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- 1621: Who Was Responsible For The Cold War?
- Who Was Responsible For The Cold War? ~Revisionist historians tend to regard the outbreak of the "Cold War" as a result of American hostility or, at least , diplomatic incompetence, while the more traditional view lays the responsibility squarely at the feet of the Soviet Union. Assess the validity of each view. The Cold War,said to have lasted ... come to an end, many disputes have been raised concerning the initial conference at Yalta near the end of the Second World War, and the actual causes of the Cold War tensions involving Communist and American aggression. According to the conventional view, the Cold War was a conflict between two superpowers, caused by Soviet aggression, in which the US tried to contain the Soviet Union and protect the world from it ... that the Soviets were at fault in the instigation of the Cold War due to these immense acts of aggression. The period in the United States following World War II could more aptly be named American Hysteria rather than history according to the more revisionist historians. As the Soviet Union grew more and more powerful, every American grew more frightened of the Communist movement. No event greater exemplified this than ...
- 1622: Early Chinese Immigrant
- ... Americans have been in America for over 150 years. They are as diverse as the immigrants from Europe, ranging from China, Japan, Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, and Laos are. When many people think of American Immigrants, Asians are on the last of their lists. From all of these countries, China is well known front runner of American immigrants. China is one of the world's oldest civilizations. It influence have reverberated throughout Asia. Its presence is felt in many of the surrounding cultures. The Chinese people have tried to keep their society ... was referred to as the "buying and selling of pigs." Hawaii made use of this practice in order to fulfill the great demand of the booming sugar industry. In 1962, the United States congress prohibited American citizens in American vessels from engaging in such activities. However, the laws were easily evaded, and not strictly enforced. In an 1869 magazine article called "Our Manufacturing Era," a writer named Henry Robinson described ...
- 1623: Fuji Xerox
- Fuji Xerox EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Fuji Xerox (FX) is one of the most successful joint ventures between an American and a Japanese company. The FX international joint venture (IJV) started in 1962 as a 50/50 equity joint venture between Fuji Photo Film (FPF) and Rank Xerox (RX). Initially, FPF was responsible for manufacturing ... the joint venture with all the technology and production expertise. Xerox and RX allowed the FPF engineers to spend two months in their production facilities. Some managers and engineers were sent to Xerox to learn American management in marketing, finance, personnel and organization management, and technology. By 1989, approximately 1,000 FX employees, and their families, had spent 3 years with Xerox, and approximately 150 from Xerox had done the same ... and development budget. In 1996, Xerox invested $1.6 billion in Fuji-Xerox research and development. Cultural According to the president of FX, misunderstandings happened very often between FX and Xerox. The reason is that American and Japanese have very different cultures; they behave differently and have different ways of thinking. To overcome language barriers and eliminate the misunderstanding between Japanese and American employees, FX and Xerox coordinated to setup ...
- 1624: Living the Dream
- Living the Dream I have lived around the world and on my way I have many people who have been living the American dream. Whether it was soccer stars, actors, or even my own friends. Many people who are living this dream don't even realize it because they want even more than they already have. We see ... the dream since they were born, and only know, at this age, they are starting to realize it. The people that the kids at our school and in other wealthy towns see as living the american dream are sports stars and actors. They are living the dream because they have it all, or so it seems. Even actors and sports stars have their problems. Maybe drug or family, but we hardly ever catch a glimpse at this side. One of the people that I see living the great American dream would have to be Will Smith. I feel that he is living the dream because it seems as though he has it all. Hit movies, hit cd's, a beautiful wife, a beatiful ...
- 1625: Interracial Adoption
- ... a same race adopted adult with an interracially adopted adult. First let’s explore what heritage is. Is it the kind of hair you have or the color of your skin? As defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, in 1983 edition, heritage is: “Something passed down from proceeding generations; tradition.” Heritage includes your culture that your ancestors associated with. It includes traditions of the land where your ancestors came from; this ... trans-racial adoptions. They said that interracial adoptions are “tantamount to cultural genocide and arguing that, without exception, only black parents should raise black children.” In 1991n The NABSW restated their claims by saying “African-American children should not be placed with white parents under any circumstances.” The current stance has changed to “ trans-racial adoptions are allowed only after all efforts to reunite the child’s family or obtain adoption ... s letter to congressional leaders he is standing strongly behind the Adoption Promotion and Stability Act of 1996. He also stated “Promoting adoption is one of the most important things we can do to strengthen American families and give more children what every child in America deserves—loving parents and a healthy home.” (pg. 1) The House approved legislation that would penalize states whose adoption agencies delay placing a child ...
- 1626: Hackers: Information Warefare
- ... stakes. It's a war of economics. The very countries that shake our hands over the conference tables of NATO and the United Nations are picking our pockets. Whether it be the blatant theft of American R&D by Japanese firms, or the clandestine and governmentally-sanctioned bugging of Air France first-class seating, or the cloak-and-dagger hacking of the SWIFT network (1:24) by the German BND's ... 24), America is getting screwed. Every country on the planet is coming at us. Let's face it, we are the leaders in everything. Period. Every important discovery in this century has been by an American or by an American company. Certainly other countries have better profited by our discoveries, but nonetheless, we are the world's think-tank. So, is it fair that we keep getting shafted by these so-called "allies?". Is ...
- 1627: Dancing And Ballet
- ... Milan, Italy. In 1918 he opened a private school. He was the last great dancer of the strict Italian tradition. George Balanchine (1904-1983) Balanchine was a Russian choreographer who developed a new trend in American and European Ballet. His ballets usually weaved designs inspired by music instead of telling stories. Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg and left Russia when he was twenty to join the Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Company in Paris. He then became its leading choreographer. Balanchine came to the United States in 1933. He founded the American School of Ballet whose performing company became the New York City Ballet in 1948. Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948- ) Baryshnikov is currently one of the worlds leading ballet dancers. He performs in a style called bravura which ... in Riga, Russia, and began studying ballet at age twelve. At the age of nineteen he had become a soloist with the Kirov Ballet. Baryshnikov moved to the West in 1974. He later joined the American Ballet Theatre. In 1978 he joined the New York City Ballet and later became the artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890?-1950) Nijinsky was the most famous dancer of his ...
- 1628: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... financial success in his or her life. Sometimes living in a capitalistic society entices many to become too materialistic. Greed is the characteristic that many Americans then attain. This is all in pursuit of the American dream. For most Americans, this high status is very difficult to achieve. In Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun", she examines an African-American family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some sort of financial stability, or the "American Dream". It focuses on Walter's attempt in "making it," or "being somebody." She also analyzes how race prejudice and economic insecurity affects a black mans role in his own family, his ability to ...
- 1629: Theodore Roosdevelt
- ... who gave the nation a square deal. During his presidency to a position of internatio nal leadership. Roosevelt belonged to an aristocratic New York family. He attended Harvard Univerity. Theodore Roosevelt fought in the Spanish-American war with the Rough Riders at the battle of San Juan Hill. He had served as police commissiores of New York, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and vice president of the ... the Repub lican party. In 1907 immigration reached its all-time high 1,285,000 in one year. Theodore Roosevelt said, "There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have ro om but for on language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality; ...
- 1630: Causes And Effects Of The Amer
- Causes and Effects of the American Civil War Introduction- The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 when General Pierre Beauregard opened fire with 50 cannons on Fort Sumter. This marked the beginning of one of the longest and bloodiest wars in American history. It was also the only war that took place fully on American soil. The entire war lasted four years and claimed over 620,000 American lives with many more injured. Causes- Many people ...
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