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- 3521: Jimmy Carter
- ... The Navy Hymn "Eternal Father Strong to Save" - "Amazing Grace" - "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" Color - Blue Gift to receive (as a youth) - Books Books - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Poet - Dylan Thomas - Miller Williams Philosopher - Paul Tillich - Reinhold Niebuhr - Soren Kierkegaard Bible quote "Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open ... short recession. Carter had several achievements in domestic affairs; he dealt with the energy shortage by establishing a national energy policy and by decontrolling domestic petroleum prices to stimulate production. He prompted Governments efficiency through civil service reform and proceeded with deregulation of the trucking and airline industries. He fought to improve the environment. His expansions of the national park systems included protection of 103 million acres of Alaskan lands. He ...
- 3522: Abraham Lincoln
- ... votes. Shortly after Lincoln was elected the South seceded from the nation stating that Lincoln would be the reason why slavery would end. Lincolns presidency thus began on a note of disunion and discord. Civil War started when Lincoln refused to adhere to the souths demands to have slavery legalized everywhere (Stefoff 85). April 1865 was a month of triumph and tragedy. It was the month where the north finally ...
- 3523: Affirmative Action
- ... hurt than to even tell their friends and relatives. (Brimelow 76) Most people realize that quotas do hurt people, but what most people do not realize is that quotas are illegal. The 1964 and 1991 Civil Rights Acts explicitly banned government imposed quotas, but nevertheless, they immediately spread though the economy. Even though quotas are becoming more and more popular, there is incredible denial. Some say that affirmative action, while a regulatory burden, is not massive in scale. Supporters of affirmative action insist that the 1991 Civil Rights Act did not impose quotas, although its key point was to override a Supreme Court decision and make work force racial imbalance prima facie evidence of employer discrimination. (Spencer and Brimelow. p, 85) California Democratic Representative Don Edwards, who is a mouthpiece of the civil rights establishment, claimed on the New York Times opinion page that quotas did not exist. This was said within three weeks of Supreme Court rulings about them. As much as people deny quotas and ...
- 3524: Beloved - Toni Morrison
- "Beloved" Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has ...
- 3525: Ella Baker
- Ella Baker To document Ella Baker's life is to recount the history of the civil rights movement. Whenever there was a cause to fight for or a group to organize, this dedicated women was there. Ella was born 1903, she grew up and received her education in North Carolina. Upon and at one time, president of the New York branch Ella went South in the 1950s to help the civil rights movement as it was developing in Alabama. With 30 years of organizing experience under her belt, Ella's advice to Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 ... as it moved into other human rights issues. Her greatest asset was her ability to organize and mobilize people of all generations. Although her name was not publicized as much as other male leaders, the civil rights movement would not have been the same without her. Shortly before her death in 1986, a documentary titled "Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker" was aired on public television. Fundi is the Swahili ...
- 3526: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... Madonna" that Ludovico Sforza announced as a gift to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and the portrait of one of Ludovico's mistresses, Lucrezea Crivelli. Throughout his life he also served various other roles, including civil engineer and architect (designing mechanical structures such as bridges and aqueducts), and military planner and weapons designer (designing rudimentary tanks, catapults, machine guns, and even navel weapons). Da Vinci, during the 1400's made incredible ... a dome-like frame and it had holes around the perimeter for a man to extend a weapon through and shoot or stab at his enemy. This tank, however crude, was well adapted to the war conditions that were present at the time Da Vinci lived. Leonardo also invented the world's first automatic assault weapon. His version was a rack of three rows of iron barrels mounted on a rotating ...
- 3527: Gandhi
- ... world. And still today there are many people who love him and who use his philosophy to change the world. A very important example is the fight against wars. Usually people who fight against a war try to fight without violence. They march through cities and try to convince people not to go to the war or something like that. Another very popular example is the fight against nuclear energy or nuclear weapons. Demonstrators sit on the road in front of a nuclear power station or block the way of trucks ... the biggest empire in the world. India was it's biggest colony and was very important to Britain. Gandhi managed to get India independent of the British. The biggest Empire in the world lost a war of independence against a country like India which not even used violence and good weapons for it's fights. That was a sign for the world. And especially for the other countries ruled by ...
- 3528: Population Control
- ... of population. When a famine strikes an area only the few with enough food will be able to reproduce or even survive. An examination of world population control would not be complete with out including war. War also performs wonders at controlling population by murdering most men of child rearing age. In today s day and age, with our current technology increases disease outbreak and famine (except in some 3rd world countries) is not much of a factor any more. War is not considered a valid population control method due to today s new wars. Without the three largest population controllers much of a factor anymore population is free to run out of control. This ...
- 3529: Epic Heroes in Time
- ... not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue (Exodus, 48). " Odysseus was sent home to save his people from a civil war, but his lust for conquest and adventure took him on many detours and prolonged his return. Both were able to rise above these limitations. Perhaps the most universal attribute these heroes had was their undying ...
- 3530: Beowulf 3
- ... brought down in flames. This book consists of 63 pages, and the two main characters are Beowulf, a young man; and Grendal, a furious dragon. In the society in which the poem Beowulf takes place, war and kingship are normal factors in daily life. Beowulf's world is a very violent society with wars as a dominant part of daily life. Dragons and monsters are a constant threat to the Danes and the Geats. Warriors are a necessity to this war-like society. Beowulf is a hero and an example of a great warrior. He fights against monsters. In the section of the poem I am about to discuss, Beowulf is ready to fight a dragon ... knows that his life has ended, and the all the joy of his years on earth. The days are done, death most near. Beowulf then says, "Now I would wish to give my son my war-clothing, if any heir after me, part of my flesh, were granted..." (62). Beowulf is saying that if God had granted him a son that he would be the first one to receive his ...
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