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Cesar Chavez, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau on Nonviolence

perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, ass...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

U.S. Civil War Partisan Influence and Guerrilla Warfare

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

Modern Technology and the U.S. Civil War

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Examination of the Civil Rights Movement Between 1945 and 1965

Education, and the timing couldnt have been better (Carson). Brown declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, whi...

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody and the American Civil Rights Movement

and her sharecropper parents were treated differently than the white girls she played with, but she was unable to understand why. ...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Confederacy and Union Problems Experienced on the Home Front During the US Civil War

of the problems both Union and Confederate armies faced on the home front. "Confederate soldiers left their wives -- and their mo...

Slave Trade Economics and History

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

Present Day Thailand and Future Predictions

of intellectuals, students and mass media, as well as laborers and farmers, have helped to undercut the militarys power (Pathmanan...

Labor and Delivery Nursing and Civil Negligence Issues

2000). In other words, medical malpractice is a form of negligence that "denotes an injury to a patient caused by a health care pr...

Recruiting for the U.S. Civil Service and Pattern Changes

Breaches of this then become political tools for opposition parties and candidates, with the government as an employer needing to ...

Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Civil Rights Movement

members in the mainstream population helped them in their efforts. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was actually the third such Act to...

Civil War Fighting and the Need of Manpower

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

The Foundation of Merit Public Service in American Democracy by Patricia Wallace Ingraham

one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

Reconstruction and the Civil War

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Analyzing Civil War General James Longstreet

"rank and stature in the Confederate command structure" (Hampton, 2002). Longstreet gave the Confederate Army exemplary service (...

A Civil War Personal Account

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

Cultural Assimilation in From Out of the Shadows by Vicki L. Ruiz and Unbound Voices by Judy Yung

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

Death Penalty Arguments Both For and Against

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

Legal System, Civil Rights Movement, and the Nonviolent Social Ideals of Martin Luther King

was shortly afterwards involved in the cause begun by civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she refused to follow the citys laws m...

Ethnic Groups in the United States

views. Generally, the idea of ethnic or racial tolerance takes two approaches; in the one, acceptance consists of ignoranc...

Tutorial on Maintenance of Civil Liberties

airplanes could dive bomb into more buildings? The purpose of this paper is to lead the student through some arguments reg...

Competing American Ideologies in the North and South Before, During, and After the Civil War

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

1868 to 1938 Civil Rights in America

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...