repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent aggression.” The resolution was significant in that Congress essentially surrendered its war making powers to the executive branch. Operation Rolling Thunder - In February 1965‚ in response to Vietcong attacks on American installations in South Vietnam that killed thirty-two Americans‚ Johnson ordered Operation Rolling Thunder‚ a bombing program planned the previous fall that continued‚ more or less uninterrupted‚ until October
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civil rights struggle. She does an adequate job in supporting her claim‚ by summarizing the lives of two incredible women‚ all the while illustrating the event that took place during the peak of the civil rights movement. “Bloody Sunday” on March 7‚ 1965‚ goes down in history as one of the most significant events of the civil rights movement. What was supposed to be a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery protesting the recent shooting death of Jimmy Lee Jackson during a voter registration march
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Arnold and his new wife were returning from their honeymoon on the Dover coast as the fighting broke out (Allot‚ 1965). This trip was meant to be one of happiness and love only to have it interrupted by “confused alarms of struggle and flight‚ Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
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sense of carnival and that modern carnival is merely an image of carnival‚ not the real experience. In his book Rabelais and his World (1965) he examines the work of François Rabelais and the folk culture of the Middle Ages‚ where the carnival is the main focus. It was said that the people of the Middle Ages lived two life‚ in a “two-world condition” (Bakhtin‚ 1965‚ p.6)‚ this meaning they created some sort of second life of laughter. The people had their official life representing their rank‚ work
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In this week’s lab assignment‚ we are asked to research manned spaceflight and provide information on what that mission has given us. I selected the Gemini program which was the second U.S. manned space program. On May 25‚ 1961‚ just 3 weeks after the successful Mercury Program put the first American‚ astronaut Alan Shepard‚ into space‚ President John F. Kennedy announced to the world his goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. Later that year‚ NASA expanded their short
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National Park Service - Experience Your America. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday‚" March 7‚ 1965‚ some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away‚ where state and local lawmen attacked them with Billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Two
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the limited grant of self-government then made or by United Kingdom legislation passed since that date‚ The Queen in the United Kingdom Parliament was still Sovereign in Southern Rhodesia in 1965 and that‚ accordingly. The Southern Rhodesia Act‚ 1965‚ and the Southern Rhodesia (Constitution) Order in Council‚ 1965‚ were of full legal effect in Southern Rhodesia; that nothing either in the British Nationality Act or in the 1961 Constitution wrought to confer even limited sovereignty upon Southern Rhodesia
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The Watts Riot It is August 17 1965 and‚ we just went through the worst week of our lives things are finally starting to calm down. As we are going into town to see what is left‚ and to access the damages‚ we try to understand how this got so out of control. In the course of seven days‚ 34 lives were lost and‚ more than 1‚032 were injured‚ the police had arrested 3‚438 people and‚ there are over $40 million in property damages (Watts Riots 2013). This all started from what should have been a routine
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Legal framework of corporate governance (Laws and regulations affecting corporations) Companies Act 1965 All types of incorporated companies‚ whether private or public‚ foreign or otherwise‚ unless formed in pursuance of some other written laws are governed under CA 1965. The Act governs matters regarding powers of the Registrar of Companies‚ filing of documents with the Registrar of Companies‚ incorporation of companies‚ constitution of companies‚ powers of companies‚ shares and membership
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the USA in Asia 1950-1973 by Geoff Stewart ------------------------------------------------- Operation Rolling Thunder ------------------------------------------------- Programme of bombing of North Vietnam authorised by Johnson on 13 February 1965 but not begun until 2 March. It was hedged about with restrictions and designed to slowly increase in intensity. This was against the advice of the Air Staff who favoured an all-out initial assault; the evidence from the Second World War indicated
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