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- 731: Napoleon 5
- ... the policy, of the French Revolution, of abolishing all the social inequality that marked the Old Regime. His social reforms safeguarded all forms of property and tried to make French society secure against internal challenges. Employment of salaried officials chosen on the basis of merit replaced the purchase of offices. Hereditary social distinctions were abolished, feudal privileges disappeared, and the peasants were freed from serfdom and manorial dues. In the towns ...
- 732: Marxs Alienation
- ... we are perceived as being commodities. I believe that our society will never change and that alienation is a universal thing and will not be diminished in the near future. Or course there are self employment businesses that run from people s basements which might seem like they do not alienate their workers, but in fact they do in some ways. In Marx s time, alienation was a big factor in ...
- 733: Martin Luther King Jr. 9
- ... on the living conditions of blacks in Northern cities. In 1966 he established a headquarters in a Chicago, Ill., slum apartment. From this base he organized protests against the city's discrimination in housing and employment. King combined his civil-rights campaigns with a strong stand against the Vietnam War. He beIieved that the money and effort spent on war could be used to combat poverty and discrimination. He felt that ...
- 734: Michael Collins
- ... transferred to Frongach camp in Wales. The British government, anxious to defuse the growing public sympathy for the rebels in Ireland, released the internees on the 22 December, 1916. On returning home Collins quickly found employment as secretary of the Irish National Aid and Volunteer Dependants Fund. He used his position to revitalise the Volunteer movement and attract new recruits to the IRB. But it was Sinn Fein, and not the ...
- 735: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- ... in the part of Italy in which they resided. His father determined to educate his two sons, Marcus and Quintus, on an enlarged and liberal plan, and to fit them for the prospect of public employment, which his own weak state of health incapacitated him from seeking. One of his earliest masters was the poet Archias, whom he defended afterwards. Soon after he assumed the toga virilis, he was placed in ...
- 736: Maria Mithchell
- ... celebrity many people came to see her, famous artists came from New York to paint her portrait, and people recognized her achievements. Maria s status as a respected astronomer also gave her new opportunities for employment. In 1865 Mitchell was appointed professor of astronomy at the newly opened Vassar College (one of the first colleges for women) in Poughkeepsie, New York, and director of the observatory there. In 1873 she helped ...
- 737: Martin Luther King
- ... His hope was to redeem the white majority from the evil of their ways. We Shall Overcome - and they did overcome! There was desegregation in many areas in most southern states. Poverty was reduced and employment increased. Dr. King had attitudes that guided him. He believed in human dignity, individuality, and community. What was his attitude toward his fellow man? He believed in agape, a love for all men. He believed ...
- 738: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- ... professional politics mainly to successful businessmen, lawyers, and the rich. At the same time, science seemed to be the coming thing; research was booming, and a science degree appeared to provide a passport to assured employment. Margaret chose science specifically, chemistry. At the age of seventeen, a year younger than most candidates, she took the examinations one had to pass to gain admittance to Oxford's Sommerville College. She did well ...
- 739: Lewis Latimer
- ... family together, Lewis falsified his age and joined the U.S. Navy in 1864 when he was sixteen years old. When the Civil War ended he was honorably discharged and returned to Boston to seek employment. In 1868 he secured a job as an office boy in the Crosby and Gould patent law firm, a company that specialized in helping inventors protect their patents. By closely observing draftsmen at work and ...
- 740: John Locke 2
- ... Locke his personal secretary and confidential advisor, and also let him hold a number of governmental posts while his patron was in office. In 1675, Locke became very ill and was forced to leave his employment and reside for four years in France, where he began his writing. After four years, Locke then returned again to England into Shaftesbury where he once again joined Cooper s service. Four years later, Cooper ...
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