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- 2181: Gandhi: A Man with Virtues
- ... spinning wheel as a sign of returning to the simple village life he had preached about. Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. By the method of passive resistance, Britain too would consider violence useless and leave India. In 1921 the Indian National Congress gave Gandhi complete executive authority. Then, many revolts occurred against Great Britain. Gandhi then confessed the failure of his civil-disobedience method and ended it ...
- 2182: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... soon was selected as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the organization that directed a bus boycott prompted by Parks's jailing. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year. Incidents of violence against black protesters, including the bombing of King's home, focused media attention on the city. A lawsuit filed by an MIA attorney appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States, which upheld a ...
- 2183: Biography of Rasputin
- ... most definitely one of the main causes of the overthrow of the czarist government and the rise of Bolshevism. One is reminded of the great French Revolution which began in 1789. When early acts of violence were reported to the weak French king, Louis XVI, he is to exclaimed, “Why, this is a revolt!” A more discerning rejoinder was, “No, sire, this is a Revolution.”
- 2184: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... outraged. Although he had made no secret of his frustrations with congress, he had consistently called for more power for congress, never for its ousting. In addition, Hamilton had long demonstrated a distaste for mob violence and uprisings. It would have been completely out of character for him to have uttered such sentiments, and Hamilton's colleagues knew this. Hamilton had become a marked man because of his quick ascent out ...
- 2185: A Comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe
- ... we're all of us clamped in our private traps," he says. He killed his mother and her lover, and then assumed her identity. His way of escaping his fears and his guilt is through violence. This paranoia and madness is caused by the characters' isolation. Roderick lives alone with his sister in a gloomy house. Norman is in complete seclusion in the house of his dead mother. They are separated ...
- 2186: Biography 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 ...
- 2187: Changing Attitudes of Ferhat Abbas
- ... that year he joins the F.L.N. which was committed towards the similar views as him but believed in different techniques in gaining them. F.L.N. believed that the use of aggression and violence was necessary to convince the French that the people want independence. They often used urban guerrilla techniques to sabotage the French. These techniques included hidden bombs in French buildings, killing of the street police, smuggling ...
- 2188: The Writings of Cicero
- ... from Rome. But early stoics had certain fundamental traits of comportment, which in some instances of his life, Cicero as a roman and a person abolished. One trait at practice was the stoics aversion to violence stoics as Cicero also shared this disgust. In addition stoics also avoided and scorned personal glory. However Cicero had a very different demeanor towards this type of behavior. The quest for glory on a national ...
- 2189: Biograhy of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- ... American Icon and movie box office draw not only in America, but in the entire world; although he represents different concepts to different people, the result is usually the same, staggering box office receipts. The violence of his films speak a universal language, ensuring that international markets are ripe prospects. His identification with young children, politics, bodybuilding/fitness enthusiasts, hollywood, and most importantly, an inseparable bond with the American Dream make ...
- 2190: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X Malcolm X, b. May 19, 1925, d. Feb. 21, 1965, was an influential American advocate of BLACK NATIONALISM, and--as a pioneer in articulating a vigorous self-defense against white violence--a precursor of the black power movement of the late 1960s. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb., he became a rebellious youth after the death (1931) of his father, who the family believed was murdered ...
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