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- 1591: Women and Equality in the Workforce
- ... However, beginning with the women's suffrage amendment in 1920, women have begun to make a stand for themselves and not accept the mistreatment. The fourteenth amendment granted anyone born in the United States equal rights, and that includes women. Women have striven for these equal rights for over a century in America, and now they have a very strong grasp on their position in society. Women, who used to make up a mere 20% of the working population, now hold a ... men in the workforce and share an even percentage with them at 50% a piece? Or is it possible that women will overtake the men and the men will be forced to pursue their equal rights? This experiment will attempt to answer that very question. In a setting where the qualifications are equivalent, do women or men have a better shot at landing a job? Is there now a discrimination ...
- 1592: Telecommunication
- ... Elisha Gray and Thomas Edison to invent a better telephone. A telephone battle began between Western Union and Bell. Soon after Bell filed suit against Western Union and won since he had possessed the basic rights and patents to the telephone. As a settlement Western Union handed over it's whole telephone network to Bell giving him a monopoly in the telephone market. During his experiments to create a functional telephone ... membrane and a metal support. The motion of the membrane changed the pressure on the carbon button, varying the flow of electricity through the microphone. When the Bell Vs. Western Union lawsuit was settled the rights to this transmitter were also taken over by Bell. 2.3. Please Wait, I'll Connect You. The first network of telephones consisted of switchboards. When a customer wanted to place a call he would ... not use Morse code. Baudot's five level code sent five pulses for each character transmitted. The machines did the encoding and decoding, eliminating the need for operators. After some improvements by Donald Murray the rights to the machine were sold to Western Union and Western Electric. The machine was named the teletypewriter and was also known by it's nickname TTY. A service called telex was offered by Western ...
- 1593: The Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment in Europe
- ... death your right to say it. Voltaire favored a strong monarch, and thought that rulers should be strong but enlightened. An enlightened monarch was a ruler who studied the science of government and protected basic rights of people. Voltaire was the most famous of the Philosophes. He wrote almost every type of literature, exhibiting most of the main elements of the Enlightenment. Jean Jacques Rousseau was also vital to the Enlightenment ... the noble savage who lived in a state of nature. He brought civilization together during the enlightenment with his arguments. John Locke also thought that all people were equal, and that all people had natural rights; to life liberty and property. He had an optimistic view o human nature; he thought people were basically reasonable and cooperative. He saw government as contact between the ruler and the ruled, and that a ruler could stay in power with the consent of the ruled. He published Two Treaties on government in 1690. Government was responsible for protecting rights, but power was limited. Locke shut down the absolute rule of the government and gave the people more power. Thomas Hobbes governed to establish order in society. He contradicted Locke by saying the best ...
- 1594: Pay For Student Athletes
- ... retirement in 1987, he has become the leader in NCAA reform. He claims that universities are making millions promoting their athletic programs, and the student athletes are not reaping any of its benefits. Byers proposed Bill of Rights states 1)Congress would end the NCAA's right to set arbitrary limits on the value of sports scholarships, which would allow athletes to earn what the market will bear, 2)Athletes could hold jobs ...
- 1595: Russian Reform and Economics: The Last Quarter of the 20th Century
- ... the people. The lack of overall government regulations like unemployment insurance, a decent taxation system, and a centralized market caused many of the conditions. Another problem was the lack of legal infrastructure and protected property rights. The old factories in Russia couldn't keep up with the new technology of the Information Age. In 1987 Russia had less than 200,000 computers compared to the United States' 25,000,000 (Smith ... were replaced between March 1985 and August 1988 (Hill & Dellenbrant, 144). In the expansive stage changes brought about a wider democracy, decentralization in politics and the economy, vertical and horizontal reform, electoral reform, and the rights of information act. The electoral voting system began experimentation during June 1988 (Hill & Dellenbrant, 101). Reform brought about the allowance of protesting government and political abuses. Other government regulations also needing reform were commercial and financial codes, the existing tax system, and private property rights. A policy in 1991 approved the establishment of a free market economy called the "Memorandum on the Economic Policy of the Russian Federation" (Smith, A., 177). This policy contained the removal of government constraints, ...
- 1596: Ancient Egyptians and the Norsemen: Creating the Past
- ... interesting myths. In Ancient Egypt the father was the head of the family, and upon his death the son stepped into the head position. Due to a loose culture the women had almost as many rights as men. Women could own land, buy and sell goods, make a will, and obtain a divorce. In Egypt like in most other places only a small percentage of boys and girls attended school, and ... classes: nobles, freemen, and slaves, and spoke a Germanic language that had two major dialects that all Vikings understood. Marriages were mostly arranged by parents, and the husband ruled the family. Although women had many rights such as owning land, sharing in the wealth her husband gained, and obtaining a divorce whenever she wished. The Vikings lived in small communities or villages with a king or chief ruling each one. Each ... with their possessions and in some cases with their live slaves and dogs. Such graves were supposed to ensure a safe journey to the land of the dead. In the Viking society women had many rights, and played a big role in Norse myths. Women maidens called Valkyries were the ones who took warriors to Valhalla (Cavendish 183). According to myths in the beginning there was a nothing called Ginnungagap. ...
- 1597: Essay And Opinion On The Way O
- ... have been much different. However, taking into perspective the times again, political issues were focused more around the Republic instead of human equality. Women would still have to wait their turn in line for equal rights anyhow, because in front of them where the Native Americans we pushed off the land and the African Americans we were using as servants and slaves. Right between Mary and all of her ambitions for ... have been much different. However, taking into perspective the times again, political issues were focused more around the Republic instead of human equality. Women would still have to wait their turn in line for equal rights anyhow, because in front of them where the Native Americans we pushed off the land and the African Americans we were using as servants and slaves. Right between Mary and all of her ambitions for ... have been much different. However, taking into perspective the times again, political issues were focused more around the Republic instead of human equality. Women would still have to wait their turn in line for equal rights anyhow, because in front of them where the Native Americans we pushed off the land and the African Americans we were using as servants and slaves. Right between Mary and all of her ambitions ...
- 1598: The Crucible
- ... 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 ...
- 1599: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... 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- ...
- 1600: 1984 Short Essay On Freedom
- ... with no fear of being vapourized or the fear of the consequences the community of Oceania has to face. Today, people will protest against the government for what they believe in. For example, teachers protested Bill 160 in the streets against the government. There would never be public protests against the government in Oceania. History is important for one to know of what has happened in the past and learn from ... anything the government says. For example, one day they can be at war with Eurasia, and the next minute they are at war with Eastasia. The people of Oceania, are not living with any human rights. Without freedom, they are no better then a caged animal. There are just puppets that the government controls. Everyone should be entitled to freedom in order to live a happy and full life.
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