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- 4361: The Life Of Mahatma Ghandi
- ... natural or unnatural order in South Africa; he would defend his dignity as an Indian and as a man. (see also Index: racial segregation ) While in Pretoria, Gandhi studied the conditions in which his countrymen lived and tried to educate them on their rights and duties, but he had no intention of staying on in South Africa. Indeed, in June 1894, as his year's contract drew to a close, he ...
- 4362: History Of Kosovo- Related To
- ... and as acts of war. It also must have some significance to the Albanian majority currently living there. Whether or not the land of technically theirs, they also have a history on that land, having lived on it for several hundred years. It seems likely that, in an effort to boost its position internationally, the US will continue to influence NATO and the UN to punish perceived Serb aggression. This will ...
- 4363: Ancient Stories Of The Flood
- ... flood is of Summerian origin, and is now known from the excavations at Kish and Ur to have been based upon an historical catastrophe. In the Summerian version the hero is named Ziusudra, the long lived. He too was warned by a god of the coming flood, and ordered to build an ark, which grounds on a mountain after seven days and seven nights. Like Utnapishtim, Ziusudra offered sacrifices to the ...
- 4364: Hitler
- ... girl. A poor student, he never completed high school. He applied for to the academy of fine arts in Vienna but was reject because of a lack of talent. Staying in Vienna till 1913, he lived first on an orphanage pension, later on small pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions, an admiration for the outstanding individuals, and contempt for the masses. In WWI, , by then ...
- 4365: History Of The Counterculture
- ... rights movement. In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, and in 1965 they passed the Voting Rights act. (Constable, 153-55) The Civil Rights Movement did not just affect American minorities, but everyone who lived in the United States at the time. The momentum of the previous decade's civil rights gains led by Reverend Martin Luther King carried over into the 1960s. But for most blacks, the tangible results ...
- 4366: Henry Thoreau
- ... of odd jobs. His first experiment was with teaching. He, along with his older brother John, opened a private school, but the school was forced to close down after John became ill in 1841. He lived with his friend and fellow scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson, keeping house and doing chores in exchange for rent and board. In 1843, he journeyed to the home of Emerson’s brother William to tutor. Soon ...
- 4367: Henry Ford
- ... man approached Henry offering him great sums of money to build their cars in his spare time. In 1901 Henry and many investors started the Henry Ford Company with $60,000. This project was short lived though because of disagreements with Ford and investors. After a short time he met Alex Malcomson and started the Ford & Malcomson Company but again the company failed because of money troubles. After another short time ...
- 4368: Hemmingway
- Ernest is one of the greatest writers of all time. Like many great authors he was influenced by the world in which he lived. The environment that surrounded him influenced . These included such things as serving in the war and living in post war areas where people went to forget about the war. Another influence on his writings was ...
- 4369: Greeks
- ... of earlier peoples (Craig, Graham, et. al. 57). The Greek gods shared many of the same characteristics of the Mesopotamian deities (Craig, Graham, et. al. 57). The Greek pantheon consisted of the twelve gods who lived on Mount Olympus (Craig, Graham, et. al. 83). These gods were: -Zeus, the father of the gods, -Hera, his wife, -Zeus’s siblings: Poseidon, his brother, god of seas and earthquakes, Hestia, his sister, goddess ...
- 4370: Greek History And Food
- ... Mediterranean and Black seas and, during the Hellenistic period, reaching as far east as India. The mountains, which served as natural barriers and boundaries, dictated the political character of Greece. From early times the Greeks lived in independent communities isolated from one another by the landscape. Later these communities were organized into poleis or city-states. The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders ...
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