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- 281: Evolution Of Canada
- ... city of Quebec. French navigators traveled the St Lawrence and Hudson rivers, claiming large interior lands for France. Traders and missionaries penetrated the interior, and French officials made peace with the Indians, thus encouraging French immigration. Seeking a share of the lucrative fur trade, the British in 1670 established the Hudson's Bay Co. Continental war between France and England extended to the New World, and the 1759 defeat of French ...
- 282: Warren G. Harding
- ... vote. Republicans in Congress easily got the President's signature on their bills. They eliminated wartime controls and slashed taxes, established a Federal budget system, restored the high protective tariff, and imposed tight limitations upon immigration. By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise--"Less government in business and more ...
- 283: Bombing in Oklahoma City
- ... top priority in American foreign policy. While the Oklahoma City bombing appears to be the work of domestic terrorists, it also highlights the vulnerability of the U.S. to foreign terrorist attack. Also (4) reform immigration laws to improve internal security, and (5) punish states that support terrorism on as many fronts as possible. The Oklahoma City tragedy demonstrates that domestic terrorists motivated by an extremist ideology can be just as ...
- 284: Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations Speech and Yezierska’s The Bread Givers
- ... stand up to her nemesis. She, from this, creates her own particular tenacity for her needs, A New World identity of persistence —“rags to riches.” The Bread Givers was written in a time when Jewish immigration to New York was booming. The Russian Revolution and WWI both created a hostile environment for European Jews. In America, however, it was difficult for them to find their “niche” due to their struggle between ...
- 285: Will There Be a World War III?
- ... people for a great number of years. “American movies, television, music, books and magazines have such pervasive worldwide influence that it is asked: Is the world Americanizing? That trend toward Americanization also is driven by immigration, tourism, language, advertising and international commerce. Harvard’s Joseph Nye calls it “soft power” and ranks it high. Our foreign policy is moving from Henry Kissinger to Arnold Schwarzenegger.” (Williams 93) Is this good? I ...
- 286: The Children Left Behind
- ... Amerasains; at least 10,000 are thought to remain in Vietnam” (Crossette, sec. I 1:1). By 1991 that number increased dramatically as the OPD and Amerasian Homecoming Act helped speed up the process for immigration to the United States. The cumulative effect of these two events in accelerating Amerasian Departure from Vietnam can be seen in the numbers: from 1982 to 1988 OPD brought approximately 11,500 Vietnamese-American children ...
- 287: Our Similarity To Ancient Greek Society
- ... foreigners and women. We have laws such as Affirmative Action and Anti-Discrimination Laws, which prevent people from judging others based on race or social class. The Greek’s government also had laws referring to immigration. While their policy was to let anyone become a citizen who wished to do so, we have laws which regulate who can enter our country. Passport laws allow us to prevent convicts from other countries ...
- 288: Diversity Within English
- ... what situation the dialect is used as to whether or not it is appropriate. Most people are familiar with regional dialects, such as Boston, Brooklyn, or Southern. These types of variations usually occur because of immigration and settlement patterns. People tend to seek out others like themselves. Regional variations tend to become more pronounced as the speech community is more isolated by physical geography, i.e. mountain ranges, rivers. Linguists have ...
- 289: NAFTA
- ... higher prices in Mexico and lowering of wages in Canada and the United States. On the whole, wages increased in all three-treaty nations, but Mexico still remains under the poverty level in some regions. Immigration of migrants to the United States from Mexico was another concern as it was assumed that the influx would increase. Also of concern for all treaty members was the dislocation of laborers, and increased competition ...
- 290: Rutherford B. Hayes
- ... and intelligence in their local governments. They need to have such a policy adopted as will cause sectionalism to disappear, and that will tend to wipe out the color line. They need to have encouraged immigration, education, and every description of legitimate business and industry. We do not want a united North nor a united South. We want a united country. And if the great trust shall devolve upon me, I ...
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