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- 5451: Deng Xiaoping
- ... France, less well off people had to find employment in order to study. Work, however, was not easy to find and so Deng went through a variety of unskilled labour positions while he went to school where he learned about a variety of things, including communism. Deng rose quickly through the ranks of Chinese Communism in France. In 1923, he was elected leader of the Communist Youth Party of China, and ...
- 5452: The Watergate Scandal
- ... Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resigned rather that prosecute men he knew. Nixon and Elliot Richardson, the new attorney general, approved the creation of a special prosecutors office, headed by Archibald Cox of the Harvard Law School. The Senate’s Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, under the chairmanship of Senator Sam Ervin, opened public hearings in May. Dean’s testimony linked Nixon to the cover-up. Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell denied ...
- 5453: A Heritage Denied
- ... heritage may contaminate her image, Dee camouflages her family’s adversities by never compromising her appearance. “Dee wanted nice things” (Walker 73). These desires require that she wear a yellow organdy dress to her high school graduation (Walker 73). Dee continues this behavior into adulthood. When Dee returns home to visit, the first thing her mother notices is her appearance. Dee is wearing a long dress with colors so loud they ...
- 5454: Yalta
- ... along with many other taxations and pay-backs. One of the biggest way the Russians influenced the Romanian people, was by killing all of it’s highest intellect. Any person with higher education (than high school) that did not “seem” to agree with the concepts of communism (let alone talk or write against the government) was immediately put to death. Freedom is took for granted and the pain that a small ...
- 5455: Sedition Act Of 1798
- ... helped keep the public silent and perhaps somewhat approving to the loss of some personal freedoms, as nobody wanted to be accused as a Jacobean. In May of 1778, President Adams declared a day of prayer and fasting. Many thought that the Jacobeans were going to use that day to rise up in insurrection and “cut the throats of honest citizens.” They even thought they were going to attack President Adams ...
- 5456: Accounts Of The Holocaust
- ... certain to Cordova 6 come to him, his refusal to die that carried him through the struggle, and how he had to rebuild a life for himself. It clearly says it all. A Survivor's Prayer By: MalkaB I have lived dear G-d in a world gone mad and I have seen evil unleashed beyond reason or understanding. I was with them. We drank from the same bitter cup. I ...
- 5457: Magnificent Minds Of The Renai
- ... perfected around 1508, Raphael was sent to Rome to decorate four rooms of the Vatican Palace with scenic frescoes. These four rooms contain some of Raphael's finest work, such as the magnificent fresco The School of Athens which depicts an open building scene in which Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient philosophers are in deep contemplation and conversation. In addition to Raphael's Vatican Palace "project," he was also appointed to ...
- 5458: Analysis Of The French Revolut
- ... was equal in terms of its social, economic, and spiritual power. The First Estate owned nearly 10 per cent of all land in France. It paid no taxes but, to support church activities such as school running and caring for the poor, they collected a tithe, or a tax on income. About one-third of the entire clergy in France served as parish priests. Also included in this estate were the ...
- 5459: Plato
- ... was the Academy's most outstanding student. (Internet) The internal affairs of the academy ruled the next 20 years of Plato's life and he wrote nothing. Many Greek youths were attracted to the new school. Plato then went to Syracuse to supervise the education of the ruling prince. Plato was not certain about the success of this adventure although he felt he could not refuse this opportunity of putting his ...
- 5460: The Return To Mecca, Muhammad
- ... with Jews"; instead of making concessions to the Jews in the hope of gaining recognition of his prophethood, he asserted the specifically Arabian character of the Islamic religion. Hitherto the Muslims had faced Jerusalem in prayer, but a revelation now bade them face Mecca. Perhaps because of this change some Muslims of Medina were readier to support Muhammad. In March 624 he was able to lead about 315 men on a ...
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