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- 2531: Smoking
- ... further investigation" (Stuart, Borland, & McMurray, 1994, p. 1). The second article for review is titled, Sensation Seeking, Nicotine Dependence, and Smoking Motivation in Female and Male Smokers. This study was conducted using a sample of French smokers (36 F, 60 M) and non-smokers (23 F, 45 M). The goal of the experiment was to study "the relationship between sensation seeking and smoking" (p. 221). The objectives of the study was ...
- 2532: American Exceptionalism
- ... origins" based upon the principles declared in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which caused certain upheaval centuries ago, no longer excite Americans today. In fact, Alexis de Tocqueville a French aristocrat credited with having begun the cycle of American exceptionalism literature, once phrased: "The Constitution of the United States is like one of those beautiful creations of human diligence which give their inventors glory and ...
- 2533: Abortion Paper
- ... few decades abortion issue has been brought into sharper focus and has been vigorously debated. A number of factors are responsible for this but perhaps the major one has been that associated with the sexual revolution which accentuates freedom in all matters sexual and in spite of or even because of the tremendous and indiscriminate increase in the distribution of contraceptives. Judges have ruled, politicians have legislated, but the controversy on ...
- 2534: Thomas Jefferson's Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... island of Cuba. In a similar situation, only many years before hand, Thomas Jefferson was confronted with an attack on America; but this time it was from the Pasha of Tripoli. In 1798 was the French Crisis when Americans were screaming "Millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute!", twenty-six barrels of blackmail dollars were being shipped to piratical Algiers. At this time war began to seem cheaper than ...
- 2535: Foreign Policy
- ... in turn to rule them, to embrace the democratic government. Revolts and conspiracies against the Spanish regime had dominated Cuban political life throughout the 19th century, and the Cuban struggle for independence became an active revolution in 1895 after Spain failed to institute reforms promised to the Cuban people in 1878. In response to the fighting Spanish troops drove much of the population into confinement camps, and thousands died of disease ...
- 2536: Hitler's Weltanschauung (World View)
- ... Book: "A healthy foreign policy therefore will always keep the winning of the basis of a people's sustenance immovably in sight as its ultimate goal." Hitler was very hostile towards France and saw the French as a hereditary enemy that was always looking for a chance to annex the left bank of the Rhine so as to have a "natural" frontier with Germany. Hitler was ready to support a war ...
- 2537: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... disagreed with the measures suggested and stopped the plan. Castro overthrew Batista in 1959. Originally Castro was not a communist either and even had meetings with then Vice-President Richard Nixon. Fearful of Castro's revolution, people with money, like doctors, lawyers, and the mafia, left Cuba for the United States. To prevent the loss of more capital Castro's solution was to nationalize some of the businesses in Cuba. In ...
- 2538: FDR
- ... immediately for quick relief. The Reforestation Act of 1933 killed two birds with one stone. First, it helped stop and repair some of the environmental damage that had occurred as a result of the industrial revolution. More importantly, however, it created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which eventually employed more than 2 1/2 million men at various camps. Projects included reforestation, road construction, soil erosion and flood control as well as ...
- 2539: The Declaration of Independence
- ... of Virginia. In 1768 Jefferson got his first taste of politics as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; which would help lead up to his involvement in the political side of the American revolution. Then on June 21, 1776 Jefferson received a seat on the Continental Congress, soon after Jefferson was unanimously elected by a Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson Took to work at his desk ...
- 2540: Facism and Patriotism
- ... vote to all adult males, irrespective of property or employment status: the war, in which entire adult male populations had been called upon to serve their country, accelerated this process. At the same time the revolution in Russia, and its echoes in Munich and Budapest, showed what could happen if the majority with little or no property decided to assert its strength against the property-owning minority. The Marxist analysis of ...
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