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- 1851: Birth Control Or Legal Murder
- ... value, because this is how laws are changed. American laws hold sacred the value of human rights....but when do a woman's end, and a child's begin? The saving grace, and ultimately, the great flaw of the Constitution is it's variability. Our founding fathers created it as an open door, to allow future generations to correct their mistakes, but also to make them, and to contradict themselves ethically ... created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determined at that very moment of conception whether the baby ... problems following and because of abortion. I quote Ft. John L. Grady, Medical Examiner for Florida State Attorney's Office, "I believe it can be stated with certainty that abortion causes more deep-seated guilt, depression and mental illness than it ever cures". We used to hear a lot about the risk of suicide among those who threatened such action if their request for abortion was refused. How real is ...
- 1852: Eleanor Roosevelt
- By: John Lane Jr. E-mail: johnamaxon@yahoo.com The Contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884. She was one of America's great reforming leaders who had a sustained impact on national policy toward youth, blacks, women, the poor, and the United Nations. As the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was one of the most active ... of view of religion, color or sex." But the story of her life-her insistence on her right to an identity of her own apart from her husband and her family, her constant struggle against depression and insecurity, her ability to turn her vulnerabilities into strengths provides an enduring example of a feminist who transcended the dictates of her times to become one of the century's most powerful and effective advocates for social justice. Truly, Eleanor Roosevelt was a great woman ahead of her time in the fight for human justice. Even today, with doors opened and presumed equal rights supposedly exist, some leaders are afraid or refuse to speak out against injustice. Yet, ...
- 1853: The Town of El Dorado Springs
- ... on the Osage Indians who lived in the area before the white settlers; it was the first concrete evidence to answer one of my questions. In this article, Mills wrote that the villages of the Great and Little Osage had been located in the area. Many early explorers, such as Jules DeMon, Henry Schoolcraft, and especially Victor Tixier, who spent considerable time with the Osage after they were removed to the ... in Jericho Springs, a town just a few miles away, the daughter of a very conservative German mother and a liberal father, the town doctor that had offices in all the nearby towns. During the Depression, her father hired lots of servants so that as many people as possible would have a means to earn some money. I asked, "Were any of the servants black?" "No, they were usually just girls ... earth mother and the circle of life we all walk while on this earth. Since I found the shell, after it was deserted and its former inhabitant had continued onto its next step in that great circle, it was perhaps appropriate that I found it. It was like a sign to show me that the challenge of pushing myself was the next step in my journey. After the walk, it ...
- 1854: Business And Society
- ... striving. Also they feel as a policy it primarily hurts white men. With all the demographic changes occurring in our nation, it may be time to change affirmative action. The achievements of it have been great, but the premises that underlie it have changed and may require revising. The focus on affirmative action may provide with an opportunity to shift to affirming diversity. AGE DISCRIMINATION Under the Age Discrimination in Employment ... memory loss become common, as with minor illnesses. Finally, as energy reserves are drained, bodily systems begin to malfunction. Sleeplessness, disruption in eating patterns and personality changes often occurs. This stage is exhaustion, which leads depression. Employee assistance programs (EAPs) are very useful in reducing stress. Companies can develop EAPs themselves or outsource them. Experts advise companies to help workers find a way out of their stressful situations through counseling, friendship ... counseling is usually most effective. Medical treatments may alter the bodys reaction to a substance, reducing cravings, or change a substances effect. There is usually a mental disorder that coexists with substance abuse, depression or anxiety. For the disorder psychoactive medications are often prescribed. First a person must want or ask for help. They may want to talk to a clinician if they feel comfortable doing so. If ...
- 1855: Ernest Hemingway: His Life And His Stories
- ... him. In the last year of his life, he lived inside of his dreams, similar to his mother, who he hated with all his heart. He was suicidal and had electrical shock treatments for his depression and strange behavior On a Sunday morning, July 2, 1961, Ernest Miller Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun. Ernest Hemingway takes much of the storylines of his short stories from his personal experiences. In "Soldier ... Pg383, Hemingway) And the sleepless man, the man obsessed by death, by the meaninglessness of the world, by nothingness, by nada, is one of the recurring symbols in the work of Hemingway. Death is the great nada. Toward the end of Hemingway's life there became more noticeable relationships between his life and his writing. "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" was a good example. The nada that is talked about in ... depressed and was in despair about nothing portrays Hemingway. The sleepless man is Hemingway in this story. In more than one occasion Hemingway describes himself as being obsessed with death and since death is the great nada, it leads to Hemingway's suicide. Hemingway portrays himself in all of these stories. Whether it's Krebs the alienated soldier, the American husband in an Italian hotel, whose marriage is disintegrating, or ...
- 1856: Nicaragua
- ... the northwest to the southeast. Several mountain ranges, the highest of which, the Cordillera Isabelia, reaches an elevation of more than 6890 ft, cut the highlands from east to west. In the west is a great basin, or depression, containing two lakes, Nicaragua, the largest in Central America, and Managua. The two are connected by the Tipitapa River. A chain of volcanoes, which are a contributory cause of local earthquakes, rises between the lakes ... to the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty of 1916, the U.S. paid $3 million to Nicaragua for the right to build a canal across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, to lease the Great and Little Corn islands, and to establish a naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca. The agreement aroused protest in several Central American countries and resulted in anti-American guerrilla warfare in Nicaragua. A ...
- 1857: Crazy Horse
- ... the land from these savage Indians. But we need to put the blame where it belongs, on the U.S. Government who lied, cheated, and stole from the Oglala. In turn, forcing Crazy Horse, the great war chief, and many other leaders to surrender their nation in order to save the lives of their own people. In the nineteenth century the most dominant nation in the western plains was the Sioux ... army's moral. After negotiations were made Red Cloud lead one hundred-and twenty-five leaders of the Sioux nations to sign the treaty of 1868. This treaty guaranteed absolute and undisturbed use of the Great Sioux Reservation. No person shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in territory described in this article, or without consent of the Indians pass through the same (Matthiessen 7-8). This ... in charge of this expedition. During this expedition Custer claimed that there was gold in the Black Hills. Grant looked at this as an opportunity to show the country he could pull them from the depression and he opened the Black Hills for prospecting. This broke the treaty of 1868 again (Ambrose 343-346). The Black Hills was a sacred place to the Sioux. It was a place where spirits ...
- 1858: Franklin Roosevelt
- Franklin Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear ... keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war. Feeling that ...
- 1859: Eating Disorders
- ... and my friend Ashley, discovered the magazines called Seventeen, and YM. These are the Cosmopolitan and Vogue of teenage girls. On the cover of each monthly issue are featured beautiful skinny girls with headlines like: "Great new exercise plan", or " look great for summer, with this fast paced diet". I don't have to say that we were very quickly sucked into the whole thing and we started dieting, counting calories, and the whole deal. These depictions ... young girls, Anorexia (in its short name) starts out as an innocent desire to lose a few pounds, and becomes serious when the individual's psychological state is not healed, and feelings of incompetence and depression re-appear. The individual will then start obsessing about food and dieting and will ban themselves from any food at all. The person usually eats what he/she thinks is enough to survive, leaving ...
- 1860: Franklin Roosevelt 2
- Franklin Roosevelt Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear ... keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war. Feeling that ...
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