Mike Tyson Bites Ear
Important people involved Evander Holyfield’s and Mike Tyson
Date of event June 28th 1997
Taken place in a Boxing Match
What had happen was that

Holyfield came into the widely anticipated rematch even stronger than he had been for the first fight. In the first round, he hit Tyson hard with body shots while Tyson flailed away, ignoring the science of boxing his trainer had promised he would employ. By the end of the round, the crowd chanted Holyfield’s name, turning on the usual fan favorite Tyson. In the second round, Holyfield head-butted Tyson, opening a cut over Tyson’s right eye.

In the third round, Tyson lost what composure he had left. He spit out his mouthpiece, bit off a chunk out of Holyfield’s right ear and then spit it onto the canvas. Though Holyfield was in obvious pain the fight resumed after a brief stoppage, and then Tyson bit Holyfield’s other ear. With 10 seconds left in the third round, he was disqualified.

THE OUTCOME was that there was an injured player, and Tyson was disqualified

O.J Simpson arrested for double murder

• Important people involved were O.J Simpson, Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman
• Date of event June 12, 1994
• Event taken place in front of Nicole's apartment.

What had happen was Both victims were repeatedly stabbed and both had defensive wounds, attesting to their struggle in the attack. The Simpsons had been divorced for two years at the time of the murders. Their two children were asleep inside the apartment. The relationship between Nicole and Goldman has never been clearly defined. Evidence at the scene of the crime led police to suspect O.J.

The Outcome: O.J was arested later in time he was found not guilty.Both Nicole and Ronald were murdered

This event is important because O.J was acquitted for killing two people.

NFL Super Bowl XXIX San Francisco 49ERS VS San Diego Chargers

Important people involved: 49ers and the Chargers
Date of event: January 29,1995
Event taken place:Glen Dale Arizona

The 49ers wasted little time scoring, taking the lead for good on Young's 44-yard touchdown pass to Jerry Rice only three plays and 1:24 into the game. The next time they had the ball, the 49ers marched 79 yards in four plays, taking a 14-0 lead when Young teamed with running back Ricky on a 51-yard touchdown pass with 10:05 still to play in the opening period.

San Diego then put together its most impressive possession of the game, a 13-play, 78-yard drive that consumed more than seven minutes and was capped by matron Means' 1-yard touchdown run, to cut its deficit to 14-7 late in the quarter.

But San Francisco countered with a 70-yard drive of its own, and Young's 5-yard touchdown pass to fullback William Floyd made it 21-7. Young's fourth touchdown pass of the half, eight yards to Ricky 4:44 before halftime, increased the advantage to 28-7, and the Chargers could get no closer than 18 points after that.

Ricky, who ran nine yards for a touchdown in the third quarter, equaled the Super Bowl record with three touchdowns. Rice also scored three touchdowns (the second time in his career he'd done that in a Super Bowl) while catching 10 passes for 149 yards. He established career records for receptions, yards, and touchdowns in a Super Bowl.

Young, who scrambled 21 yards and 15 yards to set up touchdowns in the first half, was the game's leading rusher with 49 yards on five carries. San Diego's Means, who rushed for 1,350 yards during the regular season, was limited to 33 yards on 13 attempts.

Chargers quarterback Stan Humphires completed 24 of 49 passes for 275 yards. Rookie Andre Coleman became only the third player in Super Bowl history to return a kickoff for a touchdown, going 98 yards in the third quarter.

The 75 points scored by the two teams established another record, breaking the previous mark of 69 set in Dallas's 52-17 victory over Buffalo in XXVII.

The 49ers' victory was the eleventh straight for NFC teams over AFC teams in the Super Bowl.

