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- 3701: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Themes Related to Society Today
- ... is noteworthy. This book was not written to besmirch the blacks of any rights or defame their character. This book was written to prove a point about the racial tension in the South before the Civil War. Therefore, Twain had no intention of being racist. In fact the message Twain is sending is anything but racist. Today, racism has nearly disappeared from our lives. There are still many individual racists but for ...
- 3702: The Trancontinental Railroad
- Blake Higgins 4/29/00 Vail Mountain School Grade 8 The Transcontinental Railroad Although many changes occurred in the mid 1800s in America, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War, the Transcontinental Railroad profoundly changed the U.S. This tremendous project, partly funded by Congress, was one of the key factors that encouraged foreign immigration to America. The Transcontinental Railroad certainly instilled a sense of ...
- 3703: Jasper Daniel AKA Jack Daniel
- ... Mr. Calls distillery he learned the trait of making whiskey. Three years later he and Mr. Call were full partners in the whiskey making business. Mr. Call was a dedicated Lutheran. Just after the civil war his family and church told him to make a decision between the church and his business of making whiskey. Mr. Call decided to go with the church. So Jack bought out his share of the ...
- 3704: The Lord of the Flies: A Picture of Our Society Today
- ... today, has changed to a completely defined peace push after the world wars. However, disregard for human life is still trying to match the push as thousands still die under the hands of others in civil and international wars, in muggings and robberies, and generally in hatred killings of personal, racial, religious and revenge reasons. The significance of the officer in the final scene is the way he turns a blind ... can result in killing and violence. When laws and morals can no longer apply to man then the darkness of man's heart will escape. This anarchy is a picture of our society today in war, greed, fear, and is the other half of our civilised society. It is a picture that exists and will remain with man no matter how far we bury the darkness whether we bury it shallow ...
- 3705: Campaign
- Ida B. Wells' Campaign The anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells took place in the post-Reconstruction era. By the end of the Civil War, slavery was abolished but there was a problem. No one knew what to do with all the ex-slaves. They didnt know how to put them into the existing society. During this period, the ...
- 3706: Cryptography
- ... to be memorized, and the table was useless without the key. This cipher wasn't totally safe but no totally sure method to break it was developed before early in the 20th century. During World War I, American troops used native Indians to send messages over the radio, which could only be understood by other native Indians, and absolutely nobody in Germany could understand it. Also in World War I (most cryptographic algorithms are developed for wars), the Playfair algorithm is developed by the Allies, the key, like in the Vigenere cipher, is based on a little table and a short keyword, which were both changed periodically. The rules used with the table were much more complex and made it fairly safe. In World War II, however, the Germans gave up on abstract algorithms and came up with a physical encrypting/decrypting machine called the Enigma. It had different wheels of different sizes which were to be tuned differently ...
- 3707: Lord of the Flies: Our Society Suppresses the Evil That Is Presented In All of Us
- ... the flies) which attributes to the killing and sheer brutality of the hunters. Jack is the perfect example of a boy whose dark side took over when he was no longer bound down to a civil environment. After being unable to bear killing a pig due to the horrific blood, he became eager to gain respect, almost redeem himself, by becoming a hunter. He was remarkably enthusiastic about hunting. He painted ... killer and had let his evil half take over. By the end of the story he had become so evil, that he wanted to kill Ralph in order to destroy all remaining traces of a civil world. When Ralph had control and was leader, he had rules and he used the conch as a sign of unity. It was respected and was(what you could call the basis for their gouvernment ... on indicatiing the insignificance of the conch and how it meant nothing. This he replaced byt he pigs head which he used to show how the hunting was a better way of life than being civil. The pigs head symbolized man's dark side and how evil lurks inside all of us. It reached it's climax when Roger had killed Piggy and destroyed the conch, therfore making the pig' ...
- 3708: Chinese Communist Influences
- ... The more the Japanese exerted preemptive pressures on China, the more the people tended to look on the Kuomintang as the only force that prevent china from being dominated by Japan. During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937, the Kuomintang immediately suffered major military defeats and lost control of eastern China. It was only saved from total hopelessness or defeat by Japan's suicidal decision to attack the United States and ... framework of a mixed economy under Communist control, and stressing the need for more heavy industry; I believe because he had been impressed by the role of heavy industry in determine the outcome of World War II. In his selected works he said "that the necessary capital would come mainly from the accumulated wealth of the Chinese people" but latter added "that China would appreciate foreign aid and even private foreign ... the leaders role in the political realm. China was in political chaos and the leaders new of nothing that could save them. During these times many disasters would take place such as the Russo-Japanese war, and the Boxer Rebellion which directed the Chinese government to construct a shaky, but authoritative constitution to hope these problems would not destroy their monarchy. At this time Mao had been in school learning ...
- 3709: American Revolution 4
- ... by damaging property. The last example of the colonists' conservative attitude is the Olive Branch Petition. The Olive Branch Petition was written (in very polite language) by John Dickinson just after the beginning of the war demanding three things: a cease-fire at Boston, repeal of the Coercive Acts, and negotiations about American rights. The King refused to even read it. By observing colonial society after the Revolutionary War, it is evident that the revolution was conservative. The first example is the issue of slavery. Leaders did not attempt to even discuss any sort of abolition in the south for fear that it would ... of Britain). The colonists still protested because tobacco and rice exporters income was reduced and the price of non- British goods was increased. Another issue is what happened directly after England won the Seven Years War. Because Britain gained so much land, it needed soldiers and money to maintain it. Some of the tax burden to raise the funds for the government and soldiers was put on the colonies. They ...
- 3710: Defender Of The Faith
- ... The battle in the states was of a different type. Marx learned what it was like to defend his and the faith of his fellow Jews against prejudice and abuse by those who waged the war. Marx is not an orthodox Jew. He does not follow the doctrine as most of those in his religion would and did not realize until asked by Grossbart that he was still religious. It was ... special privileges for his fellow Jewish soldiers, yet only wanted a free ride in the army. This came to Marx when Grossbart asked if Marx could do something about Grossbart s being shipped off to war in the pacific. Grossbart was not pleased to hear that Marx could do nothing to stop him from being shipped off. Yet, when the orders came in that every trainee was to be deployed in ... Grossbart had found another person to trick. Marx decided it was time to face his last battle and called the C and A to have the orders changed so Grossbart was to be shipped to war. Marx used the same ploy Grossbart had wrongly abused to have the changed made when he made up the lie that Grossbart s brother was killed in Europe, and he s hot to go ...
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