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- 3101: Napoleon
- ... Opposing generals fueled by hate attempted on many occasion to stop the momentum that Bonaparte and his French empire was gaining. The view by others that he was a ruthless and sadistic leader, who created war for his personal gain was well expressed by Guillamme de Prosper-Barante, "He never wished to be justified. He killed, he killed according to Corsican traditions, and if he sometimes regretted this mistake, he never ... or to make sure France was a good place to live, "France has more need for Napoleon, then he for France" (II, pg.243). In April 1803 Britain, provoked by Napoleon's aggressive behavior, resumed war with France on the seas. Two years after this Russia and Austria joined the British in a second coalition. Napoleon then abandoned plans to invade England and turned his armies against the Austro-Rusian forces ... made his brother Joseph, the king of Spain. Napoleon then awarded Naples to his brother-in-law, Joachim Murat. Joseph's arrival in Spain touched off a rebellion there, which became known as the Peninsular War. Napoleon appeared briefly and scored victories, but after his departure the fighting continued for five years, with the British backing the Spanish armies and guerrillas. The Peninsular War cost France 300,000 casualties and ...
- 3102: A World Of Intoxification
- By: michael martin E-mail: funkyfresh123@hotmail.com Michael Martin Professor D. 11/30/1999 Hum. 101 A world of intoxification Screams pierced the midnight air and students ran wildly about the campus. Police cars whizzed by with their sirens blaring in the night. Glass was being broken and girls were being defiled. Confusion ... with the help of the more important people on campus, fraternities and sororities. Once mommies little boy, or daddies little girl get to college they become as little babies again. Looking at a whole new world in which they live. This isnt the quiet town in which they grew up, it is a world in which if you are not important, and you get trampled on. Well, the only way to get important is to know the people that are important. The only way to know the people ...
- 3103: John Coltrane
- ... did. From the very moment that he learned his instrument, he wanted to revolutionize it." While enrolled in school, Coltrane worked at the local sugar refinery to help pay for debts. During the occurrence of World War II, Coltrane played with the US Navy Band; and afterwards in 1947, Coltrane returned to Philadelphia and began working around established musicians Jimmy Heath, Howard McGhee, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, and Joe Webb in local bars ... by no means exclusively among young blacks, is clearest of all in the album titled A Love Supreme, recorded in late 1964 with Tyner, Jones, and Garrison. In 1964, John William Coltrane revealed to the world his concept of spirituality in the form of what would soon be a world-renowned and multi-award-winning suite, A Love Supreme. Coltrane's concept fused music and religion. It entailed the expression ...
- 3104: The Goals and Failures of the First and Second Reconstructions
- ... m Black and I'm Proud. James Brown The First and Second Reconstructions held out the great promise of rectifying racial injustices in America. The First Reconstruction, emerging out of the chaos of the Civil War had as its goals equality for Blacks in voting, politics, and use of public facilities. The Second Reconstruction emerging out of the booming economy of the 1950's, had as its goals, integration, the end ... in realizing their goals. My thesis is that failure to incorporate economic justice for Blacks in both movements led to the failure of the First and Second Reconstruction. The First Reconstruction came after the Civil War and lasted till 1877. The political, social, and economic conditions after the Civil War defined the goals of the First Reconstruction. At this time the Congress was divided politically on issues that grew out of the Civil War: Black equality, rebuilding the South, readmitting Southern states to Union, ...
- 3105: Stalin
- ... issues at a time when the Bolsheviks were trying to keep the territories of the former Russian Empire under their power, Stalins post was crucial to the Bolshevik victory in the ensuring Russian Civil War (1918-1921). He was elected a member of the Communist Partys highest decision-making body, the Politburo, and the Central Committees Orgburo (Organizational Bureau) in 1919. As a political commissar in the Red Army during the height of the civil war, Stalin supervised military activities against the counterrevolutionary White forces along the western front that were led by General Pyotr Wrangel. During the war between Russia and Poland from 1920 to 1921, his decisions as a political commissar ended in disaster and led to a long-standing conflict with Commissar of War Lean Trotsky. Meanwhile, Stalin, whose first ...
