... nation was astounding. But this only came about after much hardship in certain areas. The war caused wide-scale economic destruction to the South. The Confederate states lost about two-thirds of their wealth during the war. The loss of slave property throughout emancipation accounted for a lot of this, but the economic foundation of the South was also severely damaged in other ways. Railroads and industries in the South were in shambles. More than half of the farm machinery was destroyed and forty percent of all the livestock had been killed. In contrast, the Northern economy thrived during the war. During 1 ...

... Native Americans. The Louisiana Purchase was done by President Jefferson because he wanted to doubled the size of the United States and to get control of New Orleans. Wilmont Proviso was to ban slaves from territories that might gbe aquired from Mexico. Kansas- Nebraska Act was the result of Douglas wanting to build railroads from Chicago to San Franciso. Douglas was a big believer in popular sovereignity, where the people have the right to decide if they want to be free of slave state, and he completely ignore the Missoure Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 stated that should be equal number of free and slave stat ...

... states that she was not generated by any woman with Zeus, but instead leapt out of his head fully grown and armored. Athena is known an the goddess of wisdom, the goddess of the city , the protectress of civilized life, artisan activities , and agricultural bounty. All of these characteristics explain her sculptural likenesses in so many ancient cities in need of dietous protection. 1 This particular piece is of Severan creation. The Severans came to power in the late second century. Marcus Aurelius¹ son Commodus succeeded his father in 180, only to inherit an empire that was becoming increasingly har ...

... directly to a sound chamber. And the third was the Lute family, this was were the pitch of strings was altered by pressing them against a neck that is attached directly to a sound chamber. Within the Lute family came two groups. The lutes proper which had rounded backs and the guitar type instruments with their flat backs. Guitar-shaped instruments appear in stone bas-relief sculptures of the hittites in northern Syria and Asia Minor from as far back as 1350 B.C. The word guitar also has origins in the middle and far east, deriving from gut, is the Arabic word for four, and tar, the Sanskrit word for string. Th ...

... a chief one being a depression in the agricultural sector. also depressed were such industries as coal mining, railroads, and textiles. Throughout the 1920s, U. S. banks had failed--an average of 600 per year--as had thousands of other business firms. By 1928 the construction boom was over. The spectacular rise in prices on the STOCK MARKET from 1924 to 1929 bore little relation to actual economic conditions. In fact, the boom in the stock market and in real estate, along with the expansion in credit (created, in part, by low-paid workers buying on credit) and high profits for a few industries, concealed basic probl ...

... They were given equal pay as men. After the war women stayed at home giving up their newfound independence, eager to start a family. The vogue was to have fourth, fifth and even sixth children. Although this was not the case for all women some decided to remain in the work force, although they were not given equal pay as men. Other changes in family roles were that men were taking up jobs which were considered to be only for women such as. Flight attendants, secretaries and nurses. Furthermore in the 1950s there was an increase in teenage delinquency, due to the fact that teenagers were trying to find ways to ...

... popularity throughout the rest of the 1970’s. The first commercial success of the rap song “Rapper's Delight� by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979 helped bring rap music into the national spotlight. The 1980’s saw the continued success of rap music with many artists such as Run DMC (who had the first rap album to go gold in 1984), L.L. Cool J, Fat Boys, and west coast rappers Ice-T and N.W.A becoming popular. Today, in the late 1990’s rap music continues to be a prominent and important aspect of African- American culture. Rap music was a way for youths in black inner city neighborhoods to express what they were f ...

... can always enter commands and executes a set of such entered commands. Unlike these other wearable devices that are not programmable, the wearable computer is as re-configurable as the family desktop or corporate mainframe computer. This is what sets the wearable computer apart from other wearable devices such as wristwatches, regular eyeglasses, and wearable radios. The best definitions probably given to date are those of Steve Mann. Steve Mann is a self-appointed, and none opposed leader in the body wearable computer field. To avoid confusion and changing the meanings of Steve’s definitions I included them ...

... Her lower hull was left intact. The Confederates took her and fitted her with an iron deck. Each side carried 5 guns and one on the bow and on the stern. She was also fitted with an iron ram submerged at the bow for ramming wooden union ships. Now named the Virginia , she ran amuk in Chesapeake Bay disposing of Union warships. Her iron hull was almost impervious to cannon balls and her ram made short work of the giant wooden targets. The Union knew they had to build an ironclad of their own if they wanted to win the war, and so the Monitor was born. The Monitor rode almost completely su ...

... government and to the extensive involvement of Southerners in the conflict (Lens 97). The United States should have followed a strategy of surprise and massed strength at decisive points against North Vietnam to help the South Vietnamese government win the war. The government, in its pronouncements, spoke of success and light at the end of the tunnel, but continued to dispatch additional troops while casualties mounted steadily (Dougan and Fulghum 127). The Johnson administration had never expected to become engaged in a protracted ground war on such a scale, and even when the involvement deepened it attempted to kee ...