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- 2841: To Kill A Mocking Bird 3
- ... looking back at her childhood) but is casual enough to be understood by most readers. Maycomb s racist attitude in To Kill a Mocking Bird is fueled by the events which occurred soon after World War I. After a devastating stock market crash, many employers lost a substantial amount of money and therefore could hardly afford to hire staff. Many resorted to buying slaves; it was cheap and required little responsibility on their part. This event led to the employment of Negroes. The Industrial revolution did not occur in South America since it was only logical to simply buy slaves rather than expensive machinery. The civil war soon followed, and declared that Negroes were no longer considered slaves and if they were unhappy with work conditions they could leave. Few did, since jobs were already dangerously scarce and by about 1930 ...
- 2842: The South's Finest Hour: The Battle of Chancellorsville
- The South's Finest Hour: The Battle of Chancellorsville For the South in the Civil War, there were many victories and heartbreaking defeats - from the battle of Bull Run, to the upset of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. However, one Southern victory may be said as the South's finest hour ... was time to react. Lee had two choices. One, he could turn tail in retreat toward Richmond or face the threat behind him. Here, Lee made one of the boldest, most brilliant moves of the war. Lee completely split up his army. He left only 10,000 Confederates to defend against the 40,000 Union troops at Fredericksburg. Nevertheless, on April 30, the main body of Lee's forces marched ...
- 2843: Research Essay, East Timor
- ... arisen in East Timor has been heavily one sided towards the militaristic regime that has destroyed the fabric of life for the people of East Timor. East Timor has a history plagued by crime, injustice, war and death and during all of these times the church was there in one way or another giving support for the communities, but it has not always been that way. When the Portuguese colonized East ... its campaign. During this time there was a split in the coalition, that had been formed only months earlier with the UDT breaking away and as a result of this it sparked a short lived civil war. When the Portuguese forces moved to a nearby island of Atauro the UDT lost power and Fretilin gained control. However this did not help, as the Portuguese were refusing to return to Dili (Capital) ...
- 2844: President Andrew Jackson
- ... At this time his political career looked over. In 1814 Jackson was a Major General in the Tennessee Militia, here he was ordered to march against the Creek Indians (who were pro-British in the war of 1812). His goal was achieved at Horseshoe Bend in March of 1814. Eventually he forced All Indians from the area. His victory's impressed some people in Washington and Jackson was put in command of the defense of New Orleans. This show of American strength made Americans feel proud after a war filled with military defeats. Jackson was given the nickname "Old Hickory", and was treated as a national hero. In 1817 he was ordered against the Seminole Indians. He pushed them back into Spanish Florida and ... system of "rotation in office." This was used to protect the American people from a development of a long-standing political group by removing long-term office holders. His enemies accused him of corruption of civil service for political reasons. However, I think that it was used to insure loyalty of the people in his administration. States rights played an important part in Jackson's policy's as president. In ...
- 2845: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... can be isolated in determining whether young people will be criminal in their behavior is moral poverty," Greenberg says. (3) According to the recently published "Body Count: Moral Poverty . . . and How to Win America' s War Against Crime and Drugs," a new generation of "super-predators, " untouched by any moral inclinations, will hit America's streets in the next decade. John DiIulio, the Brookings Institute fellow who co-wrote the book ... get away with murder. Scholars who study drugs and crime are only now beginning to realize the social consequences of raising so many children in abject moral poverty. The need to rebuild and resurrect the civil society (families, churches, community groups) of high-crime, drug-plagued urban neighborhoods is not an intellectual or research hypothesis that requires testing. It's a moral and social imperative that requires doing - and doing now ... in the U.S., more than at any time since the 1950s. "This is the calm before the crime storm," says Fox. "So long as we fool ourselves in thinking that we're winning the war against crime, we may be blind sided by this bloodbath of teenage violence that is lurking in the future." Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime -single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating ...
