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Nonviolent Resistance Nationalist Movement
1,175 words
Mohandus Gandhi has had many influences on the
world today. He was born on October 2 nd, 1869 in
Porbandar, West India. He became one of the most
respected, spiritual and political leaders of the
1900 's. He acquired the name Mahatma, which means
"soul force. He helped free the Indian people
through nonviolent resistance, also given the name
satyagraha, instead of the violent warfare that
was being used by Britain. Gandhi also promoted
social and economic reforms. He is still honored
by his peop...
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African National Congress South African Government
1,810 words
Racial segregation and the supremacy of whites had
been traditionally accepted in South Africa prior
to 1948, but in the general election of that year,
Daniel F. Malan officially included the policy of
apartheid in the Afrikaner Nationalist party
platform, bringing his party to power for the
first time. Although most whites acquiesced in the
policy, there was bitter and sometimes bloody
strife over the degree and stringency of its
implementation. 2 The purpose of apartheid was
separation of the ...
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Marlon Brando Humphrey Bogart
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... t also helped increase survival rates for
surgery. The first eye bank was established at New
York Hospital in 1944. Unemployment almost
disappeared, as most men were drafted and sent off
to war. The government reclassified 55 % of their
jobs, allowing women and blacks to fill them.
First, single women were actively recruited to the
workforce. In 1943, with virtually all the single
women employed, married women were allowed to
work. Japanese immigrants and their descendants,
suspected of loya...
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Due To The Fact Don Juan
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Richard Strauss was born June 11, 1864 in Munich,
Germany. The German composer-conductor is best
known for his operas and tone poems. His father
was Franz Strauss, one of Germany's leading horn
players. Strauss's musical career began at the age
of 4 when he learned how to play the piano. By the
age of 6 he was composing and by the age of 11 he
was studying theory and composition [ 5, par. 1870
]. At the age of 20, he made his conducting debut
in Munich. This led him to the Meiningen Court
Orches...
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East Berlin Edward Ii
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EUGEN BERTHOLD FRIEDRICH BRECHT, was born on
February 10 th 1898 in Augsburg Germany, and died
on August 14 th, 1956, in East Berlin. He was a
German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer
whose epic theatre departed from the conventions
of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as
a social and ideological forum for leftist causes.
Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was
born. He studied medicine at the University of
Munich, from 1917 until 1921, and served at an
army hospital i...
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State Of Israel Historical Perspective
1,381 words
A Re-Evaluation of Israel's Actions in the
Mid-East Conflict Examination of the situations
that created and motivated Israel Now it can be
told- Western historians are re-examining the
troubled 20 th century history of Israel and
Palestine. Previously published revelations of
Israel's military strength and aggressive
operations during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war
remained confined to a select group of historians:
(Simon Flapan, The Birth of Israel: Myths and
Realities and Indian Page, The Making of...
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African Americans Armed Forces
974 words
Scripps Howard News Service, SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS
SERVICE, January 17, 1999 MILITARY GETS HIGH
GRADES, BUT STILL SHORT OF KING'S DREAM It is said
that the military is the only American institution
in which blacks routinely boss whites around. The
armed forces were the first segment of U. S.
society to desegregate and now - 50 years after
the Army opened its doors to blacks - the military
remains the largest living example of the
meritocracy the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
envisioned in his dream....
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Boston Red Sox Babe Ruth
435 words
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, b. Baltimore, Md. ,
Feb. 6, 1895, d. Aug. 16, 1948, was one of
professional baseball's greatest sluggers and
probably the best-known player of the 1920 s and
early 1930 s. As a New York Yankee, Ruth took the
game out of the dead-ball era, saved it from the
Black Sox scandal of 1919, and single-handedly
revitalized the sport as the country's national
pastime. He teamed with Lou Gehrig to form what
became the greatest one-two hitting punch in
baseball and was the heart o...
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Great Britain And France Millions Of Dollars
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... e slaughter in Hungary, but that is no reason
for destroying the nucleus of international
cooperation. This was the foundation of the brutal
confrontation of the now infamous water polo
semi-finals between the Soviets and Hungary.
Hungary was leading 4 to nil with two minutes
left. In a loose-ball struggle, a Russian hit a
Hungarian, blood poured over the Hungarians eye.
The Russians exited the pool before the match even
ended. Wally Wolf, a veteran polo player from
America claimed They were...
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Six Day War Declaration Of Human Rights
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... gators. But although it might seem that
finding a way to define whats right and whats
wrong is a solution to pre-emptive strikes and
war, it ultimately raises more problems than it
solves. The biggest problem we find is that
principles in the Charter of the United Nations
seem to contradict each other. The first core
principle in the treaty of Westphalia, and one of
the principles in the Charter of the United
Nations, is rex est imperator in regno suo, which
basically means the leader of a c...
