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- 1841: Reconstruction
- ... any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of laws; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ( This was the first national definition of citizenship in American History, and it attempted to protect civil rights against state interferences.) Most white southerners overlooked the 14th Amendment, and saw it as an insignificant amendment. And as result of the dismissal of the 14th Amendment ... seats in congress, and the senate, but there were still some African Americans who did. These new jobs dealing with the local government gave them the power to determine the rights entitled to all African American’s as well as their political future. The Reconstruction gave African Americans the right to an education, the benefits of hospitals, and they became part of the legal system as Sheriffs, police officers, judges and ... had more rights than before the Reconstruction. But the hopes and dreams that many blacks thought they finally achieved during the Reconstruction was quickly crushed afterwards. Most importantly, the Reconstruction was the primary event in American History that led to a bigger change in their lives. The Reconstruction had it’s share of successes, just as it had it’s share of failures. It was the turning point in American ...
- 1842: Atomic Bomb 9
- ... Crimes against humanity, as never witnessed before, and hopefully to never be seen again, occurred during the course of World War II. America has always, and most likely will always place a high value on American lives. In order to protect these lives and to insure that the world is safe for democracy, American leaders had to make a very tough decision, whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. This act would essentially trade Japanese lives for American lives. The Japanese were responsible for hundreds of thousands of American casualties in the Pacific, including the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor. With Japanese forces showing no signs of surrender, American leaders made a ...
- 1843: Maria Mitchell
- ... On October 6, 1848, a year and five days later the King of Denmark decided to award the prize to Maria. At the age of thirty, she won an international honor. She became the first American, as well as the first woman to win the medal. In 1848, she was the first woman to be admitted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Now that she was a celebrity many people came to see her, famous artists came from New York to paint her portrait, and people recognized her achievements. Maria s status ... Her patience and self-control offers encouragement to young women considering astronomy as a career. Maria Mitchell was given many awards and honors during her lifetime other than being the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also the first woman admitted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and to the American Philosophical Society (founded by her distant relative Benjamin Franklin. ...
- 1844: The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
- ... known as, has its origins in the last dying days of the Eisenhower administration and that murky time period during the transition of power to the newly elected president John F. Kennedy. The origins of American policy in Latin America in the late 1950s and early 1960s has its origins in American's economic interests and its anticommunist policies in the region. The same man who had helped formulate American containment policy towards the Soviet threat, George Kennan, in 1950 spoke to US Chiefs of Mission in Rio de Janeiro about Latin America. He said that American policy had several purposes in the region, ... ...
- 1845: Economic 2
- Introduction The American economy has many components which contribute to its growth and which affect its rate of inflation, but the overriding stimuli stem from the monetary and fiscal controls imposed by the Federal Reserve and government, respectively ... Construction materials and related goods were particularly strong while electronic goods have suffered somewhat in 1998. This decline in electronic goods was thought to be related to the crisis in Asia which dampened demand for American goods in the short-term (Kraus, 1998, p. 20). Unemployment figures measure the percentage of the workforce that is employed, not the percentage of all Americans who could be employed and are not at any ... This does not indicate whether individuals were employed full-time or part time, or whether they had as much work as they might entirely desire ("Table A-5," 1999, p.1). In considering where the American economy is headed over the next 12 months, it is important to remember that the economy is part of the American business environment as a whole. Because the Fed's current board of governors ...
- 1846: The Constitution
- The Constitution Right from the beginning of it’s creation the constitution of the United States has been a shaky document. The very basis for it being there was in fact illegal. The story of American politics starts with the Declaration of Independence. This document was brilliantly written by Thomas Jefferson and compacted all of the great ideas of enlightenment into one short easy to read paper. The declaration stated all of the ideals the new American nation would strive for. A constitution was needed as a way in which to fulfill those goals. The articles of confederacy were created as that constitution. However, they were weak, because no state wanted to ... help the government achieve the ideals set by the new nation it turned out to be one of the greatest problems the nation faced, and it was responsible for one of the worst wars in American history, the civil war. This problem first started with the nullification crisis. Because the constitution was so vague that problems erupted over where the powers were to go, the three branches of the federal ...
- 1847: Langston Hughes - Poetry Analy
- ... black poet in just about the only way its mindset allowed it to: by absorbing a black writer with all of the patronizing self-consciousness that that entails. The contradiction of being both black and American was a great one for Hughes. Although this disparity was troublesome, his situation as such granted him an almost begged status; due to his place as a “black American” poet, his work was all the more accessible. Hughes’ black experience was sensationalized. Using his “black experience” as a façade, however, Hughes was able to obscure his own torments and insecurities regarding his ambiguous sexuality ... that mirror the chaotic and pulsating tempo of city life. Jazz and black oral influences, as well as social dichotomy are pervasive elements throughout Hughes’ poetry. Like nightclub entertainers, Hughes used the progression of Afro-American music (jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, and be-bop) in order to show the growth and change of a community in conflict, as is shown in “Subway Rush Hour.” This poem, brimming with sudden and ...
- 1848: Ebonics A Bridge To Help Black
- I feel that the discussion on Ebonics has gone beyond the original objectives of the program. Ebonics is a bridge to make Afro-American children understand more the English language. Mexican Americans use the code-switching technique to learn the language. A phrase is said in English, and the translation is given in Spanish. This is also how the ... The new Hispanic immigrants understand this and that is why we now have a move going on across this country for BI-lingual education. They demand, and get, teachers who understands Spanish and other Latin American dialects to teach their children English. They know that it does not matter if a child is African American, Chinese, Spanish, or Italian. For a child to learn they know you have to build on what that child knows. Therefore, if the child comes into the room saying 'dis' and 'dat', the teacher ...
- 1849: Television's Positive Effects on Society
- ... to agree with Winn on this point, but I do not feel that the totality of the influence is negative. Television today has a lot of positive effects and influences on our society and our American culture. Television gives us helpful information, various forms of education, and entertainment which are all a part of the positive effects that television has on our society. On a day to day basis, the television ... information. We use the TV as a convenient way to find out some of the simplest information such as the date, time, and what is going to be on channel 11 at 9:30. Our American society has designed its lifestyle around the convenience of the TV and the fact that it is so easily accessible. The television has other purposes besides convenience. It is a great way of educating the ... is an election year, we are constantly being informed about the candidates, their whereabouts, and the debates. The reason for this is because, this is an important piece of education when it comes to the American people. We need to know these things, or we along with our government will suffer. Along with informational and educational purposes, television serves as an entertainer as well. When television was first developed, entertainment ...
- 1850: Hemingways Hills Like White El
- Hills Like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemingway In Ernest Hemingway s Hills Like White Elephants, the two main characters, Jig and the unnamed American man, are at a train station in Spain trying to decide whether or not they (actually just Jig) should go through with an abortion. The first time I read the story it wasn t very ... I really noticed the first time I read the story was the tension between the two main characters throughout the story. In the first dialogue, there seems to be some tension between Jig and the American man. They speak to each other in short sentences and Jig starts getting sarcastic with her male companion (Hemingway doesn t state whether they are married) when he says that he s never seen white ... if that s all they do. Even after they re done talking about having the operation on page 446, they go back to more drinking. The whole dialogue about the operation made me question the American man s love for Jig. Was he sincere? At first he s convincing her that the operation is simple and how it is the only thing that has made them unhappy. One can tell ...
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