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- 911: Canada - Of the United States of America
- ... we have a man who is Prime Minister who has, without even being asked, volunteered Canada to be the 51st state in the United States ....”28 This is essentially what free-trade meant for Canada. John A. MacDonald had called free-trade “veiled treason”, and for 125 years prominent Canadian figures warned fellow Canadians that “without an economic border we soon would not have a political border either”.29 The best way to describe free-trade is to quote some of John Turner's detailed and moving speech delivered in the House of Commons. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to discuss one of the most devastating pieces of legislation ever brought before the House of Commons ... said that “the man who would trade independence for security deserves neither.”33 Canada is slowly voulenteering for the American vision of Manifest Destiny where not one gun has to be fired. Ex Prime Minister John Diefenbaker expressed his opinion by stating that “We are a power, not a puppet...I want Canada to ve in control of Canadian soil. Now if that's an offence I want the people ...
- 912: Harry S. Truman
- Biography 1. Date of Birth & Birth Place Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. 2. Childhood John A. Truman sold and bought livestock form a lot adjacent to their house when Harry was first born. When Harry was ten months old the Trumans sold their house and stocklot to move to Harrisonville ... to Belton, then to Grandview, and finally settled in Independence, Missouri when Harry Truman was six years old. President Truman was the oldest of three children and the only one born in Lamar. His brother John Vivian, was born on April 25, 1885, at Belton, Missouri and his sister, Mary Jane, was born August 12, 1889, in Grandview, Missouri. Harry grew up on a farms all his life. he was forbidden ... ruled out by his family s financial situation, and appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was eliminated by his poor eyesight. 4. Family Harry S. Truman s family included his father John Anderson Truman and his mother Martha Ellen Young Truman. His siblings included his sister Mary Jane Truman and his brother John Vivian Truman. 5. Prior Employment Before the Presidency In 1901 Harry began work ...
- 913: Harriet Tubman 3
- ... was also no longer known by her "basket name", Araminta. Now she would be called Harriet (McClard 21, 26-28, 29-33). In 1844, Harriet Ross married a well-built man with a ready laugh. John Tubman was a free slave unlike Harriet. Since she was a slave, she knew there could be a chance that she could be sold and her marriage would be split apart. Harriet dreamed of traveling north. There, she would be free and would not have to worry about having her marriage split up by the slave trade. But, John did not want her to go north. He said he was fine where he was and that there was no reason for moving north. She said she would go by herself. He replied with questions ... more secret. It also sent the escaping slaves into Canada instead of the "North" of the U.S. (Petry 125-130). Harriet's third trip was in September 1851. She went to get her husband, John, but he had remarried and did not want to leave. So she went back up North. Harriet went to Garret's house and found there were more runaways (which were referred to as passengers) ...
- 914: Thomas More’s Utopia
- ... the book Utopia and for his religious stance against King Henry VIII that would later cost him his life. I. Childhood A. In London B. During the Battle of Roses II. Influential people A. Archbishop John Morton B. Henry VIII 1. Early friendship 2. Political and religious rift III. Accomplishments A. Writer B. Judge and lawyer C. Saint IV. Contents of Utopia A. Book 1 B. Book 2 Thomas More’s ... afterwards King Richard III was slain in the Battle of the Roses. Henry VII later became king (The World Book Encyclopedia 802). During the reign of Henry VII More grew into manhood. His father was John More, a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn. After schooling at St. Anthony’s he lived with John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Comptons Encyclopedia 582). Morton recognized the talents of his young page and advised him to go to Oxford to study. He became a lawyer and a scholar in Latin and ...
- 915: Censorship and the First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right to Free Speech
- ... individuals or groups have the right or the power to examine material and remove or prohibit anything they consider objectionable? This argument has been progressing for centuries, in fact the first notable case was against John Peter Zenger, in 1743. Zenger was an editor of a New York colonial newspaper that often published articles critical of the colonial governor. He successfully argued that publishing the truth should be a defense and ... the standards in which this nation must abide. I assert that everyone has a right to self opinion, but imposing your beliefs on others is not a solution, by any means. The following quotation, by John Carney Jr., from his speech "Theoretical Value in Teaching Freedom of Speech," sums up his ideas on where the future of free speech stands. He brings out the concept of societies control over the fate ... if they desired to. I believe our founding fathers theorized that with so many people speaking out, the truth would always emerge, and our country would grow to be fair and free. Works Cited Carney, John Jr., "Theoretical Value in Teaching Freedom of Speech." Speech Association of the Eastern States. New York, 10 March 1973. Harer, John B. Intellectual Freedom: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO, 1992. 21. ---. Intellectual ...
