...Silas Deane: a foreign name to most students, and even to some historians too. His story isn’t fantastic, and he didn’t contribute a whole lot to the United States’ history. However, despite this, he is a phenomenal example that can be utilized to show the difference between what most believe history to be and the truth of what history actually is. The main point of the prologue to After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection is more than a mere retelling of the dramatic life of Silas Deane. In fact, this story is actually more of a building block that is strategically used in favor of the argument that history, and historians, are more than “couriers between the past and present” that simply “deliver messages without adding to them.” The story of Silas Deane begins with a brief...
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...Reconstruction: A Success Only After the Fact Teresa Gil Reconstruction, the act of putting the country back together after the divisive and bloody Civil War, is the era from the end of the Civil War until 1877. Because so much was at stake and there were so many variations about how Reconstruction should be accomplished, this was a period of enormous conflict. In the South, the primary battle was between the Planters who dominated the South economically, politically, and socially, and former slaves, who wanted legal and political equality and the ability to own land. In the federal government, the Republican Party was dominant, and the most outspoken group within the Republican Party was known as the Radical Republicans. They were the northerners who were most bitter toward the planters and the most dedicated to winning equality for former slaves. In 1865, the Radicals nevertheless came to dominate Congress with their calls for significant political and legal change in the South. One of the central conflicts within the government concerned President Johnson’s unwavering conviction that his methods were the only methods and his refusal to change any of his laws. He tried to take charge of Reconstruction, offering a plan by which the southern states would write new constitutions and re-enter the Union without having to allow political rights to the freedmen. When Johnson’s plan was put into effect, many northerners were disgusted by the results. Former Confederate leaders...
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...Criminal Law/Procedure Essay 5 Dan’s Crime Solicitation Dan may have committed the crime of solicitation. The crime of solicitation is an inchoate offense. Solicitation consists of inciting, counseling, advising, another to commit a crime with the intent that the person being solicited will commit the crime. Here, according to the fact pattern, Dan informed Eric that he planned to take all of her computers. This would qualify as solicitation however, since Dan has committed other crimes arising from his solicitation, he cannot be convicted of solicitation due to merger. Accomplice Liability Dan may be held liable for accomplice liability. Accomplice liability involves a principal and accessory before the fact and an accessory after the fact. A principal is the person who commits the illegal act or who induces an innocent person to do so. An accomplice before the fact is a person who aids or encourages the principal to commit the conduct but is not present and an accessory after the fact is someone who aids the principal in escaping knowing that he has committed a felony. Here, Dan would be considered a principal since he received aid before and after the commission of the felony. Conspiracy Dan can also be guilty of conspiracy. Conspiracy is a specific intent crime. Conspiracy requires an agreement between two or more persons, an intent to enter into the agreement, and the intent by at least two persons to achieve the objective of their agreement and an overt agreement or...
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...father’s curse. King Laius, Oedipus’s father, brings upon a curse on himself but also on his own son, Oedipus, even though Oedipus was not born yet. The fact that Oedipus had nothing to do with his own fathers curse exculpates Oedipus from creating his own demise. Oedipus could not control the fact that the curse was going to be fulfilled: “If you cannot be free of the gods, then you cannot be made free” (DOC A). The fact that Oedipus is a human and Apollo a god, shows how powerless the king Oedipus is. The power of Apollo’s ability to manipulate peoples’ thoughts leads Oedipus to make rash decisions and to ignorantly curse himself. The curse that King Laius gives to Oedipus shows how guilty Laius is and not his son. Oedipus does not realize that he is the king’s son and the husband of his own mother. After receiving a prophecy to kill his own father and marry his own mother, Oedipus runs away, and blindly kills the king of Thebes without realizing the fact that he has killed his biological father. Not knowing that he is adopted causes confusion and fear to Oedipus. After receiving such a shocking and unbelievable prophecy Oedipus could not control his own emotions of anger and confusion which led to the killing of King Laius. After the killing of Laius, Oedipus curses the murderer of the king. Because of the fact that Oedipus does not know who is real father is makes Oedipus blindly and foolishly curse...
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...The book’s title is Hiroshima, it was written by a man named John Hersey about a year after the bomb. At first the novel was published in four parts in the New Yorker and then was put all together into one and sold in bookstores everywhere where it got popular among everyone. John Hersey wrote about six survivors who lived through the atom bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima. The book starts out by telling the reader about the atom bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Hersey tells the number of casualties and the survival rate along with all the pain and suffering the survivors had to go through the days after the drop. After stating the horrific facts of the effects of the atom bomb Hersey goes on to...
