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- 3221: Why The Crucible?
- ... accused each and every one of them of being a communist or having communist ties. The only catch was that those who were accused, in most cases, were not even communists. He realized that after World War II, the whole nation was afraid that communists would overtake the country. McCarthy did not know much about communism, but he used it to scare people. He told them that if they were not careful ... Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory, the expression of truths or generalizations about human existence by means of symbolic figures and actions. In the beginning, McCarthy was hailed as a hero. After the World War II, McCarthy began his campaigns. He made himself sound like a war hero, but in actuality, he peeled potatoes (DAmbrosio lecture). The last straw was when he went a little too far ...
- 3222: Essay on The F.B.I.
- ... a series of name changes, it received its present official name in 1935. During the early period of the FBIs history, its agents investigated violations of mainly bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, and neutrality violation. During World War One, the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft violations. The passage of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act in 1919 further broadened the Bureau's ... a federal kidnapping statute. In 1934, many other federal criminal statutes were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms. The FBIs size and jurisdiction during the second World War increased greatly and included intelligence matters in South America. With the end of that war, and the arrival of the Atomic Age, the FBI began conducting background security investigations for the White House ...
- 3223: When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
- ... government. Around the middle of the century gains were being made in small places, with a few minor changes in state laws. Yet blacks were still for all conventional purposes second class citizens (Mooney 776). World War II and its homecoming black veterans brought back even more unrest than before. After fighting the Germans and witnessing Hitler's racial holocaust blacks realized the inequality at home even more. The problem was helped ... allergic to public opinion polls, apparently unaware of the grave moral issue involved, a minority of this body, day after day, under archaic rules and procedures existing in no other legislative body in the civilized world, prevents a majority of this body to act from acting on this civil rights bill." The Civil Rights Act had finally been enacted. The government had at last sided with the movement (Mooney 778). ...
- 3224: The Search for a Better Tax System
- The Search for a Better Tax System In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" (Tyson 6). Today, every American citizen who earns money in the United States knows the truth in this statement. However, federal taxation has not ... intimidating, and paycheck draining process we have come to accept today. Prior to 1913 people lived and worked relatively free from the hassles of federal income taxes (Tyson 8). With the exception of the Civil War income tax, signed in by Abraham Lincoln in 1861 (abandoned ten years later), most of the revenue collected by the federal government was levied on goods such as liquor, tobacco, and imports (Tyson 8). Starting ... He was wanted by the British tax ministry for evading what would be millions of dollars in taxes today. He "enraged the British tax bureau by signing the Declaration of Independence first" (Adams 29) During World War II, taxes were increased for upper income earners from seven percent to seventy-seven percent (Adams 211). Interestingly though, tax revenues remained about the same. One explanation for this is given in Charles ...
- 3225: The Behavior Of Presidents
- ... to quickly deal with a situation. A President's personality and beliefs are also a factor in determining his actions as a President. Barber argues that a person's personality is shaped by his character, world view, and style all of which are established at different times in his life. He argues that a person's character is established early in life, world view is shaped adolescence, and style in early adulthood. These broad areas of personality come together to establish a style of leadership and presidential character. Barber goes on to establish four categories of Presidential Character ... branch. The growth of the United States into a global power has also changed the behavior of the President. His almost complete control over foreign policy has made him the most powerful diplomat in the world. This explanation, however, only shows the difference in the character of the office of the presidency in the past century. How each individual president fits into this pattern is left unexplained. The most important ...
- 3226: Bay Of Pigs
- ... nine years after the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro is still in power. First, it is necessary to look at why the invasion happened and then why it did not work. From the end of World War II until the mid-eighties, most Americans could agree that communism was the enemy. Communism wanted to destroy our way of life and corrupt the freest country in the world. Communism is an economic system in which one person or a group of people are in control. The main purpose of communism is to make the social and economic status of all individuals the ...
- 3227: Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Tea Party was the key-event for the Revolutionary War. With this act, the colonists started the violent part of the revolution. It was the first try of the colonists, to rebel with violence against their own government. The following events were created by the ... British government. It was an important step towards the independence dream, which was resting in the head of each colonist. They all flew from their mother country to start a new life in a new world, but the British government didn't gine them the possibility by controlling them. The causes for the Boston Tea Party The events leading to the Boston Tea Party began already ten years before ( 1763 ), when the English won the French-and-Indian War. The king of Britain passed taxes on the colonies to make up for the loss of money because of the war. He did it in a line of acts, called the Sugar Act ( tax ...
- 3228: Cival Rights Act 1964
- ... government. Around the middle of the century gains were being made in small places, with a few minor changes in state laws. Yet blacks were still for all conventional purposes second class citizens (Mooney 776). World War II and its homecoming black veterans brought back even more unrest than before. After fighting the Germans and witnessing Hitler's racial holocaust blacks realized the inequality at home even more. The problem was helped ... allergic to public opinion polls, apparently unaware of the grave moral issue involved, a minority of this body, day after day, under archaic rules and procedures existing in no other legislative body in the civilized world, prevents a majority of this body to act from acting on this civil rights bill." The Civil Rights Act had finally been enacted. The government had at last sided with the movement (Mooney 778). ...
- 3229: Jane Addams 2
- ... Addams was "busy with the old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot."(Pg.47 Ch.1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the war widows, the desolate old couple who had lost all five of their sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar depression, and the newcomers who could never really get started. And when she visited ... was also a local political leader who served for sixteen years as an Illinois state senator from 1854 -1870. A friend and admirer of Abraham Lincoln, John also fought as an officer in the Civil War. He was quiet and hard working and had a hatred of tyranny and injustice in the world. At the age of seven years old, a new woman entered the life of Jane Addams. Her father married Anna H. Haldeman, a widow with two sons. Jane felt no deep warmth for her ...
- 3230: Actions and Behavior of the President
- ... to quickly deal with a situation. A President's personality and beliefs are also a factor in determining his actions as a President. Barber argues that a person's personality is shaped by his character, world view, and style all of which are established at different times in his life. He argues that a person's character is established early in life, world view is shaped adolescence, and style in early adulthood. These broad areas of personality come together to establish a style of leadership and presidential character. Barber goes on to establish four categories of Presidential Character ... branch. The growth of the United States into a global power has also changed the behavior of the President. His almost complete control over foreign policy has made him the most powerful diplomat in the world. This explanation, however, only shows the difference in the character of the office of the presidency in the past century. How each individual president fits into this pattern is left unexplained. The most important ...
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