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- 1121: Samuel Adams
- ... Tea Party. He was one of the first people on the ship to throw the tea overboard. He later worked for the creation of the Continental Congress, helping propel it into supporting Massachusetts in the crisis. This congress was the first form of independent Government that America had seen. From 1774 through 1781 Adams represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress, where his industry, stamina, realism, and commitment made him one of ...
- 1122: Pompeys Rise To Political Prom
- ... honour. (Plutarch). Pompey was too much on the popular side, in that he had decided to restore the tribunician power. The state of Italy in 78 BC was dangerous, the senate was confronted with a crisis. Its statesmanship and its competence to wield the powers put into its hands were submitted to a searching test, and this ordeal was the first of many. M. Aemilius Lepidus, one of the consuls ...
- 1123: Political Momentum
- ... recently however has such a controversy surfaces. Allow me to use this as an example: According to the Sep. 29th 1997 issure of Time, in 1995 and 1996, videotapes were made of presedential coffees with Asian executives, personal donors, and business owners. A total of 103 coffees for the Democrats equals 27 million dollars for their fund raisers. There are more recent events. Accroding to the Oct. 13th 1997 issue of ...
- 1124: Communism - From Marx To Zemin
- ... the country. When western criticism said that Perestroika was slowing down, Glasnost went ahead at full speed, revealing not only the crimes of the Stalin era, but also the full horrifying dimensions of the contemporary crisis. In foreign affairs, not only was there great progress on arms control, but Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan. Most spectacular of all, in 1989, Gorbachev allowed Soviet control over Eastern Europe to evaporate, as ...
- 1125: Martin Luther King- I Have A D
- ... his civil rights workers would lead to violent counterattacks from segregationists. He knew this would only lead his followers to injury and death. "The purpose of our direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation" (156). Nonviolence put his followers on the moral high ground and made the brutality of racists very apparent. In this way, King won many allies ...
- 1126: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... they were treated as inferiors in India, in England, and then in South Africa. In 1906, Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He started protest campaigns and organized demonstrations, but never used violence. His philosophy was to never fight back against the atrocities, but still never ...
- 1127: Oliver Cromwell
- ... strength, but, unwilling to stay on the defensive, Cromwell was determined to stop the invasion of Yorkshire Royalists into the eastern counties and decided to counterattack. By re-forming his men in a moment of crisis, he won the Battle of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire on July 28. On the same day he was appointed governor of the Isle of Ely, a province that was thought of as a possible bastion against ...
- 1128: Oliver North
- ... is still widely respected as a military officer, as a political strategist, and as a political candidate. His place is American history cannot be contested. His exposure to the spotlight during a time of political crisis, and never falting, shows us of his supreme courage and valor. This is why the responsibility of the Iran-Contra operation was put on his shoulders. He would not crack under pressure, and always gets ...
- 1129: Orson Welles
- ... dark lighting and good guys are typically depicted with brighter lighting. Villains are introduced with heavy music and heroes are represented with lighter music. Examining how characters overcome or do not overcome the challenges and crisis of their lives is the major theme of most of his dramatic presentations. Many characters are taken from his own experience and are unable to surmount the difficulties of day to day living. Such characters ...
- 1130: Compare And Cantrast WEB Du Bo
- ... the absence of color consciousness and impressed by their mellow civilization. Still, he knew that his life's work was at home, and returned to America in 1894. His work as an editor of The Crisis, the organ of the NAACP, from 1910 to 1934 was perhaps the most sustained and uncompromising single effort in the history of racial protests in America. As early as 1909 he had projected an "Encyclopedia ...
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