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- 191: Nelson Mandela
- ... outside world,that the president, Frederik W. de Klerk, decided to release Mandela. He also promised a gradual wind-up of the apartheid system. Nelson's important place in the liberation struggle has influenced the abolition of apartheid a great deal. He made all the difference because he rose international interests because of his demonstrations, speeches and campaigns. He didnt give up the fight while he was in prison, and he ...
- 192: Milton Friedman
- ... private schools and thought that the government should subsidise fees for any school chosen by the parents, rather than providing government owned schools. He strongly promotes a flat rate for personal income tax and the abolition of company taxation. He promises that this would create a society in which everyone is given an equal opportunity in the business world. I disagree with him almost completely. What this really does is keeps ...
- 193: Helen Keller
- ... neutrality in World War I (Notable 391). She was against war and supported the Industrial Workers of the World once again. Helen also began to support many other movements during this time such as the abolition of capital punishment and child labor, the birth control movement, and also the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her involvement with this particular group seemed to be the most controversial and it ...
- 194: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church. In 1826 Elizabeth then anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. Two years after that her mother passed away. The slow abolition of slavery in England and mismanagement of the plantations depleted the Barrett's income. In 1832 Elizabeth's father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved his family to a coastal town ...
- 195: William Penn And The Quakers
- ... English, Welsh, and Scotch-Irish colonists. The census of 1790 showed that the number of African-Americans had increased to about 10,000, of whom about 6,300 had received their freedom. The Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 was the first emancipation statute in the United States. Others Many Quakers were Irish and Welsh, and they settled in the area immediately outside of Philadelphia. French Huguenot and Jewish settlers, together ...
- 196: Peter The Great 2
- ... own military justice. Many of the administrative changes were ineffective and temporary. The changes influenced the nature of the tsardom and the society. One of the most radical reforms of Peter the Great was the abolition of the Patriarchate and the establishment of the Holy Synod. Peter the Great had a typical attitude towards religion as an absolutist ruler of the eighteenth century. He resented the Church's ignorance, conservatism, and ...
- 197: Napoleon And Caesar
- ... revision and collection of French law into codes. The new law codes, seven in number, incorporated some of the freedoms gained by the people of France during the French revolution, including religious toleration and the abolition of serfdom. The most famous of the codes, the Code Napoleon or Code Civil, still forms the basis of French civil law (Marrin 90). Napoleon should have learned from Caesar's one mistake of having ...
- 198: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... Gandhi coined the term Satyagraha, a Sanskrit word meaning truth and firmness. In 1914, the government of the Union of South Africa made important concessions to Gandhi s demands including recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of poll taxes for them. With his work in South Africa complete, he left for Britain in 1914. When Gandhi arrived in India in 1915, he was welcomed as a hero. Gandhi s writings and ...
- 199: Milton Friedman
- ... private schools and thought that the government should subsidise fees for any school chosen by the parents, rather than providing government owned schools. He strongly promotes a flat rate for personal income tax and the abolition of company taxation. He promises that this would create a society in which everyone is given an equal opportunity in the business world. I disagree with him almost completely. What this really does is keeps ...
- 200: Karl Marx 6
- ... social and economic reforms. Many laws were designed to help the men, women, and children whose labor supported the new industrial society. (World History, p 611) many of the new laws included free trade, the abolition of slavery, and a new criminal justice system. However, the major reforms were ones that included better working conditions, health conditions, and education. For example, in 1842, mine owners were forbidden to employ women or ...
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