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- 2041: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... Russia over Berlin, and again when Soviet missiles were spotted in Cuba. This made the United States venerable to a nuclear attack from Russia. Kennedy put into effect quarantine on all weapons entering Cuba. Nuclear war was 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 ...
- 2042: Apartheid In South Africa
- ... people. And they were right to be - because Britain had decided that Transvaal would fit in well within their dream of a African British Empire. In 1899, after several incidents planned to increase the tensions, war broke out. The British style of fighting was very unorganized, but they still outnumbered the Boers. They burnt farms and crops, and sent women and children to camps, where most of them died - more, in ... into power, they gave more freedom to the region. Most of the Boers were eager to make peace and a former Boer general, Louis Botha was elected as prime minister. Some however still remembered the war wounds. The angry Afrikaners, as they were now called, formed their own political party - the National Party. The United Party, headed by Botha, ruled the union most of the time, except for a brief period in the 30 s. Only during World War I was the country split, and was there some actual armed rebellion against the United Party which joined the war against Germany. The Nationalist Party turned towards Hitler in the 1930 s, and added ...
- 2043: Realism
- ... Regionalism” and “Naturalism”, which are subcategories of Realism. By choosing two writers, I will be able to compare and contrast the writings of each. In the time that Realism was being introduced to America, the Civil War was just beginning around 1865. When it concluded, World War I was just initiating. Just as America was changing rapidly, Realism was quickly replacing the literary movement called “Romanticisim”, which was optomistic and sentimental writing. Extreme improvements in transporation, including railroads and places helped ...
- 2044: George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was the son of a slave woman owned by Moses Carver. During the Civil War, slave owners found it difficult to hold slaves in the border state of Missouri, and Moses Carver therefore sent his slaves, including the young child and his mother, to Arkansas. After the war, Moses Carver learned that all his former slaves had disappeared except for a child named George. Frail and sick, the motherless child was returned to his former master's home and nursed back to ...
- 2045: Sesxism
- ... s saw the pendulum swing against the women's movement. Violent acts against women who sought abortions became common and the government was unsympathetic to the victims. There are parallels between the Southern Black's civil rights movement and the women's movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. A national campaign by the National Organization of Women began on 2 March 1984, demanding ...
- 2046: Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990's
- ... s saw the pendulum swing against the women's movement. Violent acts against women who sought abortions became common and the government was unsympathetic to the victims. There are parallels between the Southern Black's civil rights movement and the women's movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. A national campaign by the National Organization of Women began on 2 March 1984, demanding ...
- 2047: Great Depression 8
- ... Another helpful aide in the depression was the chief International creditor who was described as "unexperienced and less careful about it's lendings because it was less dependent on this business than the chief pre-war tender, Great Britain." He granted huge short term loans to politically unstable nations. Lionel Robbins was a professor at the London School of Economics. He offered what was probably "the most influential contemporary explanation of the length of the downturn in the Great Depression(1934). The World War (World War I) had destroyed much property and stimulated nationalistic sentiments that resulted in restrictions on international trade; Robbins wrote" Robbins believed that the depression was dragging on because of structural weaknesses. An example of Robbins ...
- 2048: Turn Of The Screw- Henry James
- ... was educated privately by governess and tutors in New York and Albany. In 1855, he traveled to Europe with his family and attended schools in Switzerland and France. In 1860, with the outbreak of the Civil War, The James family moved back to the United States and settled in Newport. James was unable to enlist in the Union army with his two younger brothers due to a back injury he received when ... his autobiography entitled A Small Boy and Others. The following year, he wrote Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes (criticism) and another autobiography entitled Notes of a Son and Brother. Deeply disturbed by World War I, as James was with all wars, James did refugee and hospital work during the war. In 1915, James became a citizen of Great Britain. On December 2nd of the same year, James suffered ...
- 2049: Commercial Warfare
- ... term, the United States initiated a policy to retaliate against the seizure of ships by the British and French. These three dominant nations entered a period between 1806-1810, known as Commercial Warfare. The Commercial War was a response by Americans to maintain their right of neutral commerce. The Acts by the United States, the Decrees by the powerful Napoleon I, and the Parliamentary orders, throughout the period of Commercial Warfare directly led to the start of the War of 1812, and helped build the commercial future of the United States. The Peace of Amiens did not last long after it’s signing on March 27, 1802, to end the European wars between the ... conformed in writing, due to the possibility of continuing to hurt the British commerce, but continued to seize American ships. While England did nothing in the three-month period and embargo was reestablished on Britain. War between the Britain and America was inevitable, "The Second War for Independence” broke out in 1812, hence the name the War of 1812. The five years of embargoes led the American people to learn ...
- 2050: Democracy
- ... of Right, this petition told King Charles I to stop collecting taxes without the consent of Parliament. This petition let Parliament meet at regular intervals. When King Charles refused to agree to this petition a civil war broke out fought between the Puritans, led by Oliver Cromwell, and the followers of the king. When the followers of the king were defeated, King Charles I was beheaded. The Revolution of 1688 established the supremacy of Parliament and John Locke, a philosopher of the revolution stated the power should belong to the people. In 1689 Parliament passed the Bill of Rights, which assured people many basic civil rights. He also stated that the government was there for protecting the peoples liberties, property, and lives. In 1689 Parliament passed the Bill of Rights, which assured people many basic civil rights. In the ...
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