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- 341: Only Yesterday
- ... s beginning with the signing of the armistice and ending with the stock market crash of 1929. Woodrow Wilson was the president at the end of WWI. He had the great honor of informing the American public that the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. When the news reached the people they literally poured into the streets in celebration. Four days before a false report was released that the armistice ... weeks for any semblance of order to return. Consequently the police who were striking were fired and eventually replaced. Another problem for America was a rumor that caused widespread panic in the minds of the American people. Supposedly the Bolshevics had plans to infiltrate the U.S. government and other institutions. A handful of radicals added to this fear by bombing certain buildings and high-ranking officials. This and other aggressive ... undesirable aliens. One man killed an alien for saying "To Hell with the U.S." and he was acquitted of the crime after two minutes of deliberation. This and other acts kept occurring until the American public realized that the Bolshevic threat was not that serious. America soon turned its attention to topics of leisure as opposed to those of war. The invention of the radio became the main topic ...
- 342: Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies
- ... Particulary around the Canadian border. The Seneca opposed the extension of French settlement southwards from Canada, and were responsible for prevention the English colonies from being forced on the west by the French. During the American Revolution the Seneca sided with the British. SOCIETY Each town in the tribe contained several long, bark covered communal houses that had both tribal and political significance. Inside each house several families lived in semi-private ... of the British, Red Jacket proved to be a very unenthusiastic warrior. He earned himself the name Red Jacket from wearing the British's red coat. During the War of 1812 he fought on the American side against the British. Cornplanter- Cornplanter was a famous Seneca Indian chief and statesman, who during the American Revolution led his warriors against the colonists in many important campaigns. He was half-brother of ...
- 343: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... B. Anthony, and Lucretia Coffin Mott. Without their motivation to conduct and follow through with the actions that needed to be taken in order to give women the equal rights they were entitled to as American citizens. When these bold women took a stand and made themselves heard, they encouraged hordes of women to participate in their stand for equality. Though countless women fought the many battles for women's rights ... in 1793 and died in 1880. Lucretia was educated at Nine Partners, a Quaker boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York. She married James Mott, who had been a teacher at that school. Lucretia was an American abolitionist and feminist. In 1817 she became involved in the Society of Friends, and in 1827, the society split into two parts; she and her husband joined the group called the Hicksites, which was a liberal function led by Elias Hicks. Together Lucretia and her husband helped organize the American Antislavery Society in 1833. They were both delegates to an International Anti-slavery Convention in London, in 1840. Unfortunately, Lucretia was excluded because of her sex. So she devoted most of her time and ...
- 344: Television Shows Reflect American Culture
- Television Shows Reflect American Culture There are many movies and television shows that reflect American culture. A show or movie must address some current societal problem or trend in order to truly reflect American life; murder, rape, racism, and, on a less serious note, parties, shopping, and sports are topics that deserve serious consideration by the public and the media. The show Beverly Hills 90210 attempts to be ...
- 345: A Public Relations Proposal For The American Egg Board
- A Public Relations Proposal for the American Egg Board, 1997 "AN EGG IS ALWAYS AN ADVENTURE" - OSCAR WILDE Eggs should be avoided because they are high in cholesterol. This is the biggest MYTH that has cracked the good reputation of the egg ... this delusion of the egg. Prevention of heart decease means strict monitoring of the bad cholesterol in the blood stream. Spreading the news of the dietary cholesterol (good cholesterol) present in the egg will encourage American's to consume more eggs. In addition, based on data from the American Heart Association, there are no direct relationships between egg consumption and Coronary Vascular Disease (CVD) mortality in male or female populations. Evaluating the data resulted in some interesting comparisons. Weekly per capita egg consumption ...
