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… about a spontaneous outpouring of national pride and mourning perhaps unprecedented for any political leader in our history. To many Canadians, he was the very embodiment of the nation. Yet, by what means can we judge a life? In a recent book two…

… a federal agency which loaned money to big business in an effort to stimulate the depressed economy and save them from bankruptcy. Trickle down effect. Huey Long Louisiana Senator Long, critic of the New Deal. Said it did too little to help the…

… agrarian society to an urban, industrial society which caused a conversion in the way families functioned, forced Americans and immigrants alike to adjust to the unsympathetic factory system, and gave career opportunities to women for ages to come. …

… hanged or in prison. In the seventeenth century, a belief in witches and witchcraft was almost universal. In Salem Massachusetts where the witch trials take place many people who are suspicious is accused of witchcraft and hanged. Arthur Miller wrote…

… began after winning its independence from Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. The odds were stacked high against the colonists, who somehow managed to pull off a stunning upset of the British. Although, how the war was actually won is up for…

… of the 20's and 30's, Editor in Charge-Ralph K. Andrist, 1970, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., New York, NY. Hard Times-An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel, 1970, H. Wolff, New York, 1st Printing. Of Mice and…

… have been many world changing inventions. Many of these inventions have had a drastic affect on not only the scientific community but also the political and social environments of the time. During the late 1700's, one such invention significantly chang…

… He was a chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribes came in coalition in their struggle for survival on the northern plains, Sitting Bull remained defiant toward American military power and scornful of American promises to the end. At a place…

… Whitney was a credit to the Industrial Revolution when really; he stole other's ideas, passing them off as his own. People credit him because America was new as a country and it wanted to be remembered throughout history as doing something good for man…

… the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the present day, the Native Americans have been misunderstood and treated like beasts. Arriving on the coast of the Cuban islands with the intention of finding gold and silver, Columbus found a culture which he…