The Army-McCarthy hearings were a television milestone not only because of the inherent significance of the event covered but because television coverage itself was crucial to the meaning‚ and unfolding‚ of events. Moreover‚ unlike many historic television moments from the 1950s‚ the hearings have remained alive in popular memory‚ mainly due to filmmaker Emile de Antonio‚ who in 1962 culled from extant kinescopes the landmark compilation film Point of Order!‚ the definitive documentary
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The unjust rules and regulations imposed on the American colonists through the 1760s and 70s inevitably caused the Revolution to occur‚ and Britain to lose one of their most profitable settlements. The question is not if the colonists had a lack of liberties‚ but the fact that the government‚ over 3000 miles away‚ were controlling some of the most important freedoms they came to cherish. When the colonies emerged at first‚ the colonists obeyed the control of Great Britain as they had the mentality
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Jamestown: The Foothold to a New World The Jamestown settlement became the first lasting English settlement in America. Its foundation in 1607‚ forever changed the course of history in the New World. With the failure of the Roanoke colony around twenty years before‚ the creation of a lasting English settlement was crucial for establishing English claim in the Americas. Jamestown not only provided a foothold for future English settlements in America but also became quite profitable. This led to further
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right‚ they can hold tight enough to support your paper clip. The paperclip is not truly floating‚ it is being held up by the surface tension. Many insects‚ such as water striders‚ use this "skin" to walk across the surface of a stream. The project above is a DEMONSTRATION. To make it a true experiment‚ you can try to answer these questions: 1. How many paperclips can the surface tension hold? 2. Does the shape of the paperclip affect its floating ability? 3. What liquids have the strongest
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Slave Origins in the Americas 10/13/13 APUSH Alex Peasley 1 In 1609-1610 Jamestown‚ Virginia experienced a great famine. After this famine the settlers experimented to find a crop that would help them survive. Tobacco was the crop Jamestown found to help them survive.* Jamestown was able to grow fields and fields of tobacco‚ but there was not enough people to work the fields. At first‚ the men of the English working class supplied the labors for
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day listening to music. Also parents feel that today’s music is exposing their children to inappropriate language. Hip-Hop always deal with having complaints about rappers using explicit language in their songs and kids are listening to this music. So parents feel that their kids will listen to this songs with inappropriate lyrics and be encourage to have sex‚ drink alcohol‚ and smoke
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There are several important things for an actuary to consider when setting the premium rates. They make projections of the future costs and they base these projections on historical results‚ probabilistic models‚ and their own judgments. Actuaries must consider different risk pools and make the premiums fair to all. For instance‚ they can consider statistically how likely a driver is to get into a car accident with several speeding tickets versus a driver with none. In order to use the predictability
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is unification so integral and important in the development of the earliest dynasty in China? Unification is important and integral in the development of the earliest dynasty because it could gain control over the rest of China and also to recover from the Mandate of Heaven. Also‚ they saw this as a reason for their empires to be more stable which means there are fewer wars to happen. They could also see this as a chance of becoming a prosperous nation when it comes to the economic side of the unification
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First‚ the debt of the British had doubled in a short time. The Cider Tax had proved highly unpopular and many people were getting eager to removed it. Britain was also running short of credit with banks. In order to curb spending the British government believed that further attempts to tax the homeland would fail. They decided to seize Opportunities for income such as taxing the American colonists in order to pay for the army protecting them. Before the war started most of the colonies had directly
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The colonists who moved from Europe all moved because of common reasons although they ended up divining up into three sections and grew socially economically and politically different through 1619-1760. They all tried settling their own way with their own system but failed. The northern colonies known as the New England colonies consisted of Massachusetts‚ Rhode Island‚ Connecticut and New Hampshire. The majority of the colonists living in the New England colonies were puritans‚ they would often
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