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- 1441: A Civil Action?
- A Civil Action? In the American Civil Judicial system, justice is….. In A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr, there are several barriers that impede this search for justice. Through authority, groupthink, cognitive dissonance, and bias; these barriers constantly challenge plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlictmann. The barrier of authority ...
- 1442: Stephen Crane Biography
- ... original in his field of work. Crane attended Claverack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball. Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a novel about a civil war soldier, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24 this was Cranes most famous work. Crane was then hired as a reporter in the American West, and Mexico. At age 27 Crane moved to ...
- 1443: Maintaining Civil Liberty
- Maintaining Civil Liberty Certain fundamentals are required in order to maintain a civil liberty. These can be identified as the normatively of law, legal obligation and the role of morality. To begin with, the normativity of law is essential for any kind of standard or criteria for passing ... and crime beyond a degree of acceptability. Again , during any natural disaster , what is feared is what people will do to one another and to one another's property . Without the repercussion of the law civil liberty / legal obligation is cast aside. "To say that it is important that the products of a wicked regime be called "law" or not indicates that there is something further at stake ( for example, ...
- 1444: Atomic Bombs
- ... bomb, the decision to drop the bomb, the weakening of Japan, the actual bombing and destruction of cities, the surrender of Japan and the impact the atomic bomb would have in the future. During World War II, the United States was afraid that Germany would develop the atomic bomb first. Germany had taken over Norway, which was a heavy water supply and Czechoslovakia, which was a uranium supply. Both of these ... head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Feis, 170) When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee, headed by Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, to advise him about the atomic bomb. The committee argued about whether to drop the bomb on a Japanese city or to have a demonstration explosion in an isolated part of Japan (Amrine ... have a demonstration bomb. The committee decided that the bomb needed to be dropped directly on a city. Stimson wrote the President, "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use." (Amrine, 122) Soon after that a group of scientists wrote Harry Truman asking not to drop the bomb on any city. They knew that the ...
- 1445: Iliad 2
- ... men. They both display behavior that could be described as heroism. The first way in which Achilles, who fights for the Greeks, and Hector, who fights for the Trojans, act differently is how they approach war and the inevitable violence and death that accompany it. Although Achilles knows that he is fated to be killed in battle, when his faithful and devoted friend Patroclus is mercilessly and dishonorably cut down in combat, he puts aside his pride and chooses to temporarily forget about his previous feuds with Agamemnon that have, up until now, prevented him from participating in the war. He joins the fighting with a deadly and vengeful mindset that will likely play a major factor in the outcome of the war. Today, this lust for revenge might be considered a glaring character flaw. However, this passion for retribution undoubtedly conforms to the heroic code of Greek society. Meanwhile, Hector is full of indecision and reluctance ...
- 1446: Hitler's Ambitions
- ... young he lived in carefree days under his loving mother, Klara Hitler, and his father Alois, was an officer in the army. At the age of six Hitler’s father received a pension from Austrian civil service and retired from the army. Another event happened that year, Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Jr., ran away from home because of the constant beatings he had received from his father. Now Hitler’s ... the Christian Social Party (Davidson p12). This added to his interests in German Nationalism and his anti-Semitic feelings. Another great even in Hitler’s life was the joining of the German army in World War I in August 1, 1914. This was an exciting moment in his life. At last Hitler had gone from his homeless days in Vienna to the army to fight for Germany. During the war Hitler was very lucky. He had gone two years straight without an injury, even after taking dangerous assignments of taking messages to the battlefield (History place). Luck was a major factor. The war however ...
- 1447: Iran Before And After The Revo
- ... demanding the Shah change, and they were now willing to lose their lives, for everything they wanted. They began spreading the word and taking a stand against the Shah. More and more people joined the war against the Shah and by the late nineteen-seventies, Iran was virtually in a civil war. People began bombarding the streets all over Iran and many of the two-year soldiers walked away from the army to join in the fight for freedom. At this point the revolution was going ...
- 1448: First Stand
- ... and many other questions that Americans have spent all their lives trying to answer. This isn’t an essay where I try to answer all those questions, but how I stand on certain issues like war, wealth, social status, education and finally technology. All those issues get even larger where even more questions arise. Those 3 sections are Political, Social, and Economical. War covers many issues of wars being prevented and how wars should be dealt with. Wealth is all about people who earn the money and people who just inherit it while social status is all about ... halfway descent life today. Technology will be the most important in the future because it could be the answer to most of our problems. The single word that most Americans know and sometimes fear is WAR. It hurts, maims, and kills millions of Americans. And why are wars started? Because some power hungry dictator wants more space, money or natural recourses. I think that a lot of the wars that ...
- 1449: Terrorism
- ... acts of violence began to threaten whites who were not white supremacists. When whites began to oppose the Klan, they went underground and were thought to have disbanded but they arose again before the first war and once more during the civil rights movements of the 1960's. This problem has arose again as Negro churches have again been targeted by arsonists. The police have been unable to solve the majority of these crimes. Hitler and his ... receive aid from Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Palestine Islamic Jihad is a similar group working in the Middle East. They act to form an Islamic Palestinian State and to destroy Israel through a “Holy War”. Their strength is unknown but they have been linked to Syria and Iran. The Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO) has been around since 1969. Yassir Arafat became the chairman and still holds the position today. ...
- 1450: El Salvador
- ... Central American republics had reluctantly granted recognition. Martinez ruled fairly well for thirteen years, but at the price of blood- shed and violence. El Salvador was the only Central American republic which didn't declare war on Germany during World War I, but it opened its ports to United States war vessels. In December 1941, El Salvador declared war on Germany and Japan. In 1944 Martinez was overthrown and driven into exile. Colonel Osmin Salinas, the leader of the revolt, became president. In 1945 Salinas ...
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