Fair Labor Act Of 1938
.... before the signing. He warned: "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."2 In light of the social legislation of 1978, Americans today may be astonished that a law with such moderate standards could have been thought so revolutionary.
Courting disaster
The Supreme Court had been one of the major obstacles to wage-hour and child-labor laws. Among notable cases is the .....
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Falkland Islands War Paper
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4. Britain had abandoned its settlement in West Falkland in 1774.(4)
No matter how well formed these arguments may have been, they fell on deaf ears in Britain. Lord Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, simply asserted that the Falklands had been British since the initial claim of sovereignty in 1765. (5) Although Argentina remained in a state of official protest, few things changed over the next 132 years. The issue was finally brought to the forefront in 1965 when the United Nations .....
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Fall Of The Roman Empire
.... enterprising men…tenants fled from their farms and businessmen and workmen from their occupation.” The government though created a welfare system for the people. With the welfare system though, the people further lost an initiative to work.
The economy was also strained by over-population. Many people were forced to become serfs and “till the soil” for low wages. There was a failure to advance technologically because of slavery. It was also difficult to govern so many people which impacted th .....
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American Revolutionary War 2
.... of self-
taxation. The Americans felt that they should be able to
manage their own taxation, or to select people to manage
their taxation. What they absolutely did not want, was the
British taking care of their taxation. They did not want
taxation without representation.
The Townshend Revenue acts of 1767 were another
justification for the Americans’ rebellion. This taxed
imported goods, such as paper, glass, paint and tea. The
Americans felt again that their rights were .....
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Famous African Americans
.... bill and pushed for civil rights legislation. In 1972 Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She took a seat on the Judiciary Committee, where she earned national attention for her eloquent speech in favor of impeaching President Richard M. Nixon (1969-74) during the Watergate affair. She also delivered the keynote address at the 1976 Democratic Convention. In 1978 Jordan left the House to teach public policy at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982 she was awarded the university .....
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Famous Author- Samuel Selvon
.... numerous radio programs, and a film version of THE LONELY LONDONERS.
In addition to these accomplishments, Selvon has held a series of university appointments in the Caribbean, Great Britain, and North America. He has also received numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1955, 1968), Trinidad's Humming Bird Medal for Literature (1969), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick (1989).
Selvon married Draupadi Persuad in 1947, with whom he has one child, and Althea Nest .....
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Famous People Of The Civil War
.... He was not successful in preventing an invasion
of western Virginia, so he was sent to the Atlantic Coastal defense.
In 1862 when Joseph E. Johnston was wounded, Lee became commander of
the confederate army in Virginia. In Richmond Lee drove the unionist
away from the capital in the Seven Days' Battles. In August he
defeated the Northern army in the second Battle of Bull Run. In May
1863 Lee won his greatest victory but also suffered his worst loss in
life. The Unionist wer .....
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Fascism Compared To Communism
.... the world as apposed to Adolf Hitler.
Immediately after Lenin's death, a man very much the same in nature as
Hitler, Stalin, came to control the Bolsheviks and throw Russia in a
civil war in a quest for power. You now have two men of equal
aspirations soon to be in control of two very similar governments.
In any rise of power, there needs to be a period of careful
planning requiring much thought. These two men had very little history
with which to work with which to m .....
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Fbi
.... appointed a force of Special Agents within the Department of Justice. Accordingly, ten former Secret Service employees and a number of Department of Justice peonage (i.e.,compulsory servitude) investigators became Special Agents of the Department of Justice. On July 26, 1908, Bonaparte ordered them to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch. This action is celebrated as the beginning of the FBI. Attorney General Bonaparte and President Theodore Roosevelt, who completed their terms in March 1909, .....
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Fdr Vs. Hoover
.... there are needed more offices, agencies and bureau's to handle affairs. This bureaucracy, he said, would take the American people's freedom right from them. He felt a great need to take government out of peoples lives more then ever. Even after the depression hit, Hoover was convinced that government could do nothing to help the country out this cataclysm. He said in 1930, "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement." He felt that no matter what happens, gove .....
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Female Slaves And Their Famili
.... also benifitted the slave owners, since healthy slaves meant that the masters could get more work out of them, and thus make more money when the crops were harvested.
The family was important to most slave women, and they had ways of making sure that they stayed together, though these weren't foolproof. A woman assigned to the Big House when the rest of her family was on the fields could rebel, thus making "a mistress's life miserable by literally doing nothing." This would often cause the mistress t .....
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Feminine Mystique
.... force were offset by the gain of 2.75 million women into the work force. “When women who had been laid off managed to return to work, they often lost their seniority and had to accept reduced pay in lower job categories” (310). Due to the severe segregation by gender, the postwar economic life for women was appalling.
Postwar American life became organized around marriage and family. As men came back from the war they merged with the peacetime economy, taking jobs away from women and sending them bac .....
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Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
.... required a much larger
gas envelope. To attain any speed faster than a crawl, the larger envelope had to be fashioned into sleek aerodynamic shape with small frontal area. These long, thin, 'sausage' shapes tended to be highly unstable. Slight changes in the craft's center of gravity could cause the larger volumes of hydrogen to shift wildly with sometimes with tragic results. Zeppelin's design broke the technological barrier and made his name a synonym for the airship. His solution contained the .....
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Feudal Japan
.... feudal Japanese have divine roots, and but
one Imperial Line." (Lewis 1999) . This explains of how the Japanese felt about themselves, and
how proud they were of their own culture. Not only that, they felt as if to be more superior beings
than any other race on the planet. "Although the Emperor is the logical apex of this
structure.....the lower classes were not allowed to lay eyes upon him." (Staff 1999). Like all
feudal systems there were many classes. Only a few lived lavish lifestyles, .....
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American Transcendentalism
.... along with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe, were strongly influenced by Transcendentalism (Mullen and Wilson 1).
Perhaps the best known and most influential of Emerson's immediate disciples is Henry David Thoreau, noted for his book Walden; or Life in the Woods, which has been regarded as a nature study, spiritual autobiography, and philosophical abstract, for his "Civil Disobedience", a seminal essay outlining peaceful social protest. Among American Transc .....
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