... Time), Kennedy was riding in an open limousine through Dallas, Texas. At this time, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a sniper. He was then taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Later, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booked for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the city to the county jail. At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have kille ...

... millions to who the American dream is far out of reach. This inaccessibility is due to the lack of certain advantages that Ben Carson received and possibly took for granted. One advantage that was critical in making Ben what he is today, was access to a good education. Ben was fortunate enough to have ended up in a high school where the teachers actually cared, and took interest in his studies. "Another influential person in my life was an English teacher named Mrs. Miller. She took a personal interest in me in ninth grade English and taught me a lot of extra things after class." (Pg.64 Gifted Hands) Ben also had the option of going to many different schools. I ...

... River, the two bicycle builders from Dayton, Ohio were busy experimenting with gliders. Wilbur and Orville Wright had first becomed interested in flying machines as children when their father brought home a whirling toy . Fascinated, they wound up the rubber band on the cork and paper toy to watch it fly again and again. They built and flew their own versions. "Throughout their lives, the brothers experimented with mechanical things Wilbur would come up with the ideas and Orville would analyse and implement them." (McMahon 23). The two brothers opened a shop in 1896 to build and repair bicycles. The same year, Otto Lilienthal was killed when his glider cr ...

... cured by Minerva and saved by her from shedding more blood. In payment for his crime, for which he had really not been responsible, he was made the servant of his cousin, King Eurystheus of Argos, whose commands he was compelled to obey. (Juno's hand was in this, too.) Eurystheus thought up twelve tasks that seemed clearly impossible of fu~llment. The Nemean Lion. Eurystheus first ordered Hercules to kill the Nemean lion, a terrible beast that had defied all would-be captors. The combat between Hercules and the lion was brutal and cruel. .Seeing that his club and arrows were of no avail in the battle, Hercules grasped the lion in his hands and strangled it to dea ...

... thoughts is that these were not the thoughts that were in the heads of the soldiers at the time. During the fighting these soldiers not only did not see this as the rebirth of a nation, but had "forgotten the cause" altogether. I do not believe that these men were necessarily fighting specifically for the rights of the slaves, but rather for the rights of all men including themselves. These men were thought to be "privileged", and at the time I am sure they believed that they were taking part in an inconceivable historical event. I am sure that at that time they did not realize that this would be an ongoing struggle even three-hundred years after their existe ...

... USA persisted.. Along with the economic threat that Japan posed to America, they were also attacking the US without there being an official declaration of war. Despite the fact that the United States was "neutral" at this point, Japan proceeded to sink the Panay in 1937. This was a violation of previous agreements, treaties, and was an intentional act of war. More evidence of FDR's desire to enter the war is present in his efforts to help China, which he was well aware was Japan’s rival at the time. While America claimed to be "neutral," the U.S.’s actions contradicted that statement when voluntarily shipping war materials to China. In addition the U.S.A. al ...

... J. Jackson earns the nickname "Stonewall," as his brigade resists Union attacks. Union troops fall back to Washington. President Lincoln realizes the war will be long. July 27, 1861 - President Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as Commander of the Department of the Potomac, replacing McDowell. Shiloh April 6/7, 1862 - Confederate surprise attack on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's unprepared troops at Shiloh on the Tennessee River results in a bitter struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more men than in all previous American wars combined. The president is then pressured to relieve Grant but resists. "I can't spare this man; he f ...

... Italian revival of antiquity was connected to the newfound concept of humanism. The humanistic approach, was the cause of the studying of classic Pagan authors, therefore explaining the influence it had on many compositions. The origin of the Italian Renaissance can be identified to the very end of the medieval period. The latter part of the era "was one that seemed to have one foot planted in the Middle Ages and the other in the emerging Renaissance (Fleming, 248)." In approximately 1305, the visionary Giotto began his frescos at the Arena Chapel. Giotto looked at his surroundings; he saw how things appeared in nature, and painted these objects in the same way ...

... went through just to express their thoughts. Those stories have made me appreciate the right to speak without fear of being punished by the government. The writer s of the Constitution wanted people to feel safe that they could express their thoughts, but they did not mean that a pornography store should be allowed to do business a few blocks from public schools. I myself like speaking and telling other people what I think is right and what I think is wrong, but the well being of the public has to be taken into consideration. The freedom of speech insures me that right to speak out. When I turn eighteen, I am permitted to vote for people representing my state. ...

... to do when they declared independence from England. Rhode Island was so disgusted with the idea of changing the government that they did not even come to the meeting. Finally after all the debating and each state getting their say, they "compromised" on a plan where they would have two governmental houses, one being the House of Representatives and the second being the Senate, with the Senate being the stronger of the two houses. The House of Representatives was based on each state's population, that is the more people in the state the more representatives that state would get. The Senate said that regardless of the state's population each state would get two ...