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- 2361: History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan.
- History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan. Since 1984, and especially the last few months, the domestic problems of a major N.A.T.O, Middle Eastern, and American ally state have come to the forefront of the international news scene. That state is the Republic of Turkey and it's primary troubles stem from the past seven decades of acrimonious policies directed at the indigenous ethnic Kurds. The main problem, now, is the Kurdish popular insurgency on it's hands, in Turkish occupied Northern Kurdistan. The Kurdish question has long been covered up and denied by the state of Turkey, but recent events has forced Turkey to concede that it has a serious ...
- 2362: ASSATA Shakur
- JUSTICE AND POLTICAL LITERACY: ASSATA SHAKUR Assata Shakur, a political and social activist who struggled for the liberation of African Americans in the U.S. Her development as a revolutionary originated in her observation of her surroundings. She became devoted to improving the justice the black community faced, the removal of inequalities in African life. She pursued the development and organization of revolutionary groups demanding total liberation. She became actively involved in this movement, while, consequently becoming a victim of the government's repressive actions. Assata's struggle began as a child trying to comprehend the world around her. She learned greatly from her schools, deriving many of her historical perspectives of the black white conflict. She learned false history of ...
- 2363: Shermans March
- By: Starr Klotz E-mail: klotzsta@pilot.msu.edu Sherman’s March In November of 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman cut a 300-mile long, 60-mile wide corridor of destruction across the Confederate State of Georgia. He burned every thing in his path. He torched plantations, bridges, crops, factories, and mills. The goal of this war of attrition was to stop the heart of the Confederacy. By all accounts this campaign was very successful. Sherman’s campaign raised many questions. First, what did Sherman think off his march? Did he see it as vindication, or did he see it as an unnecessary step in reuniting the United States? Did Sherman think that his army needed to destroy everything in its path? Also, what did Sherman’s troops think about the highly destructive march? Part One The following quote form Jim Miles book To the Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman’s March, gives a brief example of how ...
- 2364: Tony Harrison's Poetry and His Relationship With His Parents
- Tony Harrison's Poetry and His Relationship With His Parents What perspectives do Harrison’s poems open up on his relationship with his parents and family background in general? Tony Harrison’s family background and his relations with his parents is one that both confuses and overwhelms us. I use the present tense because I believe that Tony Harrison still has a relationship with his parents ...
- 2365: Elizabeth 1
- Who's Who Henri IV Henri IV (Henri de Navarre, Henri de Bourbon), 1553-1610, first Bourbon king of France, was the son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d'Albret. On her death he succeeded to the kingdom of Navarre (1572). He took leadership of the Huguenot (Protestant) party in 1569. His marriage in 1572 with Marguerite de Valois was the occasion for the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day. Henri saved his life by abjuring Protestantism, but in 1576 he escaped from his virtual imprisonment at court and returned to Protestantism. When in 1584 Henri III named him heir presumptive, the Catholic League ... him and persuaded Henri III to send an army to force his conversion. In the resulting "War of the Three Henries," Henry de Navarre defeated Henri III at Coutras (1587) but came to the king's support in the troubles of 1588, and after Henri III's death (1589) defeated the League forces at Arques (1589) and Ivrey (1590); he was unable to enter Paris until 1594, after he had ...
- 2366: About Medical Marijuana
- ... legal in the United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as medicinal until 1937. Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine. NORML is working to restore marijuana's availability as medicine. Medicinal Value Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose. It is also extremely versatile. Four of its ... not accurate. However, at the time of the Controlled Substances Act, marijuana had been illegal for more than 30 years. Its medicinal uses had been forgotten and its "reefer madness" stigma was still prevalent. Marijuana's medicinal uses were rediscovered as a result of the tremendous increase in the number of recreational users in the 1970s: Marijuana's popularity compelled many scientists to study its health effects. They subsequently discovered marijuana's remarkable history as a medicine, inspiring many studies of its therapeutic potential; Many recreational users who also happened to be ...
- 2367: Your Chemical World
- By: Bill “Your Chemical World” In today’s world we rely on many different facets to achieve what we normally don’t even give a second thought. As I am sitting here typing this paper I am simultaneously using the culmination of numerous chemical breakthroughs. The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a group of over 150,000 ... in Southern Europe. Today we use chemistry to build our houses, to drive to work everyday, even toasting your toast in the morning. Because chemistry is our link to the hidden world of the earth’s terrestrial fruits like Silicon or Iron our hands will be forever bound to chemistry. The book starts off with our beginning and the unlikely usage of chemistry in pre-historic times. Our ancestors were ...
- 2368: About Medical Marijuana
- ... legal in the United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as medicinal until 1937. Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine. NORML is working to restore marijuana's availability as medicine. Medicinal Value Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose. It is also extremely versatile. Four of its ... not accurate. However, at the time of the Controlled Substances Act, marijuana had been illegal for more than 30 years. Its medicinal uses had been forgotten and its "reefer madness" stigma was still prevalent. Marijuana's medicinal uses were rediscovered as a result of the tremendous increase in the number of recreational users in the 1970s: Marijuana's popularity compelled many scientists to study its health effects. They subsequently discovered marijuana's remarkable history as a medicine, inspiring many studies of its therapeutic potential; Many recreational users who also happened to be ...
- 2369: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... Charles Darwin has become an icon in our time, no less important than Columbus, Newton, Jefferson, Edison, Einstein, or Gates. He is seen as projecting out of the Victorian era like a colossus. The 1800’s are no less awe-inspiring than ours’ for its intellectual mindset and technological feats. Yet his morally severe and pompously conservative age was very different from our secular, deregulated world founded on naturalistic principles and fast information exchange. Darwin's theory of evolution was published in the On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859. As its implications sank in, late Victorians saw the very foundations of human thought being rewritten ... in an age that saw the gentry as the moral backbone of a Christian nation. The son of a wealthy doctor, his mother (who died when he was eight) was the pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgwood's daughter. Despite his mother's Unitarianism and father's free thought, Darwin received an Anglican education. Medical training at Edinburgh University proved unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a ...
- 2370: Sibling Rivalry
- ... of these differences still manage to relate on an equal level. Siblings also have a common history of shared and non-shared experiences again strengthening the bond between them. Bill Cosby once said, "You aren't really a parent until you've had your second child." Parents of one child won't really understand this. Parents of two or more children will relate to this statement immediately. He was referring to the seemingly constant bickering and fighting between brothers and sisters. Myths & Theorists Adler (1959) believes that ... these are still going on today. Minuchin (1974) believed that rivalry between siblings was genetic. It has been argued that sibling rivalry can be a valuable childhood experience, siblings can learn to take other perspective s, ague their positions, negotiate to settle differences and many other skills needed in future life experiences. There has always been debate about the age gape between siblings and their influence on the relationship between ...
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