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- 4931: Saint Francis of Assissi
- ... handful of paltry merchants and insignificant nobles over a house of the ownership of a mill, the petty wars of raids and rapine under the very city walls, made no appeal to him, after his short unlucky experience. Of the disputes between Church and Empire he understood but little: he had a respect for ecclesiastical censure, for he had experienced in his own city its blighting effect on his religious life ...
- 4932: A Martyr's Victory in a Spiritual Sense
- ... active sake to overcome evil for the sake of gods kingdom" said Huggard. When he took office in China, the country was already feeling the effects of the massive Japanese advance across Asia. In a short time millions lost there lives and were driven from there homes. Bishop ford refused to leave the war-torn country, even after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war ...
- 4933: Their Eyes Were Watching God 2
- ... Living with him in the muck with the migrant workers Janie is able to discover her self, what she can do, and how fulfilling true love is. Though her relationship with Tea Cake is cut short by tragedy Janie takes away a feeling that she has struggled for her whole life. Janie is now able to live her life without being someone that other people create. With her new found identity ...
- 4934: Jesse Owens
- ... him because I think that the racism in the world has been reduced because of people like him. I think he has made a great contribution to everyone. "When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live ...
- 4935: Andrea Dworkin
- ... many of her most popular beliefs are not only detrimental to society, but also not in the best interests of women. In letters from a war zone, Andrea Dworkin presents a collection of speeches and short articles she has composed during her career as a writer and activist. Many of her articles deal with censorship and pornography. One claim is central to all of these, pornography is an act and not ...
- 4936: Life and Times of Alexander the Great
- ... same harvest dances that his fellow Greeks performed near Thessalonika. This was the breadth of Alexander's influence on hundreds of different cultures around the world. Throughout the whole of Europe, Asia, and North Africa, stories of this great man have been handed down from generation to generation throughout the centuries. In many cases Alexander has even taken on a superhuman aura, and many unbelievable legends have been based on his ...
- 4937: Richard M. Nixon
- ... candidate for President. His opponent was John F. Kennedy, to whom he lost in a close race. After his defeat, Richard and his family moved back to CA, where Nixon practiced law again for a short time. In 1962, he ran for governor of CA, but lost to Edmund G. Brown. In 1963, the Nixons moved to New York, where Richard joined a law practice with international clients. In 1964, Lyndon ...
- 4938: Margaret Hilda Thatcher
- ... of only one member of a Shadow Cabinet of 23 she was regarded with suspicion by most of those managing the party machine at Central Office, and opposed by many in the National Union. In short, she was an anti- establishment candidate. Her campaign manager was a backbencher, backbenchers of varying shades of opinion made up her campaign committee who voted decisively for change(Gardiner, 1975, p.204). In May 1979 ...
- 4939: To Kill A Mocking Bird Essay
- ... raping his daughter and only the black families, and a handful of whites (including Atticus) seem to believe in his innocence. Therefore his chance of a fair trial was slim. The jury s racism cuts short an innocence man s life. Unfortunately, the small southern town s social values raised white children to think of blacks as the second-class race. Case closed, Tom must be guilty, no way would a ...
- 4940: Lester Pearson
- ... advocated close relations between Canada and the US. When Diefenbaker refused to accept nuclear warheads from the US it caused the fall of his government in 1963. In 1968 the Liberals won 129 seats, four short of a majority. The conservatives 95, the Socreds 24, and NDP 19 which made Pearson Canada's 14th Prime Minister. People knew he would do a good job and they also thought the Liberals would ...
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