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- 3091: The Need for Congress in the U.S
- ... Senate must ratify all treaties by a two-thirds vote." (Compton's Encyclopedia, Online). People will argue that Congress gives the president too much power in the area of foreign affairs. "Bush embarked on major war against Iraq in 1991, without a declaration of war by Congress." (Cummings / Wise 448). Although these checks and balances are necessary they can also cause conflicts between branches. There is always a possibility that the majority in Congress can be of a different party ... Senate must ratify all treaties by a two-thirds vote." (Compton's Encyclopedia, Online). People will argue that Congress gives the president too much power in the area of foreign affairs. "Bush embarked on major war against Iraq in 1991, without a declaration of war by Congress." (Cummings / Wise 448). Although these checks and balances are necessary they can also cause conflicts between branches. There is always a possibility that ...
- 3092: In Romeo And Juliet Who Is To
- ... tragedy, but there is no single person responsible. The feud causes many problems arising in the play. The prologue supports this when it predicts the forthcoming misfortune "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny \ Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" the grudge mentioned means the basis of the feud. The civil brawls mentioned are between Mercutio and Tybalt, Romeo and Tybalt, Paris and Romeo. If the feud was not started by some grudge or disagreement between the Capulets and the Montagues a long time ago ...
- 3093: Tinker v. Des Moines, Kuhlmieir v. Hazelwood
- ... v. Des Moines, Kuhlmieir v. Hazelwood About 32 years ago, in December of 1965, a group of adults and students from Des Moines, Iowa gathered to show their dislike towards American involvement in the Vietnam War. They decided to wear black armbands and fast on December 16 and 31 to express there point. When the principals of the Des Moines School System found out their plans, they decided to suspend anyone ... the students in school. Why shouldn't students have the same rights as other people? If the students wore obscene clothing, ran out of classrooms, or set the school on fire in protest of the war, then yes, I could see disciplinary action being taken against them. However, the Tinkers simply wore black armbands. Because this was not disruptive or obscene, I feel the school should not have punished them. Another ... that their rights were being violated by the decisions and actions made by the school districts. In contrast, the time periods in which these cases took place were very different. In the 1960's, the war in Vietnam was going on, and there were a lot of controversial issues and viewpoints facing students at schools. In the 1980's, the war was over and there weren't as many controversial ...
- 3094: Colin Powell
- ... military office, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. While the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff he "Played a role in planning and executing the invasion of Panama in 1989 and the Persian Gulf War (1991)."(Source 4, page 1) When Powell joined the United States Army in 1958 he was commissioned a second lieutenant [source 2 (biography page 1)]. He went to Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning ... of things but I will only list a few; they learned stuff like how to call artillery fire, how to fill out government forms, use a radio, maintain motor vehicles, and handle a prisoner of war. They did not learn any of this stuff in ROTC (source 1 pages 45, 46). Powell asked and received orders to go to both Airborne and Ranger schools. Airborne school was a bunch of punishing ... a speech and Dick Cheny made a speech about Powell's Chairmanship. Powell spoke about a painting in the pentagon. It showed a family praying in a church because the father had to go to war. It had an inscription from the prophet Isaiah that said And the good Lord God asked: "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" And the reply came back: "Here I am send ...
- 3095: Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
- Landmark Supreme Court Decisions About 32 years ago, in December of 1965, a group of adults and students from Des Moines, Iowa gathered to show their dislike towards American involvement in the Vietnam War. They decided to wear black armbands and fast on December 16 and 31 to express there point. When the principals of the Des Moines School System found out their plans, they decided to suspend anyone ... the students in school. Why shouldn't students have the same rights as other people? If the students wore obscene clothing, ran out of classrooms, or set the school on fire in protest of the war, then yes, I could see disciplinary action being taken against them. However, the Tinkers simply wore black armbands. Because this was not disruptive or obscene, I feel the school should not have punished them. Another ... that their rights were being violated by the decisions and actions made by the school districts. In contrast, the time periods in which these cases took place were very different. In the 1960's, the war in Vietnam was going on, and there were a lot of controversial issues and viewpoints facing students at schools. In the 1980's, the war was over and there weren't as many controversial ...
