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- 2101: Religion The State And Soverei
- ... social contract between the people and its government. He continued by pointing out that the government has a commitment with the people it must with hold. Locke's writings also contained concepts concerning of natural rights which are inherent to human beings. This developed and identified that power now comes from the people. These people from which the government is derived and power (legitimacy) have rights and will be safe-guarded by the people. The French and American Revolutions harnessed the ideas which the enlightenment wrote and discussed. The French Revolution exemplified the early stages of nationalism. Nationalism derives from a ...
- 2102: Ebonics in Schools
- ... McDaniel of ABC's NYPD Blue and S. Epatha Merkerson of NBC's Law and Order described the Oakland School Board's decision on Ebonics as a distinct genetically based language (Shister, p.1). Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson defended Oakland's school over a controversial plan to recognize black English in the classroom (N.A., p.1). On December 18, 1996 the Oakland School Board approved a policy affirming Standard ... speak about the district's recent decision to recognize Ebonics in the classroom. Other witnesses scheduled to testify at the hearing include Robert Williams, originator of the term Ebonics and Amos Brown of the Civil Rights Commission of the National Baptist Convention (N.A., p.1). The national debate on Ebonics reached Capitol Hill January 23, 1996 as a Senate subcommittee took up the provocative question of whether using African American ...
- 2103: Greed
- ... fuel for their lanterns. The people, who worked an average 10-12 hours a day, could now have a private and social life. The consumers were happy, the workers were happy, and they were happy. Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft Corporation is another example of a greedy person. He is the richest man in the world with about $85 billion and he continues to pursue more wealth. Just because he has ... mean the rest of the world lost $85 billion, he created more wealth for the rest of the world. His software created new ways of saving time and money and created thousands of new jobs. Bill Gates got rich by persuading people to buy his product. His motive may have been greed, but to achieve that, he had to give us what we wanted. Both parties benefited from the transaction and ...
- 2104: Andrew Jackson
- ... After the tariff in 1832, there was a compromise tariff in 1833. This lowered the tariffs gradually but significantly between 1833 and 1842 (Encarta, 12). But, at the same time, Jackson signed in the Force Bill, which let the president use armed forces to collect customs duties in South Carolina (Britannica, 255). Another hot issue was the Maysville Road. As stated in Encarta, the southerners didnt care if they had roads and other internal services. Jacksons veto of a bill to pay for a road in Kentucky between Maysville and Lexington increased his support in the south, as well as the passage of the Indian Removal Act at almost the same time. But the tariffs ...
- 2105: Economic Theories of Harsanyi, Nash, Selten, Fogel, and North
- ... were known as pioneering economic historians for economics. These two turned the theoretical and statistical tools of modern economics on the historical past: on subjects ranging from slavery and railroads to ocean shipping and property rights. Fogel, a professor at the University of Chicago, often is described as the father of modern econometric history. He's especially noted for using careful empirical work to overturn conventional wisdom. North, a professor at ... also written a series of books, including "The Rise of the Western World" in 1971 and "Structure and Change in Economic History," which set out with clarity how the role of institutional change, and property rights, could be expected to play in a rigorous theory of economic development." Fogel is identified with two issues in particular. There was a 1964 book arguing that the spread of the railroad was not as ...
- 2106: Book Report On The Forbidden C
- ... stories mixed up with fiction. The theme of this story will make you think about life and how good we have it here in the US and that we take things like freedom and civil rights for granted. It showed a transformation of a boy to a man after all the things that Alex went through. He saw a total different world when he went to China. He experienced things he ... awareness that not everywhere in the world people have it as good as in the US and that even now there are people in the world fighting for such things as freedom of speech, civil rights, and democracy that we consider fundamental. I enjoyed this book alot even though it got boring at times. This book had a lot of ups and downs that either wanted you to put the book ...
- 2107: Money 2
- ... should you be able to think things, and even learn things, without paying somebody for that privilege? Let's get to brass tacks, the bottom line. Money. Money is reality. You see this printed dollar bill. It' s far more real than topsoil, oxygen, the ozone layer or sunlight. You may say that this is just a piece of paper with some symbols on it, but that's sacrilege! This is ... free as knowledge?" Free as knowledge? Let's get real, this is the modern world --- air and water no longer come cheap! Hey, you want breathable air, you better pay your air conditioner's power-bill. Free as water? If you've got sense you buy the bottled variety or pay for an ionic filter on your tap. And free as knowledge? Well, we don't know what "knowledge" is, but ...
- 2108: Russian And French Revolutions
- ... gun powder. The Bastille incident set off revolts all over France and Louis was soon deposed afterwards.A democratic goverment was setup in place of the old monarcy. A doctrine called the Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen served as a basis for the revolutionary french leaders. The French set up a government in which an elected legislative group met annually. It also consisted of an elected judiciary and ... Russian revolutions had similar causes but ended up with different results. Both of these countries had different internal factors which cause the results. The Russians had Lenin and the French had the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. I would also like to point out 1 more similarity between these two revolutions and that is the fact that both Czar Nicholas II and King Louis XVI were executed soon ...
- 2109: It Is Time To Reaffirm Our Act
- ... or even, terminated. Initially the effort came from The White House and Congress, as a result of flagrant and despicable acts of race discrimination, prevalent for many decades. In 1964, Congress enacted the "1964 Civil Rights Act. Specifically, Title VII of the Act, Marked a huge advance for the principle of non-discrimination based on race, ethnicity and gender in the workplace" (United States, A 30 year Experiment 1). However, since Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is very vague and broad in its language, many proposals con or pro Affirmative Action are ultimately challenged in court. For instance, In November 1996, the majority of people of the State of California ...
- 2110: Media Controls
- ... portray the world around us, and has the potential to cause paranoia. These are problems caused by filter one. When a large company owns a paper or television station it creates a conflict of interest. Bill Kovatch, who has won numerous Pulitzer prizes as editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, resigned under pressure after the paper ran a series of stories about Coca Cola's misdeeds. One of the Cox ... shots from the early eighties are a perfect example of relying a official sources. In May 1995 congress voted to overhaul the laws for virtually every sector of the communications industry. Not long after the bill passed mergers that before were not legal began to happen. Disney and ABC merged to form one of the large conglomerates in the world. Together they now control over $16 billion in annual revenue. CBS ...
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