The three astronauts is planing to go the moon with Apollo 13 spaceship in 1970. They are Alan Shepard‚ Fred Haise‚ Ken Mattingly. Apollo trips plan was change at that time because Alan Shepard have a problem with one of his ears and he can’t go on Apollo 13. So Jim Lovell took his place. They have their own responsibility‚ Ken is the command module pilot‚ Fred and Jim are lunar module pilots. The command module is home for astronauts on space and small lunar module use when astronauts down to the
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1967 was not any organized crime. What he discovered was the corruption of his own police force‚ the NYPD. However‚ repeated attempts to get his evidence of corruption noticed failed. It was only when he submitted the story to the New York Times in 1970 did the issue finally get any attention from the public. John V. Lindsay‚ the mayor at the time‚ finally launched a panel of five men to investigate the matter. This panel became known as the Knapp Commission. During the Knapp Commission‚ Serpico testified
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The Energy Crisis of the 1970’s In October of 1973 the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) inflicted an oil embargo on the Unites States of America. This was the outcome of our support to the Israeli nation during a time of need. This embargo damaged the U.S. economy so greatly that many were unsure if the country would escape such devastation. In the early 1970’s under President Nixon’s order‚ the United States of America began shipping arms to its ali Israel. At this
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Before President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971 he enacted the Controlled Substance Act of 1970. The federal government uses the Controlled Substance Act to outline the drugs into five classifications or schedules. They are categorized by the level of dependency‚ abuse potential and their medical use. A doctor may choose to prescribe you a drug but regulations are set into place to limit them from the amount and dosage to avoid abuse and dependency to each substance. A doctor is registered
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The word nigga is an anti-black verbal word and still is today in the 21 first cenrty it became a word white people use to describe African American as slaves in the 1970’s it became a good to downgrade African American and sergration‚ does this word offend you today does this word has a different meaning in this millilumen with African Americans today People have not been able to agree on whether there is a difference between both words‚ one thing is very clear – there it’s ridiculous and a double
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to be called up for jury duty than other Australians. The Aboriginal Legal Service (1970-97) provided access to legal advice and assistance for people who could not have otherwise afforded it‚ but it could do little to overcome injustices indigenous Australians suffered under the Australian legal system. Government concern for the higher proportion of Aboriginal people in prison began in the 1960s. By the 1970s‚ there were increasing question from within government and from community groups about
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Soyinka’s Kongi Harvest (1970) Soyinka was born in 1934; he is a Nigerian writer who completes his study in Ibadan University. Soyinka has played an active role in Nigeria’s political history and reflects the reality of his nation after independence. Soyinka deals with fictional African place called Isma where power moved from the old tradition order of the Oba to the modern order of Kongi. Kongi is already a ruler who feels that he has to legitimate his power and to be benevolent in the eyes
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Between the 1960s into the 1980s‚ a significant increase in the number of violent crimes occurred. During the 1960s the violent crime rate had risen by 126 percent and in the 1970s the rate had increased 64 percent. President Nixon attributed this to the usage of drugs and in 1971 addressed congress with the intent to provide the money to help eliminate drug abuse. With the monetary aid‚ the government created strict policies to crack down on drug abusers‚ policies still in effect today. The
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The 1970s in America highlighted women’s fight for advancement and liberation from their lives formally known as homemakers and caregivers. Although women had the right to vote for over fifty years‚ the Equal Rights Amendment had still not passed since it had been introduced to congress in 1923. With the inequality still widespread‚ it came as no surprise women were still fighting for their equality in all aspects of their lives. Many women in this time turned to newspapers and magazines for the
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processing the information and reasoning. A deficit in reasoning can lead to errors in thinking that influenced the way how people make decisions in life. These errors are called cognitive biases. The term “cognitive bias” was introduced in the early 1970’s by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman‚ which describes how heuristics or mental shortcuts lead to such errors in reasoning (Wilke & Mata‚ 2012‚ p.1). Cognitive biases develop for several reasons. Most common are the errors in memory that can affect
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