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- 2331: The Cause of the American Revolution
- ... American Revolution One cannot say there is one cause to the American Revolution because there were many contributing factors. Historians argue that the revolution was political and the colonists were just trying to preserve their rights. Another view is that the colonists were concerned with economic issues. Others argue that distance and Great Britain's “benign neglect” made revolution inevitable. All are correct but some played greater roles than others. The ... not directly represented in Parliament. Most early American colonies had set up systems of proprietary self-government. In the 1760s Prime Minister George Grenville past a series of acts to tax goods and restrict colonists' rights. This angered most colonists who cried out, “no taxation without representation.” Grenville elaborated on the theory of “virtual representation” and said every member of Parliament represented all British subjects including those in the colonies. Later ...
- 2332: How the Women's Movement has Improved
- ... and status of women. “In 1963, Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal to set different pay scales for men and women who perform the same job. In 1964, congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this act included Title VII, which forbids discrimination on the basis of sex.” (Bender 246) No longer could employers make private judgments about the legitimacy of married women working. This legislation required ... French, Marilyn: The War Against Women: New York 1992 Mansbridge, Jane: Why We Lost the ERA: Chicago 1986 Kaledin, Eugenia: American Women in the 1950s, Mothers and More: Boston 1984 Bender, David: The Women's Rights Movement: San Diego 1996
- 2333: On Mr. Booker T. Washington's Trickery
- ... than not, the balance of criticism leaned towards the latter. We are left to believe of him as a backtracker whose ideas have slacked down those of previous leaders who aimed at equality of social rights for the Negro. Certainly if we are to judge Mr. Booker T. Washington by the mere way he portrayed his ideas, it would be no wonder for us the downpour of criticism that fell upon ... whites hated black or in the least look down on them, and he was more than willing to play along. He said what they wanted to hear, what they wanted them to do, relinquish their rights. Washington made them feel superior and that they have won. Of course this hurt the black people, but what was pride after all if at the end Washington would get them some benefits. Now, when ...
- 2334: The Life of Mohandas Gandhi
- ... spiritual leader and humanitarian who introduced a concept of nonviolent civil disobedience to the political world. He was to become the leader of one of the century's major advances in his struggle for Indian rights and independence (Ahmedabad 97). Gandhi was born into a powerful family which belonged to the Hindu merchant caste Vaisya (Gandhi The End of an Empire). For several generations members of his family had served as ... in a way that man would be given maximum freedom and the opportunity to develop both character and personality (Ahmedabad 37). Gandhi also attacked parts of the caste system. Supporting both the economical and social rights of the lower castes, he was looked upon “ as a champion of the untouchables,”(Ibid 124) the lowest class in the caste system of India. Overall, Gandhi supported the caste system. The untouchables had formerly ...
- 2335: Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
- ... state should not do, rather than what it should do. Maintenance of order and administration of justice are the only two proper realms of government activity, and their purpose is simply to defend the natural rights of man to protect person and property. The state has no business to promote religion, regulate trade and commerce, encourage colonization, aid the poor, or enforce sanitary laws. Spencer went even so far as to ... the present it is the divine right of parliaments. He attacks the doctrine of sovereignty as propounded by Hobbes and rejects the claim of popular majorities for unlimited authority as being inconsistent with the inalienable rights of the individual. Spencer concludes his book with the final reminder that government is not a divine institution but a committee of management, and that it has no intrinsic authority beyond the ethical sanction bestowed ...
- 2336: The Reasons Why the South Went to War
- ... democratic party was split up and the Southerners was just outnumbered. There were good reasons that the South entered the war. The North had been going over the line, trying to take away their state rights. The South had to stand up for themselves and fight for their moral rights. The South which was dependent on slavery would have been devastated if slavery was abolished. The prospering North was trying to control most of the South for their own capital benefits. This war was not ...
- 2337: Hofstadter Chapter 1
- ... body, with the exception of William Few, who was the only one who could honestly be said to represent the majority yeoman farmer class, the highly privileged classes were fearful of granting man his due rights, as the belief that “man was an unregenerate rebel who has to be controlled” reverberated. However, the Fathers were indeed “intellectual heirs” of the seventeenth-century England republicanism with its opposition to arbitrary rule and ... concerned was menaced by democracy. In their mind liberty was linked to democracy and not property. To have political influence based on amount of property was “politic as well as just, that the interests and rights of every class should ve duly represented and understood in the public councils.” — James Madison The Convention decided that freedom for property would result in the liberty for all men. Such that the Declaration of ...
- 2338: Copyrights And Patents
- ... Beers.” (Melcher 37) Logos are also often copied. A logo is defined as an advertising symbol or message that represents a product or a service. In one case, OJ Simpson has agreed to share marketing rights with the Florida Department of Citrus to use his initial in connection with orange juice. (Wells 1) Materials can be illegally duplicated in many different ways. This includes everything sharing software, to copying CD’s ... 6. Munro, Billie. “When You Want an R Rating.” Nation’s Business. June 1995 :28. 7. Simon, Stephanie. “Brash World of Bogus Goods Thrives inLA.” July 1995: A1. 8. Wells, Melanie. “OJ Agrees to Sell Rights to His Initials.” USA Today. 22 Feb. 1996:1
- 2339: The Legend of Baby Doe
- The Legend of Baby Doe by John Burke copyright 1974 & 1989 John Burke, a former newspaperman, has published biographies, mysteries, popular histories, and juvenile biographies. He has written biographies on Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, George Thomas, and many others. Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt was born in 1854 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Her parents were Irish immigrants and brought fourteen children into the world, though several children died in birth. Elizabeth ...
- 2340: Vespasian
- ... his exactions, coupled with sales of imperial estates to speculators, caused great discontent among the Egyptians. He now announced that about three times the revenue of the empire was needed to put the state to rights, and both before and after his return he promoted his financial program. He increased, and sometimes doubled, provincial taxation and revoked immunities granted to various Greek-speaking provinces and cities. He reclaimed public land in ... and Titus became censors. In this office, although little is known about the details, they probably carried out extensive reorganization of the provincial communities, including some of the taxation reforms mentioned earlier. They bestowed Latin rights on all Spain, which meant that all city magistrates obtained Roman citizenship, with consequent profit to the imperial treasury; and no doubt Roman citizenship was granted liberally elsewhere. In addition they recruited many new members ...
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