- 346: Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad
- Runaways and the Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was the most dramatic protest action against slavery in American history. The operation of helping slaves escape using underground networks began in the 1500s. Which was later helped by the abolitionist activity of the 1800s. The route of the underground rail road was a constructed ... consistently used flight as a form of resistance. Escapes occurred as early as the 1500s when African captives arrived in the Spanish colonies. In Spanish North America, some bondsmen escaped and took refuge with Native American groups who welcomed the runaways as members of their communities. Others absconded into unclaimed territories and secluded areas and formed maroon or free societies there. Later, maroon settlements were primarily found in the Great Dismal ... sought refuge in Spanish Florida which accorded them liberty. This act indeed posed a threat t o White settlers in nearby British, French, Danish, and Dutch territories. African runaways often lived and intermarried with Native American groups such as the Creeks and Muscogee who provided them protection. Eventually this group of peoples became known as the "Seminoles" (a Native American word meaning runaway). Hundreds of African refugees from the Carolinas ...
- 347: A Comparison Of Durkheim And Frued On Native American Cultur
- A Comparison of Durkheim and Freud on Native American Culture Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud have radically different views on Native American culture. Freud, a psychologist, believes "that our task to civilization is to defend us against nature." He thinks that there are superior powers in nature like fate that inflict undetermined influences upon society (Freud). On ... to scared things." He initiates community wholeness and individuality intermingled into social structures. As a result, Durkheim and Freud have opposing views on individual social interaction among Native Americans. An important source in understanding Native American religion is Emile Durkheim. As shown in this religion, Durkheim analyzed initiation rites that consisted of long ceremonies that would take a person from the profane world into the world of the scared (Durkheim). ...
- 348: Anarchy
- Anarchy: noun. 1. Absence of any form of political authority. 2. Political disorder and confusion. 3. Absence of any cohering principle, as a common standard or purpose. [Greek anarkhia, without a ruler] (American Heritage Dictionary). Anarchy is a political philosophy shrouded in misconception. This misconception is caused by the diversity of the subject of anarchism itself, which cannot be characterized by simple slogans or television plugs. In theory ... corrupt utopia," states Dave Roediger in the Haymarket Scrapbook. Even though anarchy remains a theory, the idea itself has existed for over two hundred years, not only outlasting civilizations, but thriving throughout time. The French Revolution, Smogor 2 begun in 1789, had a strong pro-anarchist element. Anarchists also played a substantial role in the revolutionary movements in Russia in 1905 and 1917 (Pleck 69), but were suppressed, often ruthlessly, once the Bolsheviks consolidated power. " The Spanish Revolution of 1936-1939 held close anarchy ties between 'Benedict Arnolds,' " says Patrick Brenner in Black Rose. The Spanish Revolution set the stage for the most widely known large-scale manifestation of anarchism, the theory ...
- 349: Charles Dickens 5
- ... I could have been so easily cast away at such an age'. This childhood poverty and adversity contributed greatly to Dickens' later views on social reform in a country in the throes of the Industrial Revolution and his compassion for the lower class, especially the children. Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short storys and articles before his death in 1870. The inscription on his tombstone ... was to try to put forth the idea of international copyright. Dickens' works were routinely pirated in America and for the most part he received not a penny for his writing there. Dickens argued that American authors would benefit also as they were pirated in Europe but these arguments generally fell on deaf ears. Indeed there would be no international copyright law for another 50 years. In keeping with his fascination ... in Illinois. While in Washington he attended sessions of Congress, toured the White House, and met President Tyler. In the White House, as just about everywhere he went in America, Dickens was appalled at the American male passion for chewing tobacco. Dickens wanted to see the South and observe slavery first hand. His initial plan was to go to Charleston but because of the heat and the length of the ...
- 350: Mao Zedong
- Mao Zedong In the early 1900s as China emerged from a half of a century of revolution and moved toward a place of economic development and social change, Mao Zedong (Wade -- Giles: Mao Tse Tung) its principle revolutionary thinker and for many years its unchallenged leader, held a critical place in the ... dominant role throughout the whole struggle. In the early years of the Chinese Communist Party he was a secondary figure but not a irdisregardable one. Even after the 1400s (except maybe during the cultural revolution) the vital decisions were not his alone. Looking at the period from the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 to Maos Death in 1976, one can justly consider Mao Zedong the principle ... to western superiority. He wished at the same time to preserve select portions of Chinas tradition. He sought to promote national resurgence and cultural transformation (Schram 1994). Mayos aim was to purify the revolution, what he really wanted was to regain control over the party and purge his political rivals. To this end, he set fourth a decade of savagery and chaos. "Bad elements" were beaten to death, ...
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