|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 4121 - 4130 of 8016 matching essays
- 4121: Dueling
- ... into the south also effected the aspect of dueling. Factories were being established now and the total agrarian south now had to share. As planters were losing control so was the ideal of dueling. The Civil War did much to change the ideas of dueling and pushed for southern improvements of factories and cities. After the year of eighteen sixty-five the concept of the duel was in a spiraling downfall. Laws ...
- 4122: Taronga Vs Children Of The Dust
- ... set in Australia in 1987, two years after last days, a tragedy caused by Chernobyl. Similarly, the novel ‘Children of the Dust’ written by Louise Lawrence is also about a disaster cause by a nuclear war, set in England. The weak are killed and the strong become stronger as the human race fights for survival. The themes, characters and relationships are similar and different in both novels. These two books have ... relatively different to Children of the Dust, where a family of four, Sarah, Veronica, William and Catherine, has to survive in their house, away from all the radioactive material as a result of a nuclear war. Only one of the four survive, Catherine, where she then lives with some other survivors from other families who have not been affected by the radioactive material. The focuses of the characters change in part ... the city and its people are free to do anything. This creates chaos, as it is displayed in part 1 of the novel. The society will do anything and everything to survive from the nuclear war. Survival is highly unlikely. “Everything is dying. There’s no way we’ll be able to stay alive…. No future for any of us” pg. 73. Both novels create a similar picture for the ...
- 4123: Huck Fin 2
- ... past New Orleans and never into South America. He begged the riverboat to teach him how to pilot the riverboat. The riverboat pilot agreed to teach him for $500. Mark Twain went west during the civil war and established himself as a writer during this time. He wrote humorous stories about his experiences which lead to a job as a newspaper reporter in 1862. The following year he began signing his work ...
- 4124: Fair Labor Act Of 1938
- ... the Government as an instrument for improving labor standards. Under the bill Government contractors would have to agree to pay the "prevailing wage" and meet other labor standards. The idea had been tried in World War I to woo worker support for the war. Then, President Hoover reincarnated the "prevailing wage" and fair standards criteria as conditions for bidding for the construction of public buildings. This act -- the Davis-Bacon Act -- in expanded form stands as a bulwark of ... up enough signers to give the petition the 218 signatures necessary to bring the bill to a vote on the House floor.29 With victory within grasp, the bill became a battle-ground in the war raging between the AFL and the CIO. The AFL accused the Roosevelt Administration of favoring industrial over craft unions and opposed wage-board determination of labor standards for specific industries. Accordingly, the AFL fought ...
- 4125: Andrew Jackson
- ... it (internet) He went to Waxhaw Presbyterian Church because he wanted to be a minister. Later on, he started to study law and became a lawyer and a landowner. he was a general in the War of 1812. He graduated high school from Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and is believed to have gone to college. He got married to Mrs. Rachael Donelson Robards, a dark eyed, dark haired woman. They did not ... married and now an adult, he had many jobs such as a lawyer, soldier, general, and a politician. He became famous for being an Indian fighter. He is also famous as a general in the War of 1812. He got the nickname "Old Hickory" because of his toughness. He founded the Democratic Party. He was the 7th president of the United States but that happened on his second chance running for ... lot of fights and controversy. Andrew Jackson had many occupations besides being a president for the United States of America. He was a very refined congress man, he was a general, during the time a war and a very good one I might point out hewasa governor, and a judge. Now that is a lot of accomplishments for one man. He was truly one of a kind(Gale Research, 1997) ...
- 4126: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... Crucifixion of Christ, trying to instill upon his follower's minds that he was Jesus Christ, that he was a higher power that they all needed to follow unquestionably. Manson convinced his followers that a war of the races was coming, which he named Helter Skelter. He got the name from a Beatles song, and had his followers prepare for the upcoming war by collecting guns and other weapons. Manson turned the ranch into a fortress. He started to change his following from being a group of freedom searching people into an organized army-like force. A prosecution ... orders to kill the couple and then left. Manson's followers stabbed Mrs. LaBianca fourty-one times, stabbed her husband to death, left a fork and a knife in his chest, and carved the word "WAR" into his stomach. The words "RISE", "HELTER SKELTER", and "DEATH TO PIGS" were scribbled on the walls and the refrigerator in the victims' blood. These brutal slayings demonstrate the evil in Manson's warped ...
- 4127: Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
- ... dissension. After waiting to see if Batista would be seriously opposed, Washington recognized his government. Batista had already broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As ... sycophants bitterly and sweepingly attacked the relations of the United States government with Batista and his regime".(3) He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957 stopping the U.S. shipment of arms to Cuba ... to achieve its goal in Cuba provided the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in 1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war. America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. The strain on American political and military assets resulting from the need ...
- 4128: Five Creation Myths
- ... The Pelasgian myth talks about people and their feelings. The Hindu story looks at ideas and reasons behind intangible objects like death, day, and God. The Teutonic myth hints that the writers were having a war or had had one in the past because a war is mentioned in the story. The Christians feel that faith and trust in God are important to live with. Looking at the same sort of story written by very different cultures is an interesting way ...
- 4129: The Life of John F. Kennedy
- ... John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He attended Harvard University and graduated in 1940. From 1941-1945 he served in the United States Navy, during World War II. In 1946 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. Then in 1952 he was elected to the United States Senate. On September 12, 1953 he was married to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier ... at Stanford University, but dropped out after only six months. After serving in the United States Navy, where he won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal as the skipper of a PT boat in World War II, John decided to enter government. In 1946, he ran for the House of Representatives and won the election over his Republican opponent. He was reelected to the House in both 1948 and 1950. In ...
- 4130: Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
- ... gave the nation a square deal. During his presidency to a position of internatio nal leadership. Roosevelt belonged to an aristocratic New York family. He attended Harvard Univerity. Theodore Roosevelt fought in the Spanish-American war with the Rough Riders at the battle of San Juan Hill. He had served as police commissiores of New York, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and vice president of the United ... its affairs. The American government withdrew its power when ordr was restored. In the Philippines c ivil government was put into operation, and a communications cable was laid across the Pacific. Roosevelt intervened in the war betwwen Russia and Japan. He invited the Russian and Japanese governments to send peace commissioners to America where a peace treaty was sighned in 1905. The following year the president was awarded the nobel peace ...
Search results 4121 - 4130 of 8016 matching essays
|
