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The ethos of the gold rush era, according to Stanford University’s founding president David Starr Jordan, was simple: “Whatever is not nailed down is mine, and whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.”[3] Many of the estimated 230,000 American settlers pouring into California in ...
Beyond turning immigrants and refugees away, sending illegals back home, and shearing away layers of social welfare legislation – Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare – what exactly do they have in mind? Perhaps they hearken back to life in the antebellum South, or perhaps to the ...
The initial expansion from Athens to the Peloponnese makes sense: Apart from the obvious pros (accessibility, speed, safety, mass character, for natives and visitors alike) of the railway, there were some major ports and established trade houses there, while agricultural production was also of not...
Texas Governor Oran Roberts, who shepherded and then signed the 1881 legislation that created the University and later served as one of UT’s first two law professors, was widely known as the “Old Alcalde.” In his honor, the first campus newspaper, a weekly launched in 1895, was named ...
The analysis suggests that in South Africa politics; the power of the private sector; competing policy priorities and budgetary constraints; and ideas, values and ideologies have been particularly important in constraining, and sometimes spurring, health system reform efforts. Political transitions and pr...
The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited a financial institution from engaging in bothcommercialandinvestment banking.6This reform legislation was based on the belief that the pursuit of profit by large, national banks must have spikes in place to avoid reckless and manipulative behavior that would harm the...
Legislation born of emotion rarely accomplishes its intended purpose and too often has adverse, unintended consequences. Keep in mind that schools and universities did not become a common location for mass murder until after they were made ‘gun free zones.’ If we are to address the problem of...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizes Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, for legislation he signed last week to ban same-sex marriage and criminalize gay rights groups and their activities; the law includes penalties of up to 14 years imprisonment After a federal judge ruled that Ut...
This legislation is an essential piece in the construction of multiple dams built over the years. Dams were constructed for various purposes, such as irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and flood control. Idaho's landscape includes over 100 dams of varying sizes and functions, including the...