In 1946 Balanchine and Kirstein collaborated again to form Ballet Society‚ a company which introduced New York subscription only audiences over the next two years to such new Balanchine works as The Four Temperaments (1946) and Stravinsky’s Renard (1947) and Orpheus (1948). - On October 11‚ 1948‚ Morton Baum‚ chairman of the City Center finance committee‚ saw Ballet Society in a City Center Theater program that included Orpheus‚ Serenade‚ and Symphony in C (a ballet which Balanchine had created
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My name is Jackie Robinson and I was born on January 31‚ 1919. I was the first African-American to play in baseball’s major leagues in the modern era. I broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started me at first base on April 15‚ 1947. The Brooklyn Dodgers were the first league team to play a black man since the 1880’s. The Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. My character and unquestionable talent challenged the
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This article is referenced from "Why it is Important that Software Projects Fail"‚ Berglas 2008 Following Parkinson‚ it demonstrates that no amount of software automation will reduce the size of a bureaucracy. http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/ImportantThatSoftwareFails.html Parkinson’s Law C. Northcote Parkinson C. Northcote Parkinson is Raffles Professor of History at the University of Singapore. This article first appeared in The Economist in November 1955. It
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combat segregation in housing‚ transportation‚ and other areas. The efforts were further motivated by the symbolic victory that occurred in Major League baseball when Jackie Robinson broke through the color barrier by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. His passing of the color barrier was and still is one of the most recognized events in American and civil rights history (Henretta 839). Harry S. Truman’s role on the civil right movement was an important one. He was an advocate of the civil
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American author Arthur Miller wrote a play in 1953 named the Crucible. The Crucible was portrayed as the Salem witch trials that took place in 1692 and 1693 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The play was written as a milked version of McCarthyism. McCarthyism was when the Government put people who had been accused of being communist on the Blacklist. Miller was accused himself in 1956 as being a communist and refused to name names from who he had seen in the few meetings he attended.(THIS HAS
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Judicial Activism in Pakistan Judicial Activism: Social change effected by judicial decree. The doctrine that the judicial branch especially the federal courts‚ may interpret the constitution by deviating from legal precedent as a means of effecting legal and social change. Judicial activism is a time honored trait of judicial function and to give up that trait is to surrender before these two mightier organs of the state. History bounds in scintillating examples of judicial activism‚ when the
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history that demonstrate the effects of mass hysteria on societies and even the world include the 1692 Salem witch trials‚ the McCarthyism era from the late 1940’s to the late 1950’s and 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers‚ New York in 2001. Arthur Miller is significant when looking at both McCarthyism and The Crucible. Inspired by “The Red Scare” during the McCarthyism era Arthur Miller wrote his drama The Crucible‚ based on the historical events of 1692 Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ Miller depicts
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RAGHUVANSHI VANSHAVALI Late shree Samrath Singh ‘S vanSahvali Vill:- kachhwan (bagaicha) ‚ dobhi – kerakat ‚jaunpur‚up‚india Editor and writer – shree sudarshan singh ( son of late shree Vishwanath singh ) ekta nagar v.d.a colony‚ badalalpur‚ chandmari‚ sindhora road‚ Varanasi res:- chandawak ( dobhi ) ‚ kerakat ‚ jaunpur‚ india Late Shri Samrath Singh’s Family Arjun Singh Unmarri ed Chingi Singh Res Kachwa n Rajaram Singh Res:Bantari Near DanGan j‚ Jaunpur Vishwan ath Singh Res:Chandw
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The setting in Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ is a very controlled and powerful atmosphere. The burning of books is a prime example of the control the government has on society. Not only does the society lack knowledge‚ they live in an up roaring city where your own neighbors will turn against you in a second. The controlled setting reinforces the story’s central idea that a culture can be stymied when government decides to eliminate freedom of expression and original thought. This theme is
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In 1953‚ he reached Mach II in another experimental jet‚ and left the testing field in 1954 to command the 417th Fighter Bomber Squadron in Europe. After his return to the United States a few years later‚ he was chosen in 1962 to head the Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School to train astronauts. Nearly half of all the astronauts participating
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