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- 1121: "Fighting on Two Fronts": Henry Fleming in Red Badge of Courage
- "Fighting on Two Fronts": Henry Fleming in Red Badge of Courage The Civil War forced many young boys out of childhood and into adulthood. Most of these young boys were not prepared for war, and Henry Fleming was one of these boys. Henry Fleming's life in New York was routine. He had his normal share of friends and lived on a farm. When Henry got up in ...
- 1122: Buffalo Soldiers
- Buffalo Soldiers "Buffalo Soldiers" was the name given to African-American cavalrymen by their native-American antagonists during the Indian Wars in the post-Civil War American West. The first men to serve in all-black army units did so in the Union Army, during the Civil War. The initial all-black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, trained by its white commander, Col. Robert G. Shaw, suffered heavy casualties in a heroic, though unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Wagner at Charleston (S. ...
- 1123: Legalization of Marijana: For
- ... any such violation. Regardless of the legal status of cannabis, responsible users will adhere to emerging tobacco smoking protocols in public and private places." (NORML,2) It is Time To Stop Arresting Marijuana Smokers. The "war on drugs" is not really about drugs; if it were, tobacco and alcohol would be primary targets. They are the most commonly used and abused drugs in America and unquestionably they cause far more harm to the user and to society than does marijuana. Instead, the war on drugs has become a war on marijuana smokers, and in any war there are casualties. According to the latest FBI statistics, in 1994 nearly one-half million (482,000) Americans were arrested on marijuana charges. That is the largest ...
- 1124: Legalization of Drugs
- ... In 1926, the Senate Judiciary Committee produced a 1,650-page report evaluating enforcement efforts and proposing reforms. In 1927, the Bureau of Prohibition was created to streamline enforcement efforts, and agents were brought under civil service protection to eliminate corruption and improve professionalism. In that same year, President Hoover appointed a blue-ribbon commission to evaluate enforcement efforts and recommend reforms. Three years later Prohibition was over and alcohol was ... deal with alcohol abuse as a medical problem. Let us deal with the drug problem in the same way. Let us try not to repeat the mistakes of the past by continuing to escalate a war that is totally unnecessary.(Boaz, p.120) The repeal of alcohol prohibition provides the perfect analogy. Repeal did not end alcoholism©© as indeed Prohibition did not--but it did solve many of the problems created ... every day in this country 1,000 people die of smoking-related illnesses, 550 die of alcohol-related accidents and diseases, while 20 die of drug overdoses and drug©related homicides.(Lynch, p.8) The war on drugs might as well be non©existent; supporters argue that the government's needs to be focused on more abused drugs that do more harm to the American people, such as alcohol. Therefore ...
- 1125: A Literary Analysis Of Toni Mo
- ... to dominate agricultural production in the states from Maryland south. Eight of the first 12 presidents of the United States were slave owners. Debate over slavery increasingly dominated American politics, leading eventually to the American Civil War (1861-1865), which finally brought slavery to an end. After emancipation, overcoming slavery's legacy remained a crucial issue in American history, from Reconstruction following the war to the civil rights movement almost a hundred years later. 22) A bill has recently been proposed, by a white Ohio congressman to apologize for slavery. That congressman is Representative Tony Hall. Hall resolves " ...
- 1126: Critical Article on MacBeth
- ... believe's that Robertson's flaw comes within his translation of the lines, "hold rumour could be like 'hold parley with'" and goes through a retranslation of this short passage. "No one who had experienced civil war could say it had no sense." is a line which briefly sums up Robertson's reasons for his earlier claim on this passage, his lack of experiencing a civil war. Empson does a wonderful job placing himself as the first audience of Shakespeare and reliving these events to their raw meaning. I believe that once you've lived through a civil war with ...
- 1127: Muckraking Newspapers And Maga
- ... unions were filled with bribery and crime. The “Land of the Free” had turned to the “Land of the Few.” One of the biggest factors in this corruption was the rise of industrialism. Before the Civil War, a large corporation had a few hundred workers and a bank account with thousands of dollars. However, the corporation of the post-Civil War period made the previous companies look like small home-run businesses. As Ellen F. Fitzpatrick in Muckraking writes: “Railroads, with their huge administrative structure, large capital investment, extensive numbers of employees, and complex ...
- 1128: Sexual Urges, Society, and Religion
- ... This ideology would be followed for decades until America began to break away from England and began to form its own interpretations. With the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1767, America began a war to break it's ties with England. This breaking away from the motherland, also caused a braking away from the Anglican Church. Without a strong church influence, society begins to make it's own rules. The strong rules of Biblical interpretation began to slowly lessen. Church was still a fundamental of society, but freedom of thought was now introduced through the Declaration of Independence. The Civil War helped to separated the Northern and the Southern cultures of America. The South began to form ultra-fundamentalist churches with the beginning of the westward expansion. The church became not only a place to ...
- 1129: Austria
- ... title. Between the 1400's and 1500's, the Habsburg emperors acquired new lands of Bohemia and Hungary, but their control was shaken by the Protestant Reformation in the 1500's and the Thirty Years' War of 1618 to 1648. During these centuries, Austria emerged as the chief state in the empire. The ottoman turks tried to drive Austria from Hungary and made two unsuccessful attacks on Vienna, but they were ... the right to govern themselves. Then, in 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Slavic nationalist movement in Serbia, killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungaraian throne. In response, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, which started Word War I. Germany, Britain, Francs, Russia, and the United States helped Austria Hungary in fighting. In 1918, Austria-Hungary was defeated. The last Habsburg emperor was overthrown and the empire was slip into several countries. ...
- 1130: Florence Nightengale
- ... allowed to become a nurse. Florence, now thirty-one went to work at Kaserworth Hospital in Germany, and was later promoted and moved to a hospital in London. In 1854 Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia, marking the begging of the Crimean War. The allies had the upper hand in the war but there were vast criticisms of the medical felicities for the wounded soldiers. In response, Florence asked and was granted permission to take a group of thirty-eight women nurses to look after the ...
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