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► Download and Listen: PYD 48: “The United Nations, How to Write a Resume, and Compound Adjectives”
Dec 4, 1945: The US Senate Approves US Participation in the United Nations
In honor of this very important anniversary date in US history, the date that the US Senate approved US particip [...]
► Download and Listen: PYD 47: “Learn about Nominalizations, Capitonyms, and the Ethics of Abraham Lincoln”
Abraham Lincoln: Ethics and Morality
This week’s Paper of the Week on AcaDemon is paper #150950, “The Politics, Ethics, and Morality of Abraham Lincoln” is the first topic of [...]
Even if you don’t specialize in communications, you probably have at least heard about Orson Welle’s famous live reading of the “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, and his audience’s response. Welle’s adaptation and reading of “War of the Worlds” was so realistic, it caused mass panic in his liste [...]
was the day that a terrorist drove a truck, loaded with more than 12,000 pounds of TNT, into the US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, and caused an explosion that killed 241 US Marines. In memory of the victims of that terrorist attack, Paper #109707, “Terrorist Attack on the US: Beirut, 1983”, [...]
Was American playwright, Eugene O’Neill, a naturalist, a romanticist, an impressionist, or an expressionist? Most analysts will say O’Neill’s writing exhibited aspects of all these. Take for example, his plays, “The Hairy Ape” and “Beyond the Horizon”. According to this week’s Paper of the Week o [...]
No doubt you are, if you’re like the six billion people in the world who have access to cell phones. Yes, believe it or not, six billion people, out of the world’s total population of seven billion, have access to cell phones. This fascinating fact is according to a UN study, which also noted tha [...]
► Download and Listen: PYD 46: “All things relative, Onomatopoeia, Justice Marshall
Thurgood Marshall and Opposition to the Death Penalty
This week’s Paper of the Week on AcaDemon is paper #145206, “Thurgood Marshall and the Death Penalty”. This paper was selected as the Paper of t [...]
If you don’t know who the first female US Supreme Court Justice was, then make sure you do because she had a significant impact and influence on US law and legal decisions and set an example of dedication and skill admired by many. On September 25, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first femal [...]
While the number of daily printed newspapers in the US has seen a slow, but steady decline since the advent of the Internet, there are still nearly 1500 newspapers still in print and operating. The “New York Times” is one of the most well-known of these newspapers and is considered the newspaper [...]