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- 1941: Minutes Of Glory
- ... iv, 11-4). With this statement, Duncan illustrates his recognition of his inability to tell the character of an individual by looking at him. He is referring to the Thane of Cawdor who, during the civil war, helped try to overthrow Duncan's rule of Scotland. As a king, Duncan is well received which perhaps allows him to consider himself untouchable. He assumes that no one would have any reason to hurt ... inability to properly deduce what others around them are thinking. Duncan, until he was told, was ignorant of the fact that one of his own men was divulging information and helping the enemy during the civil war. As for Macbeth, he was unaware that his actions were being dictated by the witches and thought that he was in control of his life. In a relentless attempt to stay alive, Macbeth ...
- 1942: Benjamin Harrison
- ... P. Morton, a New York banker, was named for vice-president. Harrison kept aloof from Congress and left lawmaking to its leaders. First on his list was the Dependent Pension Act. This provided money for Civil War veterans who had a disability, no matter where or when they got it. Extravagant appropriations were made also for the Navy and for rivers and harbors. The 51st Congress was the first to spend a ... East wanted higher tariffs. The two groups agreed to support each other. The McKinley Tariff Act raised duties on almost every article that competed with American products, thus making permanent the duties enacted during the Civil War.
- 1943: Free Enterprise
- ... time the U.S. Constitution was written, it was generally assumed that only property owners should have the right to vote and participate in government. The "Free Labor" thinking of the Republican Party before the Civil War was basically a form of the capitalist work ethic. It meant that if 1) you were free yourself; 2) your country was "free"; and, 3) there was no slave labor to take your livelihood, you ... lead them to believe) that the poverty and economic decline of the South were probably due to laziness and that this indicated that the North should be able to easily defeat the South. But the Civil War proved that Southerners were not "lazy;" it was the slave system (lacking science and industry) that caused many of the economic problems there. The capitalist "work-ethic" also caused Northerners to overlook the ...
- 1944: The Way It Really Was!
- The Way It Really Was! In the 1950's there were many problems. The Korean war and the civil rights struggle. Back then the music was all rhythm and blues (r &b). It was record mostly by black artists and for black audience but the white teenagers became interested. The music scene in the ... emerge like The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Most of them were folk and folk blues but The Beatles and The Rolling Stones played traditional Rock and Roll. Teens in the sixties were involved with anti-war and civil rights and some were involved with drugs and eastern religions. At the end of the 60's decade, trends occurred like art rock, protest music and psychedelic music. By the seventies Rock ...
- 1945: Gay Marriages-Acceptable to God and America?
- ... barring legal gay marriages in the continental United States. It also denies same-sex couples from receiving federal spousal benefits. DOMA was created by the Christian right wing conservatives who have been waging this holy war against gays from the beginning. I feel that these Christians are not supporting what Jesus died on the cross for. They should preach love among all man, instead of wasting their energy trying to rob fellow Americans of their civil rights. I was even further shocked to hear that Maines anti-gay community voted to overturn 1997s Human Rights Act in January of last year. That law prohibited discrimination on the basis of ... translations. The majority of theologians dispute the exact meaning and the relevance of each passage. I dispute the passages wholeheartedly, believing that God taught us to love one another. The most amusing aspect to the war against the gays is seeing groups like the Truth in Love or Center for Reclaiming America, try to use reparative therapy to heal gays of their terrible disease. I once read an ad by ...
- 1946: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
- ... such as the American Firearms Association, who seek compromise regarding our rights (Lissabet, "Return" 2). Some organizations that one would expect to participate in this debate are noticeably quiet. One such group is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In "The ACLU on Gun Control", the national ACLU policy is neutrality (1). All factions in this debate have some merit, some more than others. All use a mixture of facts, figures ... express their views. I will be presenting some of their history, their views, and how they make their cases. The NRA is perhaps the most well known of the participants. They were formed after the Civil War, in 1871, as an organization dedicated to the rifle marksmanship of the state Militias. This was due to Union Army's lack of marksmanship. Following World War II, many returning veterans joined the ranks ...
- 1947: Rapid Population Growth
- ... manipulations. Though the world governments help provide seeds and tools that farmers would need people still can not farm because of political unstablity. From political unstablty people are fleeing nearby Rwanda to get away from civil war. As the thousands of refugees that flee Rwanda they loot farms, and eat whatever they can, and in return leaving nothing for the families that own the farms. It then took two years for the farm to regain its crop, and only later it was stolen by soliders fighting the Zairean civil war in 1996. Not only do people have their crops stolen, but even worse, the farmers have no incentive to start a new farm because have they suspect that it would be raived by ...
- 1948: David Belasco
- ... New York City, where he spent most of his life. For several years he was the stage manager of the Madison Square Theater, for which he wrote plays, Achieving popularity with May Blossom (1884), a Civil War love story. It was followed by Lord Chumbley (1888), a domestic drama featuring a comic Englishmen. In 1893, written with Franklyn Fyles, was The Girl I Left Behind Me, a popular Indian melodrama. In 1895, Belasco had his first smash hit as a playwright , director, and independent manager. His Civil War melodrama, The Heart of Maryland, became a runaway success in New York, in London, and on tour across the U.S.. Belasco wrote the play as a showcase for the particular talents of ...
- 1949: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... initially for hunting, and occasionally for self-defense. However, when the colonists felt that the burden of British oppression was too much for them to bear, they picked up their personal firearms and went to war. Standing against the British armies, these rebels found themselves opposed by the greatest military force in the world at that time. The 18th century witnessed the height of the British Empire, but the rough band ... townspeople developed police forces as their towns grew in size. Fewer people carried their firearms on the street, but the firearms were always there, ready to be used in self- defense. It was after the Civil War that the first gun-control advocates came into existence. These were southern leaders who were afraid that the newly freed black slaves would assert their newfound political rights, and these leaders wanted to make ...
- 1950: Macbeth 15
- ... iv, 11-4). With this statement, Duncan illustrates his recognition of his inability to tell the character of an individual by looking at him. He is referring to the Thane of Cawdor who, during the civil war, helped try to overthrow Duncan's rule of Scotland. As a king, Duncan is well received which perhaps allows him to consider himself untouchable. He assumes that no one would have any reason to hurt ... inability to properly deduce what others around them are thinking. Duncan, until he was told, was ignorant of the fact that one of his own men was divulging information and helping the enemy during the civil war. As for Macbeth, he was unaware that his actions were being dictated by the witches and thought that he was in control of his life. In a relentless attempt to stay alive, Macbeth ...
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