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- 1361: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... internal rebellion but also from foreign invasion. After China Proper had been subdued, the Manchus conquered Outer Mongolia (now the Mongolian People's Republic) in the late seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century they gained control of Central Asia as far as the Pamir Mountains and established a protectorate over the area the Chinese call Xizang () but commonly known in the West as Tibet. The Qing thus became the first dynasty ... the emperor. France colonized Cochin China, as southern Vietnam was then called, and by 1864 established a protectorate over Cambodia. Following a victorious war against China in 1884-85, France also took Annam. Britain gained control over Burma. Russia penetrated into Chinese Turkestan (the modern-day Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region). Japan, having emerged from its century-and-a-half-long seclusion and having gone through its own modernization movement, defeated China ... the nation breaking up into warlord factions, Yuan Shikai died of natural causes in June 1916, deserted by his lieutenants. Nationalism and Communism After Yuan Shikai's death, shifting alliances of regional warlords fought for control of the Beijing government. The nation also was threatened from without by the Japanese. When World War I broke out in 1914, Japan fought on the Allied side and seized German holdings in Shandong () ...
- 1362: Drug Trafficking Policies
- ... follow this act. In 1918 a special committee found that drug smuggling had increased. B. Marijuana Act- was passed in 1937 and required those who used marijuana to obtain a special license. C. Narcotic Drug Control Act- was passed in 1956 and was permitted for selling drugs to minors. D. National Program for the Control of Drugs 1995-2000- has an emphasis on the following initiatives: Dismantling the international criminal organizations that operate on Mexican soil. Establishing effective mechanisms to thwart money laundering. Improving the government’s ability to intercept ... national air space. Establishing strict controls that prevent illegal trafficking in firearms. Halting the flow of precursor chemicals for illicit purposes. Stepping up security along the nations borders. E. High-Level Contact Group for Drug Control (HLCG)- was established in March of 1996 by Presidents Clinton and Zedillo (of Mexico) to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking and reducing the consumption of illegal drugs. It has the ...
- 1363: The Invention of the Airplane
- ... airborne. The inventor may get some feel for other aspects of the craft's performance, such as how sensitive it is to disturbances in the air, how responsive it might be to the pilot's control, and the like. Let us consider for a moment how an inventor might refine the airplane or design a new model using this information from a field test. First, consider the value of objective numbers ... measures, like the 'feel' of the craft in flight, are even worse, because they are compounded by pilot error and the test circumstances. A craft tested on a calm day may seem to have sufficient control, but the revised version tested on a windy day will seem balky and troublesome. When the pilot makes a mistake, he may blame the craft, not his own actions. Under the circumstances, inventors do not ... flying the kite in the breeze, the two brothers were able to show that twisting the wings had the intended effect in causing the kite to roll. The identification of an effective method of lateral control is universally recognized as being one of the most important contributions the Wrights made to aviation, and was the idea protected by their patent issued May 22, 1906. Thus, it may be somewhat surprising ...
- 1364: Teenagers and Alcohol Do Not Mix
- ... effected in different ways for instance if a person was to have one to two drinks it will disable the outer layer of the brain. Three to four drinks affects the cerebrum which is in control of conscious reasoning skills. At this point the person begins to act clumsy and the BAC is 0.6 to 0.8 which in some states is considered drunk. When a person has five to ... to regulate involuntary responses, such as heart beating, breathing and the flow of digestive juices. When a person consumes eight to twelve drinks that amount of alcohol influences the cerebrum which is responsible for the control over skeletal muscles and balance skills. Now to put that into a real life hypothetical situation. John Doe goes to a party and starts to drink. After having one or two beers he is starting ... a few hours of fun. Some teens do not drink because they go to parties and see the effects alcohol has on people and it scares them. The thought that they do not have total control of what they are doing is scary and I do not blame them. Parties is where a teenager is going to face the most pressure to drink. Lets say you go to a party ...
- 1365: Vietnam War
- Vietnam War Vietnam to 1960 The French took over Vietnam, assumed direct control and ran largely by Vietnamese labor. The French authorities had set up two groups which had the Grand Council tax the Vietnamese, protected monopolies, and turned over to a handful of Frenchmen and Vietnamese land ... the Vietnamese had struggled for their independence from France during the First Indochina War. At the end of this war, the country was temporarily divided into north and south Vietnam. North Vietnam came under the control of the Communists who had opposed France and whoever wanted to unify Vietnam under Communist rule. The South was controlled by Vietnamese who went with the French. The United State became involved in Vietnam because ... to be an agent of international Communism but the US did not let him, but then they offered to assist the French in recapturing Vietnam. In 1946, the US and the French troops had regained control of the major cities. The Viet Minh only had 2000 troops at the time Vietnam's independence was declared. By the 1940s, they had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and were fighting the French ...
