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- 1031: Term African Slave Trade
- ... that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who had a vested interest in smuggling slaves (and withholding data)…The Atlantic crossing, or “Middle Passage,” as it was called by European slavers, was notorious for the number of deaths incurred, averaging in the vicinity of 15 to 20 ... family’s strength is represented be the number of hands there are to cultivate the land… Certainly, many African rulers acquiesced in the European slave trade for what they considered to be reason of self-interest, but on no scale of rationality could the outflow of population be measured as being anything but disastrous for African societies.” The price of the transatlantic slave trade on Africa was absolutely devastating. Not only ...
- 1032: Middle Ages Economy
- ... as most of the deposit, credit and transfer functions of a modern bank. A major obstacle to the growth of banks in the Middle Ages was the Church's prohibition of usury, the charging of interest on loans. As economic activity expanded, however, the papacy became one of the first to insist that interest should be paid on investments made at a risk. Because they were forbidden to hold land or engage in more "acceptable" sources of economic enterprise, money changers in the Middle Ages were typically Jews. After ...
- 1033: Karl Marx
- ... Marx was born May 5th, 1818 in Trier. Although he had three other siblings, all sisters, he was the favorite child to his father, Heinrich. His mother, a Dutch Jewess named Henrietta Pressburg, had no interest in Karl's intellectual side during his life. His father was a Jewish lawyer, and before his death in 1838, converted his family to Christianity to preserve his job with the Prussian state. When Heinrich ... lawyer much like himself but when Karl's reckless university life was getting in the way after a year Heinrich transferred him to Berlin. Also, he did not go to most lectures, and showed little interest in what was to be learned. Karl's reckless ways were not tolerated at Berlin, a more conservative college without the mischievous ways of the other universities. While at Berlin, Marx became part of the ...
- 1034: Juvenile Justice
- ... the deterrent value of capitol punishment for decades, and a few have claimed to have come up with some scientific data. In 1975, economists Isaac Ehrlich, using a complex statistical analysis of executions and murder rates, concluded the death penalty does deter homicide; to be precise, each execution prevented eight murders a year. More recently, University of North Carolina economist Stephen Layson released an updated statistical analysis that he says supports ... allow for execution, are still issues that are to be evaluated be the Supreme Court Judges. Furthermore, Juvenile justice clearly stands at a crossroad for many. Particularly, conservative politicians tend to point to escalating crime rates and argue that punishment deters crime (which I think it does) whether or not they actually believe this or not is another issue. Bottom line, I believe a tougher stance will translate into fewer violent ...
- 1035: Teenage Suicide
- ... specific intent of killing themselves. Death by firearms is the fastest growing method of suicide. Firearms are actually used in more suicides than in homicide cases, also states with stricter gun control laws have lower rates of suicide. Other methods of suicide are ingestions, hanging, asphyxiation, and jumping(Shaffer). Saturday and Monday are the most common suicide days. Alaska and Nevada have the highest suicide rates(Suicide). The most renown suicide attempt area is the Golden Gate bridge. Harold Wobber's suicide in August 1937 was the first documented suicide from the Golden Gate bridge. Since then more than twelve hundred ...
- 1036: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... to claim that possession of a gun turns average citizens into bloodthirsty lunatics. This theory falls apart under close scrutiny. If legal possession of a firearm caused this sort of attitude, then why are crime rates highest in areas such as Washington, D.C. and New York City which have strict gun control laws? And why are crime rates dropping in states such as Florida where private ownership of firearms is encouraged? Simply stated, legal ownership of a gun does not cause crime. The most recent efforts of the gun control lobby has been ...
- 1037: Why Gun Control is Needed
- ... could interfere. Is that what our anti-gun control activists want? Do they want a country where nobody is safe and where life isn't sacred anymore? Gun control has proven to be effective. Death rates are highest in the South which has the highest gun ownership - in the Northeast, death rates are lowest because of strict gun control laws. If we want fewer Americans to die each year as a result of guns, then we need to look to the part of the country where it ...
- 1038: Aids And Africa
- ... than those without the infection. Major routes of HIV transmission in Africa are heterosexual, mother-to-child, and transfusions with unscreened blood. In addition, prostitution and cultural sexual practices greatly influence the increase in transmission rates. Transfusions, though, are now being screened in most major urban areas and therefore are not as threatening as they once were. Homosexuality and i.v. drug use are not associated with AIDS or considered factors ... 1997, an additional million were estimated to be living with the disease, half of them were infected that year alone. There is certainly a gap between rich and poor countries and their mother-infant transmission rates. For example, in France and the United States, fewer than 5 percent of children born to HIV women were infected. While in developing countries, the average is between 25 percent and 35 percent. Breastfeeding practices ...
- 1039: Slavery
- ... War. However, this postulation began to change as abolitionists claimed the land of the Southern Plantations was overworked and the potential income of slaves was lower than that of white people who had a vested interest in the productivity and success of the South. The concept of slavery had been brought over to America by the ideals of British Mercantilism which called for strict regulation of the state and its people ... to Fogel and Engerman, Clay asserted, “It was inefficient because slavery ‘impoverishes the soil,’ because, in comparison with whites, slaves were ‘not so skilful, so energetic, and above all, have not the stimulus of self-interest’” (160). Clay continued to assert that slaves consume more and produce less than free men. Two proponents of Clay’s theory were Hinton Rowan Helper and Frederick Law Olmstead who appeared to produce evidence in ...
- 1040: Karl Marx
- ... Marx was born May 5th, 1818 in Trier. Although he had three other siblings, all sisters, he was the favorite child to his father, Heinrich. His mother, a Dutch Jewess named Henrietta Pressburg, had no interest in Karl's intellectual side during his life. His father was a Jewish lawyer, and before his death in 1838, converted his family to Christianity to preserve his job with the Prussian state. When Heinrich ... lawyer much like himself but when Karl's reckless university life was getting in the way after a year Heinrich transferred him to Berlin. Also, he did not go to most lectures, and showed little interest in what was to be learned. Karl's reckless ways were not tolerated at Berlin, a more conservative college without the mischievous ways of the other universities. While at Berlin, Marx became part of the ...
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