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- 1321: The Philosophical Foundations
- ... across the Delaware to surprise the British Army on Christmas Eve--or Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence, risking "life, fortune and sacred honor" to establish the fledgling republic on the principle of individual rights--or a scientist/inventor like Thomas Edison or Marie Curie or the Wright Brothers devoting years of effort to discover new knowledge or create new products. Whatever one's individual tastes in heroes, one fact ... is largely intellectual, Shane's largely physical, etc. Obviously, there are many differences. But what are the critical similarities by virtue of which we place them together in the same class and distinguish them from Bill Clinton, the Pope, Mother Theresa, Madonna--or even from the folks next door? When the question is formed in this way, the answer should be clear. They hold rational, i.e., life-promoting values--and ...
- 1322: The Crucible 9
- ... writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitors' violations of civil rights, were fearful, and with good reason, of being identified as covert Communists if they should protest too strongly. In any play, however trivial, there has to be a still point of moral reference against which ... to gauge the action. In our lives, in the late nineteen-forties and early nineteen-fifties, no such point existed anymore. The left could not look straight at the Soviet Union's abrogations of human rights. The anti-Communist liberals could not acknowledge the violations of those rights by congressional committees. The far right, meanwhile, was licking up all the cream. The days of "J'accuse" were gone, for anyone needs to feel right to declare someone else wrong. Gradually, all the ...
- 1323: Censorship...Who gives a F**k!!!
- ... proposed for the prevention of explicit lyrics with a multitude of bills never passing or if they had, not being enforced. In the state of Washington there was a law passed called "The Erotic Music Bill." This 1992 law stated that store owners had to place an "adult only" label on certain recordings. It was also stated that it was a crime for anyone to sell a CD or tape that ... are some lines from the song, "Hook in Mouth", "A little man with a big eraser, changing history...Altering facts and figures, events and every issue...Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was...Replacing rights with wrongs...You say you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway? Ever think it was meant to be this way?" These lines show they are against Censorship. The next lines which are ...
- 1324: America
- ... America is now most firmly united and as firmly resolved to defend their liberties ad infinitum against every power on Earth that may attempt to take them away." Americans realized that England was stealing their rights, and they began to join together. It wasn't an individual against England, it was the country against England. Salutary Neglect was the cause of all American problems. It was the precursor to all the ... Samuel Adams, George Washington, Peyton Randolph, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, John Jay, Joe Galloway, and John Dickinson. Peyton Randolph was elected president. The people sent a petition to King George, called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, and invited the people of Canada to join with the King's permission. In addition the congress called the colonies to boycott trade to England. The people discussed the acts that the British ... quartering British troops, and the Boston Tea Party . Four laws were passed as a penalty: The Boston Port Act which closed the Boston port, as the name suggests. The Massachusetts Government Act removed Massachusetts' legal rights, and banned town meetings. The Quartering Act forced colonists to house British soldiers. Finally, the Impartial Administration of Justice Act removed British soldiers from the American legal system, so they could not be punished ...
- 1325: Censorship of Music in the Media
- ... censor music is, Scott Williams, general manager of the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Representative Dan Tripp-R, South Carolina, says that "our kids are being affected by this trash." Mr. Tripp's new bill would forbid concerts he doesn't like from taking place at any state-owned venue in South Carolina. We have to ask how these politicians and others like them how they are able to ignore ... Arts cannot give funds to any artist if the works of that artist are "indecent." My idea of what is "indecent" might be entirely different from your idea. This is definitely tampering with First Amendment rights. More freedoms are being taken away every day every day and we have to keep those and try to regain those that we have lost. The question is, how do you fight the Supreme Court ...
- 1326: Across Five Aprils- Summary
- ... year-old boy that lives on his family's farm during the war. His brother Tom and his cousin Eb leave early on and join the fight against the Confederates. Soon after, Jethro's brother Bill runs away to join the Confederate army. This causes much controversy throughout the book and later causes the hate crime of burning down the family's barn. Soon after Bill leaves, Jethro's oldest brother, John, and the local teacher, Shadrach Yale leave to fight for the Union, as well. This leaves Jethro, his older sister, Jenny, and their parent s to manage the farm ... not very densely populated. This book did not have many morals, but it did show how people could be prejudice, not only towards a different race, but also against someone with different views. Just because Bill ran off to fight for the Confederates, the entire family was labeled as being against the Union, as well. This book was very well written and it got the point across well.
- 1327: Outlaws In The Frontier
- ... Longabaugh), Billy the Kid (William Bonney; original name perhaps Henry McCarty), Sam Bass, Joaquin Murieta, and the Dalton gang. Equally famous were some of the lawmen who tried to rid the West of criminals Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the infamous Judge Roy Bean. The era of the American outlaw lasted about 100 years roughly from 1800 until 1900. There had been lawlessness during the colonial era. Frontiers ... was the growth of the cattle kingdom in Texas and neighboring states. Cattle rustling and horse theft turned into significant operations. Range wars bred a great amount of violence. Cattlemen fought over land and water rights, and they fought with great bitterness against sheep farmers. In Texas, range wars were fought over the use of barbed wire to fence grazing land. By the end of the 19th century, the frontier era ...
- 1328: Abraham Lincoln
- ... mainly to vote for or against slavery). The following year he ran for the U.S. Senate, but seeing that he could not win, he yielded to Lyman Trumbull, a Democrat who opposed Douglas's bill. He campaigned for the newly founded Republican party in 1856, and in 1858 he became its senatorial candidate against Douglas. In a speech to the party's state convention that year he warned that "a ... the Union generals John C. Frιmont and David Hunter, but again courted the radicals by reverting to a cautious antislavery program. Thus, he exerted pressure on the border states to inaugurate compensated emancipation, signed the bill for abolition in the District of Columbia, and consented to the second Confiscation Act. On July 22, 1862, in response to radical demands and diplomatic necessity, he told his cabinet that he intended to issue ... Unhappy with his Proclamation of Amnesty (December 1863), which called for the restoration of insurgent states if 10 percent of the electorate took an oath of loyalty, Congress in July 1864 passed the Wade-Davis Bill, which provided for more onerous conditions and their acceptance by 50 percent of the voters. When Lincoln used the pocket veto to kill it, some radicals sought to displace him and in the so- ...
- 1329: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... self- defense. It was after the Civil War that the first gun-control advocates came into existence. These were southern leaders who were afraid that the newly freed black slaves would assert their newfound political rights, and these leaders wanted to make it easier to oppress the free blacks. This oppression was accomplished by passing laws making it illegal in many places for black people to own firearms. With that effort ... that the black population would be subject to their control, and would not have the ability to fight back. At the same time, the people who were most intent on denying black people their basic rights walked around with their firearms, making it impossible to resist their efforts. An unarmed man stands little chance against an armed one, and these armed men saw their plans work completely. It was a full century before the civil rights activists of the 1960s were able to restore the constitutional freedoms that blacks in this country were granted in the 1860s. Today's gun control activists are a slightly different breed. They claim that ...
- 1330: Stock Market
- ... negotiable debt obligation issued by the U.S. government and backed by its full faith and credit, having a maturity of one year or less. Exempt from state and local taxes, it's also called Bill or T-Bill or U.S. Treasury Bill. Treasuries are negotiable. If you own Treasuries you can sell them at any time, there is a ready market, and the sale price depends on market interest rates. The Treasury bond is a negotiable, ...
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