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- 3201: The Zulues in South Africa
- ... South-Africa, they found a people on the east coast of Natal who called themselves" A ma zulu". These people were tall and very atleticly build, they could take great effort in both hunting and war and their knowledge to the nature was incredable. The Zulu tribe was once one of South-Africas biggest and most powerful tribes and they managed to stand up against the British until they lost the Zulu war in 1897. The tribes defece system was wery simmular to the system we have in Norway today. The troops were devided into regiments according to their age. And they got military training in diffrent parts ... good growth, more cattle and healthy children.. The Zulues turns to the " First Beeing" only when a catastrophe or something bad is near. Normaly " The first being" and the " Princess of heaven" live above the world, and they don`t interfear in the Zulues daily life. The ancestors, the spirits of the dead, who live "under" are allways standing by their people. Now that everything goes the right way, the ...
- 3202: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... School in Troy where she obtained her education to the fullest extent possible for girls in those days. She was a suffragist and Quaker abolitionist. In 1840 she was chosen as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, but was banned because women were not aloud to vote. The year 1848 was a tremendous year for Elizabeth Cady Stanton, for this was the year that the first Women ... not allowed to participate in he affairs of the church. Women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect, and were made totally dependent on men. This was just seventy years after the revolutionary War, it is truly odd that this was the idealistic democracy. But the Declaration of Sentiments spelled out the status quo for European- American women in 1848 in America, while it was even worse for enslaved ... hoped to expand the movement and that is exactly what happened. The women of Seneca Falls, New York traveled around and embraced every part of the country from 1850 until the start of the civil war. Some conventions drew such large crowds that people were actually turned away due to lack of adequate meeting space. The Women's Rights Movement of the late 19th century went on to address the ...
- 3203: Albert Einstein 5
- ... theories he developed 85 years ago are still the most accurate that we have. Einstein comes from humble beginnings, born to a not-so-well-to-do family in Ulm, Germany. He came into this world on March 14, 1879, born to Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Early in life, he showed a great interest in mathematics and the sciences. When he was about eight years old, his father gave him a ... relativity and the fourth dimension (time). In his last paper of 1905 he stated the ever-famous formula, E=mc2, saying that mass and energy are equivalent. These papers made him known throughout the scientific world. He was offered honorary doctorate degrees from many colleges, some of which would not even let him into their college when Einstein had applied. He taught at many different schools. He did not like it ... Royal Society s Copley Medal, the Royal Astronomical Society s Gold Medal, the first German Max Planck Medal, and the Nobel Prize for physics (Swisher 62). Around this time, Hitler and Germany were becoming a world power. In 1932, Einstein and Elsa fled Germany never to return again. In 1940, eight years after fleeing Germany, Elsa and Einstein became citizens of the United States of America. Einstein became a friend ...
- 3204: Mexico's Drug Trade
- ... attempted to regulate mind-altering substances, prohibit them, or establish some sort of moral control over their use, possession, and distribution. Man has always used them for diverse purposes including magic, religion, aphrodisiacs, medicine, and war (Del Olmo 1). These mind-altering substances carried no monetary value until nation states began creating laws and penalties against the consumption and possession of drugs. With these prohibitive laws firmly in place, drugs lost ... Across U.S. Border.” Christian Science Monitor 89, 205. 17 Sept 97: 3. Boaz, David, ed. The Crisis in Drug Prohibition. Washington: Cato Institute, 1990. Carpenter, Ted Galen. “Declaring An Armistice In the International Drug War.” CATO Institute Foreign Policy Briefing 26. 26 July 93. [http://www.cato.org/pubs/fbriefs/fpb-026.html] “Coca Clashes.” The Economist 340, 7979. 17 Aug 96: 35. Constantine, Thomas A. “International Drug Trafficking Organizations ... Feb 98: 38-40. Hakim, Peter. “U.S. Drug Certification Process Is In Serious Need of Reform.” Christian Science Monitor 89, 84. 27 March 97: 15-16. McGraw, Dan. “The American Connection.” U.S. News & World Report 122, 7. 24 Feb 97: 40-43. McGraw, Dan. “The Iowan Connection: Powerful Mexican Drug Cartels Have Hit RuralAmerica.” U.S. News & World Report 124, 8. 2 March 98: 33-36. “Rethinking the ...
