.... by appearances in Boom Boom in 1929, A Wonderful Night also in 1929, and Nikki in 1931. In 1931, Leach appeared in his first film, a ten-minute short entitled Singapore Sue. Grant then traveled to Los Angeles, where he made a successful screen test for Paramount. The studio offered him a five-year contract, suggesting he change his name to Cary Lockwood; Leach negotiated with them, and they settled on the name Cary Grant. Grant's feature debut was in This Is the Night in 1932. He soon found himself playing opposite such top Paramount female stars as Nancy .....

.... what you really were. We were all terrified in those days. Lyn on new York in the 60’s. When I was arrested and being thrown out of the military, the order went out: don’t anybody speak to this woman, and for those three long months, almost nobody did; the dayroom, when I entered it, fell silent till I had gone; they were afraid, they knew the wind would blow them over the rail, the cops would come, the water would run into their lungs. Everything I touched was spoiled. They were my lovers, those women, but nobody had taught us to swim. I drowned. I too .....

.... partnership. He steered for me—I had to look out for him." Marlow does not realize how he feels until their "subtle bond" is broken. As a result he missed out on a potential friendship. On account of their having no basis in reality, all preconceptions are wrong. As Marlow can surely attest, having a slanted conception disproved can be a hard truth to accept. Marlow goes into the darkness of Africa with the belief that the natives are savages, but seeing the starving natives chained to trees forces him to discard his idea that they are savages. He actually feeds one of .....

.... (Vialt 6). One of the only writers to illustrate the horrors of this plague was Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio wrote out of Florence and described the “ravages” of the Black Death in the city (Drabble 113). The Decameron is a collection of tales that were “assembled in their definitive form” sometime between 1349 and 1351 (Drabble 260). In his “The Disease of All Diseases” James Fenton describes his assertions on Boccaccio’ s Decameron. Fenton is astonished at the knowledge that Boccaccio presents about this plague: “What he does know, although he doesn’t quite put it lik .....

.... black girl from Topeka. Linda was required to attend an all black school 20 blocks from her home, even though there was an all white school only a few blocks away. With help from the NAACP, Linda's father, Oliver Brown, sued the Topeka Board of Education so that his daughter could attend the nearby all whtie school. NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall challenged the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling and argued that even if seperate black schools were equal to white schools, black children were still suffering great psychological damage. On May 17,1954, Chief Justice EArl Warren annou .....

.... Islam, a Black Muslim group, and changed his name to Malcom X. The X replaced the slave name that was given by the white masters and stands for the his real name that he never knew. After his release from prison he started preaching for the Nation of Islam (NOI). His preaching was known for its hatred overtone. He describes America as a house with a "bomb" inside and it is about to explode. Unless the white people want the house to explode and kill everyone inside, they should take the bomb out and give it a house of their own. His speeches were very popular among angry blac .....

.... future. Over a century ago the first atomic bomb was created in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was created by a top-secret operation code named the Manhattan Project. Three weeks after the first test of the atomic bomb President Truman made the decision at a war time conference, in Potsdam Germany, to use the atomic bomb on Japan. The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 destroying the city and killing and estimated total of 70,000 noncombatants. Three days following the Hiroshima bombing another atomic bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man”, was dropped on the city of Nag .....

.... every three years at the district, provincial, and metropolitan levels. Only 200 out of thousands of applicants were granted the jinshi degree. This was the highest degree and appointed on government posts. From this time on, civil servants became China's most envied elite, replacing the hereditary nobles and landlords. The Song dynasty only extended over to the parts of earlier Chinese empires. The Khitans controlled the northeastern territories and the His Hsia controlled the northwestern territories. The Song emperors were unable to recover these lands so they were .....