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- 2591: The Native Indians and the Cultural Encounters With the Europeans
- The Native Indians and the Cultural Encounters With the Europeans John Demos, author of "The Unredeemed Captive," describes the cultural encounters of the English, French, and Indian people in the eighteenth century America. The Indians were the main focus of the history of New France, and ...
- 2592: Catherine The Great
- ... rule. By the time of Catherine's death (Nov. 17, 1796), modern Russian society was organized and its culture had struck firm roots. Russia was also playing a determining role in world affairs. Bibliography: Alexander, John T., Catherine the Great: Life and Legend (1989); Cronin, Vincent, Catherine, Empress of All the Russians (1978); Grey, Ian, Catherine the Great (1961; repr. 1975); Maroger, Dominique, ed., Memoirs of Catherine the Great, trans. by ...
- 2593: Charles Darwin
- ... the hills, observing plants and animals, collecting new specimens, scrutinizing their structures, and categorizing his findings, guided by his cousin William Darwin Fox, an entomologist. Darwin's scientific inclinations were encouraged by his botany professor, John Stevens Henslow, who was instrumental, despite heavy paternal opposition, in securing a place for Darwin as a naturalist on the surveying expedition of HMS Beagle to Patagonia. Under Captain Robert Fitzroy, Darwin visited Tenerife, the ...
- 2594: Television That Kills
- ... on a similar doll" (Leland 47). Not only are television programs harmful to Allred 2 children, many violent crimes have been stimulated by TV. Movies have given people malicious ideas that led to actual crimes. John Leland tells of a man that was a victim of a crime inspired by the movie "Magnum Force" (47). The man was forced to eat Drano and had his mouth duct taped, just like in ...
- 2595: Fundamental of Racism
- ... town officials want Gillespie, a Caucasian, to keep the Blacks in their place. Gillespie did not even have to elaborate in his resume or tell them his experience in law enforcement. Through the imagination of John Ball different races had different privileges in the town of Wells. After Virgil did his autopsy, he was given the privilege of using a clean washroom with soap and towel. Blacks were seen as dirty ...
- 2596: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... 768-69. Cavanagh, Suzanne, and David Teasley. Capital Punishment: A Brief Overview. CRS Report For Congress 95-505GOV (1995): 4. Frame, Randy. A Matter Of Life and Death. Christianity Today 14 Aug. 1995: 50 Grisham, John. The Chamber. New York: Island Books, 1994. Stewart, David O. Dealing with Death. American Bar Association Journal 80.11 (1994): 50 Tabak, Ronald J. Report: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and Lack of Due Process in ...
- 2597: Hate Crimes
- ... were reported not having committed many of the single bias incidents. Sometimes both race and religion are related in different hate crimes. Sometimes black churches are targeted for hate crimes. One black church, the St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, which was founded in 1765, "has been a target for attacks throughout it's history-a period that spans the eras of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, segregation, and ...
- 2598: Charles Darwin
- ... had dropped out of medical school and attended University of Cambridge to prepare to become a cler-gyman of the Church of England. There he met two stellar figures, Adam Sedg-wick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a naturalist. Henslow not only helped build Darwins self-confidence, but also taught his student to be a meticulous and painstaking observer of natural phenomena and collector of specimens. After Char-les ...
- 2599: Affirmative Action
- ... Jacoby 36). The implication of racial preference has given high schools permission to replace the tradition of achievement with a culture of entitlement. The feeling of the absence of enthusiasm for achievement is illustrated by John O'Sulllivan editor of the National Review hen he said, "Restoring high standards in high school will take time; but it will not even begin until the corrupting influence of racial preference is removed". By ...
- 2600: Homosexual Marriage
- ... shoves his whole hand up the anus of the other partner;" "rimming, when one partner licks the anus of the other partner." In the essay **Homosexual Rights: What's Wrong**, written by Brad Hayton and John Eldrege, they stated that "The U.S. taxpayer-funded Mapplethorpe photos . . . portrayed typical homosexual behavior: fisting (thrusting one's fist up another's anus), urinating into another's mouth(in this case, a child's ...
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