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- 11741: The Equal Rights Amendment
- ... an ideal that threatened to destroy the American family and sap the strength of a society already crippled by moral permissiveness and political weakness and indecision." Others felt that the Church of Jesus Christ spent great sums of money to defeat the amendment. Equality for both men and women included the draft. Although women wanted equality in society, they did not want to be included in the draft. One of the ...
- 11742: Carlos Santana
- ... Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker. Soon he was being asked to join local bands like the T.J.'s, where he added a unique touch and feel to his own renditions of all the great songs of the 1950's. As he continued to play with different bands along the busy Tijuana Strip, he not Page Two only started to perfect his style and sound, but actually started bringing home ...
- 11743: Did The Congress Made Amendment 14 to Punish the South?
- ... debts incurred in aid of rebellion are void. This drastically hurts the people who supported the south. If someone had sold products to the south, expecting that after the war they would get paid a great sum of money, than they would get nothing from the United States government and nothing from those states. This was a sort of "payback" for those people who aided the south. These first four paragraphs ...
- 11744: Communism: Overview
- ... through the course of time, Marx's and Engles' theories did not remain as pure as they were penned. Marx himself declared "All I know is that I am not a Marxist" (Daniels 4). A great amount of credit for the corruption of true communism is due to Vladimir Illich Lenin. As the leader of the Russian Revolution (Foreman 139), he felt it necessary to develop his own communist theory, how ...
- 11745: Child Labour
- ... situation. Third, efforts to discourage national and foreign markets who employ children workers tends to reflect the development of such a solution. More specifically, economic progress is important, however, it is equally apparent that a great deal of significance can be attached to improvements in education and social security or assistance policies as well as the development of international agreements that deal with this issue. Bibliography Bequele, A. and Myers, W ...
- 11746: Charles Darwin And Imperialism
- ... two most famous works, The Origin of Species and The Decent of Man, Darwin introduces the concept of "the survival of the fittest" and "natural selection". The Darwinian ideas introduced into English society justified a great number of political policies and social movements. England at the turn of the century was still a largest power in the international system. The English perceived, through the justification of Darwinism, they were fit to ...
- 11747: Booker T. Washington
- ... colleges. His speaking tours and private persuasion tried to equalize public educational opportunities and to reduce racial violence. These efforts were generally unsuccessful, and the year of Washington's death marked the beginning of the Great Migration from the rural South to the urban North. Washington's racial philosophy, pragmatically adjusted to the limiting conditions of his own era, but did not survive the change. Booker T. Washington was a man ...
- 11748: The Turbulent Sixties
- ... to break up the resistance. The mayor of New York, John Lindsay, said that he himself believed that the measures used to regain Columbia were overly brutal and forceful (Sann 234-235). The aftermath had great implications on some of the music played at Woodstock in 1969. Joni Mitchell, for example, cried for more of these types of protests when she sang, "we've got to get ourselves, back to the ...
- 11749: Apartheid in Modern South Africa
- ... by racial groups for political and economic purposes was phased out under de Klerk's plans as the act is a major underpin for the apartheid system (56). Indeed, 1991 was the year of a great step forward for an antiapartheid South Africa. Yet another leap forward for a non-apartheid South Africa was the election of President Nelson Mandela in May 1994. Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African Nation ...
- 11750: The Manhattan Project
- ... Class. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were always taught to me with some opinion, and I always wanted to know the bomb itself and the unbiased effects that it had. This I-search was a great opportunity for me to actually fulfill my interest. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was appropriately named for the Manhattan ...
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