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- 1161: The First Amendment
- ... Granberg, director of legislation and government affairs for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers says, "…people have been looking for causes as to what’s wrong with society, and through their frustration about prevalence of violence and crime, they started to blame music." The only censorship that we need today is ourselves. Just because it is there, does not mean that you have to listen to it. If you don’t ...
- 1162: Nazism
- ... the Nazis some time to work up to the full fury of their endeavor. In the years following 1933, the Jews were systematically deprived by law of their civil rights, of their jobs and property. Violence and brutality became a part of their everyday lives. Their places of worship were defiled, their windows smashed, their stores ransacked. Old men and young were pummeled and clubbed and stomped to death by Nazi ...
- 1163: Gun Control
- ... gun side, as represented by the National Rifle Association, continues to oppose all gun control measures primarily on the grounds that any law restricting gun ownership is unconstitutional. Proponents of gun control argue that gun violence is an epidemic out of control across the country, and call on federal lawmakers to stem the flow of blood with anti-gun legislation. This side won a crucial battle in the debate two years ...
- 1164: Chinese Immigration into America
- ... dangerous to the community within which it exists." (Melendy, page 28) The Chinese were discriminated in many ways, from forming laws that specifically targeted them, to disallowing citizenship of the Chinese. In late 1860's, violence started to arise from the hate. Whites rioted and killed many Chinese in towns all over California. In May, 1876 some whites burned a Chinese house in Truckee and then shot the Chinese as they ...
- 1165: What is Fascism and Why does it Emerge?
- ... a dominant ideology, the fascist resorts to “tapping deeper levels of motivation” (...,19) and uses coercive force. They try to achieve a goal of breaking down the individual spirit of liberalism and will resort to violence ways if necessary. The other use of force that the fascist utilises for conformity is to misinform the masses or not inform them at all. Examples of this can either be the dismissal of civil ...
- 1166: The Republican Party: Overall Issues, 1860-1868
- ... in elections and maintain control. Near the end of the Reconstruction Era, the Republican party underwent even more changes. With the slavery issue settled in their eyes, scandals in the party, and the threat of violence from various hate groups keeping freedmen from voting, its attentions began to turn elsewhere. The metamorphosis that the party underwent through the 1860's was a direct result of the popular opinion in the North ...
- 1167: The Federalist Papers and Federalism
- ... reverse the Supreme Court's interpretation of that document. In the most original of The Federalist Papers, Number 10. Madison addressed this double challenge. His main concern was the need, "To break and control the violence of faction" (36). Meaning political parties. He regarded political party's as the greatest danger to popular government. Madison wrote: I understand a number of citizens... are united and actuated by some common impulse of ...
- 1168: The Bush Administration's Relation With Iraq Prior to Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait: Credibility and Misperception
- ... or any other country in the region. Glaspie recalls that Hussein "spoke on the telephone with President Mubarak and he wanted to inform President Bush that he would not solve his problems with Kuwait by violence, period. He would not do it. He would take advantage of the Arab diplomatic framework which President Mubarak and King Fahd had set up. That's what he would do."5 Although Hussein had claimed ...
- 1169: Canada - Of the United States of America
- ... American Cultures. U.S.A.: Borderlands Project, 1990. 4. Nader, Ralph. Canada Firsts. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. 5. Orchard, David. The Fight for Canada. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1993. 6. “The center to prevent hand gun violence”. National center for health statistics, 1994. Internet document. 7. “The FBI Uniform Creme Reports”. The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19, 1995. Internet document. 8. The Star-Spangled Beaver. Ed. John H. Redekop. Toronto: Peter Martin ...
- 1170: An Ethical and Practical Defense of Affirmative Action
- ... this country. When racial categories were created, simply being labeled a minority carried with it quite a slanderous stigma. Even to this day Black Americans combat lingering racism and stereotypes about their intelligence, tendency toward violence, sexual prowess, etc.... The idea that affirmative action policies introduce stigmas that did not already exist into the life of minorities seems nonsensical. To those who claim that this stigma undermines the effectiveness of Blacks ...
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