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- 2661: Whistleblowing
- ... retaliated against because they stood up to wrong doings. However, upon researching I found a few organizations who are advocates for the whistleblower.(see attached sample) One organization is the Government Accountability Project located in Washington DC. They have been helping whistleblowers for over 20 years. They feel that with the anniversary of the National Security Act that this would be the perfect time to emphasize the need for permanent implementation ...
- 2662: Thomas_Jefferson
- ... at the College of William and Mary in the early 1760s, he studied under William Small, who knew in depth the Scottish Enlightenment, with its highly integrated approach to law, history, philosophy, and science. In George With , he found an equally gifted teacher of the law. Jefferson was admitted to the bar in 1767 and first elected to the Virginia House of his home, Monticello. Despite several desultory courtship's, he ...
- 2663: American Attack On Omaha And Utah Beaches During D Day
- ... Under these hell-like conditions, heros were sprung. Division Brigadier General Norman D. Cota deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire while walking up and down the beach, rallying his troops to get them moving. Colonel George A. Taylor performed a similar feat in leading an attack against a German machine-gun post while declaring, "Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those about to die. Now ...
- 2664: Causes of the Great Depression
- ... additives for cars(end note 24). In addition, "tourist homes" (hotels and motels) opened up everywhere. With such a wealthy upper-class many luxury hotels were needed. In 1924 alone, hotels such as the Mayflower (Washington D.C.), the Parker House (Boston), The Palmer House (Chicago), and the Peabody (Memphis) opened their doors(end note 25). Lastly, and possibly most importantly, the construction industry benefited tremendously from the automobile. With the ...
- 2665: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... gun turns average citizens into bloodthirsty lunatics. This theory falls apart under close scrutiny. If legal possession of a firearm caused this sort of attitude, then why are crime rates highest in areas such as Washington, D.C. and New York City which have strict gun control laws? And why are crime rates dropping in states such as Florida where private ownership of firearms is encouraged? Simply stated, legal ownership of ...
- 2666: Charles Darwin And Richard Owen
- ... father was an English country doctor, but it was Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, who received the most fame, prior to Charles' popularity. Erasmus Darwin could be best remembered as the one that declined King George III's grant to take the post of the Royal Physician in London. He was an English doctor with a high reputation and was also a poet, a philosopher, mathematician, and a strongly liberal pursuer ...
- 2667: The Issue of Gun Control
- ... murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition, gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of ...
- 2668: Aldous Huxley
- ... Yellow with Mortal Coils and Antic Hay (Philosophers Corner Presents: Aldous Huxley). In 1932, Huxley published Brave New World, which depicts a highly technological dystopia of the future. The novel influenced other writers like George Orwell to write about futuristic societies. Brave New World brought Huxley great success and is perhaps his most remembered and most successful novel (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). In 1937, he moved to California with Gerald Heard ...
- 2669: Serial Killers in the U.S
- ... James A. Brussel and David G. Hubbard, showed the crime- solving advantages of understanding the behavior patterns of compulsive criminals. Brussel had amazed the law enforcement world with his profile of Manhattan's Mad Bomber, George Metesky. He was so specific that he even accurately predicted what the bomber would be wearing when arrested, a double- breasted suit, neatly buttoned. Hubbard helped put a stop to a wave of skyjacking during ...
- 2670: Bill Gates
- ... will come of the lawsuit? If Microsoft agrees to the next settlement, it will "level the playing field"(Rohm 94) or they could end up the next AT&T. It is up to those in Washington and at Microsoft. If Microsoft looses, "instead of just DOS with its huge share of the market, if you've got three or four operating systems each having 25 or 30 percent of the market ...
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