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- 2241: Women in Africa
- ... their outcomes: A.E. Afigbo's The Warrant Chiefs, Sylvia Leith-Ross' African Women, Jean Allman's "Rounding Up Spinsters: Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante", and Irene Staunton's Mothers of the Revolution, several questions arise. What were women seeking and how did this differ from what men wanted? Did women attain their goals, and if not, why not? If women were not successful in getting their concerns ...
- 2242: Women's Suffrage
- ... a wealthy businessman named George Francis Train while campaigning in Kansas. He offered her the money to launch a suffrage newspaper. In return he would be allowed to write a column about economics. Thus the Revolution was born. It's motto was Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. Lucy Stone and a group of conservative suffragists broke away from Anthony's National Woman's suffrage ...
- 2243: Martin Luther King Jr. 4
- ... time in America, the African American community represented only ten percent of the total population. King felt that this made it impossible for African Americans who lack access to weapons to successfully wage a violent revolution against the white majority. Any attacks by the civil rights workers or their followers would surely result in counter attacks by the segregationists, resulting in the injury and deaths of many of King s followers ...
- 2244: Equality
- ... that men were more accepting of the idea that women belonged in the work place, but rather men were drown to the higher paying and more socially appreciated managerial jobs brought on by the industrial revolution. School boards did not mind these talented leaving because they could higher a "less qualified women" for as low as one fifth of males salary for the same job. Susan B. Anthony was the first ...
- 2245: Maya Angelou 2
- ... at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to ...
- 2246: Michael Collins
- ... he writhes with a pinched, fanatic devotion to his cause. He emerges finally as the villain of the piece: envious of Collins's popularity, power, and success, he returns from America and nearly undoes the revolution by returning to more "honorable" conventional tactics. Jordan suggests he set up Collins to take the fall for the peace treaty and may even have been involved in his rival's assassination. In short, de ...
- 2247: The Power of Language
- ... persuade others to one point of view. Throughout history, leaders have used this fact to control their constituents and the gullible masses.' Propaganda is one form of persuasion that is prevalent during war time and revolution. Famous politicians and orators have used language to get them elected into office. Writers and authors have used written language to convey their specific message as well. Language is the basis for all knowledge and ...
- 2248: Psychological Egoism: Every Person Is Oriented Towards His (or her) Own Welfare, and The Object of Every One of His Voluntary Actions Is Some Good To Himself
- ... individualism. It's an egoistic ethics in that each person acts to achieve his own happiness. Yet, it's not the brutality usually ascribed to egoism. Indeed, by rejecting sacrifice as such, it represents a revolution in thinking on ethics. Two asides on the topic of egoism. First, just as individualism doesn't mean being alone, neither does non-sacrificial egoism. Admiration, friendship, love, good-will, charity, generosity: these are wonderful ...
- 2249: Minstrels
- ... the next village in which they performed. Each country in medieval Europe had their own type of minstrel. Each, while similar in their general role of entertainer, they were different in many ways. Troubadour's, French minstrels, flourished in from the 11th century through the 13th century. Troubadours were found in the southern part of France. The troubadours were among the first minstrels to use their native tongue rather than Latin ...
- 2250: Violence
- ... been a problem that our culture has faced. Many have died for the right to be accepted, and many have been killed because they weren't. In America, through the 60's we saw a revolution in rights for African Americans. It was the age of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and race riots. Some, who were peaceful, like Martin Luther King, were cold bloodily murdered because someone did not agree ...
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