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How important were the social factors in bringing about the Cuban Revolution? How important was Fidel Castro’s leadership in the success of the Cuban Revolution? Under the rule of Batista between 1940 and 1944 Cuba seemed to be making steady progress towards being a democratic and sovereign nation, which was a huge turn over from it’s previous status as either a colony of Spain or being completely unatonomous under the Platt Amendment. The constitution put into place by Batista in 1940 also

Recent budget controversy in Congress and the media has once again brought to the fore the pressing desire for fiscal responsibility in the United States Government. Although Congress came to a compromise in the proverbial eleventh hour, the extra attention afforded to the budget issue reignited a lingering controversy: is the current system of transfer payment, or “welfare,” programs a financially viable one, or should these programs be recognized as an economic burden? To answer that, it is necessary

CHAPTER X THE PARIS PEACE SETTLEMENT, 1919-1920 The military disaster which befell the Mid-European Confederacy in the autumn of 1918 was the signal for immediate political revolutions within its members. The revolutions, though precipitated in several instances by Socialists, proved to be uniformly mild and more conducive to democratic nationalism than to any basic social change. In Germany Prince Maximilian, the Chancellor on whom the Emperor William II imposed the unpleasant task of opening

n recent years, historians (including this reviewer) have examined the complex reactions of Confederate women to the Civil War with an emphasis on ambivalence, class conflict, and new gender roles. There has also been an emphasis on disaffection from the Confederacy and sometimes from men in general. Much of this scholarship has attempted to revise and even displace the stock contemporary and historical images of Confederate women as fervent and unwavering patriots willing to make any sacrifice for

Machiavelli on Principalities and Republics Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) is one of history’s most renowned political theorists. Truly a “Renaissance Man”, he excelled in many disciplines and was an avid scholar of the ancients, but his most enduring legacy has been his political theories, particularly those outlined in The Prince. Popular culture, however, has a skewed perception of Machiavelli’s own personal political ideals. Although Machiavelli’s The Prince discusses governance

Source Analysis – Diplomacy and Religion Daniel Rogers’s discourse on the political, commercial and religious environment of Denmark-Norway, Jean Hotman’s musings on the ideal diplomat and Francois Dubois’s representation of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre appear disparate and unrelated; however, their wider significance as a vignette of the evolving diplomatic and religious landscape of Western Europe in the latter half of the sixteenth century is extremely noteworthy. Rogers wrote the ‘discourse

Over the past two years, our economy has taken a hit from the burst of the housing bubble—a five megaton bubble. With copious amounts of foreclosed homes speckling the streets of America, it compels a national debate on the issue of foreclosure itself and perhaps a solution could be found to the problem through discourse. In the course of this essay, a possible solution to the crisis will be elucidated. Because the full prompt for this essay calls for possible solutions that could be sent to Congress

The Social Security Act was enacted in 1935, and since then it has undergone numerous revisions and amendments. Today the act covers a wide range of benefit programs, including Medicare, unemployment compensation, and Supplemental Security Income. The major portion for which the Social Security Act has become known, however, is the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program, or OASDI. While today the OASDI program is most frequently referred to as “Social Security,” it is only a thread

could be made that there were political and financial benefits to banning the cultivation of hemp in order to create a demand for nylon, a new synthetic material that was being developed by DuPont, a company owned by the affluent du Pont family. Currying favor with a family such as this obviously could reap certain rewards politically and monetarily and this fact could have been yet another motivation to criminalize

Therefore, GE shares prototypes with customers. Furthermore, instead of currying favor with executives, it works closely with engineers to solve technical problems. Third, ethnography transforms a culture. From 1990s, Intel, a big corporation that does not market directly to consumers, brought in ethnographers at the highest