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- 1711: Housing Discrimination And Hou
- As we look back at the history of the United States, one of our worst legacies is our poor treatment of minorities. In our country's earliest years we were importing and selling blacks into slavery, an ... evidence of lending discrimination is present almost everywhere. Upon first glace, the loan refusal rate for minorities is strikingly higher than for whites, but in fact minorities with better credit history than whites are being turned down. Even those minorities that are approved, receive smaller loans are required to pay a higher interest rate. These practices can be devastating to minorities ...
- 1712: Humans Are Curious By Nature
- ... the monkeys we use to be I suppose. By nature have always been fascinated by the past. Many feel that unlocking our past can open doors to the future. Our history is brief in comparison with that of the earth, but yet no claims can be made that we are close to understanding our own human existence, or the roads we ... Dinosaurs by: Stephen Jay Gould and that of Kathy A. Svitil Nubian Diet Revealed at Last, each attempt to reach a scientific conclusion as to how these two chapters of history came to an end. Many attempts have been made towards research and understanding of these events in an attempt to draw from them a hypothesis on the events which took ...
- 1713: Brown Vs. Board Of Education
- Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark case in the history of American education. There were several events and issues which led up to this critical event. From the 1892 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case, the precedent of "separate but ... education as the local ranch owners' children. The judge favored for the Mexican children and ruled that school desegregation was illegal. The 1936 Berlin Olympics marked a historical moment in history when Jesse Owens broke the racial boundaries. This moment, much to the unhappiness of the world's leading political leaders, opened up the arena of world class athletics to a ...
- 1714: Body Piercing And How Society
- ... some new trend that all the drug addicts are doing. Which is not true. I mean look at me do I look like I would have a nipple ring. The history of body piercing goes back quite a ways. It goes all the way back to the Roman and Victorian time when body piecing was not uncommon at all. Many of ... do it for the right reasons but it is inevitable they will get them and the age group will continue to grow that is getting them. And no matter the history there will always be a society that thinks that it is just a fad but is not. Piercing is a true fashion that has been happening for hundreds of years ...
- 1715: Our Town
- ... individual. Since 1980, the American Psychiatric Association has revised the criteria for diagnosing post traumatic stress disorder several times. Currently, the diagnostic criteria for post traumatic stress disorder include a history of exposure to a traumatic event and symptoms from each of three symptom clusters: intrusive recollections, avoidant/numbing symptoms and hyper arousal symptoms. Recent data indicate that many individuals qualify ... feelings and emotions. To summarize, many experts regard battered women's syndrome as a subcategory of post traumatic stress disorder. The diagnostic criteria for post traumatic stress disorder include a history of exposure to a traumatic event and symptoms from each of three symptom clusters: intrusive recollections, avoidant/numbing symptoms and hyper arousal symptoms. After exposure to a traumatic event, defined ...
- 1716: Wherefore The Maintenance Of L
- ... the Warsaw ghetto Jews, who kept the murderous Nazi's at bay for almost a month with only a handful of small arms before the Jew's valiant final defeat. History repeats with the citizen patriots of Lexington and Concord, who demonstrated with their blood the power and the purpose behind the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the then new ... immune to breakdown and decay? What is the foundation for this astounding world view? Why has no other society in the past attained perpetual stability, security, and justice? How does history advocate the idea that this nation will be the one that is unique and invincible? At what moment would one personally define a government which ignores its lawful limits as ...
- 1717: Truman Doctrine
- ... By the late '40's, the U.S.S.R. had caught up to the United States' nuclear weapons programs. In addition, they were very land-hungry. Throughout Russia's history, they have been in search of a port - a quest advanced further by Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. The Soviets in that respect were direct threats to their ... danger of toppling into Communist control. "If Greece fell . . . Turkey isolated in the Eastern Mediterranean, would eventually succumb . . ." Truman's plan for peacetime aid-The Truman Doctrine-was unprecedented in history (a sum of more than $400 million) and he faced a hostile Republican Congress through which to pass it. However, Truman informed the Congress of the troubles facing Italy, Germany ...
- 1718: The Presidential Contenders In
- ... union, as a free state, until the closing days of the Buchanan administration. By then several southern states had already seceded. Buchanan had failed. Bibliography: Bergman, Peter M. The Chronological History of the Negro in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Black, Earl and Black, Merle. The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey, Vol. 1. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Meltzer, Milton. Milestones to American Liberty: the Foundations of the Republic. New York: Cromwell, 1961. Saturday Evening Post. The Presidents. Indianapolis ...
- 1719: The Medicare Debate
- ... by writing that, "When Social Security taxes are collected, they are credited to the Social Security trust funds with government security, perhaps the safest investment in the United States. In history Medicare has experience a few problem regarding it's funding. Problems have occurred over the history of Medicare. The major problem and most recent of Medicare is that it is going bankrupt. Medicare is another legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson Great Society. Spending is obviously out ...
- 1720: The Advisory Opinion Of The IC
- ... actually acquire such weapon (and uses it) is highly increased. "We depend on the eternal absence of madness, miscalculation, accident and bad look. If we look at the course of history it looks a poor bargain." Besides the official nuclear weapon states there are several de facto nuclear weapon states: India, Israel, Pakistan, South Africa and several close to have such ... of nuclear weapons shows; with the rapid development of warfare technology the possible scale of destruction multiplied and reached a level never experienced before. Human race reached the point in history where the old strategies are not working anymore. It possesses all the devices needed for a global suicide. The very existence of nuclear systems feeds the security dilemma. There are ...
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