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- 1201: Pompey The Great
- ... a member of the first Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Marcus Crassus, but later became Caesar's enemy. Pompey was born September 30, 106 B.C. His first important military experiences were in the Social war during which his father Pompeius Strabo, taught Pompey his military skills. Pompey distinguished himself in the civil war between Lucies Sulla and Gaius Marius. Pompey raised his own army in Picenum. He did such a good job raising his army he was made an imperator general. In 83 B.C., he was ...
- 1202: Jefferson Davis
- ... residn in 1835. He was a farmer in Mississippi from 1835 to 1845. Then he was elected to the U.S. congress. In 1846, he resigned his seat in order to serve in the Mexican War and fought at Monterrey and Buena Vista, where he was wounded. He was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1857, and a U.S. Senator again from 1857 to 1861. As a ... He was elected to the office by popular vote for a 6-year term and was inaugurated un Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy. He failed to raise enough money to fight the Civil War and could not obtain help for the Confederacy from foreign governments. One of the accomplishments of Jefferson Dacis, was the raising of the Confederate army. Davis had a difficult task to preform. He was ...
- 1203: AN AMERICAN POET
- ... 22, 1898, Bethlehem, Pa., U.S. - d. March 13, 1943, New York, NY), American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown’s Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War (Fenton). Born into a military family, Stephen was raised on military posts by his father, Colonel James Benét. “His father read poetry aloud to Stephen, an older brother, William Rose, and a sister, Laura, all of whom became writers” (Fenton). Stephen was 17, a student at Yale University, when he published his first book, entitled Five Men and Pompey (Fenton). “Civilian service during World War I interrupted his education at Yale Univerisity. When the war was over he returned to Yale. In 1919, he received his master of arts degree, submitting his third volume of poems instead of a ...
- 1204: The Birth of a Nation: The Pros and Cons
- ... a Nation is a complex story, with many different smaller stories that are minor plots of their own, but which also come together to form one big plot. Their are vivid, violent action in the war sequences, such as the African American raid on the South after Lee surrenders, and the "heroic" episode when the Ku Klux Klan come along and save the day. There are also many dramatic scenes. One ... forth to the African Americans, and the Klan on their way to the rescue. He is well know for his fighting scenes because they often contain a large number of extras. Almost any of the war scenes is a good example of this. Before getting into the negative reaction of the film, it is just as important to learn what is so negative about the film. This may sound somewhat subtle ... at the same time, this film is his personal interpretation, and he is solely responsible for the visuals. Furthermore, the fact that he is from the south, and many of his relatives fought in the Civil War, it is safe to say that his decision to create a film based on The Clansman is due to more than simply thinking it would make a good film. The problem is that ...
- 1205: Genghis Khan
- ... oceanic ruler. Now, Mongol ambitions began to look beyond their homeland and Genghis Khan was poised to begin on his great adventure of world conquest. Genghis Khan’s new nation was organized, above all, for war and Genghis used the same techniques in disciplining his armies as he had in his earlier years. Initially his troops consisted only of cavalry, riding the hardy Mongol pony, which has no need for fodder ... the hands of one of his generals. He himself was compelled to turn his efforts away from China and carry out the conquest of Khwarezm. The governor of the city of Otrar had provoked this war when he massacred a group of Muslim merchants who were under the protection of the Mongols. War with Khwarezm would have come sooner or later anyway, but through this act it became necessary. It was in this war that the Mongols earned their reputation for savagery and terror. City after city ...
- 1206: Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
- ... the southern society with satire. The men took their guns [to church] ... and kept them between their knees... was just one example. In the time of Twain s life that he wrote this novel, the Civil War had just ended. The war had tested society s morals. The issue of slavery was important to Twain which was the reason morals were portrayed in this way. The freedom and peacefulness of the river soon gave way to ...
- 1207: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... the slave states, and thereafter a fierce agitation sprang up for the recovery of this loss of balance, and ultimately for Southern preponderance, which resulted in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska war, and the civil war. The fugitive slave law was hateful to the North not only because it was cruel and degrading, but because it was seen to be a move formed for nationalizing slavery. It was unsatisfactory to ...
- 1208: Genocide
- ... best known example in this century was the attempt by Nazi Germany during the 1930's and 1940's to destroy the Jewish population of Europe, known as the Holocaust. By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been killed in Nazi concentration camps. The known objective of the Nazi rule was Jewish extinction. In November 1938, shortly after the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by ... as soon as possible. Several hundred thousand people were able to find refuge in other countries, but a nearly equal number, including many who were old or poor, stayed to face an uncertain destiny. When war began in September 1939, the German army occupied the western half of Poland and added almost 2 million Jews to the German power sphere. Limitations placed on Polish Jewry were much worse than those in ... bodies of the gassed could be burned. In 1944 the camp was photographed by Allied reconnaissance aircraft in search of industrial targets. It's factories, but not it's gas chambers, were bombed. When the war ended, the Jewish dead in the Holocaust were more than 5 million: about 3 million in killing centers and other camps, 1.4 million in shooting operations, and more than 600,000 in ghettos. ...
- 1209: History Of Social Security
- ... job. As a result of this, deeper compassion was felt for those who couldn’t get a job, mainly children and the elderly. One person who recognized the severity of the situation was the Revolutionary War hero Thomas Paine. In 1795 Thomas Paine called for the creation of a “public system of economic security for the new nation”. Thomas Paine recognized the tragedy of being poor, especially in regards to the ... Thomas Paine and his vision was never fulfilled, at least during his lifetime. It wasn’t until 1862 that the Federal government established a form of economic security. It was at this time that the Civil War pensions program was set up. This provided soldier, who were wounded as a result of the war, with benefits so that they could sustain a normal life. This program also provided the widows and ...
- 1210: Anti-Censorship
- ... In the ancient Egyptian empire, nothing negative could be said about the gods. When America was an English colony, if anyone spoke out against the King of England, it was considered treason. In the pre-civil war period, books like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were banned in the south. And even today, censorship laws have been implemented on the internet. In all these cases ,it did nothing positive. The Egyptian empire collapsed, The United States had a revolution, the Civil War broke out, and pornography has spread even more across the internet. If there is nothing to gain with censorship, then schools shouldn't try to censor the books we read. Besides not working ...
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