THE OUTCOME: 49ERS one the Super Bowl

AWARDS: MVP Steve Young

This event is important because the 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowls when they routed the Chargers, It became Super Bowl History at that time

Jonathan Larson
1960-1996
New York City, New York, USA

Jonathan Larson was born in White Plains, New York, in Westchester County to a Jewish family. Since he was little he was exposed to the performing arts as music and theater. He played the trumpet and tuba in his high school band, was involved in his school's choir and took formal piano lessons. His early musical influences were rock musicians such as Elton John and Billy Joel, as well as the classic composers of musical theater, especially Stephen Sondheim and the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. Larson was also considered a great actor in high school, performing in lead roles in various productions at White Plains High School. He composed RENT one of the most famous Broadway musical ever in the 90s.On the night of the final rehearsal, one night before Rent's premiere Jonathan Larson suddenly died of an aneurysm from Marfan Syndrom. It was ten days before his 36th birthday. Jonathan Larson never got to see his masterpiece on Broadway.

Important works and awards:

• RENT: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score

Larson was an important person in the 1990s because of his works and his intelligence for composing things like his most famous RENT,as you have read it made up to four awards and in that you can see that he realy put his heart into what he loved doing best musicals.

Bill Clinton By Crystal Gonzalez

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

August 19, 1946

born Arkansas

Brief Biography:
Bill Clinton won the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination and defeated George Bush to become the fortysecond president of the United States. He was elected to a second term in 1996. As a former president Clinton continues to work for a variety of issues that became important to him during his political career.

Life:born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas U.S. 42nd president of the United States 1990–2001 who oversaw the countrys longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became only the second U.S. president to be impeached he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999. For a discussion of the history and nature of the presidency presidency of the United States of America.
Early life
Bill Clintons father was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his son was born. His widow Virginia Dell Blythe married Roger Clinton and, despite their unstable union they divorced and then remarried and her husbands alcoholism her son eventually took his stepfathers name. Reared in part by his maternal grandmother Bill Clinton developed political aspirations at an early age they were solidified by his own account in July 1963 when he met and shook hands with President John F. Kennedy.

Education:In 1974 Clinton was a first year law professor and ran for the House of Representatives. He was was defeated but remained undaunted and ran for Attorney General of Arkansas unopposed in 1976. He went on to run for Governor of Arkansas in 1978 and won becoming the youngest governor of the state. He was defeated in the 1980 election but returned to office in 1982. Over the next decade in office he established himself as a New Democrat that could appeal to both Republicans and Democrats.

career:Lawyer public official.

Fun Facts:When he was a child he was mauled by a sheep. He called it the worst beating he ever got.
Clinton is the only president to play the saxophone.
Clinton appointed more women to cabinet positions than any other president. Hillary were married by a Methodist minister in a house Bill had bought.They had a daughter Chelsea Victoria 1980.Her name was inspired by her parents fondness for Judy Collinss 1969 recording of the Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning.The President has always loved to read. In fact with the help of his grandfather he learned how to read by the time he was three years old. When he was in elementary school he enjoyed reading Dick and Jane later his favorite books included Black Beauty and The Last of the Mohicans. As a child he was given the nickname Bubba a common southern nickname.
In high school he played the Saxophone as part of a jazz trio called Three Blind Mice. His passion to play the sax continies to this day.
He graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 and from Yale University Law school in 1973.
He was elected governor of Arkansas when he was 32 making him the youngest governor in the United States at that time.
Clinton gave 140 pardons on his last day as President of the United States.
Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives. This gave him the dubious distinction of being the first elected U.S. President to be impeached.
Some of his successes as president included appointing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court allow U.S. forces to invade Haiti to return Aristide to power delivering welfare reform and presiding over a budget surplus in his last years in office.
His biggest legislative failure was his health care initiative.

The Hunt for Red October

Date of publication 1984

• written and set in the Cold War.

In The Hunt for Red October the hunters and the hunted play a deadly game of hide-and-seek in fearfulness isolation, within 4,000 miles of ocean as their game board.This book is very suspenseful it realy has a grasp of cutting edge.

Characters:

Marko Alexandrovich a Lithuanian who has risen to high levels of trust in the Soviet Navy

Jack Ryan a former U.S marine and naval historian turns CIA analyst, deduces Ramius plans.

Ramius defection is spurred by several other factors, deeply effected by the death of his wife.

