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- 1851: Richard Nixon 2
- ... politician in the mid 1900 s. His solid upbringing and vicious campaign tactics led to many political wins. It also led to many political enemies. Much of the public thought of him as a great American president until his down fall in March of 1973. I think that Richard Nixon was a good president, but in the end went to far. Richard Nixon grew up in a small town in California ... the name-calling tactic you are completely going against the reason public elections are held. Nixon won his seat in the House of Representatives. While he was in the House he was on the Un-American Activities Commission. This commission specialized in the hunting down of Communists in America. This is one of the sickest displays of American paranoia I can even think about. These people on the commission would scare, coax, and make people say that their neighbors, colleagues, and sometimes-even relatives were Communists and then they would put the ...
- 1852: What Was The Effect of The Space Shuttle Challenger
- ... the seas, there was also feelings of sorrow and disbelief. Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on January 30th, 1986 at the Vatican he talked and comforted the people about the loss of the American astronauts. He talked to the people, and made this lasting preach: "I lift up to God a fervent prayer so that he accepts in his embrace the souls of these courageous pioneers in progress of science and of man." (The New York Times, Jan. 30th, 1986; A16) Along with the Pope, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi sent his "personal condolences" to the families and friends of the American astronauts. "It is a very sad day, not only for all Americans, but for all humanity." (NY Times, Jan. 30th, 1986; A16). Mikhail S. Gorbachev also sent condolences over to the United States for the death of the seven astronauts. From quotes from the Soviet people, they had high expectations of American technology and were devastated that such a tragedy could occur. Showing support, they have not lost faith, claims a citizen in Russia. For Americans especially, it was a sad and mournful day. Many Americans ...
- 1853: Arguments Against the Relativists Theory
- ... followed, millions of Jews were killed and only a fraction survived the painful ordeals at the Nazi German prison camps. However, all of the chaos ended as World War II came to a close: the American and British soldiers had won and Hitler's Third Reich was no more. A certain ethical position would state that the anti-sematic Nazi German culture was neither right nor wrong in its actions. In ... claims that these actions cannot be judged according to their ethical correctness because there is no absolute standard by which they could be compared. In the above case, this position would not allow for the American and British soldiers to interfere with the Nazis; the relativist would claim that the Allies were wrong in fighting the Germans due to a cultural disagreement. In truth, it is the relativist position which has ... much as possible in the nude can only benefit a person. Due to scientific study, it has been experimentally shown that overexposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer. Being in the American culture, people know this to be true and therefore would disagree with sunning too often. According to the relativist, since the two cultures disagree concerning the practice of sunning there is no objective truth ...
- 1854: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... William Carlos Williams was the man on the margin, the incorrigible maverick, the embattled messiah." (Unger 402) Throughout his career, Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, and a revolutionary figure in American poetry. He is regarded as an important and influential poet because of his unique and unusually plain style. Living a life that was rather conventional, using a writing style that was essentially breaking the mold ... NEW William Carlos Williams brought a style to poetry that had never before been seen. Along with his work, came a long line of critics who were in disbelief -- some saying his poetry was un-American, and others who were not sure why his work was even regarded at all (DISC 3). Like all people who are leaders and set trends, Williams encountered his fair share of disbelievers, but in the ... misunderstood and overlooked. The people expected a glamorous type of writing, but what he gave them was a plain style rebelling from all that was standard, and aimed at expressing the feelings of the average American. Williams seemed to love controversy and the idea of being different. Perhaps this can be linked back to his ethnic variety and early education in the arts by his parents. Unger illustrates his dare ...
- 1855: Asian-Americans And Concentration Camps In WWII
- In the early 1940s, there was evidence of Japanese-American loyalty and innocence, but the information was not always well known. This, coupled with the factors of war hysteria led to the legal upholding of concentration camps in Korematsu v. U.S. (1944). The injustice ... by numerous enemies. In addition, the Japanese-Americans were concentrated on the Western Coast and could thus organize better. There is also the chasm of culture; ignorance is the key to racism, and the average American knew very little of the lifestyle and customs of the Far East. This led to more suspicion. There were also facts going against the Japanese-Americans. According to the Munson Report, 98% of Japanese-Americans were loyal to the U.S. This is an impressive number; however, in times of war, 2% sabotaging on mainland America was a major threat. A more startling fact that tarnished the Japanese-American reputation was the fact that Japan was rumored to have an extremely effective spy system on the West Coast. There were even some conspiracy theorists that rationalized that the sneaky Japanese were merely waiting ...
