Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi‚ also known as Mahatma‚ “The great-souled one”‚ was an Indian nationalist leader and architect of one of the most famous forms of civil disobedience‚ Satyagraha or more commonly known as non-violent passive resistance. Satyagraha had a large impact on the world and still remains as one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today. Gandhi spent some time as an Indian immigrant in South Africa and eventually moved back to India in the early
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Pilgrim Fathers The pilgrim fathers where different to other colonists because when they arrived in America they did not explore the land. The pilgrim fathers stayed at the beach‚ set up camp and survived badly. The pilgrim fathers where extremely religious. They would not sing any song or do any dance because it distracted their memory when they talked to god. The pilgrim fathers where ordinary people with ordinary jobs such as a black smith or farmers. When the pilgrim fathers travelled to America
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The Reformation in England began rather political‚ opposed to religiously later on‚ because of a dispute between the king and the pope (Nelson). The source of this dispute was that the king was expected to produce a male heir to the throne. England did not have the Salic law‚ which in France this law forbade female heirs to the throne‚ though England had just surfaced from a prolonged civil war‚ the Wars of the Roses‚ so a new male bloodline was needed to maintain the throne and prevent resumption
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seventeen years old‚ he was sent in aid by the French military to the U.S. on the side of the colonists. Even though he did not directly participate in the French Revolution directly‚ it gave him a better outside perspective‚ which soon became his motivation of industrialism ("Henri De Saint-Simon | French Social Reformer." Encyclopedia Britannica Online). Even though Henri did create the idea of industrialism‚ his major work was Noveau Christianisme (1825). In this work he declared that the world
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Northern armies as a ruthless warrior and an exceptional strategist. In 1862‚ Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation‚ which granted freedom to slaves who were in the South meaning in the areas that were rebelling against his government and did not recognize his authority. This was the turning point where the war wasn’t only to create one Union but also to end slavery all around the nation. In 1863‚ the Northern soldiers were victorious at Gettysburg hence Lincoln addressed his famous Gettysburg
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moons of Jupiter. His discoveries provided the evidence to support the theory that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun. Supported by the Catholic Church‚ teaching opposite of this system was declared heresy in 1615.Galileo‚ however‚ did not agree. His research‚ including his observations of the phases of Venus and the fact that Jupiter boasted moons that didn’t orbit Earth‚ supported the Copernican system‚ which (correctly) stated that the Earth and other planets circle the sun.
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What is nationalism‚ and why did it start? Now‚ a definition will tell you that nationalism is the belief that your country is superior‚ without question or doubt. Most historians would suggest that nationalism developed in England and France over the course of their state-building. Yet‚ it’s unknown where it exactly started. Now‚ nationalism often suffers from confusion both over the meaning of the term and over its role in the modern world. In many cases‚ nationalism can inspire people to break
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The Enlightenment was a period before Napoleon’s empire where because of the unrest in the general public many thinkers challenged authority‚ superstitions‚ and other powerful entities through different ideologies‚ while also emphasizing and empowering reason‚ along with science and individual rights. These ideals sparked a new age of independent thinking‚ along with a new more pessimistic perception of the system of government called the old regime‚ where people were separated into 3 groups where
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The officers did not have a good idea who the murderers were but they believed that the murders were gang related. A name that kept coming up was Al Capone. They questioned him but he had an air-tight alibi. He was in Miami at the time trying to escape Chicago’s brutal
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I believe Socrates would agree with what President Clinton stated in his speech‚ if these people where so disgusted and disturbed by the government why did they not leave? This was an idea that Socrates expressed in the Crito. They had the freedom to live anywhere else‚ and yet they still decided to live in a country in which they believed was being suppressed by the government. Not only that‚ but they wrongly splattered the word patriot to justify their actions‚ which according to Socrates completely
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