The Great Debaters offers a fictionalized and limited account of the exploits of the award-winning Wiley College debate team headed by Melvin B. Tolson‚ an African-American English professor‚ during the Depression years. Beyond his academic duties‚ Tolson was an accomplished poet‚ journalist and social activist. Before this film was produced‚ very little was generally known about Wiley‚ a small college with only 400 students‚ or its debating team. The team had a remarkable record‚ going 10 straight
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the war on terror? Just to comment briefly on the question‚ America’s war on terror is a highly simplistic characterisation of something so complex. Saying war can be easily waged against terror makes it seem as if it can be easily won. America’s war on terror is like waging a war on littering or waging a war against racism (which still goes on in the US and most parts of the world) . It cannot be fully won but it can be controlled to an extent. If the US aims to win this war on terror the US has
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Pakistan’s War On Terror: Up To And Beyond 2014 While Pakistan continues to be a frontline state in the global war on terror‚ it is simultaneously fighting domestic terrorism in a war that will seemingly continue well beyond 2014. In recent months‚ terror attacks targeting the Shia Hazara minority in Baluchistan indicate a transformation of the terror problem in Pakistan. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi present two different sides of Pakistan’s terrorism problem‚ however
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and Britain between 1989-1939 pressured Chamberlain into abandoning his policies for appeasement. Events in Europe pressured Chamberlain to abandon appeasement. On September 28th 1938‚ Chamberlain‚ Mussolini‚ Daladier and Hitler came together to sign the Munich Agreement which handed Sudetenland over into German hands. The Munich Agreement was the turning point for British opinions about Hitler and Chamberlain. On August 21st 1939‚ Hitler tried to make a deal with Great Britain. He said that if
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Why the Axis powers were so successful from 1939-42 The primary reason for the Axis powers’ success during this period of time was the fact that they were militarily superior to most other countries in Europe. By 1939‚ they had the second largest air force in the world with 8295 aircrafts. Only Russia‚ (10382 aircrafts)‚ had a larger air force. The German’s and the Russians were allies at this time and so Germany didn’t view Russia as a threat. There was a similar scenario with troops. Hitler
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and The War on Terror are also similar in some ways as well. The US had a common goal in both wars‚ stop the spread of communism and stop the spread of terrorism. In the cold war there was a line dividing Europe that separated the communist countries was referred to as the Iron Curtain. In the War on Terror most Americans can identify the nations and countries that sponsor terrorism. Speaking of the cold war brought silence and tension to the room and speaking of the War on Terror brings about
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How Nazism Changed German Society Between 1933 & 1939 When Hitler became the Führer of Germany in 1934‚ he wanted to achieve a strong Germany‚ and a racial Germany in which all the German-speaking people would worship him. During the period between 1933 and 1939‚ the Nazis greatly influenced German society and managed to change them to their own liking. There was little effective opposition to the Nazis. Most people would try and explain this by saying that they brought prosperity and political
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Alexander‚ by in many means deserves his title of “The Great”. He’s possibly one of the most significant rulers of the ancient world‚ had great leadership skills and by far the most well rounded of the ancient leaders. Alexander was born the son of Phillip II of Macedonia‚ at that time the ruling king of Greece and it’s city-states along with Macedonia. Soon after Phillip II was assassinated‚ Alexander took reign around the age of 20. He started what was to become one of the most spacious‚ defiant
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downturns would be the current recession and The Great Depression though out 1929 to 1939. The cause of these two economic events cannot be blamed on one single person or a group‚ but on the United States as a whole who neglected to perform their economic duties. While these two deflationary periods in our economy have several differences‚ they have many similarities as well‚ such the difficulty in receiving money from bank banks but they differ in that the Great Depression was much more difficult to go
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Sections of a proposal/dissertation Title page Approval page Abstract (200-250 words‚ single paragraph‚ left hand justified) Acknowledgement Statement of authorship I‚ _________________________declare that this dissertation is entirely my own words unless otherwise indicated in the text. Further‚ this work‚ in parts or whole‚ has not previously been presented or examination at this or any other educational institution. Signature‚ Date. Table of Contents List of Tables List of figures (graphs)
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