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- 5681: The Deaf Culture
- ... intelligent as hearing people. In the early 1800's when ASL was first brought about in the United States Being deaf was considered shameful and defective. The first school for the deaf was called "The American Asylum for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb" ; in those days this was an acceptable term to use. There are many other terms that are unacceptable to the deaf, such as : deaf-mute, mute ...
- 5682: Discrimination In The Workplace
- ... up, Today, the situation is somewhat different. At many of the nations biggest corporations, different minorities are near the top of the corporate totem pole, including Kenneth Chenault and Lloyd Ward, the presidents of American Express and Maytag. Other corporations, among them General Motors, Walt Disney and Morgan Stanley, have different minorities in top-level slots. People of minorities are achieving corporate positions that their parents never dreamed of reaching ...
- 5683: Slang in America
- ... to corrupt it. Others simply do not like change. Neither group of Conservatives has any new arguments, and nothing to fear from change. Slang worries Conservatives the most because it affects the vocabulary of English. American English, especially, is always adding new words to its vocabulary for social, scientific, or artistic reasons. The scientific and artistic words do not bother these people; only the social, or slang, words do. Slang is ...
- 5684: General James Longstreet
- ... Corps under Lee also. Longstreet was a General in Gettysburg. but lost because he did not follow Lees plan of action.Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle and that had the most casualties ever fought on American soil. He was blamed in the south for the loss of the battle at Gettysburg. Gettysburg was the most crutial mistake. Many things caused the outcome of the battle like Longstreets soldiers and officers got ...
- 5685: Immigration
- ... s hope of finding a "good paying job". Business and industry owners do not care who they have working for them, as long as they hustle. So why, one may wonder would anyone hire an American worker at a higher rate, when an immigrant will do the same work for less pay? This increased competition for jobs is certainly related to the saturation of unemployed immigrants in the U.S. In ...
- 5686: Native Culture Prior to Contact with Europeans
- ... advanced civilization. It is only in the past few decades that the Aboriginal people in Canada are once again becoming a strong united front trying to regain back their rights. Bibliography Bowers, Delores. Early Native American Life. [online] Available http://www.bmcc.org/Bimaadzwin/Traditions/dbowers.htm, no date. Careless, J.M.S. Canada: A Story of Challenge. Toronto, ON: The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited, 1963. Grant, W.L. History ...
- 5687: Managing Information Systems
- ... what actually makes up this new virtual world that we are creating for ourselves called cyberspace. In the 1950 s and 60 s the fear of nuclear attack was constantly on the minds of the American people and the government. The government therefore developed a corporation called RAND that they put in charge of making a network that could be protected from nuclear attack and could guarantee that we could still ...
- 5688: Tim Leary
- ... the whole relationship between patient/therapist should be changed to a more egalitarian information exchange. McClelland was impressed saying that "There is no question that what your advocating is going to be the future of American psychology. You're spelling out front-line tactics. You're exactly what we need to shake things up at Harvard." In the spring of 1960 Tim started teaching at Harvard. That summer he went on ...
- 5689: A Remarkable Woman Of The Earl
- ... Martin and Nancy Thorpe. Hudson Marton was born in Virginia in 1765. At the close of the Revolutionary War, Giddeon Martin, his after moved to Kentucky. Giddeon Martin had fought for seven years in the Revolution under General George Washington. Hudsont Martin and Nancy Thorpe were married March 22nd, 1824. The following children were born to this union John, their only son, and daughters Jane, Mahalley, Margaret Ann, Nancy and Jennie ...
- 5690: Timothy Leary
- ... when he and friend, Robert Alpert, wrote an article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist. In the article they described a circumstance that in the event of war, the Russians might try to lace the American water supply with LSD. Then, when everybody in America is stoned, the Russians would seize power. They explained that in order to prevent the scenario from happening, everyone should take a dose of LSD so ...
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