... one of the most famous African-Americans in the early part of the nation's history and yet hardly anybody knows him,'' said James Holmberg, curator of special collections at the Filson Club Historical Society in Louisville, Ky. York is believed to be the first black to cross the American continent. Yet there are no coins or stamps with his image. There is one known statue of York, standing on a bluff at the University of Portland, where he overlooks the long Columbia River valley that stretches to the Pacific. Holmberg says York was a valuable member of the expedition, helping smooth relations with Indian tribes, hunting and sharing the burdens of travel with men ...

... distraction. There is a limited amount of variety in going to the movies. There are dozens of different movies to choose from but once you make that decision, for the most part, you are stuck with it. Choosing which movie to see is also often an issue. When there are several people involved, deciding on which movie to see is often difficult. Also, when people go to the movies, they do not have the luxury of being in their own homes. Frequently, people choose to stay home and watch television over going out to the movies. Television offers many things that going to the movies does not. TV offers viewing in the comfort of one’s own home. When watching TV, ...

... in Roxburry, Massachusetts. Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics fanatic who helped with solar phenomena related to meteorology. Langley practiced civil engineering and architecture in Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. After this, he went back to Boston and received an assistantship at the Harvard Observatory. He later went on to teach mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. In 1867, when Langley was 33 years of age, he took the position of a director at the Allegheny Observatory. He then became a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. His main interest was solar activity and ...

... This amount was small in comparison to what the United States gained in territory. The United States took advantage of a weak country of obtained its expansion goals. Another example of the United States taking advantage of Mexico is the Gasden Purchase. The Gasden Purchase was ratified in 1854 for the selling price of 10 million. Mexico was going through rough economical time and desperately needed the money. The United States seeing an opportunity to build a railroad through the region brought the land at a cheap price. The selling of the Gasden Purchase was the down fall of President Santa Ana, and led to his replacement. The conflicts along the border region ...

... of the Seven Days campaign where Confederate forces were severely and boldly repulsed, is one such example. When analyzing , therefore, it has become commonplace to ask why Lee and his army failed to win a great victory. Fewer people look to the other side of the equation and ask why Meade and the AOP won. What circumstances changed to enable the AOP to transform a long string of defeats into a great victory? The odds were certainly against them in many ways. The AOP had become accustomed to losing a dangerous thing for any military unit where life and death depends, to a large degree, on the confidence of its officers and troops. Fresh from two devastating def ...

... y de vivir. Es la ansiedad por la hora que huye, el desfasaje con la realidad, la regresión. El tango es, sobre todo, el hombre del tango: disociado, fuera de lugar, fuera de tiempo. · Importancia del Tema Conocer el tango podría ayudar a adentrarse en la forma de ser de una gran comunidad. Representa, en efecto, para generaciones de latinoamericanos, un valor cultural radicado de la Patagonia al Bravo, y en particular en Argentina y Uruguay, los países del tango. A los primeros acordes musicales, a la simple mención de un título, a la cita de un verso se despierta una pluralidad de imágenes que actúan con seducción de sirena. Todo ello, envuelto en la sutil ...

... that all children need parents to guide and support them to adulthood. The absence of parental guidance in Toto’s life has been a reoccurring theme throughout the film. While he goes to school all day, he spends his nights with Alfredo in the projection booth. Although Toto’s mother is still alive she is unable to provide him with the male role model that every small boy needs. It is as if her soul died with the disappearance of her husband, Toto’s father. Without someone to look up to, Toto, continually gets himself into trouble. This remains true in many families across the world, that without the ample support of both parents, many children find themselves l ...

... in the fashion. This era was represented perfectly at Grease movie, when we can see the different fashions between the social groups. The women used crinolines and shirtwaists. Men used jackets and blue jeans, with grease in their hair. And women used the hair over the shoulders. The 60s were the time of a revolution. The hippie clothes, psychedelic ones, and groovy elements were fashionable. The hippies used a natural or ethnic style, love-ins, flowers, and free-flowing hairstyles. The 70s era involves different styles of fashion. By one side the hippies continued such at as 60s. And by other side, the disco fever and platforms got to occupy an important pla ...

... Song, in 1971, to change the tradition view of Black people in American film. “Porter’s tom was the first in a long line of socially acceptable Good Negro characters. Always as toms are chased, harassed, hounded, flogged, enslaved, and insulted, they keep the faith, n’er turn against their massas, and remain hearty, submissive, stoic, generous, selfless, and oh-so-very kind.”(Bogle,4) The early silent period of cinema introduced five basic archetypes for Black characters: the Tom, the Coon, the Tragic Mulatto, the Mammy, and finally, the Brutal Black Buck. America’s first Black character found manifestation as the aforementioned Uncle Tom in Edwin S. Porter’s, Unc ...

... people use it socially and for medicinal purposes. The Hollywood elite smoke it. Musicians such as Dr. Dre and the Black Crows celebra it's use. Television shows like Saturday Night Live and Kids In the Hall depict it as harmless fun. Marijuana fashion has grown into a ten million dollar industry, with the seven branch marijuana leaf showing up on caps, T-shirts, earrings and tattoos. Studies show that after a decade of declining drug use, marijuana use has increased sharply among gh school students and college students in the last two years (Duschbaun 8). In the movie , rap star Ice Cube plays the character Craig. Craig has never smoked marijuana. However, his bes ...