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- 3081: Saddam Hussein: The U.S Portrayal Of Evil Encarnate
- ... of its leaders, IyatollahBaqr al-Sadr, was executed, along with members of his family, by orders from Saddam Hussein. There is significant evidence indicating that Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran during their 8-year war, which is condemned universally by the international community. Hussein is quoted as saying in an interview with Spanish television, "America used nuclear weapons against Japan. Isreal possesses nuclear weapons- you and the whole world know ... Bush also played up the fact that Hussein was intractable- that the U.S. consistently tried peaceful negations with Hussein, but that he was focused on aggression. When Bush was asked by a reporter if war might have been avoided if the U.S. had been tougher with Saddam Hussein, Bush replied, "Well, we tried the peaceful route; we tried working with him and changing [him] through contact... The lesson is ... coupled with ongoing reports with how close the Iraqis were to developing nuclear capabilities developed the kind of support that the Bush administration was looking for in order to send troops to fight in the war with the backup of the American public. Saddam Hussein miscalculated and showed a level of naivete when attempting to manipulate his media image. On numerous occasions, he would have what was obviously staged events ...
- 3082: Jay's Treaty
- ... the questions of disputed boundaries, the damage done to American shipping, and the debts due to British merchants. Although the people did not like these terms, Washington supported them to prevent us from going to war. Washington made his first move by sending a delegate to England, and furthermore by standing up to congress to get this treaty ratified. He demonstrates again his great moral coura ge for the welfare of ... George Washington's signing of the Jay Treaty provoked unimaginable criticism of his character and policies and changed the focus of the debate over the treaty." 3 Some of the Americans wanted to go to war, so essentially George Washington was putting his name on the line to get this treaty ratified. The Republicans in the House attempted to block the treaty by denying the appropriation for enforcing its provisions. The ... the credit in nurturing our country from its young and early days is unquestionably George Washington. The passage of the Jay Treaty was instrumental in allowing the young country to develop economically and ultimately prevent war with Britain. The second influential move he made was to have this treaty ratified. He argued that the country did not need to draw itself into a war with a country that held ninety ...
- 3083: Queen Victoria
- ... the most liked political leaders in the country, caused Victoria and Albert to lose some of the regard of their subjects. Their popularity dwindled even more in 1854, when they tried to avert the Crimean War. After the war had started, however, they gave it their sincere support. In 1856, shortly before the end of the war, the queen established the Victoria Cross, the highest British award for wartime courage. In 1857, Victoria had the title of prince associate granted on Albert. Four years later he died, and she remained in ...
- 3084: Survival (on The Book Night)
- The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the prisoners of the holocaust during World War II. In the book Night, there were three main modes of survival, faith, family, and food. From the examples in the book Night, faith proved to be the most successful in helping people survive the ... worry about family only resulted in dependencies, burdens, ruined relationships, and death. Although focusing on food or family didn t help save the lives of prisoners, having faith in humanity, their dreams for after the war, and above all, God, gave many people the strength and will to survive. Keeping faith was generally a successful way to survive the holocaust. A lot of the people in the concentration camps stayed ...
- 3085: Margaret Sanger
- ... laws for her escapades with The Woman Rebel. If convicted, Margaret could face up to 45 years in prison. A hearing took place in August of that year and the trial was postponed. Then World War I broke out in Europe and when it became obvious that her movement and trial would take a backseat, Margaret Sanger set sail for Europe under the name Bertha Watson. In what has been referred ... The Birth Control Review. Aside from asking for money from the wealthy elites of her time, this was the first real break that Margaret had with her straightforward grassroots past. After the end of World War I, there was a worldwide urge to suppress the radical left. Margaret, astute as always, realized this and decided to gain support for her birth control movement by "promoting it in the basis of medical ... 1939, the Department merged with the Bureau to become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Miller 237). With that done, Margaret tried to turn her attention to the world effort, but was interrupted by World War II. After that there was a string of personal tragedies in Margaret's life that conspired to keep her from actively participating in the birth control movement, the most detrimental of which was the ...
