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The Sudanese Civil War

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

it is immoral to allow oneself to be associated with a gross injustice. In his essay, Thoreau refers particularly to the Mexican W...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Out In The Redwoods/An Oral History

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

Thoreau and King

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

The Civil War and President Lincoln

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

Desmond Seward’s Wars of the Roses

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

A History of Values and Attitudes in America

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

Education: Crime and Civil Rights

for an individual who is determined to engage in crime. They may know what prison is about, may be intelligent, and yet they find ...

Restitution in the Criminal Justice System

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

Issues Leading Up to the Compromise of 1850 and Political Leadership During the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis)

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

Employment: Civil Rights

have been various statutes that have aimed at changing and eliminating discrimination that involve religion, sex, race, age and ma...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

Black Issues in Pre-Civil Rights Chicago

Combss performance, specifically that he never fully develops Walter, who is the central character; this vacuum at the center of t...

Thoreau’s Description of Jail in Civil Disobedience

new found perception to inform his discussion of why he was in jail in the first place. Thoreau objected to the fact that slavery ...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

Leadership and Mahatma Gandhi

human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...

Colonization, Economic Development, Geographical Distinctions and the American Civil War

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

Foreign Affairs During the Civil War

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

Civil Rights and Media Reportage in a Post-9/11 World

they be prohibited from flying? Yet, arguably, profiling is a good method to use because most terrorists are from a handful of cou...

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

Act: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages...

A First Person Insight into the Days Leading Up to the Civil War

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

The Paranoia That Led to the American Civil War

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...

Resources, Military Commanders and Political Leadership and the Civil War

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...