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- 1291: One Of The Six Basic Principles Of The Constitution: Federalism
- ... of powers the Constitution makes between them. Each level operates through its own agencies and acts directly on the people through its own officials and laws. The Constitution sets out the basic design of the American federal system. The document provides for a division of powers between the National Government and the States. That division of powers was implied in the original Constitution and then in the Tenth Amendment: "The powers ... compromises between rival authorities. Federalism defines the relationship between the national government and the states. The Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution in 1781, established the first system of government for the thirteen American states. The Articles proved unworkable as a framework for the government. The central government had sole powers in foreign affairs as well as over western lands and Indian affairs. State governments had no power in ... 1787 and 1788, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The major problem of federalism however, was resolved in the U.S. by the Civil War. In the nineteenth century, the success of the American federalist system led a number of other countries to institute federalist systems. Modern federal governments include Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland, the former USSR, and the present-day Russian federation. In all ...
- 1292: James Baldwin
- ... under his belt James Baldwin moved to New Jersey and began working as a railroad hand. After two years in New Jersey, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village. There, he first met Richard Wright (an African-American author whose strong protests against racial prejudice made him one of his generation's most important spokespersons) and began his first novel, In My Father's House. It was not until four years later that ... During his seventh year in France, Baldwin won several fellowships for his novel, Giovanni's Room (1955). Giovanni's Room was a partially autobiographical story of his homosexuality. Giovanni's Room told of a white American expatriate and his coming to terms with his homosexuality. Many found it interesting that Baldwin chose a white person to portray himself. It was in 1960 that Baldwin returned to the United States. Upon his ... James Baldwin was not done writing yet. He still had two good books left in him. First, in 1968, he published Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone as a bitter account of American racism. Then, he wrote The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985). This was written as an analysis of the Atlanta child murders of 1979 and 1980. Although many of Baldwin's essays come off ...
- 1293: The Great Gatsby 4 -
- A big house, nice cars, 2.5 kids, a dog, a beautiful devoted spouse, power and a ridiculous amount of money. That is the classical American Dream, at least for some. One could say, an outsider perhaps, that Americans strive for the insurmountable goal of perfection, live, die and do unimaginable things for it, then call the product their own personal American Dream. Is having the American Dream possible? What is the American Dream? There is one answer for these two questions: The American Dream is tangible perfection. In reality, even in nature, perfection does not exist. Life is a series ...
- 1294: ... One of de Lint's most recent novels is titled Someplace to be Flying. It takes place in modern times and in de Lint's city of Newford. This book has many elements of Native American mythology within it. It is based on the idea that the world, and everything within it, was created by "animal people", also called the "first people". These animal people are the fantastical creatures found in ...
- 1295: Should Gambling Be Legalized?
- ... communities that have embraced legalized gambling. However, with twenty years of experience it is time to look back and analyze whether this is true or not. It could easily be said that gambling is as American as apple pie. Gambling has shaped American history since its beginning. Lotteries were used by The First Continental Congress to help finance the Revolutionary war. Many of our founding fathers, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, have sponsored private lotteries. It has been said that "Our founding fathers were just numbers guys in wigs" At one time baseball would have seemed to be the American pastime. This is not so now. In recent years, the attendance at casinos has nearly doubled the attendance at all major league baseball games, with close to 130 million people visiting casinos every year. ...
- 1296: Biligual Education
- For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various subjects in their native tongues. Such subjects are Math, History and some Science classes. The bilingual ... people of California to become more distant and less represented on all social aspect of our environment. All immigrant students entering public schools, is believed, will automatically start the so-called “americanization” process. To become American is the main outcome of migration to the United States. Slowly many immigrants are faced with the confusing problem of learning a new culture, the “American Culture”. Needless to say, for an individual to become an active member of any new society, learning and integrating the local way of living is part of growing is the new environment. So it ...
- 1297: Charles Lindbergh
- ... support Robert Goddard’s experiments on rockets. Robert Goddard’s experiments led to the early development of missiles, satellites and space travel. After flying around the United States, Charles Lindbergh began to fly to Latin American countries to promote “good will”. On his “good will” tour he made a total of eighty-two stops and traveled twenty two thousand miles in two hundred sixty hours and forty-five minutes. He did ... were far superior. In 1939 Charles Lindbergh and his family returned to the United States of America. In 1940 Lindbergh began to speak out against the United States of America joining World War II. The American people did not look down upon him for this because many Americans did not want to send our soldiers to die. The American people did not support his anti-Semitism and the statements he made about would come back to haunt him later in his life. Then when President Theodore Roosevelt denounced his statements in public, Charles ...
- 1298: Faces Of The Diamond - Essay O
- ... deaf ears for evilness can be very seductive. With a similar task to those of the prophets and preachers, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, also known as the poet of the Jazz Age, criticizes the American society in a different approach. By stressing and emphasizing on the society’s worst features, the faults of its members will be greatly magnified and clearly defined. This literary genre of satire is employed by Fitzgerald in his novelette, “the Diamond as Big as the Ritz” to ridicule the American society on the terms of the corruption of the American dream, the maltreatment of human life and the limits to the power of wealth. Before the dawning of the Jazz Age, the American dream stood for hard work, honesty, virtue, and morality, as any ...
- 1299: ... One of de Lint's most recent novels is titled Someplace to be Flying. It takes place in modern times and in de Lint's city of Newford. This book has many elements of Native American mythology within it. It is based on the idea that the world, and everything within it, was created by "animal people", also called the "first people". These animal people are the fantastical creatures found in ...
- 1300: Unions
- ... the late nineteenth century early twentieth century, yet rarely did these shifting currents flow in complementary ways that might appeal to the vast majority of struggling workers. The three most important formal organizations were the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Socialist Party of America. All three of these organizations had there own strengths but the many weaknesses and divisions combined with outside influences caused the retardation of their radical, left wing ideas. The American Federation of Labor was founded with the intention of building the class conscioussness and economic power of workers by organizing them on occupational lines. It pursued policies to win short term, concrete, economic gains (Cashman ... Unskilled immigrant labor was regarded by most union leaders as undesirable and unorganizable. The AFL was a leading advocate for immigration restriction on both economic and nativist grounds. This outlook deepens our understanding of the American Federation of Labors, along with its leader Samuel Gompers, retreat from heroism (Laurie,198.) This means that though the AFL did have many successes the things that it could have accomplished but did not ...
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