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- 1751: Drunk Driving
- ... lowering legal BAC standards? Why are valuable and limited public resources being squandered on detecting, apprehending, trying, punishing, and treating persons who, by and large, are not creating highway safety problems? And, why are basic civil rights protections being disregarded when those persons responsible for DWI-related accidents are readily recognized and apprehensible using traditional and accepted law enforcement practices? ( NMA s views on DWI, Internet source) Lowering the BAC level ... police should focus on the characteristics of this hardcore group instead of the population in general. People who conduct themselves in this manner can be spotted. ( DWI dilemma, Internet source) The truth is that the war on drunk driving is far from being won, and statistics show this. In 1997, 21 percent of the young drivers involved in fatal crashes had been drinking. Eight young people die a day in alcohol ... 7% said they were arrested. During a typical weekend, an average of one teenager dies each hour in a car crash. And, nearly fifty percent of those crashes involve alcohol. (MADD statistics, Internet source) The war on drunk driving has reached a complacent plateau characterized by many indifferent government leaders, strained law enforcement efforts and a dangerous public perception that the fight against drunk driving has been won. ( Washington Post, ...
- 1752: The Sniper
- In The Sniper Liam O Flaherty suggest the horror of war not only by presenting its physical dangers but also by showing its psychological effects. The story takes place in Dublin around the beleaguered Four Courts in the middle of the city where gunfire of heavy guns, machine guns, and rifles break the silence around the sniper because of a civil war that is especially dangerous because the enemy looked similar to yourself. The sniper is on the roof in a vulnerable situation because there is no cover, no place to hide. Besides that it s ...
- 1753: Henry Thoreau
- ... storehouse of innovative ideas. During his life, The Transcendental Club (of which he was a member) published "The Dial" (1840-44) a magazine to which he contributed many essays and poems. However, besides the essay "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau would probably never have become a classic writer if he had not written Walden. Walden was written during Thoreau’s stay at Walden Pond, an excursion which lasted over 2 years. Walden was ... of ideas and principles," Two of his famous essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854) and " A Plea for John Brown" (1859), display his strong feelings about the abolitionist movement. One of his most famous works is "Civil Disobedience," (1849), and it is considered to be the most widely read of all American essays. In 1845 while living at Walden Pond, Thoreau refused to pay the poll tax. He was resisting slavery, as paying the tax to essentially gave support in Congress to southern leadership, represented by the Mexican War and by appalling laws concerning slavery. His refusal to pay the tax led to a night in jail, after which an anonymous source paid the tax for him. "Civil Disobedience" gave birth to "the ...
- 1754: General James Longstreet
- ... Carolina on January eighth, eighteen twenty one. He graduated from West Point in eighteen forty two and went straight to service. There he served until eighteen sixty one. He first saw action in the Mexican War, he was wounded in Chapultepec Mexico. For his services he received two brevets and the staff rank of a Major. He resigned his commission on June first eighteen sixty one and joined the Confederacy. He became a General in the Civil War. His nickname was Old Pete meaning sturdy and trustworthy. He led most of the major battles in Virginia including Bullrun, Freddricsburg, and Chickmauga. He was under Robert E. Lees command, and led the First ...
- 1755: Affirmative Action: Will It Every Work Right?
- ... History II. Ethical Issues Kennedy’s Arguments Positive debates Sher’s Argument Negative debates III. Summary Footnotes I. Introduction From the time of it’s original conception to the actual passing of the act or civil rights addendum. Affirmative Action has and continues to be an issue taking us into the 21st century. This paper is written with no bias to give an fair shake to the Affirmative action policies that ... be discussing ethical arguments by economist Sher and Kennedy. I will discuss the positive and negative aspects and give a summary of these issues. History The history of affirmative action has its roots in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1) and stems from the United States Supreme Court Case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (2). In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order #11246 at ... They are saying that affirmative action is nothing more than a quota or reverse discrimination (6). As you can see, there have been many additions to the policy of affirmative action. People from the Vietnam War, people with disabilities, and minority groups have made gains in the workforce but more research needs to be conducted as to the qualifications of all of these people to make sure that race is ...
