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- 11561: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- ... Also dead ancestors and slaughtered buffalo would return and the old ways would be reborn in a fruitful land. Once the Bureau of Indian affairs noticed what was going on they began to fear this new religion would lead to warfare. The white peoplewere scared that this new dance was a war dance. They called for army protection. Army was called in to try to curbed this new religion before it could start a war. The Sioux band tougher led by Little Big Foot. They were heading to Pine RidgeReservation in South Dakota, when the army stopped them and held them at ...
- 11562: British India And Revolution
- ... British administration as having no effect in causing the uprising. The popular beliefs of officials like Sir John Lawrence believed that the immediate cause of the revolt was the concerns held by Sepoys over the new ammunition for the Enfield rifles. However, he sees this as just the trigger incident, with the root cause being the long-term reduction in discipline in the army and the poor standard of officers in ... which now gave British sentiment a factual support. The Darwinian ideas introduced into English society justified imperialistic political policies and social movements. At the turn of the century England perceived their dominant role in the world as justified by Darwinian principles Darwin mentioned civilized nations as superior, and referred to indigenous people as savages, furthermore, he referred to them as tribes while referring to the English as a race. The English ...
- 11563: Eating Disorders
- ... my friend Ashley, discovered the magazines called Seventeen, and YM. These are the Cosmopolitan and Vogue of teenage girls. On the cover of each monthly issue are featured beautiful skinny girls with headlines like: "Great new exercise plan", or " look great for summer, with this fast paced diet". I don't have to say that we were very quickly sucked into the whole thing and we started dieting, counting calories, and ... things are done as I have suggested, the problem with self esteem and weight control will be a less serious problem and lives will be saved. This is crucial to young girls all around the world, who have enough problems to deal with during puberty, that should be able to enjoy their lives without the worries of their next meal or their next pound.
- 11564: Britain And Europe In The Seve
- ... links between Catholicism and the Irish national spirit. The end of isolation was a very gradual process. The most important factor before 1688 was the diversification and expansion of overseas trade in exports and imports. New trade routes and patterns were developed, which were of great economic importance. Economic ties produced political connections years before Britain became fully involved in the European diplomatic system. Britain had to become a Mediterranean power ... are strong enough to go against strong Whig and Marxist historians views. Dr. Jones takes the side that in relation to Britain s final emergence as a great power and her impact on European and world affairs, the revolution of 1688 must be regarded as the decisive turning point in British seventeenth-century development. The author shows that this process was a gradual one, and I totally agree with him. For ...
- 11565: Brief Shao Lin Monk History
- ... Therefore, Buddhists are not hurting anyone, they are just refusing to allow delivery of intended harm. The Shao Lin philosophy is one that started from Buddhism and later adopted many Taoist principles to become a new sect. Therefore, even if a temple was originally Buddhist or Taoist, once it became Shao Lin, it was a member of a new order. Other temples sprang from the original. This is because the original temple would suffer repeated attacks and periods of inactivity as the reigning Imperial and regional leaders feared the legendary martial powers of the ... all other foreign devils as well. Coupled with the now almost universal hatred by the Chinese for their Empress, a Nationalist movement with grass-roots support was born. Among the front line soldiers of the new order were legendary martial artists, mostly Shao Lin, known as Boxers. Though their initial assaults on the military powers of the occupation governments were not entirely successful, their temporary defeat led to a more ...
- 11566: Ebonics A Bridge To Help Black
- ... quote from an article writes, The real question is what happened to the good educational philosophy, which states that in order to teach a child you had to start from where the child is. The new Hispanic immigrants understand this and that is why we now have a move going on across this country for BI-lingual education. They demand, and get, teachers who understands Spanish and other Latin American dialects ... were given a mini-course in ebonics during the first two weeks of class. The mini-course described the rule-governed nature of ebonics and its ten components: syntax, grammar and vocabulary, as well as world view, semantics, intonation, favored generes, learning styles, teaching styles, and speech acts (such as mocking). The students were then taught freshmen composition methods. Later, they tested higher than the white students on a written proficiency ...
- 11567: Boom Towns Of The Amazon
- ... overlooked. As I mentioned earlier, the Amazon basin is considered the last frontier, but there are dramatic environmental changes occurring. The most notable change is the rapid clearing of the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which has over shadowed the genesis of new urban centers. The prototypical urban community in contemporary Amozonia is a bustling boomtown, a dynamic and sometimes short-lived frontier settlement. The change of the region s landscape occurs in the social area of conflicts ...
- 11568: Double Standard
- I was surprised finding out that the topic for our paper was about our feelings of our gender. In the world we live in now, men and women have differences in their attitudes, feelings and lifestyles. Also, men and women treat and look at each other differently from the way they treat their same sex. There ... me. Also, our society doesn't have clearly defined and universally accepted rules about sexuality. The unfair value system form by the idealistic view of men and women, causes us to be confused in the world of what we are suppose to think. In the world of sports, women are often view as to be not as competitive as men. Women are suppose to participate in the more feminine sports like figure skating and gymnastics. If a woman wanted to ...
- 11569: Black History
- ... are now in prison. The incarceration of people has been accelerated through the enactment of so-called "three-strikes and you're out" legislation. Between 1993 and 1995, 24 states and the federal government passed new "three strikes" laws. While there are considerable differences in these laws, all of them mandate much stiffer sentences for people who have been convicted of multiple felonies. California's three strikes law--the second one ... In fact, neither of these things were true. During the 17 years leading up to 1994 (when three strikes went into effect), the California legislature passed more than 1,000 bills lengthening sentences or defining new crimes. Not surprisingly, these same years showed a six-fold increase in California's prison population--from 19,000 to 126,000. Between 1852 and 1984 California built 12 prisons. In the decade between 1984 ... While the prison population rose, the official crime statistics remained more or less steady. In fact, during 1993 and the first half of 1994, the rate of both violent and property crime actually fell. The New Apartheid "`Three Strikes and You're Out' can truly be said to be California's apartheid." Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice These laws come down hardest on Black people and Latinos. 70 percent ...
- 11570: Deception Experiment
- ... J.E., & Wyer M.M. (1993). Sex differences in lying: How women and men deal with the dilemma of deceit. In M. Lewis & C. Saarni (Eds.). Lying and deception in everyday life. (pp. 126-147). New York: Guildford Press. DePaulo, B.M., Kashy, D.A., Kirkendol, S.E., Wyer, M.M., & Epstein, J.A. (1996). Lying in everyday life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 979-995. Ekman, P. (1985). Telling lies. New York: Norton. Stiff, J.B., Miller, G.R., Sleight, C., Montegeau, P.I., et al. (1989). Explanations for visual cue primacy in judgements of honesty and deceit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56 555-564. Zuckerman, M., DePaulo, B.M., Rosenthal, R., (1981). Verbal and nonverbal communication of deception. In Berkowitz (Eds.) Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 14, pp. 1-59). New York: Academic Press.
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