- 916: RAP CENORSHIP
- ... 1950). On a less profound, but no less important point, people gain pleasure from the arts. Indeed, to some people, art's sole purpose is to provide pleasure. Philosophers from Aristotle to Immanuel Kant to John Stuart Mill have argued that happiness is our ultimate goal, the end to all our means. As Americans, we proclaim the "pursuit of happiness" is an inalienable right included in our Declaration of Independence. Music ... inertia and superstition to hang on the back of the pioneer, and all the malice of vulgarity and prejudice to threaten him, is responsible for many persecutions and many martyrdoms. For Shaw, as well as John Stuart Mill, immoral doctrines lead us in new directions that may bring us truth, and which we would not find if it were not for dissenting opinions. Without the writings of Thomas Paine and Henry ... that changes the world in a practical way (Gorky 1934). The same reasons for censoring views on sex, violence and substance abuse are the same reasons these views should be heard: because they are controversial. John Stuart Mill asserted that the truth is most likely to emerge from a conflict of opinions. A censored opinion, whether true or false, sidesteps conflict and secures our distance in the truth. In a ...
- 917: Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
- ... equations that had long left scientists and mathematicians baffled. The machine was cumbersome because hundreds of gears and shafts were required to represent numbers and their various relationships to each other. To eliminate this bulkiness, John V. Atanasoff, a professor at Iowa State College and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, envisioned an all-electronic computer that applied Boolean algebra to computer circuitry. This approach was based on the mid-19th century ... 5 million soldered joints, the computer was such a massive piece of machinery that it consumed 160 kilowatts of electrical power, enough energy to dim the lights in an entire section of Philadelphia. Developed by John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, ENIAC, unlike the Colossus and Mark I, was a general-purpose computer that computed at speeds 1,000 times faster than Mark I. In the mid-1940's John von Neumann joined ...
- 918: Political Parties
- ... parties do. In Great Britain, for example, more Conservative party candidates won representation in Parliament in the elections of April 1992 than did Labour party candidates. The Conservatives, therefore, were able to have their leader--John Major--continue in office as prime minister. They were also able to decide which programs the government should adopt, and they had enough votes in Parliament to pass their legislation. Political parties are the products ... always been the same two parties. The first opposition was between Federalists and Anti-Federalists--those who supported a strong federal government and those who did not. Leaders of the Federalists were Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Both were from the Northeast where Federalist sentiment was strongest. Thomas Jefferson became the acknowledged leader of Anti-Federalist sentiment, and by the time of his election to the presidency in 1800 his party ... 1854 small groups of men met in Ripon, Wis., Jackson, Mich., and elsewhere to urge creation of a new political party opposed to the extension of slavery. In 1856 this newly formed Republican party chose John C. Fremont as its presidential candidate. He lost to the Democratic nominee, James Buchanan. By 1860 the Democrats were split on the slavery issue. Four candidates ran for the presidency, and Abraham Lincoln--the ...
- 919: Davy Crockett
- ... mouth of Limestone Creek, which today lies about three and a half miles off 11-E Highway near Limestone, Tennessee. David "Davy" Crockett was the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born to John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett. The Crocketts were a self-sufficient, independent family. Davy Crockett stands for the Spirit of the American Frontier. As a young man he was a crafty Indian fighter and hunter. When ... he was forty-nine years old, he died a hero's death at the Alamo, helping Texas win independence from Mexico. For many years he was nationally known as a political representative of the frontier. John, Davy's father, moved to Greene County where Davy was born. While Davy was still in dresses, his father moved the family to Cove Creek in Greene County, Tennessee, where he built a mill in partnership with Thomas Galbreath. When Davy was eight years old, the mill was washed away with his home. After this disaster John Crockett removed his family to Jefferson County where he built and operated a log-cabin tavern on the Knoxville-Abingdon Road. (This cabin has been restored and is now located at Morristown, 30 miles ...
- 920: Solidarity-A New Hope Of Breaking Communist Ruling
- ... turmoil (MacShane 28-29). Second, but as much important person as Lech Walesa was Karol Wojtyla. At the time he was still Archbishop of Krakow, but in 1978, he was elected pope. After death of John Paul I in October of 1978, the College of Cardinals elected Wojtyla as first non-Italian pope in 455 years. The election of the pope from Poland meant the cultural and institutional power of Roman Catholic Church was now tied with Polish nation. Shortly after being elected, John Paul II visited the Poland in June of 1979 to help his nation stand up and fight. His visit provided a new cultural foundation for national self-identification, and the organizational experience for mobilizing it ... created non-destructive opposition to communism. They led people to forget about the communism in their every day life and looking more toward the eternal truth located in the word of one of their own, John Paul II (Kennedy 44). His words were simple religious vocabulary, a vocabulary neither of theologians or very smart people. Those words presented them with a concern for human rights and for human dignity. The ...
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