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- 6341: Marco Polo
- ... and friends. According to Macro, because the khan held them in such high regard, he would not let them return home. As the khan aged the Polos began to fear what would happen after his death. Finally an opportunity to leave presented itself when trusted emissaries were needed to accompany a Mongol princess on a wedding voyage by sea to Persia, where she was promised to the local khan. The Polos ...
- 6342: Malcolm X 4
- ... the white people are the devil. The way that his father was laid half dead on the streetcar tracks by white people who just let him suffer half dead. The event of his father's death just put more and more aggression towards white people in Malcolm's life. One of the most important events that shaped Malcolm's life was when Mr. Ostrowski, his eight-grade teacher, told him he ...
- 6343: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... Hindu- Muslim riots. Again Gandhi turned to nonviolence, fasting until Delhi rioters pledged peace to him. Gandhi was killed by a Hindu who was angered by Gandhi s efforts to reconcile Hindus and Muslims. His death caused worldwide shock and sorrow. To countless people, he was a modern day saint and a teacher of humanity. As a champion of peace, his influence still remains today.
- 6344: Machiavellis Ideas Of Government
- ... arguable whether or not this work was ever read by Lorenzo, as intended, it is known that Machiavelli never did return to political power. His work, The Prince, however, was published shortly after the his death. Though his ideas were certainly radical at the time, society now can see parallels between modern governments and Machiavelli s ideal. Government officials, especially the American ones, can be compared to the prince in Machiavelli ...
- 6345: Machiavelli - The Prince
- ... would seem to the naked eye, was not to taunt the Prince, but to give him advice about how to survive on the throne and to also keep the dynasty in his family after his death. It appeared that he wanted to help the Prince to keep the nation free from invasion and occupation and also how to handle internal problems; such as when to bribe, oppress, cajole etc Machiavelli s ...
- 6346: Moll Flanders 2
- ... about letting them go. Moll begins her career of stealing at a near age of fifty after her affairs and marriages. She sees the daily diminishing of her money as a kind of " bleeding to death." Moll is quite one-sided because all her concerns in life are of an economic nature and inducing sever mental distress, " I sat and sometimes raving like a distracted woman . . . I had the vaporous to ...
- 6347: Michael Collins
- ... an independent south and a unionist north. De Valera and his followers refused to accept and civil war broke out. The following year Collins was ambushed and murdered by extremist republicans. Collins's life and death are apt metaphors for the long, ongoing tragedy of Irish nationalism: a tale of incandescent love of country, savage violence, gleeful melancholy, and treachery Early on, Collins erupts into its most spectacular moment -- British artillery ...
- 6348: Martin Luther King Jr. 6
- ... during 1967 as urban racial violence increased and King criticized American intervention in the Vietnam war. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, while seeking to assist a garbage workers' strike in Memphis. After his death, King remained a controversial symbol of the African-American civil rights struggle, praised by many for his work and condemned by others for his militancy and insurgent views. Bibliography Marin luther king, jr: bound to ...
- 6349: Martin Luther King Jr. 5
- ... done, on April 3, 1983 he said "I have been to the mountain top and seen the promise land." This was the day prior to his demise. Sadly, the following day he was shot to death in Memphis Tennessee. Nearly 500,000 of his loyal admirers attended his funeral. It was the end of his civil rights crusade. "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live ...
- 6350: Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
- ... everywhere" (154). After all, he knew that any violence on the part of his civil rights workers would lead to violent counterattacks from segregationists. He knew this would only lead his followers to injury and death. "The purpose of our direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation" (156). Nonviolence put his followers on the moral high ground and made ...
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