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- 6841: Vietnam War - The Conflict In Vietnam
- ... even without United States help, Vietnam is seen to be an important exporter in the future. Japan has already exported goods to Vietnam and the United States is afraid that they will soon gain economic control over the entire region.
- 6842: The History of the Internet
- ... a steady pace, by 1987 there were over 10,000 hosts, then by 1989 it had exploded to 100,000 (Rowse). Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf are key members of a team, which created Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), the common language of all Internet computers. For the first time the loose collection of networks which made up the ARPANET is seen as an "Internet", and the Internet as ...
- 6843: The Roaring Twenties
- ... speakeasies. Police were often bribed not to intervene in the activities of smuggling. Bootlegging, although prosperous to the ringleader, was a dangerous activity in which over 500 gangland murders occurred as underworld mobs fought for control of the liquor traffic. (Time Life 166) The United States in the Twenties was still a young country which had not yet established itself an identity. Was the image of the United States going to ...
- 6844: Should This Business Update To Windows 2000 From Windows 98
- Should this business update to Windows 2000 from Windows 98 for its office PCs? In the business world today, computers and the software applications that run on them basically control an well-organized business. Every major company is equipped with a computer, or network that connects through different branches throughout the firm. To keep up with the fastest technology that dominates the market is to ...
- 6845: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... defend Cuba out of nationalistic pride. This, the Americans had all misjudged. The Bay of Pigs invasion had been drawn up by President Eisenhower, but John.F.Kennedy approved the CIA plan soon after taking control. "The thought of this pleasant land becoming "Stalinist" disturbed [Kennedy], like seeing a treasured childhood retreat decay into tawdry slumdom overrun by rowdy toughs."4 On April 17, 1400 members of Cuban exiles came from ...
- 6846: The Constitution
- ... of it to take power. When the second bank of the united states was formed Maryland instituted a tax to try and prohibit the bank from being profitable. They said they had the right to control there local business but the federal government argued the supremacy clause protected them. The Supreme Court decided that the supremacy clause protected things set by the government from the states. The American People were losing ...
- 6847: Genetic Engineering 5
- ... United States of America in expressing the rights of equality and individual rights, the legalization of favorable values with regard to human genes is somewhat surprising (Bereano 18). One would think that people would have control over their own genes; however, that does not seem to be the case. Therefore, the rights to one s own identity will be abolished if human genes can be selected; thus, genetic engineering should be ...
- 6848: Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
- ... 1820s and on, but by the 1850s he became deeply intertested in the slavery issue. Brown and five of his sons became embroiled in the struggle between proslavery and anti-slavery forces for control of the territorial government in Kansas. By the spring of 1855, Brown had assumed command of local Free-Soil militia. Within a year, proslavery forces had sacked the Free-Soil town of Lawrence, an event ...
- 6849: Slavery - Slave Resistance
- ... spring and summer of 1800, he began carefully creating a plan, in which he would invade Richmond, Virginia. From there he would take over the armory and the powder house, in order to have complete control over the city. He soon recruited more than a thousand slaves and had weapons on hand. On August 30, 1800, Gabriels army collected outside Richmond. Unfortunately, they were unable to attack the city, as ...
- 6850: Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
- ... slavery solely with planters and certain higher classes, "Logically, this would lead to the conclusion that the institution of private property in the United States rests on the interest of only the most prosperous, who control the larger portion of the property but constitute only a very small percentage of the population. The great slaveholders of the south represented the concentration of wealth in slaves on a scale comparable with the ...
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