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- 2231: Ensuring Our Future Through Conservation
- Ensuring Our Future Through Conservation The world's natural rainforests are one of humanity's only remaining hopes to continue its existence. Rainforests are vast forests filled with lush vegetation, teeming with life (both animal and plant), of which only about 40 ... species as they did in the past. However, the size of theses majestic rainforests has diminished immensely over a course of about 100 years. Recent studies and estimates conclude that around two percent of the world's rainforests is lost each year. Unless we change this amount of deforestation, there will be little of our rainforests left in 50 years. Our rainforests are an integral part in our world's ecosystem, and therefore need to be conserved as best we can. The rainforests provide safety and life to millions of kinds of life, they may contain cures to many of the world's ...
- 2232: A Little Bit About Einstein
- ... born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879. He was born to Herman and Pauline Einstein, middle class German Jews. Einstein was a very bright child; a magnetic compass sparked his interest in the natural world, at the young age of four. Einstein began his formal education at a school in Ulm. Contrary to what you would think Albert hated formal schooling. He often did poorly in subjects such as Geography ... is the speed of light squared. He was only 26 years old when he applied his theory of mass and energy. Einstein was also very involved with the public around him. Einstein traveled throughout the world. His visited many countries as a member of the physics community and a representative for liberal causes. These countries included England, France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and as far east as Japan. In 1922, he went to ... Einstein at the top of the list of people stripped of their German citizenship. Einstein moved to the United States to escape the Nazi Germany, and also settled in Princeton New Jersey with Elsa. After World War II began Einstein urged President Roosevelt, after a series of letters, to push the study of nuclear war power and its effects. He was informed that Nazi Germany had the intelligence to create ...
- 2233: Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday
- Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday The war in Vietnam was escalating and protests were being staged everywhere. This was a war that the U.S. people felt we didn't belong in. The truth is we weren't really wanted there either. More people would die in this conflict than in the previous Korean conflict. All ... hospital to identify his body. He sees it as a power struggle and I agree. The police will take what ever actions necessary to keep the upper hand. Unfortunately this is still happening around the world. Those in power do not use their power to serve and protect. Instead they want to prove themselves and keep their egos unharmed. This happened in Tieniman Square, the aftermath of the Rodney King ...
- 2234: The First Battle Of Bull Run
- The First Battle Of Bull Run On July 21, 1861, two armies, one confederate and the other Union, prepared for the first major land battle of the Civil War. In 1861 Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President. The Southern states had seceded and the South had fired on and captured Fort Sumter on April 12 1861. After the Fort Sumter battle, both the North and the South began preparing for war by raising armies. This was done quickly and neither side spent much time training the troops. Both sides also did not know what a long and terrible war was ahead. The first Battle of Bull Run took place near Manassas Junction, Virginia, an important railroad junction twenty five miles west of Washington, D.C. Bull Run Creek twisted and turned through Manassas ...
- 2235: Compare And Contrast The Aims
- ... for mediocrity and laziness" . He wanted them to be the best. However, Malcolm X pointed to the fact that King's examples were always whites or those who had succeeded in a white man's world. Malcolm X would sooner point to those who had resisted white domination. Penultimately, King saw the "urgent need for strong courageous and intelligent leadership from the Negro community" . Finally and most obviously, he wanted the ... that Martin's aims compare favourably with Malcolm's later on in their lives is internationalism. As has already been discussed their views on the U.S. were very similar in this second phase. Their world outlook carried along these lines. When Malcolm realised that Islam cannot tolerate any form of racial discrimination, he had to think again about his Black Nationalist thinking. It deepened his international outlook, speaking more and ... s inhumane treatment of its black inhabitants. Previously Martin had always looked to Europe when talking about international affairs, but with Malcolm's influence he began to turn his focus to the rest of the world, especially Africa, Asia and Latin America. Like Malcolm, Martin believed that Negroes could not be free in America until the poor of the world were set free. Both saw the interrelatedness of life. "Martin ...
