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- 3701: Martin Luther King Jr And Malcolm X
- ... suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who shared the dream of being a lawyer with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X's anger and disillusionment caused him to drop out of school. He started to use cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X's hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his ... about getting this equality through a non violent way. King's popularity was more than any other black leader's popularity. "King urged blacks to win their rightful place in society by gaining self-respect, high moral standards, hard work and leadership. He also urged blacks to do this in a non-violent matter," (pg. 255, Reflecting Black) The difference is in Malcolm X and Martin Luther King's backgrounds had ...
- 3702: JFK And The Warren Commission
- ... he took part in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. Soon afterwards a man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and accused of having shot Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas school Depository building . Even though Oswald refused to co-operate and denied all knowledge of the assassination, he was formerly charged the next day, on the 23 November. However, he never stood trial as just two ... murder weapon and the crime scene which, undoubtedly helped a great deal in his conviction. The main evidence against Oswald was a unique Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, which was recovered on the sixth floor of the school depository building and had allegedly been used for the shooting. Witnesses claimed that three shots had been fired. Three spent cartridges were found alongside the rifle. Ballistics proved that the fragments from two bullets that ... actually made the whole situation seem more suspicious than it maybe was. As well as these links to the murder weapon, the Warren Commision also established links between Oswald and the crime scene, the Texas school book depository building, where Oswald had been working for six weeks previous to the assassination. Therefore he probably knew the building quite well. His prints were found on the boxes on the sixth floor ...
- 3703: Toxic Waste
- ... Dow Chemical Company’s factory, a major producer of chemicals, showed contamination from dioxin. Dow undertook a 3 million dollar study of the material. The company announced that Dioxin is less health and life threatening. High-temperatures are used to reduce the toxicity of waste. These processes use plasma technology to make the waste more environmentally friendly. Plasma treatment reach temperatures up to 1,650o F. In the United States incineration ... a primary way to get rid of liquid waste. This process eliminates waste in two stages. One is partially burning the waste with insufficient air and then they burn it again with excess air at high temperatures to destroy gases released by the first stage. Liquid toxic waste must be stored for a short time before disposal. This waste is stored in steel drums before it is disposed of. After toxicity has been removed, the waste is stored. Ocean dumping and landfills are no longer used in the United States. However, the United States has high levels of nuclear waste containing plutonium or uranium. This waste is stored near the plant that produced it until the waste can be removed. Vitrification is a new method of nuclear waste disposal. This ...
- 3704: Immigration
- ... It also created a "barred zone"(Asia-Pacific triangle), whose natives were also inadmissible. This Act made Mexicans inadmissible. It insisted that all aliens pay a head tax of $8 dollars. However, because of the high demand for labor in the southwest, months later congress let Mexican workers (braceros) to stay in the U.S. under supervision of state government for six month periods. A series of statutes were made in ... the person could be easily replaced if the boss doesn't like him. But on the other side there are many successful Chinese Americans who have exactly the same opportunities as the "Americans" and our school is a living proof of that. Peaks/waves of immigration The century following 1820 can be divided into 3 great periods of immigration, or "waves." These three have immigrants coming from primarily three different regions ...
- 3705: Malthus' Principle of Population: Today and the Future
- ... winter months and is therefore a useful measure of food resources. Grain is also used as feed to supplement the production of meat (beef, pork and poultry) and ocean catch fish. Affluent societies have diets high in animal protein while subsistence level societies rely primarily on the starchy foods of grain products. In general, it appears that an affluent society lives on about 17pounds per week per person while people at ... of one acre for each five births. The loss of farmland has been compensated for by increasing the yield per acre by the development of disease and drought resistant grains which respond well to fertilizers. High yield, early maturing wheat and rice strains now permit multi-cropping (i.e. winter wheat and summer rice in the same field). However, there are growing indications that efforts to increase crop yields have peaked ... water vapor accumulated from summertime evaporation of lakes and oceans. Moisture laden warm air mixing with cooler arctic air in the fall and winter create intensified weather conditions in the form of increased precipitation and high winds. Since the early eighties, economic losses from world-wide weather related disasters have increased six fold. While the realities of global warming are still under debate, historical data would seem to raise questions ...
