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- 1751: The Life Of Mahatma Ghandi
- ... the penalties resulting from their defiance. Thus was born satyagraha ("devotion to truth"), a new technique for redressing wrongs through inviting, rather than inflicting, suffering, for resisting the adversary without rancour and fighting him without violence. (see also Index: civil disobedience) The struggle in South Africa lasted for more than seven years. It had its ups and downs, but under Gandhi's leadership, the small Indian minority kept up its resistance ...
- 1752: A Seize Of Power
- ... lockup, he came to find the Nazi party was not as powerful as it had been before his incarceration. It is then that Hitler realized that it would be impossible to overthrow the government in violence. Instead of seizing power through bloodshed, Hitler was going to rise to power politically, once he found a way to get in. This way was lit when the great depression hit the United States. Since ...
- 1753: Mayor Of Castrobridge
- ... look upon me as your father." Henchard shows passion toward his daughter through his cry toward her. Although Henchard is a strong man, he also is a man of mistakes. His actions often come to violence and are emphasized when liquor is involved. He was also a very jealous man. Henchard felt threatened by Farfrae when Elizabeth Jane was involved. Henchard also never explained to Elizabeth Jane that she wasn't ...
- 1754: Ronald Takaki A Different Mirr
- ... today. Today were are still impaled by the thinking of men centuries ago that there is a us versus them culture. Race still in this country is still the top factor in life. Riots and violence are fought over racial issues. The thinking that people in this land should be divided by color and class is based on what happened with the Indians. The actions taken in dealing with the Indians ...
- 1755: Ireland An Expansion Through T
- ... central, and eastern Ireland by the time he is an old man. He not only introduces Christianity to the Irish people but he stops the slave trade among the Irish kings and other forms of violence such as murder and intertribal warfare, decreased. (110) After his establishment in Ireland though, Rome falls and leaves hordes of people trying to claw their way to the top. Kings trying to acquire more land ...
- 1756: Early History Of Judaism
- ... So right away, it is apparent that the ideas that the Greeks introduced into Jewish culture have acted as time-bombs of social memes, and have created a major split in the religion. When the violence of the war has subsided, the moderate Hellenizers have won ("everything in moderation!") and rule for a short time, until the Roman empire attacks and throws even more kinks into the Jewish society. When the ...
- 1757: English And French Relations I
- ... young Quebec nationalists, best illustrated feelings of francophone frustration and anger when they kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross, and killed Quebec cabinet minister, Pierre Laporte. While many francophones didn't support the level of violence in this crisis, they did sympathize with the upset behind it. Francophones employed more legal means of protest and self-protection, such as Bill 22, which made French the official language of Quebec. Bill 101 ...
- 1758: Early Chinese Immigrant
- ... The Chinese did not try to amalgamate with the dominant culture. The Chinese were discriminated in many ways, from forming laws that specifically targeted them, to disallowing citizenship of the Chinese. In late 1860's, violence started to arise from the hate. Whites rioted and killed many Chinese in towns all over California. In May 1876 some whites burned a Chinese house in Truckee and then shot the Chinese as they ...
- 1759: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... much royal land; cities, popes, and Normans controlled Italy; and the Lateran synod of 1059 declared that only cardinals could canonically elect the pope. Henry IV was wily, opportunistic, and headstrong in an era of violence and treachery, and as ruler he sought to recover lost imperial power. His efforts to retrieve crown lands aroused the Saxons, who resented the Salian kings. He crushed a Saxon rebellion in 1075 and proceeded ...
- 1760: Letter From A Birmingham Jail
- ... August 1955. I don't feel that I could answer that with out considering the effects on northern blacks, of the entire the world for that matter. The Northern black population became aware that the violence that the Southern Negro lived and died with could easily effect them as well. With the spread of mass media and the television the world was exposed to not only the funeral of Till but ...
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