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- 851: Africa 2
- ... membership of the United Nations. In 1991 Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the first African and the first Arab to serve as secretary-general of the United Nations. After the conclusion of World War II, the African people gained their independence from European countries that had controlled most of the continent since the 19th century. France and the United Kingdom had the largest colonial empires, though Spain, Portugal ... the end of 1990, only South Africa remained under the control of a white minority government; even there, President F.W. de Klerk in 1990 took steps toward clearing away obstacles to negotiations for a new constitution. The African countries have developed political and economic relations with nations throughout the world. Many of the world's essential minerals, including copper, gold, and uranium, are mined in Africa. The continent's extensive river system represents one of the world's major potential sources of hydroelectric power. ...
- 852: Civil War 6
- The United States Civil War: A Time of Change and Equality for All The United States Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, represented a time of major change around the world. This civil war that absorbed our nation during the mid 1860s not only fought for the rights of African Americans in the United States but for the rights and respects of African Americans around the ... thought females could not handle (Carrigan, personal interview). The wives of the plantation owners assumed many responsibilities and single- Clarkson 3 handedly ran the South for four long years. Douglas Grunn, member of the 33rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Reenactment Group, said in a recent interview that women in the North also played a key role in the results of the Civil War. Many women would sew flags, make bullets, act ... another, ended up fighting in this war against slavery. Most of these people who immigrated from across the Atlantic Ocean found themselves fighting on the side of the Union in a meaningful war for their new nation. The most influential of these ethnic groups was the Irish Americans because they came in such great numbers. The “Potato Blight” in Ireland during the mid 1800s sent thousands of Irish fleeing Ireland ...
- 853: John F. Kennedy
- ... States (1961-1963). He was the youngest person ever to be elected president. Also, He was the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20the century. He served in World War II on PT boat. He also helped to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis and started Peace of Corps to help 3rd world countries better them selves. Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president. Therefore, his achievements were limited. He was shot in the head and died within an hour. Kennedy was born on ... s family called him jack. He and his older brother Joe were strong rivals. Jack was quiet and often shy, but held his owns in fights with Joe. "The boys enjoyed playing touch football."(The World Book Encyclopedia, 261). His childhood was full of sports, fun and activity. This all ended when he grew up old enough to leave for school. Kennedy attended elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale. "In ...
- 854: Uranium: Nuclear Friend or Nuclear Foe
- ... or Nuclear Foe On Monday August 6, 1945 the U.S. Bomber Enola Gay flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Seconds later a metallic projectile fell towards its target. In a blinding flash the world felt the power of a new age, the nuclear age. The study of radiation that would eventually lead to these uranium weapons began in 1798. It was in this year that the german chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth identified the element uranium ... a trace of barium in the uranium. Later they found that the release of energy and the presence of barium were caused by the splitting of uranium atoms. It was at that moment that the world was first introduced to man controlled nuclear power. After the successful splitting of an atom, many nations set to work to find a way to produce and extract energy from the reaction. The first ...
- 855: What If The World Had Only Two Faces?
- What If The World Had Only Two Faces? What if the world had only two faces, one for women and the other for men? First of all, love would have a different emergence. On the other hand, seeing the same face over and over again would result in boredom and frustration. In addition, the confusion would be infinite, and much greater than that of today’s world. Most importantly, variety would exist only in the inner qualities of individuals causing ideas and materialistic things to still exist. If men and women had one face, the world’s physical appearance would be ...
- 856: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... money and authority were English." These factors, he realized, were a major part of the nationalism in the area that would surface. Lucien grew up in an area of isolation from the rest of the world, an area with a different history and a different sense of themselves. The Kingdom of the Saguenay, as it is called, was separated from the rest of Quebec by the natural barriers of the mountains ... the condition that settlers would stay away. However, in 1842, the Hudson Bay Company lease would only be renewed if settlers would be allowed to enter the kingdom. They migration of the french to this new and magical land was seen as a "birth of a holy land." When the french lost to the English in the 1837 rebellions many Quebeckers believed that their dream of a new French republic had died. Although, when they saw the settlements spreading it was viewed as a chance to start again. The kingdom of the Saguenay offered many the renewed hope of a new all ...
- 857: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... money and authority were English." These factors, he realized, were a major part of the nationalism in the area that would surface. Lucien grew up in an area of isolation from the rest of the world, an area with a different history and a different sense of themselves. The Kingdom of the Saguenay, as it is called, was separated from the rest of Quebec by the natural barriers of the mountains ... the condition that settlers would stay away. However, in 1842, the Hudson Bay Company lease would only be renewed if settlers would be allowed to enter the kingdom. They migration of the french to this new and magical land was seen as a "birth of a holy land." When the french lost to the English in the 1837 rebellions many Quebeckers believed that their dream of a new French republic had died. Although, when they saw the settlements spreading it was viewed as a chance to start again. The kingdom of the Saguenay offered many the renewed hope of a new all ...
- 858: Collective Action Frames
- ... cognitive aspects of mobilization (Cf. Freeman, 1975, 1982; McAdam, 1982; Piven and Cloward, 1977). In general, their works detail the structural and cognitive aspects of mobilization, combining factors that generate resources (the structural) with the new social movement's concentration on factors that generate grievances (the cognitive). Neither the macrostructural models nor those based on individual motivation are capable of explaining the concrete forms of collective action and the involvement of ... ideological frames of a social movement are brought together. For example, Snow and Benford (1988, 207) acknowledge the need for a collective action frame to connect with what they refer to as the “phenomenological life world”; that is, the immediate personal world of the individual. The connection, or “frame resonance,” between the collective and the individual frame would be measured according to how well people are mobilized (Benford 1993a). Obviously, the higher the degree of frame ...
- 859: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt
- ... by Egyptian religion and art. And the cults of some Egyptian gods had followers in both Greece and Rome. The two last regions and the Bible are the most important antecedents of the modern Western world that owe something to Egypt. The Western alphabet is derived from a Phoenician one possibly modeled on Egyptian hieroglyphs; Egyptian ideas are found in some parts of the Bible; and Greek sciences and, especially, art were originally influenced by Egypt. Finally, archaeology and historical writing have made Egypt a subject of general public interest. The image of Egyptian history moves continually closer to reality as new facts are discovered and new kinds of research--anthropological and other--supplement more traditional archaeological techniques. Egypt's well preserved pyramids and cemeteries on the dry desert, and sturdy stone-built temples, have been studied by archaeologists since the ...
- 860: The Charter School Movement in New Zealand and England
- The Charter School Movement in New Zealand and England Introduction In 1994, the Globe and Mail reported that question period in the Alberta legislature had turned into a “rowdy exchange.” Liberal leader Laurence Decore had requested that Premier Klein clarify his ... when one looks at the charter school movement in other nations, one finds all of these factors at work. In an attempt to illustrate these themes, I will look at the charter school movement in New Zealand and England . I will focus on some of the problems decentralization and charter schools create and attempt to provide some lessons that can be derived from these three countries' attempts to improve their publicly ... is coupled with a more recent demand that school boards raise their academic standards to “levels equivalent to those achieved by students in Asia and Europe.” (Lightbody, 265) Further, school trustees are also facing a new set of education priorities such as the integration of students with disabilities, greater parental participation, bilingualism, Native and multicultural education and gender equity (265). All of these demands are being made in an environment ...
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