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Author Archives: Sofiya
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Congressmen Dickstein – American fascism fighter.
400 rabbis column marching in Washington to draw attention to the plight of Holocaust victims in 1943. The video of the marching rabbis will be mixed with the footage of documentary chronicles of the children in concentrate camps like Auschwitz. The melodies of Jewish lullaby will play on a background. Beautiful and calm melody will only increase and emphasize the horror of the tragedy that was happening all over the Europe. Rabbis approaching the steps of the U.S. Capitol and meeting with Senator William Warren Barbour. The voice of the main hero – Congressmen Dickstein on a background saying: « Senator William Warren Barbour was one of a handful of politicians who proposed legislation that would have allowed as many as 100,000 victims of the Holocaust to emigrate temporarrily to the United States, but unfortunately he died six weeks later after introdusing the bill and it wasn’t passed. I introdused the parallel bill in the House of Representatives, which also failed to pass. During the Holocaust, fewer than 30,000 Jews a year reached the Unted States, and some were turned away due to immigration policies. The US didn’t change its immigration policies until 1948. Because of that so many many people died, that could be saved ……»
Empire State Building – American Symbol
Beautiful 102-story Art Deco skyscraper was the tallest building of New York from its complition in 1931 untill the construction of World Trade Center in 1972. After 9/11 events once again it became the tallest building in New York. Empire State Building was one of few projects complited during the times of Great Depression. The constraction was the part of intense competition in New York for the title of “world’s tallest building”. Every night New York City enjoing its beautiful illumination.
Posted in 1920-1932
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Refugee Act of 1980
United States is a co
untry that been built by immigrants, where some of them were refugees from all over the world. In 1980 was passed the Refugee Act, which is a United States federal law that reformed United States immigration law and admitted refugees on sytematic basis for humanitarian reasons. For example, in 1985 ceiling of 70,000 refugees, with 270,000 immigrants total and 20,000 from any one country, was established. Annually, the proposed refugee Admissions Report to the Congress is written detailing new circumstances invoving refugees worldwide, and determining the new annual ceiling of refugees resettling in the United States. The Refugee Act is another proof that the main United States principle is a freedom.
Posted in 1969-1988, June 14 assignment
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Gold Standard Act of 1900
Until the signing of the Gold St
andard Act in 1900, gold and silver were used to establish monetary standards all over the world. The value of each was not well established and to make monetary matters worse, the Civil War was very distractive on the economy and paper money had no silver or gold backing. The Gold Standard Act was created to take control of monetary policy. The sandard it set 1 oz. of troy gold was $20.67. The act further stated the value of a dollar bill (paper money) in gold and began the issuance of silver certificates to be used in place of silver coin. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 established gold as the more valuable metal.
Posted in 1900-1916, June 29 assignment
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Espionage Act of 1917 and anti-war women protest
On June 15, 1917, shortly after the US entry into World War I, Congress passed Espionage Act of 1917. According to the Espionage Act any interference with the operation or success of the armed forces of US and support of America’s enemies during wartime was punishable by death or by imprisonment up to 30 years, as well as, disloyalty, mutiny, interferes with military recruitment and refusal of military duty was punishable by imprisonment up to 20 years. In 1918 the Espionage Act was extended by set of amendments, which prohibited many forms of speech, such as any disloyal or abusive language against US government, US flag or US Army and Navy. Next year The US Supreme Court unanimously supported the Act stating that it did not violate the free speech rights of those convicted under its provisions. This Act leads to the several arrests and prosecutions of activist women, such as, Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes-socialist activist, feminist, birth control advocate and writer, or anti-war activist Kate Richards O’Hare during WWI years. But their protests and criticism of the war threatened the national power of the patriotic mothers. They were the very first anti-war protesters, whose ideas succeeded only in mid 70’s with the end of Vietnam War.
Posted in 1916-1920, June 28 assignment, Uncategorized
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Enron corporation
The bankruptcy and the failure of the Enron Corporation in 2001 shook investors and leads to congressional hearings. Congress reacted to the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and other companies, when it affirmed the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 (known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after its congressional sponsors). Both sponsors seek to reinforce the integrity of the federal security disclosure system and to federalize specific aspects of public corporation law. New financial scandals at other companies like WorldCom and MCI proved that Securities Regulations had severe accounting problems in the public traded companies. Lack of audit independences, financial disclosure, and corporate responsibility; conflicts of interest analyst, accountability corporate and criminal fraud; commission resources and authority; public company board accounting oversight; white-collar crime; corporate and accountability fraud–all these elements of misconduct exposed to Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley as a regulatory response.
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Vietnam War
The most important event of 60’s in American history was Vietnam War. No doubt that this historical event changed forever the mind of American society and leads to creation of civil rights movement, famous Martin Luther King’s march on Washington DC, student’s protests, movement for gay rights and etc. Full responsibility for the beginning of Vietnam War is on Lyndon Johnson, who in 1964 forced US Congress to approve the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The official beginning of Vietnam War is 1965, when 200,000 American soldiers were sent to Vietnam. That war, that no one really needs and whose goal was to take the revenge on Soviets, broke American society believe into the rightness of the politics. The lost generation of American soldiers who survived this war gave birth to the new protest movements for peace and until now being one of the most politically active anti-war and civil right supporters. The book by Kovic “Born on the Fourth of July” and the movie based on this book very well illustrates the historical events of that period in American history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5gaIXI2Mn4
Posted in 1960-1968, 1969-1988, June 14 assignment
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