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- 1771: In The Frontiers Of One Last
- ... Greek and Turkish Cypriots deteriorated, mainly as a result of flaws in the constitution which gave disproportional rights to the Turkish Cypriot community including the right to block the passing of laws. In 1963 intercommunal violence broke out following which many Turkish Cypriots withdrew to enclaves. Attempts to bring the two sides back together were made through the United Nations who sent a contingent to the island. On 15 July 1974 ...
- 1772: Human Rights In Tibet
- ... to reject it and the revisions that followed it (Office of Tibet 3). Five-Point Peace Plan Transformation of the whole of Tibet into a zone of Ahisma, a demilitarized zone of peace and non-violence. 1. Abandonment of China’s population transfer policy, which threatened the very existence of the Tibetans as a people. 2. Respect for the Tibetan people’s fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms; 3. Restoration of ...
- 1773: Hobbes Leviathan
- ... appeal to upon injury or controversy A government which remains above or outside the law remains in a state of nature with respect to the citizens in its dominion because there is no security against violence and oppression. The exercise of arbitrary power puts the absolute government in a state of war with its people because, as Locke writes, He who attempts to get another man into his absolute power, does ...
- 1774: History Guidelines
- ... that when they didn’t meet their daily quota of gold for Columbus that had there arms cut off. Columbus said “There are very gentle and bare no arms. For they do not no what violence or war is. With 100 of these men I could subject them to do what ever I want them to do. (Morrison 079) Yes I believe that progress has to be measured. When it is ...
- 1775: Historical Relations Between T
- ... that there was no strait to be found. However, Hudson encountered his first Native Americans after anchoring along the Hudson River. He and his crew fished and bartered with the indians, the natives offering no violence. Hudson made his way back down the river cautiously trading with the natives that they encountered.(Kenney 14) Hence was the initial encounter with the white man that the Natives of the Hudson Valley experienced ...
- 1776: Hitler
- ... to people’s baser instincts and made use of there fears and insecurities. He could not do that, however, only because they were willing to be lead, even know his program was one hatred and violence. His impact was wholly destructive, and nothing of what he instituted and built survived.
- 1777: Harlem Slums As A Result Of Th
- ... these areas are in the lead." It was no wonder that narcotics addiction became a serious problem then and that Harlem became "the center of the retail dope traffic of New York"; nor that local violence and hatred for the police were continually reported in the press (LaGaurdia 93). The majority of Harlemites even during normal times lived "close to the subsistence level" (Boyer 123). Many were "under fire" of charitable ...
- 1778: Government Instructions Includ
- ... I disagree with Machiavelli on the subject of warfare. In chapter XIV, Machiavelli says, "a prince's main objective and profession must be warfare"(81). A lot of things can be settled without bloodshed and violence. In the modern world, war is an extremely scary thing, especially with all the nuclear and biochem technology. I believe a "prince's" main objective and profession is to take care of his people and ...
- 1779: Genocide
- ... of your race or religion? Scary yes, but definitely possible. The word genocide, which is also known as ethnic cleansing, is certainly not uncommon to anyone living in this not so perfect world, full of violence, hatred and discrimination. Throughout the decades, genocide has taken place in more than one occasion, causing wars, slaughters and mass destruction of cities and towns. I think that genocide is by far the worst crime ...
- 1780: French War
- ... was. All over the field are small groups of men, beating each other to death with swords too blunt to cut, often resorting to almost wrestling in unbearably uncomfortable and heavy suits of armour. The violence of the scene, although not gory, is shocking, as I'm sure Branagh intended it to be, accentuated by the slow-motion shots of the fighting, and in particular the death of the horses, who ...
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