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- 501: History Of Islam
- ... is known as The Ridda or Apostasy. In fact, many of the tribes involved had never formally adopted Islam and thus they reverted to paganism soon after the death of Mohammed. In order to reassert control over Medina, Abu Bakr sent Khalid, one of the pagan Korayish military leaders Mohammed converted on entering Mecca, to reconvert these tribes. He succeeded and the Arabs members, who were now convinced of the power ... defeat the Byzantine and in the entire fertile cresent. At about 634, when Khalid was marching into Damascus, Omar another Ummayad, succeeded Abu Bakr as the next Caliph. Omar being more worldly and ambitious, asserted control over the raiding armies and gain control over the independent and far flung army commanders who were left to make their own decisions during Abu Bakr's reign. Omar issued military orders to Khalid but instead of attacking Damascus, Khalid was ...
- 502: Kristallnacht
- ... were not as evident as hoped. Local groups were soon were branded as outlaws; therefore, were condemned. In 1871 and 1872, the government introduced the “Force Laws” to break up these local groups and to control local elections. The Ku Klux Klan continued to participate in their activities until they had accomplished all of their goals. They vowed to continue protecting the white people, reducing the black vote, expelling undesirable carpetbaggers and scalawags, and nullifying those laws of Congress that in a sense would put white Southerners under control of a party largely supported by black voters. By 1877, when Rutherford B. Hayes became president and the federal troops had been withdrawn as support of local governments, the original Klan had been disbanded. The ... Workfare not welfare. People work for their checks, so should they. Troops on our South border to stop illegal immigration. Stop reverse discrimination by doing away with Affirmative Action. Declare all laws attempting to enforce gun control as unconstitutional. The Klan’s political beliefs are clearly out to benefit only the white conformist who rejects what society has undergone. Society today offers equality for every American citizen. The Klan is ...
- 503: Wherefore The Maintenance Of L
- ... will ever remain free. Pro Second Amendment people always talk a good game. But what would happen should Americans ever needed to put this right to arms to the test. There are over 20,000 gun laws on the books. These "laws" include outright bans, registration, confiscation, waiting periods, quotas, and any other abhorrent violation that the ruling class imposes just to probe if Americans can be intimidated into servitude. For ... citizen rights. Then the modern minutemen justifies this capitulation by indicating what worse horrors the other candidates want to impose. How many hundred million guns are in this country? Almost 300,000,000. How many gun owners? 80 million? And of these, maybe three and one half million at most are members of the NRA, GOA, and all the smaller gun organizations combined. These generally have lots of overlap, as many people tend to hold multiple memberships. Of these few, how many do more than read their magazine or newsletter? How many fewer only occasionally ...
- 504: Tomb Raider 2 Walkthrough
- ... that you can now save your game whenever you want - a much needed improvement over those Save Gems from the first game. Finally; I ain't going to explain how to play the game or control Lara. That is what your manual and the excellent tutorial back at Lara's mansion is for. By the way; her mansion is incredible in this sequel. The obstacle course (now with stopwatch timer) has ... best to fight from dry land. Use the harpoon to slow down your enemies while you retreat to dry land, then break out the serious hardware. It takes time for Lara to reload her harpoon gun, so if you are being attacked by a group of enemies it is often better to retreat than persist in a losing battle. Hardware List Stopwatch Lara has traded in her compass for a stopwatch ... or when at close range to inflict serious damage on a single opponent. Auto-Mags More powerful than the pistols; these auto-firing weapons are great for long range targets and groups of enemies. Harpoon Gun The reload time on this weapon makes it good for usually one a single shot. Use it to stall your enemy so you can swim to the safety of dry land. Ammo is also ...
- 505: Fiesta the Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
- ... The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley, a near-nymphomaniac Englishwoman who indulges in her passion for sex and control. Brett plans to marry her fiancee for superficial reasons, completely ruins one man emotionally and spiritually, separates from another to preserve the idea of their short-lived affair and to avoid self-destruction, and denies ... wife-to-be. In fact, throughout the entirety of the novel, Mike continues this pattern, once referring to Brett as “just a lovely, healthy wench” as his most observant remark. Furthermore, Mike exhibits no self-control when he becomes drunk, making insensitive statements that show his lack of regard for Brett and others. After Brett shows interest in Pedro Romero, the bullfighter, Mike rudely yells: “Tell him bulls have no balls ... bloody bull-fighter’” (206, Ch. 18). Despite Brett’s brief affair with the bullfighter, she will eventually return to Mike who will no doubt openly welcome her again. Brett is a strong woman, who can control most men, and Mike is no exception. She vaguely simplifies their relationship when she explains to Jake that she plans to return to him: “‘He’s so damned nice and he’s so awful. ...
