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- 4411: Cigarettes: The History
- ... to pursue justice against the tobacco industry, including the ability to bring class actions, use all lawful means to join cases, and seek punitive damages. Tobacco executives, lawyers and agents must not be shielded from civil or criminal liability. The civil justice system's ability to address industry misconduct and protect public health must not be preempted. Hopefully soon a great reduction will take place in the amount of cigarette smokers statistics state millions of people ...
- 4412: The Media As An Institution
- ... grow the sales of mass print media undergoes the same growth. Satellite communications have also had a profound affect on the mass media. News reporting has now become almost instantaneous. In 1991, during the Gulf War, people watched war live via satellite in their living rooms. Whilst being a strictly controlled coverage, information and live reports were sent globally. Australian reporters sent live broadcasts from Baghdad during American missile attacks whilst Generals gave television ...
- 4413: Black Like Me
- Black Like Me John Howard Griffin was a journalist and a specialist on race issues. After publication, he became a leading advocate in the Civil Rights Movement and did much to promote awareness of the racial situations and pass legislature. He was middle aged and living in Mansfield, Texas at the time of publication in 1960. His desire to know ... accepted the information was not up to Griffin, but he did his best to make the knowledge available. This book relates to American history because it takes the reader into the Deep South before the Civil Rights Movements took hold and shows what it was like to be black. In the Preface, the author states "I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or ...
- 4414: The Olympic Games
- ... several hundred years, until they were abolished in the early Christian era. The revival of the Olympic Games took place in 1896, and since then they have been staged every fourth year, except during World War I and World War II. Perhaps the basic difference between the ancient and modern Olympics is that the former was the ancient Greeks' way of saluting their gods, whereas the modern Games are a manner of saluting the athletic ...
- 4415: How People Interacted With Eac
- ... grew from one million to four and a half million. In London the fancy area was the West End. The East End was full of poverty and misery (Pool 28). The 1950s, which followed World War II, were part of the Truman Years and Eisenhower Years. In 1950, Joseph R. McCarthy insisted that there were conspiracies in the Federal Government. During this decade there was a huge population increase from one ... nineteenth-century saw some increase in population, especially in London. England also was divided into 52 counties and enjoyed in fox-hunting. The 1950s had many changes. They had the change of fighting another World War and they stopped much of the discrimination that held colored people and women down. The sixteenth century was compared to the nineteenth-century in issues of sex and how people intermarried with a class different ...
- 4416: Beowulf And Grendel
- ... bodies" (Beowulf 23). Grendel does nothing but cause death and destruction. He is pure evil. Gardner's Grendel clearly does not justify these ferocious killings. In fact, this novel mentions that Grendel finds his barbarous war against humanity pointless and foolish. "
the season is upon us. And so begins the twelfth year of my idiotic war. The pain of it! The Stupidity!" (Gardner 5). Grendel has no desire to kill the people. He does not seem to have a reason for killing them either. Sometimes, people will act on an impulse ...
- 4417: The Rise of Gladiatorial Combat in Rome
- ... show helmeted gladiators carrying shields and lances, covered with wounds and dripping with blood. (2:84) For Rome a decisive moment in gladiatorial history was reached in 246 BC, the year when the first Punic War began. At the funeral of Brutus Pera, his two sons for the first time exhibited, in the cattle market, three simultaneous gladiatorial combats. By 216 BC the number of fights given on a single occasion ... a public display of power, that power was primarily military, and also to compensate the soft Greek culture which now was abroad. (8:98) The Gladiators Those compelled to fight gladiator duels included prisoners of war, slaves and condemned criminals. Among them were numerous followers of the new Christian faith. During this time persecution fell heavily on their faith, many won immortal fame as martyrs. Fighting in the arena was one ...
- 4418: Beowulf
- ... need assurance and they found that assurance in Beowulf. Beowulf reassures his people that the Dragon will be dealt with and gives them courage to withstand this threat. I lived in my youth through hard war-moments--- now here I am ready battle weary king battered with winters for final glory-time if that grim hall burner will come to meet me from his mound of gold (pg. 81). Beowulf wants ... wealthy and without worry. But Beowulf still wants to fight the beast alone. Our old gift lord meant to manage this monster hot battle alone once again with his great wonder strength armed with a war name earned through a lifetime forged now with deeds (2642-46). Beowulf is not fighting these monsters because he believes he is a god but because he wishes to carry out a promise he gave ...
- 4419: Brave New World
- ... utopian society, everyone belongs to everyone else. One might easily point out that these precautions are too extreme. But one thing that can not be ignored is that in Brave New World there is no war, no diseases and no old age. For people in our world that would be "utopia". In the utopian society, "you're so conditioned that you can't help doing what you ought to do" (Huxley ... religion, a world that even eliminated racism and stereotypes. It is a world where you only possess knowledge you need, where everyone has the same values and principals. Finally here is a world with no war, no disease and no old age. This question seems difficult to answer at first. Let's rephrase this question. Forget adapting, is this a world you would want to be born in? That changes everything ...
- 4420: The Mexican Economy
- ... was one of these countries. Investors fearing that any furthe r debt defaults by Mexico would place the burden of repaying these loans on the United States shoulders sent the dollar to new post World War II lows against the Japanese Yen and German Mark (Zimmerman, 58.) Besides the U.S. currency value experiencing a drop, countries with debt exceeding Gross Domestic Product (GDP), such as Italy, France, and Portugal were ... Even though the nations of the world would have eventually recovered from a global economic breakdown, who would want the headache? Who would want to suffer through another depression or, even worse, a possible cold war? By giving Mexico the aid package, it allowed Mexico to pay back their high interest loans and begin reviving their economy: creating new jobs and attracting new foreign investments. The whole world avoided an inevitable ...
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