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- 891: The Kent State University Tragedy
- ... a demonstration participant or an observer. Some students were walking to and from class. The closest student wounded was 30 yards away from the Guard, while the farthest was nearly 250 yards away. The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend ... the University Commons area. When the Guard gave the order to disperse, some in the crowd responded with verbal epithets and stones. The Guard answered with tear gas, but when the spring winds altered its effect, the Guard attempted to enforce the Ohio Riot Act with raised bayonets, forcing demonstrators to retreat. The Guard then changed formation. As the Guard approached the crest of Blanket Hill, some Guardsmen turned toward the ...
- 892: The Jim Crow Laws
- ... Jim Crow Laws Jim Crow Laws are laws that were passed by southern legislatures that segregated, or separated, different racial groups in public places. The state of Alabama had many of these laws, and their effect on the African Americans of that state was great. In Alabama, a lot of Jim Crow Laws were created. These laws were very specific in telling how and where races were to be segregated. These ... re here, they do the same things. The only difference between you and anyone else is that compared to most negroes, you have better training. As you can see, Jim Crow Laws had a great effect on the African Americans in the south. These laws brought about the Civil Rights Movement, and were a very important part of both American and African American history.
- 893: False Memory Syndrome
- ... traumatic experience which is false but the person strongly believes is true. Increasingly in grown adults undergoing therapy come to believe they suffer from repressed memories of incest and sexual abuse. This has a devastating effect on the victim and the victim grows a dependence to the program that creates the syndrome. Their memories may have been created through suggestive and invasive techniques, especially if no evidence of abuse. There is ... the outcome of each incident. With so much centred around memory and the origin of the memories, the thought of false memories will always be questioned. The results with children and adults will continue to effect many people with acceptability and the lawsuits uprising. Until there is a definite answer, there will continue to be a controversy for and against false memory syndrome.
- 894: Cuba, Castro, and the United States
- ... reign of Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of government in the world since then. Few if any have had the effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one. In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful bloodless coup in Cuba . Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely garnered much support. His reign was ... leanings. Perhaps this was due to the ramifications of Senator Joe McCarty's discredited anti-Communist diatribes. It seemed as if the reciprocal economic interests of the U.S. and Cuba would exert a stabilizing effect on Cuban politics. Cuba had been economically bound to find a market for its #1 crop, sugar. The U.S. had been buying it at prices much higher than market price. For this it received ...
- 895: Causes of The Great Depression
- ... 1926, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes dramatically(end note 11). Andrew Mellon, Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury, was the main force behind these and other tax cuts throughout the 1920's. In effect, he was able to lower federal taxes such that a man with a million-dollar annual income had his federal taxes reduced from $600,000 to $200,000(end note 12). Even the Supreme Court ... and early 1930's. Starting with the Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922 and ending with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930, the United States increased many tariffs by 100% or more(end note 34). The effect of these tariffs was that Europeans were unable to sell their own goods in the United States in reasonable quantities. In the 1920's the United States was trying "to be the world's banker ...
- 896: Declaration of Independence: Abstractions in Power
- ... Power in the Declaration of Independence flows from distinct bodies within society such as the King, the legislature, the military, and the colonists. The Oxford English Dictionary defines power as, "the ability to do or effect something or anything, or to act upon a person or thing" (OED 2536). Throughout the ages according to the dictionary the word power has connoted similar meanings. In 1470 the word power meant to have ... the ability to do something, "With all thair strang *poweir" (OED 2536) Nearly three hundred years later in 1785 the word power carried the same meaning of control, strength, and force, "power to produce an effect, supposes power not to produce it; otherwise it is not power but necessity" (OED 2536). This definition explains how the power government or social institutions rests in their ability to command people, rocks, colonies to ...
- 897: Columbine High School and Its Effects
- ... teachers and students at random. The two high school-seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students, one teacher and themselves that day, while injuring many others. This horrific incident has had a lasting effect on the history of this country. The president of the United States and Congress have tried many times to pass new gun bills. Many things have been done in the city of Littleton and the high school that have reflected a change in high schools all across the nation. It will have a lasting effect, not only in the students at Columbine High School and their families, but the nation as a whole is affected. A big question on many peoples mind when thinking about this tragedy is How ...
- 898: Language Conflict In Canda
- ... operate as a nation within a nation. The English offered this compromise rather than risk failure of the Confederation, but included the provision that the emerging western provinces would be English-speaking. The long-term effect was to continue a sense of separateness and autonomy among the French in Quebec. The accommodation was only a temporary. English-speaking Canadians continued to try to suppress French culture and land language. Illegal laws ... city council mandated exclusive use of English, Quebec s Premier immediately called the move utterly deplorable (qt. In Brimelow, 20). The year before, the same Premier had supported legislation to make Quebec uni-lingual. The effect from this was to further polarize the French and the English over the issue of language. For both the English and French of Canada, the language conflict is a symptom of the underlying clash of ...
- 899: Great Expectations
- ... to develop his writing abilities and skill, establishing himself as the major and primary Victorian novelist (Bloom 189). The journey from boyhood into manhood is a momentous one, and definitely something that has a lasting effect on one's person. Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield describes the journey into manhood by telling a story similar to his own life through the life of "David Copperfield." There isn't one ... covers eighteen years ending with one of the bloodiest battles, the Reign of Terror in 1973. Although most of the major revolution events take place off stage in the novel, they do have a major effect on the lives of the characters in the story. It would certainly be no error to say the events of the French Revolution, which make up so much of the setting in this novel, is ...
- 900: The Emancipation Proclamation
- ... free all slaves, and public opinion suported that view. Lincoln moved slowly and cautiously nonethe less; on March 13, 1862, the federal government fforbade all Union Army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus annulling in effect the fugitive slave laws. On April 10, on Lincoln's initiative, congress declared the federal government would compenste slave owners who freed their slaves. All slaves in the District of Columbia were freed in this ... in rebellion at that time. On January 1, 1863 he issued the Emancipation proclamation, conferring liberty on about 3,120,000 slaves. With the enactment of the 13th ammendment to the U.S. Constitution in effect in 1865, slavery was completely abolished. The results of the Emancipation Proclamation were far-reahcing. From then on, sympathy with the Confederacy was identified with support of slavery. As further result of the proclamation, the ...
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