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- 2181: The History and Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco
- ... of tobacco. They started growing up to 100,000 pounds of tobacco a year! At this rate, the figure of tobacco got to be as high as 100 million pounds by the time of the American Revolution. In the 17th century, cultivating tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry in North Carolina. “The first of the tobacco manufacturers to mass ... increase of female smokers have surprisingly increased almost three times as much. The percentage of female smokers from 1990 to 1994 increased by 32%. The males, on the other hand, only increased by 11%. The American Lung Association recently conducted a survey showing a ten-year high of teen smokers. Fourteen and fifteen year olds showed a huge increase of 44%! In 1990, the ages of teens from twelve to ...
- 2182: The Problem of Teens and Smoking
- ... of tobacco. They started growing up to 100,000 pounds of tobacco a year! At this rate, the figure of tobacco got to be as high as 100 million pounds by the time of the American Revolution. In the 17th century, cultivating tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry in North Carolina. “The first of the tobacco manufacturers to mass ... increase of female smokers have surprisingly increased almost three times as much. The percentage of female smokers from 1990 to 1994 increased by 32%. The males, on the other hand, only increased by 11%. The American Lung Association recently conducted a survey showing a ten-year high of teen smokers. Fourteen and fifteen year olds showed a huge increase of 44%! In 1990, the ages of teens from twelve to ...
- 2183: Automation
- ... corporations in the world. At the turn of the century everything was booming! The growth of the economy and stock market increased the job opportunities as well as morals. As a result of this industrial revolution, out of the woodwork came a humble yet driven man, Henry Ford. Between the five dollar/day plan, his policies on administrating the company, and his relations with his customers, Ford was often presented as ... to take. It was all clear when he said, We re going to expand this company, and you will see it grow by leaps and bounds. How amazing that his prophecy has came true! --- Bibliography American Decades 1910-1919 New York: Gale Research Co., 1996. A contemporary survey on the backround of Henry Ford, and the Ford Motor Company. Collier, Peter. An American Epic. New York: Summit Books Co.,1987. A chronological study of the political and financial success of the Ford family. Lacey, Robert. Ford, The Men And The Machine. New York: Ballantine Books Co., 1986. ...
- 2184: The Black Panther Party
- ... to robbery by the Capitalist of our Black Community." Fourth, "We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings." Fifth, "We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society." Sixth, "We want all black men to be exempt from military service." Seventh, "We want an immediate ... said. People are too busy singing; they'd better start swinging. Now people will see we're right and support us (Hilliard182). Malcolm X was quoted saying "there is no such thing as a bloodless revolution, and we were soldiers prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. I lived each day with the possibility of death." These were the same words in which Huey N. and Bobby S. and the rest of ... Cleaver though is another story he too gets help to kick the habit. Now and days the surviving panthers are doing their own thing, living their own lives. Bobby Seale is an instructor in African American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. Bobby Rush (Deputy Minister of Defense in Illinois) recently has won a congressional seat. Emory Douglas (Minister of Culture in the main branch) is a graphic artist at ...
- 2185: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- ... would politically reconfigure Asia. We meant this in both the international and domestic sense: Nations would behave differently after the meltdown than they did during the past generation of extraordinary prosperity. The reconfiguration of Sino-American relations is an obvious manifestation of this. But it is the domestic political changes that are the most profound and will have the most impact on international relations. It should be obvious that an economic ... communists, the Indonesian military steadily asserted itself, and under the leadership of then-Gen. Suharto, the legacy of Indonesia’s founder Sukarno steadily diminished. The PLA intervened to crush the Mao-inspired Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The PLA’s intervention not only stabilized a China that was oscillating out of control and moving toward chaos, but it created the framework that led to the victory of Deng Xiaoping over Maoist forces ... to achieve the same end. Thus, the Indonesian and Chinese armies had a more intimate understanding of technology and a more efficient means of organizing production than other institutions. In a China, where the Cultural Revolution had torn out the heart of the nation’s managerial class, and an Indonesia in which the managerial class had either been Dutch or had emigrated, turning to the military to facilitate economic development ...
- 2186: Is The History Nonsense?
