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- 3271: Education In Public Schools
- ... real reason why the children are there. Not only that, but some of the textbooks hold inaccurate information and do not contain the whole story. Some textbooks stated that the atomic bomb ended the Korean War (instead of World War II) and that only 53,000, rather than 126,000 Americans, were killed in World War I. One book summarizes Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's life in approximately six lines each. Not ...
- 3272: Alexander's Empire
- ... power was his, the young monarch swiftly brought order to his domain by armed force when necessary, by diplomatic guile whenever he could, Philip set out to make Macedon the greatest power in the Greek world. Alexander was born in 356 to the first wife of Philip. As a teenager Alexander was educated by Athenian philosopher Aristotle. By the year 337 all of the Greek city-states had been conquered or ... spite that the fact was that his army was smaller than that of the Persians, Alexanders superior tactics won the field, and Darus was forced to flee again. By this victory he effectively won the war, although much more fighting was needed before the Persian empire disappeared. It took three years to subdue all of eastern Iran. After the Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander entered the ancient city of Babylon as a ... Porus in what was to be his last great battle. He pushed on to the east, but on the banks of the Hyphasis (Beas) river-his army rebelled. They were tired after long years of war and were anxious to see their families back in Greece. Alexander could not persuade them otherwise and after sulking in his tent for two days agreed to lead them back home. Alexander shared the ...
- 3273: Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s
- ... what they are today, making the alterations from slavery and racist or sexist views spread out over time, so every little victory became much more sweeter. Politically, the United States was transformed by the Civil War into a nation of people with a view of themselves as having a special destiny. Lincoln in his Gettysburg address began to develop the “American dream”, which included justice, and freedom. This became a dream of people to expand the country, and create wealth and opportunity. America changed from an isolationist country wary of “foreign entanglements” to a world power willing to take on and defeat Spain in the Spanish-American war. From a nation of small towns and cities and small farms, America became an industrial colossus, with ship-building, rails, steel mills and factories, with a rate of growth that began to attract laborers ...
- 3274: Compare And Contrast ‘State’ And ‘Nation’
- ... Members of a nation have a unity that is not merely legal, they form a nation due to collective experiences which are often rooted in history. Anthony Smith states that “to say that the modern world is a world of nations is to describe both a reality and an aspiration.” A common language is essential for all members to communicate thus this creates a major problem for nations as many nations include a huge ... that have defined spatial and territorial boundaries, the Kurds is an example of a group who do not conform to these rules and thus is not a member. The state emerged after the thirty years war during the treaty of Westphillia in 1648. The idea behind it was to play a key role in international relations. The key ideas involve a permanent population under a government that promotes sovereignty. The ...
- 3275: Women In Battle
- ... been women like Deborah Sampson, who in 1782 fought for the continental army disguised as a man. Women have aided the army from being nurses to pilots. Very recently women who serveg in the Gulf War were very close to the front lines that they shared the same responsibilities as the combat soldiers. Major Rhonda Cornum, an Army flight surgeon, was taken as a prisoner of war and survived but she experienced major physical wounds and sexual abuse. We know that women have served are country honorably, but should women be in the front lines of battle? Should women be in the ... body designed for combat. “Studies have shown that women in Army basc training are between two and five times more likely to develop stress fracture that could delay their young military careers”, states the Omaha World-Herald. There also is the issue of medical and biological differences between men and women. Colonel Rich, says in the Omaha World-Herald that “Military women have unique healthcare and equiptment needs. The issue ...
- 3276: Fidal Castro
- In 1959, a rebel, Fidel Castro, overthrew the reign of Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of government in the world since then. Few if any have had the effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one. In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful bloodless coup in Cuba . Batista never really had any ... dissension. After waiting to see if Batista would be seriously opposed, Washington recognized his government. Batista had already broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As ... his sycophants bitterly and sweepingly attacked the relations of the United States government with Batista and his regime". He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957 stopping the U.S. shipment of arms to ...
- 3277: Welfare
- ... resembled the English system. Social governments were responsible for helping the poor. But the colonies and later the states, sometimes helped the local government provide aid. The first federal welfare program, began after the Revolutionary War, they provided pensions to war veterans. During the Civil War these pensions were expanded to cover soldiers' widows and orphans. In the early 1900's, primary responsibility for providing welfare benefits shifted from local to state governments. During these years, states enacted programs to ...
- 3278: Ceasar
- ... Caesar" Bradford, Ernie (1990), I read over 270 pages of information from 4 different books. Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course of the history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly. With his strength and courage he created a strong empire . What happened during his early political career? How did he become such a strong dictator of the Roman Empire? What events led ... as dictator of Rome? What events led up to the assassination of Caesar? What happened after he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. (3 102-190) Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young, Caesar lived through one of the most ... then returned to Rome to engage in a normal political career, starting with the quaetorship which he served in 69-68 BC in the province of Further Spain. (3 204-260) In the Roman political world of the sixties the dominance of the optimates was challenged by Pompey and Crassus. The optimates, led by Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus , were chiefly men whose careers had been made by ...
- 3279: Imperialism
- ... charm was legendary. He was also politically lucky. Though to Nazis his work was the epitome of "degenerate art," his fame protected him during the German occupation of Paris, where he lived; and after the war, when artists and writers were thought disgraced by the slightest affiliation with Nazism or fascism, Picasso gave enthusiastic endorsement to Joseph Stalin, a mass murderer on a scale far beyond Hitler's, and scarcely received a word of criticism for it, even in cold war America. No painter, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime. And it is quite possible that none ever will be again, now that the mandate to set forth social ... at the intersection of these two worlds. If that had not been so, his restless changes of style, his constant pushing would not have created such controversy--and thus such celebrity. In today's art world, a place without living culture heroes, you can't even imagine such a protean monster arising. His output was vast. Still, Picasso's art filled the world, and he left permanent marks on every ...
- 3280: Racism
- ... a trouble maker or a juvenile delinquent. Without ever talking or meeting me. Without meeting a person you can not judge any person. Race Separation: South Africa is unique from other multiracial countries around the world. Instead of seeking equal rights for all their citizens they pursue a policy which brings about the separation of the racial groups. The government separates the white and black races, giving them each their own ... their own territory.* If my government split up the races and told me that I could not believe in something or practice my religion I would be very irritated and would want to start a war or try to leave the country or something. Because it is wrong to separate cultures, we should try to work out our differences and live together in peace. Signs of anti-Semitism growing amongst blacks ... prove that the slave trade was dominated by Jews. Another Islam, Louis Farrakhan, told an audience in Harlem that Jews "are the most organized, rich and powerful people, not only in America, but in the world" and told them they were "plotting against us even as we speak". It makes me made that this Nation of Islam, who is no better than any other racist organization and I wonder how ...
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