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- 5161: The Rule of Halie Selassie
- ... to continue to rule the land(Gorham 1966.). Haile Selassie was born as Tafari Makonnen on July 23, 1892. His mother died when he was two years of age. Shortly after his country was in war with the Italians. It was at this war that Tafari's father, Ras Makonnen fought next to Emperor Menelik, the emperor of Ethiopia at that time. The Emperor swore their relationship hoping that he would pass the throne to Ras Makonnen when Menelik ...
- 5162: How To Lead A Revolution
- ... you are just a hand full of the important traits. The first trait a group should look for in a revolutionary leader would have to be a strong military background, if you are going to war u must have a general of some capacity leading your forces into battle. The second most important trait that a strong leader must have is a good education, back then a good education was knowledge ... the position of leader. He learned about Napoleons struggles in Europe and he decided then was the time to act. In 1798 Toussaint had achieved his goals and he started on the rebuilding of a war-torn nation. He won support of French Planters by offering them generous terms, he tried to heal rifts between classes by opening a government to whites and mulattoes and also Africans, he set out to ...
- 5163: The Book Of Sand By Jorge Luis
- ... unlimited English books."(Here, he was referring to his father's library) He was also greatly influenced by published poets and writers who were friends of the family and often visited. In 1914, before World War I, Borges' family went to Europe where they traveled until the war was over. During these years of traveling, Borges, in his teenage years, depended a lot on the company of his readings (mainly German philosophy and poetry). When his family returned to Buenos Aires, they were ...
- 5164: The Great Gatsby
- ... before. Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once. Also, there is one more lady said that Gatsby was a German spy: It is more that he was a German spy during the war. Nike heard it, but when Nike had a chance to have a lunch with Gatsby, he told Nike, he was an Oxford man and show him that fought in World War One. Then Nike knew Gatsby was not a German Spy nor a murderer. Furthermore, at the end of the novel, when Daisy drove Gatsby's car and killed Mrs.Wilson in a car accident, Nike ...
- 5165: The Journey Of Odysseus And Te
- ... way the story is set up, stemming from the purpose of each character’s journey, their personal challenges, and the difficulties that surround them. The story commences when Odysseus, a valiant hero of the Trojan war, journeys back home. Together with his courageous comrades, and a several vessels, he set sail for his homeland Ithaca. Fated to wander for a full ten years, Odysseus’s ships were immediately blown to Thrace ... may also presume that Homer had not intended for the Telemachos to be as great a hero as his father. This may be due to the fact that, for example, he never had a Trojan War to fight, his setting is in a time of peace unlike his father’s, and more notably- although matured, Telemachus never really learned true leadership or chivalry as did his father. Homer has presented the ...
- 5166: Malcolm X
- Malcolm X Malcolm X, a civil rights leader in the 1960's believed that blacks and whites should be segregated. He also believed that white man was evil and were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's ... live peacefully. My opinions toward Malcolm X's beliefs are that I disagree with most of what he said. I believe that what he taught was teaching hatred. I also believe that he set the civil rights movement back because he "un-did" everything Mr. King stood for and did. I also disagree with his idea of usage of violence because I don't believe it solves or is the answer ...
- 5167: Richard Nixon
- ... failing businesses that took the family different places. After high school, Nixon attended Duke University. He tried twice to become class president. Finally he succeeded. Soon after his college schooling, Nixon enrolled in the Navy. War broke out and he was sent to fight. He was stationed at Green Island however, he never saw any combat action. He was a ration-distributor. When discharged, he had acquired the rank of Lieutenant ... Texas and Illinois. Johnson soon became president after Kennedy's assassination. Now, Nixon would try again. Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey with some political strategy. He told the citizens of the US he would stop the war in Vietnam and make it better. In the long run he only made it worse. He would be, soon, our first president to resign. It was when Nixon pulled off a huge upset for his ...
- 5168: Odyssey, Learning About Himsel
- ... in the fact that he came back at all was pride swallowing. He lost all of his men. That’s horrible. He was supposed to be one of the high-ranking officers of the Trojan War and he comes back after 20 years without his 600 plus men. I’m not even sure if that is pride. That sounds like a mixture of guts and pride to me. Anyways, he also ... don’t know what will. He knew that he really messed up when he tried to embrace his mother and went right through her. If he were more responsible and just went home after the war, he would have been able to hug his mother again. He also ran into one of his crew members that had died from being to drunk and falling off the roof on Circe’s Island ...
- 5169: Nineteen Eighty Four - Fiction
- ... look up to and someone to love, lets the Party tell the people anything they want and the people will believe it, such as propaganda. An example is when the party say ‘Oceania is at war with Eurasia, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia’. The people automatically believe this. Newspeak is the official language of Oceania. It is supposed to take over common English in the year 2050. Newspeak is another important aspect in the creation of ...
- 5170: Neorealism In The Bicycle Thie
- ... is The Bicycle Thief (1948), written by Cesare Zavattini and directed by Vittorio De Sica. The narrative of this film unfolds in post-W.W.II times. The film is a portrait of the post-war Italian disadvantaged class (the majority) in their search for self-respect. It is a time of struggle for the Italian people, amplified by a shortage of employment and lack of social services. In the first ... with Antonio's perseverance and determination to find the stolen bike. These events stimulate the viewer's mind to think of solutions related to Antonio's situation, perhaps to try to solve problems of post-war Italy such as crime, famine, health issues, living condition, etc.; ills that have affected society then and now around the globe. Antonio's frustration of missing the thief for a second time fuels the hopelessness ...
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