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- 2421: WEB DuBois's Influence on Literature and People
- ... the abolishment of racism than other people that wanted a "separate black nation" and others that just wanted the blacks to stay submissive. DuBois only wanted blacks to work hard to become active parts of American society. Through his writings, speaking, and political activism, WEB DuBois devoted his life to advancing black movement to a higher level. DuBois always practiced what he preached. His speeches influenced many, and always used the ... was encouraging blacks to become educated in the "white man's world". He tried to get blacks into working in agriculture helping with industry and, to accepting that they get a second class status in American society. DuBois felt that Washington's plan would cause blacks to give up. While DuBois respected Booker T. Washington and his accomplishments, he felt that blacks needed political power to protect what they had and ... own social regeneration ought to be placed largely upon the shoulder of the Negro people. But such responsibility must carry with it a grant of power is a mockery and a farce. If, therefore, the American people are sincerely anxious that the Negro shall put forth his best efforts to help himself, they must see to it that he is not deprived of the freedom and power to strive....(Shaub104). ...
- 2422: The Immigration Problem
- ... result of immigration, which accounts for California's great political and economic strength. The unregulated movement of goods, services, and people throughout the states is what makes this country economically stable and productive. NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and GATT (General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs) are examples of successful agreements between neighboring countries. These agreements have resulted in the unparalleled betterment of the economies involved. Open markets in banking ... they cannot compete with low-wage workers. To show for this is the countless anti- immigrant legislation being proposed to congress. There are grass-roots initiatives out there proposing to amend the constitution to limit American citizenship solely to children born of U.S. citizens only (McDonnel A1). A significant number of people wish to eradicate the rights foreign nationals have acquired through the years. Americans have proven to be very ... school (Woo A1). People from all over the world have brought with them their culture and enthusiasm for education. Prevalent, it is, that many immigrant students, legal or not, have grades substantially higher than their American counterparts. A new study found that children of immigrant parents have a greater desire to learn. Their grades are superior, they score higher on standardized tests and they aspire to college at a greater ...
- 2423: Elvis
- ... Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis was raised in a religious home. He grew up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar. In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High ... he was going to record some songs for his mother as a birthday gift. Upon doing this, he impressed the studio manager with his unique vocal style. He demonstrated outstanding range and influences of African American music. This experience led Elvis to recordings with the studios owner, Sam Phillips through his record label, Sun Records. At the age of 21, he recorded his first songs for a major record label ... an international sensation. He had a sound and style that was unique. Combining his diverse musical influences and challenging the social and racial barriers of the time, he brought in a whole new era of American music and popular culture. On March 24, 1958, Elvis is inducted into the U.S. Army at the Memphis Draft Board. He gets his famous GI haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. The draft leads ...
- 2424: Puerto Rican Cultural and Religion
- Puerto Rican Cultural and Religion I am a member of the Puerto Rican American Families research team. I myself grew up in a Puerto Rican American, or "New Yorican", family. The assignment is a field study. The study is on an observation of the religious community. We visited a Roman Catholic church in Buffalo on the west side, which is a ... Holy Cross; both an English and Spanish mass. It seemed that the group accepted our presence without any apprehension, however, as I stated before, this probably is a result of I myself being Puerto Rican American. There were some striking differences between the English mass and the Spanish mass. The first noticeable difference was in attendance. The Spanish mass had a considerable higher attendance than did the English mass. Also ...
- 2425: Ernest Che Guevara
- ... returned home for his finals sure of only one thing: he did not want to become a middle-class general practitioner. He passed, specializing in dermatology, and went to La Paz, Bolivia, during the National Revolution in which he condemned as an opportunist. From there he went to Guatemala, arriving during the socialist Arbenz presidency. It was in Guatemala that he began to earn his living by writing archaeological articles about ... after him, and introduced him to Nico Lopez, one of Fidel Castro's lieutenants. While in Guatemala, he saw the CIA at work as the principal agents of counterrevolution. He confirmed, in his view, that Revolution could be made only by armed insurrection. When Arbenz fell, Guevara went to Mexico City (September 1954) where he worked in the General Hospital. Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez joined him. It was there that ... also a ruthless disciplinarian who unhesitatingly shot defectors, as later he got a reputation for cold-blooded cruelty in the mass execution of recalcitrant supporters of the defeated president Batista. At the triumph of the Revolution, Guevara became second to Fidel Castro in the new government of Cuba, and the man was chiefly responsible for pushing Castro towards communism. It was a communism that was independent of the orthodox, Moscow- ...
