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- 1651: Why Were the Japanese so Successful After World War II
- ... trains and many others that make Japan a success. The Japanese learned from the United States and competed with them. They introduced their products into the U.S. market. The Japanese products appealed to the American people. The Japanese made things like tape and video cassette recorders for American broadcasting stations. Also they fused their two technologies together to make the line of cars in the U.S. It was different then the ordinary American car and the American people and they liked it, which in turn benefited the Japanese. This is only one of the ways the Japanese had done to persuade the American people into buying Japanese ...
- 1652: The Owls Are Not What They See
- ... television during its first season, aired in 1990. The show was based in small town America, and was easily related to by young and middle aged viewers. The series begins with the murder of an American icon, the Homecoming queen Laura Palmer. The entire series spawned from the single image of a young beautiful girl s dead body that washed up on the shore. This image led to others similar to ... Leland, but these are never directly mentioned or formally addressed. Laura is seen crying out for help, but is too scared to come out and say anything, even to the ones she loves. This addresses American society s will to have its women be passive and voiceless. [Laura s] cocaine habit, her involvement in pornography, her career as a prostitute at One-Eyed-Jack s, and her desire to find a ... college students said they would rape a woman if they were certain they could get away with it. Furthermore, one out of eight Hollywood movies depicts a rape theme, and by age eighteen, the average American youth has watched 250,000 acts of violence on television (Ms. 33-58). In the case of Twin Peaks, the violence towards women is extremely excessive. What is almost more disturbing than the actual ...
- 1653: Confused In America
- ... am already a loser to them by 1 point. This is not the only story though. My former teacher, a Shakespeare expert, wrote me to ask me to tell him about the newest development in American literature. I felt ashamed when I read the letter. I did not write back. If I had written, it would be a letter of confession, saying that I have no time caring about literature, though ... s house is really somebody now!" In this way, they cancel from their heart all the bitterness and loneliness that they have experienced when struggling in a foreign land. So is this the way of American living that I had been hoping to see? Last Christmas, I went to stay with an old friend and had some experience of an American festival in a Chinese way. My friend lives in Maryland. Both she and her husband are Ph.D. gra duates from the University of Maryland and now they both have lucrative jobs and one ...
- 1654: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
- ... academics the results are the same; all minorities and non-minorities have the same opportunities, some simply work harder for what they desire. Effective ways to deal with discrimination can be inspired by early African-American ancestors. They understood that their most powerful response lay not in demands made of whites, but in their own industrious mutual effort, and faith-inspired perseverance (Curry 177). This sort of mentality has increased black ... a widowed mother of three young children signed up for an English class freshman class at San Bernardino Valley College, however, she was rejected immediately because the class she applied was reserved only for African-American students (Curry 169). This is a case of reverse discrimination, and returns our present to the past, where Jim Crow laws were still in effect; separating the races, I fail to see the color-blind ... are interested in potential leaders and achievers, their origin and economic status should be irrelevant. But with fundamental reform for K-12 grades of inner-city schools all races can succeed on their merits. Since American society has not yet reached the goal of being color-blind the laws must substitute for it; therefore equal opportunity must be enforced. The laws must also forbid the courts and employers from encouraging ...
- 1655: Policy Profile Of Senator Dick
- ... to include every aspect of Senator Lugar's political career and personal life within the scope of this paper. Instead, emphasis will be placed on the most important and critical points of his tenure in American politics, at the federal level. However, in the conclusion of this text a rational explanation will be offered to give insight concerning Senator Lugar's motivations and tendencies to act in the way he does ... College on the campus of Oxford University, in England. Richard and Charlene were married in September, 1956, and now have four sons and six grandchildren. After completing studies at Oxford, Dick Lugar went to the American Embassy in London, England and promptly enlisted in the Navy as an intelligence briefer and was responsible for giving intelligence reports to 'high brass', including the President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Along ... but each will be represented by a brief synopsis of the matter at hand and what role Senator Lugar played in the outcome. To begin with, Richard Lugar is a major proponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He strongly believes in the free market, and stimulating its growth by increasing market share through unrestricted trade with North American countries. Once criticized for his role in pushing NAFTA through ...
- 1656: The Extradition of Nazi War Criminals
- ... 4 of the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law."8 The precise phrase, "murdering Jews," is not mentioned in the United States-Israel Extradition Treaty, also the previously mentioned phrase does not exist in current American penal statute. But, according to the American rule of dual criminality a way away around this small detail can be found: The law does not require that the name by which the crime is described in the two countries shall be the ... be coextensive, or, in other respects, the same in the two countries. It is enough if the particular act charged is criminal in both jurisdictions.9 It is clear to see that the previously mentioned American rule on dual criminality gives the United States the option of recognizing "murdering Jews" as simply to mean "murder." Therefore, the requirement of dual criminality in the case of John Demjanjuk is satisfied. The ...
- 1657: A Portrayal of Honor
- ... of Honor For minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first mustered into the Union Army were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, he Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an Italian American from ...
- 1658: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American writer to gain international followers of his writing. In addition, he was perhaps the first novelist to "demonstrate...that native materials could inspire significant imaginative writing" (p. 13). In addition his writing, specifically The Deerslayer, present a unique view of the Native American's experiences and situation. Many critics, for example, argue that The Deerslayer presents a moral opinion about what occurred in the lives of the American Indians. Marius Bewley has said that the book shows ...
- 1659: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- Ralph Waldo Emerson certainly took his place in the history of American Literature. He lived in a time when romanticism was becoming a way of thinking and beginning to bloom in America, the time period known as The Romantic Age. Romantic thinking stressed on human imagination and ... influence can be found in the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost. No doubt, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an astute and intellectual man who influenced American Literature and has rightly received the credit that he deserves from historians. He has been depicted as a leading figure in American thought and literature, or at least ranks up there with the very best. There is so much more to Ralph Waldo Emerson when we consider the personal hardships that he had to endure during ...
- 1660: Observing Persuasion In The Ne
- ... it, why is it called the New Age? What is new is its acceptance in the West. It seems that the new is in reference not to its existence, but to its rise in the American consciousness within the last thirty-five or so years (Clark and Geisler, 1990). In addition, although the New Age consists of a hodgepodge of idealistic parallels with the occult, Gnostic, pagan and even native American religions, (Clark and Geisler, 1990, p. 11), its adaptation to the American lifestyle and the adaptation of the American lifestyle to it is also new. One may compare the relative speed of its wash over society to that of the early Christian church of the 1st ...
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