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- 4731: Freedom In The United States
- ... was the strongest objection to the ratification of the Constitution. Less than a decade after the Bill of Rights had been adopted it met its first serious challenge. In 1798, there was a threat of war with France and thousands of French refugees were living in the United States. Many radicals supported the French cause and were considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and ... 16, 1965, thirteen year old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove it, stating that, "The schools are no place for demonstrations." If the student refused ...
- 4732: Careful, He Might Hear You
- ... this chain of events. Careful, he might hear you is based on Elliott's own life when he was a child. His mother died when Elliott was young, and he found himself amidst a raging war being fought amongst his aunts for the custodianship. This battle was not resolved until Elliott had turned ten. Much like his own life story, Careful, he might hear you reflects upon the morals, emotions, and musings rising as a result of this battle. Elliott had learnt first-hand what it was like to be trapped in the middle of such a war. The consequent thoughts and emotions generated by this wrath are relived and portrayed through the character of PS.
- 4733: Ford, the Company and the Man
- ... Motor Co. In 1932 the first ford V-8 car built. Ford produces the first mercury in 1938. In 1941 Ford produces the first jeep, and in 1942 civilian car production halts, because of the war, the ford willow run plant puts out one b-24 bomber every hour, production continues till June 1945. Civilian car production resumes July 1945. Henry ford II takes over the company in 1945, 1947 Ford ... The Ford Motor Co. recovery was the most outstanding in the history of American business. In 1956 ford opened the ownership to the public in the largest stock offering ever made. Some of the post war cars that help to save the Ford Motor Co. where the Thunderbird with over 16,000 sold in the first year and the falcon which sold over 435,000 in the first year among others ...
- 4734: Canterbury Tales - In And Out
- ... touches off the whole narrative by stepping outside of his own boundaries. The famous Athenean leader invades the tale’s protagonists’, Palamon and Aricte’s, homeland, Thebes. As the most notable noble involved in the war, Theseus wins. Consequently, the lonely survivors, Palamon and Arcite, find themselves forced far below the station that their "blood roial [royal]" (1018) would naturally secure for them. In this instance, Theseus’ transgression leads to Palamon ... he not, "sik and wood [mad] for love" (1600). Chaucer indicates here that he will enthrone the gods at the peak of the power structure he has created as soon as Theseus stops the earthy war. At the beginning of the third narrative of the tale, Arcite, Palamon, and Emily each pray to a god—Mars, Venus, and Dianne—and symetrically organize the climactic confrontation of the poem. Arcite wishes to ...
- 4735: The Business Life of Ancient Athens
- ... math because they needed to know how much grain is needed per person. Although these calculations are not totally accurate, they are a start in banking and maybe even other ways of mathematics. The Peloponnesian War also occurred- leaving Greece(Attica) with nothing. Attica was forced by famine to go under Peloponnesian rule. By now, trade had come in an uproar. Many people had found it easy to trade by sea ... bartering. Lastly, this book speaks about Mining in Ancient Athens. Around 500 BC. Mining was introduced in Athens. If the ways of the mining business had not come, Athens would have probably lost an oncoming war with the Persians, but because of the mining, many new people joined Athens and Persia decided not to invade. They feared it because it had become much greater in strength. If mining had not come ...
- 4736: Economic Espionage
- ... that earn under 11 million dollars annually. How do industrial spies go about collecting information. It is a well known fact that modern spies have used all of the collection methods used during the cold war for collecting information on industrial competitors. Practitioners of modern espionage seldom use one method by itself, but combine them into concerted collection programs. countries and corporations have been known to turn legitimate transactions or business ... in Us high-tech firms. The BND is gathering extensive information in the fields of economy, technology and industry. These United States is not completely innocent in the world of espionage. Now that the cold war is over the CIA officials have latched onto the idea of collecting economic data to justify the inflated budget of the agency. Dozens of US corporations from fortune 500 companies to small, high tech firms ...
- 4737: What The United States Can Learn From Japan
- ... of these industrial policies to help foster emerging high tech businesses and help existing U.S. business remain competitive with East Asia. In Japan the government both during the Meiji period and the post World War II period followed a policy of active, sector selective industrial targeting. Japan used basically the same model during both historical periods. The Japanese government would focus its tax incentive programs, subsidies, and R&D on ... period Japan focused it's attention on emulating western technology such as trains, steel production, and textiles. The Meiji leaders took taxes levied on agriculture to fund the development of these new industries. Following World War II Japanese industries used this same strategic industrial policy to develop the high-tech, steel, and car industries that Japan is known for today. Some American industries are currently heavily supported by the government through ...
- 4738: 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 ...
- 4739: 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 ...
- 4740: Black Boy
- ... of people apart, which is also another form of societal oppression. Societal oppression occurs again when Richard is "hanging" out with his friends, and their conversation with each other leads on to the subject of war. One of his friends really get into the subject and says, " ‘Yeah, they send you to war, make you lick them Germans, teach you how to fight and when you come back they scared of you,’ "(90). This quote means that the "white" people put the "black" people on the front line ...
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