... On this basis, an individual can’t lawfully use force to destroy another person. Furthermore, the people of a nation (possibly through elected officials) should have the right to choose which laws are just and which ones are not. If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems that order would prevail among the people. Furthermore, such a nation would have the simplest, easiest to accept, most limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring, government imaginable – whatever its political form might be. Under such an administration, everyone would understand that they possessed all the privileges as well as all the responsibilities of their existence. No ...

... called Don't Believe the Hype: Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans, which is now in its eigth printing. Using statistics largely from government sources, she attempted to undercut the argument that African-Americans are at the roots of problems such as crime, welfare and drugs. Chideya spent time as a CNN Political Analyst during the 1996 presidential campaign. It was at this time that she was named to the New York Daily News' "Dream Team" of political reporters and commentators. She appeared on programming such as "TalkBack Live" and "CNN & Company", as well as ABC's "Nightline," CBS's "Up to the Minute," and BET's "Teen Summit" and "Town Hall Meeting o ...

... Helen did not respond to the sounds of bells her parents knew at once that something was wrong with Helen. They soon discovered that Helen was deaf. They discovered later that she was blind when she did not blink when her mother clothed or bathed her. She was declared legally as an idiot. She soon started going to a special school called the Boston Institute for the Blind that her parents had heard of that helps children with disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for things in the world. She did not know what words meant. Although she did not give up easily.(Howell 1) Up until the age of seven, when her teacher Anne Sullivan put her ...

... and met her future husband, Pierre, a French physicist, who taught at the university of Paris. They married and teamed up to conduct research on radioactivity and found that uranium ore, or pitchblende, contained much more radioactivity than could be explained solely by the uranium content. She was the most famous woman in physics and was recognised as one of the greatest scientists of the century and won 2 Nobel prizes, one for physics in 1903 and one for chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and studying its chemical properties. Even Einstein once said of her, “Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.” As a child she alwa ...

... that. This poem is about individuality - oneness (Kid 200-1). The theme of oneness can be derived from the numerous instances and forms of the number '1' throughout the poem. First, 'l(a' contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). Cummings could have simplif ...

... slow down would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind are beaten. But we do not want to be beaten!” Stalin gives the idea that his way of economy would be great for Russia. At the beginning of the first Five Year Plan, Stalin set high goals for the industry, almost doubling the amount of production.Accordin to Joseph Stalin agricultural production can only be increased by eliminating the kulaks, the wealthy farmers, and create collective farms. Collective farms is when the land is split and many people work on them instead of just one owner.Stalin’s Five Year Plans created a huge drop in the number of livestock and wheat production also decreased. This cre ...

... Hemingway became an honorary second lieutenant in the Red Cross, but could not join the army because he had a defective left eye. Hemingway first went to Paris, and soon after receiving new orders he traveled to Milan, Italy. The day he arrived, an ammunition factory exploded and he had to carry mutilated bodies and body parts to a makeshift morgue. This was definitely a most terrifying moment for the young Hemingway. After being seriously injured weeks later, Hemingway found himself recovering at a hospital in Milan. After his stay at the American Hospital in Milan, Hemingway was relieved of duty (Mitran 1). Having no other purpose in Europe, he returned unhappil ...

... As a teenager he began playing streetcorners for coins, combining gospel songs with the blues. When he started making more money playing in one night then he would in a week on the farm, he decided to head to Memphis. After a few years, King went back to Indianola to work and repay some debts, eventually returning to Memphis to stay. King's trademark is the trilling vibrato he developed in an attempt to duplicate the stinging sound of the steel slide. With the help of the late Sonny Boy William- son he began singing radio commercials and became a disc jockey. Later he played in small clubs, and then in larger venues in the mid-1960's. He has toured extensively thr ...

... what children did and what they were attracted to. In 1898, Dr. Montessori addressed the Congress for Teachers. She spoke of an anthropological approach to childrenÕs development. This led to teacher training at The State Orthophrenic School. Dr. Montessori lectured on the function of the school teacher, Whose task it was not to judge the children. She felt it was the teachers role to help guide and enlighten something that was asleep in the student. Mental work would not exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the Montessori Method of education. She experime ...

... peoples’ puddin’” (14). was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 and was raised by his mother in Pasadena, California. He attended UCLA, where he was a baseball, basketball, football and track star. He played semi-professional football for a short time in an integrated league with the Honolulu Bears before being drafted into the army. He was honorably discharged in 1945 with the rank of second lieutenant. Robinson then started to play in the Negro National League and was eventually seen by a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The scout brought Robinson to the attention of team president Branch Rickey, who wanted to try out his “ ...