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British Foreign Policy Since 1945
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India Un 12 / 13 / 05 Poli 489 British Foreign
Policy Since 1945 Britain used to be a great power
for centuries controlling about a fifth of the
earths land; such as India, Canada, Australasia,
and South Africa. Britain was an oceanic power and
was conductive to having a strong fleet; its
strong navy provided Britain to be a very powerful
empire. Britain was a stable country and this
allowed it to advance religious reformation, and
constitutional development. It was the world
largest economy wit...
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Eng Trans 1958 Eng Trans 1948 Camus
658 words
Although born in extreme poverty, Camus attended
the lee and university in Algiers, where he
developed an abiding interest in sports and the
theater. His university career was cut short by a
severe attack of tuberculosis, an illness from
which he suffered periodically throughout his
life. The themes of poverty, sport, and the horror
of human mortality all figure prominently in his
volumes of so-called Algerian essays: L'Every et
l'endpoint (The Wrong Side and the Right Side,
1937), Notes (Nuptia...
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Saddam Iraq And The Gulf War
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War, justifiable or not, is complete madness. It
is hell. No matter what the cause, or what the
reason is, war remains mankind's greatest source
of tragedy, the plague of mankind, and the plague
of this country. Our country has existed for only
200 years, a relatively short time, and already we
have been involved in over eleven major wars. Four
have been fought this last fifty years. We are a
nation of freedom, but we are also a nation of
strong military presence. Our reasons for going to
war ha...
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U S Supreme Court Alger Hiss
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... ut when facing pretrial examinations for the
vilification suit, he changed his story. Chambers
told his lawyers that he could produce evidence
that Hiss had given government documents to him.
Chambers believed he had saved some documents in
case he needed to protect himself from
retribution. ! She sealed the documents in an
envelope and gave them to his wife! |s nephew,
Nathan Levine. Levine hid the envelope in his
parents! | Brooklyn home, !" [Levitt, 239 ]
Chambers remarked. Chambers subse...
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Mahatma Gandhi South Africa
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Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) "Generations
to come will scarce believe that such a one as
this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and
blood." -Albert Einstein Throughout history most
national heroes have been warriors, but Gandhi was
a passive and peaceful preacher of morals, ethics,
and beliefs. He was an outsider who ended British
rule over India without striking a blow. Moreover,
Gandhi was not skillful with any unusual artistic,
scholarly, or scientific talents. He never earned
a de...
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The Political Career Of Richard Nixon
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1. Nixon's Beginning in Politics 2. Emergence in
National Politics A. The Hiss Case B. Nixon's
Political Obituary C. Resurgence as a presidential
candidate 3. The 37 th President A. Nixon's
Appointment's B. Foreign Policy 1. Nixon's plans
for Europe 2. Vietnam C. Domestic Policy 4.
Nixon's Second Administration A. Reelection B.
Watergate A few weeks after the United States
entered World War II a young man named Richard
Nixon went to Washington, D. C. In January 1942 he
took a job with the Office...
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Mel Gibson Shakespeare Wrote
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Hamlet has been produced in a variety of ways, but
making a movie out of Hamlet is very different.
When producing Hamlet on film there are some
liberties that are taken for either artistic
benefit or to keep it shorter. These liberties are
up to the director? s interpretation of Hamlet.
The director? s interpretations make each Hamlet
production different. Unique differences make each
Hamlet interesting. When I watch a production of
Hamlet I find myself looking at the dialogue. I
try to remember...
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Chamber Of Deputies Council Of Ministers
1,707 words
The Italian system reflects a form of
representative democracy in that it is made up of
bodies composed of representatives of the
sovereign people who exercise powers pertaining to
various functions. The most important of these, is
obviously Parliament. The Constitution also
provides for two institutions of direct democracy
the possibility for legislation to be introduced
by citizens in the form of private bills and the
request for the holding of a popular referendum to
repeal existing legislati...
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Frank David
508 words
MONTANA 1948 ESSAY QUESTION Montana 1948 is about
the loss of innocence and the painful gain of
wisdom. Discuss. In Montana, the summer of 1948
held a series of tragic events which were to have
a permanent and decisive impact on David and his
parents. This chain of events were to turn David?
s young life and that of his family upside down
forever and which was to so angrily lead him out
of childhood, destroying his innocence and
youthful naivety in the process. However, David? s
shocking revelat...
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Arab Israeli Conflict Camp David Accords
1,225 words
The Arab-Israeli conflict is long-winded struggle
between the Jewish State of Israel and the Arabs
of the Middle East. If the recent past is any
indication, the chance of peace between Israel and
Palestine is not likely any time soon. Israel was
formed in 1948, and several wars have erupted
between Israel and certain Arab countries since.
The conflict has also involved a struggle by
Palestinian Arabs to establish their own country
in some or all of the land occupied by Israel. The
Arab-Israeli c...
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