Martin Luther King Jr. ... One of the most recognized people in the world is said to be Pope John Paul II. ... Not content with tending merely to church affairs John Paul has made the world's business his business, especially in regard to human rights. ... Martin Luther King Jr., the inspiration and persistence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the never-ending faithfulness of Pope John Paul II are all worthy examples of what it is to be a leader. ...

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Many of these stick in my mind, such as the Rationalist's (John Locke, Voltaire, Montesqiue, and Rousseau) in France, or the Revolutionary War led by the Continental Army and George Washington, or General Napolean Bonaparte and his rise to power and dramatic downfall in Russia, or the two great World Wars, or Hitler and his racial hierarchy which was centered around the Aryan race, Anti-Semitism, and the extermination of the Jewish race and culture. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of our countries most elite men before a racist white male gunned him down. Throughout his time Mart...

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(Johnson speech at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965) Society felt it needed, and supported in to about 1968, when number of casualties increase and many people asked why America need to fight this war thousand miles from home. ... King Mentions in his "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam", arguing how American can send thousands young men eight thousands miles from home to guarantee civil rights, when such rights does not exist at home. ... (King 856) David McCullough in "Introductory Essay to Vietnam A Television History." wrote: The Vietnam War was the longest and...

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In October 1922 Mussolini threatened to march on Rome if he was not appointed prime minister. the king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, who supported Mussolini, refused to back the existing government and invited him to become prime minister. Once he was prime minister, Mussolini persuaded the king to allow him to rule as a dictator for one year and then passed the Acerbo Law. ... The British National Party (BNP) Founded in 1992 by the former National Front leader, John Tyndall, the BNP is currently the largest neo-nazi grouping, with some 600 members. ...

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First of all, the conflict was partially economic because the colonies were full of natural resources and King George was interested in the money that he could get from them. The King and Parliament, in an effort to gain more money from the colonies, oppressed the colonists with heavy taxes. Because King George III wanted more income from the colonies, he was determined to get it and keep the colonists under control as well. ... The king considered himself so far above the colonists that he was furious that they would disobey his authority. ... Also, the Boston Tea Party caused the king to tak...

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Roosevelt and accumulated with the very short term of John F. ... Congress believes that a king shouldn't rule over the United States. ... Alexander Hamilton said in the Federalist Papers, that the president commander in chief was like the Great King of Britain, but in substance much inferior. ... George Washington made the white house accountable to the Congress to a degree that the British king had not been answerable to the Parliament. ...

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Joe Barrow Louis was born, on May 13, 1914, in Lafayette, Alabama. His parents were Munroe and Lillie Barrow Louis. Who were poor tenant farmers. Joe was the seventh of eight children. Joe Louis had a disadvantage of being black, at a time when it was difficult for African Americans to get opportun...

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Cold War Some say that it is useless to speak of world peace or world law or world disarmament - and that it will be useless until the leaders of the Soviet Union adopt a more enlightened attitude. I hope they do. I believe we can help them to do it. But I also believe that we must ...

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Most of these checks and balances were put into place after previous misuse of surveillance powers by these agencies, including the revelation in 1974 that the FBI and foreign intelligence agencies had spied on over 10,000 U.S. citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr. ... Robert Horvitz and John E. ...

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The U.S. needs to pay close attention to this responsibility if it hopes to keep its place on the throne as king of the nations. ... The next set of foreign aid came when John F. ... In the late 1950's the United States, under John F. ...

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Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. The belief that freedom and the American way of life and capitalism would cease to exist and die under a communist takeover. There were specific and deliberate decisions that the U.S. made d...

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The family relocated in Dublin, Ireland, where Winston's father Randolph worked under Winston's grandfather, John Spencer-Churchill. ... On May 10th of 1940, Churchill was named by King George the VI to be the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense for Great Britain. ...

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Strongly influenced by his foreign policy advisor, John Foster Dulles, this philosophy meant that the United States would refuse to back down in a crisis even when brought to the brink of war#, a policy that was similarly used regardless of political party. ... They did so by following Martin Luther King's philosophy of passive, non-violent, civil disobedience. ...

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On June 25 1950 North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the f...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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