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Civil Rights Movement Time Life Books
1,658 wordsMalcolm X is considered one of the greatest civil rights activists in history. He was known for his somewhat violent message of blacks defending themselves. Despite his original message, he eventually became more peaceful toward whites. However, as his legacy was just beginning to change things for the good, he was abruptly killed by gunmen. Due to his indecisiveness and early death, Malcolm X had a great, yet inadequate impact on the civil rights movement. Malcolm little was born on May 19, 192...
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Christ Of Latter Day Saints Jesus Christ Of Latter Day
1,181 words... inverse to heaven. Christians pray to God for guidance and read the Bible because it is the "handbook" for life. The largest denominations in Christianity are Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant. At one point in time the church was not separated but in 1054 CE the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church split because of a dispute over the use of religious icons. The total number of Christians in the world are is than 1, 955, 229, 000. Eighty-seven percent of North Amer...
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Pillars Of Islam Islam Teaches
1,220 wordsAlthough Islam is less known than Christianity, it is the fastest growing religion in the in our country today. Islam is actually derived form Christianity. History books indicate that one night in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel. The message Muhammad received told him that there was but one God, not many gods, as most Arabs believed. This God was creator of the world, and He would one-day judge mankind. The word Islam means "surr...
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The Five Pillars Of Islam
1,253 wordsBy definition, Islam is the worship of the One and the Only true god Allah. It is not solely the religion preached by all of the prophets that Allah has blessed mankind with. Starting from Adam and including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Elias, Jonah, John the Baptist and Jesus, through to the final Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon them all). All of the Prophets I have mentioned are referred to in the Quran and other Islamic literature by their A...
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Ethnic Groups Groups Based
1,215 wordsThe King was overthrown in 1973. Muhammad Daoud took the power as President of the Afghanistan. He established an autocratic, one-party state, later had purged his government of leftists, and in the last years of his rule had sought financial support form Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Saudi Arabia in order to make Afghanistan less dependent on Soviet economic aid. On April 28, 1978, the regime of President Mohammad Daoud ended violently. Military units raided the Presidential Palace, in Kabul. Ki...
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Nation Of Islam Hajj Malik
1,676 wordsOn May 19, 1925 a man was born in Omaha, Nebraska. This man was named Malcolm Little. He was born to Earl Little, a Baptist preacher, and his wife Louis. Earl was major advocate and speaker for Black Rights and had to move around a lot when Malcolm was a child because of death threats. They eventually had to move to Milwaukee and then later to Lansing, Michigan. In 1929 the Littles house was burnt to the ground, and in 1931 Malcolm's father Earl was found dead on some trolley tracks. Both were r...
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Women Rights In Islam
2,135 wordsIn the midst of the darkness that engulfed the world, the divine revelation echoed in the wide desert of Arabia with a fresh, noble, and universal message to humanity: "O Mankind, keep your duty to your Lord who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate (of same kind) and from them twain has spread a multitude of men and women" (Qur " an 4: 1). A scholar who pondered about this verse states: "It is believed that there is no text, old or new, that deals with the humanity of the ...
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Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Champion
1,353 wordsThe greatest mystery of the 1996 Olympic summer games in Atlanta, was solved at 28 minutes past midnight the day of the opening ceremony. The crowd erupted when the Olympic torch was passed to Muhammad Ali. The Olympic gold medal boxer Muhammad Ali lifted the torch and trembled before a crowd screaming 'Ali'. He then sent the fire soaring high above the stadium to ignite the ceremonial Olympic cauldron. This moment was truly one of the finest ever to many sports fan, considering the tragedy Ali ...
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Five Pillars Of Islam Day Of Judgment
1,412 wordsIn Koran God has made an agreement with the words of the Prophet Muhammad. His teachings are available in the form of Hadith. God stated that Muhammad is serving to all the believers. There are also Six Articles of Faith, which should be followed by all the Muslims. First, one is that there is not God but Allah. Second is about the hierarchy of angels, where archangel Gabriel is the highest. The lowest in the hierarchy of angels is a jinni that is the Muslim version of demon. Each Muslim should ...
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Faith In God Messenger Of God
2,435 wordsIslam The Arabic word Islam means "to turn oneself over to, to resign oneself, to submit. " In religious terminology, it means submission or surrender to God, or to God's will. The Koran uses the term and its derivatives in about seventy verses. In only a few of these verses can we claim that the word refers exclusively to "Islam, " meaning thereby the religion established by the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad. Salam (salary), in its primary sense, means, to be tranquil, at rest, to have done on...
