freedom Fighter. My belief is that he was a freedom fighter ‚and not a terrorist. He was not because none of his actions were meant to cause fear to anybody. His raid on Harpers Ferry was not a terrorist attack. His attack was not meant to cause fear. He just wanted the guns in the armory. He did not want anybody to die in the raid. That is what happened at Harpers Ferry and next is Pottawatomie. His killings at Pottawatomie were not terrorist attacks. He gave the people he killed a chance
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personal status depended on were the accumulation of wives and horses. Welch underscores the importance of the horse to the Blackfeet early in the novel. Fools Crow participates in a raid on a Crow village in order to strengthen his personal power through stealing horses and increasing his wealth. He earns twenty horses in the raid‚ and although he gives five to the medicine man‚ Mik-api‚ he feels "that his change for fortune was complete. Mik-api’s prayers in the sweat lodge for him had been answered. The
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means of attacking Japan was via aerial attacks. Originally‚ these aerial raids were meant to be strategic in nature – targeting only the military factories. Unfortunately‚ this proved to be ineffective due to the unstable weather surrounding Japan. This forced the military to move onto another tactic – fire bombing. According to Thomas R. Searle‚ “The United States Army Air Forces devoted the bulk of its effort to ‘area raids’ that used incendiary bombs to burn down Japanese cities and to kill hundreds
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blankets‚ and food to keep each other comfortable and safe during German air raids. (BBC 1)Civilians play a key role in keeping morale high during war times in developed nations. In addition‚ War makes civilians stronger through developing close ties with each other and ensuring the safety of others during dangerous conditions. Mangiafico 2 As a result of increasingly dangerous living conditions and air raids from the German Luftwaffe‚ British civilians rose to the occasion and unified
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Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience advocates the need to prioritize one’s conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies‚ most prominently slavery and the Mexican American War. In Civil Disobedience‚ Thoreau introduces the idea of civil disobedience that was used later by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. In fact‚ many consider Thoreau as the greatest exponent of passive resistance of the 19th century. The
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and led successful raids against the Sudanese military. This resulted in the government of Sudan arming the Janjaweed with heavy military equipment and training‚ and aerial raids against the rebels. Instead of the government directly killing innocent non-Arab civilians they chose the Janjaweed to do it. This way the Sudanese could deny direct military involvement in the genocide. The Janjaweed who face resistance from the rebels are often backed by government forces in their raids of villages. In the
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”( EXCERPTS from JOHN BROWN: AMERICA’S FIRST TERRORIST?). Paul’s statement leads me up to the big question‚ was John Brown a hero or a terrorist? In my opinion‚ John Brown was more of a hero. As a young African-American male‚ without John Brown’s raid there’s a chance that I would not be an American citizen‚ but American property by a slave owner. Also‚with Paul Finkelman’s statement‚ John Brown didn’t order any killings‚ want to destroy property‚ and cared for his hostages‚ so yeah in my eyes‚
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a new terrifying powerful explosive‚ as devastating as any other of the deadly explosive weapons of modern war. Had the war continued until the projected invasion on November 1‚ additional fire raids of B‑20’s would have been more destructive of life and property than the very limited number of atomic raids which we could have done in the same period. But the atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon as well. The bomb served exactly the purpose we intended
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Yanomamo a tribe of American Indians are labeled as the ‘fierce people’. They are one of the most aggressive‚ warlike‚ male-oriented people in the world. Yanomamo male is usually covered with wounds and scars due to quarrels‚ duels and military raids. Women are also covered with scars and bruises as a result of violent encounters with seducers‚ rapists and husbands. Yanomamo is a hot-tempered‚ drug-taking‚ warrior-husband. Kind husbands merely hurt and mutilate‚ the fierce one wound and even kill
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Quotation 1: Yes‚ the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. ‘I will never fire a gun‚’ he devised. ‘I will not have to.’ … His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible. He watched them grow‚ until eventually‚ great forests of words had risen throughout Germany … It was a nation of farmed thoughts.” (Zusak 451) Speaker: The speaker of the quotation is Max Vandenburg. Context: In Germany‚ where Hitler rules‚ the Huberman’s have adopted
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