- 2236: Christopher Columbus Was A Villain
- ... and remembered by the “schoolbook” image of him as a heroic, brave, modern individual spreading Christian civilization. According to those absorbed in this “myth”, his most important heroic attribution was his discovering of the New World, which led to immense progress. However, based on both primary and secondary sources, Columbus was not a hero in that he did not attribute any heroic acts of discovering a New World. Rather, he had “reflected” the opportunities that was in his situation and consequently “discovered” a New World. Furthermore, he misinterpreted himself in order to appear to be a hero. In this sense, he was a “villain” in that he produced facts in ways to his advantage of profit and fame. Columbus ...
- 2237: 1984
- By: Norton Morgen 1984 is a political parable. While Brave New World describes a future of everyone getting exactly what they want, George Orwell takes this in the opposite direction with a description of how the world most likely will be: mindless, loveless, unfeeling followers of nothing. The first paragraph of the story already foreshadows of what is to come with a description of Victory Mansions, the home of Winston Smith, the ... enough to lend him the charter of the Brotherhood. In this book, he learns the answers to the questions for which he has been searching. It seems as if happiness actually could exist in this world. But no, this is not to be. While visiting his lover one day, they are ambushed by a group of assault troopers. When they arrive in jail, they are separated and the story shifts ...
- 2238: Hacking
- ... welcome the advancement of science to ease their lives, but it is known that technology can also be used to create havoc, and destroy human beings. The United States is finding out that being a World Power, other countries are jealous. Most understand the word terrorism to mean bombs, and mass murders, but with the evolution of the computer age, terrorism is taking on a whole new meaning. No longer is ... now a real danger to the United States. This new technology is being called Cyber Terrorism, and is used by a variety of people. Many radical Rebel groups, and other terrorist groups are using the World Wide Web to preach propaganda, and some U.S. officials believe they are also sending encrypted e-mails detailing when there next attack will be. The Columbian Rebel Group ELN is one of the many ... the Internet. The ELN is known mainly for blowing up oil rigs in South America, and for kidnaping foreign executives. Most groups like the ELN uses the Internet to simply tell other's around the world about there organization and to soften there image from what is heard about them in the news. The FBI is very concerned about cyber terrorist, for fear that one might begin an electronic attack, ...
- 2239: Polygamy
- ... 95.) 1862 Jan 20, In just 2 days the 3rd State of Deseret constitution was written as a bid for Statehood, in anticipation of the breaking up of the Union because of a possible civil war. (Ivins, p. 96.) 1862 March 3, An election in Utah ratified this 3rd bid for Statehood and elected Brigham Young as Territorial Governor even though congress had just 4 years earlier replaced Brigham Young, by ... Due to timing of election dates women in Utah were the first in the nation to exercise this new power. "The Church gave to its women the first exclusively women's organization in all the world; and it was representatives of this organization in mass-meeting assembled to enter their vigorous protest against the pending legislation which was intended to affect them seriously in their lives. [Note that the Relief Society ... been: We married women instead of seducing them; we reared children instead of destroying them; we desired to exclude from the land prostitution, bastardy and infanticide. If George Reynolds is to be punished, let the world know the facts . . . . Let it be published to the four corners of the earth that in this land of liberty, the most blessed and glorious upon which the sun shines, the law is swiftly ...
- 2240: Hannibal
- ... Rome; Hannibal became Commander in Chief of Carthage’s army when he was 26 after his father was assassinated. His conquest of the Roman town of Sagunto in Spain led to a new declaration of war by Rome; which started the second Punic War and Hannibal’s promise to visit Roman injustice back on Rome a hundred fold. For Carthage to take the town of Sagunto was completely within the rights of the Carthage and the treaty but Rome ... earliest memories could recall nothing but hatred for Rome. Hannibal’s Father had instilled a horrifically self-destructive desire within Hannibal to see the fall of Rome. This desire manifested itself during The Second Punic War, which was the ultimate fight for supremacy in the Ancient World. The victor would have control over the entire Mediterranean Sea and all of the trade routes bringing land, pride, wealth, and dominance over ...
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