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- 2161: Comparison: Caesar and Fidel Castro
- ... Fidel used the U.S. for everyone to hate. And Caesar used slavery to increase in popularity. Though both leaders had to overtake a dictator but they did it in different ways. Fidel used only violence and threats to make Batista leave. Caesar on the other hand had to defeat Pompey, and then get voted in by the people. He did this by gaining popularity by attacking other countries and defeating ...
- 2162: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
- ... people than Hobbes. Man, according to Locke, is governed by reason in the state of nature. Locke was influenced by the revolutionary upheaval in a different way than Hobbes. The war caused Locke to dislike violence and extremes. Stability was the central assumption of his thinking. Hobbes’ era started its reasoning from the assumption that man was naturally vicious or wicked, while Locke’s era was more optimistic about man’s ...
- 2163: Nelson Mandela
- ... Kuperus 98-99). The shootings at Sharpeville had sent waves of outrage around the world. It was as if the international community had suddenly realized the full horror of apartheid and had seen how police violence had escalated through the long years of oppression. In the 1980s, people took the liberation struggle to new heights. In the workplace, in the community, and in the schools, the people aimed to take control ...
- 2164: Alphonse Capone
- ... racketing rights" to several areas of Chicago. His reputation grew as rival gangs were eliminated or nullified and the suburb of Cicero became a "firfdom" of the Capone mob. A good example of the culminating violence of the Chicago gang era was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on Feb. 14, 1929. It was here that seven members of the "Bugs" Moran mob was gunned down against a garage with sub ...
- 2165: Abraham Lincoln
- ... into the middle of the Civil War. Lincoln became a tough wartime President. He flexed his powers whenever necessity demanded. He became a “warrior for the American dream”. Putting aside he hate for bloodshed and violence, Lincoln derived a plan along with Sherman’s army to storm through and end the war. He did this as the surest way to end the killing and salvage the American dream. Lee surrendered his ...
- 2166: Martin Luther
- ... with this situation, Luther felt faith is something a true Christian must embrace. This is the faith that Jesus Christ is the Savior of mankind. Luther did not feel those persons having a profession involving violence are doomed to eternal damnation. For instance, Luther believed a Christian soldier could be saved even if he killed other people known as the 'enemy.' Luther provides a soldier's prayer is his essay "Whether ...
- 2167: Hemingway and His Writing Style
- ... more. She is basically courageous in life, choosing reality over thought, and she faces death stoically. In practically every case there has already been in her life some tragic event-the loss of a lover, violence-which has given her the strength to face life this way (Lynn 102). For Whom the Bell Tolls “is a living example of how, in modern times, the epic quality must be projected” (Baker 132 ...
- 2168: Adolf Hitler
- ... to people's baser instincts and made use of their fears and insecurities. He could do that, however, only because they were willing to be led, even though his program was one of hatred and violence. His impact was wholly destructive, and nothing of what he instituted and built survived.
- 2169: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... life at the University of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students threw bottles and bricks at the professors. In Poe’s letters to John Allen he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was struck on the head with a stone and then pulled out a gun and killed his attacker(Moldavia). By the end of the year Poe ...
- 2170: Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation of the Chinese Military
- ... ang his chief of staff, they were old friends, yet Hsu knew nothing of military affairs. “As Yuan understood it, the army’s duties were ‘to defend the honor of the country and to suppress violence on behalf of the people.’ By ‘country’, he did not mean the Chinese nation but the throne, the realm, the dynasty” (Ch’en, p. 34). He felt that if the soldiers copied the Western style ...
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