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- 3721: Muhammad Ali
- ... the Nation of Islam, a move that had a significant effect on his career. As a champion Ali now recognized his power in society, he used this power to support and speak for the Civil Rights. These actions were something the white society feared and disliked. Ali became a political symbol of the black society, maybe the person who influenced blacks the most after Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. During ...
- 3722: Sparta: Uncultured Discipline
- ... in 730 B.C, when the Spartans marched into Messenia eager for more land. After 20 long years of war the Messenians were forced to surrender. They were made into helots (slave/workers with no rights) and ruthlessly oppressed. In 685 B.C they rose in revolt, it took 17 years of brutal fighting they were finally put down (Isaac Asimov, 1965, p. 50). These wars were the turning point of ...
- 3723: Pompey The Great
- ... B.C.). Together they overthrew Sulla's constitution by giving the plebian tribunes their former powers and the knights partial control of the law courts. In 67 B.C., the tribune Aulus Gabinius, by a bill gave extraordinary military powers to Pompey. His objective was to deal with Piracy throughout the Mediterranean. Pompey needed only three months to finish this task. This feat led to further honors. In 60 B.C ...
- 3724: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
- ... party and join the new Republican Party in 1856. Lincoln issue toward slavery grew stronger. Lincoln once quoted "There is no reason in the world why the Negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence- the right to live, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Lincoln was elected as president and continued there to contribute to the U.S. Soon the President would have ...
- 3725: Comparison of John F Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln's Lives
- ... of politics and world affairs. Both Presidents had the legality of their elections contested (Heidrich 1). Kennedy and Lincoln both served in the U.S. Senate (Heidrich 1). Both presidents were very active in civil rights for people of all races (Paranormal 1). Both Kennedy and Lincoln feared nuclear war with the Soviet Union (Coincidence 1). Lincoln served in the Blackhawk War and was in charge of destroying 901 TPs (Coincidence ...
- 3726: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... to South Africa as laborers. He had seen how they were treated as inferiors in India, in England, and then in South Africa. In 1894 he founded the Natal Indian Congress to agitate for Indian rights. Yet he remained loyal to the British Empire. In 1899, during the Boer War, he raised an ambulance corps and served the South African government. In 1906 he gave aid against the Zulu revolt. Later ...
- 3727: Woodrow Wilson and His Ability To be an Effective President
- ... have made the war worse. Wilson also was thought to be a weak president by ex- president Roosevelt (Encarta 6). During Roosevelt's time in office he helped Panama succeed from Colombia in return for rights to build the Panama Canal through their country. He thought it was very unnecessary to apologies to Colombia for helping the succession of Panama. Roosevelt believed that it showed Wilson's weaker side. Wilson did ...
- 3728: Susan Smith
- ... case through the use of the jury to come out with a just decision concerning Susan Smith. "Law as a legal system" was also seen in the many agencies of our society used to uphold rights. The police and the FBI got to the truth about what really happened, and arrested the person responsible. Finally "law as a set of rules" was shown in this case because the court decided that ...
- 3729: The Life of Aristotle
- ... be realized only by the mature male adult of the upper class, not by women, or children, or barbarians (non-Greeks), or salaried "mechanics" (manual workers) from whom, indeed, Aristotle proposed to take away voting rights. In politics, many forms of human association can obviously be found; which one is suitable depends on circumstances, such as the natural resources, cultural traditions, industry, and literacy of each community. Aristotle did not regard ...
- 3730: Charlemagne
- ... one source, instead of many. (Boussard 32) Charlemagne also unified the laws of his kingdom based on the laws of the church. He set standards for administering justice, codified marriage and divorce laws, and gave rights to all men founded in the word of God. There were exceptions, however. People of privilege: ranking officials in the political, juridical, or religious communities were accorded special protection by the king, and had the ...
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