- ... the Lies", suggests that we need to give the people in different colors a proper recognition in our history; and points out that the industrial economy is the foundation of racism. In a question, the American automaker, Henry Ford suggests that "History is more or less bunk" and the only history that we need to care about is " the history we make today."We can see they have different attitude towards ... of history. We absorb knowledge from our history, remold our society, make new inventions and make progress. For example, the interaction of bursts of technological development First, appeared the steam power and drove the industrial revolution ; then introduced the railways; third , with the electrical power; fourth with cheap oil and the car. Not only are the history of innovation of technologies closely connected each other, but also are the political policies. This aspect is acknowledged by the author of the article "Stop the lies ". The author give an example about how Native Americans influenced American system of government. Meanwhile, history also shapes one's world outlook and raise the class issues through the industrial economy. As a common fact, Henry Ford was prejudice. How did he form his attitude ...
- 2187: Womens Rights In 3rd World Cou
- ... partner, the right to vote, the right to control property, and the right to equal treatment before the law along with freedom of speech. Women in Third World countries do not have the rights that American women enjoy. In most of these countries, women do not even have rights equivalent to those of American women in the nineteenth century. For example, the women have arranged marriages, have very limited access to education and are abused by their arranged husbands. In these countries, women work twice as many hours as ... every 100 females.”(Sui Noi Goh page 50-51) This statistic strongly suggests that anti-women sentiment still exists. Iran Iran is an unusual country. Religion has always been important to Iranians, but since the revolution of 1979, Iran has become a religious state, where religious rules are state rules. It is the teachings of Islam that determines every aspect of daily life, customs, laws, and government. Thus, when contemporary ...
- 2188: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... his second marriage Roosevelt lived as a sportsman and scholar in Sagamore Hill, his house at Oyster Bay, on Long Island. He published biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart Benton and works on the American West, some based on his personal experiences. In 1889 he was appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission. As head of the commission for much of his six years of service, Roosevelt was guided ... Commission of the City of New York. He was opposed not only by Tammany Hall, the Democratic organization, but also by powerful members of his own party. In particular, the Republican party's large German-American membership resented his enforcement, in order to eliminate payoffs to the police, of a law closing saloons and beer gardens on Sundays. President William McKinley named Roosevelt assistant secretary of the navy in 1897. In ... early in 1903 he arranged to buy a French company's rights to construct a canal through Panama, which was then part of Colombia. When the Colombian senate rejected his plans, he secretly encouraged a revolution in Panama. Later, the new Republic of Panama granted the United States full sovereignty over a strip 10 miles wide through which the Panama Canal was built Roosevelt's election in 1904 to a ...
- 2189: Evolution of Individual Rights Prior to the Constitutional Convention
- ... issues concerning the judicial independence, subordination of the military to the civil authorities, the freedom of the trade, the right of being judged by a tribunal with jury. This Declaration was not included in the American Constitution adopted in 1787 but it was added as an amendment to the latter in 1789. , The most important legal document which succeeded in emphasizing in a modem form the problem of the human rights and freedoms was adopted on August 26, 1789 during the French Revolution via the "Declaration of the human and citizens' rights". The title of this Declaration has been developed by the first special com-mission appointed by the Constituent Assembly of me French Revolution and clearly reflects the dualistic vision of the illuminists' ideology drawn upon the natural law theory (human rights) and from the theory of the social contract (citizens' rights). The progressive character of this important ...
- 2190: George Washington
- ... was exposed with smallpox. He had the scars from the disease for the rest of his life. Fortunately this experience gave him immunity to the disease, which was later to kill colonial troops during the American Revolution. Lawrence died in 1752. George soon inherited the beautiful home Mount Vernon, in Fairfax County, one of six farms then held by the Washington family interests. Also, the death of his beloved half-brother opened ... of Virginia. During the following summer, Virginia was shocked by reports that a French trip from Canada was establishing posts on the headwaters of the Ohio River and seeking to make treaties with the Native American peoples. Governor Dinwiddie received orders from Britain to demand an immediate French withdrawal, and Major Washington on time volunteered to carry the governor’s message to the French commander. His desire at this time ...
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