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- 3631: Huck Finn-Racism
- ... Ever since its publication over a hundred years ago, controversy has swarmed around one of Mark Twain’s most popular novels, Huck Finn. Even then, many educators supported its dismissal from school libraries. For post Civil-War Americans, the argument stemmed from Twain’s use of spelling errors, poor grammar, and curse words. In the politically correct 1990’s however, the point of argument has now shifted to one of the major ...
- 3632: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Roosevelts would become the liveliest group of children to live in the White House. In 1887, President William McKinley named Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In this office, Roosevelt worked behind the scenes for war against Spain, which was struggling to suppress an independence movement in Cuba. He was animated both by strategic considerations and by the conviction that “superior” nations had the rights and duty to dominate “inferior” ones in the interest in civilizations. In his address he declared: “No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war.” In 1989 Roosevelt resigned his position as assistant secretary to accept a lieutenant colonel in the first United States Volunteer Cavalry, called the “Rough Riders.” Promoted to colonel in Puerto Rico, he led the “Rough ... Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.” Theodore also spent a lot of time with Japanese-American relations, trying to uphold the “Open Door Policy.” His effort in the Peace of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War won him the Noble Peace Prize in 1906. The appellation “Big Stick Diplomacy,” has been used to describe the foreign policy of Roosevelt’s administration. “Walk softly and carry a big stick,” is what ...
- 3633: Andrew Jackson 3
- ... it (internet) He went to Waxhaw Presbyterian Church because he wanted to be a minister. Later on, he started to study law and became a lawyer and a landowner. he was a general in the War of 1812. He graduated high school from Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and is believed to have gone to college. He got married to Mrs. Rachael Donelson Robards, a dark eyed, dark haired woman. They did not ... married and now an adult, he had many jobs such as a lawyer, soldier, general, and a politician. He became famous for being an Indian fighter. He is also famous as a general in the War of 1812. He got the nickname "Old Hickory" because of his toughness. He founded the Democratic Party. He was the 7th president of the United States but that happened on his second chance running for ... lot of fights and controversy. Andrew Jackson had many occupations besides being a president for the United States of America. He was a very refined congress man, he was a general, during the time a war and a very good one I might point out hewasa governor, and a judge. Now that is a lot of accomplishments for one man. He was truly one of a kind(Gale Research, 1997) ...
- 3634: Charles Manson
- ... Crucifixion of Christ, trying to instill upon his follower's minds that he was Jesus Christ, that he was a higher power that they all needed to follow unquestionably. Manson convinced his followers that a war of the races was coming, which he named Helter Skelter. He got the name from a Beatles song, and had his followers prepare for the upcoming war by collecting guns and other weapons. Manson turned the ranch into a fortress. He started to change his following from being a group of freedom searching people into an organized army-like force. A prosecution ... orders to kill the couple and then left. Manson's followers stabbed Mrs. LaBianca fourty-one times, stabbed her husband to death, left a fork and a knife in his chest, and carved the word "WAR" into his stomach. The words "RISE", "HELTER SKELTER", and "DEATH TO PIGS" were scribbled on the walls and the refrigerator in the victims' blood. These brutal slayings demonstrate the evil in Manson's warped ...
- 3635: Nuked
- ... alive starting from the inside and working its way out. There are many other nuclear weapons besides the atom bomb that kill, for example mustard gas. Mustard gas was used in the Desert Shield/Storm war on us by Sadaam Hussain and his men. This is the main reason why all of our men that were in the war in Saudi Arabia are now having medical problems. This is one of the three main causes nuclear weapons should be banned, not to mention the amount of money they cost, and the space they take up. The main reason nuclear weapons should be banned is the simple fact that they kill or severely injure. The most remembered use of a nuclear weapon was during World War 2, when we, the U.S., used the bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima killing millions and destroying everything in those cities. Not everyone died at once, some people died instantly while others died a ...
- 3636: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... with Hell"; he chose as his motto "No union with slaveholders" and, still true to his pacifist beliefs, advocated peaceful separation of the free states from the slave states. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, he predicted the victory of the North and the end of slavery, and he ceased to advocate disunion. Promulgation (1863) of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln removed the last difference between Garrison and Lincoln ...
- 3637: Booker T Washington
- ... Booker’s father was an unknown white man. Booker and his mother lived in Franklin County, VA. As a slave child Booker gave water to the saves that worked in the field. After the American Civil War Booker and the other slaves were freed. Booker and his mother, than moved to Malden, W. VA. Booker’s mother married after Ferguson Washington. Booker was the first African American to appear on an U ...
- 3638: Huck Finn
- ... the mid-1800s. The adventures Huck Finn gets into while floating down the Mississippi River depict many serious issues that occur on the shores of civilization, better known as society. As these events following the Civil War are told through the young eyes of Huckleberry Finn, he unknowingly develops morally from the influences surrounding him on his journey to freedom and in the end, becomes a mature individual. Huck's evolution begins ...
- 3639: Emperor Constantine I
- ... Roman Province of Britannia. When Constantius died at York in 306 CE, Constantine, who was at his side, was immediately proclaimed emperor by the army. However, it took many years of political struggle and actual civil war before he could consolidate his power. Constantine finally became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire in 323 CE when he defeated the eastern Emperor Licinius. Of Constantine’s major accomplishments, the most important was ...
- 3640: The Life And Times Of Ghandi
- ... and thought it was wrong to kill animals for food or clothing. In his religious studies, he happened upon Leo Tolstoy’s Christian writings, and was inspired. It stated that all government is based on war and violence, and that one can attack these only through passive resistance. This made a deep impression on Gandhi. Gandhi developed a method of direct social action, based upon principals of courage, nonviolence, and truth ... and then in South Africa. In 1906, Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He started protest campaigns and organized demonstrations, but never used violence. His philosophy was to never fight back against the atrocities, but still never retreat. This, he said, would decrease the hate against ...
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