The Southern Company is a utility holding company whose principal subsidiaries provide power in Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Florida‚ and Mississippi. With the gradual deregulation of the utilities industry in the 1990s‚ Southern Company expanded its holdings into New England‚ New York‚ the Midwest‚ and California‚ making it the largest power producer in the country. In addition‚ Southern now owns power generating operations in Europe‚ Hong Kong‚ the Philippines‚ and South America. The early 1980s saw a
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written previous to‚ and following‚ the secession of South Carolina. South Carolina separated from the Union that constitutes the United States December 20‚ 1860. The articles: Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union‚ New-York Daily Tribune – The Right of Secession and‚ New-York Times – Peaceable Secession‚ are all writings specific to South Carolina’s secession from the US. All three sources were
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The southern economy flourished on the backbones of the men and women that were enslaved in the 18th and 19th centuries. With the threat of the removal of the core method of profit for hundreds of plantation owners‚ an anger rose that would lead to an illogical reaction of withdrawing their entire region from the country that had built them. In essence the South felt a strong need to protect what they believed they possessed: the use of humans as components in the profit machine. This fierce protectiveness
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and political differences between the Northern States and the Southern States. As we all know‚ the South’s economy was driven by cotton grow‚ which needed a great work force‚ in this case slaves. Some of the Northern states had abolished slavery‚ others agreed on the gradual emancipation after the American Revolutionary War‚ and their economy was industrial based. Another major issue was the strong idea of Nullification in the Southern states especially in South Carolina which eventually made this
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The document that I chose is the "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union". This document was addressed to the United States government. This document’s main point is that the people of South Carolina decided on April 26‚ 1852 to secede from the United States due to "...encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States‚" but they were not allowed to and that "Since that time‚ these encroachments have continued to increase
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ninety-three thousand prisoners of war in hostile Indian custody‚ and the economy was in complete turmoil. Bhutto’s rallying cry of ‘Roti‚ Kapra‚ Makaan’ had allowed him to win the majority seats in West Pakistan in the elections of 1970‚ and with the secession of East Pakistan in 1971‚ the path to the presidency was clear. Certain historians and political analysts have credited Bhutto with pulling Pakistan through the darkest period of its history‚ but in ‘Signposts to a Police State’‚ Eqbal Ahmad‚ argues
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This Term Essay has been submitted by Ms Nipasha Mahanta ID No: 213140 On Political Science-I During the Monsoon session 2013 B.A. L.L.B (Hons)‚ First Year Section A Topic- Insurgency and its impact upon North-Eastern India with special reference to Assam and Bodoland conflict. Abstract “The Northeastern part of India has been replete with episodes of violent secessionist and separatist movements since the time of independence.”1 “The basic reason
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problems and threats which have existed or currently exist in Southern California and how these problems shape the way we live today and in the imminent future as well. Although Davis did not really provide us with any remedies for the problems facing Southern California‚ this book made it very clear to the readers that problems do still exist‚ although at times they may sound subtle in nature. Of the numerous problems which do exist in Southern California‚ I will discuss only a handful of the problems
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The Secession and Ft. Sumter involved the South‚ North‚ South Carolina‚ and Fort Sumter and it affected the North‚ South‚ the Union‚ and South Carolina. The South seceded from the Union after the Election of 1860. They felt that they had no representation in the government once Lincoln became the President. The Southern territories consolidated and formed the “Confederate States of America” . To wholly transform the states in the Confederacy‚ the South captured Fort Sumter which was being controlled
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Southern Gothic literature has many of the same aspects as Gothic literature; Southern Gothic literature‚ which is a sub-genre of the Gothic writing style‚ is unique to the American South. It focuses on topics such as death‚ madness‚ and the super natural as well has having many mystical‚ bizarre‚ violent‚ and grotesque aspects. Gothic literature has left a deep impression to the people. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O’Connor wrote stories filled with grotesque characters‚ violence‚
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