While Cesar Chavez is more widely known than Dolores Huerta, Dolores started the Latino movement across the country. Born on April 10, 1930, Dolores Clara Fernandez, was born in Dawson, New Mexico. ... She soon divorced her first husband and later remarried to Ventura Huerta and raised five children. ...
Realize or Relapses On April 10, 1970 President George Washington signed a bill that laid out the bases for our current American Patent System. ... This corporation charges people a twenty-five hundred dollar fee, on top of what the doctor charges, to test for their cell (Hylton 109). ... Syndicates across America are capitalizing on human suffering, and by accepting cell patents, the United States government is telling them it is okay to continue to do so. ...
Hence, Columbine and other school shootings across the nation in recent years. ... At about 11:30am on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 two students dressed in black trench coats entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado with shot guns, and proceeded to open fire on everyone that moved. ... Fifteen students and faculty were killed, and twenty-five were left either with injuries. ...
While the age range varies from as young as seven to forty five it is obvious slave traders and buyers aren't particular about the lives they wish to destroy. ... In April, a CIA report verified that as many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe are brought to the United States every year under false pretenses. ... The sexual exploitation of American children cuts across every economy, ethic, and social line. ...
As tensions between the North and the South grew many attacks across the 38th parallel began to take place during the summer of 1949, these attacks were initiated by the South. ... (p. 107) Also Jon Halliday and Cummings both claimed that Rhee had ordered his forces to launch an attack across the parallel before dawn on June 25, 1950 to "provoke a communist invasion and prompt U.S military intervention." (p. 107) Once the North Koreans attacked, they marched quickly across the southern part of the peninsula taking the capital Seoul along the way and pushed the US forces to the Pusan ...
Although the name Billy Mitchell may not be a familiar one to many people, one thing is for sure, this one name changed the course of history by pushing himself to the limits until he couldn't go any further, and finally got his point across. ... Commissioned as a second lieutenant at the early age of eighteen, Billy Mitchell, without a contracting officers warrant, managed to spend $50,000.00 of the United States governments money to build a telegraph across Alaska. ... Mitchell was reappointed colonel, and transferred to Houston, Texas after his term with the Air Service expired i...
In the middle of April in 1803, shortly before Monroe's arrival, the French asked Livingston if the United States was interested in purchasing all of Louisiana Territory. ... On April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the Louisiana Purchase agreement was made, the first state to be carved from the Louisiana Territory was admitted into the Union as the 18th U.S. state. ... The Lawn and the Rotunda have served as models of inspiration for similar designs of "centralized green areas" at universities across the United States. ... Jefferson took great pains to recruit the most highly qualifi...
As for the four LAPD officers involved in the arrest, they were unfortunately acquitted by the grand jury on April 29, 1992. ... Five days after the rioting started, 54 people were dead. ... On April 10, the case was submitted to the jury. ... The media is blaring police brutality across the nation. ...
The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at tim...
On November 1, over twenty five thousand women demonstrated across the country with the slogan: "End the Arms Race-- Not the Human Race (DeBenedetti, 54)." ... As Martin Luther King, Jr. said in his speech given on April 4, 1967, "Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. ...
Only five states sent delegates. ... On April 1789 the first Congress met. ... Many people everyday are crossing borders and sailing across oceans, risking their lives for hopes of a better life here in America because of the Bill of Rights. ...
Barbed wire: An invention that cut across the trails and divided up the big ranches. ... At age sixty-five, he sold the company to J. ... At first the main objective of white supremacy organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, the Constitutional Union Guards and the Knights of the White Camelia was to stop black people from voting. ongress passed the Ku Klux Act and became law on 20th April, 1871. ...
On November 1, over twenty five thousand women demonstrated across the country with the slogan: "End the Arms Race-- Not the Human Race (DeBenedetti, 54)." ... As Martin Luther King, Jr. said in his speech given on April 4, 1967, "Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. ...
Television Violence Myth Twelve teenagers and one teacher were shot to death and eighteen others were wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. ... News of the Columbine massacre flashed across newspapers and television stations across the world. ... Recent studies have shown that the average American child spends approximately four to five hours a day hypnotized in television programs full of violent content (Hepburn 244). ... The study found seventy-five percent of the programs monitored shows no punishment of the perpetrators for example, the famous cartoo...
When Huerta returned from successfully defeating Orozco in five consecutive engagements, Huerta expected to be treated as a hero. ... In April of 1914, some American sailors from a warship had gone ashore off Tampico and been arrested by a Huerista colonel. ... On April 21, 1914, 1,000 sailors and Marines landed, and were followed by 3,000 more. ...
With close to two million people behind bars across the nation, there is quite a bit of money to be made from the U.S. prison industry. ... The cheapest labor is not to be found in the United States; it is found south of the border in Mexico or across the Pacific in countries like Indonesia. ...
Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms i...
This use of force was made possible due to section five of the Fourteenth Amendment that allowed Congress to "have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of the Amendment. ... Formed in April of eighteen seventy-one, the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States was formed by congress to "to investigate the current condition of 'the late insurrectionary states', which included Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. ...
Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...
Department of Justice, criminals in prisons across the nation were interviewed. ... Hugh LaFollette, in his article "Gun Control: The Issues" says that because of these restrictions, as of April 1991 there were only 61,497 legally owned handguns in New York City, a city of nearly 8 million people. ...
Background Medical facilities across the United States are concerned with critical date sensitive medical devices and products availability as January 1, 2000 approaches. ... Healthcare organizations across the country are exploring options to eliminate the computer bug. ...
In April 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) started to put forward a series of changes on the rules of shell companies in response to the above two issues. ... (Cosnita-Langlais & Jean-Philippe 2013, p. 36) The length of the seasoning period varies across different stock exchanges. ...
The People's Republic of China has been a communist state since 1949, when Mao Zedong declared, after a bloody civil war, that all of China was to be combined under one banner, and that banner was Communism. For many years, China remained where it was, focusing more on its internal problems and econ...
Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginning. We wanted to help ensure that South Vietnam had a separate, independent, and noncommunist government. Not only were the Vietnamese affected but the American citizens her at home. ...
