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- 1831: Case For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... mitigate the penalties relating to conviction on marijuana possession charges. The Case For Legalizing Marijuana Use: The United States stands apart from many nations in its deep respect for the individual. The strong belief in personal freedom appears early in the nation's history. The Declaration of Independence speaks of every citizen's right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The Constitution and Bill of Rights go further, making specific guarantees. They forbid the government to make unwarranted entry into dwelling places. They forbid seizure of personal property, except when very clear reasons are approved by the courts. They allow every citizen to remain silent in court when accused of a crime. Legal decisions have extended these rights, so that every citizen ... of the basic human rights, something to be claimed by anyone, anywhere. United States citizens feel strongly about this and often tell other countries that they must honor their people's claims to privacy and personal freedom. Foreign leaders often disagree. They resent what they deem arrogant meddling by the United States. Leaders of the Soviet Union, for example, regard individual privacy as trivial when compared to the needs of ...
- 1832: Slavery - Southern White Slaveholder Guilt
- ... taken by any man are usually taken because he assumes they will benefit him in some manner. And if such an action is costly (money-wise), then it must have some allure in terms of personal happiness. So to show guilt, we will set forth examples of open confessions of guilt, deviant behavior, and uncommonly good treatment of slaves. The correspondence of slaveholders is a gold mine for evidence of these ... and he identified with her suffering. She suffered because she was a slave, and because he was a crucial element of the system that hurt her so, Leubal felt obliged to make amends. At his personal economic expense, he decided to ease his conscience and do something that would be out-of-the-ordinary for any slaveholder of the time. To alleviate his guilt, he offered humanity. Leubal was a slaveholder ... could not simply dissolve the system outright. Simply feeling guilty about slavery does not mean Southerners would dismantle the institution outright. Slavery was a universal part of Southern heritage and success, and guilt is a personal experience. Even though a slaveholder feels guilty about the institution, he sees his neighbors and countrymen following the Southern dream to prosperity through slavery. It was easier to continue with the current situation than ...
- 1833: The Holocaust
- ... grandmother lived through World War II and the Holocaust and watched the events leading up to it, we need students to understand these events through the English I class since they do not have the personal experience. By understanding the Holocaust, we will lessen the likelihood of history repeating itself. The Holocaust was a world shattering event, that change the social structure of the civilized world. By teaching the Holocaust, students ... effects of the Holocaust. None could provide a full graphic outline of the Holocaust. We do not want our students oblivious to the effect of world events on all mankind. Our students must know the personal tragedy of the Holocaust and understand what people went through. As an example, the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. provides a means to gain empathy of the personal side of this event by providing each visitor a passport for a real person that lived, or died, during the Holocaust. This insight from a personal vantage point allows the students to gain empathy ...
- 1834: Bolshevik Power In Russia
- ... will was seen throughout the pre-Great October Revolution proceedings. An example of this is seen in Ivan Grey's, The Horizon History of Russia, when while in exile Lenin swayed the Bolshevik party by writing and promoting the taking of the Russian government by revolutionary means. Grey continues his discussion writing that Lenin while still in hiding infiltrated Petrograd and persuaded the Bolshevik Central Committee that Russia was in dire need of a revolutionary uprising and that the time for it was immediate (344). According to ... The Founding Fathers of Communism Revisited). The Bolshevik knew that if this was to be a true proletarian revolution, the Bolshevik party needed to have the working class on their side. Thompson illustrates this point writing that in September of 1917 the Bolshevik party began to reap the sowing of the Party motto, "Peace, Land and Bread". The members of the proletarian class, which included workers, soldiers, sailors and peasants, ...
- 1835: Of Mice And Men
- ... New York City, his brother-in-law found him a job pushing wheelbarrows for the construction of the original Madison Square Garden while continuing his pursuit as a writer (Lisca 32). After giving free-lance writing a try, he returned to California in 1926 (Fontenrose 3). For the next three years, periods of temporary employment alternated with periods devoted entirely to writing; and he moved from place to place, to San Francisco, Monterey, Salinas, Lake Tahoe, writing novels and stories that no publisher would buy (Fontenrose 4). On January 14, 1930, Steinbeck married his first wife, Carol Henning (Fontenrose 4). As a gift, his father gave him a house in Pacific ...
