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- 14811: Native American Recognition
- ... the natives welcomed their guests with no conceivable image of what was to come. Never having been exposed to alien germs, they were nearly demolished by the attack of the various diseases introduced by the new inhabitants. The remaining few were forced away from their homelands and confined to destitute reservations in the Indian Removal Act of 1830, more widely known as The Trail of Tears. (Trail) Regarded by the white ... to the reservations beyond the Mississippi, all the while being told it was for their own good. Eventually they were even expelled from these desolate locales for the mining of oil and gold by the new Americans. The pathetically small population that survived the horrific oppression of the white man was left to fend for itself against the growing power of the Federal government. The unjust treatment exposed to the Native ...
- 14812: HITLER, MUSSOLINI, STALIN
- ... grow up to be adults. Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin are perfect examples of that notion. Hopefully, in the present and future, we will not have any type of horrifying or barbarous dictators anywhere in the world. The lives of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin show us what kind of effect they had on their countries at the time of their rule. We do not know what kind of terrifying act will show up if these type of men come into power in the world.
- 14813: To Kill A Mocking Bird 2
- ... chance of a fair second trial. Later on in the trial Ruby Bates reappears in court and stated that the black men did not rape touch or talk to her or Victoria Price. Despite the new information the jury still finds Heyward Patterson guilty. The judge orders for a third trial because of the new evidence. Ruby bates refuses to go back to court to testify because of death threats and the verdict of the third trial was guilty. In April of 1935 the supreme court again overturns the verdict ...
- 14814: Important Cases of the US Supreme Court
- ... lawless society. Because of this case it is now established that governmental law precedes religious law. Another important case recently involved the right of protection against illegal search and seizure. In T.L.O. v. New Jersey two girls were caught smoking cigarettes in the bathroom of a New jersey high school. Being searched revealed cigarettes, marijuana, large amounts of cash, and records indicating the sale of marijuana on one of the girls. The girl was convicted of drug charges but her lawyer argued ...
- 14815: Minimum Wages
- ... in the minimum wage, and this increase is not offset by reducing quantities of goods sold. Sales tax could also increase if those receiving the higher minimum wage spent a relatively high portion of their new earnings on goods subject to the sales tax. How the minimum wage should be changed, in California minimum wages increases have usually occurred in one of two ways. The first is a change in the federal minimum wage, which results in an increase in California minimum wage to the new higher federal level. The second is a state administrative process. Under this process, the California Industrial Welfare Commission can, by a majority vote of its members, issue wage orders to raise the state minimum wage ...
- 14816: Costly Mistake
- ... people arrived we started to play cards and talk about the hard week of work, glad to have finally gotten to the weekend. No one in the room seemed to have a care in the world at that point in time, everything was laid back no pressures of the real world, no thought of work or school. The night had started to early I was feeling the effects of the alcohol coming over me like a sickness. Still I proceeded to push the limits to prove ...
- 14817: Karl Marx's Estranged Labor
- ... to him. As an end result man is estranged from himself and is entirely mortified. Marx points to these to situations as the reason man is essentially estranged from his labor. The incongruency between the world of things the worker creates and the world the worker lives in is the estrangement. Marx argues that the worker first realizes he is estranged from his labor when it is apparent he cannot attain what he appropriates. As a result of this ...
- 14818: Urban Legends
- ... persons mental door include our relationship with the person who told the story and if the tale was told by a person who passionately believed it. Another factor is if the story fits our specific world views. The last key factor is our knowledge of the topic (Where do Urban Legends... 1-2). Most Urban Legends rarely have a factual basis. But there are some rare exceptions. A tale that is ... did last summer" and "Urban Legends" (Elliot 23-25). "Since Urban Legends are often a means of expressing our fears about the dangers that ripple just beneath the surface of our seemingly calm and untroubled world, it should come as no surprise that horror legends are one of urban folklore's richest veins"(Brunvand 23). "Vanishing HitchHiker" is the tale of a man and his daughter giving a young girl on ...
- 14819: Medieval Castles
- ... Palace in Vienna. Palaces will probably be built for as long as there is wealth enough to pay for them. In the 1980s the sultan of Brunei, Sir Muda Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah, opened his new palace. Named New Istana, it contains 1,788 rooms, making it one of the grandest palaces anywhere. Although castles are no longer readily built, because of the lack of money or just the lack of need, they will ...
- 14820: Church Of God
- ... search the Scriptures for answers to the problems of modernism, formality, and spiritual dryness. An initial meeting of concerned people was held on August 19, 1886, at the Barney Creek Meeting House to organize a new movement that would preach primitive church holiness and provide for reform and revival of the churches. Christian Union was the name accepted by the first eight members enrolled that day. Spurling died within a few ... united with the group in North Carolina. During this revival that followed this merger, spontaneous speaking in tongues occurred. After searching the Scriptures, the group recognized the phenomena as a Biblical occurrence and as a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit. II. BASIC THEOLOGY AND BELIEF The Church believes in an experiential understanding of justification by faith, sanctification as a second work of grace, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit ...
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