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- 1521: Nineteenth Century
- The Nineteenth Century American The Nineteenth Century American was very different than the Twentieth Century American. They had different technology, food, laws, dress, customs, view of art and beauty, and family structure. They lived a lot differently than we do and they acted differently, also. They liked different things, and ...
- 1522: America's Right Turn
- America's Right Turn Historian William Berman's America's Right Turn reads like a case study of separation between liberalism and conservatism in American politics. The backdrop against which the study in politics is set is the American economy. Berman contends that America's liberal welfare state politics, instituted by Franklin Roosevelt, were not effective in dealing with 1970s cultural and economic crises. He argues that this inefficacy created a shift in American mentality toward the conservative right. Thus, Ronald Reagan and George Bush enjoyed a twelve year reign of control that included tax cuts for the well-off and increases in military spending at the expense ...
- 1523: The World's Longest War
- ... so far unsuccessfully. Instead Islam fights on six fronts and prepares for more. The first front is terrorism. Moslems blow up airplanes and buildings. The car bomb is a favorite weapon. When the hand carried American Stingers from Afghanistan, and Russian SAM 7s from all over, are deployed near airports within the next few years, air travel will be utterly disrupted. Moslems hijacked airplanes until we installed, and continue to operate ... and airplanes from the former USSR and China, in large armies of men, now exists and is growing. Mustard gas and nerve gas are made in their own factories with equipment bought from European and American companies. (Lenin said 'The capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with.') The third front is the development of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them. (Kamikaze airplanes will do as well, as will smuggling.) Large, long range missiles are bought from China to deliver present poison gas, germs, and the future "Islamic bomb. "What will any American or European government do when threatened with a destroyed city? Cave in to the blackmailers, of course. The fourth front is the oil weapon, invented in 1973, and used on us ever since by ...
- 1524: Why Puritans Came to America: Freedom
- ... you were beaten or killed if you did not believe in the Puritan religion and remained in Puritan "Utopia" -- the exact situation which they had fled from England. Later, it would take the gathering of American thinkers to deduce what liberties were guaranteed and which were not, to avoid mistakes made by puritans and others in history. The Forefathers of the United States conjured up the Bill of Rights which illustrated which rights were endowed to the people of the United States. They adopted the Bill of rights, which was drafted for political motivations, and it evolved into a document which shelters American people's civil liberties. When the Bill of Rights was adopted, political motivations superceded libertarian views. James Madison claimed that this "nauseous project of amendments" would "kill the opposition[for the ratification of the constitution ... terms. The Federalists began to notice the importance of the Bill of Rights as much as the AntiÄ Federalists had. During the next few years the Bill of Rights began to be accepted by the American people as the essence towards freedom. As it was noticed more and more over the years, the Bill of Rights became the basis for individual rights. It entitled the American people to rights which ...
- 1525: Immigration & Americas Future
- Immigration & Americas Future DeVry, Telecommunications 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 ...
- 1526: Atomic Bomb
- ... terribly cruel and uncivilized nation in warfare but I can't bring myself to believe that, because they are beasts, we should ourselves act in the same manner. My object is to save as many American lives as possible but I also have a humane feeling for the women and children in Japan." He contradicts himself, and was some what biased in his decision; he obviously didn't have a humane ... lives will be lost. Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of ... back by Japan at Pearl Harbor in December 1941" Indeed, few then asked why the United States used the Atomic Bomb on Japan. But had the bomb not been used, many more, including numerous outraged American citizens, would have bitterly asked that question to the Truman administration. " That evening (the bombing of Hiroshima) we had a hastily arranged champagne dinner, some forty of us;…(we felt) relief at the relaxation ...
- 1527: Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism
- ... comprised the early clash of three peoples. Essentially economic interests, and namely capitalism, provided the impetus for the relationships that developed between the English colonists, the Africans, and the Native Americans. The colonialization of North American by the British was essentially an economic crusade. The emergence of capitalism and the rise of trade throughout the 16th century provided the British with a blueprint to expand its economic and political sphere. The ... others runs through much of Western culture and became especially acute in North America after the emergence of capitalism. For example, in New England many settlers rejoiced at the extraordinary death brought upon the Native American population by the introduction of epidemic diseases. It was viewed as a way of “thinning out” the population. In the world of the New Jerusalem, where a city was to be build upon a hill ... the hands of the powerful, furnishes the “chosen ones” with wide latitude to create theoretical arguments that justify and perpetuate systemic arrangements of inequality. John Winthrop outlined his reasoning for the British right to North American land in terms of natural rights versus civil rights. Natural rights were those that men enjoyed in a state of nature (i.e. Native Americans). When some men began to parcel land and use ...
- 1528: Analysis Of Karl Marx And Comm
- ... 1848, Engels and Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto, a document outlining 10 immediate measures towards Communism, "ranging from a progressive income tax and the abolition of inheritances to free education for all children." When the Revolution erupted in Europe in 1848, Marx was invited to Paris just in time to escape expulsion by the Belgian government. He became unpopular to German exiles when, while in Paris, he opposed Georg Hewegh's ... as an alien" by the Prussian government. Marx then went to London. There, he rejoined the Communist League and became more bold in his revolutionary policy. He advocated that the people try to make the revolution "permanent" and that they should avoid subservience to the bourgeois peoples. The faction that he belonged to ridiculed his ideas and he stopped attending meetings of the London Communists, working on the defense of 11 ... of the society hoard their money which, because that money is out of circulation, causes more money to be printed. The one increases the effect of the other and thus, the downward spiral. Marx views revolution with two perspectives. One takes the attitude that revolution should be a great uprising like that of the French revolution. The other "conception" is that of the "permanent revolution" involving a "provisional coalition" between ...
- 1529: The Great Gatsby's Theme
- ... innumerable references to the contemporary scene. The wild extravagance of Gatsby's parties, the shallowness and aimlessness of the guests and the hint of Gatsby's involvement in crime all identify the period and the American setting. But as a piece of social commentary The Great Gatsby also describes the failure of the American dream, from the point of view that American political ideals conflict with the actual social conditions that exist. For whereas American democracy is based on the idea of equality among people, the truth is that social discrimination still exists and the divisions ...
- 1530: Characters and Their Roles In The Great Gatsby
- Characters and Their Roles In The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic piece of American literature. It signifies the turn of the century and the American ideology that would hold the 20th century hostage. Materialism and the American dream are evident in Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of happiness, which he believed would be the money and power he was acclaimed for, but it was not. Each character plays and important role in ...
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