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Gilded Age Second Term
769 wordsDiscuss Politics in the Gilded Age. Include major political events and issues, and the roles of the "bloody shirt, " corruption, patronage, and reform movements. The term Gilded Age was named for a Mark Twain book. It meant covered with gold, and was applied to this period as a whole. This was a period of corruption in sordid politics. The Republicans and Democrats didn't really have strong opposing beliefs during this period. The Republicans supported high tariffs and sound money. The Democrats...
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Watergate Scandal Richard Nixon
696 wordsIn the American Democracy it is vital for our right to freedom of press to be put into full throttle. Without the press, the society would be clueless and blind of Washington's dealings and business. The press informs the public, for better or worse, about what really goes on in Washington. But during the Watergate Scandal, the press coverage of the scandal demonstrated some of the best and the worst aspects of the way the American press covers the presidency. Richard Nixon despised the press. F...
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Forced To Resign Prime Minister
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Hester Prynne Committing Adultery
899 wordsIn the opening chapters of The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne provides a detailed description of Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. The reader is able to look into the souls of these characters and learn of their deepest feelings. Along with this Hawthorne uses the townspeople's reactions to show how the characters are portrayed amongst them. Every person has their good qualities and their poor qualities. The representation of these characters is neither all upright nor all imm...
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Iran Contra Affair Central Intelligence Agency
1,029 wordsThe Iran-Contra affair is not one scandalous incident, but rather two covert operations started under Reagan's administration. In the beginning, these two operations were independent of each other, but eventually became linked though funds received from the sale of arms to Iran for hostages and then given to the Contras fighting to overthrow a Marxist government in Nicaragua. The scandal began with Nicaraguan politics. After the Marxist Sandinista regime took over Nicaragua in 1979, the governme...
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Franco Prussian War People Of France
1,203 wordsIn the following paragraphs I will be discussing France after it's defeat in the Franco-Prussian war; the constitution, divisions in government, threats to the people's faith in their rulers, and the economy. France began this era at considerable disadvantage because of the war and Bismarck's policy of isolation, which greatly hindered it's attempts to regain it's prosperity and it's influence in European affairs. France after the Franco-Prussian war was in both economic and political crises. In...
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Newland Finds Dinner Party Ellen
613 wordsIt is the arrival of May's cousin, Ellen Olenska, that hastens Newland to announce his engagement. Ellen has returned from Europe where she was married to a cruel, abusive, and powerful man. She has brought with her what was then considered a horrible scandal. Ellen is a serious woman who is slight with dark features. She has an are around her that makes her very intriguing, especially to men. The plot unfolds as Newland finds himself drawn to the mysterious Ellen who bears a tragic history. It ...
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Excise Taxes Legalized Gambling
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Judge Brack Strong Woman
569 wordsA strong woman but a trapped woman Truth exists in the statement that Hedda Gabler is a strong woman and a trapped woman. Hedda is the daughter of a general. She seemed to have the best of everything such as, a good education and a good upbringing. During her youth she has been raised in an aristocratic surrounding. This has taught her to become selfish and self-centered. She quickly got married to a modest academic named Jorgen, who was completing his doctorate degree. Her decision to marry was...
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Internal Affairs Unit York Times P
1,481 words... upon scandal that hit Miami in the middle 1980 's. This was when about 10 % of the Miami's police were jailed, fired, or disciplined. They were in connection with a scheme in which officers robbed and some-times killed cocaine smugglers on the Miami River, then resold the drugs. Many of those involved had been hired when the department had beefed up quickly after the 1980 riots and the Mariel boat lift. "We didn't get the quality of officers we should have, says department spokesman Dave Mag...
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Aggressive Behaviors Richard Nixon
1,229 wordsRichard Nixon is usually depicted as the man you love to hate, glorified for being at the root of controversy in Americas history. But in Oliver Stones film Nixon, viewers begin to love the man that grew up in Whittier, California. As the son of a poor grocer, Nixon is depicted as a boy striving for acceptance, and the chance to use this acceptance to fulfill the American dream. Without having any real previous knowledge about Richard Nixon, other than what I saw in All the Presidents Men, I fea...
