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The Great Society
Great Society, The LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS FUNDING PROBLEMS THE GREAT SOCIETY REVISITED BIBLIOGRAPHY The term Great Society, which refers to the set of domestic programs initiated by Lyndon B. Johnson, who became the U.S. president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, was coined... Read more |
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Constantine
Constantine (c.274–337), first Christian Roman emperor (306–37), known as ‘the Great’. Born at Naissus (now Nis), Constantine was the son of Constantius I by Helena. In 305 Constantius succeeded as Augustus (senior emperor) of the West. Constantine fled from the court... Read more |
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan , 1941-, American singer and composer, b. Duluth, Minn., as Robert Zimmerman. Dylan learned guitar at the age of 10 and autoharp and harmonica at 15. After a rebellious youth, he moved to New York City in 1960 and in the early years of the decade began playing in a folk style in Greenwich... Read more |
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Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Gielgud (Arthur John Gielgud) , 1904-2000, English actor, director, and producer. A grandnephew of Ellen Terry , Gielgud made his debut at the Old Vic in 1921. His intelligence, sensitivity, fine voice, and ability to interpret both classic and modern playwrights established him as one... Read more |
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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (Norman Kingsley Mailer), 1923-2007, American writer, b. Long Branch, N.J., grad. Harvard, 1943. He grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., served in the army during World War II, and at the age of 25 published The Naked and the Dead (1948). A partially autobiographical bestseller, it was one of... Read more |
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Sir Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson 1882-1958, Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b. England. His first geographical expedition was to the New Hebrides Islands as a geologist in 1903. As a member of the scientific staff of Sir Ernest Shackleton's south polar expedition (1907-9), Mawson took part in the... Read more |
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Tabari
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839-923) was a Moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of Islam. He is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the Koran. Al-Tabari was born in Amol in the... Read more |
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Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh , 1903-66, English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation. Educated at Oxford, he was briefly an art student and a teacher but spent much of his time traveling. He served with distinction in World War II. Waugh burst upon the literary scene with a... Read more |
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Samuel Butler (author)
Samuel Butler 1835-1902, English author. He was the son and grandson of eminent clergymen. In 1859, refusing to be ordained, he went to New Zealand, where he established a sheep farm and in a few years made a modest fortune. He returned to England in 1864 and devoted himself to a variety of... Read more |
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Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval Trumpeter, flugelhornist Played with Dizzy in Cuba and Beyond “No Signs” A New Life Selected discography Sources The 1994 release Arturo Sandoval Plays Trumpet Concertos may have marked contemporary jazz label GRP’s first foray into classical music, as Paul... Read more |
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GENDER GAP REVISITED.(NEWS)(Editorial)
...found a Wirthlin poll, was 33 percent higher than among all men. But what of married men and women? Here you could measure the gap with a graduated toothpick. A Los Angeles Times poll discovered that married women were only three percent more likely to vote... |
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Studies from M. Kimura and Colleagues Yield New Information about Economics...
...non-market) production, gender heterogeneity, and fertility choice." "We extend the gender-gap model of Galor and Weil (Am...Economic Growth (The Galor-Weil gender-gap model revisited: from home to market. Journal... |
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A power-control theory of vulnerability to crime and adolescent role...
...Adolescent Role Ex its-Revisited* Hagan (1990) a adapte...control theory to explain gender differences in vulnerability...thus producing larger gender gaps in delinquency. In less...yielding a smaller gender gap in ... |
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A power-control theory of vulnerability to crime and adolescent role...
...and Simpson, 1985) posits that gender differences in delinquency can be...threats, thus producing larger gender gaps in delinquency. In less patriarchal...fewer risks, yielding a smaller gender gap in delinquency. A chief contribution... |
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Sandino's Daughter Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua.
...structures and social formations as a panacea for gender injustice. Sandino's Daughters Revisited, Margaret Randall's new collection of interviews...leadership. What this meant was that there was a gap between what the revolution offered its women... |
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Research from Cornell University broadens understanding of social science.
...measurement of socio-economic gender inequality has not received...exploring the extent to which gender gaps favour women and/or...the overall levels of gender inequality," wrote...economic Gender Inequality Revisited. ... |
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VOTING TRENDS FOLLOWED TRADITIONAL PATTERNS
...certainly did on Nov. 7. The Gender Gap All through the fall...Incidentally, this gender gap crossed city lines...no reason to expect the gender gap to disappear any time soon. The Civil War revisited and ... |
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Critiquing the "psychiatric paradigm" revisited: reflections on feminist...
...for the WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre. The gap between what I was learning in my classes...proceed as though social differences like gender, race, sexual orientation and class were...differences where those of us who suspected that gender, race, sexuality and social positioning... |
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Sosippus revisited: review of a web-building wolf spider genus from the...
...cladistic analysis of the nine species of Sosippus for which both genders are known is presented. Additional critical drawings are provided...factors influencing this insular pattern. First, open water gaps between the Pleistocene islands that could have served as effective... |
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Public Library Response to Women and Their Changing Roles Revisited
...librarians seem reluctant to identify their target audience by gender, they continue to develop programming that attracts more women...s movement are far from resolved. For example, the wage gap between men and women persists (Lips, n.d.) and reproductive... |
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