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- 2541: Grace Kelly
- ... the future of Monaco doubly secure. Grace also bore a third child, Stephanie. Grace loved her children, but her daughters nearly broke her heart. Caroline had made what proved to be a disastrous marriage with French playboy Philippe Junot. Princess Stephanie was stubborn and hard to control. Grace, who was becoming restless within the palace walls, considered resuming her film career, but Rainier disapproved. They never got to resolve the conflict ...
- 2542: Federalism
- ... the constitution and the system of government adopted by the United States of America. Federalism has also changed throughout the course of America’s history to fit the constitution and the government. Montesquieu was a French philosopher who was very important in the American constitutional thought. He was a man who was referred to more that any other theoretical writer and wrote, "The Spirit of the Laws." Some of Montesquie’s ...
- 2543: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... to realize his mistake of not recognizing the importance of the "accumulated rubble", which was evidence of human occupation from the prehistoric to Roman era (Duchêne 55). For his digs in 1872, Schliemann hired a French engineer and over 150 workers, and employed the process of stratification, which had never before been used for a major site. It involved careful horizontal digs of each layer of occupation, which helped to establish ...
- 2544: The Framing of the Constiution
- ... many attempts to appropriate money to areas which were solely unconstitutional. Expenditures for the most charitable of purposes were routinely spurned as illegitimate. In 1794, James Madison wrote disapprovingly of a $15,000 appropriation for French refugees. He said, " cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress expending, an objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." This view, that Congress ...
- 2545: Summary of Paine's Common Sense
- ... parent country and all ties with her faced her problems. Another reason stated by Thomas was how trade and marketing with France and Spain were damaged due to the disagreements of Great Britain with the French and America being in between again. In the ending paragraphs, Thomas states “Britain is the parent country” is only true to a certain extent. This statement shows that even though Great Britain lend people for ...
- 2546: Communism In The USSR
- ... to take away all the money from the rich people who worked their butts off all their lives, and divide it equally between all the people. Sounds fair, doesn^t it? That is how the revolution of 1917 started and how communism was brought to life. That is how the nightmare began.
- 2547: Federalism's Role In Our Government
- ... not rational but arises from a regard for one’s own happiness. Federalism was incorporated into the Constitution in order to make sure that the national government did not gain too much power. After the revolution, many people feared a monarchy or any form of government in which the central ruling body had too much power. The framers wanted the states to have much more power than the national government, and ...
- 2548: Alchemy
- ... group was composed of those who earnestly devoted themselves to the scientific discovery of new compounds and reactions; these scientists were the legitimate ancestors of modern chemistry as ushered in by the work of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier. The other group took up the visionary, metaphysical side of the older alchemy and developed it into a practice based on imposture, necromancy, and fraud, from which the prevailing notion of alchemy ...
- 2549: The Welfare System
- ... the United States must decide what direction the welfare system should take. As they exist today, welfare systems are an evolution of the thoughts laid out in the 19th and 20th centuries. Before the Industrial Revolution, the responsibility of helping the poor was mainly given to the churches or local communities. As machines took the place of workers, governments were looked upon to help the unemployed. In 1883, Otto Von Bismarck ...
- 2550: Henry David Thoreau
- ... what did he do, and what did others think of his work? Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817 ("Thoreau" 96), on his grandmother's farm. Thoreau, who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry, was baptized as David Henry Thoreau, but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David. Thoreau was raised with his older sister Helen, older brother ...
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