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- 2651: The Civil Rights Movement: Some Progress Is Better Then No Progress
- ... against adversity has allowed advancement in our civil liberties. Formerly our nation promoted the belief that African Americans were property rather then people. This belief dates back to colonial times when Virginia's colonial leader John Smith implemented poor immigrants into the system of indentured servitude. This system was used to exploit the poor immigrants in order to make up for a diminishing labor force in Virginia until 1619 when African ...
- 2652: Relations Among the Races
- ... African-American youths believe they are treated unfairly by enforcement officers, while one-third believe they are "at risk" (Farley, 1997; 88+) of receiving unfair treatment. Just one of five Caucasian youths feel the same. John Hope Franklin, head of President Clinton's race relations task force, claims genuine racial betterment will not arrive until "you have improvement in the home conditions of kids of all kinds" (Farley, 1997; 88+). An ...
- 2653: David Belasco
- ... Other stars discovered and trained by Belasco include David Warfield and Ina Claire. By 1900, Belasco turned his attentions to developing the career of Blanche Bates. After reading a story in Century Magazine, and with John Luther Long's approval, Belasco put together one of his most enduring plays, Madame Butterfly. Belasco worked fast, and though he scrambled together a laughably bad script, he had an unerring instinct for strong theatrical ...
- 2654: Racism Today
- ... advocating right-wing policies of racial inequality, promote racism as well. These groups serve as the epitome of racial thought and speech (Ridgeway 10). The following represent various racist groups found throughout the United States: John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the KKK, Invisible Empire, NAAWP, White Aryan Resistance, American Front, Nazi Skinheads, Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations, The Order, and National Alliance (Ridgeway 15). All of these groups are ...
- 2655: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- ... The Call", was released. This statement reiterated the treatment of the black race since 1865. Many notable figures in history signed "The Call" , e.g., Ida Wells Barnett, Jane Adams, W.E.B. DuBois and John Dewey. In a matter of two months, another conference was held. As a result of that conference, the NAACP was born. A distinct factor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which ...
- 2656: Are UFOs Real?
- ... balloon or experimental balloon...I've seen rockets... sent up at the White Sands Testing Grounds. It definitely was not part of an aircraft or missile or rocket' (Korff, 93). Under hypnosis conducted by Dr. John Watkins in May of 1990, Jesse Marcel Jr. remembered being awakened by his father that night and following him outside to help carry in a large box filled with debris. Once inside, they emptied the ...
- 2657: What Is Macroevolution?
- ... below). Those who do are generally working within the continental European traditions (as Dobzhansky, Mayr, Rensch, Goldschmidt, and Schindewolf are) and those who don't are generally working within the Anglo-American tradition (such as John Maynard Smith and Richard Dawkins). Hence, the term is sometimes wrongly used as a litmus test of whether the writer is "properly" neo-Darwinian or not (Eldredge 1995: 126-127). The term has been revived ...
- 2658: Pulmonary Agents
- ... the prototype of this class of agents; however, the principles of medical management of phosgene exposure also apply to casualties from compounds such as PFIB or NOxs. HISTORY/MILITARY RELEVANCE Phosgene was first synthesized by John Davy in 1812. Subsequent development as a potential chemical warfare agent led to the first battlefield use of phosgene (in shells filled solely with phosgene) at Verdun in 1917 by Germany. Later, both sides in ...
- 2659: David Hume
- David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76, carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh ...
- 2660: American Pit Bull Terrier
- ... with UKC were accepted into the UKC after the APBT. Another registry of the APBTs is the American Dog Breeders Association (ADBA) which was started in September, 1909 by Guy McCord, a close friend of John P. Colby ( Semenic ). Now under the stewardship of the Greenwood family, the ADBA continues to register only APBTs and is more in tune with the APBT as a breed than the UKC ( Stahlkuppe p.81 ...
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