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- 2551: The Journey of Lewis and Clark
- ... for the winter. The boatmen built a dugout canoe and returned to St. Louis. During the winter they obtained a lot of information about the Missouri and its tributaries from the Indians. They hired a French guide, Charbonneau, whose wife Sacajawea("bird Woman") was a Snake Indian from a tribe far to the west. Her baby, born during the winter, was carried on her back throughout the long trip. In the ...
- 2552: Henry Ford
- ... mother), the explosion sent pieces of glass and boiling water crashing around the kitchen! Miraculously the young observer was left untouched! This result is eerily reminiscent of the effect Ford would have on the industrial revolution in times to come. As he grew up his father allowed him to "tinker" with many of the tools on the farm. Fords mother called him a "born mechanic" and provided him with darning ...
- 2553: Condemnation of the Church and Foreign Intervention
- ... of opposing the government is prosecuted so that the government may receive funds from the United States In the film Quemada the island can serve as a metaphor of Latin America with foreign intervention, and revolution. By the British allowing the people of Quemada to be free they are forced to trade with the British otherwise their economy will collapse, Walker mentions the metaphor of a wife and a hooker, A ...
- 2554: Henry James
- ... James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into the complex society and culture of Europe with The American, which chronicles a man whose finds himself unable to buy his way into French society. (Matthiessen 14) For Henry James, the years of 1882 to 1895 brought less success. His novels now took on a more political tone. (Matthiessen 15) In 1886, he published The Bostonians, regarding the feminist ...
- 2555: Henry VIII
- ... Henry now the king, had many wars with Scotland and France, during 1542 King Henry's troops defeated the Scots at Solway Moss. In 1544, Henry's troops also captured Boulogne-sun-Mer from the French, and then a peace treaty was made when Henry received an indemnity from France in 1546. Henry's wars with Scotland remained indecisive in spite of some small victories. Though he opposed the Reformation, his ...
- 2556: The United States and Taxes
- ... us. Because our government does not want us to be able to think for ourselves. If most citizens knew that in the governments eyes the money we earned meant nothing there would be a revolution tomorrow and there should be. I remember reading about a time when some educated brave men and women stood up for what was right and threw tea in an ocean and created the greatest nation ...
- 2557: Is the Unites States Political System a Legitimate Democracy?
- ... likely impossible. Bibliography 1). Dye, Thomas R. Who's Running America? The Clinton Years. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995. 2). Lind, Michael. The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
- 2558: Egyptian Politics: The Fiction of a Multiparty System
- ... social peace, adhering to the Constitution, defending the 'socialist gains,' or protecting the 'alliance of the working class.' This type of top-down polity is a direct outgrowth of the authoritarian traditions of the 1952 Revolution and the Arab Socialist Union. This system of party formation from the top has resulted in a party framework that is more indicative of authoritarian bureaucracy than the diverse political desires of the Egyptian people ...
- 2559: Explain the importance of Contingency Planning
- ... and examples used by the Council, depicting the successful implementation of a contingency plan. How contingency planning began. Safety consciousness in business and industry was basically a product of the twentieth century. Before the industrial revolution, many businesses suffered economic losses as a direct result of accident or illness rising out of prolonged exposure to a particular work environment. Only late in the nineteenth century, it became obvious that factories were ...
- 2560: Affirmative Action
- ... candidate loses a position at a job or institution, not because of merit, but because of their race or gender? This reverse discrimination is not a myth, but reality. At Berkeley, before the recent attempted revolution, Asians and whites were being turned down for admissions with 4.0 grade averages in order to admit blacks and Latinos with 2.8 averages (Hart 179). There is no doubt that blacks, woman, and ...
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