Download or read book Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved written by Thomas Aiello and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation in the early 1970s. The human obsession with inhalation for intoxication has deep roots, from the oracle at Delphi to Judaic biblical ritual. The discovery of nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the later development of paint thinners, varnishes, lighter fluid, polishes, and dry-cleaning supplies provided a variety of publicly available products with organic solvents that could be inhaled for some range of hallucinogenic or intoxicating effect. Model airplane glue was one of those products, but did not appear in warnings until the first reports of problematic behavior appeared in 1959, when children in several western cities were arrested for delinquency after huffing glue. Newspaper coverage both provided the initial shot across the bow for research into the subject and convinced children to give it a try. This "epidemic" quickly spread throughout the nation and the world. Though the hobby industry began putting an irritant in its model glue products in 1969 to make them less desirable to sniff, that wasn't what stopped the epidemic. Just as quickly as it erupted, the epidemic stopped when the media coverage and public hysteria stopped, making it one of the most unique epidemics in American history. The nation's focus drifted from adolescent glue sniffing to the countercultural student movement, with its attendant devotion to drug use, opposition to the Vietnam War, southern race policies, and anti-bureaucracy in general. This movement came to embody a tumultuous era fraught with violence, civil disobedience, and massive sea changes in American life and law—glue sniffing faded by comparison.

Download or read book Separate Games written by David K. Wiggins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection. The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the twelve essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these “separate games” provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination. The significance of this sporting culture is vividly showcased in the stories of the Cuban Giants baseball team, basketball’s New York Renaissance Five, the Tennessee State Tigerbelles track-and-field team, black college football’s Turkey Bowl Classic, car racing’s Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, Negro League Baseball’s East-West All-Star game, and many more. These teams, organizations, and events made up a vibrant national sporting complex that remained in existence until the integration of sports beginning in the late 1940s. Separate Games explores the fascinating ways sports helped bind the black community and illuminate race pride, business acumen, and organizational abilities.

Download or read book The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk written by Thomas Aiello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders—Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois—shaped the struggle for African American rights. This book examines the impact of their fierce debate on America's response to Jim Crow and positions on civil rights throughout the 20th century—and evaluates the legacies of these two individuals even today. The debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on how to further social and economic progress for African Americans lasted 20 years, from 1895 to Washington's death in 1915. Their ongoing conversation evolved over time, becoming fiercer and more personal as the years progressed. But despite its complexities and steadily accumulating bitterness, it was still, at its heart, a conversation—an impassioned contest at the turn of the century to capture the souls of black folk. This book focuses on the conversation between Washington and Du Bois in order to fully examine its contours. It serves as both a document reader and an authored text that enables readers to perceive how the back and forth between these two individuals produced a cacophony of ideas that made it anything but a bipolar debate, even though their expressed differences would ultimately shape the two dominant strains of activist strategy. The numerous chapters on specific topics and historical events follow a preface that presents an overview of both the conflict and its historiographical treatment; evaluates the legacies of both Washington and Du Bois, emphasizing the trajectories of their theories beyond 1915; and provides an explanation of the unique structure of the work.

Download or read book The Tyranny of Architecture A Vegan Apologetic written by Thomas Aiello and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tyranny of Architecture is a full philosophical defense of veganism, one that defends the practice in a way fundamentally unique among such arguments. It makes the case that in a human society built on artificial constructs, the only demonstrable ethics not part of an imagined community is that of respecting the right to life and contentment, construed for farmed animals as adequate food, space, and other basic amenities, along with the right not to be tortured and killed for the unnecessary whims of humans existing mentally within a subset of artificial constructs that do not include those nonhuman animals.

Download or read book Model Airplanes written by Ed Radlauer and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1976 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The World of Model Airplanes written by William John Winter and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the principles of aerodynamics, tools, materials, and building and flying techniques for planes ranging from hand-launched gliders to radio-controlled models

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Download or read book Building Model Airplanes that Fly written by Edwin Timothy Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flying model airplanes written by Don Berliner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Model Airplanes written by Joseph S. Ott and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beginning to Fly written by Merrill Hamburg and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The World of Model Aircraft written by Guy R. Williams and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1973 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Box Top Air Power written by Thomas Graham and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing some of the most recognized and dynamic examples of aviation art ever produced, the paintings here appeared on model airplane kit boxes. Generations of hobbyists have enjoyed these colorful and inspiring paintings that graced model packaging in hobby shops. More than 170 of the most memorable examples are displayed in full color. They chronicle aviation history from the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk Flier to the Apollo Lunar Module, including many of the best-known aircraft in aviation history. Among the many artists whose works are portrayed are Tom Morgan, John Steel, Jack Leynnwood, Lorenzo Ghiglieri, Jim Cox, John Amendola, Ray Gaedke, Jo Kotula, and Dick Locher. In the well-researched text, these artists tell personal stories behind their art in their own words. This book will be treasured by aviation enthusiasts, model builders, and everyone who has fond memories of their model building days.

Download or read book Model Airplanes That Really Fly written by and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scale model Airplanes written by Don Berliner and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the categories and kinds of scale-model airplanes and their history. Includes information on model airplanes building and complications.

Download or read book The World of Model Airplanes written by William John Winter and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the principles of aerodynamics, tools, materials, and building and flying techniques for planes ranging from hand-launched gliders to radio-controlled models