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- 161: Mauritania
- ... provisional constitution made in 1980 by the military committee for National Salvation. This constitution was abandoned in 1981. In February 1980 Islamic principles were adopted as the basis for the legal system. Despite the official abolition of slavery in July 1980, it was reported by London based anti slavery society that at least 110,000 people still lived in slavery. Even though Maurita-nia is a poor country, it's anti ...
- 162: Geography of Mauritania
- ... provisional constitution made in 1980 by the military committee for National Salvation. This constitution was abandoned in 1981. In February 1980 Islamic principles were adopted as the basis for the legal system. Despite the official abolition of slavery in July 1980, it was reported by London based anti slavery society that at least 110,000 people still lived in slavery. Even though Maurita-nia is a poor country, it's anti ...
- 163: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... the 1840's to the 1860's that enabled peasants to acquire leased land as personal landholding the social structure began to be differentiated from that in the rest of the Russian Empire. The concurrent abolition of compulsory guild membership for urban craftsmen allowed the development of an Estonian and Latvian urban class. The coming of the railways, which increased the significance of Libau (Liepaja), Riga, and Reval (Tallinn) as ports ...
- 164: Discipline in the Classroom: Past and Present
- ... out of children. This same idea was used in other religions as well, and children were beaten because of mental illness, or disease. One of the most common arguments for corporal punishment is that its abolition would leave teachers powerless to control students, especially those who might be a threat to the teacher. Despite this, it has been proven that most corporal punishment is inflicted against relatively defenceless students who are ...
- 165: Labor Unions
- ... in size and power. By 1904, it had 1.75 million members and was the nation's dominant labor organization. At this time, many workers in Europe were joining revolutionary labor movements which advocated the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a new socialist economic system. Most American workers, however, followed the lead of Gompers, with his highly pragmatic approach to problems of labor. They strove to organize strong unions ...
- 166: Escape From El-Ashaq
- ... real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people…The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness…Thus the criticism of heaven turns into the criticism of earth, the criticism of religion turns into the criticism ...
- 167: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... good enough to become a classic. Since it became a classic, it impacted many more generations of Americans than Mark Twain ever imagined. The fact that we are still reading this today, long after the abolition of slavery, proves this point. At first it seems like a classic American adventure, nothing more. After looking deeper, the subtleties are what take it from just being a great adventure, to a great commentary ...
- 168: The Compromise of Henry Clay
- ... fit the bill either. The problem with the compromise to me as a Northerner is that it doesn’t offer that which I want. As a person of the North, I am interested in the abolition of slavery. I will not be fooled by a so-called compromise that doesn’t include that which I really want. As an abolitionist, the only good part of the bill is that California is ...
- 169: The Constitution in the 1850's: Unity or Discord
- ... They dealt mainly with the question of whether slavery should be allowed or prohibited in the lands acquired in the Mexican War. Two of the five measures represented allowance by the South and North, authorizing abolition of slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. "By 1850 southerners were demanding a new and more stringent fugitive-slave law"(Bailey, Kennedy, 390). The third bill ...
- 170: Nuclear Physicists And The Development Of A Nuclear Bomb
- ... and West and limitation of nuclear armament. Meanwhile he was writing a speech for the anniversary of Israel's independence. An incomplete draft of the speech was found at his bedside when he died. "The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations to national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term mankind feels vague and abstract. People... can scarcely bring themselves ...
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