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- 4071: Malcolm X
- ... before his silence was lifted, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam to form the Muslim Mosque, Inc. on March 1964. He began to advocate a more pragmatic black nationalism and said that blacks should control the politics within their own community and, through his speeches, encouraged his followers to make changes by voting. At the height of his power Malcolm X was one of black America's most powerful voices ...
- 4072: Thomas Jefferson
- ... dispel conservative fears that democracy would lead to mob rule and anarchy. His program was moderate enough to win the support of both parties. During his last days in office Adams tried to ensure Federalist control of the judiciary by filling 16 new circuit courts and about 200 offices with Federalists. Jefferson had the judgeships abolished and withheld commissions that had not yet been delivered. Jefferson's chief accomplishment as president ...
- 4073: Theodore Roosevelt’s Domestic Accomplishments As President
- ... five national parks, the first 18 national monuments, the first four national game preserves and the first 21 reclamation projects. He provided protection for almost to 230 million acres. Roosevelt brought large corporations under the control of the people. He established the department of commerce and labor. He preached a “ Square-Deal “ for all Americans enabling millions to earn a decent living wage. He built up the Navy as the “ Big ...
- 4074: John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
- ... his men to work together diligently and efficiently. At every spare moment he and his crew had, Jones took advantage of it and seized the opportunity to train his men. He had his crew practice gun drills over and over. With each command he gave, the crew slowly began to work together as a team and in time they were able to load cannons without a single mistake. Jones was able ...
- 4075: Benjamin Franklin
- ... made the best of it and obtained knowledge which he then used throughout his life. When it was finally time for Franklin to become successful, once again, he did not let his status in life control who he was as a person. Franklin was a strong, humble man who knew what he wanted at a young age and accomplished more than one could ever imagine.
- 4076: “The Story of an Hour”: Louise Mallard As A Sympathetic Figure
- ... a private will upon a fellow creature.” We can presume Mrs. Mallard was happy, not because her husband is dead but because she would not have to live the rest of her life under his control. It is human nature to want to be allowed to make one’s own decisions. Mrs. Mallard was just happy to be free of the oppression of living with a strong-willed husband. Although she ...
- 4077: The Great Gatsby: Nobody Is Really Happy
- ... car had hit his wife. Tom told him who owned the car out of fear that Gatsby might take Daisy away from him. Mr. Wilson then murdered Gatsby at his mansion and then turned the gun on himself. In the end, two people are dead, Mr. Wilson and his wife, Myrtle. Even though they were poor, they had managed to ruin the lives of rich people. Tom had lost his mistress ...
- 4078: Eighteenth Century Philosophers
- ... Malthus came up with his own idea, one which is the exact opposite of Bentham; to deny the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. Malthus himself did not preach the effects and benefits of birth control, which would have seemed to be the humane way of doing things, perhaps because he himself had fourteen children. David Ricardo was an English Jew who made his fortune at a young age and then ...
- 4079: Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen
- ... IX of Denmark tired to seize the border territories of Schleswig-Holstein. Prussia and Austria joined forces verses Denmark to stop Christian IX. Denmark lost. This resulted in the Gastein Convention. This convention declared joint control over Schleswig-Holstein. Two years later, Bismarck accused Austria of violating the Gastein Convention. At this time he also submitted a plan for German unification to the German Diet. This plan excluded Austria (klein-deutsch ...
- 4080: Interview with Karl Marx
- ... were as low as possible. Economic crises would prevail until the workers would unite and overthrow the centers of the wealth. Then in this intermediary stage (synthesis) capitalism would be destroyed. Once the workers could control their own fate, exploitation would end and the state would become a classless society. Now doesn’t that sound ideal? On that note, what is an accurate description of what your ultimate dream is? My ...
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