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- 2201: Stephen Biko
- ... organizations for blacks to interact with each other to enlighten the problem. Major figures have usually used violent techniques to get their ideas through. The significant thing about Biko is that he did not use violence to spread his ideas. He used his wits to try to tell the government in South Africa that what they were doing was wrong. Another great characteristic Biko had was his willingness to die for ...
- 2202: The Ideal American: Malcolm Little
- ... after being released from prison he succumbed to the inane racist philosophies of the Nation of Islam and it's bigot leader Elijah Muhhamed. Malcom X as he was now called preached hatred, bigotry and violence to all that would listen.. He was responsible for countless deaths, riots, and general prejudices being worsened all for the cause of the racist Nation of Islam. For most of his years he preached that ...
- 2203: The Work of Stephen King
- ... credible author worthy of the literature books of the future. Positive reviews are abundant. When King is at his best, then the reader is too busy turning pages to be squeamish. "In a time of violence and confusion, it is little wonder then that so many readers have embraced the imaginative talents of Stephen King"(Winter 219). "If someone in the future wants to see what American life was like, what ...
- 2204: Bill Clinton and His Many Problems
- ... policy has been sharpened during Clintons presidential period. This is especially a problem for the blacks that live in the high- unemployment-ghettos. This brings us to another big problem in the American society; the violence. In US the control with weapons is very loose, and everybody can walk into a gunshop and buy their own weapon. Because of that there are a lot of guns, and the criminals are defiantly ...
- 2205: The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... nations, but of producing the strongest possible Euro-Mixed race, the Jew is just as useful and desirable as ingredient as any other national remnant." War Mentality Nietzsche had an incredible infatuation with evil and violence. He did so much to find evil and cruelty in the world, that he seemed to have a sadistic pleasure in celebrating it; "man is the cruelest animal," he states in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In ...
- 2206: The Cause For The Great Migrations
- ... very powerful in the Mediterranean Sea that in 455 they plundered Rome. This act, the cruelty in involved in their religious persecutions, and their piracy in the Mediterranean earned the Vandals a reputation for senseless violence. Justinian, a Byzantine emperor, destroyed the Vandal Empire in the 6th century. The Burgundies, another Germanic tribe from eastern Europe, followed the Vandals into Gaul, probably around 411.They established their own kingdom in the ...
- 2207: The Kosovo Conflict
- ... country; and it is now slowly breaking apart. A few sections such as Croatia and Bosnia have already become their own country and now Kosovo would like to also. Kosovos history is filled with violence, and it is now repeating. In the early 1900s many Albanians were tortured, raped, and massacred. The same thing that is happening today. Kosovo was also the objective of the Serbian liberation movement and ...
- 2208: The Fall of the Roman Empire
- ... of Rome. New values had entered the Roman world and had a strong presence in Roman society in the third through fifth centuries in which Rome would fall. Christian values of love, peace, and anti-violence did not sit well with Christians who lived in an empire built upon a strong army. When Christianity gained prominence in the Roman world, many disliked the idea of conquering and war. Also, the Christian ...
- 2209: The Cajun-Creole Conflict
- ... be blamed on affairs between Cajun men and Creole women. Neglected by their husbands, some Creole women formed liaisons with young Cajun bachelors. The husbands usually found out about these affairs, which often resulted in violence. One such incident occurred when Sieur Bertonville, a French-born surgeon, returned home to find his wife and young Jean-Baptiste Braud in bed. According to Judice, when Sieur Bertonville entered his home and witnessed ...
- 2210: Was the French Revolution Preventable?
- ... high rates of interest through the 1780s. By 1789 many French people had become critical of the monarchy, even though it had been largely successful in militarily defending France and in suppressing religious and political violence. The peasants resented the rising and unequal taxes, the persecution of religious minorities, and government interference in their private lives. These resentments, coupled with an inefficient government and an old-fashioned legal system, made the ...
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