- 3106: Declaration Of Independence
- The Declaration of Independence was written to show a new theory of government, reasons why they were separating from England, and a formal declaration of war. It gave the 13 colonies freedom from England's laws. The man responsible for writing the Declaration was Thomas Jefferson. He wrote the Declaration between June 11, 1776 and June 28, 1776. Benjamin Franklin and ... independence were that the British government had committed acts that many colonists believed violated their rights as English subjects. Also that colonial blood had already been shed trying to defend these rights. The French & Indian war was the war that shed colonists blood to defend their rights. The Declaration of Independence served three major purposes. 1. Preamble and reasons for separation. Among the reasons for separation were statements about the king, George III. ...
- 3107: My Lai Massacre
- ... out that he s being questioned for murder at My Lai 4. Word gets out to the media about his actions and he receives loads and loads of letters. He received many letters from past war veterans supporting his actions in My Lai. At the same time he received just as many letters calling him a killer. Calley s trial date was set in 1970. His trial begins. Lets flash back ... it s illegal and he can t be a part of it. In the year 2000 Calley s thoughts have changed completely. After the trouble he s been through he says it s immoral and war in the world still isn t right, and he ll still be sickened by it. War is all politics and no one really understands what it is like to be in a war unless you ve been ...
- 3108: Presdent James Abram Garfield
- Presdent James Abram Garfield Born in a log cabin, James Abram Garfield rose by his own efforts to become a college president, a major general in the Civil War, a leader in Congress, and finally president of the United States. Four months after his inauguration, he was shot by an assassin. After weeks of suffering he died. Birth and Boyhood James Abram Garfield was ... enough to do a man's work. He hired out to the neighbors for chopping wood, washing sheep, planting, plowing, and sowing. When he was 16, he decided to become a sailor and see the world. "Nautical novels did it," he said, " . . . especially the 'Pirates' Own Book'." Unable to get a job on a lake steamer, the boy hired out for three months on a canalboat. The boat carried copper ore ... group and at the end of his first year was elected president of his class. The next year Lucretia came east to see him graduated with high honors (August 1856). From College President to Civil War General Garfield returned to Hiram to teach again at the Eclectic and after one year he was made president. The next year, in 1858, he married Lucretia. The couple began their life together poor ...
- 3109: Overpopulation
- ... because of their massive contributions to the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere, among many other reasons. Almost all the rich nations are overpopulated because they are rapidly drawing down stocks of resources around the world. They don't live solely on the land in their own nations. Like the profligate son of our earlier analogy, they are spending their capital with no thought for the future. It is especially ironic ... This is such a common error that it has been known for two decades as the "Netherlands Fallacy." *36 The Netherlands can support 1,031 people per square mile only because the rest of the world does not. In 1984-86, the Netherlands imported almost 4 million tons of cereals, 130,000 tons of oils, and 480,000 tons of pulses (peas, beans, lentils). It took some of these relatively inexpensive ... it continued to import. But when the gas fields (which represent about twenty years' worth of Dutch energy consumption at current rates) are exhausted, Holland will once again depend heavily on the rest of the world for fossil fuels or uranium. *38 In short, the people of the Netherlands didn't build their prosperity on the bounty of the Netherlands, and are not living on it now. Before World War ...
- 3110: Feminists
- ... gain more rights, also known as woman power, those who just want women to be equal as men, and those who believe in true, natural beauty. Every woman wants to be placed higher in the world than she actually is - whether it is in the work place or at home. Though times have changed since a woman's place is in the kitchen was once a motto; women are still made ... but they seem to be more understanding to the situation. However, women have not taken this into consideration. They feel that they have been below the average man, that it is time to show the world what women are made of. Women are not cruel by doing this, because they know they have the correct qualifications to be in the superior position to the man. The second characterization of a feminist ... prefer to see this woman for who she truthfully is, instead of who she is not? This is what has become a "natural" thing for a woman to do, for her to put on her "war-paint" and fight for a man's attention. If a women had to fight for the attention of a man, would that not mean that the man is not interested in the first place? ...
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