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- 501: Dorothy Day
- ... was "made to publicize Catholic social teaching and promote steps to bring about the peaceful transformation of society". "The Catholic Worker" also expressed the idea of pacifism, and the refusal to take either side in war. This caused a great loss of readership at the time of the Spanish Civil War when most Catholic bishops supported Franco and his fascist ways. Day was totally against war and everything having to do with war including the nuclear bomb. However, again some of her supporters did not ...
- 502: Comparison Of Augustus And Beo
- ... own expense, Augustus raised an army with which he set free the state. He drove the men who slaughtered his father into exile with a legal order, punishing their crime, and afterwards, when they waged war on the state, Augustus conquered them in two battles. As a man who thought as himself as a courageous man, Augustus was filled with pride while accomplishing all that he did. He remained true to ... murder of his great uncle, Julius Caesar. In 27 B.C. the Roman Senate bestowed upon him the title Augustus meaning “the exalted.” They also gave him the legal power to rule Rome’s religious, civil, and military affairs, with the Senate as an advisory body. Rome achieved great glory under Augustus. He restored peace after 100 years of civil war; maintained an honest government and a sound currency system; extended the highway system connecting Rome with its empire; developed an efficient postal service; fostered free trade among the provinces; and built many bridges, ...
- 503: Harriet Stowe
- The woman credited with sparking the Civil War came to Christ at thirteen, during one of her father s sermons. She wrestled throughout her eighty-five years with questions and spiritual conflicts for she endured grave trials: her mother died while Harriet was ... Henry, drowned while a student at Dartmouth College. Years later, her son Frederick who was an alcoholic from the age of sixteen, died. He never recovered from the wounds he sustained at Gettysburg in the Civil War, nor could he cope with his mother's success. He simply disappeared in San Francisco after the War despite Harriet s grandiose schemes to rescue him. Georgiana, married to an Episcopal priest and ...
- 504: Japan: After World War II
- Japan: After World War II The occupation of Japan was, from start to finish, an American operation. General Douglans MacArthur, sole supreme commander of the Allied Power was in charge. The Americans had insufficient men to make a military ... dictator of Japan. He imposed his will on Japan. Demilitarization was speedily carried out, demobilization of the former imperial forces was complet ed by early 1946. Japan was extensively fire bomded during the second world war. The stench of sewer gas, rotting garbage, and the acrid smell of ashes and scorched debris pervaded the air. The Japanese people had to live in the damp, and cold of the concrete buildings, because ... lived in by most Japanese. When the first signs of winter set in, the occupation forces immediately took over all the steam-heated buildings. The Japanese were out in the cold in the first post war winter fuel was very hard to find, a family was considered lucky if they had a small barely glowing charcoal brazier to huddle around. That next summer in random spots new ho uses were ...
- 505: The Red Badge Of Courage 4
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a book about a young man drawn into the Civil War in America. The main character is a young man named Henry Fleming. He is very exited to go into the war, and he does so against his mother's wishes. After Henry joins the army, he meets a man by the name of Jim Conklin. Jim is very tall and he becomes a good friend ...
- 506: Germany's Role in World War One
- Germany's Role in World War One In the early 1900's, there was much stress in Europe. Imperial competition, a strong feeling of nationalism and the fear of war, caused countries to ally with one another. Also, fear of an arms race further increased this tension and contributed to the outburst of war. Although Germany could be held most responsible for causing World War One, she was not alone in setting the wheels of war in motion. Several countries had their own reasons for wanting battle. A ...
- 507: Vietnam
- The United States of America prides itself as the self proclaimed leader of the free world. Since the end of World War II the United States has chosen to use force in order to insure this so called "freedom" of other less fortunate nations who do not have the ability to defend themselves. According to the United States these infieor nations "freedom," has been in jeopardy since the beging of the cold war. Webster’s dictionary defines a democracy as a government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. Since the start of the cold war, the United States has undertaken the policy that if you are not a democracy than you are not truly free. *~The government wants use to think that a democracy is pure and good where ...
- 508: America: One Nation
- ... social and political views. Now I am not writing this paper about Richter scales. And though the Great Depression was a very rough time, I am arguing the impact of the Vietnam and Second World War on American society. World War II was a war the people wanted. When the war had been brought to American soil at Pearl Harbor, war was declared on Japan. The war ended with the allied forces rampaging through the Axis army, and witnessed ...
- 509: Martin Luther King Jr
- ... in Pennsylvania in 1951, he went to Boston University where he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology in 1955. King’s public-speaking abilities—which would become renowned as his stature grew in the civil rights movement – developed slowly during his collegiate years. The first couple of years at Crozer his public-speaking was looked upon as average and he received C’s in each of his public-speaking classes ... led by someone who could unify the community. Unlike the NAACP, the recently arrived King had no enemies. Furthermore the NAACP saw King’s public-speaking gifts as great assets in the battle for black civil rights in Montgomery. King was soon chosen as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization that directed the bus boycott. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year. Incidents of violence against ... an attorney for the MIA filed a lawsuit in federal seeking an injunction against Montgomery’s segregated seating practices. The federal court ruled in favor of the MIA, ordering the city buses to be desegregated. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERSHIP In 1957 King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization of black church and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation. The SCLC protested discrimination through marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. ...
- 510: The Invasion Of Poland 1939
- The Invasion of Poland in 1939 The invasion of Poland took place on September 1,1939. This invasion marked a change in history for the whole world. It started World War II. There were many reasons for the start of the war, and one it started the world would never be the same. Cities and people were destroyed. Unimaginable things took place in Poland during this time, things that will never be forgotten. The invasion lead to ... Poland could work together in peace and harmony to make Europe a better place. Yet even in this early time there were people being greatly discriminated against in Germany due to Nazi influence. Before the war there were many different people living in the boundaries of Poland. There were 750,000 Germans living in Poland prior to 1939. Natural Poles discriminated against the German's living in Poland. The Poles ...
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