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- 2801: The Role of the U.S. in the Third World in the Year 2000
- ... more profitable to locals without bulldozing them. This has been demonstrated in Uganda with the mountain gorillas. Eco-tourism is helping the local economies and the national governments. This was also working in Rwanda until Civil War tore this country apart. Fortunately the mountain gorillas have been left alone for the most part, since this was their third largest income provider and the number one and two sources, coffee and tea fields were destroyed during the war. Worldwide instant communication has improved human rights. The use of fax machines and cell telephones during the Tiananmen Square uprising informed the world of events and somewhat restrained the Chinese. Dan Rather doing the ...
- 2802: Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
- ... patriot, with a strong sense of nationalism. While Attending Harvard University, he saw that his country needed his help, so he put his undergraduate studies on hold to serve his country's Navy in World War II. When he returned home, he finished his Bachelor's degree at Harvard, and received an LL.B. from the university of Virginia Law. In 1951 he served as Attorney to the U.S. Department ... While being a Senator, his views on government slightly changed. He was now paying more attention to the needs of the poor minorities, and was criticizing the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. In March of 1968, he announced that he would be running for President on the Democratic ticket. His charismatic personality appealed to voters of all ethnic backgrounds and ages. This helped him to win the ... he had lived and succeeded in his mission, he probably would have brought the United States to a greater awareness of its responsibility to the poor and the vulnerable within the society. His concern for Civil Rights and the needs of the poor were an inspiration to many Americans at that time . I Would like to conclude this report with a poem I found on Robert Francis (“Bobby”) Kennedy written ...
- 2803: Cryptography
- ... Cryptography. First I learned about Cryptography in the past. The Romans were the first to substitute a letter for a letter in a normal progression in what is called the Julius Caesar Method. In World War II a more elusive system came about for the encryption of messages. The Germans had a machine they in¬ vented called the enigma machine. Basically it used twenty six wheels, one for each letter in ... that the code is nearly unbreakable. But There is a drawback. The government is allowed a backdoor key.(Russell) Now imagine if someone were able to get hold of the key. Also the violation on civil liberties is astounding. The US cellular Phone industry is lobbying for protective laws to fix the problems they made in making a poor security system for phones. It is an example of big business trying ... to vandal¬ ize it. Even when the most effective cryptography is used,nothing is completely secure. Bibliography Sutton, William G. Cryptography. Encarta 98. CD-ROM. Redmond, WA, 1998 Oppenhiem,Gena H. “Codes and Ciphers in War.” Http://www.saintanns.K12.ny.us/depart/math/Gena/ccw.html Russell, Deborah “PGP: The Privacy Wars” http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/people/jeremy/pgp/html Shneier, Bruce “Cryptography and the future” ...
- 2804: Communism - From Marx To Zemin
- ... root of all evil. However, as with all phobias, this intrinsic fear of communism comes from a lack of knowledge rather than sound reasoning. It is that same fear that gave the world the Cold War and McCarthy's Red Scare. The purpose of this paper is neither to support communism over capitalism nor the reverse of that. Rather, it is to inform the reader of communism's migration through time ... at the end. The Long March had begun. It would end in 1949, the same time the People's Republic of China was formed. Mao had come out on top through extraordinary means. However, the civil war was not quite over. While living in Taiwan, Chiang was still getting backing from the United States and again took the title of President in 1950. Mao recognized, however, that he would need to ...
- 2805: Outlaws In The Frontier
- ... 1900. There had been lawlessness during the colonial era. Frontiers have always attracted misfits, failures, and renegades who hope to profit by being beyond the reach of government. In the years just before the Revolutionary War, gangs of horse thieves in the back country of South Carolina were broken up by organized bands of farmers called Regulators. As frontier settlement expanded rapidly after the Revolution, more opportunities for criminals opened. Two ... burgeoned after the California Gold Rush of 1849 and as prosperity found its way to frontier towns. The first stagecoach robbery was recorded in 1851, and the first train robberies happened in 1866. After the Civil War there was the growth of the cattle kingdom in Texas and neighboring states. Cattle rustling and horse theft turned into significant operations. Range wars bred a great amount of violence. Cattlemen fought over land ...
- 2806: The Life Of Stalin
- ... Committee--by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally worked on while in exile). Stalin was rejected for service in the Russian Army in 1916 (by now Russia was at war with the Central Powers) because of the condition of his left arm. Stalin's Military Career: (1917-1921) In March 1917, Stalin immediately left Siberia (where he was still in exile) for Petrograd (modern St ... s name seldom appears in records of the revolution, for he remained in the background as an administrator. His work was largely responsible for the success of the bloody October Revolution in 1917. •During the civil war that followed the revolution, Stalin served as political commissar with Bolshevik armies on several fronts. In 1918, he directed the successful defense of vital Tsaritsyn against the White Army. The city was renamed Stalingrad ...
- 2807: The Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... wasn’t long before Elizabeth started seeing many patients because the Society of Friends supported her accomplishment as a doctor and referred people to her. She also helped train nurses for the battlefront during the Civil War. After the war ended, Elizabeth pursued a new goal, which was to open a college for women. In 1868, she opened the New York Infirmary and College for Women, a hospital completely operated by women. In 1869, ...
- 2808: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
- ... anti-slavery newspaper called "The North Star". Not only did he present news to the slaves, but it was also highly regarded as a good source of information for those opposed to slavery. During the Civil war, Douglass organized two regiments of black soldiers in Massachusetts to fight for the North. Before, during and after the war he continued his quest to free all the slaves. He became known as a fair and righteous man and was appointed as the U.S. Minister of Haiti after holding several government offices. Frederick ...
- 2809: Owens Valley Aquaduct
- ... critical point on the aqueduct gate and completely halted the flow of the river. Seven hundred others joined the demonstration, and together they protested the injustice that had been committed against them. “The Owens Valley War”, the title appropriated by a local newspaper for the demonstration, had reached its climax. “The Owens Valley War” was already over; the dainty valley community suffered its defeat to the powerful metropolitan giant. Then one of the greatest civil disasters in American history took place. The Mulholland built, St. Francis Dam collapsed. This released a fifteen billion gallon flood that scoured a path to the sea two miles wide, and seventy miles long. ...
- 2810: JFK
- ... Roosevelt. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940. In 1941, John Kennedy joined the Navy. He became the commander of a small boat assigned to the battle in the Pacific against the Japanese. After World War II he soon decided to run for political office. In 1946, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, Kennedy, a Democrat, served three terms (six years) in the House of Representatives, and in 1952 ... landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In 1963, clashes between the police and demonstrating blacks in Birmingham, Ala., and elsewhere, especially in the South, induced the president to stress civil rights legislation. Kennedy's new civil rights message included bills to ban discrimination in places of business; to speed up desegregation of public schools; and to end discrimination in the hiring of workers on federal construction projects. On Nov. 22, ...
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