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- 3661: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- ... ban the most harmful testing. Sakharov had educated his nation to take steps for a safer atmosphere. Sakharov now entered his last role for mankind, that of a leader. He began to participate in human rights demonstrations as well as pen articles on the arms race. Besides writing on the dangers of nuclear war he took the lead in other issues. He wrote about pollution, overpopulation and the need for a ...
- 3662: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God..." (Emerson 59). Emerson and Thoreau also wrote often about nonconformity. In Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," the authors discuss citizens' rights and duties to think for themselves and only act of their own will. "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist" (Emerson 87). Thoreau's argument on nonconformity came mainly from a distrust and ...
- 3663: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... a real threat that week, as the world watched and waited, Russia withdrew their weapons. Kennedy was a hero; he possibly stopped World War 3. Kennedy took a middle of the road approach to Civil Rights. He was against the war in Vietnam, which made him unpopular within the government. He was making it impossible to proceed with what the military wanted to do. We can only guess what might have ...
- 3664: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... which was spent on the war could have been used to beat the discrimination against African Americans. With this some black leaders felt that Martins statements against the war diverted public attention from the civil rights. Early in 1968 Martin traveled to Memphis Tennessee to support a strike of poorly paid sanitation workers. There, on April 4, 1968 Martin was assassinated by a sniper, by the name of James Earl Ray ...
- 3665: James Earl Ray
- ... and make the greatest impact towards our lives. One such leader was the remarkable Martin Luther King Jr. Some refer to him as an activist, some as a visionary. His works towards the African-American rights movement are a staple in Black culture. Kings presence has made the United States a different place today. The impact of his life is evident internationally. However, like several great leaders of the century ...
- 3666: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- ... and each play also had its own influence on society. In some of his plays, Shaw treats children as smart and thoughtful beings and it resulted in a demonstration of respect for childhood and its rights (Morgan 109). "Widower's Houses, was a heavy and ironical exposure of the slum landlord practices and municipal graft that were common ills of the day" (Bowler et al. 966). Like Widower's Houses, which ...
- 3667: Rosa Parks
- ... as a house servant and began sending money back to her family. When she married Raymond Parks, she returned to high school and graduated. In 1943 she joined the NAACP and worked to ensure voting rights for blacks. One evening shortly after 5:00 PM on Thursday, December 1, 1955 while coming home from work, she boarded a bus and sat down. According to Montgomery law, blacks had to sit in ...
- 3668: John Quincy Adams
- ... at their trial. He spoke out against mob violence and other forms of social disintegration. In 1774 to 1776 Adams was a deligate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He was a champion of American rights in Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. John Adams' presidency that lasted from 1797 to 1801 was a troubled one. Adams made many contributions during his term. He gave the Government stability by ...
- 3669: Herbert George Wells
- ... first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout ...
- 3670: Helen Keller
- ... injustice in the world and that people were not treated equally. Blindness was often caused by disease which was itself often caused by pove 84f rty. She became a suffragette and a socialist, demanding equal rights for women and better pay for working class people. She also helped set up the American Foundation for the Blind in order to provide better services to people with impaired vision. She toured the country ...
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