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- 2191: Anti-Censorship
- ... s Cabin" were banned in the south. And even today, censorship laws have been implemented on the internet. In all these cases ,it did nothing positive. The Egyptian empire collapsed, The United States had a revolution, the Civil War broke out, and pornography has spread even more across the internet. If there is nothing to gain with censorship, then schools shouldn't try to censor the books we read. Besides not ... pieces of writing have come from the heart, and if writers are worrying about how they are writing, then they won't be worried about what they are writing. Many books that are part of American society could be banned because of their content. If a book says a few curse words, then the school could say than it can't be read even if it teaches us an important lesson ... because they can't read the books of their choosing. Writers won't be able to express their feelings, because they are worried about if the writing is censored or not. Censorship would also change American society by eliminating most local color. . Finally, many good books may not exist, because the violence and action wouldn't be allowed in the book. With censorship, an important part of literature will be missing
- 2192: Charles Dickens
- ... centers around a series of riots in London in 1780. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) is one of two books that Dickens based on his first trip to America. The other is the travel book entitled American Notes (1842). Dickens intended Martin Chuzzlewit to be a study of many forms of selfishness. But its unflattering picture of the crudeness of American manners and its comic characters best remembers the book. Dickens wrote five Christmas books during the 1840s. The first and most famous of all is A Christmas Carol (1843), in this book three ghosts ... Circumlocution Office. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) was the second of his most famous novels. It is set in London and Paris and tells of the heroism of fictional Sidney Caron during the French Revolution. Critics dont highly rank this book. In Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens returned to his light-hearted sense of humor. This novel tells of an unknown person who provides the young hero Pip ...
- 2193: History of the Internet
- ... 1970`s in USA was an older military network called ARPANET converted to Internetvork wish was a network between networks. Accept a few Universities was it foremost enterprices and organisations wich was important for the american army who was connected to Internetwork. Resons of security made Internetwork anarchistic.It wasen`t supose to be any cental computer wich controlled Internetwork and the computertrafic was supose to direct it self so if ... find a new way by it self. Because of this the enemy couldent in war strike out Intenetwork by bombing individual servers and main computers. In the end of the 1970`s was almost all american Universities and majority connected to it so called protocol TCP/IP wich to day is the main glue in Internet. In 1985 Internet had grovn to the wolds gratest network and more and more organisation ... the same time 1991 Gopfer was released. Gopher made it posibly to click yone self forward in a Windows envioroment with your mouse instead of typing long,difficult UNIX command. Two years later the next revolution WWW was released. WWW made it abel for ordinary peoply the surf on internet. Internet began to grow wery fast 1993 it became posible for enterprices to rent ecces to internet to privitepersons.At ...
- 2194: Women's Suffrage
- ... a wealthy businessman named George Francis Train while campaigning in Kansas. He offered her the money to launch a suffrage newspaper. In return he would be allowed to write a column about economics. Thus the Revolution was born. It's motto was Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. Lucy Stone and a group of conservative suffragists broke away from Anthony's National Woman's suffrage Association and founded the American Woman Suffrage Association. The NWSA attracted younger and more radical women who worked for a constitutional amendment to get the vote. The AWSA directed its efforts toward getting states to give women the right to ... to the polls. Until the early 1900's , only a few states, all of them western, had granted women the right to vote. By this time the two organizations had merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. On June 4, 1919 women were finally granted the right to vote. Congress ratified the 19th amendment to the Constitution which stated that no citizen could be denied the right to ...
- 2195: George Washington
- ... of Virginia's government, Washington secured his first military commissions, learned and practiced the arts of politics, and moved from the attitude of being just another country squire to become the leader of a continental revolution. Born February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County he was the first son of his father Augustine's second marriage: his mother was the former Mary Ball of Epping Forest. When George was about 3 his ... a Virginia gentleman--fox hunting, snuff taking, plays, billiards, cards, dancing, and fishing. He delighted in bottles of Madeira, plates of watermelon, and dishes of oysters. In these years his resentment of the subordination of American interests to those of England grew. When Parliament attempted to force the Stamp Act in 1769, Washington told someone that Parliament "hath no more right to put their hands into my pocket, without my consent ... possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind." Historians credit Washington's conduct of the office with the preservation of the national union under the American Constitution. Washington issued his farewell address on September 7, 1796, and was succeeded by John Adams the following March 4. His last official act was to pardon the participants in the Whiskey Rebellion. When ...
