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- 961: Fascism and its Political Ideas
- ... of counter-revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a philosophy or a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of aggressive nationalism ... group that got started during the disorder of the Reconstruction era. Now the Klans political agenda are a number of things. They believe the United States government should protect the jobs and welfare of Americans first, not just anyone in the third world countries. The Klan does not want to continue seeing America sell itself to foreigners such as the Japanese, America should be owned by Americans. Closing American borders to immigrants also is a project that the KKK thinks should handled by putting American troops at the border of Mexico. The idea that the end of the world is coming is rapidly ...
- 962: North American Free Trade Agreement: NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement: NAFTA Introduction I believe that the North American Free Trade Agreement was an inevitable step in the evolution of the United States economic policy. The globilization of the world economy due to technological advances in computers and communications have shrunk the world to ... produces. It does not have unlimited factors of endowments and must do its best to make these available to the companies within its borders. There are two basic sides to the argument over the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Pro-NAFTA side views the treaty as a way to provide a large, efficient production base for the entire geopolitical area. This would result in lower cost to consumers and ...
- 963: Our Solar System at a Glance
- ... the solar system. Mercury literally bakes and freezes at the same time. Days and nights are long on Mercury. The combination of a slow rotation relative to the stars (59 Earth days) and a rapid revolution around the Sun (88 Earth days) means that one Mercury solar day takes 176 Earth days or two Mercury years -- the time it takes the innermost planet to complete two orbits around the Sun! Mercury ... Veiled by dense cloud cover, Venus -- our nearest planetary neighbor -- was the first planet to be explored. The Mariner 2 spacecraft, launched on August 27, 1962, was the first of more than a dozen successful American and Soviet missions to study the mysterious planet. As spacecraft flew by or orbited Venus, plunged into the atmosphere or gently landed on Venus' surface, romantic myths and speculations about our neighbor were laid to ... scan another planet; onboard instruments measured Venus for 42 minutes. Mariner 5, launched in June 1967, flew much closer to the planet. Passing within 4,094 kilometers (2,544 miles) of Venus on the second American flyby, Mariner 5's instruments measured the planet's magnetic field, ionosphere, radiation belts and temperatures. On its way to Mercury, Mariner 10 flew by Venus and transmitted ultraviolet pictures to Earth showing cloud ...
- 964: General George Patton
- ... troops to ever be quartered in the Tower of London. Soon, however, Pershing and Patton were in France, where George requested transfer to a combat command. His request was granted and Patton became the first American assigned to the new U. S Tank Corps. With his usual impetuousness, Patton treaded to victory with the British tankers at Cambrai, the world's first major tank battle. A short time later he went through the French tank course. Using his newly acquired knowledge of tanks, Patton organized the American tank school at Langres, France, and trained the first 500 American tankers. During the next few months, Patton received two promotions to lieutenant colonel. Prior to the battle of St.Mihiel, his tankers carried out reconnaissance missions. During the battle itself, Lt. Col. Patton foreshadowed ...
- 965: Modern American Marketing Techniques
- Modern American Marketing Techniques Modern American marketing techniques have undermined the almighty dollar and have forgotten what sport is really about. The green-eyed monster has turned sport into a ruthless money hungry buModern American marketing techniques have undermined the almighty dollar and have forgotten what sport is really about. The green-eyed monster has turned sport into a ruthless money hungry business. Corporations use marketing techniques to trick ...
- 966: Chinese Communist Influences
- To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered China's traditional relationship with the world. Hence the Chinese Communist ...
- 967: Kkk 3
- ... as the "Reconstruction" period created a tension , a fear and total hate for the black race among many white people. This event was the result of the primitive version of constitutional equality of the African-American race at the end of the Civil War. It was in this state of confusion and transition that the terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan was born. Before the end of the civil war, May ... plantation owners and southern aristocrats back into power." (The Aggressive Klan, p. 2) Besides being and organization bent on instilling fear and terror upon those whom it targeted, the Klan clearly goes against the basic American values of which they so proudly claim to uphold and defend. Since the earliest settlers arrived upon this continent our country truly has been created as a mixing pot of all cultures, races and nationalities. This blending of peoples has resulted in a unique American culture, with each race contributing in their own way. Also, our country has, especially in past times, opened wide its doors to immigrants. Americans morals are clearly inclusive. One look at our countries reveals ...
- 968: American Reconstruction
- ... the Freedmen's Bureau. This federal agency had been set up near the end of the war to distribute clothes, food, and fuel to the poor of the South. It ran schools for the African American children. It was also in charge of land abandoned by Confederates or taken from them. It divided this land into 40-acre plots. These were to be rented to freedmen until the land could be ... They set up public school systems and gave the vote to all adult males. By 1869, voters had approved all these constitutions and the ex-Confederate states were let back in the Union. Fourteen African American congressmen and two African American senators would serve in Congress during Reconstruction. Reconstruction faced great problems in Washington D.C. President Johnson obeyed the letter of the Reconstruction laws, but he worked against them in spirit. In 1867 Congress ...
- 969: Relations Among the Races
- ... including the National Multicultural Institute, whose main focus is to "sort out the jumble of expectations and fears that swirl around the initiative's struggle to reconcile ethnicity and difference with the notion of one American nation" (Green, 1998; PG) -- are pushing hard to mend racial tension with a comprehensive program that is designed to bring all races together. Will it work? Or will minorities look upon the effort as nothing ... of America's biggest problems today. Even so, over one-third said the problem -- though it exists -- is insignificant (Farley, 1997; 88+). As it relates to their own lives, eighty-nine percent of the African-American adolescents who responded said the problem was small or did not exist at all. Amazingly, the Caucasian respondents -- both young and old -- considered racism a more "dominant issue" (Farley, 1997; 88+) than did the African-American adolescent respondents. What does that say about the varying impressions of race relations? Depending upon which race is viewing the issue, it appears the seriousness of the problem could be considerably damaging or an ...
- 970: In Practise The American Colonies Were Self Governing In 1776
- In Practise The American Colonies Were Self Governing In 1776 In practise the American colonies were self governing in 1776 ». If this is so why did they feel the need to declare independence in 1776. Whether the colonies were independent by 1776 is a question with numerous aspects that ... closed down the port of Boston is another reason for the Americans wish to stop British rule and it also was the reason behind the Philadelphia Congress in 1774 which was the first sign of American unity. By 1776, the colonies « had already escaped many of the leading strings supposedly held by the hand of Westminster » but what remained was a conflict of ideologies which meant that Britain and the ...
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