1. Are The Media Biased?
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America-the chance to lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization."1 These were words spoken by Richard Milho...
Martha Washington 1731-1802 George Washington's wife was the first to be given the title "lady" by the press, as in "Lady Washington," and the first wife of a president to appear on U.S. postage stamp. Abigail Adams 1744-1818 John Adams' wife urged her husband to "remember the ladies" when he w...
What is affirmative action? Affirmative action is defined as a tool to monitor the consequences of employment practices. Affirmative action analyses determine whether employment practices result in a diverse applicant pool. The following quote by the former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert R...
INTRODUCTION/THESIS North Vietnam's capture of Saigon ended of the Vietnam War. The war began to slowly come to an end following U.S. and North Vietnamese officials in Paris 1972. A document titled "An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam" ended U.S. direct involvement and ...
She was also appointed to the Bicentennial Commission by President Gerald Ford, the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year by Jimmy Carter, and in 1993 she wrote and delivered the presidential inauguration for President Bill Clinton. ...
Oprah Winfrey Jane Pauley, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, 40 of the 50 governors, 35 of the top 60 CEO's all attribute early training in public presentation with having given them a head start on life success, according to a study in Gavel in 1999. ...
Imagine you're at work. You know your daughter is getting off the bus just about this time. The thought of something bad happening to her never even crosses your mind--this is the same routine every day. However, a man is sitting in her closet. He knows what time you leave for work in the morning. H...
JFK ASSASSINATION THEORIES There are dozens of so-called conspiracy theories that people believe. In this report I will compare and contrast three of the theories that conflict with the official Warren Commission account of the assassination. First, we look at the Warren Commission findings ...
Justice Anthony Kennedy Anthony McLeod Kennedy was born on July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. The second of his parent's three children, Kennedy grew up in the quietly conservative rural central California region. Growing up, Sacramento represented a quiet, hardworking and family and fai...
Robert Axelrod, the Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, is renown for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. Currently, he holds appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Ge...
James Earl Carter, Jr., who was more commonly known as Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He served one term as president for the Democratic Party from 1977-1981, but there is much more to his life than just his presidency. Jimmy Carter was born on October 1st, 1924 in Plains...
Conspiracy Forty years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was slain in Dallas, Texas. Within hours the government had arrested their man, Lee Harvey Oswald, and there was no doubt he was guilty; he was convicted immediately in the court of public opinion. For decades after the ...
The Manson Murders and the End of the Flower Children Era The Sixties remain shrouded in myth, demonology and nostalgia. (Pale Green House 1) That era still recalls something dimly remembered of an expedition into the heart of consciousness. This era ended in August 1969 when the followers of Charles Manson slaughtered Sharon Tate, her unborn child, her houseguests, and the next night repeated the bloody ritual by killing a prominent couple named the LaBiancas. The murders committed by the Manson family were the most horrendous of their time and some people still consider them the most brut...