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...AMP FACT FINDER Question 1 – Discuss the major issues that this document provides a planner. The AMP Fact Finder is a vital part of financial planning as it is the tool used to ‘explore’ the life of a new investor for the first time. As you know, even people with money can be nutty. These data collection sheets are also great for staying out of trouble and keeping compliance happy. This is because you'll always have what clients told you they wanted on file: Goals, objectives, constraints, investment and insurance suitability, and investment risk tolerance. So when they have "an episode," you can easily set them straight before it escalates to the Broker Dealer / Finra / SEC level (by pulling them out and showing them what they told you in the past). These tools are the most important things every financial planner and/or investment manager should have. They're very inexpensive compared to the benefits, even if you already have financial planning questionnaires. There's going to be much more value with ours, that you can cut and paste to make your own custom financial discovery tools with. Your financial plan case writer will also love you if you get and use these, because it eliminates most all of the data input and rework problems caused by bad note taking, bad handwriting, outdated / duplicate financial statements, bad spreadsheets, and other piles of folders clients give you (correctly thinking that it's your job to make sense of). Start doing "your job right," and...
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...Life After Death, What Happens After We Die? Contents Introduction 3 Ideas on Life After Death in Different Religions 4 Perception of Life After Death in Literature: Dante's “Inferno” 6 Life After Death in Art: Rodin's “The Gates of Hell” 8 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction The question associated with life after death is associated with people of all races, genders, ages and world religions. It is understandable that people cannot live forever, and death is an inevitable event. But still people are interested what will happen to them after death, and what it means to die. There are great numbers of assumptions on this issue, and people's opinions differ, but still it is difficult to reveal the truth, as nobody knows this for sure. This paper will focus on different assumptions and possible events taking place after people's death. Of course every person thinks about afterlife concept in the current period of time, as it would be really strange not to consider this issue at least once. People should understand and be aware of possible events happened to them after life in order to value the current state of affairs and life in the present period of time. It is necessary to make the right choice and build proper relationships with people surrounding you, as every day is unique, and it would be impossible to return it again. D'Souza (2009) stated that the Bible teaches people “that...
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...lacked discipline and from what I can tell a moral compass. During 1968 he assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, while he was on the run after escaping prison 11 months prior. (2017) James Earl Ray used several aliases while traveling and purchasing items. According to Saferstein, there was a package left at the scene after the assassination containing a package that held a high powered rifle equipped with a scope, beer cans, binoculars, a receipt for binoculars and clothes. Also there was a white ford mustang observed leaving the scene but prior a man fitting the description of James Earl Ray observed running down the hallway of the hotel shortly after the shot was fired. Now as an innocent person, hearing a...
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...organization which hosted the convention. A jury awarded her several million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages against the Las Vegas Hilton Corporation ("LVHC") and Hilton Hotels Corporation ("HHC"). LVHC and HHC (collectively,"Hilton") appeal. BACKGROUND The infamous 1991 Tailhook Convention served as the stage for the despicable event that led to this lawsuit. Hosted by the Tailhook Association ("Association"), the Tailhook Convention was an annual symposium and convention primarily directed at military aviators and held at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. Navy Lieutenant Paula A. Coughlin, a decorated helicopter pilot, attended the 1991 Tailhook Convention in her capacity as an aide to Rear Admiral John Snyder. After attending a banquet at the Las Vegas Hilton on the evening of Saturday, September 7, 1991, Coughlin returned to her nearby hotel to change out of her military uniform. She then returned to the Las Vegas Hilton to socialize with friends at one of the many convention-related social events at the hotel. Looking for her friends, she entered a third-floor area where several hospitality suites hosted by various Navy squadrons were located. As she started to walk down the hallway--now notoriously known as the "gauntlet"--she was attacked, groped, grabbed, and handled by a...
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...America had after independence. In my opinion the two biggest problems that Latin America had after gaining their independence was the huge amount of economic devastation that the wars of independence caused, and the fact that the new republics that were formed after independence were very fragile. After the wars of independence there was a huge amount of economic devastation, the areas that were hit the hardest where the Mexican and Peruvian silver mines. Since most of their shafts were flooded, most of there machinery was destroyed in the process. These mines needed huge injections of capital but there weren’t enough banks in Latin America to provide them with it, and foreign banks weren’t interested in investing with them at all. Another reason for Latin America's huge amount of economic problems was the lack of transportation infrastructure; transportation costs were very high because it was hard for merchants who were trying to sell things to get past the steep mountains and tropical forests. Trade continued to expand but there wasn’t enough capital at the time to build new roads, bridges, railroads, and ports, so Latin American trade never realized its full potential. Rebuilding the government was also very expensive, because they all had to be rebuilt from scratch. The army was already overdeveloped, because their were too many officers and too many salaries to pay which created many conflicts between the armies. Another problem that Latin America had after independence...
