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- 1031: Violence Between Blacks and Whites
- ... fear into the black community. Supremacists ocunted on this fear to prevent growth within the black community. Violence kept the races politically, economically and socially segregated. It also kept the black community inferior. The Civil Rights Movement heightened racial tension and increased violence. The theme of the movement was passive resistance. Organizations such as the NAACP and SNCC gained momentum and support in the 1950's and 1960's. Blacks gained strength as the civil rights movement grew. Before the movement, blacks fear grew largely out of isolation. Instead of standing alone they organized into a group that made them heard. In 1956 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery ... to stand up, not to run and hide." The bus boycott did prove to be successful and gave the black community the confidence to fight. The whites still continued to try to stop the civil rights movement using violence. In 1961 an interracial group rode through the south by bus in opposition to segregation. On this trip blacks sat in the front and whites sat in the back. In the ...
- 1032: The Government and Environmental Policy
- ... incremental changes are made which take up lots of time and retard the effectiveness and enforcement of the legislation. In addition to this chaotic turmoil, four steps must be implemented in order to pass a bill. These are initiation & definition, formulation & enactment (legitimation), implementation, and evaluation. The most relevant one of these steps is horizontal implementation when one considers the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act. This policy is the ... criticism has been directed toward the Fish and Wildlife Service for not setting up an effective program. "The agency 'has underestimated the size of the job and been backward about asking for enough resources,' says Bill Reffalt, of the Wilderness Society, who worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service for 23 years. He says that only in the last year has his old agency recovered fully from the aggressive dismantling of ... jail against violations of the ESA." What this shows is that even though the road to legislation is rocky and littered with many retarding factors including horizontal implementation structure and divided government problems, once the bill is established as law it is absolute and extremely effective if enforced by the courts. It does create other problems such as the kind of situation where a zoo wants to import or export ...
- 1033: Government Spending & Budget
- ... unrealistic predictions of avoiding such catastrophes as recession, national disasters, etc., and include minor loopholes. History has shown that every budget agreement that has failed was too lax. One might remember the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill that attempted to balance the budget, but left too many exemptions, and was finally abandoned in 1990 (Weinberger 33). So after a pain-staking trial for GOP Republicans to create, promote, and pass their budget, as promised on campaign trail 94, Clinton rejected the very bill he demanded. This essentially brought the federal budget back to square one. Clinton thought such a demand on Republicans to produce a budget would produce inner-party quarrels and cause the GOP to implode. Instead ... a train leaving the station. The longer we wait, the harder and farther we have to run," says the Concord Coalition (Rau M-1). "Both parties want the issue," instead of an agreement, said Representative Bill Orton. The center of attention for debate on budget cutting is politics, and whomever takes responsibility for reform gets left wide open to criticism. Although Congress and Clinton have spent the past year on ...
- 1034: Earl Warren
- Earl Warren, better known as a chief justice who led the Supreme Court of the United States in making difficult decisions in changes with civil rights laws and criminal cases, was an American jurist and political leader. Warren was born on March 19, 1891, in Los Angeles California. He attended the University of California for his education, and was admitted to ... cases meant the courts taking over the school district. In 1966 Warren and his court had another major decision to deal with, Miranda v. State of Arizona. The case dealt with criminal suspects and their rights. The court's decision was that criminal suspects had to be informed of their rights before questioning. Warren and his court also ruled decisions dealing with legislative apportionment, the basic rights of citizenship, and limitation of the use of libel laws. Warren received both criticism and praise as a ...
- 1035: Juvenile Crime
- ... 2 years Congress is considering how to help state and local official's combat violent teenage crime. The most prominent example is the Violent Youth Predator Act of 1996 (H.R. 3565), sponsored by Representative Bill McCollum (R-FL), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. The McCollum bill would change the federal criminal justice system by mandating that juveniles who commit two types of federal crime -- serious violent crimes or major drug trafficking offenses will be tried as adults. Using a control group ... UT) and former Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-KS), would make similar improvements in federal law. Both the Hatch and McCollum bills would give states financial assistance to help them combat juvenile crime. The McCollum bill would replace the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) with a new Office of Juvenile Crime Control. In addition to serving as a clearinghouse for information disseminated to state ...
