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- 1481: Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources
- ... s welfare, instead of for constructive development. It was the general public opinion that our natural resources were inexhaustible, and not even the government had real knowledge of our natural resources extent and condition. The American people had no idea there was a relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of national welfare and national efficiency. The reclamation of the arid lands in the West was still a ... December 3, 1901. At one point in his speech Roosevelt stated ³The forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.² With that Roosevelt became the first president in American history to set forth a new attitude of importance toward conserving America¹s natural resources. Soon Roosevelt¹s interests in our natural resources were adopted by other key leaders in the government. The day that ... the Act. The Reclamation Service irrigated more than three million acres and provided water for more than thirty thousand farms. The dams built were the largest in the world. The Act helped prove to the American nation that it could handle its own resources. The Bureau of Forestry, changed to the United States Forest Service in 1905, was to provide more monumentous changes for America¹s natural resources during Roosevelt¹ ...
- 1482: Foreign Policy
- ... in turn to rule them, to embrace the democratic government. Revolts and conspiracies against the Spanish regime had dominated Cuban political life throughout the 19th century, and the Cuban struggle for independence became an active revolution in 1895 after Spain failed to institute reforms promised to the Cuban people in 1878. In response to the fighting Spanish troops drove much of the population into confinement camps, and thousands died of disease ... the Cuban cause and saw the need for intervention. In Hawaii, Cleveland was confronted by a rebellion organized by white businessmen. The rebellion began after Queen Liliuokalani, who was opposed to the growing influence of American-owned industries on the islands, chose to disregard a constitution that the businessmen had forced her brother to accept when he was king. The queen was removed and a provisional government was set up. Cleveland ... States to exploit. Moreover, industries favored the war, as the war makes the economy flourish. The war created a demand for products companies more than willingly supplied the government with. President Theodore Roosevelt further expanded American involvement abroad with actions in Latin America and elsewhere. He supported a revolt in Panama against Colombian rule in 1903 that led to an independent Panamanian government. The new government signed a treaty granting ...
- 1483: Work Force
- ... of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors." Obviously, the effect of the computer revolution and re-engineering of the workplace in manufacturing sector is more than elsewhere. In this article, management consultant Peter Drucker estimates that "employment in manufacturing is going to continue dropping to less than 12 percent ... are declining gradually as computers, e-mail, and fax machines produced. On the contrary, optimists counter with the argument that additional employment will be provided by the new products and services of the high-technology revolution and they point to the fact that earlier in the century the automobile made the horse and buggy obsolete but created millions of new jobs. In truth, the new products and services replace much more employment than they provide. As machines takes over more work, Americans fear for their financial futures. So the violent crime is going to increase as the new industrial revolution spreads through the economy. As employment is likely to be phased out, Rifkin makes three recommendations to restructure the work force. In his first recommendation, he suggests an idea, which is from Europe, that ...
- 1484: Trade Unionism
- ... shop, employees are required to join a union within a specified time after being hired. An open shop does not restrict its employees to union members. Labor unions are essentially the product of the industrial revolution of the 19th century. In Great Britain, miners and textile workers were organized in the 1860s. Most European labor organizations today are either political parties or are affiliated with political parties, usually left-wing ones ... political independence. In the United States, Unions began developing in the 1830s. Among the important early organizations were the Knights of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World. A milestone in the history of American unionism came in 1886 with the formation of a group that eventually became the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), an association that includes nearly all of the larger U.S. Unions. The U.S. Labor movement gained support from such new deal laws ...
- 1485: The Us Is Murdering The Iraqis
- ... a day, sometimes more. We listen to music, drive in our cars, or play on our high-tech computers. Some may pick up the newspaper, but other than those few words on the page, the American population is living a life of excess. Excess that is at the expense of other people s lives. The American people take pride in the capitalistic democracy that is a model for the other countries, but they forget to watch the government. They don t even know what their government is doing. For years now ... being a spy. This resulted in all monetary assets from foreign nations being frozen. These two events greatly crippled the Iraqi economy. Iraq then decided to invade Kuwait. Before they invaded, Saddam talked with an American Ambassador who asserted that the US did not have any position on border disputes. Iraq invaded Kuwait. Over night Saddam became equated with Hitler. The American media began portraying Saddam as an evil person, ...