- 2196: Susan B Anthony
- ... who was occupied with her young children. In 1854, She devoted herself to the antislavery movement serving from 1856 to the outbreak of the civil war, 1861. Here, she served as an agent for the American Antislavery Society. After, She worked with Stanton and published the New York liberal weekly, The Revolution (1868-1870) which called for equal pay for women. In 1872, Susan demanded that women be given the same civil and political rights that had been extended to black men under the 14th and 15th ... elections. After being tried and convicted of violating the voting laws, Susan succeeded in her refusal to pay the fine. From then on she campaigned endlessly for a federal woman suffrage amendment through the National American Womans Suffrage Association (1890-1906) and by lecturing throughout the country. Now the newly freed slaves were granted the right to vote by the 15th amendment, women of all races still did not ...
- 2197: Gun Control
- ... free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms , shall not be infringed. Amendment II, Bill of Rights Constitution of the U.S. The Second Amendment has been a major issue in American politics since 1876. In question is the intent of this Amendment. Was it meant to insure that people in general have arms for personal service, or was it intended to insure arms for military service ... seldom had occasion to rule on gun control laws. As The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court notes, one reason for the absence of court rulings on the Second Amendment is that, for much of American history, there were few regulations concerning firearms ownership. In June of this year, The United States Supreme Court agreed to review the Brady Law. Soon after the law took effect, lawsuits were filed in federal ... going into effect on Feb. 28, 1994, the law has stopped tens of thousands of prohibited individuals from making over-the-counter handgun purchases. Furthermore, polls have consistently shown more than 90 percent of the American public supporting the law. As stated earlier, there is little jurisprudence in the area of gun control by the Supreme Court. Until the Lopez case, which is really a commerce clause case, not a ...
- 2198: Lincoln's Legacy
- Lincoln's Legacy A legacy is something that is passed down from a predecessor. Lincoln's legacy is the teachings that he had wanted all of us, as American citizens, to live by. In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln explained what our responsibilities as American citizens are. His concepts tie all off U.S. history together and aid the prosperity of our country. In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln stated that all men are created equal. He was restating the beliefs ... was trying to explain to us that unity plays a major role in our lives. Just as Jefferson stated many years previously, we must treat all men as our brothers in order to keep the American society united. Lincoln also stated that a great civil war is something that is very difficult for a nation to endure. The Constitution states that we must create and maintain a more perfect union. ...
- 2199: The Great Gatsby Book Report
- During the 1920s Jay Gatsby had been living out what Fitzgerald calls the American Dream. Fitzgerald s American Dream through the views of Gatsby was to be very wealthy, have a sense of class, infinite capacity of hope, and wonder. Gatsby had sense of style that made him fit in to the upper class of society which again is part of the American Dream. The novel depicts how this dream has deteriorated in many ways such as wealth, materialism, Selfishness, being "used", easily empresses, cheaters, snobbism, East Vs West, poor Vs rich, greediness, carnal, and not being ...
- 2200: Affirmative Action
- By: will holden Politics is assuming command of the American economy in the form of pervasive "equal opportunity" enforcement. In today's society, everyone is supposed to be equal and have equal rights, but in employment, there is more discrimination than ever. American citizens need to do away with affirmative action so that America's job opportunities can once again be based on merit, not skin color or ethnicity. Laws have been passed, quotas have been established, and ... pretty clear indication that quotas are not about righting past wrong, but about political power". ( Merit p. 80-83) Just as socialism has collapsed around the globe, the leading capitalist power has adapted a peculiarly American form of Neosocialism putting politics and lawyers in command of its workplace albeit on the pretext of equality rather than efficiency. This problem is only becoming worse because America has the most far reaching ...
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