- 2846: The Bill of Rights
- ... funds to make independent expenditures in a political campaign. In March, the Supreme Court upheld that law. According to dissenting Justice Kennedy, it is now a felony in Michigan for the Sierra Club, the American Civil Liberties Union, or the Chamber of Commerce to advise the public how a candidate voted on issues of urgent concern to their members. FREE PRESS: As in speech, technology has provided another excuse for government ... generally denied the right to carry a weapon for self-defense. Amendment III No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. QUARTERING SOLDIERS: This amendment is fairly clean so far, but it is not entirely safe. Recently, 200 troops in camouflage dress with M-16s and helicopters ... or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject to the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a ...
- 2847: Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes of George Orwell
- ... personal experiences. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair. He is one of the most famous political satirists of the twentieth century. He was born in Bengal, India in 1903 to an English Civil Servant and died in 1950. He attended Eton from 1917 to 1921, and served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927 before moving to Europe.Two of his most famous books ... Winston as a puppet in trying to get across his point that Communism must be stopped. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the character Big Brother is a symbol of The PartyΉs dominance over Oceania, post war England in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother in actuality did not exist. He is just a distortion of reality created by The Party to strike fear into the minds of the citizens. Big Brother was ... Ibid 19-Miriam Gross, The World of George Orwell (New York, NY:Simon and Schuster, 1971) pg.136 20-The Party represents the Communist party in Russia. It has a total dictatorship over Oceania, post war England in the novel. They use the same violent force that the Communist used to enforce their laws, and almost everything else is the same as the Communist party. 21-Gilbert Borman, Cliffs Notes ...
- 2848: Slavery - Capitilism
- ... as James Henretta have said that Capitalism was the cause of all evil within the American South. American Capitalism defined by Max Weber is " a greed for gain", and "acquisition by force, ... whether directly in war or in the form [of] exploitation of subjects". This type of lifestyle within a growing nation could not work with the gentry class which was moving into the region unless there was people to do ... that problem - work cost too much money so the colonists implemented forced labor for economic gain. So slavery provided the basis for a special Southern economic and social life which had continued on until the Civil war. The special economic life which the people of the South lived upon was one of greed for expansion and gain. Capitalism at its best, and the Southern colonies were very good at it. Lewis ...
- 2849: The Brief History of Alaska
- ... the 1850s, the Russian-American Company was no longer interested in trade, mainly due to the fact that the Russian government had taken over a large part of the company's affairs. After the Crimean War (1853-1856), Russia wanted to sell Alaska and U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska for $7,200,000 (About 2 cents per acre). On March 30, 1867, he signed ... Congress approved it. On October 18, 1867 the U.S. flag was raised at Sitka. Congress did not provide for an Alaskan government during the next 17 years and Alaska was administered first by the War Department, then by the Treasury Department, and then by the Navy Department. These agencies had little interest in the local problems of Alaska. A few American companies were interested in the rich salmon fisheries of Alaska and in1878, the first canneries were built in Alaska. In 1884, the first Organic Act was passed by Congress, which established Alaska as a "civil and judicial district." Alaska received a code of laws and a federal court, but the laws were from Oregon and were not adapted to Alaska's conditions. Congress kept the power to pass laws ...
- 2850: The Invasion of Spain
- ... race-antagonism soon weakened his forces, and the Saxon hosts melted away. Of the so-called "Massacre of Verdun" (783) it is fair to say that the 4500 Saxons who perished were not prisoners of war; legally, they were ringleaders in a rebellion, selected as such from a number of their fellow rebels. Wittekind himself escaped beyond the Elbe. It was not until after another defeat of the Saxons at Detmold ... silver, parts of the plunder which these barbarians had been accumulating for two centuries. In this campaign King Pepin of Lombardy cooperated with his father, with forces drawn from Italy; the later stages of this war (which may be considered the last of Charles' great wars) were left in the hands of the younger king. The last stages by which the story of Charles' career is brought to its climax touch ... principally to prevent the quasi-anarchy which local intrigues and passions, family interests and ambitions, and adverse Byzantine agencies were promoting. It would be unhistorical to maintain that as emperor he ignored at once the civil sovereignty of the pope in the Patrimony of Peter. This (the Duchy of Rome and the Exarchate) he significantly omitted from the partition of the Frankish State made at the Diet of Thionville, in ...
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