- 3706: The Overpopulation of the Snow Goose in North America
- ... other states (TWDS 1999). As indicated earlier it is very hard to count wintering birds because such a large number of wintering areas. Below are a few graphs of these population trends Factors contributing to High Population The snow goose problem is a wildlife manager's nightmare. Through prudent restrictions on birds taken as game, and the increase in refuges coupled with excellent habitat in the birds entire range. It is ... Hunting of the Greater Snow Goose was banned in the us from 1931-75 (Abraham and Jeffries 1998). Hunting was not allowed to promote population numbers, and once started in 1975 did not have a high harvest. The LSGO and ROGO starting in the middle of the 60’s and continually have extended their nesting range south into less extreme climate (Abraham and Jeffries 1998). It has also been suggested that ... 1999). Impact on other Species The impact on other species is the major whole I have seen in the research done to date, I had a real hard time finding any concrete evidence that the high number of geese was negatively affecting other species. The Hudson Bay Project and Hodge both claim that it is and will affect other species such as ducks and shore birds. While it might be ...
- 3707: Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
- ... revolution. The times were changing in many different ways. Whenever the times change, there is a clash between the "old" and the "new" generations. The 1920's were no exception. In Dayton, Tennessee, 1925, a high school biology teacher was arrested. He was arrested because he taught the theory of evolution. The teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of having violated the Butler Act. This was a Tennessee law that forbade the ...
- 3708: The Theory of Evolution
- ... This means that there is a stream of fresh air constantly going through the lungs in one direction, much like water flowing through a sponge…. Because of it, birds can breathe the thin air of high altitudes, flying at over 20,000 feet for days on end as they migrate thousands of miles” (Life 78, 79). Still yet, this is not all that separates birds from reptiles. Birds have many more ... evolution? Although there is little, if any evidence for evolution, many continue to cling to the theory. This may seem to be a curious thing, but really, it isn’t. When you think about it, school children are exposed to evolution in textbooks from as early as second grade. Most students do not question the theory. Because evolution is so prominent in the educational community, the student may feel that it ...
- 3709: Civil War - The War Of Northern Aggression
- ... as well, misleading text books. The truth is that the North, Lincoln, etc. weren’t as great as they claimed to be, and that they went to illegal measures for an unjust cause. The public school system was used as a tool of the government and still is to skew the American mind into believing whatever it wants. For example: at the present time the school child has evolution drilled into their head as fact, even though it has already been accounted for as false. The C.S.A. (Confederate States of America) President Jefferson Davis actually predicted this. He taught that if the South lost, then the North would write it’s history. Therefore, the generations to come wouldn’t understand the Confederate call for independence (Kennedy 17). The public school system was put into effect after the North won the war. It’s plan was to appeal with a free education, which it did. Then it used it’s captives in it’s scheme ...
- 3710: Civil War - The Battle Of Vicksburg
- ... miles. Commonly referred to as ‘the trunk of the American tree’. The river was vital to both the American Government and to the Confederate forces in the west. The city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 250 feet high, overlooks the Mississippi River on the Louisiana-Mississippi state border. Confederate forces mounted artillery batteries ready to challenge the passage of Union ships. Receiving control of Vicksburg and the Mississippi River was a huge benefit ... of Mexico. Until by late summer of 1862, only Vicksburg and Port Hudson appeared to be major constraints to the Union. Of the two posts, Vicksburg was by far the strongest and most important. Setting high over looking a bend in the river, protected by artillery and dangerous swamps. So far the city had defied Union efforts to force it into submission. In order to protect the Mississippi Valley, Confederates established ... threat developed in May 1862, when the ships from the West Gulf Blockading Squadron arrived bellow Vicksburg and demanded that they surrender. The surrender was refused. It was then realized by both Union and Confederate high commands that if Vicksburg were going to fall, it would be in the hands of a huge combined land and navel effort. A decision was made to construct a line of defense around the ...
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