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- 3951: Brief History Of The Dominican
- ... define its status. Dominican vulnerability to intervention from abroad was also made evident by the United States military occupation of 1916-24 and by a more limited action by United States forces during a brief civil war in 1965. Politically, Dominican history has been defined by an almost continuous competition for supremacy among caudillos of authoritarian ideological convictions. Political and regional competition overlapped to a great extent because mainly conservative leaders from ...
- 3952: Huck Finn 4
- ... to lynch the supposed criminal. This is the sort of law the book portrays most towns having in this time period. This book which is set in the 1800 s is based in the pre-civil war time period. It does not seem to contradict the class text but it does support how our book portrays African Americans as being treated. As stated above the book portrays what the life of a ...
- 3953: The History of the Pony Express
- ... a financial failure. It lost its owners more than $200,000 in eighteen months of its existence. It played a big role in establishing rapid communications between the north and the west coast during the Civil War. The Pony Express helped keep California in the Union. The completion of the Transcontinental telegraph line ended the Pony Express in Oct of 1861. Hawgood, John. American Western Frontiers. Alfred A Knopf: New York. 1972 ...
- 3954: Hypocrites In Huckleberry Finn
- In the novel The adventures of huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses his knowledge of the Mississippi River to write about the ways of life in the Southern Mississippi area before the civil war. In chapters 17-22 of the novel Mark Twain exposes the Hypocrisy of Southern society through false notions of aristocracy, Pious support of religion, and pretend knowledge of academics. He presents these aspects of Southern ...
- 3955: Sociology Of Movie
- ... love and married his beautiful wife, Marian. The day after the wedding, Marian was assaulted and killed by one of the king's soldiers. The outraged Wallace sought revenge, killing the solider and sparking a war against Longshanks. Wallace became known throughout Scotland as a patriot, fighting for his lost love and the freedom he never had. After many long and brutal battles William was captured, tortured, and killed. The cry ... At this point, Marian was introduced and killed, thus lighting the fuse for the revolution. Wallace, serving the writers as a solution to the problem, led the poverty-stricken farmers, derelicts, and noblemen through a war against the English. He took charge and won their freedom despite the unfavorable odds. Aside from this major social conflict I discovered a smaller, more personal battle among Henry and Wallace. As the plot unfolded ... inequalities". In the movie there was a definite inequality among social classes. The relationship between the rich and the poor, where is the middle class? This disproportion caused the poor to revolt and start a war. Another strong point from a social conflict perspective is, " conflict
is not necessarily bad for society since it is a source of social change." This is exactly what happened, social change. Because of the ...
- 3956: Bioremediation Of Explosives In Contaminated Soil
- ... fuels and will produce an end product usable for backfilling, landscaping, or erosion control. Introduction Whether people know it or not explosives, such as tnt, are a very important part of their lives. Since World War I, munitions have been manufactured in the United States using a variety of energetic materials, including propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnic (PEP) materials. (Noyes, 1996) Many manufacturing sites contain explosives. As a result they have contaminated ... has been completed. (Akhavan, 1998) Geokinetics has pioneered the use of electrokinetic techniques to dramatically enhance bio-remediation of TNT and other "difficult" organic contamination. (Westing, 1985) Soil contaminated with TNT from a German World War I munitions factory (which exploded in 1918) was treated by electrokinetically enhanced bioremediation. Laboratory studies were undertaken using pilot scale batch units to determine optimal full scale operating conditions. The "Pool Process" provides the ideal ... Engineers / February 1999 Approaches for the Remdiation of Federal Facility Sites Contaminated with Explosive or Radioactive Wastes Edwin Barth / DIANE Publishing Company / December 1994 The Chemistry of Explosives J. Akhavan / Published 1998 Explosives Remnants of War: Mitigating the Environmental Effects Arthur H. Westing(Editor) / Published 1985
- 3957: Advertising 3
- ... get the first one running. The advertising used to try to sell stock in his company was original. They did it with the future in mind, and targeted men and women coming home from the war that were interested in a new car. One of the slogans used for the car was "The car of tomorrow today." The problem with his trying to sell stock was that he lost the company ... get the Tucker out of business. Problems came up, the car worked great, but there were financial and legal troubles, and only fifty cars were ever made. (Tucker: The Man And His Dream.) During World War II Kimberly-Clark invented cellucotton, which was used as an air filter in GI gas masks and as surgical bandage. When the war ended, they had a warehouse full of these cellucotton sheets. So they looked at alternatives, and so occurred the birth of the Sanitary Cold Cream Remover. The way that this company advertised was by ...
- 3958: Episcopalianism / Anglicanism
- ... and to be a sect within the nation was not what either Puritan or Anglican wished to be. The problem of religious division presented itself for the first time (Wakeman, 334). So began the long war between the Church of England and Puritanism. On the side of the Church were the traditions of historical Christianity, the framework of Catholic order and discipline, a prayer book of Catholic doctrine and ceremony, and ... love of personal and national liberty which quickly associated itself with Parliamentary opposition to misgovernment and turned the members of a sect into the champions of the nation (Oakeman, 334). Frustrated with this long religious war, many Puritans sailed for the New World, and settled in New England. The Puritans who left were seeking to purify their religion, and separate from anything perceived as Roman. This "new" Anglicanism wanted to continue ... believed that "the growth, triumph and transformation of the Puritan spirit was the most fundamental movement of the seventeenth century" (Ahlstrom 97). The Anglican Church grew over the next 150 years, and after the Revolutionary War, the Protestant Episcopal Church was formed in Connecticut. This name was chosen to designate the church as non-Roman (Ahlstrom, 225). "Episcopal," from the Greek word for "Bishop," refers to the hierarchical structure of ...
- 3959: Cuban Communism
- ... West did, however, integrate some less than moral practises. The experience with the slave trade of Africans to the Americas and Europe was a major fault during the imperial experience of the West. The opium war that existed in China was an example of the West going overboard with greed and a disregard for the populace. Also, during the period of expansion Westerners brought over many diseases that wiped out many ... Japans practises towards Korea and Manchuria were not looked favourably upon, they received confrontations from other powers. The Japanese were forced to attack the Russians in 1904 in what was called the Russo-Japanese War. The United States intervened because, along with England, they had their own spheres of influence in the Asian region and did not want Japan to gain additional power in the Far East. The West contains so many powerful countries that Japan had a difficult time defending their rule. Near the end of World War II the allies were again forced to take action. Two atomic bombs were dropped in Japan in a blatant attempt to stop Japan and their plans of domination. The pressure ensured Japan would renounce ...
- 3960: Declaration of Independence: Abstractions in Power
- ... returned" (Wills 376). Power when mentioned in association with the power of the people to make their own laws has a positive connotation, "He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to Civil power" (Wills 377). These two different uses of the word power transform the meaning and tone of the Declaration of Independence. The meaning changes from just a Declaration of independence from Britain because of various violations of tax laws, military expenditures, and colonists' rights; to a fundamental disagreement about power. Whether the King or civil authorities have a right to power. The colonists believe in the decentralization of power. The British support a centralized monarchy. The colonists believe power should flow up from the people to the rulers. The British ... The two different uses of the world power also change the tone of the document. The colonist's definition of power as coercive in the hands of the King and good in the hands of civil authorities identifies the King as the enemy. He takes on the role of the enemy because he clutches the power in pre-colonial society. The tone of the Declaration of Independence becomes more severe; ...
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