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- 841: Feminist Backlash: The Unconscious Undermining of Genuine Equality
- ... and Lucretia Mott, the “Declaration of Principles” was produced. It paraphrased the Declaration of Independence with emphasis on women. Before 1848, vocal feminists had raised their voices within the Abolitionist Movement. Major concerns of pre-Civil War feminists were: property rights for women, custody of their children in cases of divorce, the right to their earnings, the ability to sign contracts and serve on juries, equal higher education opportunities, and equal opportunities in the workplace . The latter phase of the movement came after the Civil War. The feminists had now formed associations and groups primarily concerned with getting the vote. The American Women's Suffrage Association associated with a more conservative group, including Elizabeth Blackwell, the first women doctor, ...
- 842: John F. Kennedy Vs. Lynden B.
- ... to assure the survival and success of liberty. This we pledge and more.” Soon Kennedy’s speech would be put to the test. The debate over communism or democracy was still going on. The Cold War had not yet ended. During his presidency Kennedy was determined to lower unemployment by creating more jobs. He expanded the space program and stimulated military spending. He also cut taxes to give Americans a little ... spend. This tax cut lead to a period of prosperity. He proposed a medical care program for the elderly. It was rejected by congress. Kennedy appointed black officials to higher government positions to support a Civil Rights Law he was delaying to propose. Kennedy’s program was a big hit. A national poll indicated that at least 60% of Americans approved his presidential stature. However, Kennedy was soon going to learn ... reforms were in medical care for the elderly, aids to education, and plans to diminish poverty. At the time many families lived a life of poverty and/or were barely getting by. Thus the “unconditional war on poverty” was put into effect. Federal programs to help the poor were created. These programs included loans to those in need, low-income housing, and job training. To some the effort was a ...
- 843: Paradise Lost 2
- ... styles of dress, detesting any form of luxury or decadence. The name Puritan later became a catch-all label for the disparate groups who led much of the New World colonization and won the English Civil Wars. New World colonization began as early as 1480 by English seamen performing spectacular feats of exploration under Elizabeth I. These seamen made various claims of territorial annexation in America in an effort to outflank ... the English Established Church. As a result, there was an uneasy relationship between many colonial administrations and the royal government at home. Further to these tensions the 'colonies were split in their allegiances during the civil wars in Britain, but Charles I derived little useful help from those who supported his cause. The collapse of James II regime (1688-9) proved a blow to the efforts of Westminster to encroach on self-rule in North America. The relationship between the centre and the colonies remained problematic right until the War of American Independence.'2 The metaphysical tradition established during the seventeenth century can find its foundations in the colonization explorations and the domestic unrest caused by the civil wars. The combination of the two ...
- 844: A New Generation
- ... first Roman Catholic accomplishments was the formation of the Peace Corps, which sent young American volunteers abroad to help less developed nations raise their standard of living. This organization did more than combat the Cold War, it created nations. Although this was an important organization, many feel that it was created to maintain the support of the younger American and to add to his image as a people pleaser. The space ... were inadequate to train scientists and technicians. The students lacked and "appetite for achievement" (burner 43). JFK satisfied the people in 1969, when two American astronauts tackled the task and waled on the moon. The Civil Rights movement has been an opening for years. President Eisenhower dealt with an issue in Little Rock, Arkansas, which required federal troops to address a segregation in schools. Yet, Burner believes that Kennedy's civil rights had a "tone which was superior to that of the Eisenhower years" (Burner 126). Kennedy supported blacks to earn their votes. He supported the Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter sit in, and the ...
- 845: Liberalism and Freedom
- ... a colony at Plymouth and contributed to the development of religious tolerance in the new world. Religious tolerance meant that a nation with multiple religions need no longer mean a country with internal strife and civil insurrection due to intolerance (Volkomer, 1969). The notion of religious open- mindedness helped pave the way for individual independence by suggesting that people were able to determine their own fundamental beliefs. The right of individuals ... way to reassemble society and educate citizens in the responsibility of leading an intelligent, meaningful life (Gerstle, 1994). At this time the world was facing many changes, among these are the industrial revolution and world war one. John Dewey elaborates on the feeling of the time in the following quotation: "The fact of change has been so continual and so intense that it overwhelms our minds. We are bewildered by the ... an ongoing escalation of man's moral constitution. Men who agreed with Jefferson held strong to this tenet for years until a series of occurrences shattered this theory. The industrial revolution, better communications, and World War I all combined in a synergistic effect that changed this philosophy forever. The industrial revolution made the idea of a predominantly agricultural society in America little more than a dream. World War I showed ...
