The Maitatsine rebellion in Nigeria in the 1980s took place in an oil-dependent country, but the rebellion was not financed by natural-resource rents. Rather, the rebels -- drawn from the ranks of the homeless, the unemployed, and the politically exiled -- were recruited through ideological indoctrination and Koranic teaching" (Sambanis, 2004)
Tweed worked in a factory as an adult at a time when shopkeepers and business owners maintained control over New York's political and business climate and by 1840, many immigrant gangs s were working to gain influence politically, which lead to more corruption. He used "bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk the metropolis of as much as 200 million dollars" (Bailey, 1994, 511), according to Thomas Bailey (1994)
The leaders of Tammany formed its basic foundation as we can see almost from the very beginning, Tammany was corrupt because opportunists began to want increasingly what was not theirs and they preyed on the little people to get it. George Washington Plunkitt serves as an excellent example of a rags to riches individual, rising from "butcher boy to political boss" (Davidson, 1990, 684)
Tammany gradually lost its power because of the association with Tweed and corruption. However, it should be noted that the group experienced a small comeback after Tweed when John Kelly was defeated the "reform administration of Mayor Havemayor and returned control of the city to Tammany Hall" (Glaeser, 2006, 87)
From it, we learn how truly good and bad the hearts of man can be. Tammany Hall derives from the name, Tammanend, which means a "peace-loving leader of the Lenni-Lenape nation" (Hodon)
economy grew at an average rate of 3.1% per year." (Case and Fair, 603)
Despite this common wisdom, 1980 started off auspiciously. On May 8, 1980 the World Health Organization hailed "one of the century's greatest medical accomplishments," the final and total eradication of smallpox (Dickson 247)
For example, the societies that were pre-existing in North and South American included roads, trade networks and irrigation systems. Even if the Indians north of Mexico lacked literacy, metal tools, scientific knowledge necessary for long-distance navigation and so forth, they still very much existed and they were doing pretty well before "civilization" got here (Foner, 2012)
For example, the societies that were pre-existing in North and South American included roads, trade networks and irrigation systems. Even if the Indians north of Mexico lacked literacy, metal tools, scientific knowledge necessary for long-distance navigation and so forth, they still very much existed and they were doing pretty well before "civilization" got here (Foner, 2012)
This pushback came in the form of the New Deal. However, Nace says "corporate executives saw an opportunity to make headway in their private "war within a war" to defeat New Deal interference in the economy and align their interests with the country's aroused patriotic sentiments" (Nace, 2005)
Subsequently, the vast majority of people that competed with, invested in, and worked for this company thought it was much more financially viable than it actually was. Some of these accounting practices included an inflated usage of marked to market accounting, which the company had approved for one specific type of asset management and regularly deployed for others (and throughout its accounting areas in general) (Norris and Eichenwald)