Captain Viktor Tupolev commands a Alfa class attack submarine and who is a former student of Ramius.

This novel won best seller

A memorable passage from The Hunt for Red October starts off by saying "The Americans are good technitions , Comrade captain", Putin said but they are not giants. Their technology is not so awesome.Its funny how he thinks to himself and how he comes to the conclusion that his Nasha Lutcha is better than the Americans.

Historical events By Crystal Gonzalez

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

born 18 July 1918

birthplace:Village near Umtata

Brief Biography:Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on the 18 July 1918. His father was the principal councillor to the Acting Paramount Chief of Thembuland. After his father s death the young Rolihlahla became the Paramount Chief s ward to be groomed to assume high office. However influenced by the cases that came before the Chief s court he determined to become a lawyer. Hearing the elders stories of his ancestors valour during the wars of resistance in defence of their fatherland he dreamed also of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people.
After receiving a primary education at a local mission school Nelson Mandela was sent to Healdtown a Wesleyan secondary school of some repute where he matriculated. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Students Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he completed his BA by correspondence took articles of clerkship and commenced study for his LLB. He entered politics in earnest while studying in Johannesburg by joining the African National Congress in 1942.

Life:At the age of twenty four Mandela joined the African National Congress. During the Second World War Mandela along with other young Africans set about taking the ANC message to the millions of lower class black people around South Africa. These young liberals set about firing up the conservative conciliatory methods of the ANC old guard in favor of a radical form of Nationalism based on the principle of national self determination. By 1960 Nelson Mandela was the unchallenged leader of the whole ANC. After the Sharpeville Massacre the ANC was officially banned. A guerrilla arm of the ANC was then formed called Spear of the Nation. Spear of the Nation engaged in Governmental sabotage with Mandela at the forefront. In mid 1962 he was jailed for five years for encouraging strike action. While serving this sentence he was charged with sabotage. Speaking in court in his defence he stated this his actions were the result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison.

Education:Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a well educated man. He is a great believer in education and life long learning. It was at the Wesleyan mission school that he first attended that he was given the name Nelson.
This formal schooling was not the only Mandela education though. As the son of a tribal councilor he learned the art of listening which helped in his role as a leader and peacemaker throughout his life.
In terms of formal schooling when Mandelas father died when Nelson was 9 he was taken under the guardianship of the regent Jongintaba. In the usual Thembu custom Nelson Mandela school meant initiation at 16 and attendance at Clarkebury Boarding School. Instead of taking the usual three years to complete his Junior Certification Nelson was through in 2 years.
From there he went in 1937 to the usual college for Thembu royalty Healdtown in Fort Beaufort. At the Fort Hare University Nelson Mandela became involved in the Student Representative Council. Following a boycott there he was told to leave and the Nelson Mandela education took a change of direction. Rather than follow through on his guardians wish for an arranged marriage the young Nelson took off to Johannesburg. He completed his Bachelor of Arts studies there through the University of South Africa through correspondence.
Mandela then went on to study law at the University of Witswatersrand. Nelson Mandela university life was interrupted by his involvement in the ANC. He and friend Oliver Tambo opened the first black legal practice in South Africa giving affordable and often free advice to black people who could otherwise not afford it. Mandela continued his legal education while he was in prison too.
When he was put into Robben Island prison Mandela often gave legal advice to both prisoners and prison staff. His love and belief in education was appreciated, and Robben Island became known as the Nelson Mandela University. It was a cruel and tough life in prison but Mandela somehow managed to turn it into a place of learning.