- 1756: Stonewall Jackson
- Stonewall Jackson I chose Stonewall Jackson as my topic. He is a well-known figure from the Civil War. I chose him because I wanted to research someone on the confederate point of view, opposed to the Union. I wanted to learn more about that side of the war, living in the north I feel I know more about the Union’s role. Stonewall Jackson was born in 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), with the name Thomas Jonathan Jackson. He went ...
- 1757: The Handmaids Tale
- ... feminists have taken all kinds of positions: that all erotica depicting women as sexual objects is demeaning, that pornography was bad though erotica can be good, that although most pornography is demeaning the protection of civil liberties is a greater good which requires the toleration of freedom for pornographers, however distasteful, even that such a thing as feminist pornography can and should be created. The sub-theme of this tangled debate ... Note how much more open-ended and suspenseful Offred's narrative is. Section IV: Waiting Room Chapter 8 What is "Gender Treachery?" The passage on the etymology of the term "Mayday" is correct. During World War II, the opening rhythmic pattern from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was interpreted as the Morse code for "v" (dot dot dot dash), and used to symbolize "victory". What do we learn about Offred's family ... is important to remember that this is not a realistic novel, but a satirical dystopia. What associations are aroused by the tattoo on Offred's ankle? She is remembering scenes from the end of World War II, in which women who dated the Nazi occ upiers had their heads shaved in public. What two meanings of the word "compose" is she playing with in the last paragraph? Section V: Nap ...
- 1758: Rise Of Communism
- ... it clear that no industrial surge was about to happen in Russia. The popularity of the Czars further went down hill as Nicolas II’s poor military and political decisions caused mass losses in World War I. Eventually, the citizens could take no more and began a riot in St. Petersburg that led to the first Russian Revolution of 1917. The Russian Revolutions of 1917 led to the riddance of the ... to abdicate his throne to a provisional government. Lenin headed the second of the two revolutions in which he overthrew the provisional government. Over the next few years, Russia went through a traumatic time of civil war and turmoil. The Bolsheviks’ Red Army fought the white army of farmers, etc. against Lenin and his ways. Lenin and the Bolsheviks won and began to wean Russia of non-conforming parties eventually banning ...
- 1759: Napoleon 3
- ... the French people. One of the biggest and most well known is the revision of many French laws into codes. One of the most famous codes, Code Napoleon, still forms the basis of the federal civil law today. After many years of dictatorship, Napoleon was growing very restless with simply governing France. He believed he could help the French better if the people would give him the power to do so ... That year he issued two decrees, the Berlin Decree and then the Milian Decree. He did not realize that both of these decrees were the beginning of his fall from power. In 1808 the Peninsular War broke out when Spain and Portugal rebelled against French rule. British troops joined the fight against France where tens of thousands of French soldiers died. This loss damaged Napoleon s honor greatly. Napoleon then decided to attack Russia. This war resulted in many casualties but no one won the battle that took place in Moscow. His men where worn out and on his departure out of Moscow many died from illness and starvation. Of ...
- 1760: Submarines
- ... in England, the year was about 1620. They called his submarine, Father of the Submarine. After that a lot of scientist were trying to make submarines. Most of them were not used until the Revolutionary War of America (1775-1783). When that war was going on a man named David Bushnell, that went to Yale College, designed a submarine that he called, The Turtle. It was a one-man submarine that was powered by a crank that you ... that was 21 feet long. He tried to sell his ship to both France and England. In his demonstration it sunk many of ships, but they still did not want to buy it. In the Civil War (1861-1865) a submarine named, Hunley, was the first submarine to sink a ship in wartime. It had a long pole on its bow, at the end of the pole there was a ...
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