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- 3031: Opium Wars
- ... consequence, opium trade more than doubled in the three decades following the Treaty of Nanking. The treaty also established England as the "most favored nation" trading with China; this clause granted to Britain any trading rights granted to other countries. Two years later, China, against its will, signed similar treaties with France and the United States. Lin Tse-hsό was officially disgraced for his actions in Canton and was sent to ...
- 3032: Vietnam And LbJ
- ... mass build up of turmoil in America. Johnson, who was at one point looked at as a hero and acknowledged for his ignition in the women's fight for equality as well as The Voting Rights Act (1965), which permitted the black community to vote, now was possibly the most hated man in America. "He was riding a tiger he couldn't get off." (George Ball) Johnson had begun to lie ...
- 3033: The Slave Trade
- ... or institution. The condition of being a slave, bondage, servitude. Slave, a human who is owned as property by, and is absolutely subject to the will of another: bondservant divested of all freedom and personal rights. Hard to believe but on of the most horrifying occurances in World History, is the Slave Trade. It was a time in which people were sold as merchandise, where human beings were being treated as ...
- 3034: The Inverted Pyramid And The E
- ... no longer an adequate expression of the relationship between the two great English-speaking peoples. It is now a union of hearts forged by the bonds of a common fight for liberty and justice, the rights of small nations, and the cause of the common people. This lead, while long and indulgently flowery, contains all of the most important aspects of a modern news lead. The elevated language of this piece ...
- 3035: Airika
- ... Proclamation was enacted in 1863. This was reinforced after the war by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US constitution (1865, 1868, and 1870), which abolished slavery altogether and guaranteed citizenship and civil rights to former slaves. Following the Civil War, Southern states passed laws called "Black Codes". A Black Code was a law which limited or restricted a certain activity or way of life for the African Americans ...
- 3036: Black Panthers
- ... were treated with disdain and contempt. The Panthers wrote out a platform called What We Want, What We Believe. There ideas and methods appealed greatly to blacks. The past few years had seen the civil rights struggle rise, and had left many blacks with the feeling that not enough was being accomplished. Many Blacks shared the view of the Panthers in that violence was needed to defend themselves until true equality ...
- 3037: Monopolies In A Capitalist Eco
- ... systems (www.encarta.com). They say that Microsoft has a monopoly and they are right. There are no other operating systems (substitutes) out there for personal computers. In addition because of this so called monopoly, Bill Gates the owner of Microsoft, was forced by the government to spilt up his company into different programs but keep the Microsoft label attached (ie. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and so on). The best time ...
- 3038: Columbine
- ... killed, while 22 others were injured in this horrible tragedy. The extent of their arsenal was not revealed until around the last week of March when members of the Littleton Fire Department met with Gov. Bill Owens' Columbine Review Commission, The Denver Post reported Monday. ''As bad as this was, we were so very, very lucky,'' said Chuck Burdick, operations chief of the Littleton Fire Department. ''It could have been so ...
- 3039: Anne Hutchinson
- ... s excellencies." (C. M. Andrews, p. 477.) Women were not allowed to speak in church, judged openly as inferior creatures. Even though this sounds tyrannical in our day and age, American women actually had more rights than did women in England. Though the basic perception of women as inferior was common to both America and England, in America, a woman could own property if her husband died and she could sometimes ...
- 3040: New York Times Co. V. United S
- ... A heavy burden of proof is placed on the government whenever there is grounds for prior restraint. Is this burden is not sufficiently substantiated, then and injunction cannot be issued. The First Amendment protects the rights of individuals and the press to communicate freely. The U.S. has the right to halt any publication that they deem harmful, if and only if, they show enough evidence to support their injunction, and ...
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