Terrorism In The US
.... militant organizations, but are motivated by
religious zeal or greed (Stanglin 1). Kroll and Associates is a New York
based, security consulting firm which is currently debating whether foreign
or domestic terrorism poses the greater threat (Morganthau 1). With the
recent horror stories reflecting the victims of the Unabomber and the
bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Americans would have to say
that domestic terrorism is the greater threat at this time.
The Unabomber, a fellow American, terrorized the country by mailing
bombs and delivering other means of destruction across the country. One of
the many victims, Joh .....
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The Defining Of A Nation
.... 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 willing to face the numerous struggles that lie ahead.
This is exactly what makes the people of this country strong and determined
to succeed. Thus, we are a country destined, from the beginning, to
succeed.
Another important aspect in defining America is .....
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The Flying Men
.... would come up with the ideas and Orville
would analyse and implement them." (McMahon 23).
The two brothers opened a shop in 1896 to build and repair bicycles.
The same year, Otto Lilienthal was killed when his glider crashed and the
Wrights began to search the problems of human flight. After reading all
the information they could find in Dayton, Wilbur wrote to the Smithsonian
Instituion to ask for all the information it had on aeronautics. The
brothers showed pure dedication. They read books, works by Lilienthal's
The Problem of flying, Practical Experiments in Soaring, Chanute's
Process in Flying Machines, and La .....
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The Tribulations Of Sharecrop Farmers
.... could
not be helped, but it did not improve there defenses against disease.
Being so open to disease by the housing, it was no surprise that
various illnesses struck the south with a vengeance. Housing was not the
only way that farmers opened themselves up to disease, sharecroppers were
often deprived of adequate food and clothing(Walker 92). The insufficient
food among families of farmers was a side-effect of the sharecropping
system(Walker 6). Of the food eaten not very much of it was considered
part of a healthy diet. Fat salt pork is the common meat(Walker 33), and
many farmers confessed that garden vegetables, milk, b .....
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Violations Of The Declaration Of Human Rights During The Salem Witch Trials
.... that "everyone has the right to
recognition everywhere as a person before the law". Many thought of the
women accused of practicing witchcraft to be diabolic and inhuman ; in fact,
they were thought of human figures of the devil. This would clearly
interfere with the judge´s veredict and it would be almost impossible for
the victimis to save themselves from being condemned to death. If these
victims of whom most were in their late fifties, had been seen as people
who are just like us, they would have been saved from such destiny.
Article Six is also a great, and maybe the clearest, example to
prove the point of violated h .....
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The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time For The US
.... awhile.
Then in 1828 congress raised the tariff on imported goods. In the
south they didn't have very much industry so they had to import most of
their good, so the tariffs were unpopular their. One state that protested
this action by congress. Since the North had more industry, the South felt
that congress was protecting the North by raising these tariffs. South
Carolina was the strongest protester of these tariffs. South Carolina
supported John C. Calhoun who said that a state could nullify or veto a
national law within it's own boundaries. In 1832 South Carolina's state
legislature declared the tariff acts of 1828 and 1 .....
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Civil War Timeline
.... a bitter
struggle with 13,000 Union killed and wounded and 10,000 Confederates, more
men than in all previous American wars combined. The president is then
pressured to relieve Grant but resists. "I can't spare this man; he
fights," Lincoln says.
April 24, 1862 - 17 Union ships under the command of Flag Officer David
Farragut move up the Mississippi River then take New Orleans, the South's
greatest seaport. Later in the war, sailing through a Rebel mine field
Farragut utters the famous phrase "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
June 25-July 1 - The Seven Days Battles as Lee attacks McClellan near
Richmond, resulting in very .....
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The Broadcast Of "War Of The World" In 1938
.... people did not
go to war, but some of them did. Many Americans had relatives in Germany
or in Czechoslovakia. Everyone was extremely worried and stressed out due
to war threats and viewed everything that went on around them as a sign
that war would break out. Therefore, when the people heard the news of
Martians they went absolutely insane.
On September 21, 1938, about six weeks before the broadcast, a
vicious hurricane hit the New York and Long Island area. Seven hundred
people were killed, with over four hundred million dollars of property
destroyed. Somewhere around ninety-one percent of those properties were
u .....
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Life During The Civil War
.... would march threw battlefields
where dead men, horses, and smashed artillery were scattered about in utter
confusion; the Blue and the Gray mixed-their bodies so bloated, distorted,
and discolored from decomposition, that they were basically
unrecognizable(Mohr, 326).
There was also the duties of the officers. “Often when a
detachment was on scout, there were no men left in camp to release the
pickets, and they had to remain on post for seventy-two hours at a
stretch(History of the Service, 129).” Marching, shooting, charging,
scouting; they were all hard assignments, but they were important to the
war. There were times when .....
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The Native Americans Had All Rights To Their Lands
.... slowly started the program that the were
obtained against the will to take. It was clear that they dident want to do
what was planed for them. They stayed with it trying only once to excape,
after enough was taken they finally dicide to break out for good, after
hearing that their family wasent dead after all. In the end it made me
think a lot more about what actual happened back then, and it made me mad.
In a way I have to be thankful that what happened , happened because I have
a great life. I Thank God for not bringing me into this world when all this
was happening, I don't think I would have the heart to do that.
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Indentured Servants And Slaves
.... the boat reached America all servants were forced to stay onboard
until they could pay the toll or have a master pay the toll, then they
would serve that master for a set number of years (Gottlieb p 30). At this
time many families were broken up. No master wanted the sick, so the sick
would usually remain onboard until they died.
The slave's journey was equally as harsh, if not harsher, than that
of the indentured servant. The African slaves were first kidnapped,
separating them from their family, and brought aboard a slave vessel. The
infamous “middle passage” would then begin. This was the horrid passage
from Africa acr .....
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Nixon's Program Of Detente Was The Reason For The Decline Of World Conflict
.... threat of a Chinese/Russian conflict
a.Cold War created to boost National spirit/ economy
b.USSR economy in shambles/ not capable of war
c.Both sides knew they couldn't use "nukes"
IV. Conclusion
1.US and Russia/China became significantly less of an enemy to each
other & US
a.Nixon represented US positively to USSR sparking Glastnost/
Parestrioka
b.Brought China out of isolationism (less biochem. weapons)
2.Nixons program of detente was the reason for a decline of world
conflict
During the 1950's and 60's a wave of terror swept the nation. The
invention o .....
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