An important and frequently cited essay by Professor Michael Gazzaniga (Feb. 5, 1990) brought a scientist's discipline into the picture, shedding light on matters vital to an understanding of the drug question. He wrote, for instance, about different rates of addiction, and about ambient pressures that bear on addiction. Elsewhere, Professor James Q. Wilson, now of UCLA, has written eloquently in defense of the drug war. Milton Friedman from the beginning said it would not work, and would do damage. We have found Dr. Gazzaniga and others who have written on the subject persuasive in arguing that the weight of the evidence is against the current attempt to prohibit drugs.
There were many important advancements made during the scientific revolution, but none more important than the work of Isaac Newton. Newton led a somewhat troubled childhood to become possibly the greatest influence on mathematics and science in the history of mankind. Primarily, he was a physicist, but he was also a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and alchemist. Aside from all of his theories and discoveries he completely revolutionized the approach to science and was a key catalyst to the Scientific Revolution. Isaac Newton was born prematurely on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire England.
There's tons of argument about the authenticity of signing statements and what it meant, and that controversy got caught up in the separate debate about the scope of executive power. A signing statement is a written pronouncement issued by the President of the United States upon the signing of a bill of law. They are usually printed along with the bill in the United States Code Congressional and Administrative news. The effect the President’s signing statement had on the torture ban left the executive branch and secretary of State in the dark. It showed that speed was more important than any other value.
Historians such as Hobsbawn argue this, and believe that the traditional great power rivalry was fundamental to the start of the Cold War. Many different historians argue different points as to why the war began, McMahon argues that the difference between the Capitalist West and the Communist East was the fundamental reason for the beginning of the Cold War, the difference in ideology has been rife for many years leading up to the Cold War. Oppositely, Gaddis believes that the personality of the leaders, in particular Stalin had a main role and where he is concerned, all other leaders could have been removed, leaving only Stalin and the Cold War still would of started. I believe that the difference in Ideologies played a key, dominant role in the development of the Cold War, however I do appreciate that power rivalry and also leader personalities had a role. Firstly, Hobsbawn immediately dismisses the fact that ideology played a role in the development of the Cold War, he says ‘Confrontation would probably have developed even without ideology.’ Hobsbawn then goes onto say that after Kennan came up with his policy of Containment, the USA saw themselves as the only ‘rival power to Russia’ and that they would have to ‘contain its pressure by uncompromising resistance, even If Russia had not been communist’.
Reviewing Elements of Chapter 12 of the Disappearing Spoon Sam Kean, the author of the New York Times Bestseller the Disappearing Spoon, opens the 12th chapter of his narrative by stating that “The periodic table embodies our frustrations and failures in every human field: economics, psychology, the arts, and… politics” (Kean, 203). Kean, being an english and physics major, observes that the periodic table, our most treasured accomplishment as a race as he puts it, is much more than just a jumble of random letters pertaining to a specific scientific field but, instead, a focal point of human interaction throughout history. Kean’s narrative, as a whole, focuses on the many facets of the periodic table including its scientific and nonscientific attributes, providing the reader with a new perspective to this vast array of elements; a social perspective. Chapter 12 of Kean’s bestseller focuses on how politics had a major influence on the development of the periodic table. The majority of the chapter takes place during the mid-1900s and therefore, as one might imagine, anti-Semitism was omnipresent.
Name: Quy Pham Class: History 1302 Teacher: John Ryan Due Date: June 20th, 2011 Book Report of “Guarding the Golden Door” In “Guarding the Golden Door”, Roger Daniels attempts to trace the history of immigration in the United States from 1882 to the present day. Daniels is a writer and he is also a historian. In this book, with his brilliant writings and knowledge, he pointed out many interesting information about the immigration and immigrants from many countries around the world to the America. From the book, we can have some precise arguments about the immigrations: Because of religion, race or ethnicity these groups are too different, and therefore cannot be adapted into American culture. Immigrant groups, because of innate inferiority or prior cultural disposition, are not capable of self-government and are therefore a danger to our political institutions.
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian education philosopher and in his 1970 excerpt, “The Banking Concept of Education”, Freire describes his view of education in two drastically opposed points of view. Education, as the “banking concept” is different than the concept of “communication” between teacher and student as Freire argues. Then on the other hand, you have James Loewen, an American professor of sociology for over twenty years with a focus on history and sociology of U.S. race relations. “Loewen is an expert at surprising his readers and audiences with historical facts most of us never learned and teaching us what history books get wrong and why we should care.” (332) In the excerpts from one of Loewen’s well-known books, “From Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,” you can see how Loewen views the inaccurate facts for history and how they are taught to students. In Freire’s essay, his viewpoint in general terms, is that the education as the world knows it to be, is nothing more than information provided, memorized, and then
Murray, angered at this critical tenure review by men whose opinion he did not overly respect, went on leave from 1937 until the fall of 1941. After a year in Europe, he returned to the United States to work on his biography of Herman Melville, taking Melville through age thirtythree, when he finished Pierre. With the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the world changed, and Murray’s conception of himself and his work in the world also changed. Fighting against Nazism and winning World War II became of greatest immediate importance, while exploring the unconscious had a lower priority. In response to a request from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, Murray finished by October 1943 a 227-page psychological study of Adolf Hitler, “Analysis of the Personality of Adolph [sic] Hitler, with Predictions of His Future Behavior and Suggestions for Dealing with Him Now and After Germany’s Surrender.” Much of this was later published, without adequate acknowledgement of Murray’s role, by Walter C. Langer as The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report (1972).
What Could've Been Fixed: Holocaust Edition Adolf Hitler once said, "when I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror" (BQ.com). What is the very first thing that comes to mind after seeing that quote? Or what is the first thing you think about when you see the number 5,709,329? It could be a large sum of money, or the population of a state, maybe even the answer to a ridiculously hard math problem. But, there is much deeper meaning to that number than one might think.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. extensively. However, the “center right” policies and practices of President Obama’s administration have almost completely turned its back on the three major objects of Dr. King’s wrath, enemies against which he had devoted almost his entire life – e.g. racism, poverty, and war! Again, as I stated in the above, I understand the game President Obama is playing given whom he is trying to appease and the far right of center competition he’ll be facing come the 2012 elections.