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- 2891: The Political And Econimical C
- ... Spanish colonies they no longer needed British military protection. This made the British uneasy. They felt they could not afford to leave the colonies alone. They watched the colonies much more intently and kept strict control of them. They made the existing laws more exacting and they made numerous attempts to further tax the colonies. The Townshed Acts infuriated the people. The Acts included more taxes and new rules concerning imports ... Massacre to further encourage an abhorrence of the British in the hearts of the Americans. It was a success. As was proved by the previous examples the British sealed their own fate by attempting to control the newly founded colonies that were obviously bent on independence. The new Americans were fed up with the taxes and the tariffs, but mostly they were fed up with British imposition. The British persistence led ...
- 2892: Adolf Hitler
- ... while Hitler was recovering from his injuries. Some Jews were leaders of these abortive revolutions, and this inspired hatred of Jews as well as Communists. On November 9th, the Kaiser abdicated and the Socialists gained control of the government. Anarchy was more the rule in the cities. The Free Corps was a paramilitary organization composed of vigilante war veterans who banded together to fight the growing Communist insurgency which was taking ... by eliminating them. By doing so, Germany could also find Lebensraum, living space, without which the superior German culture would decay. This living space, Hitler continued, would come from conquering Russia (which was under the control of Jewish Marxists, he believed) and the Slavic countries. This empire would be launched after democracy was eliminated and a "FΕhrer" called upon to rebuild the German Reich. A second volume of Mein Kampf was ...
- 2893: Carthage And The Punic Wars
- ... Carthage eventually being destroyed. The First Punic War started in 264 BC and lasted to 241 BC. In the first half of the 3rd century BC Carthage held many territories that made it easy to control and dominate the western Mediterranean Sea. However, when they conquered Messana on the north eastern tip of Sicily, in 263, they faced the Romans for ware for the first time. The people of Messana requested ... Hamilcar. However, at the battle at the Aegates Islands in 241, the Carthaginians were beaten so badly that they requested peace. This agreement involved leaving Sicily and paying a huge tax. Rome now had complete control of Sicily. The most important of the three wars was the Second Punic War which started in 218 BC and lasted until 201 BC. This was also the most fascinating. It was the Carthaginians bitterness ...
- 2894: Underage Drinking: A Problem For Society
- ... and younger everyday. Underage drinking is continuing to ruin not only their young lives but also the lives of those around them. As a society, together, it is our job to gain back the social control. We must take control of the situation before even more lives are ruined. Underage drinking is a problem which everyone must face. It is not going to go away until something drastic is done. Through conformity and perseverance we ...
- 2895: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... evidence to suggest that capital punishment deters criminals. The most recent study of research findings on the relationship between the death penalty and homicide rates, conducted for the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, in 1988, has concluded that:"this research has failed to provide scientific proof that executions have a greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment."1. Many murders are committed under the influence of alcohol and drugs, some murderers might be mentally ill. If one of these factors influenced a person, how could he/she control and asses what he/she is doing or be deterred from committing the crime? It would be impossible, and after the incident he/she might not remember it. A cover story in the "Time"3 ...
- 2896: The Lexus And The Olive Trees
- ... He goes on to say there are no barriers to entry, no protection from failure for unprofitable firms, and everyone has easy and free access to all information. We have gone from a command and control leadership model in the Cold War to what World Link magazine call s command and connect leadership model in the globalization era. The latest stage in this process is the one we are now in ... or failing to do so by succumbing to MIDS. An example of this whole situation is the extreme case of the former Soviet Union. Because the Soviet system was built for the sole purpose of control, it centralized all the main functions of leadership. It centralized decision making, information and strategy. If a company or country has not democratized decision making and deconcentrated power to enable these people to use and ...
- 2897: Television and Movie Violence
- ... parents. The viewers should be critical thinkers. They have to be taught how to interpret what they see. Aggression is a pervasive and unalterable aspect in every child's personality. The teacher or parent must control what they view to help the child express aggression in a constructive way. There are two fundamental ways in which a teacher can help an aggressive child according to psychodynamic tenets: first, by accepting the ... liable for people who imitate the films. People have to remember that they just make the movies, they don't sell the guns. It is the parent's job to teach their children how to control their aggression. Instead of advocating the banning of violence on television, we need to advocate the understanding of the personal, family and societal issues, which cause violence and determine what role television can play in ...
- 2898: Compare And Contrast Of The Me
- ... abandoned. Kafka creates a very lonely and abandoned world for Gregor Samsa in his short novel Metamorphosis. Gregor is an existentialist character who mutates into a giant bug without reason and no longer has any control over his life. He becomes completely uninvolved in the way that he does not talk or have any interaction with anyone inside or outside of the family. He is dehumanized. Gregors mother is disgusted ... susceptible to the physical. Mersault takes responsibility for his actions by being executed after he commits murder. Both the stories endings support the basics of existentialism by demonstrating the following rules: responsibilities, loneliness, abandonment, no control, do not cause waves and the act of being uninvolved. Gregor and Mersault demonstrate all of these characteristics; however they do cause waves. As a result of Gregors metamorphosis his entire family must change ...
- 2899: Fishing
- ... the European Union could land its present catches with only half its present fleet. In addition to overfishing, other factors play a part in the diminishing stocks of commercial fish species. Some are beyond human control. Most are traceable to human activity. For example, developing human populations along the world's coasts have added to the pollution of inland rivers and streams; estuaries and lagoons that previously sheltered and fed juvenile ... however, the New England Fisheries Management Council began a process that will lead to closing commercial fishing in the Georges Bank for a number of years. Fishing in international waters has also proved difficult to control. While it is believed, for example, that most nations have obeyed the UN moratorium on drift-net fishing, monitoring compliance remains an unsolved problem. The US Navy's Sound Surveillance System, a 48,000-km ...
- 2900: Multiple Sclerosis
- ... my step-mom Kathy happens to be one of the unlucky few (Rogner 5). MS is a disease that strikes the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal chord. These two organs control the movement and function of the entire body. Inside the body of a person with MS the tube that sends signals throughout the body is either partially of fully blocked, leaving the victim with for ... or as efficiently, she has become just another accountant (Doyle). This fact alone has really hurt her self esteem, just imagine being at the top of a company, and because of something you have no control over to be demoted back to where you started how ever many years ago. As I have illustrated, multiple sclerosis can be very damaging to a person both physically and mentally. Unfortunately, there is no ...
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