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- 3671: The Declaration of Independence
- ... for independence. After minor alterations were subsequently made by Franklin and Adams, the document was submitted to Congress. The document was in two parts. In the first, the Declaration restated the familiar contract theory of John Locke: that government were formed to protect the rights of life, liberty, and property. In the second part, the Declaration listed the alleged crimes of the king, who, with the backing of Parliament, had violated ...
- 3672: Vietnam War - Summary Of Vietnam
- ... they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism, the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader, Diem. Kennedy and Diem were both killed in 1963 and 1964. Johnson took control of the situation by increasing the amount of money and manpower put into Vietnam. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving the ...
- 3673: Participative Management
- ... Democracy at Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sirianni, C. (1987). Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Warner, M. (1984). Organizations and Experiments: Designing New Ways of Managing Work. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
- 3674: US-Mexico Border
- ... claimed that the Texas border was at the Rio Grande. Mexico disagreed, Mexico stated the border was at Nueces River. The United States did try to settle matters diplomatically. The United States sent inexperienced diplomat John Slidell. Slidell tried to buy area known as the U.S. Southwest. Slidell, being an inexperienced diplomat, was rejected. Not only was he not successful in buying the land, he aroused Mexican fears. This set ...
- 3675: The Salem Witch Trials
- Mr. John Hathorn, a Judge involved in the witchcraft case of Sarah Good, then asked all of the afflicted children to look upon her and see if this was the person that had hurt them so. They ...
- 3676: The Roaring Twenties
- ... important aspect of the economy in the 1920's. As the economy was flourishing, many Americans found it a practical investment to put money into the Stock Exchange as the return could be quite large. John J. Rascob, the vice-president of General Motors Corporation during the Twenties, declared that anyone that put $15 dollars a month in the stock-market could make $80,000 dollars in twenty years. It was ...
- 3677: The New Deal
- ... very poorly when it came to the labor situation. They were given the so-called women's jobs, such as teachers, clerks, typists, nurses, and textile workers. Unions for blacks and women were rare until John Lewis formed the CIO, a union anyone could join, no matter what race they were. The CIO one of the top unions in the nation. The new deal had again prettied much failed with the ...
- 3678: The New Deal
- ... and spent about $11 billion employing people to construct public buildings, bridges, and hard-surfaced roads. Part-time jobs were also found for white collar workers; artists painted murals in public buildings and people like John Steinbeck counted dogs. Trying for a national comeback, the National Recovery Administration was formed in order to help with industry, labor, and unemployment. Workers were guaranteed the right to organize and bargain together with their ...
- 3679: Plastic Surgery
- ... found no association between breast implants and the connective-tissue diseases that were studied. In 1992, the food and drug administration believed that silicone implants are hazardous because of a moratorium on their use (Schwartz, John). Pathologist Nir Kossovosky believes silicone breast implants can affect a woman s immune system, and he has developed a blood test to prove it. The blood test has helped win lawsuits against implant manufacturers (Taubes ...
- 3680: Positivism
- ... disciples refused, however, to accept this religious development of his philosophy, because it seemed to contradict the original positivist philosophy. Many of Comte's doctrines were later adapted and developed by the British social philosophers John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer and by the Austrian philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach.(www.encyclopedia.com) During the early 20th century a group of philosophers who were concerned with developments in modern science rejected ...
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