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- 4241: The Wonderful War On Drugs
- ... not work in the future. Should the government really be allowed to prosecute non-violent offenders for consensual crimes committed in their own home? You may have heard the saying “history always repeats itself,” does America not remember what the outcome of alcohol prohibition was. The outlawing of any controlled substance will only bring rise to more violent outlaws willing to ...
- 4242: Marquise de Pompadour
- Marquise de Pompadour Jeanne-Aintoinette Poisson was born in 1721 in Paris, France. She would go down in history not as Jeanne-Antoinette, but as Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. She belonged to a family of grand Parisian bankers, received a refined education, and soon became ...
- 4243: King of Babylonia: Hammurabi
- ... systematically arranged under a variety of subjects. He sorted his laws into groups such as family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade, and business. This was the first time in history that any laws had been categorized into various sections. This format of organization was emulated by civilizations of the future. For example, Semitic cultures succeeding Hammurabi's rule used some ...
- 4244: Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros?
- ... Mother Teresa is the kind of person that should serve as a role model for the youth of today. She is someone that will be read and inquired about in history classes across the world for many, many years to come. My first thoughts were how could she be anything but a hero. I know your thinking yeah that’s great ...
- 4245: Adam Smith: Conceptions of Value
- ... his ideas of value and self interest, he balanced morals with the appraisal of human nature. Charles Darwin and Adam Smith both in their writings occupied the tradition of natural history, which they opposed. Darwin wrote his Origin of Species almost a century later, trying to produce a new system after Smith's was animated by natural theology. Smith constructed The ...
- 4246: Al Capone
- Al Capone Al Capone, the most famous gangster in history, had quit school at fourteen after he lost his temper and struck his teacher. He was soon after accepted into a notorious street gang, Johnny Torrio was the gangs leader ...
- 4247: Looking Ahead: The Future Of Post Keynesian Economics
- ... not with a closed economy as Keynes focused on but an open economy in a new information and technological age. One of the major contributions that Marx provided in the history of ideas was his ability to break through what seemed to be the impenetrable logic of Hegel's system. Keynes did the same thing by breaking through the logic of ...
- 4248: Taxes and Its Objectives
- ... high marginal tax rates. People who work hard are punished when the government takes more of their money as they increase their income and are pushed into higher tax brackets. History has shown that lower marginal tax rates, which allow everyone to keep more of what they earn, can spurn economic growth. Economists agree that a single-rate system, such as ...
- 4249: Samuel Colt
- ... years old. Conclusion Samuel Colt left a five million dollar estate behind for his son. Samuel was know for a lot. His revolver model was the best model in the history of guns. Samuel Colt was one of the finest gunsimths in the world. Bibliography Connecticut Biographical Dictionary. New York, New York: Somerset publishers, INC., 1994. "Connecticut Crossroads." 2-22-99 ...
- 4250: George Orwells 1984
- ... as the use of secret police (used by the Jacobins during the French Revolution and Hitler during World War II, as well as many others.) (Orwell) Since certain aspects of history have repeated themselves before, such as the use of the secret police, I think he felt that they would surface once again. His ideas were not completely farfetched, he simply ...
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