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- 3431: How America Lost The War In Vi
- ... of its people and with a deeply divided government, the United States was hindered in its efforts to effectively fight the Vietnam War. The greatest problem with the war in Vietnam was its flawed purpose. Washington had sought to control international communism, but this global strategic concern masked the reality that the appeal of communism in Vietnam derived from local economic, social, and historical conditions. In essence, the U.S. response ...
- 3432: Human Rights In Kuwait
- ... of which human rights is a part of, for the human factor is prime in the globalization age that is based mainly on human-brain based industries. The Director of the Kuwait Information Office in Washington, in a lecture at Georgetown University, said, "The democratic process taking place in Kuwait is compatible with the Western definition of democracy, and it is clear when tracing countrys modern history that there is ...
- 3433: Democracy
- George Bernard Shaw once said: "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few...", and while I don't have nearly such a bleak outlook on our method of government ...
- 3434: Impact Of New Deal On The
- ... Social Security program. Social Security was created by New Deal. Not much really changed since 1935 when this act was passed. Social Security was designed to guarantee the retired workers to receive regular payments from Washington and these payments were to financed by payroll tax on both employers and employees. Now Social Security includes: 1) old age, survivor's, disability insurance, 2) Medicare 3) Supplemental security income 4) Unemployment compensation 5 ...
- 3435: Massacre Of Wounded Knee
- ... the ritual, believing that it would work miracles. Worried white families became terrified of the whooping and hollering. Then, in mid-November, a young, terrified, and inexperienced young agent from the Pine Ridge Reservation telegraphed Washington: "Indians are dancing in the snow and are wild and crazy . . . we need protection and we need it now . . . the leaders should be arrested and confined in some military post until the matter is quieted ...
- 3436: Imperial Telecommunications
- ... telegraph in 1838, along with a system of dashes and dots of electric pulses to represent letters (Stall sec. 1). The first message on a commercial telegraph cable was sent on May 24, 1844, from Washington DC to Baltimore. Morse sent the message What hath God wrought himself to his partner Albert Lewis Vail at the Baltimore & Ohio railway station. Plans to expand the network to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston ...
- 3437: Imperialism In Nigeria And
- ... only to gain in economic power. The chieftains were giving up their land and eventually their culture to people they thought were trustworthy. In China, only a half a century after Emperor Qianlong sent King George III of England his rejection of the British appeal for trade concessions, Emperor Daoguang strongly felt that there was no other way to deal with the problem. Daoguang sign the Treaty of Nanjing, which opened ...
- 3438: Social Commentary In Animal Farm
- Social Commentary In Animal Farm Social commentary is sometimes found at the heart of good art, whether that art form is literature or popular music. The novel, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and the rock album, Animals written and performed by Pink Floyd share the same characteristic of scathing social commentary. The artworks also share an animal metaphor that serves to cast a dark light on ...
- 3439: Internation Monetary Fund
- ... supervise it. Final negotiations for establishing the International Monetary Fund took place among the delegates of 44 nations gathered at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, U.S.A. in July 1944. The IMF began operations in Washington, D.C. in May 1946. It then had 39 members. The IMF's membership now numbers 182 countries. Membership is open to every country that conducts its own foreign policy and is willing to adhere ...
- 3440: Lonliness In Of Mice And Men -
- ... reflective of the time period in which the novel was written. Loneliness haunts the characters in the novel Of Mice and Men. Nearly everyone in this book is a loner, and all are suspicious of George and Lennie s companionship. Loneliness is said to cause people to become mean and afraid of everyone else. This theme is relevant in the time period in which this novel was written, the Great Depression ...
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