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- 571: Serial Killer: Ted Bundy
- ... that he was such a productive part of society. This was not a seedy man from the wrong side of town. He was a college graduate, participated in local politics, and even volunteered on a crisis line in his spare time. He was an attractive man whom police thought posed little harm. Five people called to turn Ted Bundy’s name in to the police after seeing a composite sketch. But ...
- 572: Henry Kissinger
- ... t stop there, though. From his success in China and the Middle East, Kissinger, under Nixon, made his move to negotiate peace in Vietnam. After ten thousand days of bloody warfare in the small, south Asian country, Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho, a cease fire was finally reached ending a war that killed over fifty thousand Americans, and millions of Vietnamese. This one him, and Le ...
- 573: Important African American Figures
- ... were U.S. civil rights figures. Bates was born in Huttig, Ark.and cofounder of Arkansas State Press in 1941. She was president of Arkansas chapter of NAACP in 1957 during Little Rock school integration crisis and while state guardsmen, at Governor Orville Faubus's request, she blocked black students from entering high school buildings. Bates stood firm with students and was arrested along with nine black students. She demanded protection ...
- 574: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... battle which the two armies take, the first movements to come to blows- this is the exposition; the counter- movement of the army under attack form the complication, which requires dispositions and and brings on crisis from which springs the result or Denouement (Gray 6)". Napoleon thought himself to be invincible and God-like. He felt that he had a destiny to be one of the greatest military leaders to ever ...
- 575: "Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam"
- ... Kingdom". (Whitlam, 1985) Secondly, and this matter is almost certainly laced with personal feelings of injustice at his own treatment, Whitlam resented the way the Head of State had no real power in times of crisis, to wit, his dismissal by Sir John Kerr. Whitlam regrets that the Queen "has to be represented by persons of lesser experience and competence. She is at the mercy of fallible deputies." (Whitlam, 1985) There ...
- 576: Abraham Lincoln
- ... sworn in to be the 16th president. Right after he was elected, he went straight to the Civil War. The Civil War started on July 4, 1861. No American president had ever faced such a crisis. Lincoln had to find for himself the necessary powers to preserve, protect, and defend. In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was a bill to set most of the slaves free ...
- 577: Eleanor Holmes Norton
- ... honorary degrees. Norton has been recognized nationally as a writer. A few of her published works include, “Justice and Efficiency in Dispute Systems” in 1990, “Bargaining and the Ethic Process” 1989, and “Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Intervention, Survival Against the Odds” in 1988. Some of her numerous leadership positions include service as chair of the ACLU National Advisory Council, the Workplace Health Fund, and the Women’s Law and Policy ...
- 578: Langston Hughes
- ... published poem was also one of his most famous, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, and it appeared in Brownie’s Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications(Jackson,1).” “One of Hughes’ finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”. It spoke of Black writers and ...
- 579: Karl Marx
- ... his life, after his death his works grew with the strength of the working class. His ideas and theories became known as Marxism, and has been used to shape the ideas of most European and Asian countries.The strength of the Proletariat has been due to the work of Marx. His ideals formed government known as Communism. Although he was never a rich man, his knowledge has been rich in importance ...
- 580: Caesar
- ... elected to the consulate with the support of Crassus and Pompey. Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed the first Triumvirate which is a form of government. After forming the Triumvirate, Caesar obtained a reduction of the Asian tax contracts for Crassus, land for Pompeys veterans, and Caesar received the governorships of Illyricum, Cisalpine Gaul, and Transalpine Gaul. Caesar was also given control of a large army, which he used to take over ...
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