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- 5191: The Louisiana Purchase
- ... boundaries were indefinite. The United States also claimed West Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers as part of the purchase, but Spain denied the claim. As a result of the purchase, the port of New Orleans and the entire Mississippi system were secured for American shippers, and the country was free to expand toward the Pacific Ocean. The price wa $15,000,000 for an area of 828,000 square miles (2,145,000 km) - less than 3 cents an acre. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte got Spain to return it by a secret treaty. Napoleon planned a French empire in the New World, with its center at New Orleans. President Jefferson was alert to the dangers of a powerful nation controlling the mouth of the Mississippi. He instructed the American minister to France, Robert R. Livingston, to ...
- 5192: Marketing Of Tobacco
- I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The United States is the world’s second largest tobacco grower. Thus, tobacco is an important cash crop and the cigarette manufacturers play a very important role in the U. S economy.(7:2) Approximately 500,000 Americans die every year ... brand marks on T-shirts, caps and other promotional free gifts (5:25). The agreement would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products. In addition, cigarettes would come with tough new warnings such as ‘smoking causes cancer’ and ‘smoking can kill you’.(5:24) The above mentioned changes will alter the marketing techniques of tobacco as never before and thus, the tobacco companies have to adapt to a new way of doing business. B. Possible New Ways to Sell Cigarettes The tobacco industry has been hit hard by the settlement it signed. But it does not mean the end of this multi-billion ...
- 5193: Effects of the WWII Atomic Bombs
- ... lives were ended in a flash. To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed a necessary, even righteous way to end the madness that was World War II. However, the madness had just begun. That August morning was the day that heralded the dawn of the nuclear age, and with it came more than just the loss of lives. According to ... the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined." The entire globe was now to live with the fear of total annihilation, the fear that drove the cold war, the fear that has forever changed world politics. The fear is real, more real today than ever, for the ease at which a nuclear bomb is achieved in this day and age sparks fear in the hearts of most people on this ... in an allied invasion, and their sudden deaths convinced the Japanese military to surrender. Every nation has an interest in being at peace with other nations, but there has never been a time when the world was free of the scourge of war. Hence, peaceful nations must always have adequate military force at their disposal in order to deter or defeat the aggressive designs of rogue nations. The United States ...
- 5194: Civil War 2
- ... admit California as a State and organize the remainder of the Mexican cession without “any restriction or condition on the subject of slavery”. The second pair of resolutions settled the boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico in favor of the latter and compensated Texas by federal assumption of debts contracted during its existence as an Independent Republic. Clay’s third pair of resolutions called for abolition of the slave trade ... the trouble he had to go through in recovering his property. Because of the passage of the compromise, the North had to enforce the law which it hated. As the United States expanded westward, two new territories were carved out and the issue of slavery arose again. The U.S. government let the two new territories decide themselves whether or not to permit slavery. Since it was up to the people to decide the slavery issue, Northern abolitionists enticed anti-slavery supporters to move into the new regions and ...
- 5195: Argument Against Euthanasia
- ... indignity lies in capitulation".(Buchanan 208) Bibliography Friedman, Emily. Ethics Issues For Health Care Professionals. Baskerville: American Hospital Publishing, 1986. Maguire, Daniel. Death By Choice. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1984. Reich, Warren. Quality Of Life. New York: Paulist Press, 1990. Brody, Baruch. Life And Death Decision Making. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Chapman, Carleton. Physicians,Law,& Ethics. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Maestri, William. Choose Life And Not Death. New York: Library Of Congress, 1986. Low, Charlotte. Euthanasia - Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1989. Brock, Dan. Deciding For Others. ...
- 5196: David Livingstone
- David Livingstone was one of the most revered and respected African explorers of his time. He spent almost 30 years exploring a region little known to the outside world. He often put ambition before family and his own personal health in his quest to open the interior of Africa to Civilization, Christianity, and Commerce. (Hollett 236) Through his daring explorations into the unknown, he discovered and documented many new landmarks inside the dark continent, and at times became obsessed with his determination to find a single source of the Nile. He had a major impact on later expeditions into central Africa. . Livingstone was born ... at the mission for so long with nothing to show for it dismayed Livingstone. At the first opportunity he made excursions to the north with another missionary looking for a site for another mission. A new site was found near a region called Mabotsa. Once the mission had been established, Livingstone found the people of the region to be unresponsive to Christian teachings, and began to realize the enormous difficulties ...
- 5197: Body Modification in Today’s Society
- ... the ways that portray one’s own unique symbols, values, and meanings. One other such signifier of identity is through body modification, particularly tattooing and body piercing. In today’s society people have adopted the new style or trend of body modification. There are many reasons in which people obtain piercings and tattoos. Those who modify, manipulate and mutilate their bodies do so for many reasons. Some say it’s simply ... piercings you can take out but tattoos will always be there. Thank God that I got my tattoo on my back where people can’t see it because I have learned that in the business world tattoos are nothing to be desired and that you could possibly risk a job because of it. Body piercing is believed to be a self-imposed rite of passage. By this I mean that people ... getting tattoos. Could this be because they feel like they have been oppressed for this long? Getting a tattoo or a piercing might be their way of saying that they are gaining power in this world both socially and politically. “Sarah, a lesbian, sought tattooing as a means to ‘communicate’ ownership- control over my body and therefore myself. They [tattoos] express my freedom to make decisions about my body. Getting ...
- 5198: The Coming Of Age
- The Coming of Age Childhood is a time where children learn about the world around themselves. They see and experience many factors that influence their everyday lives, which help them grow stronger when they become adults. In Girl by Jamaica Kincaid and The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara the ... opportunity and equality that they should have. In Girl the main character learns that she must be perceived as a woman and not as a slut, her mother brings to her attention of how the world is and what she must to do in order to survive in it. Lessons that children learn all help them grow to become better individuals, in Girl and The Lesson the lessons that the characters learn both help them grow to become better and stronger individuals. In The Lesson the character, Sugar undergoes a realization of the world around her, through her teacher Miss Moore, Sugar notices that there is a better way of living in the world besides, her own little world with her friends. Sugar says, You know, Miss Moore, ...
- 5199: The Alchemist
- "That's the principle that governs all things. In alchemy, it's called the Soul of the World. When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force" (80). Anything I've ever wanted to happen bad enough, there has always been a way for me to achieve that goal. Or an alternative that could be more beneficial appears. Except, I wouldn't quite call it the Soul of the World. I'd call it the will of God. Both Santiago in "The Alchemist" and the priest's son in "The Water's of Babylon" worked with the Soul of the World or the will ...
- 5200: Comparing A Streetcar Named De
- ... analyze the characters. Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire and Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menageries have a lot of similarities throughout the two plays. Blanche and Laura are both living in a separate world from other people. Blanch is living in a world of fantasies, while Laura is living in her world with all the glass Menagerie. Blanche seeks for desires and fantasies only because she feels she murdered her husband. Laura lives in her world of glass animals only because of a disease that gives ...
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