- 1856: Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s
- Farmers' Discontent in the 1800s The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the bulwark of agriculture, were selling at prices so low that it was nearly impossible for farmers to make a profit off them. Furthermore, improvement in transportation allowed foreign competition to materialize, making it harder for American farmers to dispose of surplus crop. Finally, years of drought in the midwest and the downward spiral of business in the 1890's devastated many of the nation's farmers. As a result of ...
- 1857: Cival Rights Act 1964
- ... would be accepting no more. Mrs. Hamer speaks for the African Americans who stood up in the 1950's and refused to sit down. They were the people who led the greatest movement in modern American history - the civil rights movement. It was a movement that would be more than a fragment of history, it was a movement that would become a measure of our lives (Shipler 12). When Martin Luther ... the first time the national government had declared equality for blacks. The civil rights movement was a campaign led by a number of organizations, supported by many individuals, to end discrimination and achieve equality for American Blacks (Mooney 776). The forefront of the struggle came during the 1950's and the 1960's when the feeling of oppression intensified and efforts increased to gain access to public accommodations, increased voting rights ... is unethical. The government has an ethical obligation to make and change laws to ensure that it does not discriminate. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is perhaps the best example there is of the American government fulfilling its ethical obligation (Ash 803). For in the words of Thurgood Marshall, the great civil rights lawyer, and later first black man to serve on the Supreme Court, "Far too long, the ...
- 1858: Baseball, History Of
- ... competed for players and spectators. The National League either defeated its opponents outright or incorporated them into a subordinate national structure of minor leagues. Not until 1901 was the National League force to accept the American League, the only other surviving major league. Leagues controlled access to spectators by granting franchises. Owners and leagues controlled the players through labor practices that combined elements of chattel slavery (the infamous reserve rule) and ... street gangs, and political factions. The National League explicitly appealed to more middle-class audiences by requiring its teams to charge fifty cents, ban the sale of alcohol, and refuse to play Sundays. The rival American Association appealed to immigrant and working-class audiences by charging a quarter, selling liquor, and playing Sunday ball. Despite the outrage with which baseball officials and writers treat baseball s occasional betting scandals (in 1865 ... gambling and low life. Even though they are all men with extraordinarily disciplined athletic skills, ballplayers, like most professional entertainers, frequently behave badly off the field. Alongside the game s reputation as an upright, all-American pastime, its culture continues to have a whiff of the unrespectable. Baseball has also had an archaic aura throughout most of its history, the heyday of modern industrializing America. It enshrined craft excellence at ...
- 1859: Euthanasia
- ... 2) Antithesis Argument That Euthanasia Is Unacceptable With the rise of organized religion, euthanasia became morally and ethically abhorrent. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all hold human life sacred and condemn euthanasia in any form . The American Medical Association continues to condemn assisted suicide . Western laws have generally considered the act of helping someone to die a form of homicide subject to legal sanctions. Even a passive withholding of help to prevent death has frequently been severely punished . And the Roman Catholic Church's newly released catechism says: ``Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder.'' (R-1). The Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association recommends that the American Medical Association reject euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide as being incompatible with the nature and purposes of the healing arts (R-2). "When does the right to die become the obligation to die?" asks ...
- 1860: Issues to Consider When Implementing a Corporate Code of Ethics
- ... talking more today about ethics than in the past few decades and society is demanding it. When President Eisenhower held presidency, our society trusted big corporations and did not question their motives or actions. The American people felt that whatever the corporations were doing would benefit the people and the country. Then came the Nixon/Watergate scandal and it was during this era that Americas innocence and naivetι was broken ... to scrutinize corporations and elected public officials actions to question what social responsibilities corporations should have (Behrens and Rosen, 1997, pp. 768-770). Due to a more informed and conscientous society, nearly 75% of all American corporations have implemented a corporate code of ethics (Cavanaugh, 1997, pp. 796-811). A company in todays high tech world that is deciding whether or not to be socially ethical needs to consider the ... are made that pit one value against another. An example would be, it is socially and ethically right for a logging company to protect the endangered spotted owl in the old-growth forests of the American Northwest and it is also right for the company to grow, increase profits and provide jobs for loggers. Another example might be that it is right to resist the importation of products made in ...
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