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- 1241: Go Ask Alice
- ... is in love for some time. Jill Peters, a schoolmate at her first school. Gerta, Beth, Fawn, friends she meet at her new school. Jan, Marcie, drug-users at her new school. Richie, Ted, pushers. Bill, Joe, Lane, Jacky, drug-users. Chris, a girl with whome Alice goes to San Francisco. Mario Mellani, Alice's employer in San Francisco. Sheila, Chris's employer in San Francisco. Doris, a drug-user with ... old friend , who invites her to a party. At the party Alice is given a Coke with LSD in it, and for the first time she takes a "trip". She likes the experience very much. Bill, a boy at the party, gives her more drugs, an later occasions. During one of the trips she goes to bed with Bill. When she meets Roger again she feels quilty and does not know how to deal with him. At home again, Alice feels miserable because she's afraid she is pregnant. Her relationship with her ...
- 1242: The Hong Kong Chinese Community
- ... ago." "Chinese culture through thousands of years has never had an elected-representative type of Western democracy system. So it's not a surprise...(Hong Kong) is not a place where people exercise their democratic rights." There is a very common belief that you should not offend or challenge authority. People have lost a lot of confidence in politicians because of poor examples provided by ongoing tensions between Communist China and ... Joseph Wong, whose community activism has earned him the Order of Canada, thinks that despite changes in Chinese attitudes, fear is still an obstacle towards political evolution. People are not afraid to demand for equal rights but the so-called mainstream politics and elected office is still baffling to the Chinese. The Chinese community's history in Canada also plays a major role in its reluctance to venture into politics. Following ... government to admit more "boat people" - community members were appalled. "Don't rock the boat" was exactly what they said. They said that Canada had given them a shelter and they should not demand any rights. Later that year, W5 - a CTV public affairs program - aired a segment called Campus Giveaway, which was about Chinese students taking over Canadian universities and leaving Canadian students out in the cold. Within 2 ...
- 1243: JFK
- ... of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved."4 Kennedy’s first year in office brought him considerable success in enacting new legislation. Congress passed a major housing bill, a law increasing minimum wage, and a bill granting federal aid to economically depressed areas of the United States. Kennedy put legislation through Congress which was a bill creating the Peace Corps, an agency that trained American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service oversees and promote world peace, which was important at the time because of unsettling foreign affairs. In 1959, ...
- 1244: Samuel Adams
- "Let us contemplate out forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we ... there for the whole ordeal and played a major role until his death in 1803. Samuel Adams truly is the father of American independence. Work Cited Page "Adams, Samuel." Encyclopedia Americana, Inc. 1990 ed. Carlson, Bill. "Samuel Adams." The Rhodes Family Genealogy Family Stories. Infotrac, 1991. Fradin, Dennis. Samuel Adams. New York City: Clarion Books, 1998. Miller, Ann. "Samuel Adams." Lucidcafé Library, Inc. http://www.bena.com/lucidcafe/library/95sep/adams ...
- 1245: Frederick Douglass
- ... a glimpse into the true character of southern slaveholders and the institution of slavery itself. Douglass realized that racism was also prevalent in the north and so his intent was not trying to achieve equal rights but basic human rights. Douglass hoped to gain compassion for those still held in slavery by relating experiences such as being separated from his mother when he was an infant and not knowing whom his father was, how slaves ... and other slaves endured. Through the use of propaganda disguised as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, this man sought to alter the relationship between two groups of people. Family values, basic human rights, and religion were topics used to persuade the northern white audience toward the cause of abolition. Douglass hoped that his readers would in some way share his "hate (for) the corrupt, slave holding, woman- ...
- 1246: Paramilitary and Survivalist Groups
- ... growth of militias and paramilitary groups is gun control legislation which "interferes" with the Second Amendment (Dees and Corcoran 73). A great number of individual gun-owners were angered into joining militias when the Brady-Bill was passed, therefor "limiting" their Second Amendment rights (Junas 1-7). Finallymore inconvenient public buildings, especially airports and large federal buildings. Most people would rather do away with metal detectors, and other inconveniences, if it would make their lives easier (Hubert and Delsohn ...
- 1247: The National Anthem
- ... anthem and in 1916, President Wilson designated the song to be played on particular official occasions. If it had not have been for a Maryland Congressman President Hoover may not have ever signed the Linthicum Bill in 1931, saying that the Star Spangled Banner was the United States National Anthem (Schwalbe). In my study of the National Anthem I have found that there is really a sufficient meaning behind “The Star ... today’s society take so carelessly for granted. So when we stand at attention and put our hand over our heart during the sacred playing of the song we should all thank God for our rights and the gracious freedom that we have obtained.
- 1248: Should Gambling Be Legalized?
- ... fifty percent more than average at times. When money is turned into chips, in the player's mind, it decreases it's value. When a gambler asks a dealer for change for a hundred dollar bill, the dealer is under orders to give the player the lowest denomination possible, in five dollar chips. The player would easily spend the twenty chips as pocket change. But a twenty-five dollar chip is ... a year business , with ninety percent of the earrings coming from gamblers.14 Casinos have been the financial savior of many Native American tribes in the past decade. Taking what they thought as their sovereign rights, which exempted them from the laws of the states, tribes began putting card rooms and bingo halls in their reservations. Before long many people were coming by the busload to play. Many tribes such as ...
- 1249: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... powerful men the world has ever known. J. Edgar Hoover knew many important people that held many important positions. Hoover received his first government job thanks to a close family friend by the name of Bill Hitz (Summers 29). Hitz was a judge and considered the President and Supreme Court Justice Brandeis among his close friends (Summers 29). Another individual who helped Edgar along the way was his boss at the ... J. Edgar Hoover knew a lot of private information about a lot of different people. Edgar used the Bureau to spy on lawyers who represented those arrested or worked to expose the abuse of civil rights (Summers 38-39). Edgar also discovered it was possible to spy on people and hunt them down - not because of crimes but because of their political beliefs (Summers 39). He also learned that a way ...
- 1250: The Constitution: Discord And Tension In 1850
- ... issue. With the Democrats firmly in control of national policy both in control of national policy both in the White House and in Congress, a new law was passed that would have disastrous consequences. A bill was proposed that the Nebraska Territory to be divided into the Kansas territory and Nebraska territory and the settlers there to be free to decide whether or not to allow slavery. These territories however were ... consent of the Union, or any other state.’ Lincoln continues to say that ‘ having never been States, either in substance, or in mane, outside of the Union, whence this magical omnipotence of the State’s Rights, asserting a claim of power to lawfully destroy the Union itself.’ Lincoln saw it himself that the Union would be destroyed if it continued to go on the way it did. It’s no wonder ...
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