- 3205: Illegal Drugs
- ... the price of drug abuse: more cops and prisons more hospitols and treatment centers and many lives lost. But drug users hurt themselves more than anybody because they are supporting violent crimes in the drug world. Just by using drugs they become part of that drug world. They are already commiting acrime. But the relationship between drug use and crime often means that drug users go on to commit crimes like robbery,burglary,assult, and murder. Drug addiction means that the brain ... on drugs at the time of the crime. *More than 40% of youth in prison used drugs befor the age of 12. Armed patrols Search and destroy missions and helicopter surveillance. Sounds like americans at war, well this goes on every day on our own home soil and the battle fields are our national parks and forests and the enemy is marijuana. Marijuana is the most common used illegal drug ...
- 3206: Social Inequality In 1820s
- ... why some of the planters held to slavery was love and duty to the black man, the earnest, devoted will to not only get him into heaven but to also make him happy in this world. He was a child whom somebody had to look after." - W.J. Cash, The Mind of the South, pg. 85. Blacks were considered children. Social Equality cannot be achieved if inferiority is placed upon a ... of slavery brought the blacks to the lowest class possible, the slave class, they had no respect, no equality, no rights. It took the will of abolitionists, white and black, along with the power of war to end slavery, and another 100 years for blacks to gain their rights. "Are the Great Principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in teh Declaration of Independence, extended to us?... What to ... Address, 1852, defines the true nature of the blacks. They were not recognized, they were treated socially unjust, and most of all, America did nothing about it from its establishment in 1776 to the Civil War. Blacks cried for justice, cried for equality, and cried for humanity, and were not heard for a 100 years. The hardships and inequalities the blacks faced cannot amount to the opression and the persection ...
- 3207: Capital Punishment
- ... the death penalty is a matter of state law. Although it was never used as much as England in the 18th century, between 150 and 200 persons were executed each year in the decade before World War II. After the war, the number of executions declined to 50 per year. Doubts about whether the death penalty was constitutional during the 1960s led to a series of Supreme Court decisions. In 1976 it was decided that ...
- 3208: Illegal Drugs
- ... the price of drug abuse: more cops and prisons more hospitols and treatment centers and many lives lost. But drug users hurt themselves more than anybody because they are supporting violent crimes in the drug world. Just by using drugs they become part of that drug world. They are already commiting acrime. But the relationship between drug use and crime often means that drug users go on to commit crimes like robbery,burglary,assult, and murder. Drug addiction means that the brain ... on drugs at the time of the crime. *More than 40% of youth in prison used drugs befor the age of 12. Armed patrols Search and destroy missions and helicopter surveillance. Sounds like americans at war, well this goes on every day on our own home soil and the battle fields are our national parks and forests and the enemy is marijuana. Marijuana is the most common used illegal drug ...
- 3209: Billy Sunday
- ... product of his times and an example of the culture and morals of middle America. On the other hand, Sunday took many stands against popular beliefs, and he persuaded multitudes to join him in a war against many of the modernistic ideas of the time that he saw as evil. As he once summarized his opinion so well, What this world needs is a tidal wave of reform (Sunday Satan 24). It is true that Sunday was a showman who craved an audience and loved applause. But he also touched the lives of countless men and ... Mrs. Sunday and her parents were so impoverished that they could not feed and clothe all the children. Thanks to a state senator, they re assigned to one of Iowa s three well-run Civil War Soldiers Homes located in Glenwood, about a hundred and fifty miles from the Sunday homestead. Billy remembered the departure this way: When we climbed into the wagon to go to town I called out, ...
- 3210: Contradictions To The Death Of
- Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany during World War II, said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound crazy, we can see many example of this in our world's history. One example would have to be the John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination. For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe that a single gunman shot and ...
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