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- 1121: The Progressive Era
- ... convinced that equal opportunity was out of reach for most Americans. Who were the progressives? They were a group of young professional, middle class people. They wanted to apply principles of medicine, law, business and teaching to problems of society. They believed that progress and the education of people would overcome many problems. They organized many volunteer organizations to work on these issues. Illinois Factory Act. Passed in 1893 the act ...
- 1122: Frederick Douglass' Speech For Individual Rights
- ... agree that slaves are actual humans only in the enactment of laws for their government. Meanwhile in the South there are statute books, which say that there will be severe fines and penalties in the teaching of a slave to read or write. The point that Douglass is trying to backup is that Americans are clearly hypocrites. He said to the American people that the republican politics and the republican religion ...
- 1123: The Seneca Falls Convention
- ... without being able to vote. In the few occupations open to women, they were paid far less than men were. No liberal arts college but Oberlin would admit women. Professions other that writing and school teaching were closed to women. Women could not practice law or medicine. In all, their new Declaration Of Sentiments argued, man has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy confidence in her own powers ...
- 1124: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... were also involved with "survival programs." These included free health clinics; free breakfast programs, soup kitchens, ambulance patrols, voter registration assistance, and community patrols. The Black Panther Party was also the first organization to begin teaching Black history to children. Many people argue that the Civil Rights Movement ended two years later, when on April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Following his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, riots erupted in ...
- 1125: World War I and Bringing People Together
- ... opposed to is not [their] feeling...., but their stupidity," (Enduring Vision Page 755) This is the leader of America openly attacking someone on their beliefs. Many Americans who were opposed to the war lost their teaching jobs or other positions, simply because they were opposed the war and spoke out against it. A lot of Anti German remarks were made like, " 90 percent of all the men and women who teach ...
- 1126: Leo Szilard and the Atomic Bomb
- ... S. government co-operation nothing happened. The cheque for $6000 dollars for the purchase of graphite to start the experiments that was promised to Szilard never came. His scientists Wigner and Teller went back to teaching. Szilard had no money because he had not earned any as he was busy doing experiments and borrowing money. The only thing that kept him going was the fear that the Nazis would make progress ...
- 1127: Virtual Reality
- ... two to four times as expensive as the other models, it is not an office device. However, since it allows multiple participants at once (only one is tracked), the CAVE can be used in sales, teaching, and presentation contexts. (Benedickt) The field of virtual reality is in its infancy. Improvements in tracker accuracy and range, display resolution and cost, rendering hardware, real-time simulation software and networking, human interfacing techniques (for ...
- 1128: The Internet Its Effects And Its Future
- ... sees another piece of information, which may be electronically stored on another computer thousands of miles away. Of major importance is the fact that the Internet supports online education. Online education introduces unprecedented options for teaching, learning, and knowledge building. Today access to a microcomputer, modem, telephone line, and communication program offers learners and teachers the possibility of interactions that transcended the boundaries of time and space. Even from an economic ...
- 1129: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... sees another piece of information, which may be electronically stored on another computer thousands of miles away. Of major importance is the fact that the Internet supports online education. Online education introduces unprecedented options for teaching, learning, and knowledge building. Today access to a microcomputer, modem, telephone line, and communication program offers learners and teachers the possibility of interactions that transcended the boundaries of time and space. Even from an economic ...
- 1130: Hackers
- ... the advantages of mutual association for unconventional groups: The more sophisticated the form of organization, the more likely the deviants can help one another with their problems. Deviants help one another in many ways: by teaching each other deviant skills and a deviant ideology; by working together to carry out complicated tasks; by giving each other sociable contacts and moral support; by supplying one another with deviant equipment; by protecting each ...
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