Fun Facts:Nelsons peaceful boyhood was spent cattle herding and other rural pursuits. When his father died Nelsons rich and powerful relative took custody of him. Nelson Mandela was influenced by his African heritage of ritual and taboo. His values and attitudes were shaped by traditions and his royal privileges.
He was sent to boarding school and later to Fort Hare Missionary College. He was expelled from college for helping to organize a strike against the white colonial rule of the institution. He then became involved in other protests against the white colonial rule. In doing so he set out for personal and national liberation. He ran away from home to avoid an arranged marriage. Later he graduated from the University of South Africa with a degree in law. He joined a law firm as an apprentice. In 1942 Nelson joined the African National Congress ANC which at the time was polite to the government. Soon Nelson Mandela had persuaded the ANC to use boycotts and strikes against the government instead of being polite. He was arrested for civil disobedience and was not allowed to attend gatherings.In his spare time Nelson Mandela studied to become a lawyer so that he could protect blacks. Work as a lawyer strengthened his feelings against apartheid which segregated and discriminated against blacks in South Africa. Nelson was particularly active during the 1950’s.

Awards won:Mandela has received more than two hundred and fifty awards over four decades most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Jurassic Park/Literature By Crystal Gonzalez

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008

John Michael Crichton was born in Chicago.

Brief Biology:Michael Crichton was born in Chicago Illinois but grew up in Roslyn New York. His father was a journalist and encouraged him to write and to type. Michael gave up studying English at Harvard University having become disillusioned with the teaching standards the final straw came when he submitted an essay by George Orwell that was given a B. After giving up English and spending a year in Europe Michael returned to Boston Massachusetts and attended Havard Medical School to train as a doctor. Several times he was persuaded not to quit the course but did so after qualifying.During his medical student days he wrote novels secretly. One of them, A Case of Need written under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson contained references to people at Harvard Medical School but he couldnt hide his identity when the novel won an awardthat had to be collected in person. After giving up medicine Michael moved to Hollywood California, in the early 1970s and began directing movies based on his books his first big break being Westworld 1973.

Life:Michael Crichton has been a physician a teacher a movie director and a screenwriter but he is probably best known for his novels. His writings often combine aspects of science technology and suspense and he has been called a pioneer of the techno thriller with novels such as The Andromeda Strain Sphere and Jurassic Park. Many of his books have been adapted and made into popular movies. He is also the creator of the television series ER.
John Michael Crichton was born in Chicago Illinois and raised on Long Island in New York. His father was a journalist and Crichton has said that his own broad knowledge may have come from his fathers wide interests. His mother also regularly took her children to museums plays and movies. Crichton was often ill as a child which led him to spend much time indoors playing with electric trains and performing amateur scientific experiments.
The young Crichton also began to write. At fourteen years of age he wrote and sold articles to the New York Times travel section. In 1964 he earned a bachelors degree from Harvard University. The following year Crichton entered Harvards medical school where he began to write novels in order to support his medical studies. He used the pen name a fictional name adopted by an author who does not want to use his real name John Lange.

Education: Crichton attended Harvard College and graduated summa cum laude in 1964. He was the Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellow from 1964 to 1965 and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1969.

Career:Visiting writer Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge 1988.

Fun Facts:He is known for the book Jurassic Park. his first four marriages having ended in divorce in 1987 he married AnneMarie Martin an actress with whom he wrote the screenplay for the film Twister 1996 and with whom he had a daughter. This marriage was dissolved in 2003 and he survived by his daughter and his fifth wife Sherri Alexander. Michael Crichton sued his estranged wife and her lawyer on Thursday claiming they violated a confidentiality deal that was part of the couples pending divorce Reuters reports. AnneMarie Crichton filed for divorce from the Harvard med school graduate and ER co creator in September after 13 years of marriage. Proceedings were apparently supposed to be kept a secret but now Crichton claims that attorney Stephen Kolodny made statements on television earlier this month about the couples marriage and about Crichtons relationship with his 13yearold daughter. The writer also is claiming that AnneMarie knew about Kolodnys plans to discuss the divorce and gave him the thumbs-up according to Reuters. In September shortly after the divorce filing two masked men broke into Crichtons home in suburban Santa Monica tied up the author and his daughter and stole undisclosed personal items. Crichton and his daughter were unharmed.

Awards:Michael Crichton won so many awards he won Technical Achievement Award,Saturn Award,Bram Stoker Award,Best Science Fiction Film,Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic and many more.One important work of his was coming up with Jerassic Park. He is best known though for his successful Jurassic Park series. The series centered around scientists using DNA and cloning to recreate dinosaurs only to see their experiments go very beyond.This series produced two novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World and a hit film in 1993 which he co wrote with Steven Spielberg. The film spawned two sequels of moderate success. There was never a third book in the series despite much speculation.

