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- 1481: Women's Suffrage
- ... the fifteenth amendment was passed, the women's suffrage movement turned its attention towards gaining the right to vote state by state. Susan B. Anthony, a leader in the movement, met a wealthy businessman named George Francis Train while campaigning in Kansas. He offered her the money to launch a suffrage newspaper. In return he would be allowed to write a column about economics. Thus the Revolution was born. It's ... for fourty-two years even though both the House and Senate committees favored it. Some argued that the amendment would destroy homes and break up families. Others argued that the vote would degrade women. Senator George C. Vest explained why he felt this way, “It would take her down from that pedestal where she is today, influencing by her gentle and kindly caress the actiuon of her husband towards the good ...
- 1482: Revolution Girl-Style Now!
- ... all vegetarians, all victims of abuse, all straight edge. There is no ‘stereotypical' Riot Grrrl.” (Knight 9) The early Riot Grrrl scene was a “loose-knit” affiliation of feminist Punks, formed circa 1991 in Olympia, Washington and Washington D.C. The philosophy of “ do it yourself” and “you can do anything” seemed to apply mostly to boys, who were the ones making the music and dictating the styles. By the early ‘90s, more ...
- 1483: European Studies
- ... European Agriculture : Policies, Production and Trade (Routledge, London, 1996) page 30 (5) Ibid., page 31 (6) Gardner, Brian, op cit., (1996) page 47 (7) Marsh, John S. & Swanney, Pamela J., Agriculture and the European Community (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1980) page 31 (8) Ibid. (9) Gardner, Brian, op cit. (1996) page 49 (10) Grant, Wyn, The Common Agricultural Policy (Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997) page 67 (11) Houck, James P., Elements of ... Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986) Josling, T.E. & Langworthy, Mark & Pearson, Scott, Options for Farm Policy in the European Community (Trade Policy Research Centre, 1981) Marsh, John S. & Swanney, Pamela J., Agriculture and the European Community (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1980) Matthews, Alan, The Common Agricultural Policy and the Less Developed Countries (Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 1985) Moyer, Josling, Agricultural Policy Reform (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990) Ockenden, Johnathan & Franklin, Michel, European Agriculture : Making the ...
- 1484: A Discussion on Animal Rights
- ... of the ALF after training in terrorist techniques in England. The American ALF made their American debut on Christmas Eve in 1982. She and two other members broke into a lab at Howard University in Washington, D.C. They liberated thirty cats used in research to study the effects of drugs on nerve transmissions (Reed 38). The activists found the cats in poor condition. Deep incisions scarred some cats' backs and ... over to sympathetic veterinarians who treated and put the cats up for adoption. In June 1991, ALF claimed credit for $800,000 worth of damage caused by arson at the Northwest Farm Cooperative in Edmonds, Washington, a supplier of feed to mink ranches. Totally opposed to any kind of animal exploitation, ALF does not indulge in eating eggs, honey, or dairy products. On the other side of the coin is Putting ...
- 1485: Sex in Black, White and Mulatto
- ... bare back, and to have the right ear nailed to the whipping-post, and then severed from the body."6 Nineteenth-century American law did not even protect slave women from male slaves. In 1859, George, a male slave, was found guilty of raping a slave girl who was under the age of ten.7 The Mississippi court, though, overturned the verdict and released George because there was no law "which embraced either the attempted or actual commission of a rape by a slave on a female slave."8 "While there were slave women raped by black men, this abuse ...
- 1486: Racism in Colleges
- ... move to the back of the bus, she refused to budge. This action set off an uproar among blacks who questioned their rights for the first time. In the 1960's, the governor of Alabama, George Wallace, was a militant supporter of segregation. In 1963 two blacks, Vivian Jones and James Hood, sought admission to the traditionally segregated University of Alabama. According to legislation at the time, they had every right to go there; but since the governor was so anti-black and pro segregation, he didn't like it one bit. As the two black students prepared to enter the college, George Wallace stood in the doorway, blocking their way addressing the need for segregation. He refused to move, so the national guard was called in to restore order and admit Jones and Hood to the University ...
- 1487: Keeping The Snake River Dams
- Keeping The Snake River Dams From Washington State to Washington D.C.: “Don’t even think about it.” That is the message from protesters to the federal government who are entreating the thought of breaching Snake River dams to aid salmon runs. Here in the ...
- 1488: The Threat of Nuclear Energy
- ... been uniformly distributed throughout the lung. Another problem with plutonium is its toxicity. Plutonium is the most toxic of all elements. Fred H. Knelman, who was a senior executive on the nuclear control panel in Washington D.C., wrote, "One pound of plutonium-239, distributed to the lungs of a large population, could cause between ten and fifteen million lung-cancer deaths" (32). Plutonium is rapidly becoming more and more common throughout the world because it is being produced all the time in nuclear reactions. The Nuclear Control Institute, in Washington D.C., published a paper on the Internet describing the problem of plutonium production. By the turn of the century, 1,400 metric tons of plutonium will have been produced in the spent fuel of ...
- 1489: The Theory of Evolution
- ... simpler molecules] could have proceeded in the aqueous environment of the primitive ocean, since the presence of water favors depolymerization [the breaking up of larger molecules into simpler molecules], rather than polymerization" (Dickerson 75). Biochemist George Wald agrees with Dickerson by saying: "Spontaneous dissolution is much more probable, and hence proceeds much more rapidly, than spontaneous synthesis." Later in the article, Wald mentions that he believes this to be " the most ... M. The New Evolutionary Timetable. 1981. As found in Life – How did it get here? By evolution or creation? Brooklyn, New York: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society Of Pennsylvania International Bible Students Association 1985. Wald, George. "The Origin of Life." Scientific American Aug. 1954.
- 1490: Cloning
- ... of cloning, ironically many people who fight for the rights of individuals, form collectives to do so. In his Tuesday, February 25, 1997 article Should We Fear Dolly? James K. Glassman, a writer for the Washington post has more of a "republican" voice when discussing his favorable views on cloning. A republican voice, or second language is one that sees the benefits for society as a whole, over the consideration of ... Dr. Wilmut, argue that the potential for medical and scientific advances to be enormous. He said any rush to judgement could "lead to overly restrictive limits on related but less controversial areas of research" (The Washington Post, Technique's Use With Humans Is Feared, By Rick Weiss, Monday, February 24, 1997). With an appeal to higher authority Dr. Wilmut, and other supporting scientists argue that society as a whole can benefit ...
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