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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Featuring highlights of the following major speeches given by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Speech: 1. 1960 Presidential Primary Campaign 2. Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech - July 15, 1960 3. Presidential Campaign - 1960 4. Inauguration Speech - January 20, 1961 5. State of the Union Address - January 30, 1961 6. State of the Union Address - January 11, 1962 7. Space Exploration Speech at Rice University - September 12, 1962 8. Announcing...
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The third in a collection of highlights of the most important and well-known speeches of modern times. These are the dramatic words from world leaders that changed the course of history and inspired millions worldwide. Video includes highlights of the following speeches from: 1. Will Rogers Campaign Rally with FDR - 1932 2. Huey Long Addressing Congressional Staff Members on the "re-distribution of wealth" - December 11, 1943 3. Franklin Delano...
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Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
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University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, a leading scholar and proselytizer for physical well-being, elucidates the political and social implications of America's exercise cult(ure). Delving into the paradox of why so many Americans are physically unfit, despite the power of the exercise industry, Petrzela shows fitness to be both a product and a marker of education, social class, wealth, power, and more. Like much in postwar American life, fitness has been privatized,...
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Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents, and ranging from residences to opera houses, influential buildings of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed consideration of their key characteristics - site and surroundings, space...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Beginning with the debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to controversial rulings on slavery, racial segregation, free speech, school prayer, abortion, and gay rights, constitutional scholar Peter Irons offers a penetrating look at the highest court in the land. Here are revealing sketches of every justice from John Jay to Samuel Alito, as well as portraits of such legal giants as John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...
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