- 506: Effects Of Social Pressure On
- ... Students of the first group experienced positive social pressure and their first semester GPA's were used as a dependent variable. Those in the second group experienced negative social pressure. Meanwhile, students in a third control group experienced no social pressure at all. Using a one way ANOVA of the independent variable, the experimenters found a significant difference in the GPA's of the students. A Tukey's post hoc analysis showed that the significance of the effect was found between the positive and control groups as well as the positive and negative groups. The Role of Social Pressure on Academic Performance of Entering Freshmen According to Rosabeth Kanter (1977), the more isolated the minority group members are among majority ... first group was called the veridical feedback group in which subjects received correct feedback for their answers. In the second group, called non-veridical group, subjects received incorrect feedback for their answers. The third group, control group received no feedback at all. They observed that subjects in the first group significantly perform better than those in the other two groups. Thus, they concluded that social pressure (i.e. veridical feedback ...
- 507: The Preponderant Lysistrata
- ... them at the mercy of the women. Sex is the only commonality of any significance between the different groups of men; therefore, sex has to be the object or action to be boycotted to give control over the men to the women. The second step in proving the women’s intelligence and superiority is the seizing of the Acropolis where the financial reserve for Athen’s war is kept. The men ... to further the women’s superiority. The men can’t go back to battle or defend themselves against battle without the reserves, which makes the men vulnerable to the enemy. This reversal of vulnerability and control of men and women in Aristophanes time period is comical because the reversed roles such as these would never have happened. Another step of Lysistrata gaining power over the men is to change their personal ... him. In the beginning, when the women first siege the Acropolis, the men see the women as “unmanageable pests” (708, 249-50) that should be “[punished] for their daring” (708, 279) to try to take control of them and their finances. This type of control was unheard of in Aristophanes’ days. The men feel that “no woman shall mock at [them]” (708, 270) by taking control of their possessions, which ...
- 508: The Zhou Dynasty
- ... king (Wang) to move the kingdom eastward to Luoyang. The Eastern part of the kingdom, however, was flat and not very mountainous. Despite the geography, the Zhou still had a huge piece of land to control. A network of feudal lords maintained this control over the land. They lacked a national road system and a tax system, which made national administration difficult. The geography of the Zhou dynasty made it terribly hard for any king to unify the country ... to help defeat the Western Zhou. That was the main cause for the movement of the Zhou from the West to the East. The Eastern Zhou kingdom, after it was established, did not have much control over any of its feudal states anymore. Many of them had become larger and more powerful than the Zhou kingdom itself. 2 (See Appendix D1, D2, E4) The attempt to unify the country led ...
- 509: Marsha Norman's Night
- ... last snowball -- some junk food -- in the fridge, Jessie asks for some black plastic bags. It's on their schedule that Jessie will give Mama a manicure. Then Jessie asks: JESSIE: Where's Daddy's gun? Life for Jessie and Mama is such a dull routine, Mama doesn't even pause to consider the request odd. She evens helps Jessie figure out where the gun is kept. It's not until half a column later that Mama asks: MAMA: What do you want the gun for, Jess? JESSIE: Protection. Mama at first considers that she and Jessie have nothing to steal, and what was valuable was stolen by Jessie's son, Ricky. MAMA: I mean, I don't even ...
- 510: “Images of Law Enforcement in the Toilet”
- ... Gentner ordered Perrin to the front of his cruiser, he ignored the command and started to reach into his waistband for an object with his body turned half away from the officer. Gentner drew his gun and repeatedly, as stated by witnesses, order Perrin to put his hands up. Perrin wouldn’t stop reaching into his band for the object there. Gentner, in fear that Perrin had a gun, fired at him. He still wouldn’t put his hands up or lay down even after being wounded, so Gentner fired again. Perrin died at the scene. It was quickly discovered that Perrin was reaching for drugs and not a gun (Puit 1999). Should the officer have waited until he was sure that Perrin was pulling a weapon out of his waistband? I don’t think so; it may have cost him his life. There ...
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