- 1366: Saddam Hussein
- ... party returned to power and named Hussein as deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. Hussein has been described by many as the most powerful person in Iraq because of his intimidation of enemies, careful control of his political power, and his military purges. Saddam finally gained control of the Iraq presidency in 1979. His many goals as President included attempting to increase industrial production, reorganizing government policies in agriculture, and improving education and the status of women. Hussein first began a successful ... development program of Iraq’s huge petroleum resources. However, this development and economic and social advances were at risk when Iraq went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Hussein started this war to control Arab-inhabited areas and especially for oil resources. Hussein is also known as a ruthless leader who used chemical weapons on Kurdish people seeking freedom in the 1980’s. In August, 1990, Hussein invaded ...
- 1367: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... in the New Style calendar) phase of the Russian Revolution. He went to Petrograd (later Leningrad; now Saint Petersburg), where he became a member of the party’s Central Committee bureau. He then asserted editorial control over the party newspaper, Pravda (Truth). Although he did not play a prominent role in the Bolshevik takeover of the government in October (November, New Style), Stalin became a member of the new government’s ... and moved with the government from Petrograd to Moscow. III SOVIET DICTATOR After the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, Stalin threw himself into organizational work and administrative tasks. Having served as commissar for state control since 1919, he continued this post until 1923, while in 1922 he was elected general secretary of the Communist Party, a position that gave him control over appointments and established a base for his political power. Stalin’s rude and aggressive behavior brought him into conflict with the ailing Lenin, who shortly before his death in 1924 wrote his political " ...
- 1368: Attacks On The Insanity Defense
- ... terms such as disease of the mind, know, and the nature and quality of the act. The Irresistible Impulse Test This rule excludes from criminal responsibility a person whose mental disease makes it impossible to control personal conduct. Unlike the M'Naghten Rule, the criminal may be able to distinguish between right and wrong, but may be unable to exercise self- control because of a disabling mental condition. Normally this test is combined with the M'Naghten Rule. Many of the criticisms of the Irresistible Impulse Test center around the claim that the view of volition is ... illness is a myth and label applied to behavior by psychiatrists who are making political and ethical decisions, and Laing (1969;1971) who claims that labels are being used by society to impose violence and control on people. View such as these and others deny the physical and biological basis of behavioral disorders. They separate completely biology and behavior, brain and behavior, and mental and physical. The fact that we ...
- 1369: Sheyann Webb
- ... After the three older children married and left, Mrs.Moses was forced to send the three younger children to neighbors' houses. One day while dusting the funiture, Annie decided to take down her father's gun and clean it. A few days later, she saw a squirrel running in the field. Excitedly, she took down the gun and loaded it. She hastily aimed and fired. To her suprise, the squirrel was cleanly shot though the head, even though she was only 8 years old! Annie's mom liked having the meat for dinner, but the family's Quaker religion opposed violence. Annie had to promise never to use the gun on someone. Annie was well known in Cincinnati for her cleanly shot birds. People who ate the birds did not have to worry about chipping a tooth on scattered bird shot. A restaraunt owner ...
- 1370: Rape
- ... of rape in order to effectively work towards the elimination of it. Despite the necessity for rape prevention, it must focus on eliminating the conditions in society which make women easy targets for rape. Victim control teaches women to avoid rape, but doesn't reduce the threat of rape. Furthermore, rape cannot always be avoided, no matter what precautions the woman takes. It also puts part of the responsibility and blame for rape on the victim. Rapist control confuses prosecutions with prevention. There is little evidence that punishment serves as a deterrent. Besides, very few rapist are ever incarcerated. From very early ages, men and women are conditioned to accept different roles. Women ... Women's vulnerability to rape is a result of this subordinate relationship. There are a number of sexist dictates that serve to maintain this subordinate relationship one of which is: Rape as a means of control over women. Rape plays a role in maintaining patriarchy by perpetrating the threat of violence. The acts of just a few violent men can terrorize all women and can control women's lives. The ...
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