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- 481: "The Stranger": Analysis
- ... and left the underground newspaper. B. Albert Camus, son of a working-class family, was born in Algeria in 1913, in an extreme poverty area. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked at various jobs in the weather bureau, in an automobile-accessory firm, in a shipping company to help pay for his courses at the University of Algiers. Albert Camus then started journalism ... parents, who were a working class family. He was determined to make a better life for himself by getting an education and preparing himself to go to college. The fact that he lived in North Africa, he wrote lots of fiction books, dealing with moral problems of universal importance. 1. I think Albert's prospective in life was to just be able to write books for people that actually would deal ...
- 482: Operation Barbarossa
- ... of Russia was the largest military campaign of the Second World War. Operation Barbarossa, as it was known, was launched on 22 June 1941 and completely took Russia by surprise. The widening war raging in Africa and eastern Europe were key distractions for Hitler from his ultimate goal of attacking Russia. Although the British army remained undefeated in the west, Hitlers goal proved an urgency for him to begin moving ... Poland and the Reich by the Russian army. As a result of this crucial battle, by 1943 the German army had lost initiative on all fronts and never regained it. German advancements on territories in Africa were stopped and the soon the Allies began fighting with Germany and they were forced to move essential troops in order to defend themselves. Germany had now lost the war and it was Hitlers ...
- 483: WWII
- ... the global conflict of 1939-1945. It is said to be the greatest and most destructive war in world history. The World War II military operations were conducted primarily in Europe but also in Asia, Africa, and the far islands of the Pacific as well. More than 17 million members of the armed forces perished during the conflict. It caused strain on the economic capabilities of the major nations and left ... 1, 1939. And was immediately broadened in scope by declarations of war against Germany by France and the United Kingdom. Italy entered the war in 1940 and in conjunction with Germany spread the war to Africa. Invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany on June 22, 1941 transformed the war into a general European struggle. And the attack on Hawaii on December 7, 1941, followed immediately by a declaration of war ...
- 484: Contemporary Thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aguinas
- ... influence on Augustine and provide your opinion of the philosophy of the most renowned of the early Church fathers. Augustine was born at Thagaste , a small town in the Roman province of Numidia in North Africa. His mother was a devout Christian, but his father never embraced the Christian faith. He received a classical education that both schooled him in Latin literature and enabled him to escape from his provincial upbringing ... a seat of imperial government at the time. At Milan, in 386, Augustine underwent religious conversion. He retired from his public position, received baptism from Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, and soon returned to North Africa. In 391, he was ordained to the priesthood in Hippo Regius and five years later he became bishop. After the fall of Rome and the pagan attacks that blamed Christians for it, St. Augustine set ...
- 485: Separation or Assimilation?
- ... cultural authenticity is to delve into the mysteries of self-actualization, that is to realize one's own potential. He asks himself, as an African American, whether his true identity lies in the jungles of Africa or in this land of America. He is of the opinion that these are his only two options. He concludes that his true identity goes beyond his American birth, citizenship, political ideals, language, laws, and religion; deep into the heart of Africa where a timeless culture was born and should be preserved for its beauty and used to benefit the world populace. "...the Negro people, as a race, have a contribution to make..."(Dubois,p244) The "Negro ...
- 486: Maya Angelou 2
- ... Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother ... is currently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University, Winston -Salem, North Carolina. Whole her life Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history, and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Maya Angelou made a lot for American civilization, and each Americans really looks up on Maya Angelou's life, and on all that things that she has done.
- 487: Extent Of European Influence B
- ... for the domination of America by Europe. To start with Europe ability to set up and maintain busy trading routes was remarkable. Vast trade routes were set up by sea around the southern tip of Africa to other trade routes to Asia, all stopping at different ports along the way. Because these routes took them around Africa it gave the merchants a chance to make a lot of profit. The still primitive Africans did not have the knowledge of making metal so it was an extensive commodity. For example they could trade ...
- 488: Famous African Americans
- ... they were economically strong, and to that end he founded a newspaper, Negro World, as well as other black-owned businesses such as the Black Star Line, a steamship company. Garvey pledged to establish in Africa a black-governed nation. Delany, Martin Robinson was an U.S. inventor, author, and physician. He was born in Charles Town, Va. in 1852 invented a device that would assist railroad locomotives in climbing and ... the Colored People of the United States Politically Considered', said to be the first full-length presentation of Black Nationalism (1852). He also formed National Emigration Convention 1854 to aid black people's emigration to Africa and was the first black to attain rank of major in U.S. Army during American Civil War Bates, Daisy and the Little Rock Nine were U.S. civil rights figures. Bates was born in ...
- 489: Mark Antony 2
- ... needed Spain. In 43 BC, Antony joined with Octavian and Lepidus to establish a second triumvirate. They shared power by Antony ruling the eastern providences and Gaul, Octavian took Italy and Spain, and Lepidus took Africa. Their first objective was to start making a list of their enemies to be killed. The new triumvirate marched on the corrupt senate. In 42 BC, the two opposing armies met at Philippi where Antony ... Province of Cisalpine Gaul. The triumvirate was renewed for an additional five years. Antony soon launched his Parthian campaign which was unsuccessful and was taken by Parthian Calvary. Lepidus was tired of taking care of Africa from Rome so he made a bad decision to take Sicily for himself. As a result he was deprived of his powers and administrative positions to be sent to exile, where he stayed to his ...
- 490: Great Britain
- ... England, including the cherry, apple, and plum trees. Gorse is a common shrub. Many varieties of wildflowers also grow here. Technological During the eighteenth century, Britain gained an empire by colonising parts of North America, Africa and Asia. By the nineteenth century, England was bringing back much wealth from these colonies. The trade in slaves and other goods from the colonies supplied the money to build the factories and the machines ... engineering and shipbuilding. However in the twentieth century other countries revolutionised and began to compete with Britain in the overseas markets so British exports declined. From the 1950s on, many former Britain colonies in Africa and Asia became independent and made their own industries, this affecting Britains imports and exports. All over Britain factories, mills etc closed. By the 1990s the worst of the decline had finished and ...
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