- 3096: Stonewall Jackson
- ... He was said to have been in the upper third of his class. His military career had just begun. As soon as he received his commission as lieutenant of artillery, Jackson was assigned to the war zone in Mexico. There he first met Robert E. Lee. Jackson served at Veracruz, Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year. In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. Jackson left the army in 1850 and became a math professor at Virginia Military Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not ... have lost my right arm." Eight days after he was shot, May 10, he died of pneumonia. The Confederate army had won the battle in which Jackson had fallen, but the chances of winning the war had grown very small. Jackson was buried at Lexington, Va. He was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1955. Some say if Stonewall Jackson didnt die, the South would have won the ...
- 3097: Mccormick Place
- ... in Chicago. He worked as the head of Streets and Sanitation Department from 1905-1910, and in 1911 he became president of the Tribune. He worked there until he was called into action for World War One where he served in the first infantry; directly under the command of John J. Pershing. When he returned home to Chicago, Robert became somewhat of an entrepreneur ("Exhibition Center Hailed
"). In the late 1940 ... 1927, a similar plan to build a convention center was blocked by the Illinois Supreme Court. Further progress was stunted in the 1930's by the Great Depression. After the United States' entrance into World War Two, industry got a jump-start. Then in 1951, a one-percent tax was added on running racetrack parimutuels. The tax was designed to pay for industrial, cultural and educational fairs in Illinois. Most of ... Rebuild Burned Hall." Chicago Tribune 17 January 1967: A2. "Insurance on McCormick Place is $29,650,000." Chicago Tribune 17 January 1967: A8. Jaskot, Paul. "Lecture Notes on McCormick Place." Explore Chicago: Building of Post War Chicago and Mayor Richard J. Daley. Chicago, 21 October 1999. Jaskot, Paul. "Lecture Notes on C. F. Murphy." Explore Chicago: Building of Post War Chicago and Mayor Richard J. Daley. Chicago, 14 October 1999. " ...
- 3098: Political, Social And Moral Me
- ... entertaining. Amidst these wacky drawings of zany characters spouting off crazy rhetoric, there is much hidden symbolism. Many of Dr. Seuss works contain political, social, and moral messages. Political messages in Dr. Seuss works include war, economic and environmental themes. Two of Dr. Seuss later works, The Butter Battle Book and The Lorax, "take strong stands on the dangers of indifference to world affairs." (Horn 70) In The Butter Battle Book, Seuss takes nuclear war as his theme. Two groups of animals live on either side of a stone wall. One side eats their bread butter side up, while the other side eats their bread butter side down. Because of ... moral arguments adults make against nuclear proliferation." (Lystad 1) This book "ends without resolution of the issues" (Lystad 2) and leaves it up to the reader to decide his or her own beliefs on nuclear war. Political issues arise again in Green Eggs and Ham. In this book "Sam-I-Am s persistence convinces a friend to try an unusual - but tasty - dish." (Horn 67) This confrontation between Sam-I- ...
- 3099: Johnny Got His Gun Book Report
- Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is a controversial anti-war story of a soldier who lost his arms, his legs, and most of his face in a World War I from a shell. Trumbo's soldier is Joe Bonham who comes from a patriotic background. The boy works in a bakery, supports his mother and sisters after his father's death, he is in love with sweet Irish girl, and enlists in the army because it's the thing a young man did for his country. He's sent on a patrol into war grounds to bury a corpse that was stuck on barb wire in front of his trench. A bomb lands close to him, and he wakes up in a hospital. The army is convinced he ...
- 3100: The US Government
- ... media discovered that he had dodged the Vietnam draft, been unfaithful to his spouse, and smoked marijuana while attending Oxford. Bill placated the liberal-biased media by saying that he didn't believe in the war, and he "didn't inhale." Opposition mounted when reporters discovered that Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham, whom he married in 1975, had made some questionable dealings over a piece of real estate referred to ... writings and discoveries; 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; 10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and offenses against the law of nations; 11. To declare war and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money for that use shall be for a longer term than two years; 13. To provide ... in chief of the armed forces. The president has this title because he is the `head honcho' in the military. The buck stops there. The president can ask congress for the right to go to war as did Franklin Delano Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Congress voted yes and the United States entered WWII. C) Appoint key officials in the government. Among the many ...
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