Edwin Hubble By Crystal Gonzalez

Edwin Hubble

Edwin Hubble

November 20,1889-September 28,1953

Marshfield,Missouri

Brief Biology:Edwin Hubble for telescope named one of the leading astronomy of the twentieth century.His discovery in the 1920's that countless galaxies exist beyond our own Milky Way galaxy revolutionized our understanding of the universe and our place within it.Hubble a tall and athetic man who excelled at sports and even coached High School basketball for a short while started his professional science career during one of the most exciting reas of astronomy.

Life:Edwin Hubble is known for revolutionizing our view of the universe. Before Hubble everyone believed that the universe was composed of one vast island of stars the Milky Way. Everything that we saw was within it. However Edwin Hubble was able to show that what people thought were spiral nebulae were actually other islands of stars that lay far beyond the breadth of our own galaxy.
Besides this Hubble was able to use the technique he had employed to prove the existence of galaxies to show that the entire universe was expanding.In 1923, Edwin Hubble showed that the spiral nebulae that were presumed to be within our galaxy the Milky Way were actually other galaxies that lay far beyond our. The following year he showed that the Milky Way was just one of many galaxies in the universe.To prove that an object was actually a galaxy they had to measure its distance. To accomplish this they used individually resolved Cepheid variable stars within M31. Cepheid variable stars are very useful in calculating distances to many nearby galaxies. This is because they vary their brightness in a very regular pattern and the duration of the variation is thought to be a direct indicator of their absolute magnitude true brightness. Then by measuring how bright the star appears to be a simple formula can be used to determine the distance assuming you know the absolute magnitude.In the 1930's, Hubble made a mistake in claiming that the galaxies are evenly distributed in space. To prove his point Hubble took a large number of photographs of small regions of the sky. And, except for an area around the Milky Way which he called a zone of avoidance he found galaxies in roughly equal numbers everywhere. Unfortunately for Hubble other scientists disagreed and were able to prove their point.
Harlow Shapely and Adelaide Ames took large pictures of the Northern Hemispheres sky. They noted large discrepancies in the concentration of galaxies. Clyde Tombaugh who had discovered Pluto in 1930, confirmed their conclusions and in 1937 discovered that galaxies are arranged in clusters and superclusters.
Despite his one large mistake Hubble made huge contributions to the field of astronomy and to honor Hubble NASA named the Hubble Space Telescope after him in 1989.

Education:He went to Wheaton High School.His father had a office in chicago.He had a talent an interest for athletics,football.Edwin Hubble was awarded a half fees scholarship to the University of Chicago.He studied Physics astronomy and math. Edwin was awareded his B.S. degree in 1910.Then he was givin another Scholarship to study law at Queens,Oxford.He later became an attorney at louisville,Kentucky.Years after he decided Astronomy was for him and he re-entered Uniersity of Chicago to study doctorate.Where he earned his Phid in 1917 almost immediately after completing the oral defence his dissertation went to fight his first World War.

Career:Edwin Hubble was awarded the 1939 Franklin Medal in Physics for his extensive study of the nebulae particularly those outside our galaxy as a result of which the dimensions of observed space have been greatly increased.
Other awards and honors bestowed on Hubble include
The 1938 Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal awarded yearly by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy
The 1940 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
A 1946 Medal of Merit for outstanding contribution to ballistics research, more specifically for exceptional conduct in providing outstanding services to citizens during World War II
1948 election as an Honorary Fellow of Queens College Oxford for notable contributions to astronomy
Asteroid 2069 Hubble discovered by Indiana University astronomers in 1955, is named for Edwin Powell Hubble as is the Hubble crater on the Moon and the Hubble Space Telescope.
In the latter part of his career Hubble campaigned heartily for astronomy to be considered an area of physics rather than its own discipline. This was primarily so that he and fellow astronomers could be recognized by the Nobel Prize Committee for contributions to astrophysics. Even though Hubble was unsucessful for many years the Committee eventually decided that work in the field of astronomy could be eligible for the Nobel Prize in physics. However the decision came too late for Hubble it was made a few months after his death in 1953. The Nobel Prize has never been awarded posthumously.

