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- 491: The Green Party of Canada
- ... affairs of the people and to do that we must base our political and economic beliefs on fact. In Canada, the Green Party values such things as ecological wisdom, social justice, grass roots democracy, non- violence, decentralization, feminism, and future focus/sustainability (htp.//www.green.ca). If you agree that the government should focus its attention toward these values, then you yourself are probably Green. All of these values are joined ... the bridge was to be built. This is a great idea because a few politicians were not left to make a decision that will affect everyone. The Green Party of Canada views the act of violence as a very unprofessional way of settling disputes. Solving disputes with the use of violence is also very morally unacceptable and ultimately self defeating to the Green Party. The main qualities that will ensure The Green Parties ideal non- violence world are flexibility, cooperation, respect, and fairness. We must ...
- 492: Labor In America
- ... would not come easily. Labor in America faced a long, uphill struggle to win fair treatment. In that struggle, more and more workers would turn to labor unions to help their cause. They would endure violence, cruelty and bitter defeats. But eventually they would achieve a standard of living unknown to workers at any other time in history. GROWTH OF THE FACTORY In colonial America, most manufacturing was done by hand ... workers lived in crowded, unsanitary slums. Their conditions became desperate in times of business depressions. Then it was not unusual for workers to go on strike and battle their employers. Between 1865 and 1900, industrial violence occurred on numerous occasions. Probably the most violent confrontation between labor and employers was the Great Railway Strike of 1877. The nation had been in the grip of a severe depression for four years. During ... aftermath, 20 people in the crowd lay dead. Many more were wounded. News of the killings triggered rioting and fires in the Pittsburgh railyards. President Rutherford Hayes ordered federal troops to Pittsburgh to end mob violence. When they arrived, the fighting had already ended. In the smoking ruins, they found the wrecks of more than 2,000 railroad cars. Dozens of buildings lay in ashes. Many strikers were sent to ...
- 493: Essay on Greek family
- ... mother, father, brother, sister, or even grandma, it is still happening somewhere in this world. The main cause of this lack of morals is (in my opinion) directly related to the amount of sex and violence on television. Many years ago Elvis couldn't even shake his waist on TV, but now Sharon Stone can open her legs on a big screen for everyone to see. Violence has increased on television because sitcoms and movies will not sell in today's society without sex and violence. In the future, life in general will eventually become a game involving survival of the fittest and killing your next door neighbor before he kills you. Movies and television should be screened so only ...
- 494: Holocoust
- ... Life went on relatively normal, but more signs went up quickly of what was to come" (Altshuler 117). The flame would turn into a wild fire lashing out violently against both people and property. The violence was first foreshadowed in the Nazi book burning of 1933. At a Nazi rally, more than 25,000 objectionable books were burned in one night. A Jewish poet predicted, "Where they burn books, they would soon burn people" (Stern 2). The first physical violence flared at Kristallnacht. On November 9, 1938, the Nazi party, aided by mobs of citizens, burned and wrecked about 200 synagogues and 800 shops owned by Jewish proprietors. At least thirty Jews were killed during ... holdings while the Jews watched in horror (Bachrach 24). The Chicago Tribune headlines blared the "Systematic destruction of Jewish property, looting, arson, and wholesale arrest of Jews without official charges swept Germany today" (Altshuler 98). Violence against the Jewish community intensified. Nazi violence against the world community also escalated. The Nazi invasion of Poland and Russia set the stage for the beginning of mobile killing squads. As the military gained ...
- 495: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... committee members, including Anton Drexler, founder of the Party, held out at first. Meanwhile, an anonymous pamphlet appeared entitled, "Adolf Hitler: Is he a traitor?" It attacked Hitler's lust for power and criticized the violence prone men now surrounding him. Hitler responded to its publication in a Munich newspaper by suing for libel and later won a small settlement. The executive committee of the Nazi Party eventually backed down and ... would raise the German Army to new heights of greatness. This was exactly what the generals wanted to hear. It was however, the SA, his own storm troopers, that gave Hitler problems. Many of the violence prone, socialist leaning SA members wanted to become a new German revolutionary army. They also embarrassed Hitler by wreaking havoc in the streets despite his order to lay low. Hitler had to use his personal ... new elections were called for the end of July. On June 15, the ban on the SA and SS was lifted. The secret promises made to the Nazis by Schleicher had been fulfilled. Murder and violence soon erupted on a scale never before seen in Germany. Roaming groups of Nazi Brownshirts walked the streets singing Nazi songs and looking for fights. "Blut muss fliessen, Blut muss fliessen! Blut muss fliessen ...
