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- 4541: Slavery - A Cruel Institution
- ... the idea of being "sent south;" the almost certainty that one member of a family will be torn from another; the anxious scanning of purchasers' faces; the agony at parting, often forever, with husband, wife, child- - these must be seen and felt to be fully understood (35). In an accurate depiction of what an incredible burden slavery was on families and how cruel it was, Henson remembers how the rest of ...
- 4542: Roswell
- ... the intelligence agencies impose a certain amount of secrecy. In recent decades, however, many observers say: τthat the use of government secrecy has become excessive. Secrecy tantamount to power and, like power, lends itself to abuse. Behind the shield of secrecy, it is possible for an agency or service to avoid scrutiny and essentially operate outside the law. Accountability to the taxpayers, and to the Congress, can be conveniently avoided.φ ...
- 4543: Racism In America
- ... in one way or another toward racism. I just wanted open your eyes to some of the disturbing things going on in your great nation, and possibly right in your own back yard, at your childs school, even in your workplace. Shootings happen everyday, but beheadings dont. If this is supposed to be the year when America and everybody is supposed to re-evaluate the "issues of race"...then ...
- 4544: Populist Party
- ... of silver at the 16:1 ratio; inflation at a rate of $50 per capita; transportation, telephone, and telegraph; implementation of the sub-treasury plan; wanted excess lands given to railroads; direct election of senators; child labor laws; mandatory education; eight-hour work day; one-year terms for president; and an income tax for the middle and upper class. Populists wanted the government to take over the railroads, telephones, and telegraphs ...
- 4545: Andrew Jackson From A Biddle P
- ... of a monarchy then a democracy. He was a biased, prejudice and violent president through his actions in office. On the whole, in the upcoming election, I would not vote for Andrew Jackson. His blatant abuse of power proved him to be a hot-headed president who was only pleased with getting what he wanted and desired. He was prejudiced against the Indians, snatching away their land. Cheating is a bad ...
- 4546: A Time Of Prosperous Change
- ... Brookner and Fay Weldon Ericson uses the subject of lack of love as the focus of his theories and that Weldon was a unwed mother who had to deal with the pressures of having a child instead of receiving love from his father. Even though Weldon wed eventually she later learned of what love was which gave her the experience to right about such a unloved character. Magill on the other ...
- 4547: Atomic Bomb
- ... and homes. Over the course of the next forty years, this bombing, and the nuclear arms race that followed, then would come to have a direct or indirect effect on almost every man, woman and child on this Earth. The United States of America dropped the atomic bomb in hope of shortening World War Two, saving of thousands of military lives and making the Untied States of America look more powerful ...
- 4548: A Hero Among Men, A Man Among
- ... initial contrast between myth and man comes within the first few lines. Ulysses does not gracefully acquiesce to the duties of old age, as every person must eventually do; instead, he whines like a spoiled child. Nothing suits his taste: his homeland is too barren, his wife too old. He treats his loyal subjects, whom he ought to rule with the wisdom that should be learned over the years, with such ...
- 4549: Omar Khayyam The Enigma
- ... corner of the shadow of his greatness, when Nizam realized the Omar was being truthful he granted him a pension from the gold treasury of Naishapur4. Not much is Known of his life as a child, but that at the age of seventeen he was already adept in the academic subjects of his day. In response of the early death of his father Omar began to look for means to support ...
- 4550: Oregon Trail
- ... When their husbands would become sick or die, women would take over the wagon entirely. Pregnant women, on the other hand, had especially difficult time s during the journey. Many pregnant women died because of child labor, but also because their extra needs as pregnant women could not be met due to the extreme conditions. The role of the Native Americans during the time of the Oregon Trail was a very ...
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