FunFacts:At a young age Edwin had an uncanny intellect and a great liking for books especially novels by Jules Verne and H Rider Haggard. He was especially impressed by King Solomons Mines. Right from childhood Hubble had a peculiar interest in astronomy. Young Edwin corresponded with his grandfather who once wrote to his 12year old grandson for questions about Mars. Edwins reply astonished him. His grandfather was so pleased that he had it printed in a Springfield Newspaper He was probably more recognized for his athletic than academic ability. At Wheaton High School he excelled both as a student and as an athlete for he actively participated in athletics and sports His favorite sport at school was football. He excelled in basketball and track events in Chicago. Although he was very famous for breaking the Illinois State high jump record at High School he earned such an excellent reputation as a boxer that a sports promoter wanted him to train for a fight with Jack Johnson the then world heavyweight champion. However, he planned to enter the profession of law when he was selected as Rhodes Scholar and the reason to shift his academic focus was the promise made to his dying father that he would definitely study law.His time at Oxford greatly changed Hubbles entire personality he developed a love for tweed jackets Dunhill pipes sundry British pronunciations and eruptions of bah Jove all of which stayed with him for the rest of his life.He also took a position as a high school Spanish teacher in New Albany Indiana. According to Hubbles biographer Gale Christianson though Hubble was very popular with students especially with girls, who were evidently charmed and fascinated by his sound British diction and Oxford mannerisms Hubble longed to return to science. Hubble did creditably in his job but felt sick at heart because of his love for astronomy. His interest in astronomy however remained with him and he had determined to chuck law for astronomy.Against his better judgment Einstein had argued his elegant equations with an extra factor he called the cosmological constant a sort of antigravity force that kept the universe from collapsing in on it. But suddenly the cosmological constant was unnecessary. Einstein’s instincts had been right after all. Einsteins great blunder had been to doubt himself but Hubbles discovery had repaired what Einstein referred to as the greatest blunder of my life. During a visit to Caltech, the great and grateful physicist traveled to the top of Mount Wilson to see the telescope and thank Hubble personally for delivering him from his folly.Hubble needed to be one up on everyone else so he hungered for more knowledge. He once chafed when an old adversary Adriaan Van Maneen was slated to sit at the head of the dining table on Mount Wilson. It was his due as the astronomer using the Hooker telescope that night Hubble strode into the hall early and swapped napkin rings leaving his own in the prime spot. Van Maneen visibly perplexed took the lesser seat without any protest. Hubbles another trick was to memorize obscure facts from the Encyclopaedia Britannica and then deftly steer the conversation to that very topic. After his companions showed their ignorance he would impress them with his expertise and casually reach for the Britannica for verification.

Tom Clancy

Born in 1947

• Baltimore,Maryland.
  

Clancy was working as an insurance broker until he wrote his first novel in 1984, the Hunt for Red October.The book made the New York Times best seller of president Ronald Reagan. His crafting of plausible military scenaries is so realistic that he has become a favorite of the United States military.Tom has dined with presidents, generals generarly gave him access to ships, subarines and aircraft.Today some of Clancy's books are considerd as requierd reading at U.S. military academies.

• In 1996 Clancy founded Red Storm Entertainment to create and market multimedia computer games based on his stories. Its first game Politika was released in November 1997.


• Ten of Clancy’s books have earned No. 1 rankings on the New York Times best seller list. Nearly fifty million copies of his books have been printed and three have been made into movies.
• His best works was the novels The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games ect.
• More of his best work was put in to computer games based on his books,i thought that was prettt cool '']

Tom Clancy is important for his potboiling thrillers with political, military, and espionage themes, author Tom Clancy's influence on American popular culture.