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- 12181: The End of the 20th Century
- ... long-distance phone calls. As for travel we can expect larger, faster and lighter jumbo jets capable of flying themselves under the guidance of satellite systems. Also proposed for the 21st century are electronic cars, high-mileage/fuel-efficient cars and super-airbuses that will make getting around easier and safer. NASA officials insist we're going to Mars in 20 to 30 years. Plastics will soon conduct electricity and "cool ...
- 12182: The John Scopes Trial
- ... theory, he was immediately arrested and charged with violating the Butler Act, a law enacted earlier in the year. The Butler Act, passed in March, 1925, declared it illegal for a teacher in a public school to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man is descended from a lower order of animals (Smout 58 ...
- 12183: Prohibition in the 1920's
- ... Prohibition has increased the amount of organized crime in the U.S. With the increase of organized crime, competition between gangsters has escalated violence levles, in the streets of majors cities, to an all time high. News of gang shoot-outs, competing for new territory, can be found on the front page of almost every newspaper in the country. Prohibition, promising to lead this country from temptation, has delivered it to ...
- 12184: American Attack On Omaha And Utah Beaches During D Day
- ... overall success. The actions of the American soldiers on Utah and Omaha beaches that day aided greatly in the overall triumph of the operation as a whole. The victory at Omaha came at a very high cost, and the soldiers who took part certainly had no idea what they were about go through before the landing. They had no idea of the death and destruction which awaited their stepping foot onto ...
- 12185: Changes During The 1950s-1990s
- ... which have occurred, Such as women becoming educated. In the 1950s more women were becoming educated, although the majority of women used colleges and universities as a shortcut to finding husbands, they would then quit school and help their newfound husbands acquire a better education in order to support them both and their children. Moreover, in view of the fact that most of the men were fighting in the war, and ...
- 12186: Reasons, Causes And Details Of Plantation Slavery
- ... were very malnourished. The slaves were given one set of clothing to wear for years, and most did not have shoes. As a result of the poor living conditions, disease and death rates were kept high. Most adult slaves were worked to death in eight to ten years. In closing, Slavery was a terrible part of our history in America. The way the slaves suffered for decades is unthinkable. They lived ...
- 12187: The Depression
- ... with your hand and find it to be a pile of grease and dirt that obviously hasnt been washed in days, maybe even weeks. You get up and start to head for work, or school, only to realize you have no place to go. The pain of hunger eats away at you, but you just ignore it knowing that there is nothing for you to eat and you have no ...
- 12188: The History of Slave Labor
- ... indefinite service of black laborers. Although it may have not been as socially desirable, African s figured into this "problem" in that they represented skilled labor and were a proficient in tropical agriculture. With a high immunity to diseases such as malaria and yellow fever-lethal to Europeans and Indians alike, African Americans were soon seen as the best and only solution. Plantation owners were attracted not only to the affordability ...
- 12189: If Impeachment of Bill Clinton
- ... out because it will be a lot easier to impeach them after this. For such a minor offense to bring on impeachment hearings is in my opinion astounding because in the constitution it states that high crimes and misdemeanors warrant impeachment not sexual blunders. The amusing thing about this controversy is that it is not about how Mr. Clinton lied in court or with held information, it is about politics. The ...
- 12190: The Seneca Falls Convention
- ... taxed without being able to vote. In the few occupations open to women, they were paid far less than men were. No liberal arts college but Oberlin would admit women. Professions other that writing and school teaching were closed to women. Women could not practice law or medicine. In all, their new Declaration Of Sentiments argued, man has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy confidence in her own ...
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