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...They are the birth defects that I’ll be researching and discussing. About 3 in 10,000 pregnancies will have anencephaly (Facts about Anencephaly). Each year about 375 babies in the United States are born with encephalocele (Canfield MA). About 1 in 1,000 babies are born with clubfoot in the United States each year (Clubfoot). Conjoined twins are usually genetically identical. There for, the mother only produces one egg. When the embryo starts to split in the first few weeks it doesn’t complete the process, which results in conjoined twins (Facts About the Twins). Then the partially split egg develops into a conjoined twin. Since conjoined twins are so rare it’s hard to know what the causes are for the egg to stop splitting completely, however, conjoined twins occur more often in Latin American than they do in the United States or Europe (Conjoined Twins). One of the first documented conjoined twins was Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst. They were born in the year 1100, they were joined at the hip, in Biddenden, County of Kent, in England. They lived to be 34 years old (Facts About the Twins). Radica and Doodica Neik were born in Orissa, India, in 1888. They were conjoined with a band of cartilage at their chests. When Doodica developed tuberculosis in 1902 a Paris doctor,...
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...macro-environment factors affect the industry. Each single factor has the potential to fundamentally change the competitive Samsung operates in. Due to the fact that the mobile industry is easy to be influenced by external environment, the analysis is especially important for Samsung. As PESTEL is one of the frameworks that help to understand market growth or decline, business position, potential and direction for operations (Kotler, 1998). We hope that after reading this report, you will agree that PESTEL really affect how a company works. ing PESTEL analysis to understand how the macro-environment factors affect the industry. Each single factor has the potential to fundamentally change the competitive Samsung operates in. Due to the fact that the mobile industry is easy to be influenced by external environment, the analysis is especially important for Samsung. As PESTEL is one of the frameworks that help to understand market growth or decline, business position, potential and direction for operations (Kotler, 1998). We hope that after reading this report, you will agree that PESTEL really affect how a company works. ing PESTEL analysis to understand how the macro-environment factors affect the industry. Each single factor has the potential to fundamentally change the competitive Samsung operates in. Due to the fact that the mobile industry is easy to be influenced by external environment, the analysis is especially important for Samsung. As PESTEL is one of the frameworks...
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...The way that I applied the steps of the scientific method in the activity, was first I made an observation that my car wasn’t starting. After I made the observation, I came up with a couple hypotheses as to why the car wasn’t starting, I came up with electrical problems. I came up with the prediction that if I changed the spark plugs that would make the car start. I than performed an experiment by changing the spark plugs. After changing the spark plugs, the car still wouldn’t start. The fact that the car still wouldn’t start after changing the spark plugs refuted my hypothesis. I than came up with another prediction, that if I changed the fuses that that would fix the problem. After I made my prediction I performed the experiment by changing the fuses. After I changed the fuses the car started. The fact that the car started after I changed the fuses supported my hypotheses that the problem was indeed an electrical problem. A real life problem where I had to use the scientific method to solve it, was the morning when I woke up and made an observation, that after several attempts to dial out on my phone, I couldn’t dial out. After I made the observation that my phone wasn’t working, I asked myself the question why my phone wasn’t working. I came up with a couple of hypotheses to the problem. The first hypotheses I came up with, was that I didn’t have any minutes on my phone. I then came up with the prediction that if I was to put minutes on my phone, that that would fix the...
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...Give SEARCH About News Events Sign-up Login / Register DONATE Default History Cannon QUICK FACTS 10 Facts: The Battle of Chickamauga SHARE THIS September 18-20, 1863 Learn more about the Battle of Chickamauga, the Confederacy's greatest victory in the West. Fact #1: Chickamauga was the largest Confederate victory in the Western theater. Braxton Bragg Braxton Bragg Library of Congress At the end of a summer that had seen the disastrous Confederate loss at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the triumph of the Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga was a well-timed turn around for the Confederates. Bragg’s forces at Chickamauga secured a decisive victory, breaking through Federal...
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...Ms. Barbara Mclusky, a tenant who is not related by blood, marriage, or adoption be evicted from her rent stabilized apartment after the death of the tenant of record? Brief Answer No. A person has the right to qualify for eviction protection after death of a tenant: if they are a family member or have a family style relationship, and reside with tenant as a primary residence and, can prove emotional and financial commitment and interdependence between such person and the tenant. However no single factor shall be solely determinative. A court would rule in favor of Ms. Barbara Mclusky because she met the statutory requirements for emotional commitment, financial commitment and interdependence. Discussion I. Was there emotional dependence between Ms. Barbara Mclusky and Ms. Rosalind Shapiro? Ms. Mclusky meets the statutory requirements for emotional dependence. A family member is defined as: any other person residing with the tenant in the housing accommodation as a primary residence who can prove emotional and financial commitment, and interdependence between such person and the tenant. Evidence which is to be considered in determining whether such emotional… commitment existed, may include: longevity of the relationship, regular...
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