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- 3311: Events Leading To The Cause Of
- ... s rules and taxes at first, but only for a certain period. They soon grew weary of Britain and chose to declare their independence. The beginning of their turmoil began during the French and Indian War. Britain had passed a series of Navigation Acts. These acts were to forbid the colonists from trading with any outside country other than England. The colonists did not mind at first, because they needed British protection and because they did not enforce the laws strictly. After the British won the French and Indian War, all French presence was removed from America. However, Indian uprisings led to the Proclamation of 1763. This proclamation stated that nobody may enter the Ohio Valley unless they were licensed fur traders. British troops were ... enforce this. This angered the colonist because they felt that they did not need British protection anymore and that they were holding them back form settling into the fertile Ohio Valley. The French and Indian War had cost England much money. To pay this off they started making taxes on the colonies. They first tax was the Sugar Act of 1764. This was an indirect tax on goods such as ...
- 3312: The Death Of A Criminal
- ... an uncivilized society. It is immoral in principle, and unfair and discriminatory in practice. It assures the execution of some innocent people. As a remedy for crime, it has no purpose and no effect (American Civil Liberties Union National Office 2-16-95)." In 1972, the Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia ruled that the death penalty for murder was unconstitutional. They also argue that the death penalty costs too much ... penalty is beneficial in that it saves money and lets us feel secure. Work Cited Academic American Encyclopedia. "Capital Punishment." Danbury: Grolier Electronic Publishing, 1995. Academic American Encyclopedia. "Prison." Danbury: Grolier Electronic Publishing, 1995. American Civil Liberties Union National Office. "New York Civil Liberties Union says No to death penalty." February 16, 1995. Bureau of Justice Statistics. "Capital Punishment 1992." December 1992. Bureau of Justice Statistics. "Prisoners in 1992." May 1993. Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch. " ...
- 3313: Emily Dickinson
- ... without Susan. These poems and letters have led some people to think Emily was a lesbian. [ 10. http://www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/ e_*censored*in.html ] Dickinson had her greatest poetic output during the Civil War. She wrote around eight hundred poems in this time. To go along with this great output came a stressful period, too. Emily went through great stress in the year eighteen hundred sixty-two because of ...
- 3314: Domestic Violence
- ... 153) One Detroit police officer is even quoted as saying, "there are no rewards for refereeing a family fight." (Langley and Levy 153) One of the problems is the offense can be both criminal and civil matters. In fact, there are only three states that have laws that deal directly with spouse abuse, California, Hawaii, and Texas which make it an automatic felony for a husband to beat his wife. The ... crime in every state. Since wife beating is a form of assault, then wife beating is a crime in every state. In practice, however, wife beating is not treated as a crime but as a civil matter. Prosecutors deliberately look the other way even when a man mad it's to wife beating." (Langley and Levy 154) When the judicial system fails to help the abused, the abused must turn elsewhere ... as well as political laws to rectify this situation. There are no set standards, in fact police officers are told to not arrest in cases of domestic violence calls. The reasoning is once again the civil matter of domestic violence being a "family problem". In conclusion, this simply alarming and terrifyingly eye opening subject matter I would like to suggest five areas in which we as a society and human ...
- 3315: The New Deal
- ... to many workers engaged in interstate commerce. The law was intended to prevent competitive wage cutting by employers during the Depression. After the law was passed, wages began to rise as the economy turned to war production. Wages and prices continued to rise, and the original minimum wage ceased to be relevant. However, this new law still excluded millions of working people, as did social security. However, a severe recession led many people to turn against New Deal policies. In addition, World War II erupted in September 1939. Causing an enormous growth in the economy as war goods were once again in great demand. No major New Deal legislation was enacted after 1938. The Depression was a devastating event in America, and by regulating banks and the stock market the New ...
- 3316: English in the 21st Century
- ... the last great superpower since the Soviet Union fell. The United States is the lead country in the North American Treaty Organization, better known as NATO, which has helped Bosnia and other countries with their civil wars. America also led the United Nations forces in the Persian Gulf War against Iraq and Sadaam Hussein. Because of that, other countries respect us and our high-tech weapons. Advanced technology America developed the first computers. Now we have the Internet and e-mail. Both have influenced ...
- 3317: John Wayne
- ... the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers (1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan (1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes to fill. The movies that he made at the end of the decade were ... time and will probably forever remain on that list. He gave society so much by just being on the screen of movie theaters across America. At a time when this country was bogged down with war and it seemed if war was never going to stop he rose above it and let people see that there was still some good things out there. John Wayne was never cheated out of anything. Except maybe the rest ...
- 3318: Modern American History
- ... the culture of the US through his literature and his political presence. Franklin was born in the early 18th century, when England still had a grip on the politics of the colonies. Following the revolutionary war, in which he had important diplomatic duties, Franklin was one of the key framers of the Constitution. By then, Franklin was a ripe 81 years old, in the twilight years of his life. During his ... prejudice until the 1960s. King drove the Negroes of America to march on Washington, D.C. to fight for rights. He was behind the movement that caused John F. Kennedy to sign a bill of civil rights. It is hard to imagine what the US would be like today without his diligence and vigilance. Perhaps we would still be living in an era like that of Atlanta, Georgia in the 1960s ...
- 3319: “The Cariboo Cafe”
- ... States with their parents but are now lost in the streets. In the second part we read how the cook who owns a cafe thinks about the world after losing his son JoJo in a war and his wife Nelle who left him. Finally, in the third part we met a mother who is suffering because she lost her son in a Central American country. Sonia and Macky are lost physically ... the second part of the story. This man is the owner of the cafe, where he will meet Sonya and Macky. This cook is lost, not physically but emotionally. His son had died in the war and his wife left him shortly after that because she couldn’t put up with him because he became grouchy after the death of his son. He became extremely lonely and grouchy due to his ... She came here in search of her son who she had lost in Central America. While living in Central America she had sent her son out to get her a mango but there was a war going on and the boy never came back. She blamed herself for losing him she says, “For you see, they took Geraldo. By mistake, of course. It was my fault. I shouldn’t have ...
- 3320: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... some people fail to live up to their ideals it is never to late to make up for those failure and make them ideals. Now that society has advanced more in its ways, and the Civil War has ended, society should concentrate on moving into the twenty-first century not as whites, blacks, hispanics, niggers, waps, micks or wetbacks but as human beings sharing this precious world. People who have a strong ...
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