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- 511: The Battle Of Salerno
- ... that the best way to defeat the Germans in Italy was to neutralize the Fascist ally. Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister, convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to commit American forces to campaign in North Africa and Sicily. The Allied forces suffered significant losses after fighting in Sicily and were unable to recover in time for Salerno. On July 26, 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was given the "go-ahead" for ... Martin. Salerno to Cassino (United States Army in World WAR II). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt. The Military History of World War II: Volume 3 Land Battles: North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1962. Pp. 68-71. Wallace, Robert. World War II - Time Life Books - The Italian Campaign. Virginia: Time Life Books, 1978. P. 48. Hart, Sir Basil Liddell. World ...
- 512: Slavery In America
- ... the Arawaks and Caribs, failed (Small Pox had killed them instead), the Europeans said out to capture African slaves. During what was called, "The Triangular Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade," the Europeans shipped the slaves from Africa. This was an organized route where Europeans would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods, capture Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops and goods and bring them back to Europe. The African people, in order to communicate invented a language that ...
- 513: Personal Writing: My Room
- ... one walks into my room a large black and white skin catches the eye. This tapestry reveals itself to be a skin of a zebra which I acquired through my father on our trip through Africa. Throughout the skin there are patched holes where the beast was shot. This large item is the focal point of my room and reflects my "hobby" and passion for traveling. Turning to the right the ... from my other things from far away lands mounted on the wall. These things range from Greek swords to an unique Tanzanian lion-hunting arrow. All of these things I acquired traveling throughout Southern Europe, Africa, and America, and each have a special meaning and value to me. Below this array of seemingly ancient things sits the large Sony stereo system I received for my birthday this year. This hulk of ...
- 514: Ebola
- ... it was passed onto humans. To this date no clues have been uncovered about where the virus hides between outbreaks. Collection of animal specimens is currently underway in Kikwit, but the possible species in tropical Africa are so numerous that a long and lucky search is likely to be required (Henahan, 1995). The Ebola Tai found on November 24, 1995 by a Swiss researcher in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), West Africa. The researcher caught the Ebola Tai from a chimpanzee while carrying out an investigation about a spate of deaths among local chimps of the Tai forest. When the Pasteur investigators examined tissue taken from the ...
- 515: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change The purpose of Cry, the Beloved Country, is to awaken the population of South Africa to the racism that is slowly disintegrating the society and its people. Alan Paton designs his work to express his views on the injustices and racial hatred that plague South Africa, in an attempt to bring about change and understanding. The characters that he incorporates within his story, help to establish a sense of the conditions and hardships that the country is experiencing, and the presence ...
- 516: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... Earl Little, a six-foot, very dark skinned man from Reynolds, Georgia, was a Baptist minister and organiser for Marcus Garvey, who wanted that all Afro-Americans go back to the land of their ancestors, Africa. Louise, his second wife, bore six children: Wilfred, Hilda, Philbert, Malcolm, Yvonne, and Reginald. Earl Little also had three children by a first wife: Ella, Earl, and Mary. Because of the fathers advocacy for ... At the height of his power Malcolm X was one of black America's most powerful voices. He had enormous influence among black youth and in progressive intellectual circles. He travelled widely in Europe and Africa and established his Organisation of Afro-American Unity. He saw the black American struggle partly as a segment of the efforts of third world nations for human rights. In 1964, Malcolm X went on his ...
- 517: Robinson Crusoe
- ... another ship Alas, the ill-fated vessel was captured by Turkish pirates. Crusoe managed to avoid capture and made off in a small craft. Together, he and a young companion navigated along the coast of Africa, where they were pursued by both wild beasts and natives. A Portuguese ship finally rescued them and they sailed for Brazil. In the new land Crusoe established a prosperous sugar plantation. But again a feeling ... like a man cast away upon some desolate island, that had nobody there but himself." Then came an offer from some planters for Crusoe to act as a trader on a slave ship bound for Africa. But this voyage also met disaster: fierce hurricanes wrecked the ship, drowning everyone aboard except Robinson, who was finally tossed up on a desolate beach.A subsequent storm washed the ship's wreckage close to ...
- 518: Problems of Modernization in Developing Nations
- ... and the developing world. It shows that the industrial nations, The United States and Europe, are located in the northern hemisphere. On the other hand most of the developing world, Central and South America and Africa, are found in the southern hemisphere. The "well fed", well dressed individual holding the industrialized world indicates that the modernized nations of the world are prosperous, and have a high standard of living. The skinny ... developing world would not be able to maintain its existence. Two current problems which exist in the developing world today are political instability, and rapid urbanization. Political instability causes economic problems in places such as Africa, and South America, where many governments are being overthrown. When a government is inconsistent, a tax system cannot be established and revenue can't be collected. If a government doesn't receive revenue, it cannot ...
- 519: Technological Development and the Third World
- ... being and the preservation of our natural surroundings that should be concurrent with technological development. With ours as the only current model of successful development, newly industrializing countries such as South and Central America, and Africa (and up until quite recently many Asian countries) attempted to achieve results in the same way. The problem that ensued for these countries was that instead of working slowly towards their goals, they sold themselves ... the potential land was useless because of the cash-crops. ENVIRONMENTAL RESULTS OF TECHNOLOGY :TODAY A more current example of the technological development that is resulting in environmental degradation is the misuse of resources. In Africa, industrial water pollution has become a widespread problem. Third World communities don't often have the awareness that the South has about sustainable techniques and the importance of employing them. Most people in North America ...
- 520: Capitalism: The Cause Of Slave
- ... start up their own farm for themselves. Thus the manipulation of slave labor became the answer for capitalism, and from the use of black slave labor, tension began to rise between the slaves brought from Africa, and the land holders of the South. Tension between Slaves and land owners have been strong in the South for many years, and one might say that the cause of it is the ways of ... a coerced, cash-crop system of labor from which slavery became an economic necessity because for a person who owned land they needed workers, and these workers were predominantly Negro slaves brought in sold from Africa. To southern colonists, slavery was first an economic institution solely for the purpose of solving an economic problem, that problem - work cost too much money so the colonists implemented forced labor for economic gain. So ...
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