Chuck Yeager was a great pilot, but lack of formal education was his downfall?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071011/sc_afp/usspaceaviationhistory_071011080106 Little known to Chuck at the time, he was selected for this flight because of all the potential pilots. he was the one deemed "expendable" by the Govt. He also had a very bad attitude about engineers(which he was not, and thus not selected to be an astronaut), and had a cowboy mentality not unlike someone living in the Whitehouse. And that stuff he mentions about opening up Space? The Germans were doing that stuff a LONG time before he came into the picture... He was a member of the Rogers Commission investigating the cause of Space Shuttle Challenger...he showed up for the press conference, and 6 months later signed off on stuff of which he did no work or knowledge of.
Need help about the film Mississippi Burning questions.?
1) List the various groups of people that Clayton Townley of the Ku Klux Klan says he stands against. What do you know to be true about him based on this list? 2) Of what significance is Anderson's story about his father and the mule? 3) What is the effect of the shot in which Pell's wife gives Anderson the information he has been wanting? Why do you think the director used this technique?
What was the Southern United States like in the 1980s?
“A good relationship between races”?I graduated high school in Shaw, Mississippi in 1980. Four years later I returned on leave from the Navy, and almost nothing had changed…including the signs above the two doors to the only doctor’s office in town. One said “WHITE” and the other said “COLORED”. Oh, they were painted completely over in a kelly green, but paint doesn’t hide inch-deep chisels in marble so well. And the people still obeyed those signs. If I’d had a lick of sense, I would have called up Time Magazine…but I didn’t. Why? Because that’s the way it had always been, and I didn’t see what the big deal really was…even though this was twenty full years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.If you go to the Mississippi Delta today, that doctor’s office is gone…but other than that, the Delta’s not much different, and the racism’s so thick in the air you can cut it with a knife. I do miss the land, the weather, the wildlife (including the snakes), and oh man do I miss the food…but I can’t stand the racism. It makes me want to puke. The “segregation academy” I attended for one year is still there, and it’s a big deal that they’ve got five or so blacks attending there now…in a county that’s 72% black.I will say that in the more urban areas around the South, and especially those where there are major universities, it’s not so bad, and interracial relationships do seem to be tolerated. But in all the times I’ve been to the Delta - the last being two years ago when I went to bury my brother, my last close relative there - I still have yet to see a single black/white couple in the Delta, even though it’s the “blackest” region in all of America. It’s not that the blacks won’t have relationships with whites, but because the whites would ostracize the family of any white man (and especially any white woman) who had the temerity to actually have relations with a black person. White and Asian are okay, but black and white? Verboten. That’s how it is there even today.One last thing - did you know that the Mississippi state legislature did not ratify the Thirteenth amendment banning slavery until 2013? Yes, three years ago. Oh, they claim that it was because of an “administrative error” wherein they “lost the paperwork” when they tried to ratify it back in 1995 (which was only 130 years after the end of the Civil War, you know)…but any of us who were raised in Mississippi know better as to why it took so inexcusably long to ratify that amendment.
How did the American acquisition of the Louisiana Territory affect Spain's hold on North America?
Spain had turned Louisiana back over to France, who then sold it to America, but not sure how this purchase affected Spain's hold on North America? My guess is it "weaken" the spanish hold, but need to back up this answer!!! Obviously i understand the significance of loosing the Mississippi power Port of New Orleans affected Spain financially. Also the expansion of the Louisiana Territory stretched the U.S. landmass and empowered them as a nation from the Rockies to the eastern coast, BUT i have searched online and text book and cannot find "real" specifics regarding -affects on Spain‘s hold-. HELP!
What was the closest the United States government has come to being overthrown?
In terms of foreign intervention, I would say that the only existential threat the US ever faced was from the British in the late 18th and early 19th century. If not for the French, the British probably could have defeated the Americans in both the first and "second" American Revolutionary Wars (the War of 1812 is the "second").The British and French might have considered helping the Confederates overthrow the American government during the American Civil War, but the much more likely scenario would have been them merely forcing the US to recognize the independence of the CSA. Beyond the Civil War, the US hasn't ever been in imminent danger of foreign invasion or coups.As for domestic coups, the one period that comes to mind is the 1930's. Many historians have noted that democracies in Germany, Italy, and other places crashed and burned in the wake of the Great Depression, while the US remained a democracy. The Business Plot was an alleged attempt by conservative businessmen to overthrow FDR's government.The Newburgh Conspiracy was another alleged conspiracy, this time taking place in the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War. The motivation of the conspiracy was to force Congress to pay the soldiers, although it's possible that they might have considered a coup.It didn't come all that close to overthrowing the government, but the Whiskey Rebellion is also worth mentioning. It was the first time the new (post-Constitution) federal government put down a major rebellion. If George Washington hadn't confronted the problem head-on, and if the states hadn't provided their militias, then the US could have eventually fallen apart.
Are there very many happy or successful African Americans, or is life just miserable and a struggle against racism in the USA?
For African-Americans--and anyone of any ethnicity in the US—those people who apply themselves in school, stay away from drugs and alcohol, who avoid committing crimes or hanging out with people who do commit them, opportunity exists.I am Caucasian. Of my bosses, five have been black, one was Hispanic, and four have been white. Racism, like many things, is in the eye of the beholder. The mere fact that I am white automatically negates the possibility of my arguments having any validity, in some people's eyes--and they have a point.I have never had to fear being killed by the police. I've never had to wonder if my ethnicity alone might disqualify me from a job--though other issues have made that a concern at times.From my arguably privileged perspective, I would say that racism still exists, but it is usually subtler and less lethal now than it was in, say, Mississippi or Alabama of the 1950’s. We do not see lynch mobs burning crosses in yards, there is no 'separate but equal' nonsense, and we have had protections in place for years now, regarding equal housing and employment opportunities for all people. Most landlords and employers regard black people no differently than they do anyone elseDoes prejudice still exist? Oh, yes. People speak disparagingly of black youth wearing trousers that show their rear end or their underwear. But among the ones disparaging that are black people.My estimation is that racism in the US is probably worse than I have observed but not nearly as bad as it is purported to be by the news media and social media. The hair-trigger sensitivity has to stop.