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History Of The Income Tax
1,505 words... eral government would gain the power to tax state and municipal bonds, but New York passed the amendment on its second try. Other eastern states also had movements against the amendment, but they eventually ratified it as well. Wyoming's ratification on February 3, 1913, gave Congress the three-quarters majority it needed to make the amendment part of the U. S. Constitution. Congress now had the ability of the federal government to levy taxes on income. Six other states eventually ratified t...
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Complicated Realm Sexual Encounter
1,162 words'SOLDIER'S HOME': ANOTHER STORY OF A BROKEN HEART He knew he could never get through it all again. "I don't want to go through that hell again. " In the works of Ernest Hemingway, that which is excluded is often as significant as that which is included; a hint is often as important and thought-provoking as an explicit statement. This is why we read and reread him. "Soldier's Home " is a prime example of this art of echo and indirection. Harold Krebs, the protagonist of "Soldier's Home, " is a yo...
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Samuel Gompers Vs Terence Powderly
444 wordsSamuel Gompers and Terence Powderly have some things in common, as well as different. Samuel Gompers was born in London, England on January 27, 1850. When he was only ten years old, He dropped out of elementary school to be a shoemaker. When he was thirteen years old his family moved from London, England to New York. He then became an immigrant cigar maker when he was fourteen years old. He did this because he wanted to help his father make and sell cigars. After living his wonderful life, he di...
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Chinese Exclusion Act Southern And Eastern
2,310 wordsA Journey Though the Golden Gates of Promise Great controversy exists over the true promises of the Golden Gates in the United States. Discrimination occurs with different ethnic groups, but for those immigrants permitted into the country, the opportunities are excellent. The laws and practices established to control immigration into the United States limit the amount of poverty that can be present in the country. Without these important practices and laws created by the United States Congress, ...
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Ku Klux Klan Number Of Immigrants
909 wordsThe Ku Klux Klan first appeared in late 1865 or early 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. It began as a Tennessee social club but soon turned into a paramilitary force under the direction of Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Klans primary purpose was white supremacy and the main goal was to keep blacks out of the voting booths. By 1870 the Klan was everywhere in the south. They were strong supporters of the Democratic Party and often beat and sometimes killed republican politicians. Due to the overabundance o...
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Bukharin Kamenev Lenin Stalin Party
425 words1879 - 1953, Russian revolutionary, head of the USSR (1924 - 53). A Georgian cobbler's son named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and soon became a professional revolutionary. In the 1903 party split (see BOLSHEVISM AND MENSHEVISM) he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party congresses abroad and worked in the Georgian party press. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to the party's central committee. About this time he took the name Stalin...
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German Workers Party Adolf Hitler
1,557 words... l education system, religious freedom except for religions which endanger the German race, and a strong central government for the execution of effective legislation. His speech lasted for nearly four hours. After which Hitler knew that a fire was started within the German people that would one day be great. Shortly after the rally he realized that he lacked one thing, a symbol or flag. He came up with the Swastika. He described the symbolism involved "In red we see the social idea of the mo...
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Born On December George Gershwin
1,094 wordsGeorge Gershwin was one of the most widely remembered composers in America. Gershwin's style of jazz was one all on its own. Naturally he was born in America, but his roots grew from St. Petersburg, Russia. (Charles Osborne; Page 136) In the late 1800 's Morris and Rose Gershwin immigrated to the USA. (; Page 1) George's parents were married in 1895. (Charles Osborne; Page 136) George's father Morris Gershwin was originally Gershovitz, but changed to Gershwin after his emigration. (; Page 1) Geo...
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Racial Discrimination In America During The 1920's
1,179 words... ed people culminated in 1924 act. Calvin Coolidge, the then President, observed when he signed the law: America must be kept American. However the quota systems did not place any restrictions on immigration from the Western Hemisphere, and consequently from immigration from Mexico and French Canada soared during the 1920 s. The fact that the US Government was now officially acting on the wide spread fear and dislike of those from ethnic backgrounds reflected the national mood of the twenties...
