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- 1551: Julius Ceasar
- ... as dictator of Rome? What events led up to the assassination of Caesar? What happened after he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. (3) Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young, Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades ... and remained in Gaul until his invasion of Italy. He continued north of the Alps each summer and he would leave his army there in garrison each winter while he came south to conduct the civil administration of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum and to keep in contact with Rome. (3) (1) Caesar became determined to conquer and make a province of the whole of Gaul. After his defeat of the Belgic ... Caesar’s daughter Julia to whom Pompey had been happily married since 59 BC died in 54 BC Crassus was killed by the Parthians at Carrhae in. (3) Mesopotamia. In planning Caesar’s return to civil life in Rome he could assume that as soon as he lost the immunity from prosecution which his military command conferred, his political enemies would endeavor to secure his exile by prosecuting him in ...
- 1552: The People of El Salvador
- ... to gain power. With the Regan administration shocked by the revolution in Nicaragua, the U.S. feed money to the standing El Salvadorian government. In April of 1990 the United Nations stepped into the Salvadorian civil war and mediated negations between the standing government and the revolutionaries. The treaty was signed January 1992, and it forced the standing government to perform massive reforms. All in all the El Salvadorian civil war lasted 12 years, killed 75,000 and ate up 6 billion dollars of US money. Although somewhat better than before unemployment, poverty and unhappy war veterans lead to high crime rates. The latest ...
- 1553: A Raisin In The Sun
- The civil rights movement brought enlightenment towards the abolishment of segregation laws. Although the laws are gone does segregation still exist in fact? What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in ... actions taken upon her. In the story she acts like a strong person by saying, Wilhelmina Othella Johnson does anything, whenever she wants! While in reality she is weak individual. The United States during World War 2 were submissive towards Hitler at first. This gave Hitler time to gain power and support of the people. If the Unites States had acted sooner towards Hitler the war would ve ended quickly. This is a similar paradox to Mrs. Johnson s attitude towards segregation and racism in the story. Ignorance and propaganda were wide spread creating more and more assimilationists exponentially. Racism ...
- 1554: Mark Antony
- ... soon went to Antony to call a truce and combine forces. They decided they would let another person join with them, Lepidus. Lepidus was an important man who made his fame with Caesar in the civil war and owned the needed Spain. In 43 BC, Antony joined with Octavian and Lepidus to establish a second triumvirate. They shared power by Antony ruling the eastern providences and Gaul, Octavian took Italy and Spain ... the winter of 41-40 BC. Octavian and Antony’s friendship started to deplete again. Antony’s wife Fulvia and brother Lucius were back in Italy where they started conflict with Octavian, beginning the Perusine War. They were easily defeated and Fulvia fled to Athens. Antony did not know of the incident and when he found out, he went to Athens to confront his wife. Fulvia became ill and died ...
- 1555: Julius Caesar - Mark Antony
- ... crowd, "Look you here, here is himself/Marred as you see with traitors" (III ii 197-198). The people in the crowd were so moved by his speech that they were willing to go to war against the conspirators. By starting this civil war, Antony again risks his own life to get revenge on the assassins of Caesar. Antony realizes that loyalty is an advantageous quality for a person to possess. He emphasizes this speculation when he does ...
- 1556: Billy Sunday
- ... product of his times and an example of the culture and morals of middle America. On the other hand, Sunday took many stands against popular beliefs, and he persuaded multitudes to join him in a war against many of the modernistic ideas of the time that he saw as evil. As he once summarized his opinion so well, "What this world needs is a tidal wave of reform" (Sunday "Satan" 24 ... 1872, Mrs. Sunday and her parents were so impoverished that they could not feed and clothe all the children. Thanks to a state senator, they re assigned to one of Iowa’s three well-run Civil War Soldiers’ Homes located in Glenwood, about a hundred and fifty miles from the Sunday homestead. Billy remembered the departure this way: When we climbed into the wagon to go to town I called out, " ...
- 1557: Is Racism Still A Problem In The 21st Century?
- ... are against immigrants usually claim that immigrants are taking jobs from them, these people usually have a poor knowledge and understanding of history and are unaware of why Britain has so many immigrants. After World War II Britain had the task of trying to rebuild what had been lost in the devastation of war. One avenue of the rebuild of Britain was to run public transport again. However, the Britons who had fought in the war did not want low paid jobs like driving buses or trains; they felt that they deserved something better. To combat this problem Britain invited a huge number of West Indian people to Britain to ...
- 1558: Slavery In America
- ... executed or severely whipped. The "Underground Railroad" was a project that helped black slaves escape into Canada, especially Amherstburg. The system involved 3,000 white helpers and freed an estimated 75,000 people after the civil war. Slavery in the middle of the 1800's was abolished except for the rebellion states in the south. In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued which made slavery illegal in the states that had rebelled ... was secret and silent. One that exists today. One that does not shrink but rather grows. Racism was and is still upon us. The Ku Klux Klan has been around since the end of the civil war. It is a roller coaster of a history. From extreme power, to rapid decline, and slow reemergence. The clan, who is notorious for its violence, has a relatively innocent beginning. It was formed ...
- 1559: Blacks: Indirectly Enslaved
- Blacks: Indirectly Enslaved After the Civil War was over, reconstruction began in the south. During this time, many things were done to rebuild the United States. Different issues were examined; one such issue was slavery and what to do with the newly freed slaves. Slavery was abolished with the 13th amendment after the Civil War, but indirectly slavery remained for southern blacks, for through social, economic, and political domination by the southern whites, southern blacks remained enslaved. Southern whites kept blacks re-enslaved economically by keeping them dependant ...
- 1560: Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s
- ... became what they are today, making the alterations from slavery and racist or sexist views spread out over time, so every little victory became much more sweeter. Politically, the United States was transformed by the Civil War into a nation of people with a view of themselves as having a special destiny. Lincoln in his Gettysburg address began to develop the “American dream”, which included justice, and freedom. This became a dream ... people to expand the country, and create wealth and opportunity. America changed from an isolationist country wary of “foreign entanglements” to a world power willing to take on and defeat Spain in the Spanish-American war. From a nation of small towns and cities and small farms, America became an industrial colossus, with ship-building, rails, steel mills and factories, with a rate of growth that began to attract laborers ...
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