... The French Canadian attitudes towards confederation in the eighteen sixty's, can best be seen through the views of the leading French Canadian politicians of the day. In French Canada around the period of confederacy, their were two main political parties, the bleus and the rouges. In the 1860's, the leading French Canadian party was the conservative bleu party. This party, had the largest bloc of French Canadian legislative seats in parliament.1 The leader of this party at the time that confederacy was being debated by leading Canadian politicians was George Etienne Cartier. Cartier was born in 1814,2 and his grandfather had been a memb ...
... British tea. Not only was tea cheaper from Holland but many Americans did not want to pay the tax and contribute to British rule. When British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773, it allowed them to provide tea to America for cheaper than the smuggled tea. American tea merchants, unable to compete with this new low price, were put out of business. (Jones) This Act infuriated the colonial citizens who felt it unfair to favor their British tea dealers over American ones. In retaliation, Samuel Adams led a group of 150 or so men disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and proceeded to dump 343 chests of British tea into the ocean. (Cornell) ...
... single door to the home was locked and bolted. Since the Greeks spent most of their time outdoors, most homes had little luxury (Poulton 53). All homes contained little furniture. The master of a wealthy house may have a chair and a footstool while the women and children only used stools. The dining room included large, comfortable couches and small, nearby tables for eating. Other common household furniture included beds, chests, storage boxes, and large baskets for storage and shopping (Poulton 54). Olive oil lamps of either pottery for poorer families or bronze and silver for richer families provided lighting in the home (Poulton 54). Water was scarce in an ...
... occurs when the general rules of a society have broken down and that people no longer know what to expect from one another. It is this state of normlessness or deregulation in society that leads to deviant behavior. Durkheim used the term anomie again in his classic 1897 book Suicide, referring to a morally deregulated condition were people have inadequate moral control over their actions. Therefore, a given society may be anomic if people do not know when to stop striving for success, or how to treat others along the way. Regardless of which of these two descriptions of anomie one uses, a brake down in either the rules of society or the moral norms, Durkheim cle ...
... than before, when most conflicts and militaristic decisions were based on religion. Louis XIV(1661-1715) is responsible for a considerable gain in the power of France. He had huge armies, (at some points reaching up to half a million troops), that were organized with barracks, hospitals, parade grounds, and depots to support them. Along with an organized enormous fleet at sea, France became a true hybrid power. Its energies were diverted between continental aims and maritime and colonial ambitions. For two decades with no real competition, France was successful, but other powers soon built up enough recourses and power to challenge it. By 1713, and the Treaty o ...
... war. President George Bush confronted little difficulty in winning Americans’ support for the potential war against Iraq. However, the government found it difficult to decide upon a reason for going to war. It was either to oppose aggression or it was to protect global oil supplies. Other powers were more directly concerned as consumers of Persian Gulf oil, but they were not as eager to commit military force, to risk their lives in battle and to pay for the costs of the war. Critics of President Bush continued to maintain that he was taking advantage of the issue of energy supplies in order to manipulate the U. S. public opinion in favor of war. After consulti ...
... Europe achieved a measure of economic recovery. However, all hope of political stability in Europe was shattered by the results of the depression that hit the United States in 1929. In the 1930's widespread unemployment and acute distress strained social relationships in Europe. The communist movement soon overwhelmed Europe. The triumph in 1933 of fascism, under the name of National Socialism, or Nazism, in Germany ended the threat of revolution in that country. However, the triumph of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler would prove to be more disastrous as time passed. The German society was transformed into a totalitarian state, which had withdrawn from the League o ...
... Homosexuals: pink upside down triangle e. Criminals: green upside down triangle f. Jews: Star of David In November of 1938 all synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows were smashed and thousands of Jews were arrested. "Night of Broken Glass: was a signal to the Jews in Germany and Austria to leave as soon as possible. World War II began on September 1939. By September 1941 the Jews of German were forced to wear badges or armbands marked with a yellow star. Concentration camps were one of the most tragic things about the Holocaust. Many horrible things happened at these camps usually involved death. One of the things that happened was the Nazi sold ...
... Olympia games some were coming on foot along the coastal road from Athens and Corinth. The others on horses and in carriages crowed the valleys and jammed every road and mountain passes on the Peloponnesian peninsula. The Alpheys River ships came, usually carried Greek statesmen and merchant princess. Most of them had traveled all the way from Italy, Sicily, Marseilles, the Black Sea and even the coast of North Africa. Among the arriving guest are poets, philosophers, princess, politicians, historians, soldiers, sculptors, and horse breeders. There were ever hobos from Elis and nearby Pisa. There were fishermen from the coast and off shore islands. On second day ...
... were going or coming from war were not allowed to have sex either because they needed to keep their minds on the battle. The English were also surprised at the fact that women did all the work and were allowed to dress nicely. Another freedom that women had in their tribes was that they had ownership of their land, houses and their children. As time went by the Americans, French, and the Spanish took the Indian women to be their wives. As far as sex between them went, the English were used to paying for sex and the Indian women were used to trading for it so it worked out pretty well for the two parties. At one point in the 1500’s a man named Cartagena captu ...
