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- 1881: Mexico
- ... and subdivide the plain. It widens at the northern end of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and then encompasses the limestone formations that underlie the Yucatan peninsula. The Rio Balsas and its tributaries drain the Balsas Depression as well as much of the southern portion of the Mesa Central. Dammed where it crosses the Sierra Madre del Sur, the Balsas is a major source of hydroelectric power. Farther south the Grijalva is ... a former land bridge in what is now the Bering Straits. By far the greatest number of people lived in the Mesa Central. Most were under the general rule of the Aztec Empire, but a great many separate cultural groups thrived in the region, among them speakers of Tarastec, Otomi, and Nahuatl. Outside the Mesa Central were numerous other cultural groups such as the Maya of the Yucatan and the Mixtecs ... million Mexicans relocated illegally to the United States between 1970 and 1985. An increasing number of highly qualified technicians and professionals have found their way northward causing a "brain drain" for Mexico. Mexico has made great efforts to improve educational and health opportunities for its people. Despite a rapidly growing population and an increasingly large number of school-age children, gains are being made in many areas. As in most ...
- 1882: Elitists in Democracy
- ... steady rate. The oligarchy was further weakened in 1911, by the passing of new election laws, which minimized their monopoly on political office by granting men political suffrage and instituting secret ballot voting. Following the Great Depression of 1929, the conservatives collaborated with military forces, and comprised the 1930 coup against the radicals and President Yrigoyen, on the grounds that his government was illegitimate. Prior to 1930, Argentina entertained political stability, following ... these attributes, but demonstrated early in his Presidential career that he was going to do the opposite what he had promised, he was neoconservative. The labor unions typically protected and broadened by Peronism, suffered through great losses during the Menem administration. He “used their finances and organizational network in his presidential bid but, once in office, quickly proceeded to emasculate their power (Snow, pg. 50).” The political right, the elites, ...
- 1883: El Nino
- ... the eastern equatorial pacific, which contributes to major climatical changes throughout the world. During the disruption, trade winds weaken over the central Pacific Ocean, resulting in a dramatic rise in the ocean temperatures and a depression of the thermocline in the pacific. The thermocline is the layer of water between the warmer, surface zone and the colder deep water zone, in a thermally stratied body of water, in which the temperature decreases rapidly with depth. This depression of the thermocline has great effects on the worlds fishing industry. The cutting of nutrient rich therocline water reduces the growth of algae, which in trun, collapses the food chain. Thus, leaving our worlds subsistence and commercial fishermen with ...
- 1884: Analysis of Keat's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"
- ... overflows with youth and excitement. But as the poem continues the writing is toned down to convey the most important and meaningful experience. Keats describes how after traveling in lands of gold, and seeing many great states and kingdoms, he never truly realized the wonders of these things until reading Chapman's translation of Homer. Crossing many western islands bards have sung about, he never was able to comprehend their true ... explains that though these were sights well visited , their beauty and Keats imagination kept them alive. Having read Chapman's translation til dawn with his teacher, he was so moved he wrote this his first great poem and mailed it by ten A.M. that day. In On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time, the description of his experiences overflows with depression and experience. As the poem continues you see his sad point of view has faded . It gives it a familiarity that hides its true serene character. He describes how his spirit is weak (mortality) ...
- 1885: Ordinary People 3
- ... each other. But there was clearly still a strong bond between them. Conrad s life took a turn for the worse after the loss of his brother. He was so overwhelmed with the feeling of depression, guilt, and loss that he tried to commit suicide. Luckily he survived and spent the next year trying to recover in a hospital. He thought to himself on Christmas day, only a year and a half, still it is a long time to discover that you are still in shock, still the infant stages of recovery (pg. 124). Eventually he went back to school, had a great psychiatrist, and a lot of support from many people. With all that, he started to live a normal life again. The tragedy that happened to the Jarrett s in Ordinary People is a good example ... not due to any difference in the natural capacity endowed by Heaven. The abandonment is due to the fact that the mind is allowed to fall into evil (chan.55)" Being an extrovert and a great oracle of his time, Mencius opposed the theories behind Hsun Tzu and Kao Tzu's believe in innate nature of man. On Kao Tzu's theory of whirling water, Mencius attack it by saying ...
- 1886: Modern Economic Theories
- ... 20th century, yet still are the most famous for their effects on the economy of the United States when they were used. The founder of Keynesian economic theory was John Maynard Keynes. He made many great accomplishments during his time and probably his greatest was what he did for America in its hour of need. During the 1920's, the U.S. experienced a stock market crash of enormous proportions which ... two opposites of the Supply Side and Keynes' theories are well matched theories, but it was the time of use that made them good and bad. Keynes' theory was used during that aftermath of the Great Depression, a catastrophe America will never forget and will never be able to repay Keynes for the economic assistance in recovering from it. The Supply Side theory was used after a long period of prosperity, ...
- 1887: Social Security: A Brief History
- Social Security: A Brief History In the postwar era of the United States, during a time of economic downfall, set in the 'Great Depression', most Americans throughout the United States were struggling to get jobs, raise their children, and even put food on their own table. Bread lines were forming, America was truly facing difficulties. For years, congress sat back and watched, they tried several things to try and help the American people recover, however nothing quite helped. In the 1930's President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went to great lengths to pass several bills and reform acts, however, nothing effected America at the time, and for years to come, as the Social Security Act of 1935. Shortly after the 74th Congress convened in ...
- 1888: Silent Cal: An American President
- ... a notary public, administered the oath of office as Coolidge placed his hand on the family Bible. Coolidge was "distinguished for character more than for heroic achievement," wrote a Democratic admirer, Alfred E. Smith. "His great task was to restore the dignity and prestige of the Presidency when it had reached the lowest ebb in our history ... in a time of extravagance and waste...." Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4 ... while vacationing in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he issued the most famous of his laconic statements, "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." By the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the country, Coolidge was in retirement. Before his death in January 1933, he confided to an old friend, ". . . I feel I no longer fit in with these times."
- 1889: American Dream Of African Amer
- ... panther group actually comes from the 1920s. An individual named Francis whose real identity remains a mystery actually formed a anti white group that attacked racisist organizations. The result of all this was automatically a great decline in American Society as we know it. It is now known as the Great Depression. There were two distict versions of the American Dream during World War I, the white soldier version, and the African American version. They may have been different, but they shared one common thing. They ...
- 1890: U.S. Budget Deficit - Good or Bad?
- ... deficit existed during these first 150 years were in times of war or other catastrophic events. The Government, for instance, generated deficits during the War of 1812, the recession of 1837, the Civil War, the depression of the 1890s, and World War I. However, as soon as the war ended the deficit would be eliminated and the economy which was much larger than the amounted debt would quickly absorb it. The ... the "New Deal" in the 1930s, the Federal Government came to play a much larger role in American life. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to use the full powers of his office to end the Great Depression. He and Congress greatly expanded Federal programs. Federal spending, which totaled less than $4 billion in 1931, went up to nearly $7 billion in 1934 and to over $8 billion in 1936. Then, U. ...
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