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- 1471: Huck Finn Grows Up
- ... of immediate equality died with the death of Lincoln. Groups like the KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held American ideals, now squashed by big business and white supremacy? Mark Twain did just that, when he wrote what is considered by many as the Great American Epic . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The great American epic, may be one of the most interesting and complex books ever written in the history of our nation. This book cleverly disguises many of ...
- 1472: The Red Scare
- ... government across the world. America, insecure about its power to uphold a democratic government in foreign nations feared a communist invasion from their Cold War foe, Russia. A hysteria swept across the United States as American paranoia of a loss of personal rights increased. President Harry Truman's thoughts summed up the nation's feelings toward communists with, "The Reds, phonies and parlor pinks seem to be banded together and are ... President was that wherever aggression threatened peace or freedom, America's security was involved, and it would be necessary to "…support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures… Every American Communist is potentially an espionage agent…requiring only the direct instruction of a Soviet superior to make the potentiality a reality…within the United States, Communist penetration should be exposed and eliminated…" America feared that ... in dubious cases of "questionable loyalty." All of this was conducted with secret evidence, secret and often paid informers, and neither judge nor jury. In the process of ratting out communists in order to preserve American citizens' rights, the personal rights of millions of people were destroyed. As early as 1938 the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) emerged. Within the first few days of its existence, witnesses charged some ...
- 1473: Affirmative Action
- ... of persecution that the African Americans and other Minorities were submitted to? I am not so sure. It is true that past generations of White Men are partly responsible for the suppression of the African-American race. However, the modern White Male is not responsible for the past. It is just as unfair and suppressive to hold White Males responsible for past persecution now, as it was to discriminate against many ... retirement plan, in return for years of hard work. Now, because of Affirmative Action, this White Male, and the thousands like him, require more skills to get the same job that a lesser qualified African-American Male needs. This is, for all intents and purposes, discrimination, and it is a law that our government strictly enforces. Affirmative Action is not only unfair for the working man, it is extremely discriminatory toward ... business executive has one goal in mind, and that is to maximize profits. To reach his goal, this executive would naturally hire the most competent Man or Woman for the job, whether they be African-American or White or any other race. Why would a business man intentionally cause his business to lose money by hiring a poorly qualified worker? Most businesses would not. With this in mind, it seems ...
- 1474: Gun Control
- ... greatest military force in the world at that time. The 18th century witnessed the height of the British Empire, but the rough band of colonial freedom fighters discovered the power on the Minuteman, the average American gun owner. These Minuteman, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute’s notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of the country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and bear arms a constitutionally guaranteed right(The Gunin American ...
- 1475: Caharacter Analysis Jay Gatsby
- By: Mickey Mantle Willy Loman - Jay Gatsby: The Pursuit of the American Dream Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, and Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman, both tell the stories of men in the costly pursuit of the American dream. As a result of several conflicts, both external and internal, both characters experience an extinction of the one thing that they have set their sights on.... The American Dream. Jay Gatsby, a mysterious, young and very wealthy man, fatally chases an impossible dream. Gatsby attempts to rekindle an old relationship and has confidence in repeating the past. Gatsby claims that he is ...
- 1476: Drug Testing
- ... it has declined because of aging technology and machines. The aging of the technology is because of a decline in their capital caused by a recession in the automotive industry. During the late 1970s, the American automotive industry was at its apex. Americans fell behind during this boom because of inadequate production capacity. The Japanese had identified the machine industry as a growing industry and invested in modernization of technology. Consequently, Japanese technology was better and costs were lower. When a recession hit in 1980-1981, American firms had little capital to invest, and thus could not modernize their equipment. The industries that are going to survive in the future are those that have the most efficient computerized operations and that produce the cheapest, most reliable products. The Japanese have this edge and the American machine tool manufacturers are reluctant to change their ideologies of buying only American made products. John Garner and Tom Avery created precision Machine Tool. John Garner is the president of Precision Machine Tool, and ...
- 1477: The Search for a Better Tax System
- The Search for a Better Tax System In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" (Tyson 6). Today, every American citizen who earns money in the United States knows the truth in this statement. However, federal taxation has not always been the complicated, intimidating, and paycheck draining process we have come to accept today. Prior ... single largest source of state tax revenues (Murray 2). Americans have a long history of hating taxes, probably something inherited from our founding fathers. Many immigrants first came to America seeking freedom from taxation. The American revolution was fought to get out from under what was felt to be an unfair and burdensome tax system imposed by the British. Unfortunately, in the following century, the violent whiskey rebellion in the south ...
- 1478: Analysis of the Immigration Problem
- Analysis of the Immigration Problem The world has gone through a revolution and it has changed a lot. We have cut the death rates around the world with modern medicine and new farming methods. For example, we sprayed to destroy mosquitoes in Sri Lanka in the 1950s ... jobs. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population growth takes place in the Third World. More than a billion people today are paid about 150 dollars a year, which is less than the average American earns in a week. And growing numbers of these poorly paid Third World citizens want to come to the United States. In the 1970s, all other countries that accept immigrants started controlling the number of ... first time in human history, there are no fresh lands, no new continents. We will have to think and decide with great care what our policy should be toward immigration. At this point in history, American immigration policies are in a mess. Our borders are totally out of control. Our border patrol arrests 3000 illegal immigrants per day, or 1.2 million per year, and Two illegal immigrants get in ...
- 1479: The United States and Taxes
- ... an indirect tax. The united states has ruled that the income tax is an indirect excise tax, imposed on privileged activity. The cases of Brushaber vs Union Pacific RailroadCo. and Flint vs Stone Tracy Co. (American Myth) are two Supreme Court cases that have never been overturned. Again from a legal encyclopedia it is recorded that the right to own property can only be taxed with a direct tax. Big brother ... have not signed an agreement to do so. There is a group of sovereign citizens who have never filed a tax return therefore no action can be taken. Richard Stewart who is head of the American Rights Litigators advises parents to teach there kids to never sign a tax return. He also states there is form you can give to your employer which prohibits them form withholding taxes(46). Income or ... global market spectrum.” The federal government also has taxes on certain goods such as tobacco alcohol etc.. We are on the verge of losing the one thing that made us such a great nation “Freedom”. American citizens have forgotten that we must stand up for what is right. What is happening in our country stemmed from a lack of education. But we must stop depending on our government to educate ...
- 1480: I Am Joaquin Vs. The First Sev
- ... of literature. The poem I am Joaquin and the short story The First Seven Years at the same time exhibit both contrasting positions and similar ideals. Even though I am Joaquin is told from Mexican-American perspective while The First Seven Years is told from Jewish-American perspective, similarities are found in both. They tell of the American Dream and of the two mentioned families roles and influences as a means of attaining that dream. The roles of the families in these works and each version of the American Dream are based ...
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