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Five Pillars Of Islam Christianity And Islam
1,569 wordsMuslim Religion Christianity and Islam share a few similar beliefs and practices such as belonging to the monotheistic family. Monotheism: (one-God-ism) belief that there is but one Supreme Being who is moral and who seeks a total and unqualified response from human creatures. This term emphasizes the belief in one God who is the Creator and Sustainer of life and that the universe demonstrates evidence of Gods design and order. Also, both religions believe that God is active in history, guiding ...
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San Jose Mercury Fidel Castro
3,639 wordsCIA: Crack Importing Agency Or How The CIA: Crack Importing Agency Or How The US Government Started The Crack Trade For the past decade and a half, the US government has sponsored the? War on Drugs. ? This has been a massive law enforcement effort aimed at stamping out the flow and use of illegal narcotics. The main focus of this effort has been aimed at a relatively new, yet extremely potent drug crack. However, this massive crackdown is much more than a simple effort aimed at protecting US cit...
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Elijah Muhammad Marcus Garvey
968 wordsNot all African-American leaders in the 1950 s and 1960 s agreed with Dr. Martin Luther Kings ideas of nonviolence. Some blacks did not want to be brothers with whites. They did not think integration would work either. They wanted a separate black nation. Malcolm X was the most outspoken of Kings opponents. As a minister in the Black Muslim movement, Malcolm X called for militant action in the fight against racism. He was tired of waiting for progress in the racial struggle. Malcolm X thought bl...
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Christ Of Latter Day Saints Jesus Christ Of Latter Day
2,387 wordsHinduism was Hinduism Hinduism Hinduism was founded sometime between 1500 and 500 CE in the are of the Indus valley civilization. There is no individual founder and no names given to say who developed it. They are many gods in the religion of Hinduism. Many Hindu followers believe that one of the gods is the true god, this creates a division in Hinduism, Vaishnavaism and Shivaism. People who follow Vaishnavaism believe that Vishnu is the one true god and people who follow Shivasim believe that S...
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Nation Of Islam Philosophy
859 wordsThe Un Islamic Nation of Islam The mention of the? Nation of Islam? will undoubtedly cause an immense number of responses in any situation. To some, this organization symbolizes blatant racism. To others, it is seen as a savior of the black community. Regardless of one? s opinion of the Nation, though, the differences between Al-Islam (traditional Islam) and the beliefs of the Nation cannot be denied. The Nation of Islam is a social movement. This social movement is undoubtedly rooted in religio...
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Reza Shah Pahlavi Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Khomeini
630 wordsKhomeini, Ruhollah (1902 - 1989), religious leader who, from exile, led the popular revolution that toppled Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran in 1979. Khomeini was the son of Sayyid Mostafa, a religious scholar. After Khomeini s mother and aunt died when he was 15, an older brother raised him. With his brother, he memorized the Koran and learned the basics of Shiite Islam. Shortly thereafter Khomeini traveled to Ar k, where he studied Islamic law. In the early 1920 s his teacher moved to Qom an...
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Muhammad Ali Muslim League
756 wordsMuhammad Ali Jinnah's (a. k. a. Father of the Nation or Quaid-e-Azam) achievement as the founder of Pakistan, dominates everything else he did in his long and crowded public life spanning some 42 years. Yet, by any standard, his was an eventful life, his personality multidimensional and his achievements in other fields were many, if not equally great. Indeed, several were the roles he had played with distinction: at one time or another, he was one of the greatest legal dignitary India had produc...
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Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay
1,006 wordsBorn Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. In Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942, Cassius took his first boxing lessons from an Irish-American cop who thought he was giving lessons to a boy that wanted to protect his new bike from older neighborhood kids. But by the age of 16, Cassius had won the Louisville Golden Gloves tournament as a light heavyweight and advanced to the quarterfinals of the regional championship in Chicago. After graduating to the Louisville Central High School in 1960, he won t...
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Back In Time Galileo Galilei
620 wordsThe dead people might left something useful for you. People in the history could keep us from doing something wrong that they had done. In generations, people improved so much because of those individuals in the past gave us experience, so, we dont go to the wrong directions again. There are some people in history I wanted to thanks. If I were given a time machine, I would travel in time to meet Marco Polo, Galileo Galilei, and Muhammad Ali. The first person I would meet is Marco Polo. His disco...
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Pilgrimage To Mecca Closer To God
4,308 wordsA Study of the Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land And the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca Submitted by: Prepared for: SSC 231 Cultural Conflict and Human Solidarity University College Utrecht May 2001 Introduction A French folklorist and ethnographer, Arnold Van Gennep (1908 - 1960) gave us the first clues about how ancient and tribal societies conceptualized and symbolized the transitions men have to make between states a statuses. He demonstrated that all rites of passage are marked by three pha...
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