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- 1071: First Amendment
- ... the press.” From the 1791 and until the beginning of the twentieth century the idea of “freedom of speech” and the “freedom of press” was not interfered in by the judicial system. And only during World War I did the Supreme Court actively start to work on the issue of the “freedom of speech/press” of the First Amendment. In 1919 cases like Schenck vs. United States and Abram vs. United States ... charges were based on him breaking the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, because he was getting on the way of the governments recruiting practices, Act of May 18, 1917, while the country was at war with German Empire. The second charge was a conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, to use the mails for the transmission of the things that were declared to be non-mailable ...
- 1072: Australia
- ... bloodwood, and smoothbark (the gums that shed their outer bark annually). The most widespread is the river red gum. Mallee eucalypts survive in semiarid regions by growing multiple stems (lignotubers) from a common rootstock. The world's tallest flowering plant is a southern eucalyptus, the mountain ash. Its height can exceed 325 feet (100 meters). Building timbers are obtained in Victoria from alpine ash and mountain ash, in New South Wales ... species of reptiles and amphibians, including 150 species of snakes; 22,000 species of fish, but only 150 of them freshwater; 65,000 known insect species; and 1,500 species of spiders. The continent is world-famous for these zoological curiosities. It became a veritable Noah's ark for monotremes, which include the platypus, and marsupials, saved from competition with carnivores and herbivores and free to evolve uniquely, when Australia split ... snakes), still comfortably acclimatized in tropical northern Australia. The monotremes, an egg-laying order of mammals, include only the platypus and two species of echidnas, or spiny anteaters. Platypuses are found nowhere else in the world, not even in fossil form. Echidnas are found also in New Guinea. The platypus uses its webbed feet and broad, sensitive bill to nuzzle food from the bottoms of coastal creeks from northern Queensland ...
- 1073: The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk
- ... Black Folk. Mentioned at least once in most of the 14 essays it means that, "the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world, -a world with yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others."Footnote1 The veil is a metaphor for the separation and invisibility of ...
- 1074: Life and Sacrifice
- ... can never witness and experience such accomplishments once we have died. The majority of human beings have never thought of sacrificing their lives, because they do not want to give up the luxuries in the world, which is commonly understood as one of the human natures. Surprisingly, in The Crucible, the main character, John Proctor, has sacrificed his life to maintain his good reputation in Salem. Such a decision demonstrates his ... God's most precious gift, no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it." (Miller, P. 132), indeed is an enlightenment for readers to re-consider the value of their lives. Nothing in the world has the privilege to take away our precious lives. People living in a fantasy world are often obsessed with unrealistic love stories. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an excellent example of a fantasized love story, which demonstrates a contrast between the reality. Romeo and Juliet shared their ...
- 1075: The Drug War in America
- The Drug War in America The drug war in America has many elements to it that ranges from education of the public not to use drug such, a teaching grade school children to “just say no” and the D. A.R.E. program ... treatment for drug users. Protecting United States borders from incoming drugs and trying to keep other countries from growing the raw products such as coca leaves which is the raw product that become cocaine. The war also involves law enforcement, the judicial system and the prison system, all of which are all over worked and overcrowded trying to enforce the increasing more strict laws that congress is passing such as ...
- 1076: Dulce et Decorum est: Analysis of Military Life
- ... of catastrophic death, destruction, and terror that one will probably never find in an incentive brochure. Owen's powerful words are not only a far cry from the positive images that some associate with the war and dying, but an outcry for human beings to stop spreading the notion that men and women who die in battle also die in honor. Most of the men going off to fight during the World Wars could be classified as men at all. A person would be oblivious to this fact, however, if they relied on Owen's descriptive text alone concerning the way he saw his fellow soldiers in ... fog, but also "blind" in the sense of not having the foresight or understanding of what was next. The descriptions of these young men not only showed the psychological effect, but the physical aging that war has on a human being. While one could easily develop the basic "War is hell!" theme from this poem, Dulce et decorum Est" does more than any anti-war poem before it and few ...
- 1077: Native Americans
- ... the map of the United States. Twenty-seven states and large numbers of cities, towns, rivers, and lakes bear names from the languages of the first Americans. Native American farmers were the first in the world to domesticate potatoes, tomatoes, and many other food plants that help feed the peoples of the world today. The Native Americans were also the first to raise turkeys. They found uses for such native American plants as rubber, tobacco, the sugar maple, and the cinchona tree (for quinine). The Native Americans had lived in America for thousands of years when the first European explorers set foot on their land. When Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, he called the native people indios (Spanish for Indians) because he thought he had reached India. Because of European colonization of North and South America since 1500, Native Americans have been greatly reduced in ...
- 1078: Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- ... ignite this project and produce only a small number of functional bombs. The Soviet Union was thought to have spent about equal amounts. By the late 1950's what we now know as the Cold War erupted. Nuclear Holocaust seemed inevitable. Tensions between the Communists and the States reached monumental highs. The whole United States suddenly went into a panic mode that would stay resident until the 1980's. Children on ... were taught where the fallout shelter was. Instead of swimming pools, people would purchase subterranean bunkers to protect them from the radiation and chaos that was expected to follow the attack. Both sides of this war scrambled to better their strategic location of missiles. All to many times did one country push the other nearly to the brink of all out nuclear war. It seemed that Einstein had foreseen the use of this weapon and made it know in a statement that he is commonly quoted saying, "I know not with what weapons World War III will ...
- 1079: Hundreds Years War
- Hundred Years War The definition of the Golden Rule is that those with the gold make the rules. In other words, those with the gold have the power as well as those with the power have the gold. History books will discuss the general reasons for war such as freedom from adversity or freedom from religion. But the real issue for any war is the thirst for power and control; and the means to finance them are the economic issues. Nations will endure years of fighting for power and control. France and England fought each other for ...
- 1080: Adolf Hitler
- ... the beginning with horrible plans for power and control of other people.Some of the things that Hitler did throughout his life were very cruel things; first of all, he was a man who loved war and fighting. Second, he was in charge of putting all of the innocent Jews into Concentration Camps and killing them. Third, he wanted one dominate race of all the same kind of people. Fourth, he had a life long obsession with danger. Fifth, he blamed the Jews for the war debt and sentenced them all to die. So as you can see already Hitler was a very cruel person. The fact that he wanted one dominate race was unbelievably true. First of all, the fact ... tried in his early years as you can see. In 1913 Hitler went to Munich, partly to evade being drafted into the Austrian army. There he answered the call to colors at the outbreak of World War I and Served in the Bavarian Sixteenth Regiment on the Western Front. This turned Hitler’s life around, for example, he distinguished himself for bravery and was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class. ...
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