- 846: Frederick Douglass' Dream for Equality
- ... just as much freedom as whites. He believed that the South had committed treason, and the Union must rebel by force if necessary. Astonished by Garrison's thoughts, Douglass realized that abolition was truly a war between whites. Garrison, and many others, had failed to see the slaves as human beings. Were blacks then supposed to be irretrievably black in a white world ? Where is the freedom and hope if all ... and distracted us, a common object and a common emergency makes us for the time at least, forget those differences. No class of men are doing more according to their numbers, to conduct this great war to the Emancipation of the slaves than Mr. Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society." (Frederick Douglass, Monthly of March 1862). Raising the free black regiments for service in the Union Army was a policy ... had originally advocated had been adopted: the immediate and universal abolition of slavery, the enlistment of black soldiers, the creation of a Freedmen's Bureau, and most importantly, the incorporation of the black man's civil and political equality into the law of the land (Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments). But the next decade proved to be a very frustrating one for Douglass and many of his supporters. Many of ...
- 847: Angel Island
- ... month because of this tax, but the catch was that a 1790 federal law reserved natural citizenship for white people alone and denied the right to Chinese. These foreign mining taxes stayed till the 1870 Civil Rights Act where they were declared unconstitutional. By 1870, however, the California government had leeched five million dollars out of the Chinese and did not have to pay a cent back to anybody.3 For ... the adults. White men would not work under or with Chinese because of a current paradigm the two could not exist together in harmony. Even churches and YMCA's did not accept them. During the Civil War, when there was a shortage of labor, Dennis Kearney coined the phrase "The Chinese must go." Chinese became the scapegoats for lower class workers and the Knights of Labor. Anti-Coolie Clubs formed to ...
- 848: Asian American
- ... were very much affected by the rise of technology. Living in America in the early part of the 1900 s was a hard and trying era through such turbulent times as the Great Depression, World War I, and the Industrial Revolution. Such profound and important events happened in a relatively short amount of time. Americans were searching for an identity for their country which was still only less than 200 years ... in the growing world market. Throughout American history, people have fought for equality in any shape or form and the mid 1900 s was no exception. Having gone through leaps and bounds in terms of civil rights. The 1920 s to the 1940 s was a transitional period for all Americans and minority groups. During this period of American history, America was one of the most modern countries in the world ... event that brought the United States out of the Depression could not really be considered a blessing. December 7, 1941 was a day that changed the course of history and would plunge all Americans into war when a huge surprise attack was staged on the US Pacific Fleet by the Empire of Japan. Almost overnight the country was united in its stance against the countries of Germany and Japan. The ...
- 849: Twilight's Last Gleaming & Wag the Dog: Politics In Films
- ... a Comedy. They share some similarities in their political messages. Perhaps to send these messages across, many people are going to see it as a Comedy movie. Robert Aldrich’s movie refers to the Cold War between Russia and the United States. The background is the Vietnam War where there existed a strong foreign policy against communist expansion. This movie was created at 1977 and probably addressed some open issues regarding Vietnam, Cold War for that time. Wag The Dog is comedy that also very close to some events that are happening at our times. It seems to be too sequential that lot of things are implying and ...
- 850: The Drug War in America
- The Drug War in America The drug war in America has many elements to it that ranges from education of the public not to use drug such, a teaching grade school children to “just say no” and the D. A.R.E. program ... treatment for drug users. Protecting United States borders from incoming drugs and trying to keep other countries from growing the raw products such as coca leaves which is the raw product that become cocaine. The war also involves law enforcement, the judicial system and the prison system, all of which are all over worked and overcrowded trying to enforce the increasing more strict laws that congress is passing such as ...
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