1. Notes on 1920's America
America was all too comfortable with a naive sense "nothing can touch us and noting can hurt us." ... For example, World War II was thought of as the war "over there", "over seas", but the events that occurred on December 7,1941 at Pearl Harbor, noting at that point could compare to the awakening and the realization that America could be struck and struck hard. ... Our political diplomats are world wide and their influences for the reaching. ... In other countries wars are fought and are being fought just for the right to worship. ... We are a part of a world that is full of turmoil hatred a...
The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... In addition many countries were yet to recover from the First World War. ... Another problem caused by the First World War was that of inflation. ... The situation in Germany was made worse because of the reparations they had to pay as a consequence for having started World War I. ... The consequences of the depression were so serve in some countries especially Germany that hostile political parties gained power which in turn led to the outbreak...
It was dated back to 5400 BCE. 3150 BCE (Egypt)- One of Egypt's earliest rulers, King Scorpion 1 was buried with around 700 jars of wine. 3000 BCE (Egypt)- Pharaohs acquired a taste for wine and established their own limited domestic production. 323 BCE (Greece)- It was said that heavy wine drinking caused Alexander the Great's death of a "mysterious " illness. 193 BCE (Rome)-North African wines dominate after septimius severus' rise to power. 146 BCE (Italy)- The Italian peninsula became the world's first wine-producing region, right around when Rome became the lead...
America is full of people from all over the world. ... "Under the American system of justice, civil courts (lawsuits) and criminal courts (prosecution of crimes) Reparations 3 require such proof of wrongdoing, criminal acts or harm" (Editors Note, Slavery Reparations: A Misguided Movement, 2002). ... (p. 3) During the Civil War, there was an enormous number of white soldiers who died because they were fighting against slavery. ... The Japanese-Americans who were paid $20,000 after World War II were either themselves put in internment camps or were family members of the people who were i...
America is the land of opportunity. The stitches that bind America's fabric of history have been sawn with illegal threads. Organized crime has been woven into the society of the United States of America just as baseball and apple pie. The only difference is that this ethos of society has been swep...