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- 351: Willy Loman’s Struggle with the American Dream
- Willy Loman’s Struggle with the American Dream Does the American Dream set some people up for failure? The play, Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, displays aspects of the American Dream. Willy Loman, the main character in the play, is a salesman who lives the life of a failure. He is a common man who has a common family. Linda, is Willy’s wife, ...
- 352: 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 ...
- 353: Manuel Noriega
- Manuel Noriega: Playing All Sides Of the Fence Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of the Central American country of Panama, rose to power through the art of destruction deception and detail. Manuel Noriega was able to profit and flourish as Panama s new leader because of the Cold War environment. Due to ... high level of education. Like most who could not afford schooling he attended a military college in Peru. His schooling in Peru would ultimately give him his start to gaining contacts, friends, and most importantly American connections. To understand Noriega s rise to power first you must understand the environment in which he did so. After World War II a communist movement began to slowly spread throughout the world. This went ... slowly helped and inspired him to become one of America s best assets and later their worst enemy. After returning home to Panama, Noriega furthered his studies by taking courses in America and also at American bases in Panama. Some of his courses included military engineering, jungle engineering, and counter insurgency Battle (Kempe 58). Noriega was also trained in such areas as intelligence, counter-intelligence, and communication. The irony that ...
- 354: Trends In Policing
- ... alderman could disobey a police superior with virtual impunity. So while the British were firing bobbies left and right for things like showing up late for work, wearing disorderly uniforms, and behaving discourteously to citizens, American police were assaulting superior officers, refusing to go on patrol, extorting money from prisoners, and releasing prisoners from custody of other officers... Klockars (1985, p. 42) Needless to say that corruption became a big problem in American law enforcement. Probably the biggest factor that underlined the problem of corruption during this era was the soils system, whose motto was, To the victor go the spoils. This resulted in gross political interference with ... the minorities were first hired in the larger cities, and by 1900 made up 2.7 percent of all watchman. That number declined by 1910 when less than 1 percent of police officers were African-American. During this era, minority police officers were hired exclusively to patrol black areas and were only aloud to arrest other black citizens and actually could only patrol in cars marked Colored Police. Very few ...
- 355: Labor Relations
- ... the needs they attempted to satisfy. It will discuss the evolution of Trade Unionism through the centuries. From that understanding we can discuss the topic as it relates to our current environment. Historians agree that American Unionism started in the early 19th Century. These early organizations were formed along the lines of Craft. Daniel Mills explains, in Labor Relations, "Crafts people worked for themselves, or in small shops. They were often ... customers or merchants which they supplied." (35) These associations were formed to protect their craft, rather than as a collective bargaining union. In the mid 19th Century, America was in the middle of the industrial revolution. We were becoming an urban industrial society. Immigration was becoming a great source of labor supply. These large manufacturing enterprises, exploiting workers without regards to human cost, were ripe for National Union Organization. Jerry Borenstein ... dignity in the work place. Unions addressed basic concerns regarding safety issues, length of work day and wage. They were largely unsuccessful due to the public perception of unions as Socialistic as well as anti American. People viewed trade unions as being disruptive to the flow of free trade. It was only during the 1930's that trade unions, as we know them today, were created and accepted. With the ...
- 356: Malcolm X
- ... X was one of the most controversial figures of recent times, branded a 'racist', a 'hatemonger' and a 'terrorist' by America's Establishment, he spent the last years of his life struggling to free the American negro from the misery and oppression that White America had forced them to suffer for over four hundred years. The X represented the African tribal name his ancestors had lost when they were brought in ... their millions as slaves from Africa to America. From his initial, radical stance as a "Black Nationalist" seeing evil in all whites, he came to think that blacks and whites could work together for international revolution, a belief that ultimately led to his murder in 1965 by rival Black Muslims. Though he came from the American ghetto, spoke for the American ghetto and directed his message first and foremost at the American ghetto, Malcolm X became a figure of world importance developing his ideas in relation to what was happening ...
- 357: Civil Rights
- ... The urbanization of the South, the impact of television and radio, the desegregated armed forces, and other factors began to blur the distinctions between geographic regions. This all set the stage for the decade of revolution for Blacks in America. Blacks made more gains during the 1960s than they did in all the decades combined since the Civil War. It was kicked off on May 17, l954, which was the day ... and political equality for blacks. The reason the battle for civil rights picked up so much support was because the 1960s saw America’s strongest period of liberalism. This strong liberalism greatly helped the African American cause. However, the biggest factor in this great social change was the influence of black civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. In the atmosphere of the 1960s these men were ... next day one was organized. The Montgomery bus boycott was an immediate success, with virtually unanimous support from the 50,000 blacks in Montgomery. It lasted for more than a year and dramatized to the American public the determination of blacks in the South to end segregation. A federal court ordered Montgomery's buses desegregated in November 1956, and the boycott ended in triumph. This was the first truly successful ...
- 358: The Industrial Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a time of drastic change. This was the transformation from hand tools and hand made items, to machine manufactured and mass-produced goods. " Industrial Revolution, the shift, at different times in different countries, from a traditional agriculturally based economy to one based on the mechanized production of manufactured goods in large-scale enterprises." This period improved life, but hindered ...
- 359: Overview of the 60`s
- ... addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. the '60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. in spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited american people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the soviet union, which was aggravated by the u-2 incident, the ... out." you know why the nation celebrates Martin luther king, jr.'s birthday. all of the social issues are reflected in today's society: the civil rights movement, the student movement, space exploration, the sexual revolution, the environment, medicine and health, and fun and fashion. The Civil Rights Movement The momentum of the previous decade's civil rights gains led by rev. Martin luther king, jr. carried over into the ...
- 360: In Search Of Your Own Identity
- ... response. My parents were born in México, and thus, they are Mexican. Sometimes I feel I belong here in the United States, but other times I feel more attached to México. I am a Mexican-American. However, I feel that I am denying in some way my heritage and my culture by saying that I am. I am denying my parents. I say that I m Mexican because in a sense I am. I am also an American. I am a Mexican-American. What do these terms put together imply? They should imply that the person is Mexican and American. The term Mexican-American is the very reason why I find myself confused about who I really ...
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