|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 2871 - 2880 of 18414 matching essays
- 2871: Influence Of Chinese And Irish
- ... great influence may have made the completion of the transcontinental railroad possible. The Chinese and Irish were drawn to the land of opportunity in order to become successful. They came from different ends of the world to end up at a common destination: California. The Chinese were dreamers when they came to California; they hoped to profit from the Gold Rush. They left a feudal system that restricted many aspects off ... equality they had been unable to find in New England (Potter 670; Howard 225). Although they found jobs, few were very successful. A majority still lived in shantytowns and poverty even in California. The Civil War played a major role in who was hired and how the employees were chosen. The Civil War began in 1861, two years before the groundbreaking to start the transcontinental railroad and one year before the Great Railroad Act of 1862. The construction on the transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869, four ...
- 2872: The Defining of a Nation
- ... definitive character to the actual country. This bravery of early Americans has allowed them to triumph over tremendous odds. The courage of Americans was evident as they triumphed over the most powerful country in the world in order to free themselves from a tyrannical government and gain their independence. From the beginning, this nation's people have dealt with extreme obstacles. As each hurdle is conquered the people become stronger and ... are a country destined, from the beginning, to succeed. Another important aspect in defining America is the government under which it has operated for the last two-hundred years. Compared to the history of the world; however, our government is still an infant. Despite this, the representative democracy, under which this nation operates, has been a model government for newly formed governments around the world. This may be due to the fact that we have become one of the most powerful nations (if not the most powerful nation) in the world. The Constitution of the United States has aided ...
- 2873: Orwell And Marx
- ... The edition, which sold several millions copies, however, omitted the rest of the sentence: "and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.˛ It is in Animal Farm, written in 1944 but not published until after World War Two in 1945, which Orwell offers a political and social doctrine whose ideas and ideols can be seen in all of his proceeding works. In an essay published in the summer of 1946 entitled "Why ... on Trotsky's methods of revolution as well. Whereas old Major's Animalism preached revolution through working "day and night, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race˛ (20), the animals revolted with war and bloodshed, symbolized by the gun and the war cry of Snowball (Trotsky) at The Battle of Cowshed ‹ "The only good human being is a dead one˛. A serious objection by Orwell on Marxism ...
- 2874: Britain In Africa
- ... and diamond fields, and began crossing into the Orange Free State and Transvaal. When the British Government tried to expand and include the two Afrikaner Colonies, the Boers were angry and in 1899 the Boer War began. The Boer War was the most expensive war fought by Great Britain between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. The war was longer and more difficult than the British had anticipated, Black Week brought the defeat of all major British forces ...
- 2875: Harriet Stowe
- The woman credited with sparking the Civil War came to Christ at thirteen, during one of her father s sermons. She wrestled throughout her eighty-five years with questions and spiritual conflicts for she endured grave trials: her mother died while Harriet was ... drowned while a student at Dartmouth College. Years later, her son Frederick who was an alcoholic from the age of sixteen, died. He never recovered from the wounds he sustained at Gettysburg in the Civil War, nor could he cope with his mother's success. He simply disappeared in San Francisco after the War despite Harriet s grandiose schemes to rescue him. Georgiana, married to an Episcopal priest and a mother, died in her forties, having lost her health and mind to morphine addiction. Twin daughters, Eliza and ...
- 2876: Brave New World 9
- In the book, Brave New World, there are many examples of prophecy. The first example of prophecy is cloning. In the book they were cloning up to 96 people that all looked identical. Today we have successfully cloned a sheep, and ... mentioned in the book, prevented diseases from the altering of the embryos. Certainly there were many things that Aldous Huxley prophesied that came true. There were many examples of fantasy in the book, Brave New World. The first is the thought of no mothers and fathers. In the book they had no mothers or fathers and those words were considered bad. They belonged to the state and that was all they ... Process. In the book they would have one egg that split into 96 eggs over a certain time which produced 96 identical twins. I believe that wouldn t happen today because we live in a world that relies on the individual for stability. If one would take away people s individuality by making them 95 sisters and brothers then the whole world would be in an uproar. The last example ...
- 2877: Civilization Cure Or Disease
- Upon flipping to the business section of the New York Times an Ohio University student saw a startling headline glaring back at her “American Corporations Suspected In Millions of Third World Deaths.” As she read the article it became apparent that international corporations many of which were based in the United States exploit the poorest of the poor. These companies paid workers extremely low wages and ... paid well below minimum wage for jobs, which often put their health if not their life in jeopardy. It appeared that America’s industrial empire was built upon the exploitation of the poor throughout the world. Often women and children were the victims of the “Global Market Economy.” The article stated that millions of goods were produced by children as young as 6 in third world and developing nations. Companies producing these goods claimed that it was not “slave labor” they claimed it was the “efficient use of human resources for production.” It seemed that companies in their desire of “ ...
- 2878: Modern Television Changing Ame
- Television; Changing American Standards The year is 1999 and the entire world is looking toward the United States for leadership in technology. Since the end of the cold war, the nations of the world have agreed that the United States is the leader in defense and freedom, but what about technology in the household? Is it possible for the U.S. to remain the world leader if we ...
- 2879: What is America?
- ... representative to the British parliament that created the laws that governed them. In addition, the British taxed Americans so heavily and unjustly that eventually American rebels took up arms against the British in a Revolutionary War. Although America had escaped from British oppression, the struggle for justice was far from over. Social problems existed in our society that had never been predicted by Washington or Jefferson. Slavery, for instance, became more and more a controversial issue until finally, it led to a civil war within the less than united States. In 1861, the southern states seceded, and a war was fought between the rebels and the Union for four long, bloody years. However this battle did not end without a gain, for in 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves. ...
- 2880: The Death and Dying Beliefs of Australian Aborigines
- ... parallel in post-Vedic India. The brahmanic sacrifice repeats what was done in the beginning, at the moment of creation, and it is only because of the strict uninterrupted performance of the sacrifice that the world continues and periodically renews itself. It is only be identifying himself with the sacrifice that man can conquer death. The ritual ensures the continuation of cosmic life and at the same time introduces initiates to ... Unlike Christian philosophy, in which the soul is a possession of the individual, the Egyptians conceived of the soul as an aspect of a cosmological process. Like the ancient Egyptians, the Aborigines consider the perceivable world an incarnation or projection of similar realities that exist in a universal, spiritual sphere. For them, the human soul shares the threefold nature of the soul of the creating spirits: a universal soul, a natural ... Aboriginal tradition, death, burial and afterlife are rich in meaning and metaphysical interpretation. Aborigines use a wide variety of burial practices, including all of those known to have been used in other parts of the world, as well varieties not practiced anywhere else. Although these rites vary, all Australian Aborigines share many fundamental ideas about death and its relationship to life. The most fundamental concept of death in the Aboriginal ...
Search results 2871 - 2880 of 18414 matching essays
|
