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- 3331: Hippie Culture
- ... and fancied themselves dispensers of miracles at the service of a new age" (Gitlin 214). It wasn’t just the youth in America who was using these drugs. A statistic from 1967 states that "more American troops in Vietnam were arrested for smoking marijuana than for any other major crime" (Steinbeck 97). The amazing statistic wasn’t the amount of soldiers smoking marijuana; it was the amount of soldiers America was ... sending over to fight a war that nobody understood. Between 1965 and 1967, troops "doubled and redoubled and redoubled twice more" (Gitlin 261). In a letter to President Johnson sent by student leaders from 100 American colleges and universities and published in Time, this problem was addressed: Significant and growing numbers of our contemporaries are deeply troubled about the posture of their Government in Viet Nam. Even more are torn-by ... to Mexico, some went to Europe, some went to Canada, and some just burnt their draft-cards to resist the draft. For those who went to Canada, they received assistance from the Committee to Aid American War Objectors. The committee helped the young immigrants with advice and aid on the Canadian immigration laws. For those who didn’t flee, life was full of harassment from the Government. Popular music and ...
- 3332: Jack Kerouac-On The Road
- Jack Kerouac's 'Great American' Novel, On the Road "…because the only people for me as the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time ... Jack Kerouac was there to see it all and tell about it in splendorous detail. Truly Jack Kerouac was a mindful literary genius and his novel On The Road published in 1957 is a great American novel that all citizens should take the time to read. On The Road begins with Sal Paradise, a beatnik traveler looking for something more in his life than the tedious life he lives, and his hero Dean Moriarty, a true representative of beat life in America and a mad man. Sal desires meaning for his pointless life so he begins a great American journey looking for everything and nothing, following in the footsteps of Dean and his friend Carlo Marx. Instead of making use of the money he has earned he takes to the road on foot ...
- 3333: The Steam Engine
- “In the never-ending search for energy sources, the invention of the steam engine changed the face of the earth.” (Siegel, Preface) The steam engine was the principal power source during the British Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. The steam engine opened a whole new world to everyone. The steam engine maximized production, efficiency, reliability, minimized time, the amount of labor, and the usage of animals. The steam engine ... the steam engine was used to mine coal, and because “England had large deposits of coal to fuel the new steam engines, it enabled people to use more machines and to build larger factories.” (Industrial Revolution. Earth Explorer). More machines and factories using the steam engine meant more production, more reliability, and cheaper prices. The steel industry was also revolutionized through the use of the steam engine. Steel, smelted from iron ... distance and time had lost their old links with wind, terrain, and hurrying horses’ hooves. To the dizzied onlookers, it must have seemed that the world was shrinking as they watched” (Sproule, 56) The industrial revolution that started in about 1770 in England revolutionized several aspects of life, as we know today. The reason to most of this revolutionized life can be credited to the steam engine. The steam engine ...
- 3334: Is Psychology a Science?
- ... to understand the definitions of both psychology and science. The word 'psychology' comes from the Greek 'psyche' (or soul) and 'logos' (or study), which came to be known as the 'study of the soul'. The American Heritage Dictionary defines psychology as: 1. the science dealing with the mind and with mental and emotional processes 2. the science of human and animal behavior. In its pure definition the dictionary has provided us ... scientific mode. However, from a strictly scientific point of view, it has not been able to meet the requirements of true science. In attempting to evaluate the status of psychology as a scientific study, the American Psychological Association appointed Sigmund Koch to conduct a study, employing over eighty noted scholars in assessing the facts, hypotheses, and methods of psychology. In 1983, the results were published in a series entitled 'Psychology: A ... be seen as a function of the phenomena that is psychology. But the key to resolving these disputes is to turn back to the empirical methods and pit alternative interpretations against each other. References The American Heritage Dictionary, 1996 Western, Psychology - Mind, Brain and Culture, 1997 Sigmund Koch, 'Psychology: A Study of Science', 1983 article Roger Mills, 'Psychology Goes Insane, Botches Role as Science', 1980 article Mitchell and Jolley, 'Research ...
- 3335: Malcolm X 2
- ... later known as the Black Muslims). Their belief, which was contrary to Martin Luther King Jr.'s, mainly to was to segregated whites and blacks. The Nation of Islam wanted to establish a separate Afro-American homeland in the U.S. and believed that the white person is "the Devil" who wanted to enslave all non-whites. The Nation of Islam also strictly followed the Islamic belief. When Malcolm was released ... back due to a series of events. These events eventually led to his break away from the Nation of Islam. After breaking away, Malcolm announced that he was creating a new organization (Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)) that didn't have the strict and harsh rules and religious sacrifices as the Nation of Islam, and which was also going to be more active. Soon after announcing this, he found out that he had a lot of support too. The creating the Organization of Afro-American Unity also made the Natio! N of Islam very angry, because Malcolm X took a large part of their supporters. As a result, they secretly and internally ordered him assassinated. For the next few ...
