Papers 991-1000 of total 4897 found.
Category: /Social Sciences
…was the shootings in California. The 1984 shooting rampage at a Sand Diego County McDonald's that killed 21 people, and then the massacre of five people five years later at a Stockton elementary school yard and the most prominent shooting at a law firm in San Francisco…
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…and plants had also been victims of acid deposition. In 1984, for example, environmental reports proved that almost fifty-percent of the trees in Germany's Black Forest had been damaged by acid rain. The forests of northeastern United States and eastern Canada…
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…representatives of his native Quebec. Mulroney's major initiatives between 1984 and 1988 were the Meech Lake Accord, a package of constitutional changes designed to end Quebec's boycott of the 1982 constitutional reform, and the negotiation…
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…by retrospectives in Paris and London at the end of the decade. After Gala's death in 1982, Dali's health began to fail. It deteriorated further after he was severely burned in a fire in Gala's castle in Pubol, Spain, in 1984. Two years later, a pacemaker was implanted…
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…://www.usoceansafety.com/safety/popup/lscurrent.asp>. Davis, Richard A. The Evolving Coast. New York: Scientific American Library, 1994. Pethick, John. An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology. London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1984.…
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…Canada, n.d.). Thus, not only were fewer couples were married but more were also living common law. According to Allen & Kalish (1984), the timing of a first marriage is related to the attractiveness of the alternatives to marrying. When women value…
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Category: /Literature
…, an illusion that, while it lends itself to a vision of reality, truly does not exist. Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, Vonnegut's Player Piano are all dystopias, all seek solutions to the problems of teaching us something positive through a negative example…
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…received the Spingarn medal. In 1980, at the 25th anniversary celebration of the bus Boycott, Rosa Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. nonviolent-peace prize. In 1984, Rosa Parks was given the Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage award. Rosa Parks…
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…pressure they reluctantly adopted the accounting practices applicable to consolidated reporting employed in the United States and have made a determined effort to adapt them to their own business environment (McKinnon, 1984). The results, however, have been…
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…started many organizations to help support blacks and civil rights. Also to show that the equality between blacks and whites was getting stronger Jackson ran for President of the United States in both 1984 and 1988, not only becoming a threat in the civil…
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