- 1486: How has AIDS affected our Society?
- ... than at any other time in history. The most serious of these diseases is AIDS. Since the first cases were identified in the United States in 1981, AIDS has touched the lives of millions of American families. This deadly disease is unlike any other in modern history. Changes in social behavior can be directly linked to AIDS. Its overall effect on society has been dramatic. It is unknown whether AIDS and ... Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human retrovirus from the lymph node of a man at risk for having AIDS. At the same time, scientists working in the laboratory of American research, scientist Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a retrovirus from people with AIDS and from individuals having contact with people with AIDS. All three groups of scientists had isolated ...
- 1487: King Philip's War
- ... they also lost. Sixteen villages were destroyed and one-tenth of the military men were killed. So many men were lost that the casualties were higher in King Philip’s War than in either the American Revolution or Civil War. The Wampanoag did not get off so very easy either. An English ally killed Metacom and his head was exhibited at Plymouth for twenty years. As a result of this war, Native ... England again. Because of the loss of men, the settlers had to become dependent on its mother country once again. In the long term, the Native Americans and English never became friends and the Native American culture was left poorer than ever and it slowly disappeared. King Philip’s War was a major turning point in American history. If this war hadn’t occurred, there is a possibility that there ...
- 1488: Legalization of Marijana: For
- Legalization of Marijana: For It's time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of mainstream, middle class Americans. According to the most recent NIDA data1, between 65 and 71 million ... arrested and jailed and treated as criminals, solely because of the recreational drug they had chosen to use. This is a travesty of justice that causes enormous pain, suffering and financial hardship for millions of American families. It also engenders disrespect for the law and for the criminal justice system overall Responsible marijuana smokers present no threat or danger to America, and there is no reason to treat them as criminals ... smoking presents no significant risk to the user or to society, and recommended that the country "decriminalize" minor marijuana offenses; i.e., that penalties be removed for personal use and possession. Following that report, eleven American states adopted modified versions of decriminalization, led by Oregon in 1973. Each of these states retained a modest civil fine for minor marijuana offenses, but eliminated arrest and jail, substituting a citation, similar to ...
- 1489: Gun Control
- ... so-called Saturday Night Specials for which there is no legitimate use or need. The public is polarized on the issue of gun control, Anti-gun control activists believe that it is each and every American's individual right to bear arms. After all, the Second Amendment to the Constitution states that: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to ... combat crime. Statistics show that Canada is less violent than the United States. Fewer guns are only part of the story. The inner-city slums of the United States are murderous, bombed-out-looking places. American visitors to Canada's big cities often ask where the slums are. The answer is that there really aren't any slums, and the lack of violence there reflects it. Canada's more generous welfare ... universal health insurance have made for safer cities. The contrasts between extreme wealth and extreme poverty are fewer and less striking. Poor inner-city families do not disintegrate to the extent they do in black American ghettos. Canadian murder rates in big cities are about the same as in isolated rural areas. According to 'THE ECONOMIST" magazine; Blacks, 12% of the United States' population, account for 48% of murders, mostly ...
- 1490: Social Institutions
- ... important institution that comes to mind when discussing different types of social institutions. Family is a group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who live together and share economic resources. American families are organized by different types of form groups. A nuclear family consists of one or both parents and their children. The nuclear family is the family form that is most recognizable to Americans. Then ... a family sharing the same residence. Nuclear families and extended families often are part of a much larger kinship system. Kinship refers to a network of people who are related by marriage, birth, or adoption. American marriage patterns are usually a monogamy, which means that a marriage of one man to one woman is present. Another American pattern is neolocality which means that a newly married couple is free to set up access of individuals and groups to power and social rewards. From these perspectives we can see the role that ...
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