- 496: Malcolm X
- ... blacks and whites should be segregated. He also believed that white man was evil and were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's "non- violent protests" weren't working and that violence was needed for change. Malcolm X's life was a life with a lot of conflict and violence in it. Malcolm X was born under the name of Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska in 1925. His father was a baptist minister and an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist leader of ... Luther King's beliefs because Malcolm wanted change now while Mr. King saw that change took time. Malcolm disagreed with Mr. King was because he didn't believe the peaceful protests worked. Malcolm believed that violence was the only way through which change would take place. Finally, Malcolm disagreed with Mr. King in the fact that Malcolm wanted to segregate blacks and whites and create a separate place for the ...
- 497: Lord Of The Flies - Role Of Ge
- ... research will explore both gender’s leadership styles, and scientific perception behind these differences. Much of what society dictates can affect children’s perceptions of the ideal gender standards, and can lead to abuse and violence. Media has a huge role in perpetuating these dangerous gender stereotypes. Numerous male images are used in advertising and television, representing themes such as "heroic masculinity" and "might is right". These portrayals of violent behavior associated with masculinity target young men and convince them that in order to live up to society’s standards, they must resort to aggressive and dominant behavior, the use of assertion, and physical violence. Males are saturated with images of glorified aggression through movies such as Lethal Weapon, sports programs, and "macho" celebrities, like Bruce Willis and Arnold Shwartzenager. Female stereotypes span the opposite extreme. Innumerable young women perceive ... caring towards group members. A lot of males’ violent behavior and females’ complaisance can be accredited to family and institutional socialization. Parents usually raise boys on aggressive sports, such as hockey and football, which encourage violence. Girls, however, are generally brought up on "feminine" activities, dance and figure skating to name a few, which promote a gentle, polite nature. It is the rare parent that heeds their four-year-old ...
- 498: Salvador Manuchin
- ... preservation through distraction) rather than as isolated individuals (Mom, Dad, the son), might then comment. In alcoholic families the member who drinks controls the whole family with his/her behavior. His/Her unavailability, bad health, violence, unpredictability, and self-contempt distort every interaction between family members. The whole family learns to adapt itself to his/her drinking with maneuvers like denial, bailing him out of jail if he drinks and drives ... explosions unnecessary. Battery normally begins with emotional or verbal abuse (name-calling, shouting, intimidation, shaming) and escalates over the years from pushing and shoving to beatings and even murder. Abuse gives rise to more abuse, violence to more violence: destructive synergy. In theory of constructive synergy, however, a batterer uses a batterer's group to learn and master rage-control techniques; those enhance his self-esteem; his wife praises his efforts and trusts ...
- 499: Implementing Employee Assistance Programs
- ... the high rate of alcoholism among working women (Myers 7). It is suspected that this stress contributes to higher rates of drug use as well. Also on the list of troubles are gambling, legal problems, violence and mental illness. 80 to 100 million people in the United States gamble regularly. Of that number, 6 percent ( six million people) have a problem with compulsive gambling (Myers 6). Violence is a serious issue in the workplace. As many as 20 workers a week are murdered (Cascio 589). On-the-job violence may be the effect of any number of stressors on an employee who feels there is no other way to vent his frustration. There could be any number of reasons, previously stated and otherwise, ...
- 500: First Stand
- ... been prevented. Especially with all the new technology we have today. Back when it was George Washington leading his troops there probably wasn’t anything that could have stopped that. I think most of the violence in wars can be prevented by just sitting down and looking at all the problems and what the different countries want. If two sides are at war I think it is the United States’ responsibility ... h! ave achieved peace and prevented many wars? How could we join in allegiances with our neighbors? If we could just set aside all the things that make us different, we could stop all the violence at once. The violence over the seas and the violence on the streets. Every country is always either preparing for war, having a war, or recovering for war. Some people that analyze wars say that war is a ...
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