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- 7381: Commander In Chief Franklin De
- ... he held this office during the most trying times our country faced in this century. He was elected president in 1933 during the Great Depression and remained in office for four consecutive terms until his death in 1945, one month before the end of World War II. His leadership through these historical times was controversial. While some saw greatness, others saw deception. In this writing, I will look at how he ...
- 7382: Columbine Whose Fault Is It
- ... to pass the time playing violent video games and watching violent television and programs. The boys' favorite game was Doom II. The object of the game is to kill the enemy by shooting them to death. According to Zillmann (1989), exposure to pornography desensitizes viewers' to the crime of rape (Balk, p. 388). Can this theory also apply to violence? Klebold and Harris killed their fellow classmates apparently without remorse. Reports ...
- 7383: Constantinople The Gateway Cit
- Constantinople: The Gateway City Constantinople was built in 330 CE, by the first Christian emperor, Constantine. Constantinople ruled much of the deserted Roman Empire many years after Constantine's death. Constantinople can be described as a Gateway City by its geographic features, the cultural influences, and the historical influences upon the rest of the world. Constantinople was positioned upon a major seaport called Byzantium. The ...
- 7384: Compromise Of 1861
- ... the western territory. In 1857 the entire nation was concentrated on the Dred Scott Case. Scott was a slave that had been brought to Minnesota, a free state, by his owner. After his owner's death Scott wanted and demanded to be freed. Scott's case ended up in the Supreme Court. Roger Taney the judge ruled the case as the following: First of all Dred Scott was not a citizen ...
- 7385: Covenanted Governments
- ... existed in pure state of nature, a war of all against all. He desired to emerge out of this state because he feared for his life and wished to escape the ever-impending hands of death. Hobbes felt that people again tacitly got together and formed a body of government to which they transferred some of their power. Power was transferred because of the need for security and to make life ...
- 7386: Culture 2
- ... their seats in church, to imperial swashbucklers and large scale extortionists (Spear, 23). The British no longer relished the ways of commerce; their appetites, instead were whetted by conquest and prospects of plunder. With the death of the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzib, saw the disintegration of the Mughal Empire. This left the country in a situation of political unrest and uncertainty. The British had an image of themselves as to be constitutional ...
- 7387: Cuban Revolution
- ... totally unacceptable, too casual, too nonchalant" on this "forming" leader? Castro was like an inexperienced murderer with a gun in his hand: any rustle in the background could set off his nervous trigger finger causing death, destruction, and liaisons with the U.S.S.R. When America expressed dislike of the trial procedures Castro was holding, of course he (Castro) would try to prove he was able to run his country ...
- 7388: Cuban And Chinese Revolution C
- ... under. Most Cubans are afraid to even mention Castro's name. A stroke of the chin is enough. No one dares speak their mind; they know the consequences. Steep fines, decades of imprisonment, and often death await those with opinions. These two revolutions are similar in many ways. Actually, they are similar in almost every way. Both corrupt governments oppressed the people in much the same ways. Both Batista and Chiang ...
- 7389: Csis
- ... are activities that use the threat or use of acts of serious violence which could compel the Canadian government to act in a certain way. Serious violence involves acts that cause grave bodily harm or death to persons or serious damage or destruction of public or private property. Hostage taking, bombings or threats of bombs, assassinations are examples of political violence or terrorism. The act must have a political objective, (IE ...
- 7390: Crusades 4
- ... a storm, and all aboard the vessels drowned in the icy waters of the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, children in Germany began a march to convert the atheists to Christianity. However, these children also faced tragedy and death, for they were not equipped for the hardships of the Alps to Rome. After the fall of Acre, the Christians last stronghold, in 1291 many Christians lacked the enthusiasim to continue with more disappointing crusades ...
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