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- 1471: The Indians and Losing Their Homes
- ... feels security, where one is comfortable from whatever it is that surrounds them. One’s home is not the address of your house or the location of your room, it’s the place in the world where one can feel secure and peaceful, not afraid or insecure. People like the Native Americans felt there home was in the United States, but the white man thought of it differently. The Native Americans ... rest of the Native Americans had different beliefs on many controversial subjects like religion and the person as a whole. They did not believe in one higher power, but that spirits were everywhere in the world and they helped out the individual. These spirits would join the Indians in a dream or some other way to lead them in a certain direction. The white man feared the Indians for those exact ... they were giving them more land and more privacy than what they originally had. It was like what happened to African slaves that were shipped to the United States in the mid 1800’s, civil war time. They had the choice to go back to Africa after they were given the right to be free, but they chose not to. The United States was their home now, and they did ...
- 1472: The War Between The US/NATO and Yugoslavia
- The War Between The US/NATO and Yugoslavia Within the past four weeks the war between the United States/NATO and Yugoslavia, has become a serious issue. There are three sides to this very complex issue. There is the side in support of NATO, the side in support of Yugoslavia, and then there is the side that few people know about or are aware of. In America, the media plays a major role in advertising this war. They produce statistics and commentaries that can be considered by some to be propaganda for the war. The media emphasizes the atrocities being committed by the Serbians against the Albanians and the positive effects ...
- 1473: British Colonialism
- Colony is a geographical unit outside the borders of a state, which is connected to the state financially and managerially. As Barbara Ward states in her book "5 Ideas That Change the World", when we study colonialism, we are looking at one of the most far-reaching and widespread activities of mankind. It seems to be a fact of human nature that when one group of people becomes ... over Europe in order to control better their empire. Then the motives for building a colony changed. Colonialism as we know it today started in the 15th century after the great discoveries all over the world. The need for sugar, gold, and other materials, which where plenty in the New World, lead the Europeans ships to the new discoveries where they built colonies. The British colonialism was the most complex colonialism because beside the trading motives there were other motives like religion and politics. By ...
- 1474: Albert Einstein
- ... opportunity to drop out of school, only 15 at the time. After a year with his parents in Milan it became clear to him that he would have to make his own way in the world. He finished secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and then enrolled at the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. School there was no less exciting for him than it was before, and Einstein often cut classes, using ... German physicist Max Planck. While he became better know in the physics community, Einstein continued to work at the patent office. After four years he began to move rapidly upward in the German-speaking academic world, receiving his first academic appointment at the University of Zurich in 1909. By 1913 he had been appointed director the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin. Albert became an internationally renowned citizen for his work, winning the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921, as well as many other honors and awards from various other scientific societies around the world. Although he was an outspoken pacifist and Zionist, Einstein collaborated with several other physicists to write a letter to President Roosevelt during the second world war, telling him of the possibility of the creation ...
- 1475: Epic Works
- ... history. I have chosen for comparison the Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, and Paradise Lost. The Odyssey, attributed to Homer is about Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, who sailed with his army to take part in war against Troy. After ten years of war, victory is declared and the armies of Odysseus have sailed for home. As the Odyssey begins, an additional 10 years have passed since the fall of Troy and Odysseus still has not returned to his ... seeking the hand of his lovely wife, Penelope. However, Penelope refuses their advances choosing to remain faithful to Odysseus. During the ten years of his absence since the fall of Troy, Odysseus has traveled the world undertaking many unbelievable adventures and trials set upon him by the god Poseidon. Throughout his travels he along with his men sailed to many strange lands. These great adventures included tricking Polyphemus a Cyclops ...
- 1476: Rocky Marciano
- On Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer Rocky Marciano. When "bambino Rocco" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. Although the infection nearly killed him, his exceptionally strong constitution enabled him to ... old" Brockton Vocational School. Ultimately, however, he decided that the obligation to immediately get a job and help out his struggling family was paramount. Traditionally, in Brockton - the former men's shoe capitol of the world - this meant starting at the bottom rung in a local shoe factory as a floor sweeper. In 1940, the New England shoe industry was in shambles. The "Great Depression" and competition from foreign imports had ... several months, Rocky went from one "grubby" job to another. Throughout this period, he persistently begged his father to help him get some kind of work at Stacey Adams. In the meantime, the onset of World War 2 gave the Brockton Shoe industry a sudden - but temporary - boost. Pierino finally gave in and said "O.K." With all the overtime, Rocky's income suddenly doubled. For the first time in ...
- 1477: Beach Burial - Kenneth Slessor
- ... in the long run, the unimportance of it. To give you a bit of a background, Kenneth Slessor was an eminent Australian Journalist for a great part of his life, and because of this, When World War 2 came around he was chosen be Australia’s official war correspondent. He was to report on the Australian activities in the War and after it was all over he was to write the official history of those activities. He actually resigned in 1944 and ...
- 1478: Holocoust
- ... religious rite in which an offering was completely consumed by fire. In current times, however, the word holocaust has taken on a darker more tragic meaning and refers to more than a religious sacrifice. During World War II, a fire raged throughout Eastern Europe. Guns, bombs, and military groups did not ignite this fire. This fire burned fervently in the hearts of men -- sparked by centuries-old prejudice. One man, Adolf Hitler ... in the Holocaust began as a flicker of hatred in the heart of a leader and became a blazing inferno consuming the lives of the men, women, and children who crossed its incendiary path. After World War I, the social climate in Germany was dismal. The German people were humiliated by their country's defeat and by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The economic depression that resulted left ...
- 1479: Rocky Marciano
- On Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer Rocky Marciano. When "bambino Rocco" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. Although the infection nearly killed him, his exceptionally strong constitution enabled him to ... old" Brockton Vocational School. Ultimately, however, he decided that the obligation to immediately get a job and help out his struggling family was paramount. Traditionally, in Brockton - the former men's shoe capitol of the world - this meant starting at the bottom rung in a local shoe factory as a floor sweeper. In 1940, the New England shoe industry was in shambles. The "Great Depression" and competition from foreign imports had ... several months, Rocky went from one "grubby" job to another. Throughout this period, he persistently begged his father to help him get some kind of work at Stacey Adams. In the meantime, the onset of World War 2 gave the Brockton Shoe industry a sudden - but temporary - boost. Pierino finally gave in and said "O.K." With all the overtime, Rocky's income suddenly doubled. For the first time in ...
- 1480: Origins Of Communism
- Throughout the history of the modern world, man has sought out the perfect government. An invincible system of order. And in our search for this ideal system, the idea of holding property in common has been a reoccurring thought. From early Christian ... of producers and consumers which he hoped would prove his theories. But his socialist experiment never took place because adequate funding was denied. In the mid-1830’s, the term “Communism” was introduced to the world of French politics. First used to describe Saint-Simon and Fourier’s egalitarian slant on socialist ideas, Louis Blanc built on the ideals of Fourier to establish an important point of modern-day communism. He ... a thousand years later and over a thousand of miles away, Sir Thomas Moore wrote Utopia. An assessment of modern political ideals, Moore’s book started an uprising in 16th century Europe. The Great Peasants War of 1524-1525 threw a radical Protestant, Thomas Münzer, into the public eye. He preached of Heaven on earth; a world without private property or power. Münzer’s realization was short lived though. Anabaptist ...
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