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- 3261: Mackenzie King - Canadian Prime Minister
- ... stage. He is remembered for his easygoing, passive compromise and conciliation (Gregory, page 267). Yet Mackenzie King led Canada for a total of twenty-two years, through half the Depression and all of the Second World War. Like every other prime minister, he had to possess ambition, endurance and determination to become prime minister and, in spite if appearances, his accomplishments in that role required political acuity, decisiveness and faultless judgment. William ... election was called. Although a recently - uncovered outrage involving the Liberal Minister of Customs, King and his party won the 1926 election. He took advantage of the success of the late 1920s to reduce the war debt and to introduce an old-age pension system. Although the Liberals lost the 1930 election, it was to their benefit in the long run. The worst years of the Depression were related with ...
- 3262: Immigrants Coming Over To America
- Immigrants Coming Over To America They are our grandparents, our relatives, our friends. They are the immigrants. They came from all over the world for many reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming to America was for freedom. The freedom to live where we want, to own property, to take part in ... by our forefathers. One of the nationalities traveling to America were Jews. They were treated somewhat differently. This was probably because many of their countries would not accept them. The first Jews in the new world were Morranos from Spain. They fled their homeland because of the inquisition. They traveled from Spain to South America, and then to New Amsterdam. They, at first were rejected by Peter Stuyvesant, but petitioned the ... any specific sides. Some believed that the freedom that they had gained under the English rule would be lost. Other felt that the taxes were too high and joined the Patriots. Later, in the Civil War, Jews took sides as everyone else. Their location meant everything. Jews in the north sided with the Union, and Jews in the south sided with the Confederacy. Unfortunately, a law was passed by Congress ...
- 3263: Mark Antony
- ... was during this period in Rome where Antony met Fulvia. Fulvia also had a hate for Cicero from her last marriage. They soon were married and Antony was making his way higher in the Roman world. In 49BC, he received the title of Augur (priest and soothsayer). It was during this same year that he vetoed the Senates attempt to take Caesar’s command. Antony left Rome and traveled to Gaul ... went to Antony to call a truce and combine forces. They decided they would let another person join with them, Lepidus. Lepidus was an important man who made his fame with Caesar in the civil war and owned the needed Spain. In 43 BC, Antony joined with Octavian and Lepidus to establish a second triumvirate. They shared power by Antony ruling the eastern providences and Gaul, Octavian took Italy and Spain ... the winter of 41-40 BC. Octavian and Antony’s friendship started to deplete again. Antony’s wife Fulvia and brother Lucius were back in Italy where they started conflict with Octavian, beginning the Perusine War. They were easily defeated and Fulvia fled to Athens. Antony did not know of the incident and when he found out, he went to Athens to confront his wife. Fulvia became ill and died ...
- 3264: Burry My Heart At Wounded Knee
- ... with shame by all descendants of the Europeans who settled this land. The truths contained within this book show the attempt at the genocide of the Indian nations, which rival that of the Holocaust during World War Two. The parcels are too strong to ignore. Beginning with the long walk of the Navaho where children were stolen and sold into slavery and many died during the journey. When they arrived at the ... jobs and professions even El Parker, a very well educated Native American, who had to obtain aid of his friend U.S. Grant before he could join the union army and fight in the Civil War. Again the striking similarity to the plight of the European Jews during World War Two, when they were marked with a star and their rights were revoked. These comparisons are quite disturbing and the ...
- 3265: Rwanda Report
- ... on the north it is by Ughanda, on the east by Tanzanian the south by Burundi and finally on the west it is next to Zaire. Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in the world and it is one of the most densely populated country in the world. One of the reasons for Rwanda being in such a bad state of poverty is that there was a Civil war between the Hutu and the Tutsi which fought for stupid reasons. Well at least I think that they are stupid reasons but to them it was probably some serious stuff that they don't ...
- 3266: 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, " ...
- 3267: Booker T. Washington
- ... but knowledge of agricultural and industrial trades. He felt that the Negro would rise to be an equal in American society through hard work. Washington founded a school on these principles, and it became the world's leader in agricultural and industrial education for the Negro. As the world watched him put his heart and soul into his school, Tuskegee Institute, he gained great respect from both the white and black communities. Many of the country's white leaders agreed with his principals, and ... field hands and taking corn to the local mill for grinding. This hard work at an early age instilled in him the values he would teach for the rest of his life. When the Civil War ended in April of 1863, Washington and his mom were set free. Unlike most of the other slaves, Washington had somewhere to go. His step-father had escaped earlier, and had gotten a job ...
- 3268: Cultural Synopsis: The Philipp
- ... population. Along with Pilipino, a language derived from Tagalog, English is one of the two official languages. The Philippines achieved full political independence in 1946, following four years of occupation by Japanese armed forces during World War II. The period since independence has been marked by repeated crises. The Philippines consists of 7,000 islands of only which 2,000 are inhabited. The two largest islands are Luzon and Mindanao and seventy ... a unique mixed culture of foreign influences. Filipinos love to gamble. They exchange money frequently on basketball games and other sports. Improvisation is seen by the way the Filipinos converted the left over jeeps from World War 2 into taxis and other public transportation. Filipinos are strongly oriented to the outside world. Nevertheless, national pride is not to be underestimated.
- 3269: History of the Marshall Islands
- ... their hunt for riches. One of the first people we know of to definitely land on the Marshall Islands during this time is Ferdinand Magellan. He landed in Micronesia on his journey to circumnavigate the world. Forty years later in the 1560's after Magellan's voyage Spain claimed most all of the islands in Micronesia. Spain wasn't really concerned about Micronesia because they were busy building empires in South ... Germany's claims, but the dispute was settled by Pope Leo XIII in Rome. The Pope gave all right to trade with these islands to Germany. Then shortly after that in 1898 the Spanish- American war caused Spain to give the rest of Micronesia to Germany. This all changed though during W.W.I. In 1914 Japan which was allied with the U.S. and its European Allies took control of ... began to fortify the islands. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations and secretly began to build airfields and naval bases on the islands. Japan closed the Marshalls and Micronesia from the rest of the world. To show just how secret Japan was in 1937 Amelia Earhart was on her famous trip around the world in the air. She disappeared somewhere in the Japan held Micronesia and has never been ...
- 3270: A Literary Analysis Of Toni Mo
- ... dominate agricultural production in the states from Maryland south. Eight of the first 12 presidents of the United States were slave owners. Debate over slavery increasingly dominated American politics, leading eventually to the American Civil War (1861-1865), which finally brought slavery to an end. After emancipation, overcoming slavery's legacy remained a crucial issue in American history, from Reconstruction following the war to the civil rights movement almost a hundred years later. 22) A bill has recently been proposed, by a white Ohio congressman to apologize for slavery. That congressman is Representative Tony Hall. Hall resolves "That ... me" ("Should the Government" 9). There should be some type of reparation payments. If not monetary at least the forty acres and a mule which was promised to the slaves for participating in the Civil War. "A government apology for slavery is a valid collective act, but it is valid only if it is accompanied by substance that repairs the damage that is the basis for the apology" ("Should the ...
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