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- 6861: Martin Luther: A Biography of Martin Luther (1483- 1546)
- Martin Luther: A Biography of Martin Luther (1483-1546) Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, the son of Hans Luther, who worked in the copper mines, and his wife Margarethe. He went to school at Magdeburg and Eisenach, and entered the University of Erfurt in 1501, graduating with a BA in 1502 and an MA in 1505. His father wished him to be a lawyer, but Luther was drawn ...
- 6862: Reinhold Niebuhr
- ... whose social doctrines profoundly influenced American theological and political thought. Born in Wright City, Missouri, June 21, 1892, he was educated at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Missouri; and Yale Divinity School. In 1915 he was ordained in the ministry of the Evangelical Synod of North America and made pastor of the Bethel Evangelical Church of Detroit. He held that post until 1928, at which time he ...
- 6863: The Holocaust: Tragedy in the 20th Century
- ... already a distant piece of history. For the survivors, the Holocaust was yesterday....and today. Rosewood was a small little town in western Florida. It had three churches, a general store, a Masonic lodge, a school, a baseball diamond-everything a town of 150 people would need. It was a prosperous town that took care of itself. Its only fault was that it was a black town in a white place ...
- 6864: The Fall Of Rome
- ... trying to overthrow them. Constantine legalized Christianity. Later Theodosius made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. The army didn't like Christ. Romans didn't like Christians saying that they protected Rome through prayer. Some soldiers gave up. Some Christians believed soldiers performed sacrilegious acts. In conclusion, the Roman Empire declined based upon the same factors that had caused it to flourish. It fell because the social, economic, political ...
- 6865: The Holocaust
- ... the Holocaust, students will understand the far-reaching effects of this event. When the subject is brought up, they will understand what it is and know how to relate to it. A poll of high school students revealed only 2% knew what countries were involved in World War II and the effects of the Holocaust. None could provide a full graphic outline of the Holocaust. We do not want our students ...
- 6866: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb And Its Use
- ... me that the atomic bomb equals all of the cruel acts. Therefore, I do not think the dropping of the atomic bomb can be justified with the act of Japan. When I was a high school student, a teacher of history taught us that America dropped the atomic bomb for various reasons, not only for beating Japan. It was not until that I knew the fact. Though the teacher did not ...
- 6867: The Holocaust
- ... on these trains. The German troops would tell the people who were on the trains that men would labor and women would keep house or work with the men while their children would go to school. These lies were repeated to each one of the millions who died. When a train would arrive at Auschwitz, loudspeakers blared, ordering people to get off the train and prepare to go to work. After ...
- 6868: The Effect of Militancy In the British Suffragette Movement
- ... the entire nation was forced to consider the question of women's suffrage seriously.Through much effort, by the early twentieth century English feminists had accomplished many goals: women could serve on town councils and school boards, could be factory inspectors, could even vote in select regional elections if they had enough property, and could even become mayors, like Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.2 But they still could not vote for ...
- 6869: The French Revolution
- ... 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 ...
- 6870: Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
- ... the present political system have their hands soaked with blood and still have power." Winitchakul himself was jailed for two years. The print media has been unrelenting in demanding that official history be expunged from school and university curricula. Its campaign has included not only analysis, but also accounts of the events behind the 1976 and other student massacres and a May 1992-killing of pro-democracy activists. The 1992 uprising ...
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