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Chief Of Staff Clinton Administration
1,077 words... Senate Whitewater Committee who also ran a task force under Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. "At the heart of Watergate was a gross abuse of presidential power, whereas Whitewater has its roots in activities that occurred a decade before Clinton became president. " He also points out that it seems likely that Nixon not only was involved in the Watergate cover-up, but also was aware of the 1972 break-in. He bases this on new evidence, including the diaries of the late H. R. Haldema...
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Levi Strauss Modern Criticism
1,512 wordsStructure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (Derrida, 1978: 278 293) may be read as the document of an event, although Derrida actually commences the essay with a reservation regarding the word event, as it entails a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural or structuralist thought to reduce or suspect (278). This, I infer, refers to the emphasis within structuralist discourse on the synchronous analysis of systems and relations within them, as opposed to a di...
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How Australia Reacted To The Threat Of Communism
1,251 wordsThe threat of communism that the Australian government produced is highly debatable issue. Australia was being exposed to Communism, which was spreading south from Russia, through Asia and ultimately to Australia. The domino theory was a key belief in the mind of the public, spreading fear throughout the world. The Liberal party exploited the threat of Communism and the domino theory to help with their election campaign. They attempted to ban the Communist Party from Australian soils. Trade unio...
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History Of The Clinton Sex Scandal
1,160 words... ns, it seems that the Lewinsky affair is the "Little Scandal that Couldn't. " Yet the press, for all its high minded condemnations of Clintonian morality, certainly cannot look to anyone but itself for the public's current lack of concern, since their focus has in some ways created the problem. The implications of the Lewinsky affair for Clinton have boiled down to two separate issues. The moral issue of Clinton's affair with Lewinsky is quite different from potential presidential obstructio...
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Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
948 wordsSir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in 1892, about Sherlock Holmes, his famous detective. Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22, 1859 (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes). He studied medicine there and eventually served as a physician in the Boer War, and many other battles. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes tale, A Study in Scarlet, in 1887 (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was so successful in his writing t...
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Act Of Courage Hedda Gabler
1,058 wordsHenrik Ibsen? s Hedda Gabler is not truly indicative of his vast body of work: the protagonist is female and the play is a character study. Oddly enough, though, Hedda does not evolve or progress throughout the entirety of the work. Rather, she remains a cold and manipulative woman. When this fact is realized, the only task is discovering why Hedda continues as a flat character who is restrained from gaining the status of a hero. Truthfully, there are many variables that shape Hedda? s life. Non...
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Millions Of Dollars Police Corruption
727 wordsHistory of Police Corruption in the United States The challenges facing the Chicago Police Department today are not new, nor are they unique to this city. The problem reaches back as far as the establishment of the first organized police forces in the United States. Corruption has taken many forms and has continued to plague the police departments of nearly every major city. Police corruption may change form over time, but its roots are firmly planted in American history. In The Development of t...
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Kohl Party Scandal
317 wordsFormer German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has agreed to pay a stiff fine to end a criminal fraud probe against him over secret cash donations he accepted while in power. Though his reputation as a major European statesman has already been tarnished by a scandal that plunged his opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) into crisis, it keeps Kohl from facing trial and a criminal record. Kohls Essen-based lawyer firm Holthoff-Pfoertner said in a statement Kohl had agreed to an offer by public prosecu...
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Modern Olympic Games Modern Olympics
754 wordsThe Olympic Games is a major international and multicultural event that brings athletes, officials and spectators together regardless of race, sex and colour. Baron Pierre de Coubettin started the Modern Olympics on 23 June, 1894 creating an honourable Spirit of Olympic, stating that the most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part. But because of the increasing pressures, like cheating, drug abuse, corruption and bribery, the people will eventually fail in attempt to...
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