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John F. Kennedy Conspiracy Theories November 22, 1963, at approximately twelve thirty in the afternoon, America would add another chapter to the history book. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade campaign in Dallas, Texas. Stunned, Americans watched in horror and utter disbelief as the news of President Kennedy’s senseless murder traveled across the airways. Fear, panic, and unclear information tortured the minds of Americans. Countless investigations only added more…

sequence is initiating; there are three possible initiators: one or more employees, a union, or an employer. Budd states that an employer initiated drive might be odd, but in the “1960s and 1970s some agricultural companies signed contracts with the Teamsters rather than risk having their employees choose the more militant United Farm Workers.” (194) The second step in this sequence is building and documenting support; this involves meeting interested employees outside…

From the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, industrialization and expansion changed the face of American society. The rise of poverty and class disparities encouraged social reformers to try and better the nation. Members of these reform organizations attacked prostitution, illegitimate pregnancy, marriage, and a myriad of other social “ills.” While men commuted to work, Victorian middle-class homes became the domain of women, who entertained guests, educated and raised the children and…

Gettysburg (1993) eventually became difficult to sit through. The movie started off strong and fell short as the production dragged on for a duration of four-and-one-quarter hours. Through the contents of Gettysburg, we follow a story that spans a full three days, which aligns with the plot line of the book The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara. From the beginning, Gettysburg makes a point to align itself with factual historical figures, but misrepresents or ignores important aspects of the real…

Shilts, Randy. The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk. Atlantic Books, 2009. Randy Shilts' "The Mayor of Castro Street" is a biography of the life and times of the tragically assassinated San Francisco politician Harvey Milk. Shilts was the first openly gay journalist who expands on the life of Harvey, the first openly gay politician who became the face of the Gay movement arising in the 1970's in America. Throughout the book Randy brings up countless interviews and…

he term Gentrification is coined together by a British Sociologist Ruth Glass to describe the movement of middle class families into urban areas causing the property value to increase and displacing the older settlers. In the past decades, gentrification have been defined and refined depending on the neighborhood 's economic, social and political context. According to Davidson and Less definition, a gentrified area should include investment in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older…

Thumb on the Scales of Work-Life Balance Several decades ago, when I was half my age and my Dad was still alive, he made a statement—actually a prediction—about the work and the time we spend at work. While not academically educated, he was a perceptive and optimistic man and he believed he was seeing a positive change in progress. We were discussing my job, its good and bad points, when we got around to the work hours; in my case that meant the standard forty-hour, Monday through Friday…

Before the civil war began, African Americans, who were still enslaved, staged an assault on the federal arsenal, led by John Brown, an abolitionist. Although it failed, it was the intent of the slaves to rally an insurrection. The failed violent attempt rallied the slaves in a different way. They successfully held a general strike against the slave owners and became fugitives from slavery and the property of the government. It only took a few months of the general strike to force Abraham…

Albert Einstein once said: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.” The Civil War started because of differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. The war was fought from 1861-1865, and it was the bloodiest 4 years in U.S. history. It started when the Confederates bombarded the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter.…

I took the name of this chapter from the first chapter of Walden. The word, Economy, sounds improper word for those two books, The Old Man and The Sea and Walden, because they focus on the life in the nature, such the wood and the sea. However, Economy in the Walden is the most important chapter to understand whole chapters, and the word, Economy, has a different meaning from the capitalistic economy. It seems that their Economy is more like ecosystem than economy. It describes their life style.…