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Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

20th Century Race History

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Paternalism

most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

Pennsylvania's Cigarette Taxes

They want this because of traffic congestion in cities in addition to the problem of pollution. Raising taxes on gas promotes car ...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

Aspects of the Multiple Heritage Seen in Africa

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

New York State Constitution Creation

Boston Tea Party well and was suspicious of the federal governments plan for taxation. Still, when all is said and done, the bril...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Issues Featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

Social Welfare and Poverty in Michigan

social welfare policy is as follows: "The Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy is jointly managed by the Schools...

E-Commerce, Tax Revenues and Physical Stores

Internet sales would result in decreased sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores (1999). That seems to make logical sense if ...

North and South Perspectives and the American Civil War

power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Southern Colonists and Slaves

charge of the environment and created numerous crops needed in the United States. At first they utilized the assistance of indentu...

Voter Turnout Variations in the Elections of 1998 and 2000

50.4 36.7 The above chart for New York shows the voting age population between 13 and 14 million for which registered voters...

Investigating the Civil War Causes

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

A Licensed Professional Counselor's Professional Disclosure Statement Example

International Society for Mental Health Online 3. Ranges of clinical services offered: individual psychotherapy, group psychothera...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Analyzed

be a slave (Schaub 86). He explained in a mater-of-fact way that since he knew no other life, the term slavery meant nothing to h...

Tennessee Eviction Proceedings

end of November. In January 2003, they gave to the landlords agent (another tenant on the same property) a check for $700, which ...

US Slavery and the Impact of the Revolutionary War

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

Slavery and the Cherokee Society by Theda Perdue

of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Abraham Lincoln's Anti Slavery Acts

section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to b...

Freedom and Culture

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

New Deal and Mechanisms of Commitment

restore public confidence (Byrd, 1990). While this legislation was an unequivocal success, not all New Deal policies were as ef...