- 2426: The Future of Computer Crime in America
- ... Future Society Social Change Social and Enviromental Issues Deviant Behavior Crime/Corrections Period: # 2 The proliferation of home computers, and of home computers equipped with modems, has brought about a major transformation in the way American society communicates, interacts, and receives information. All of these changes being popularized by the media and the wide increased personal and private sector use of the Internet. All of these factors plus the fact of ... of that many times the individuals accessing these information sources are doing so by illegal means and are often motivated by deviant and illegal means. It is said that at any given time the average American has his name on an active file in over 550 computer information databases of which nearly 90% are online, and of the 550 databases the number comes no where close to how many time your personal information is listed in some database in an unactive file. The "Average American" could simply sit in his/her home doing nearly nothing all day long and still have his/her name go through over 1,000 computers a day. All of these vast information files all ...
- 2427: Computers
- ... fed into the machine on a roll of punched paper tape, rather than being stored in the computer. In 1945, however, a computer with program storage was built, based on the concepts of the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann. The instructions were stored within a so-called memory, freeing the computer from the speed limitations of the paper tape reader during execution and permitting problems to be solved without rewiring the computer. The rapidly advancing field of electronics led to construction of the first general-purpose all-electronic computer in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania by the American engineer John Presper Eckert, Jr. and the American physicist John William Mauchly. (Another American physicist, John Vincent Atanasoff, later successfully claimed that certain basic techniques he had developed were used in this computer.) Called ENIAC, for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, the ...
- 2428: Telecommunications
- ... is the International Telecommunication Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations, and one of its operational entities, the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT). Other organizations in the area of standards are the American National Standards Institute, the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the Electronic Industries Association. One of the goals of these organizations is the full realization of the integrated services digital network (ISDN), which is projected to ... networks. Some public data networks support transmission of 56,000 bits per second (bps), and modems for home use (see Microcomputer) are capable of as much as 28,800 bps. Introduction When a handful of American scientists installed the first node of a new computer network in the late 60's, they could not know by any chance what phenomenon they had launched. They were set a challenging task to develop ... on-line or similar proprietary services, or other networks such as Bitnet, Fidonets, or UUCP nets that allow users minimally to exchange e-mail with the Internet. Development The Internet technology was developed principally by American computer scientist Vinton Cerf in 1973 as part of a United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project managed by American engineer Robert Kahn. In 1984 the development of the technology ...
- 2429: Affirmative Action
- By: Jack Frost E-mail: frost@hotmail.com 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 ... is "a pretty clear indication that quotas are not about righting past wrong, but about political power". (n. pag.) 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 ...
- 2430: Drunken Boat
- ... and bitter the suns" (Rimbaud 1175). It is in these concluding stanzas that Rimbaud first diverges from the characteristics that are typical of 19th century writers. While many writers of the period embraced the Industrial Revolution as equally harmful and good, Rimbaud views it as a mechanism by which individuals are treated as machines, much like a commercial boat. In that sense, Rimbaud shares an idea later espoused by another great ... hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" (Marx and Engels 1329). Where Rimbaud differed greatly from these writers, however, was in his approach to a solution: Marx and Engels encouraged the use of revolution to propel the working class out of "slavery" and toward a classless society. Rimbaud's closing stanzas indicate a desolation that is inconsolable, and weary from a lifetime of struggle and hard work (1175): If ... s the black pond And cold, where toward perfumed evening A sad child on his knees sets sail A boat as frail as a May butterfly. Rimbaud closes his poem propelling his boat not towards revolution, but towards death. Rimbaud's "water-drunken carcass" is worn and "Covered with lichens of the sun and azure's phlegm" (Rimbaud 1175). The commerce of the river has worn his boat down, broken ...
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