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- 691: Causes of The Great Depression
- ... of $2 a bushel for wheat, but by 1920 wheat prices had fallen to as low as 67 cents a bushel(end note 29). Farmers fell into debt; farm prices and food prices tumbled. Although modest attempts to help farmers were made in 1923 with the Agricultural Credits Act, farmers were generally left out in the cold by the government. The problem with such heavy concentrations of wealth and such massive ...
- 692: Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S.
- ... of 1967 was the March on the Pentagon in October, which was turning point for the Johnson administration. With public support for Johnson's conduct of the war fading, the president fought back by overselling modest gains that his military commanders claimed to be making. This overselling of the war's progress played a major role in creating the domestic crisis produced by the Tet Offensive in early 1968, sparked from ...
- 693: The Spanish-American War
- ... to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. During the course of the war the United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and emerged as a world power. In 1823, James Monroe issued a bold proposal called the Monroe Doctrine, that stated one of the goals of the U.S. government was to prevent further European influence in the western hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine proclaimed that the United states would fight ...
- 694: The American Civil War
- ... Sherman. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1972). Grant had decided that the only way to win and finish the war would be to crunch with numbers. He knew that the Federal forces held more than a modest advantage in terms of men and supplies. This in mind, Grant directed Sherman to turn around now and start heading back toward Virginia. He immediately started making preparations to provide assistance to Sherman on the ...
- 695: Women of the Civil War
- ... press encouraged nursing, but they cautioned that women were valuable only if they were submissive. If women tried to presume control, then they must be dismissed. Many women that were eager to help, but too modest to nurse, supplied the sick with comforts and delicacies. In times of medical emergency, these women's responsibilities expanded to helping care for the critically wounded. When women saw first hand the horrors of war ...
- 696: The Internet Its Effects And Its Future
- ... The Internet is, quite literally, a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people‘¦s homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970s to form ...
- 697: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- The Internet is literally a network of networks. It is comprised of ten thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. The computers that form the Internet range from huge mainframes in research establishments to modest PCs in people's homes and offices. Despite the recent hype, the Internet is not a new phenomenon. Its roots lie in a collection of computers that were linked together in the 1970s to form ...
- 698: Censorship
- ... down side to the V-chip is that it makes parents the "bad guys" and children want to see the blocked programming even more, so they find other ways to do so. The second major proposal under consideration is the rating system. The v-chip provision requires television broadcasters and cable companies to voluntarily develop a rating system on violence (which also includes sex and obscenity) just like the rating system ...
- 699: Prescribed Burning
- ... harm's way. Probing this wonderland with an eye toward prescribed fire can stir the soul of a fire-conversant observer: * On Sequoia National Forest at the southern end of the range, Bob Rogers reports modest beginnings - 200 to 500 acres of "management-ignited" fire per year, with sights set on 30,000 acres, and special emphasis on the Kern Canyon, one of a series of "chimneys" that efficiently channel air ...
- 700: Endocrine Disruptors
- ... cancer (Montague 1991). Publicity about these possible effects is being used to support demands for tighter emission controls and for drastic changes in the use of industrial chemicals and pesticides. A dramatic example is the proposal to phase out the chemical industrys use of chlorine as a raw material (Montague 1991). One of the most significant examples of synthetic estrogens having possible toxic effect was exhibited through the use of ...
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