- 1036: NAFTA
- ... also in services, including construction services. Business Travel: Simplified procedures expedite business travel. Eligible business people can be granted temporary entry without prior approval procedures. Intellectual Property: The NAFTA includes comprehensive coverage of intellectual property rights to encompass standards of rules and enforcement. Under the NAFTA, many Mexican tariffs were eliminated immediately, including those on a range of Canada's key exports: agricultural and fish products, many metals and minerals, most ... heartland of North America. Air Flights from Canadian airports serve all major North American centres, allowing for overnight delivery by air cargo. Following the signing of the 1994 "Open Skies" agreement, Canadian carriers have unlimited rights to fly from anywhere in Canada to any point in the United States. U.S. airlines enjoy similar rights to destinations other than Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Equal access for U.S. carriers will be phased in over three years. The arrangement will mean better connections and more competitive pricing for both passengers ...
- 1037: The Deadly Social Cloud (Satir
- ... unfortunately, due to the fact that other counties such as Cuba and Mexico are the lead producers of tobacco. The United States cannot control production of other countries. Some others may say that the human rights of the smoker will be violated if my proposal is put into effect. What about the human rights of the victims around them? Are they not aloud to have healthy long lives? I say that the right to survive for the majority of the population is much more important than the rights of a so-called human being that tries to commit suicide and kill everyone else with them. Not only are adults affected, but children are also affected by cigarette smoke. Does the future for ...
- 1038: Rosa Parks
- ... Being such a major issue is society, racism is also a major theme in one of the best pieces of American Literature, To Kill A Mockingbird. People, particularly African Americans, have been denied basic human rights such as getting a fair trial, eating in a certain restaurant, or sitting in certain seats of public buses. However, in 1955 a woman named Rosa Parks took a stand, or more correctly took a ... make a change. Although her arrest would seem like she lost her battle, what followed would be her victory. Rosa Parks's stand was so significant that she is called the mother of the civil rights movement (National Women's Hall of Fame1). Her arrest served as a catalyst for a massive boycott for public busses. Led by Martin Luther King, for 381 days, African Americans carpooled, walked, or found other ... In 1965, the case was brought to court, and segregation of busses was ruled unconstitutional, " the busses were officially desegregated on December 21, 1956" (Microsoft Corporation1) . The movement Rosa Parks started climaxed with the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965. She received many tributes and awards, such as the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1970 and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in 1980( ...
- 1039: The Choice
- ... might threat his company. The next day, Ed went to see his Congressman, Frank Bates about eliminating foreign competition to keep his company safe. After the long discussion, Ed finally convinced him to sponsor a bill banning foreign television. In return, Ed did a lot of traveling to help defend protectionism. By the summer of 1960, Frank Bates was running for President of the United States and he wanted Ed to ... overnight delivery it was a booming success and they employ over 100,000 people with high paying salaries. Their next trip was back to the year 1960 were Frank Bates became president and passed a bill banning all exports to the United States. Ed didn't mind because his business became a booming success and his workers were rich. But, Dave explained to Ed the result of this bill made America overall a poorer country because without free trade. Americans would have to supply its own products, using up valuable resources that they could have get cheaper from other countries. Plus, since resources ...
- 1040: Mother 2
- ... nineteenth century. This short story presents important aspects of Freeman life. Throughout this story she express the miserable life that her mother was having with her father and what she did to claim for her rights; also, what changes her father did toward her mother. Freeman's mother had a miserable life with her husband. It may be interesting to know that Freeman's father, Warren Wilkins, gave up his plan ... yet "Mother" was not informed. Freeman's mother lived forty years keeping silence about her feeling and discrimination. Towards the end of the story, Freeman expresses what should her mother do to claim for her rights. She describes "Mother" as taking enough courage to break the chain of slavery. For forty years she had served her husband without complaint, but now she had to stand up and fight for her right ... courage and boldness, and she did not pay attention to the comments of her neighborhood. When Mr. Hersey, the minister of the church, comes to the new home she stands up and talks about her rights to dictate what happens in her own house. She says: "I've thought it all over an' over, an' I believe I'm doing' what's right. I've made it the subject of ...
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