- 1836: Dance Education
- ... strengthen the body, correct (in most cases) faults, develop coordination, enhance accuracy of movement . . . Emotionally, dance aids students in adjusting themselves to group activity, to leadership, to discipline, and it helps them in matters of personal poise, in articulation in the expression of ideas. For dance is both a discipline and a release (236). Many surveys have been conducted to investigating the extent and nature of dance education in the United ... tongue, the libido, the diagrammatic brain-go flinging in different directions (Updike 192). The motive people feel for dancing is a powerful need to express feelings about their bodies. These feelings are part of their personal body image (Jacob 26). Through dancing these images become clearer. They become more aware of their potential as they test and expand their limits. By being aware of their body image they learn that they ... may point away from the current trend in arts education (55). Educators are continually told to emphasize the cognitive more and the affective less (Stinson 55)- written and spoken language and mathematics as opposed to personal knowledge-if the arts are to be considered essential disciplines. Exclusion of the dance discipline from basic curriculum shows a lack of awareness and understanding of the intricacies of learning. It is not enough ...
- 1837: Satanism
- ... of those ethical norms which are seen to lead to so much discomfort. A third possibility can take the form of believing as one pleases in a god of one's own making, forged for personal use and consumption, in order to consent to one's wishes and to forbid only what one willingly allows to be forbidden, a god with whom one can speak if desired, as desired and when ... which is neither conversion, nor a more or less explicit form of atheism or agnosticism, but a radical rebellion against the God of the Bible, whether done in explicit adoration of Satan understood as a personal being, or reduced to his invocation or evocation in order to attain benefits, or limited to a more or less symbolic use of satanic doctrines and rites in order to free oneself from the residue of one's own faith or simply of one's Christian culture. The Satanist's is a "reverse act of faith", in which he expresses his personal belief in this cosmic, dissolving and destructive force, of which man is at once master and slave. The human frustration of one who fails to fulfil himself in a society that seeks to base ...
- 1838: The Market Structure of Microsoft
- The Market Structure of Microsoft Microsoft is the undisputed leader in the market for operating systems (Sheremata 1997). The Microsoft Corporation has produced the vast majority of operating systems for all personal computers (PCs); moreover, operating systems that Microsoft has created are Windows95, Windows 3.1, and DOS. They also have produced the leading spreadsheet and word processors for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. They own ... 1981, Microsoft purchased an operating system for an Intel based 8086 chip from a small company named Seattle Computer Products and redesigned its product to sell it to license it to IBM for its new personal computer (PC) (Conigliaro1996). The redesigned product was released under the name MS DOS 1.0. IBM being a monopoly at that time in the hardware department, by allowing Microsoft to provide the operating system to ... hungry age and with Microsoft providing the operating systems for a high percentage of the PCs sold. By the late 1980s, Microsoft controlled the operating system market; versions of MS-DOS ran over 80% of personal computers (Conigliaro1996). However, Microsoft did not control any of the application markets, this honor went to Lotus, which at the time had the top spreadsheet, 1-2-3 and WordPerfect had the leading word ...
- 1839: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... placed on a single chip, became increasingly common. Many companies, some new to the computer field, introduced in the 1970s programmable minicomputers supplied with software packages. The size-reduction trend continued with the introduction of personal computers, which are programmable machines small enough and inexpensive enough to be purchased and used by individuals (Rogers, 153). One of the first of such machines was introduced in January 1975. Popular Electronics magazine provided ... and Steve Wozniak, founders of Apple Computer, built a much cheaper, yet more productive version of the Altair and turned their hobby into a business (Fluegelman, 16).After the introduction of the Altair 8800, the personal computer industry became a fierce battleground of competition. IBM had been the computer industry standard for well over a half-century. They held their position as the standard when they introduced their first personal computer, the IBM Model 60 in 1975 (Chposky, 156). However, the newly formed Apple Computer company was releasing its own personal computer, the Apple II (The Apple I was the first computer designed by ...
- 1840: Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and Anne Bradstreet: Relationships With Others
- ... Bradstreet are most notable with their relationships with people. My thoughts on Benjamin Franklins work were unfortunatly on the negative side. To sum his writings up, they were long, boring and not concise. His writing varied heavily. He was known for writing on one topic and then changing to another then skipping to yet another. The following paragragh is an exerpt of his writings to show the long, varied writings that changed from subject to subject: I have been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, and shall be so of my first Entry into ...
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