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- 3161: Causes Of The Revolutionary Wa
- ... that in 1764, the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly nullified; therefor, a revolution was viable. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "That his Majesty's subjects in these ... should be destroyed, thus separation from England. A new society would follow, where the people of the society would have these rights necessary for self-autonomy. The Declaration of Independence was a strong justification for revolution. The Revolution follows the Declaration of Independence, where a transition occurs. The transition has to do with the rights of the colonists. The colonists acquire their rights through resistance to British imperial conformity, by resisting certain ...
- 3162: Are Blacks Too Cool For The Web
- ... Have morals and values changed in America and left blacks behind? According to Gaiter, the web can t help us achieve our 50 s and 60 s ideals (p 643). Blacks still want the traditional American Dream. Well, what is the traditional American Dream? Perhaps, the dream is to have a nice car and house, and a good job. But in contrast to Gaiter, I believe that these are the same things we want today. Nothing has changed except for the fact that entrepreneurs have emerged with the growth of the Web. People are finding ways to make money from avenues they never dreamed of. The American Dream as we know it has not vanished or been left behind, it has simply been revised to include family time and personal goals. Although racism has decreased in society today, it still is ...
- 3163: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America Then And Now Reconstruction . . . "Spell the word one way, with a small r , and it has a good American purposefulness; for it means a putting together, a rebuilding, a rehabilitation. Spell it another way, with a capital R , and it becomes for many a malediction; and for others an almost forgotten, unreached, and needful ... continued up to this day, 130 years later. The Civil War lasted from April 14, 1861 to April 9,1865. 620,000 lives were lost and approximately four million slaves were set free.(Tindall 451) "American nationalism emerged triumphant . . . but peace had come only on the battlefields. 'Cannon conquer,' recognized a northern editor, 'but they do not necessarily convert.'"(Tindall 451) Now the difficult questions of Reconstruction began to appear. "How ... workers in the South and also the Supreme Court has resurrected the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to outlaw racial discrimination in housing.(Trelease 203) The Reconstruction period was one of the great disasters in American history. "In the postwar years the Union had not made the achievements of the war a foundation for the healthy advancement of the political, social, and economic life of the United States."(Franklin 227) ...
- 3164: The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What a Change!
- ... And they probably obeyed it out of fear for their life. For sinners are in the hands of a angry God. Many years later Nathaniel Hawthorn was greatly interested by the Puritans. This 19th-century American novelist, was born on July 4, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died May 11, 1864. He was the first American writer to apply artistic judgment to Puritan society. He was intrigued by the psychological insight into the complexities of human motivations and actions. In The Scarlet Letter, he expressed one of the central legacies of American Puritanism, using the plight of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to illustrate the conflict between the desire to confess and the necessity of self-concealment. Hawthorne grew up with his two sisters and their ...
- 3165: Eating Disorders
- ... up such a devastating disease, that can eventually take someones life because of their need to be skinny. Problem Statement Eating Disorders target the young, the middle aged, and the old. Approximately eight million American teenagers and adults have symptoms of this life threatening disease. Eating Disorders are common among models, and many other professions because their weight is seen as the focus of their job. Though they can be ... to be a manifestation of Anorexia Nervosa. There is a close relationship between Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Some of the personality characteristics of typical anorectics and bulimics seem to be similar. In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association formally recognized Bulimia in its third edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Hall, 1986). Why do people become bulimic? Bulimics are generally considered to have a psychological or emotional disorder ... obese population. Further research is needed of the individual with the wide variety of treatment approached are currently available (Moe, 1991). Section Two Who Are More and Likely To Get Eating Disorders? Approximately eight million American teenagers and adults have some symptoms of the life threatening disease. It is impossible to predict exactly who will get an Eating Disorder, although studies have shown that the typical female eighty-five to ...
- 3166: Civil Rights Movement 2
- ... jobs and public places. New groups and goalswere formed, new tactics devised, to push forward for full equality. asoften as not, white resistance resulted in violence. this violence spilledacross tv screens nationwide. the average, neutral american, after seeinghis/her tv screen, turned into a civil rights supporter. Black unity and white support continued to grow. in 1962, with thefirst large-scale public protest against racial discrimination, rev. Martinluther king, jr. Gave ... of congress. but after his assassination, president johnson, drawing on the kennedy legacy and on thepress coverage of civil rights marches and protests, succeeded wherekennedy had failed. However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. rioting by urban blacks was to bea feature of every "long, hot, summer" of the mid-1960s. In 1965, King and other black leaders wanted to push ...
- 3167: Biological and Chemical Weapons!!
- ... the United States developed biological weapons based on explosive and insect dissemination of the agents of anthrax, plague, and other diseases.2 Most biological weapons kill by direct exposure and are very contagious. For instance, American settlers purposefully gave Native Americans blankets infested with smallpox; more recently, both American and Soviet military researchers have experimented with some readily transmittable viruses.3 However, contagious nature of biological agents, do have a drawback; it is equally capable of infecting the initiator as well as the target ... humans through skin infections, tainted food or even through inhaling the actual spores. However, human has already discovered a bacterial vaccine that is effective in immunizing the infection. History states, during 18th and 19th centuries American and Canadian soldiers were vaccinated when anthrax plague breakout possessed Europe, killing 60% of victims within two to five days. Genetic engineering and biotechnology do seem promising of overcoming these hurdles. It should be ...
- 3168: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... for Poetry, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Arts Club Medal, 1986 Struga Festival Golden Wreath, and the Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins Medal of Honor for Literary Excellence 1989. A potent figure in the cultural revolution of the sixties, he has been arrested with Dr. Benjamin Spock for blocking the Whitehall Draft Board steps, has testified at the U.S. Senate hearings for the legalization of psychedelics and been teargassed for ... Lion for Real, appeared in 1989. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and is a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College and a member of the Executive Board of PEN American Center. A practicing Buddhist, Alien cofounded Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. In 1997 the Beat Generation lost their beloved poet, and Allen Ginsberg became a legend (Schumacher 312 ...
- 3169: The Importance Of The Bill Of Rights
- ... the United States can underestimate the importance of The Bill of Rights.The 10 amendments to the original text of the Constitution, together with the 16 others make a complete picture of the most important American legal acts. The Bill of Rights warrants basic individual liberties which are an undeniable standard of the proper protection of human and civil rights even now. But some sceptics maintain that this act did not ... time. For example, in the Polish Constitution ratified in 1791 only the nobility had all the civil rights, so it was even a more narrow understanding of the word "nation". And although during the French Revolution people demanded equality, this demand was out of the reach as in the eighteenth century world inequality was a norm. A completely different problem was the lack of the effective enforcement of The Bill of ...
- 3170: Alice Walker
- ... long lost sister Nettie. Walker earned many praises for the novel along with many criticisms as well. Those who praise the book such as Peter S. Prescott would agree with him when he said, "an American novel of permanent importance, that rare sort of book which amounts to a diversion in the fields of dread". Some felt differently about certain points the book made, one being the its negative portraits of ... that she was pregnant and had to deal with the stressful time that followed. Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems was Walkers second volume of poems, in this she addressed such topics as love, individualism, and revolution. When Alice Walker lived in Mississippi and was active in the civil rights movement and teaching she experienced these such things. With Walker's most recent poems she expresses her ideas of races, gender, environment ...
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