.... justified. The same is true for the institution of slavery. In modern times however, most people find such an institution to be worthless and inhumane. When one observes slavery through the eyes of a southerner during that period, a plethora of justifications would be present. Also, Southerners of that time had reason to believe that the basis of the northern economy was more corrupt than theirs. When defending slavery the first aspect that one must look at is that slavery was the basis of the southern economy. To put an end to slavery without reimbursement for southern losses would have been crippling to their whole economic structure.1 Reimbursement was also pra ....

.... more and more towards manufacturing. They were less dependent on slavery as many of the workers in the factories were immigrants. Because of the factory atmosphere, many of the immigrants settled in the large cities on the North where jobs were easier to find. Citizens of the South believed that slaves were better off than the immigrants because their owner took care of their basic needs. Southerners often tried to show the plantation life of a slave as a family atmosphere. They said that "Immigrants were underpaid and over worked" and "often working conditions were unsafe and unhealthy." States rights also played a role in the start of the Civil War. The first st ....

.... In the mid to late nineteen forties, communism was thriving in Asia. The Chinese and the Russians had pushed the spread of Communism south into countries such as Cambodia and Vietnam. The United Stated saw this as a very real threat, and kept a close eye on the communist advancement. The communist beliefs began in 1848, when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote a book called The Communist Manifesto. This book defined the beliefs of communism, along with portraying the natural evolution of a communist “utopia” from a capitalist society. Marx and Engels defined communism to be a concept, or system, of society in which the major resources and means of production are ....

.... perished. The indentured servants were squeezed into 2 foot by 6 foot slots where they spent most of their time. They were fed old, rotted food, and many servants died as a result of malnutrition or disease long before they reached the colonies. When a servant died more than half way through the voyage, his or her spouse would be forced to serve their dead spouse's servitude in addition to his or her own. If both parents died, their children would be required to work until they were 21. When the boat reached America all servants were forced to stay onboard until they could pay the toll or have a master pay the toll, then they would serve that master for a set number of y ....

.... Although the Greeks had managed to force Persians retreat from the Greek mainland, the danger of reconquest by the Persians was still present. In the battle of Plataea (479 BC), the Greeks, under the Spartan regent and general Pausanians, obliterated the Persian army. The Greeks also won a naval victory at Mycale. Although the war drugged on for many years, these two victories marked the end of the Persian threat to Europe and the beginning of the period of Greek greatness. The idea of panhellenism - the awareness of Greek unity- appeared as a reaction to the fear of the Persian invasion. This is how Persia helped the Greece to recognise their identity, which gave signifi ....

.... Sympathy (1789), an imitation of Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther, is regarded by some as the first American novel. Susanna Rowson's sentimental and didactic tale of seduction, Charlotte Temple, published (1791) in London as Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, was extremely popular. In contrast to the prevailing sentimental novel was Hugh Henry Brackenridge's massive Modern Chivalry (1792-1815), a picaresque novel with an underlying satire on bad government. The first professional novelist was Charles Brockden Brown, whose gothic and philosophical romances, beginning with Wieland (1798), anticipated Edgar Allan Poe. Early in the 19th century, Washington IRVING gained ....

.... Hobbes’ Leviathan goes on to propose a system of power that rests with an absolute or omnipotent sovereign, while Locke, in his Treatise, provides for a government responsible to its citizenry with limitations on the ruler’s powers. The understanding of the state of nature is essential to both theorists’ discussions. For Hobbes, the state of nature is equivalent to a state of war. Locke’s description of the state of nature is more complex: initially the state of nature is one of “peace, goodwill, mutual assistance and preservation”. Transgressions against the law of nature, or reason which “teaches mankind that all being equal and independent, no o ....

.... rides at the fair. In 1946, Elvis's parents couldn’t afford the bicycle that Elvis wanted, so Gladys talked him into accepting a guitar instead. The guitar cost $12.95 and was purchased at the Tupelo Hardware Company. He and his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1948 to pursue a better life. They lived in low - income housing. He buys his clothes on the famous, Beadle Street, and he absorbs the gospel and blues that he hears there. Elvis graduated from Hughes High School in 1953. He recorded an album for his mother as a present at Sun Records in 1954. In late 1955 his recording contract was sold to RCA Records. The songs that he recorded was " My Happiness and "Th ....