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- 4761: Puritanism
- ... invisible shapes or specters to torture their victims had sealed the fates of those tried by the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The new court released those awaiting trials and pardoned those awaiting execution. In effect, the Salem witch trials were over. After the trials had concluded, Jurors and magistrates apologized. Restitution was made to the victims' families and a Day of Fasting and Remembrance was instituted. Little is known of ...
- 4762: Comparison Of Domestic Polocie
- ... had quite the bullworth to bring about all the ideas he imagined. Oddly enough, on the basis of comprehensive accomplishments, Taft surely surpassed Roosevelt. During Taft’s administration, more progressive reform and legislation went into effect, much more, than during Roosevelt’s, but once again, Taft was never quite enough of a liberal president to solidify the potential of these enactments. He always maintained an honest reverence, and almost piously used ...
- 4763: World War II
- ... the war, returning soldiers had a difficult time finding jobs in post war America. This independence given to women during the war and its removal with the advent of the returning men, had a definitive effect on gender relations in American society and which one of the seeds of the womens rights movements in later decades. Another hardship encountered by returning soldiers was the reactions of the children they left behind ...
- 4764: 20s And 30s
- ... in Wyoming after President Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the navy to him. While this scandal entered American politics as a symbol of governmental corruption, it had little long-term effect on the Republican Party. For the moment, Harding started the conservative trend of politics in the 1920s. Harding died during before he could finish his presidency in 1923, and Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the ...
- 4765: Bus Boycott
- ... to really publicize it, something that would make it a point of interest. It needed something that open peoples eyes to what was happening in Montgomery. If something did happen it could have a positive effect on the outcome of the Bus Boycott. On February 21, 1956 M.L.K and 88 other priests and leaders of the boycott were indicted under an old state law prohibiting boycotts. The arrests of ...
- 4766: William Penn
- ... Philadelphia, killed cattle and robbed orchards as they passed. Another tribe on their way back from Philadelphia destroyed the property of the interpreter and Indian agent, Conrad Weiser.18 Conclusion The Quakers had an enormous effect on Pennsylvania. They created the foundations of what is now Pennsylvania. William Penn will be remembered for his kindness and his hard efforts to help the Quakers and to be a great leader, which he ...
- 4767: Term African Slave Trade
- ... the Americas, and how it was being accomplished, we can now take a look at what were some of the consequences. How could the removal of several million people from a continent have an economic effect? Why would a people sell his or her own people? What were there reasons? Walter Rodney gives his explanation in The Unequal Partnership Between Africans and Europeans. “Many things remain uncertain about the slave trade ...
- 4768: Canda At War
- ... behaviors with significant impairment in personal development, social functioning, academic achievement, and vocational preparation are of great concern to caretakers. Also of concern is the broad category of "antisocial behaviors" that have an appreciable harmful effect on others, in terms of inflicting physical or mental harm on others or causing property loss or damage. The Semantics of Disruptive and Delinquent Behavior A mother finds parenting exhausting and describes her 7-year ...
- 4769: Middle Ages Economy
- ... one-third and one-half of Europe's population. Economic and social institutions were crippled by the severe depopulation. The immense loss of life cut across all levels of society and had a profound emotional effect on the survivors as outbreaks continued well into the seventeenth century. The devastation wrought by the Black Death on the people of Europe created a severe shortage of labour. Where land had previously been overworked ...
- 4770: The Role Of Cooperation In Anc
- ... patrician, his eye shall be knocked out” (pg 70). Knowing the consequences of your actions would make you more willing to cooperate. The main idea of From the Upanishads: Karma and Reincarnation is cause and effect. “Karma meant that the fruits of any thought or actions would inevitably be fulfilled. Good karma would be enhanced; bad karma would lead to more bad karma” (Reilly, pg 94-95). People would lean toward ...
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