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- 4961: Gettysburg
- ... pay for his initiative with his life, and one of his regimental commanders, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, would earn the Medal of Honor for holding the Union left flank. Some of the greatest heroes of the War, Chamberlain and his men simply refused to succumb to repeated and determined attacks. The famous 1st Minnesota bought their fame with blood, incurring the highest casualty rate of any Union regiment during the War. A Confederate brigade was coming disastrously close to piercing the Union line when Hancock desperately looked for men to plug the gap. He found the 1st Minnesota. With only 262 men in their ranks, they ...
- 4962: The Great Depression
- ... of the Great Depression, but all say that the news from the Great Crash was the start, and the United States would not be in a better state until the demands of the second world war. For more than ten years, the American people faced a condition in which they had no clue on how to face, or how to fix it. The responsibility for solving this crisis was greatly on the President. He, who had saved European countries from starvation during the Great War of 1913 through 1918, proved that he could not fix this new crisis. In fact, from 1929 through 1932, the economy went from bad to worse. Unemployment approached 20 percent. Black Unemployment hit 50 percent ...
- 4963: Canabis
- ... degenerate races" (Schaffer, pg. 86). Beginning in the 60's marijuana use saw a resurgence which may be attributed to many causes. One of the main causes was the rebellion of youth against the Vietnam War. They used marijuana as an escape from war to peace. It was easy at this time to depict marijuana as a beneficial and completely harmless substance whose effects were far less harmful than those of legal drugs such as alcohol and nicotine because ...
- 4964: Crude Operatons - Oil And The Environment
- ... is needed in order to prevent this environmental disaster? Well, stricter legislation is a start towards ending the environmental problems associated with offshore drilling. Most oil spills such as the Exxon Valdez are carried by civil suits, which are tax-deductible. So a company creates an oil spill, faces civil charges, and then often gets a tax return. That obviously was not the way fines are supposed to work. Until companies have a mandatory set of bylaws to abide by, they will continue to violate ...
- 4965: Computers-how They Affect Our Lives
- ... was by card punch and electric typewriter. It was slow, requiring 3 to 5 seconds for a multiplication, but it was fully automatic and could complete long computations without human intervention. The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and their ... the drop in price of older processors. In other words, the price of a new computer will stay about the same from year to year, but technology will steadily increase. Since the end of World War II, the computer industry has grown from a standing start into one of the biggest and most profitable industries in the United States. It now comprises thousands of companies, making everything from multi-million dollar ...
- 4966: Anne Hutchinson
- ... of men as well as women, she was a threat to their authority and had to be stopped. Fiske's assertion that the Antinomians who protested killing the Indians would affect the outcome of the war is probably exaggerated since all of her followers numbered less than two hundred out of about three thousand. (E. Battis, Saints and Sectaries, p. 293.) Eventually, Anne was brought to trial for her continued actions ... guilt for her misfortunes. In addition, Captain John Underhill retaliated to the massacre with a massacre of his own on the local Indian population, killing 250 Indian men, women, and children, starting the Three-Year War. (D. Crawford, p. 137.) This incident was a catalyst to the ensuing struggle of New Englanders to break away from the confines of Puritanism. Due to Anne's huge advancement of religious liberty, it is ...
- 4967: Disease In Africa
- ... suffer minor symptoms if they are affected. Since children were mainly infected with malaria, a nickname was brought about called "black children's grave." This nickname represented a large portion of tropical Africa. After World War II, Africa began spraying DDT on large areas that were infested the mosquito colonies. This only worked for a short period of time, until the mosquitos developed a resistance to the chemicals. Malaria is still ... colonies believed that they could combat the disease and epidemics. There were many failed attempts by the Europeans to try and control the problems they had created. The French did the most to fight the war against disease. The French setup large facilities, which acted as hospitals and clinics to treat the sick. Many of these clinics failed because not enough research had been done to know how to combat the ...
- 4968: Brief Insight Ira Terrorist Or
- ... which only have (or had) a diminutive support in their respectively countries, but neither are they freedom fighters on the same level as for instance, the resistance force in the German-occupied Norway during World War 2, which clearly had a majority of the population supporting them. But the conclusion will be that the IRA will not have, even if Ireland is included, a majority supporting their "war" against Great Britain, and therefore the IRA can not justify the use of terrorist tactics. REFERENCES: ASCHEHOUGS OG GYLDENDALS STORE NORSKE LEKSIKON ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNIC FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY THE TIMES CABLE NEWS ...
- 4969: The Roosevelt New Deal Program
- ... in U.S. history. It lasted through the 1930s and everyone's life changed during that time. One of the causes for the Great Depression was the stock market crash. From the end of World War I in 1919 the stock market prices kept rising. On October 24, 1929 the stock market crashed. Stock prices plummeted. On that one day, the value of stocks fell fourteen billion dollars. Business started to ... protected people's savings and regulated banks. The government tried many things to get the USA out of the Depression but none of these ideas seemed to work well and the money stayed low. World War II was part of what got us out of the Depression. The government needed people to build tanks and other things for warfare. People went back to work. When everyone went back to work and ...
- 4970: The 50s Was A Time of Change
- ... scarce for women and minorities. Today there are laws for equal opportunity employment. Important world issues were very different in the 50’s, than now in the 90’s. In the 50’s, the cold war was one of the most important issues to deal with. This war ended in 1991, now the main concern is Iraq. In the 50’s, there was a mass hysteria over the Russian production of atomic weapons. Now we are worried about the Russians selling the weapons ...
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