- 3336: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... of a Republican candidate for president. Four years later in 1932, a week before his fiftieth birthday, Roosevelt announced his candidacy for president Through his campaign speeches he preached of a 'New Deal' for the American people, one that would lift them out of the depression. Now he was going to fulfill his promise. Roosevelt did not sit back and watch the country take itself out of a depression. uests would ... Act of 1933 changed all of this. The government put a He also accomplished many things which greatly boosted the economy. He reduced the 1934 federal budget by 13%. Although he often spoke that the American Navy and Marines should be the best in the world, he was not hesitant in cutting the 1934 defense bud On August 14, 1935 he signed into law the Social Security Act. This act offered ... for last time in 1944, and won again with an easy margin. On March 30, 1945, Roosevelt returned to Warm Springs to take a rest from the presidency. On April 12 the only president in American history to serve more than two terms had died. He served his people more than twelve years and had now taken his final re Bibliography Alsop, Joseph, FDR, A Centenary Rememberance, The Viking Press, ...
- 3337: Australia's Future
- ... parents, teachers, police and government in Australia in 1990s. The community no longer accepts any authority without question, and is suffering the inevitable consequences - its eventual dissolution. Which is why professor Toynbee set the French Revolution as the start of the fall of western civilisation. The French revolution was not unique, the Russian revolution was very similar. Despite the relative prosperity of Russia in the early 1900s, a malcontented populace resolved to discard the old order for the promised utopia of marxism. The country was plunged into civil ...
- 3338: Exploration - Motives For
- Until the late 1400's, Europeans did not know the existence of the two American continents ( North and South America ). To the European explorers, exploring the other side of the Atlantic was like exploring an entire different world, hence the name- the New World. In 1492, Christopher Columbus unknowingly discovered ... France was impelled by a desire to spread Christianity, to find wealth, and to counter the efforts of other nations. France also hoped to find a new water route to the East through the North American Continent. French explorers sailed down the St. Lawrence, across the waterways of Canada, through the Great Lakes, and finally to the Mississippi River and its vast drainage system. They did not find the Northwestern Passageway ... France ) , or colonies ( England ). But from these three countries, America has been enriched by their heritage. A source of strength, this heritage still lives today - centuries after the initial European exploration and settlement - a distinctive American civilization has been created.
- 3339: Cultural Diversity in Local Politics
- ... immigrant noncitizen population and citizen native population. This became evident in the aftermath of the riots when the mostly Mexican Americans, citizen-based East Los Angeles leadership attempted to disassociate themselves from the more Central-American and recent Mexican immigrant-based residents of South Central Los Angeles. (Ramos and Wilkinson) This division expressed a long standing concern that the Latinoization of Los Angeles politics was in fact being ushered in under ... hard. A major proportion of all jobs lost nationally were lost in California, particularly in Southern California. South Central Los Angeles, once a Black bastion, is now a contested area among Blacks, Latinos and Korean American storekeepers.(Oliver and Johnson:449) Koreatown is now divided between Korean Americans and Latinos. The near San Fernando Valley, once all White, is now heavily Latino. The notion that Los Angeles was living a charmed urban life, immune from the difficulties of other big cities was destroyed in the violence of April 1992. Korean American stores were attacked in both South Central LA and in Koreatown. The 1993 mayoral election coincided with the sudden disappearance of a whole generation of leaders. Within a very short span, Mayor Tom Bradley, ...
- 3340: Prostitution
- ... society as a whole. Without the 20th century western laws, which force prostitution underground, the profession of prostitution could become a clean and safe occupation. Prostitution laws are unconstitutional and deny the prostitutes what the American constitution allows them. Prostitution is an illegal act in Canada and large portions of the United States which, if legalized, would protect and benefit 20th century western society. If sanctioned, prostitution will become economically lucrative ... only are the pimps, who are often involved in other illegal affairs illuminated, but the prostitute and the community are protected. Anti-prostitution laws are unconstitutional in their nature and deny the prostitutes what the American constitution would allow them. In 1973 the case of Roe v. Wade established certain legal precedents concerning a woman's body, the court found that: "a woman has a right of personal privacy, or a ... the courts in the case of Roe v. Wade were referring to the woman's right to abort her unborn fetus they inadvertently set a precedent for prostitution as well. The fourteenth amendment of the American constitution states that all individuals have the right to life, liberty, and the ownership of property. For the Roe v. Wade court to find that liberty encompasses the meaning of aborting what is, by ...
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