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Path Of Legality Sa Hitler Party
1,747 words... nst the Reichstag. Under Article 25, the president could dissolve the Reichstag in a state of emergency. He could also block any new laws by calling a referendum. Under article 48, he could suspend the Reichstag and rule by decree in the case of a national emergency. The president also chooses who will become the next chancellor. In 1925 when Hindenburg ran of president, he won just but 3 %. But by then Hindenburg was very old, so he depended on his advisers a lot. His advisers took advantag...
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The Fall Of Communism In Russia Soviet Union
1,345 wordsCommunism in the USSR was doomed from the onset. Communism was condemned due to lack of support from other nations, condemned due to corruption within its leadership, condemned due to the moral weakness of humanity, making what is perfect on paper, ineffective in the real world. The end of this system was very violent. It left one of the two most powerful nations in the world fearful of what was to come. Communism can either be called a concept or system of society. In a society that follows the...
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E Cummings Life And Work
770 wordse e cummings e e cummings (no, this is not a typographical error, take note to the way he writes his name) was an unusual, yet highly acclaimed writer of the 20 th century. His style of writing was much different than that of any other contemporary or even 18 th and 19 th century writers. Although difficult to understand at times, e e cummings is a very profound and inventive writer. e e cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge Massachusetts. His parents were Edw...
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Deaf Culture And Sports
360 wordsDeaf culture has made difference and a great contributions to the world of sports, having made it the way we see today. But there are very few people who realizes it. The real start up of deaf culture in Sports began with the appearance of Deaf World Games. Deaf World Games (DWG) or Deaflympics, the way it is called at the present time, have a long history, beginning with the first games in France in 1924. At that time, international sports were not given much significance by young deaf people. ...
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Period Of Time George Gershwin
1,367 wordsGeorge Gershwin George Gershwin, a famous American composer of the 1920 th, belongs to the category of exceptionally gifted artists, who died young and could not realize many of their plans and ideas. Despite of his short life-time, musical and creative inheritance of Gershwin is significant: he wrote about thirty musicals and operettas for theater and cinema, and became an author of many popular songs, which are still being played in our times. Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, in a family of...
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Ku Klux Klan Christian Faith
425 wordsKu Klux Klan What is the Klan? The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a fraternal, patriotic movement promoting the ideals of Western Christian Civilization and White Racial political self-determination. It is not merely a social association, but a dynamic, crusading White movement of world-historical perspective seeking the establishment of White Christian Political Self Determination. It is working to rebuild our collapsing society on the principles of Christian honor, honesty, duty, courage, brot...
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Selected Poems Robert Penn
2,032 wordsKieran Quinlan RANSOM, John Crowe (30 Apr. l 888 - 3 July 1974), poet and critic, was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, the son of John James Ransom, a Methodist minister, and Ella Crowe. Raised in a strongly religious though also very open-minded household, the precocious Ransom entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville at age fifteen. Following graduation in 1909 and a stint as a high school teacher, he went on to study classics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from 1910 to 1913. Ransom was appointed ...
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University Of Toronto Prime Minister
1,282 wordsLester Lester Pearson Lester Pearson Lester B. Pearson lived from 1897 - 1972. He was born on April 23 1897, in Newtonbrooke Ontario (now part of Toronto). He died on December 27 1972. He was born the son of a Methodist parson. As a child he worked very hard in school, and he became one of the minority of high school graduates who went on to college. In his studies he went to Victoria College and the Methodist College inside the University of Toronto. In his free time he played hockey and baseba...
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Louis Armstrong King Oliver
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Dans Le De La
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Dodd Mead Company 1984
1,708 wordsIntroduction The main reason why I chose to do my report on the history of theatre in NY is because I find theatre very interesting (As you know I do some of it myself). I also grew up in a house full of theatre teachers. I think this topic is very important to people who want to learn about theatre because many people believe that theatre in New York started on Broadway, but that is not true at all. In this report I would like to show you how theatre developed in New York. Chapter 1 18 th Centu...
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