Crunden‚ Robert M. Ministers of Reform:The Progressives’ Achievement in American Civilization‚ 1889-1920. Basic Books‚ 1984. When a historian is asked to recall what they know of Progressivism does Robert Crunden’s Ministers of Reform come to mind? Is it a useful tool for examining and interpreting this period in American history? In Ministers of Reform‚ Crunden displays his interest through a strong evaluation and exploration into the lives of twenty-one prominent progressives
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bias in our criminal justice system and how it has been altered throughout time. In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindless‚ Alexander compares our current justice system to the Jim Crow laws of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ which enforced racial segregation‚ by calling our system “The New Jim Crow.” Alexander describes America’s racial history in depth by covering slavery‚ the Civil War‚ reconstruction‚ and the Civil Rights Movement. The author also explains
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While viewing Robert Kenner’s film in “Food Inc.” the filmmaker uncovers the truth on America’s nation food industry‚ exposing the highly industrialised soft-underbelly of animal production that has been swept under the carpet from the American consumers with the consent of America’s Government Regulatory Agencies‚ the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this regard‚ the environment‚ the livelihood of American farmers‚ the consumers’ health and
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In Robert Whelchel’s Article‚ “Is Technology Neutral?”‚ he discusses how the engineering profession needs to address the issues surrounding technologies. He starts of by defining what it means for a technology to be morally neutral. A technology is not neutral in the sense of creating value; it can create good or bad for society. So Whelchel rephrases the question as‚ “is technology value-free?” In order to assign value to a technology‚ there must be some value system. However‚ giving technology
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Jefferson and Hamilton were both fundamental in the creation of the Constitution and the present government. They both agreed that the government needed some changes‚ but that is where the similarities ended. Hamilton was the creator of the Federalist Party which represented favor in strong central government‚ a Federal Bank‚ and a stable financial system. Jefferson was the creator of the Anti-Federalist Party who did not favor strong central government‚ and believed in an agrarian economy. Both leaders
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Alexander Calder was one of the most innovative and original American artists of the twentieth century. In 1926‚ Calder arrived in Paris and devoted himself to a project called the Circus that occupied him for over five years. This contains characters and animals made out of wire‚ scraps of cloth‚ wood‚ cork‚ labels‚ bits of scrap metal and pieces of rubber. Calder transported his little theater in suitcases and performed it for his friends. During his performances‚ Calder invented ways to simulate
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In “The Trouble with Television‚” Robert MacNeil states his viewpoints strong and thoroughly about how he thinks television is harmful to society. Many different things have gone wrong because of television. MacNeil states that‚ “Television is like a drug.” Once you watch so much of it‚ you get addicted to it and then you can’t stop watching it. This is making our world bad‚ and it keeps on going and it’s decivilizing a lot of the world. Television is taking over the world because say if someone
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Valerie Martino Many people list heroes as brave‚ courageous‚ someone who saves the day. But heroes are everywhere. They could be friends‚ family or neighbors since anyone can be a hero. I believe that a hero would be Bethany Hamilton. She was born on the island of Kauai and practically raised on a surfboard‚ on the ocean water. She was a Christian child‚ a devoted surfer and was mostly influenced by her family and friends. One of her dreams was to become a professional surfer‚ and with her talent
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Robert Merton’s major theory that influenced the criminal justice field was his theory of social strain/anomie. Merton theorized that people experience frustration or strain in their failure to achieve their desires‚ which are influenced by society. Society has various norms‚ some which shape the desires of people and some which specify the acceptable ways to go about achieving those norms and desires (Merton 1968 & Merton 1938 & Anderson). Merton listed different ways that people can go about
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Robert Kagan describes adversarial legalism as just one of the many types of methods used in policy implementation and dispute regulation. The key difference between this specific type of method‚ and methods used by western European nations and others‚ is that adversarial legalism is dominated heavily by lawyers rather than by judges. Kagan also notes a second difference‚ saying that adversarial legalism is its own functioning‚ “mode of governance…embedded in the political culture and political structure
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