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- 671: American Revolutionary War
- ... Justified in Their Rebellion against England? Did They Have an Adequate Cause for Revolution? Starting after the termination of the Seven-Years war, by the Peace of Paris, England repeatedly violated the American Colonists rights. A series of events, happening between 1763(ending of the Seven-Years war) and 1775 (starting of the revolution), could be taken as motives for the Americans revolution. The Americans claimed that through both, the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765), the British dishonored their rights to taxation. The Townshend Acts also infuriated the Americans, and as in all other circumstances, they were willing to fight for their rights. The final justification for the Revolution came from the Coercive Acts. The Sugar and the Stamp Acts were the first events by which the Americans felt their rights violated. The British wanted to collect ...
- 672: Business
- ... was no incentive to produce large and productive resources. The end of the midieval Manoralism was brought about by a larger demand for goods. Kings competed against lords, and lords competed with peasants for the rights to what was produced. As a result, there was an emergence of merchants and businessmen who accumulated large sums of capital. In addition, there was also a large emergence of banks and the start of ... unemployment. Also people currently avoiding taxes either legally or illegally will be brought into an evev system where they will not need to avoid taxes through current legal loop holes. The reason why people like Bill Clinton get elected to be president is because he plays the game of class warfare. Clinton did a good job of convincing the poor and the middle class that Reagan did them wrong. Clinton believes that the rich should be punished by higher taxes. I ask you, "why should you punish prosperity?" The main goal of the liberals and Bill Clinton is the reditribution of wealth. The key question to ponder is, " when do profits become unfair and excessive?" (Limbaugh Pg. 118-119) In conclusion, capitalism is the best thing to help the United ...
- 673: Array
- ... belief. Kennedy returned to Senate and participated in the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Labor. JFK believed strongly in education, equal job opportunity, and the civil rights movement. His biggest success came in the form of his Labor Reform Bill which passed by a margin of 90 to 1 in Senate debate. Kennedy's first child, Caroline, was born during this time. Due to his enormous success in Congress, the Democratic party nominated him for ... voters, the factory workers, and the liberals(Gadney 61). During the Kennedy Administration, a great deal of events were going on. Jackie had given birth to JFK, Jr., while all over the south, the civil rights movement was going in full force with incidents breaking out. Specific attention gathered around a black air force veteran, James Meredith, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. In Cuba both the Bay ...
- 674: A Breif History Of Comics
- ... yellow papers. And as the battle between the press lords became more intense, people began calling it yellow journalism which now has come to mean overly sensational journalism. Although Outcault won the battle over the rights of "Yellow kid," the mass marketing began. The cartoon was everywhere. Products were being produced, even cigars, bearing the "yellow kid." Soon the comic revolution began, and strips were published all over. Of these comics ... but Nast's drawings brought the Harper's circulation to an altime high. Nast was a reformer, and now almost all cartoons follow in that style. Some of the more popular editorial cartoonists today are: Bill Mauldin of the Chicago Sun Times; Herb Block of the Washington Post; and Pat Oliphant of the Los Angeles Times. Most editoral cartoons now are syndicated, and larger papers have their own artists. From the ... because his wife is allergic to them. In 1981, Davis founded Paws Inc. to control all of his "Garfield" business. And since then, the comic has appeared in over 2,500 newspaper around the world. Bill Amend (Fox Trot) Bill Amend was born in 1962 in Northampton Mass. He began drawing cartoons while he was still in grade school. At 12, his family moved To Sanfrancisco, and Amend spent jr. ...
- 675: Social Security: A Brief History
- ... acts, however, nothing effected America at the time, and for years to come, as the Social Security Act of 1935. Shortly after the 74th Congress convened in January of 1935, FDR sent his "Economic Security Bill" to Capitol Hill in Washington. Shortly there after, the Bill was submitted to the Senate by Congress on January 17, 1935. The House Ways and Means Committee held hearings on the Bill from January 21 to February 12, 1935. During a Ways & Means meeting on March 1, 1935 Congressman Frank Buck (D-CA) made a motion to change the name of the bill to the "Social ...
- 676: A. Philip Randolph
- ... sleeping car porters. A. Philip Randolph, born in in Crescent City Florida, was reared in the tradition of the abolitionists. This upbringing instiled in him a social conscience that led him to join the civil rights struggle. His career began when he ran for state office in New York on the socialists ticket. The brotherhood approached him about leading their efforts to unionize. Being an outsider he was immune from retaliation from the company. After strikes and boycotts he finally won representation rights for the brotherhood. This victory gave Randolph credibility which he invested in the civil rights movement.Randolph emerged as the premier civil rights leade and used this power to convice Roosevelt to pass execuve order 8802 which banned discrimination in the armed forces.He achieved this legislation by threatening ...
- 677: Plan and Purpose (Creation) or Time and Chance (Evolution)?
- ... trees with their long, chisel-like bills to obtain insect food and build nests. Woodpeckers have several features that are especially useful to their way of life. They have a strong, sharp, straight, chisel-shaped bill and a long, extensible tongue with a hard, spear-shaped tip. The tongue is supported by exceptionally long hyoid bones that extend from the tongue around the back of the skull and then forward over the top of the skull to the base of the upper bill. Woodpeckers use their bill to probe bark and wood for the adult insects and insect larvae they eat. They draw the food out with their extremely long, sticky tongue that has a barbed tip. When the long, sticky ...
- 678: Go Ask Alice
- ... She thought that they were trying to poison her. A strange feeling swept over her which strangled her, suffocated her and made her muscles tense. When she opened her eyes she noticed that it was Bill who had but his arm around her. Bill said "But don't worry, I'll baby-sit you. This will be a good trip. Come on, relax, enjoy it, enjoy it." in a slow record like voice set on the wrong speed. Then ... type voice. Then she started laughing histaricaly and wildly. She thought of the most funny and absurd thing in the world. Then she saw the shifting patterns in the ceiling. She laid her head in Bill's lap and watched the changing patterns and great fields of red, blue and yellow colors. She tried to share the experience with the others but she couldn't put it in two words ...
- 679: Abortion
- ... is to protest things like "Life begins at conception! The fetus is human!" Science has proven these facts, and pro- choicers are by no means trying to deny them. However, pro-choicers feel that the rights of the parents (namely the mother) override the rights of the unborn child. Neither of these tactics work on pro-choicers like myself. True, pro-lifers are entitled to voicing their opinion (just as I am), but I feel that some of their methods ... 7 clearly illustrate how often pro-lifers contradict their "pro-life" ideals by resorting to violent and disruptive acts to try to force their views on people. New legislature controls irate pro-lifers A new bill was introduced in April 1994. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (aka FACE or FACEA) protects women seeking abortion, and the facilities performing them. Specifically, FACE protects reproductive health service staff and ...
- 680: Abortion Report
- ... what I will be focusing on for the rest of my report. I will first talk about Pro-Choice. Through the years this has obviously been the thinking of our nation because abortion remains legal (Bill Clinton is Pro-Choice). This is also the thinking of many woman's rights movements and organizations. From reading a paper on Pro-Choice it states as its heading that abortion should be a woman's right to choose what she does with her body, and it should not ... to privacy. This brings up a very interesting point, which is that the ninth amendment is a strong argument in the fight for Pro-Choice. It states that "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This right guarantees the right to women, if they so choose, to have an abortion, up to the end of the first ...
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