.... North Vietnam and the other being South Vietnam. Each party wanted to control all of Vietnam under their political beliefs. The North wanted the South to unite with them, but the South wanted to break away and start it's own country. But with little compromise the only thing that occurred was negotiation by force. The Geneva Conference in 1954, officially split Vietnam into two parts, North or Vietminh and South or French supported. It also ended the fighting of the North and South under several circumstances. First it officially declared France defeated by the Vietminh. After this was officially declared the United States stepped in to influence .....

.... brought over by the North American slave trade. The slave trade brought over new percussion ideas and instruments. When Americans saw those instruments they began to create different versions of them, which would later evolve to be part of the percussionist's repertoire. For example, the dundun. The dundun is an hourglass-shaped, two-headed drum whose twin heads are laced together by thongs of gut or leather (Hart, 52). By manipulating the tension on these thongs a player can alter the pitch of the tone he is making, thus enabling the dundun to "talk", or produce tones that sound like words (52). This allows him to communicate with neighboring .....

.... quinine). The had lived in America for thousands of years when the first European explorers set foot on their land. When Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, he called the native people indios (Spanish for Indians) because he thought he had reached India. Because of European colonization of North and South America since 1500, have been greatly reduced in numbers and largely displaced. In Central and South America a large percentage of the modern population is of mixed Indian and European ancestry, and in the Caribbean and parts of South America a portion of the population is of mixed American Indian and African descent. belong to the Am .....

.... This forced colonists to provide food and shelter to men who took American jobs and raped American women. Why should Americans waste their hard earned money on men sent to enforce the unbearable English demands. The Currency Act hurt colonists by making paper money, which Americans had an abundance of, useless and converting them to gold and silver which was very scarce there. The American sailors were also subject to hardships brought forth by the British. They were forced by impressment to join the Royal Navy to fight against their own brothers. By placing duties on all imported goods, this raised the prices so much that all the coloni .....

.... traditional ways of life have been replaced with uncontrollable change and unmanageable alternatives, but that these changes and alternatives eventually create something that may result in the society that traditionalists actually seek after; the balance between Nature and Technology. Modernity itself is merely the sense that the present is a transitional point, not focused on a clear goal in the future but simply changing through forces outside our control. I will first describe how "Modernity" came about, and then to indicate some of the features for which "Post-Modernity" is meant to be a reaction, response or addition to modernization. Begi .....

.... become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain." This statement can be used as a summation of the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts the colonists has having to be submissive and servile in t .....

.... slaves, and public opinion suported that view. Lincoln moved slowly and cautiously nonethe less; on March 13, 1862, the federal government fforbade all Union Army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus annulling in effect the fugitive slave laws. On April 10, on Lincoln's initiative, congress declared the federal government would compenste slave owners who freed their slaves. All slaves in the District of Columbia were freed in this way on April 16, 1862 . On June 19, 1862, Congress enacted a measure prohibiting slavery in United States territories, thus defying the supreme court decision in the Dred Scott case, which ruled that Congress was po .....

.... of Rights (1628) and the Bill of Rights (1689). John Lock's ideas have been transposed on the legal plane of England in "The Petition of Rights" (An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Setting the Succession of the Crown)" (1628) They declared, in principle, the parliament supremacy, the right to free elections, freedom of opinion, the right to bail, prohibition of the cruel penalties, the obligation of informing the convict without delay on the reasons for his arrest, the right of being judged by a tribunal with a jury etc. The first recognition of the human rights in an official document appeared over the ocean, in America d .....

.... Before the gold discovery of 1848 the state of California did not even exist. The population of California was not high enough to have a state constitution or to join the United States. One historian describes California as “The country the gold-seekers came to was a land of magnificent proportions, of great natural diversity, of extremes and opposites. Nature had done nothing on a small scale� (Seidman 99). California at that time had a population of around 14,000. Not included in these estimates were the 200,000 Native Americans that lived within its borders. Prior to the Mexican War of 1846-1848, California was an isolated northerly .....

.... and blacks. During the war Lincoln had expanded his presidency. With his power he hoped to set up loyal governments in the Southern states that were under Union control. Lincoln appointed new temporary governors and instructed each to call a convention to create a new state government as soon as a group of the state's citizen totaling 10 percent of the voters in the 1860 presidential election had signed oaths of loyalty to the Union. Under this plan new governments were formed in Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas but the Congress refused to recognize them. Republicans in Congress did not want a quick restoration, for the reason that it would br .....