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- 7831: The French Revolution
- ... destroyed tax records, showing that they will never pay any taxes, fines or dues ever again. These events forced Louis to summon the National Assembly on August 4th. They people discussed possible reforms. On this day, the National Assembly ended serfdom. Towards the end of August, the National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man. It stated that democratic principles would be the basis for French government. The job ...
- 7832: Should The Govt. Interfere In
- ... are virtually unknown to a centrally planned economy and the economy benefits from that. The government of a central economy can control monopolies in large companies. In the late 1800's a man named John D. Rockefeller owned 90% of the oilrigs in America. Because he had horizontally integrated this business, Rockefeller could control the prices of the oil by supply and demand. Society was greatly hurt by this because if ...
- 7833: Catcher In The Rye: Escape From The Truth
- Catcher In The Rye: Escape From The Truth In 1950 J.D. Salenger captures one of societys tragedies, the breakdown of a teenager, when he wrote The Catcher In The Rye. Holden Caulfield, a fickle man is not even a man at all. His unnecessary urge ...
- 7834: The Coal Miners in France During the Second Empire
- ... competitive pressure to maximize the surplus value present in the labor power. This surplus value is the amount over and above the cost to reproduce labor which is extracted in the process of a working day. In order to achieve this end, the capitalist increases production by either adding new machinery or devaluing labor power. Among the coal fields labor power is approaching an extreme low in the pit of devaluation ...
- 7835: Grace Hopper Biography
- ... four years of hard work she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a Vassar College Fellowship. With that she progressed to earning her MA in mathematics at Yale University in 1930, and her Ph.D. in 1934, along with two Sterling Scholarships and an election to Sigma Xi. While finishing her college education she married the New York University English teacher Vincent Hopper. Her computer technology life would soon begin ...
- 7836: Gandhi
- ... free because of the split. Approximately five months after the British announcement, Gandhi was assassinated on his way to prayer. This was truly a heavyhearted demise of a great leader that is mourned to this day.
- 7837: Spanish Conquistadors: Heroes or Murderers
- ... died for their cause. The Indians of the Americas could no longer hunt and gather food freely. Nor could they farm just for their community. Strong men were taken as slaves either to Hispaρola (Modern Day Haiti), Cuba or taken back to Spain. Such slaves were often worked to death, because of the seemingly endless supply of American Indians. Other Indians were forced to pay tribute to the Spanish by working ...
- 7838: History Repeats Itself
- ... the nations studied in this essay, which became a major power at the end of World War I, and since then has experienced both increases and declines in power. Since the 1920's until present day The United States has moved from an agricultural society to an industrial society as many moved from the rural areas into the urban areas and the cities. II. Geographic Scope: When it was an empire ...
- 7839: Did the Expansion of the Aztec Empire Lead to Their Downfall?
- ... unsure whether the Spaniards were gods or men, and when a study of omens and prophecies convinced him that they were gods he concluded that he was doomed. Coincidentally, Cortes landed in Mexico on the day of Quetzalcoatl birth according to the Aztec calendar. This lead Montezuma to believe that Cortes was Quetzalcoatl, the sun god or god of good and light. Instead of fighting the Europeans he tried to deter ...
- 7840: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... Duvalier. He also took control of exports, increased taxation and took control of the import and distribution of basic commodities such as oil, flour, matches and tobacco. He made "their personal fortune the very raison d'etre of state revenues."(11) Some of these fortunes came with the advent of American light manufacturers being successfully wooed by Baby Doc in the late 1970s and 1980s. By 1986 the country was ripe ...
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