- 3086: Your Chemical World
- ... Co. In just on year these two chemical beamoths made thirty-seven billion and eighteen billion dollars respectively. Over the course of about 150 years the chemical industry grew to quite remarkable proportions. When World War One hit the chemical industry had become very important to the opposing sides. With out it we would have seen little or no advance in the way we do battle. Rifles slowly became more accurate and deadly. Bombs did the same. But it was not until after the war that the consumers got to truly enjoy the benefits of wartime research. New synthetic copies of original products hit the market taking over the previous by being more reliable and cost effective. All these new ... Co. In just on year these two chemical beamoths made thirty-seven billion and eighteen billion dollars respectively. Over the course of about 150 years the chemical industry grew to quite remarkable proportions. When World War One hit the chemical industry had become very important to the opposing sides. With out it we would have seen little or no advance in the way we do battle. Rifles slowly became more ...
- 3087: The Sun Also Rises Report
- Hemingway s Hero Of the segments of American society scarred by the anguish of the First World War, the damage was most severe amongst the younger generation of that time. Youthful and impressionable, these people were immersed headlong into the furious medley of death and devastation. By the time the war had ended, many found that they could no longer accept what now seemed to be pretentious and contradictory moral standards of nations that could be capable of such atrocities. Some were able to brush off ... These self-exiled expatriates were popularly known as the Lost Generation a term credited to Gertrude Stein, who once told Hemingway: That s what you all are. All you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation You have no respect for anything. You drink yourself to death. 1 Many of these individuals tended to settle in Paris, a suitable conduit through which to pursue their ...
- 3088: Socrates
- ... talked and studied with many other accomplished scientists and philosophers, whose names are not known. Later, from when he was eighteen to twenty-four he was in the military in the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. Along with, the rest of the army, he walked fourteen miles in one day to make it to Athens on time. In the tents, he always won the philosophical arguments between his friends, for he ... Athens daily. On one occasion, he met Alcibiades, a higher-class boy somewhat arrogant and spoiled. Consequently, they met regularly at the Acropolis and spent many hours together meditating on ideas. When they went to war together they fought and rested together. Alcibiades saw beauty inside Socrates he had never seen anywhere else before. He did not choose to go to Socrates "city", a place were the wise, the good, and ... that in politics one must lie and be self-governing. Socrates was blamed when Alcibiades mimicked sacred rituals of Athens and was put on trial. He fled from Athens to Sparta, helping them win a war against Athens, but afterwards came back to Athens pardoned, but committing another crime against the state fled to Persia, where he was killed. Socrates married Xanthippe, a very educated woman in his neighborhood, because ...
- 3089: Alice Walker
- ... to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems." In 1961 Walker won a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta, where she became involved in the civil rights movement and participated in sit-ins at local business establishments. She transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, graduating from there in 1965. She met her future husband Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights attorney, in Mississippi where she was an activist and teacher. In 1967 Walker and Leventhal married, becoming the first legally married interracial couple to reside in Jackson, the state capital, they had one child ... Grange Copeland" (1970), again carries many of her prevalent themes, particularly the domination of powerless women by equally powerless men. In this novel, which spans the years between the Depression and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, walker showed three generations of a black sharecropping family and explored the effects of poverty and racism on their lives. Because of his sense of failure, Grange Copeland ...
- 3090: Colin Powell
- ... military office, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. While the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff he "Played a role in planning and executing the invasion of Panama in 1989 and the Persian Gulf War (1991)."(Source 4, page 1) When Powell joined the United States Army in 1958 he was commissioned a second lieutenant [source 2 (biography page 1)]. He went to Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning ... of things but I will only list a few; they learned stuff like how to call artillery fire, how to fill out government forms, use a radio, maintain motor vehicles, and handle a prisoner of war. They did not learn any of this stuff in ROTC (source 1 pages 45, 46). Powell asked and received orders to go to both Airborne and Ranger schools. Airborne school was a bunch of punishing ... a speech and Dick Cheny made a speech about Powell's Chairmanship. Powell spoke about a painting in the pentagon. It showed a family praying in a church because the father had to go to war. It had an inscription from the prophet Isaiah that said And the good Lord God asked: "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" And the reply came back: "Here I am send ...
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