in fear that they too would be accused of being a communist and Soviet Spy. Again, however, this fear of communist spies were not unfounded. Ethel and…

In the case Weems V. US the US Supreme Court decided that though is has not been determined to what means is a punishment cruel and unusual. It was upheld, however; that the definition should not be held only to the”evil” described by the framers of the constitution. On May 3, 1946, a seventeen year old Willie Francis was convicted and was unsuccessfully executed through the means of an electric chair. Six days after the attempted execution, a new warrant of death was issued and so began the…

Communism for many years has been a controversial issue in America. It was a form of government that many Americans learned to stay clear of. Communism is known by definition as, a political and economic ideology that aims to replace private property with public ownership. (Communism) Living in capitalist America, this system would remove many freedoms we enjoy as Americans. One of the ways communism directly affected americans was through the Cold War. Although the Cold War, was a global…

After WWII tension between the East and West would intensify following the defeat of Hitler’s Germany as a new struggle for political influence would begin between the US and U.S.S.R. US concerns over Soviet plans for expansion and global influence, along with Russia’s attitude towards the West had raised concerns over any peaceful co-existence that the US may have envisioned. Similar to US concerns, Russian kremlin Joseph Stalin had also viewed the Western world as a threat to the long term…

surface he used to work on seems fairly uneven. There are patchy areas that have been layered that are noticeable as well. Warhol created this piece in his design studio in New York. He used a picture of the chair used in the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for passing information on the atomic bomb to Russia during the Second World War. He blew the photo up and transferred it in glue onto silk, then rolled ink across it so it would go through the silk. Warhol developed this new…