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- 3491: Civil War - Radical Reconstruction
- Immediately following the Civil War the actions of Radical Republicans led to many changes in the South. Leading the way to Radical Reconstruction was Congressmen Charles Sumner and Thadeus Stevens. Their were many goals and motives the Radicals hoped to ... Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, to the Union. In many of these seven states, most of the governors, representatives and senators were northern men called "carpetbaggers" who had gone South after the war to make their political fortunes, often teaming up with newly freed Blacks. In Louisiana and South Carolina, Blacks actually gained a majority of the seats. The last three Southern states: Mississippi, Texas and Virginia finally ...
- 3492: Antigone, War Of Beliefs
- War of Beliefs In the play, "Antigone" written by Sophocles, Antigone and Creon battle a philosophical war based on their beliefs of what is right and wrong. The conflict arose when the principles that backed up their actions clashed with each other, making it a contradiction between morals. Antigone's side of ...
- 3493: Book Report on "The Lost World"
- Book Report on "The Lost World" Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm, a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration, Richard Levine, is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the animals. Jack Thorne is the ...
- 3494: Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Insight About Life and The World Around Him
- Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Insight About Life and The World Around Him The book Catcher in the Rye tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden, throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I ...
- 3495: Professional Sports: The Hidden Greed
- ... work stoppages) in professional sports, and the growing disparity among team payrolls. Most recognize these issues as major problems; however, others overlook the greed and see validity in the financial aspect of today's sports world. They argue that professional sports are thriving and should not be modified. They also contend that sometimes lockouts are unavoidable and are often the only way to work out problems. The opposition reasons that professional ... sports because they help each sport continually evolve and adapt to new problems it faces. While the opposition does not notice the greed problems greed causes, others do. Greed is obvious in today's sports world. Plain and simple, the salaries of sports figures these days are too high. In the NBA, Michael Jordan makes over $13 million dollars per year for the Chicago Bulls (Verducci 46). That means he earns ... salary cap. On September 14, with no hope of reaching an agreement to end the thirty-four day strike, the owners called off the remainder of the regular season and the entire post-season. The World Series was cancelled that year for only the second time, previously surviving two World Wars and an earthquake. This dealt the game a terrible blow as attendance totals decreased dramatically. It ended after 232 ...
- 3496: The Truman Show
- ... LIFE . WHAT IT MORALLY RIGHT FOR THIS TO TAKE PLACE? EXPLAIN. Certainly from my point of view this is not morally right to do what was done to Truman Burbank because he lived in a world where he was literally trapped in his own life by the surreal existence in which he has been forced to spend every day of his thirty years. Since the day he was born Truman Burbank's life was controlled from a huge control panel in the sky; controlled by a manipulation of how life should be, in a perfect world . This things cannot be done because he has the same right as the person who was manipulating his life to now the truth or at least what be consider to be the real truth, because ... or if you are also been manipulated. The Truman show distinctly reveals how we are forever surrounded by the manipulative effects of media and that each of us like Truman are held captive in a world that has been altered without our permission. We in our own lives are held captive to the effects of media. In every direction we move we will always come to a wall, some form ...
- 3497: Abe Lincoln
- ... but his time Abe stayed behind. He was 21 now, and ready to live his own life, so he moved to New Salem in Illinois where he lived for six years. When the Black Hawk war broke out in 1832, Lincoln enlisted. He was elected leader of his rifle company, and this honor pleased him though he knew very little about military life. Just before the war, Abe had decided to run for the Illinois Legislature, which he continued to strive for after the war had ended. He did not win and in the process lost his store in New Salem, leaving him out of work. After a year of toilsome work, Abe was elected Illinois General Assembly in ...
- 3498: Practical Cognition
- ... the ability to make generalizations, man would not be able to think. Moreover, the human capacity to think is exactly the same as making abstractions about experience. There is nothing more to descriptions of the world than those abstractions. Details about the world are described only in terms of generalizations, for if there were a word for a specific detail unique to only one event, then that word would be nothing but a name -an abbreviation for the term, the specific detail x , unique to only this one event, y . The assimilation of the external world, which is at first biological, subsequently social and therefore human, occurs as an organization of the raw material of nature in an effort to satisfy needs; cognition, which is a factor in the assimilation, ...
- 3499: Chinese Economic Reform
- ... percentage of the populace to become involved in private enterprise and investment in family or group ventures. (Shirk 39-40) Another important aspect of Chinese economic reform was the decision of China to join the world economy. In doing this Deng Xiaoping and his allies hoped to affect the economy in two ways: by expanding foreign trade, and by encouraging foreign companies to invest in Chinese enterprises. This policy (called the ... not necessarily a beneficial development. Inflation was rampant: prices more than doubled in the industrial zones in only five years. Nevertheless, the fact that Shanghai possessed some of the most expensive office space in the world showed that demand was high and that the prospects for future growth were promising. (Tyler A8) Shanghai is by no means the only city to show growth. Additional foreign investments have continued to pour into ... conscientious attempts to promote the strength of the country's economy while protecting its citizens. And so, in 1994, the Chinese government instituted tight-money policies, intended to control inflation and slow what was the world's fastest growing major economy (Shenon "China Halts" D1). However, after doing so, China's Securities Regulatory Commission was forced to stop the issuing of new issues on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges ...
- 3500: African American Sentiments
- For those people who did not study the Civil War or doesnft know anything about the Civil War, there were many African Americans fighting too. Before the Civil War, the African Americans that were not freed by their landowners were treated poorly. Some left their family in the south and escaped to the north in hope to get more freedom and also to ...
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