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- 3531: I, Tituba Black Witch Of Salem
- ... only way of life are prevalent in every society but should not be tolerated. People being tormented in such a manner shouldn't have went through the horror of being treated that way in any day, time or place. In "I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem", Tituba struggled with having her own belief system, the only parents she knew dying, and struggling with the day to day life of just being a woman in that society. Tituba came across a lot of racism within her early life. For example, when Tituba had to live by herself after Mama Yaya died, and ...
- 3532: Holocaust Surviovor Testimony
- ... and always accompanied by clergy. Kind priests and nuns gave her religious instruction, so she would not be discovered. One incident occurred when she was living with six nuns at a seminary in Louvain. "One day the Gestapo came in and they knocked on the door and said we want her - with the guns and all - we want that Jewish child. We know you have a Jewish child there. The nuns ... and the first thing, that almost literally startled me, was the terrific stench of the barracks. It was just unbelievable - the odor of excretions, etceteras, that were in there,
the bunks were roughly about, I'd say about six feet long, probably about three and a half or four feet wide. Here we had three to four inmates sleeping in each of these bunks just squeezed together." He describes a two ...
- 3533: History Guidelines
- ... distorted picture of America and knew about the hidden facts. Lets just take one point in history and imagine it eas taught without these guidelines. Right now you probably believe that to celebrate Columbus Day is patriotic. To doubt Columbus Day would be unpatriotic (Zinn 07). With the way youth thinks is in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This story is about as complete as Swiss cheese. This is because hidden facts are not mentioned in these guidelines. When people celebrate Columbus Day your celebrating the discovery of America, his progress of maritime exploration, and a very religious man conquering in the name of God. If you believe that the above is true than you have also ...
- 3534: Hiroshima 5
- ... the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed a necessary, even righteous way to end the madness that was World War II. However, the madness had just begun. That August morning was the day that heralded the dawn of the nuclear age, and with it came more than just the loss of lives. According to Archibald MacLeish, a U.S. poet, "What happened at Hiroshima was not only that ... fear that drove the cold war, the fear that has forever changed world politics. The fear is real, more real today than ever, for the ease at which a nuclear bomb is achieved in this day and age sparks fear in the hearts of most people on this planet. According to General Douglas MacArthur, "We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system ... and modern religious wars have annihilated millions. More recently, there was Hitler's genocidal six-million-death "final solution to the Jewish problem," and the Communists' ten of millions of mass murders continue to this day. All this has been done without benefit of nuclear power. Gen. MacArthur's comments came at the beginning of the atomic or nuclear age, and while the source and the judgment deserve respect, experience ...
- 3535: Huguenots (french Calvanists)
- ... power. Catherine, with her ruthless tactics, planned with the help of Duke of Guise, a massacre of Huguenots. The massacre was carried out on August 24, 1572 in the early morning of St. Bartholomew's Day. In Paris on that day 10,000 Huguenot people were murdered. The Huguenots blamed France for the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day and started a civil war over the event. A twist in fate helped the future of the Huguenots. For Henry IV was in a delicate position with his public, over the assassinations of Duke ...
- 3536: How The Great Pyramid Was Real
- How The Great Pyramid Was Really Built To this day, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt remains one of the seven wonders of the world. In fact, the Great Pyramid is the only surviving wonder of the world ("Wonders of the World"). The gigantic ... to preserve it, they developed the procedures of mummification ("Funeral Rites and Customs"). Tombs, temples, and statues had been built, constructed, molded, and painted to be worshipped by the Egyptians. Religious life coincided with every day life because the Egyptians believed life after death was eternal, and that the soul rested in the body of the dead, and that the soul traveled between earth and another world. Tombs provided houses for ... in time, we have only archeological clues and theories to tell us how the Great Pyramid was built. The Egyptian culture of 5000 years ago is long since dead and buried in time. Till this day, no records have been found on the construction of the pyramid. We do know that the Egyptians believed in an after-life and the need to provide a place for their souls to travel ...
- 3537: History Of The Counterculture
- ... as not, white resistance resulted in violence. (Constable, 148-150)In 1962, during the first large-scale public protest against racial discrimination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a dramatic and inspirational speech in Washington, D.C. during a march on the capital. "The Negro," King said in his speech, "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity and finds himself an ... These young people became known as hippies. Hippies preached mysticism, honesty, joy, and nonviolence. (Time 7 July 1967, 4-5) In 1969, they held the famous Woodstock Festival for peace in New York, a three day concert that emphasized their beliefs. One of the chief movements that came from the Student Movement were the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War. (Time 6 Jan. 1967, 22) The United States first became directly ...
- 3538: History Of Computer
- ... the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of peoples lives for the better.The very earliest existence of the modern day computers ancestor is the abacus. These date back to almost 2000 years ago. It is simply a wooden rack holding parallel wires on which beads are strung. When these beads are moved along the ... punched-card machines were slow, typically processing from 50 to 250 cards per minute, with each card holding up to 80 digits. At the time, however, punched cards were an enormous step forward; they provide! d a means of input, output, and memory storage on a massive scale. For more than 50 years following their first use, punched-card machines did the bulk of the world's business computing and a ...
- 3539: Government In The Usa
- ... Cabinet is appointed by the President. Its seat is the White House in Washington. In November of each leap year (next 2000) a President is elected to serve for exactly four years from a fixed day in the following January. The four-year rhythm has never been broken. Together with the President, a Vice-President is elected, and if the President dies the Vice-President becomes President for the unexpired part ... are selected at the parties' national conventions by a simple majority of the delegates previously chosen either at state conventions or elected in primaries. After the official nomination the election campaign begins, continuing until Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in leap years. Voters are registered and the party machinery drums up support, trying to win floating voters over etc. On Election Day the electorate votes not for the presidential candidates themselves but for those presidential electors (members of the Electoral College) who have pledged to support a particular candidate. The officially elected President, who is inaugurated ...
- 3540: Godesses,whores,wives,and Slav
- ... and Roman times. This is the first book written in English devoted entirely to the subject. Pomeroy covers about fifteen hundred years starting during Bronze Age and ends with the death of Constantine in A.D. 337. The book is broken down into ten chapters that start with Goddesses and Gods and then travels through time progressing to the women of Rome and Late Republic. Pomeroy does a very good job ... their lives. The daily life of a woman in the Archaic period was to take care of potential soldiers or command a slave with the task. She would make clothing along with her slaves all day, prepare meals and bathe their husbands. Women in other cities did not have to work as much but didn't have any other privileges either. Women were not taught like the males, they weren't ...
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