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- 3471: Medicine In America
- ... lived in the colonies due to the fact that Britain was still the mother country. With the medical establishment being as small as it was, the women of the household often took care of the day to day healing. Midwives handled childbirths, and basically anyone with any knowledge of medical literature was considered capable of healing. Some of the common treatments included steam baths, religious rights, and herbal remedies. Surgical methods were basically ... improvement of medicine overall, and has led to new fears in the consequences of technology. An example would be nuclear weapons and the affects of radiation. The AIDS epidemic is an example of a modern day disease that prompts massive government funded research and public awareness. The medical establishment now is maintained by such organizations as the American Medical Association (A.M.A). The emergence of effective medicine gave way ...
- 3472: John F. Kennedy In Vietnam
- ... of 118,574 votes, he won the election over Vice President Richard M. Nixon and became the first Roman Catholic president. Kennedy was inaugurated January 20, 1961. January 19, 1961 was President Eisenhower last full day in office. He met with President elect Kennedy to lay out pressing national issues he would have to face. Tensions between the United States and the USSR had mounted after World War II, resulting in ... Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: The War Nobody Won. New York: The Viking Press, 1983. Kimball, Jeffery. To Reason Why. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Lomperis, Timothy. The War Everybody Lost and Won. 2nd ed. revised. Washington: D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1993. McNamera, Robert. In Retrospect , The Tragedy in Vietnam. New York: Dell Publishing Group, 1996. Olson, James S. The Vietnam War. London: Greenwood Press, 1993. Rowe, John, and Rick Berg. The ...
- 3473: Great Depression
- ... of the unequal distribution of wealth between the rich and the middle-class. Henry Ford reported a personal income of $14 million in the same year that the average persons income was $750. By present day standards Mr. Ford would be earning over $345 million a year! This lack of distribution of income between the rich and the middle class grew throughout the 1920's. A major reason for this large ... was achieved on Friday and Saturday when a group of leading bankers stepped in to try to stop the crash. But then on Monday the 28th prices started dropping again. By the end of the day the market had fallen 13%. The next day, Black Tuesday an unprecedented 16.4 million shares changed hands. This stock market crashes acted as a trigger to the already unstable U.S. economy. Due to the lack of distribution of wealth, the ...
- 3474: Civil War - Causes
- ... said that succession was illegal and said that he intended to maintain federal possessions in the South. Southerners hoped the threat of succession would force acceptance of Southern demands, but it did not. Finally the day came on Dec. 20, 1860 when South Carolina adopted an ordinance of succession. The other states to follow and succeed were: Mississippi on Jan 9, 1861, Florida on January 10, Alabama on Jan 11, Georgia ... believed the Constitution did not allow the North to take any action against the South. An effort was made on February 4th by the Virginia Legislature who called a conference of the states at Washington D.C. Representatives were sent from 7 slave and 14 free states. An amendment was passed saying Congress could never interfere with slavery in the states. But it was not ratified by the necessary number of ...
- 3475: Cival Rights Act 1964
- ... sick and tired. No one can honestly say Negroes are satisfied. We've only been patient, but how much more patience can we have?" Mrs. Hamer said these words in 1964, a month and a day before the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. She speaks for the mood of a race, a race that for centuries has built the nation ... Clark speaking of the Senate and its efforts to kill the bill said, "Heedless of its mail, allergic to public opinion polls, apparently unaware of the grave moral issue involved, a minority of this body, day after day, under archaic rules and procedures existing in no other legislative body in the civilized world, prevents a majority of this body to act from acting on this civil rights bill." The Civil Rights Act ...
- 3476: Changes To The Bill Of Rights
- ... PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY: In Alexandria, Virginia, there is a law that prohibits people from loitering for more than seven minutes and exchanging small objects. Punishment is two years in jail. Consider the scene in jail: "What'd you do?" "I was waiting at a bus stop and gave a guy a cigarette." This is not an impossible occurrence: In Pittsburgh, Eugene Tyler, 15, has been ordered away from bus stops by police ... in the Bill of Rights. Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. EXCESSIVE BAIL AND FINES: Tallahatchie County in Mississippi charges ten dollars a day to each person who spends time in the jail, regardless of the length of stay or the outcome of their trial. This means innocent people are forced to pay. Marvin Willis was stuck in jail ...
- 3477: Andrew Carnegie
- ... help her in any way, than I have been since I could help anything. My treasure is still with you, and how best to serve Pittsburgh is the question which occurs to me almost every day of my life." Colonel James Anderson, who Carnegie believes to be his childhood benefactor, established a public library in his hometown of Allegheny City. This library was the first opportunity for Carnegie to take advantage ... program focuses on issues such as arms control, international law, and relations between the United States and foreign countries. It publishes the quarterly journal, Foreign Policy, and has offices in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching promotes the dignity in the teaching profession and the cause of higher education. Chartered by Carnegie in 1905 with $15 million, the foundation established the Teachers ...
- 3478: 1968
- ... the surrounding hills. "There were white puffs of smoke everywhere," recalled a pilot who flew one of the earliest missions. "I mean, when I came in, the ground erupted right at me." On the first day of battle communist gunners brought down ten helicopters, including the first giant flying crane to be lost in the war. "I'll tell you this," said Major Charles Gilmer, executive officer of the first air ... States Military Assistance Command Vietnam). William Westmoreland left Vietnam in 1968 to assume duties as Army Chief of staff in Washington. William Childs Westmoreland is 84 years of age and is still alive to this day. HO CHI MINH Ho Chi Minh was born in 1890 in Nghe, a province in the protectorate of Annam(Central Vietnam). He left Vietnam in 1912 to go to France. In France, under the alias ... and kill all the women in my village?" asks Pham, who escaped death by hiding under a pile of dead bodies. Hugh Thompson of coarse could not explain. "I'm sorry for what happened that day," he says. "I wish I could have done more." Hugh Thompson was ordered to fly to the coastal village to provide air cover for the U.S. troops engaged in Firefight with Vietcong guerrillas, ...
- 3479: Walt Whitman
- ... list," he rushed to help him. It was during this experience that he saw what human suffering was and how it affected everyone in the world. This gave him the idea to move to Washington D.C. and became a Civil War nurse. He stayed with William Douglas O’Connor and his family. This was where he collected his feelings for his book. (Kaplan, Justin- page 320). It was also during ... he did for them. Whitman was devastated by the death of President Abraham Lincoln and his reflections and tribute to the "great leader" were found in the poems, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" and "O’Captain, My Captain." (Lowen, Nancy- pages 29-30). Whitman described Lincoln as the most "satisfactory thing I have ever seen, and I have seen hundreds of different ones." These poems showed the world how great of a "captain" Lincoln was. In, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d," Whitman said each spring the blooming lilac will remind him not only of the death of Lincoln, but also of the eternal return to life. In, "O’Captain My Captain," Whitman called Lincoln "dear ...
- 3480: Slavery - Life On The Plantations
- ... qtd. in Foster). Fortunately this seldomly occurred (Foster). Sometimes a willing relationship between master and slave evolved (Ploski and Williams 1438). Field hands met a much harsher fate. "Unrelieved horror and vicious cruelty" described the day-to-day life of a field hand (qtd. in Katz 3). They were in charge of sowing, reaping, and planting commercial crops like cotton and tobacco under the watchful eye of unmerciful overseers (Ploski and Williams 1437). They worked in all weather conditions from sunup to sundown every day. Slaves were rarely used to grow grains such as wheat, rye, and barley because they were considered unsuitable to handle it (Katz 4-5). Field laborers cared for equipment and kept gardens in shape ( ...
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