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- 2701: Israeli Palestinian Conflict
- ... on May 4, 1994, and applies to the Gaza Strip and to a defined area of about 65 square kilometers including Jericho and its environs. The Gaza-Jericho agreement addresses four main issues -- security arrangements, civil affairs, legal matters, and economic relations. The document includes agreement to a withdrawal of Israeli military forces from Gaza and Jericho, a transfer of authority from the Israeli Civil Administration to a Palestinian structure and composition of the Palestinian force, and relations between Israel and the Palestinian intensive diplomatic efforts by the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Yasser Arafat agreed on September 29, 1996 to go to Washington the following week to seek ways out of a war that has put the entire Israeli-Palestinian peace in jeopardy. Despite the historical tensions of the Middle East, recent issues have arisen to intensify the conflict. Angry Palestinians protested Israel's decision to open ...
- 2702: The American Revolution
- ... arms. In fact, rebellion was inevitable. Parliamentary taxation was a main source of the colonists' anger. With the Sugar Act of 1764, they were forced to pay one-third of Britian's French and Indian War costs. The Stamp Act was exorbitant for the colonists as well, but was met with much more hostility. They rebelled against these taxes because they were being taxed without representation in England; they felt the British had no right to tax their colonies when they themselves had no say in how they were ruled. The civil liberties of the colonists were also restricted. The colonists were discouraged from buying foreign products and had restricted production as a result of mercantilism. In the hated Admiralty Courts, colonists were shipped back to England ... with individual rights and representation. After the battles, George Washington was appointed commander of the army, and a year later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. This document was not the end of the war, but rather the beginning of the end. England fought the colonies for nearly seven more years. Finally, in 1783, the Treaty of Paris was finally signed after peace negotiations that took two years. They ...
- 2703: King Arthur
- ... death. The Faerie Queene Morgan le Fay may be the figure present in the Arthurian saga with the oldest history. The earliest form of her name is found as the Morrigan, an Irish goddess of war appearing to heroes on the battlefields. As Morgan, she is a goddess of healing in the early literature, who rules over the magical island of Avalon, which seems then to be an afterworld and place ... the late fourteenth century poem, Le Morte Arthur, Avalon was referred to as a vale. According to the legend, Arthur's nephew or son, Modred, used the exposed affair of Lancelot and Guinevere to begin civil war, and Arthur himself was seriously wounded at the battle of Camlan. He was carried away to Avalon to have his wounds tended. Here can be seen the strongest remaining influence of the other, older ...
- 2704: Teenagers of the Sixties and Today
- ... Sixties and Today My father told me about growing up in the sixties. It was a time of unrest. Students were rioting on college campuses, African Americans were rioting in the streets and an unpopular war was going on in Southeast Asia. There was the Free Speech Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the sexual revolution. Marijuana and LSD, illegal drugs virtually unheard of a decade before, were becoming commonplace among teenagers. The country was in turmoil and on the brink of revolution. College students ... inciting riots because they were troublemakers. They were taught ideals concerning the United States of America and wanted to ensure that the government and the universities upheld those ideals. The same was true concerning the Civil Rights Movement. Blacks and other minorities where not on a mission to overthrow the government. They were taught about equality in our country under the law regardless of race, creed or color and would ...
- 2705: Susan B Anthony
- ... womens rights. She would often deliver speeches written by Stanton, who was occupied with her young children. In 1854, She devoted herself to the antislavery movement serving from 1856 to the outbreak of the civil war, 1861. Here, she served as an agent for the American Antislavery Society. After, She worked with Stanton and published the New York liberal weekly, "The Revolution" (1868-1870) which called for equal pay for women. In 1872, Susan demanded that women be given the same civil and political rights that had been extended to black men under the 14th and 15th amendments. Anthony and Stanton became convinced that pg1ggggwoman would not gain the rights or be effective in promoting reforms ...
- 2706: Everyone in A Man For All Seasons is Pursuing Their Own Ends. What Makes More Different?
- ... Man For All Seasons are all illustrated throughout, however they are not as prominent as those of Cromwell, Henry and The Common Man. There are characters like Chapuys, whose main aim is to spark a civil war which will ultimately cause the downfall of Henry VIII, and possibly England. This is because he is a Spaniard and is representing Catherine, his queen and Spain, his country. He supports More because one consequence ... down," even he would not be safe from the Devil himself. More can appreciate that Man's law nor God's law is enough to uphold society but if both coexist, then both moral and civil justice can be carried out. Ultimately, More is a human being, just like Cromwell, Rich and The Common Man. He makes mistakes and he knows, "
I'm not God." However what he does know ...
- 2707: Paul L. Dunbar
- ... 1872 in Dayton, OH. His mother Matilda, was a former slave and his father Joshua had escaped slavery and served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Colored Calvary Regiment during the Civil war (online). Joshua and Matilda separated in 1874. Dunbar came from a poor family. After his father left, his mother supported the family by working as a washerwoman. One of the families she worked for was ... time. Even though many of his poems convey the life of personal vision with no attention to racial or social detail, a lot of his poems celebrate the black tradition. They eulogize black heroes in war or peace; praise whites who have helped the cause of black liberation, while condemning those who perpetrate injustices towards blacks; defend the black community and satirize racist institutions. "We Wear the Mask" and "Ode ...
- 2708: A Land Rembered
- ... in Florida ends. The first generation of MacIveys consisted of the father and husband, Tobias, the mother and wife, Emma, and their young son, Zech. The family had decided to escape the pressures of the Civil War in their native Georgia, and move to the scrub of Northern Florida. The MacIveys experience many troubles and learn many new things during their stay in the scrub, such as meeting Indians, that will turn ... to build walls of defense for the confederate forces. During the excursion to chop down trees, confederate deserters raided Emma and Zech and burned down their house. Tobias and Emma made the decision that the war was getting to close to the scrub, and that moving South would be a good idea. The MacIvey clan packed up their wagon and headed south along the St. Johns and Kissimmee rivers ...
- 2709: Hate Crimes
- ... black church, the St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, which was founded in 1765, "has been a target for attacks throughout it's history-a period that spans the eras of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, segregation, and civil rights." In 1983, while the Sunday service was in progress, a group of whites shot out the windows of the church. Later on that day they came back to the church and they scrawled ...
- 2710: Growth of NYS Business
- ... 271). Although the rapid industrialization and urbanization of New York had a great deal to do with the success of agricultural markets sporadic demand from aboard as a result of the Irish famine, the Crimean War and the repeal of the Corn Laws in England also contributed(North, 141). During this period Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia, in that order were the leading wheat growing states. Between the years 1840 ... boom of business expansion during this period. It appeared as if we were developing not only as a state but as a civilized nation whenever this development would be curtailed by the onsloat of a civil war. Works Cited Allen, Oliver E. New York, New York: A History of the World's Most Exhilarating and Challenging City. New York: Macmillan, 1990. Ellis, David M., et al. A History of New York ...
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