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- 1071: Censorship In Radio
- ... the FCC (king of all. 165) this makes no sense the word freedom, according to Webster’s Dictionary means the state of being free from constraints, possession of political and civil rights, unrestricted access or use yet, the FCC is in charge of what can and can’t be said over the airwaves. The FCC is the god of the broadcasting industry ...
- 1072: Diplomatic Immunity
- ... in the host country. While in a foreign country on official business, the diplomat would be granted exemption from arrest or detention by local authorities; their actions not subject to civil or criminal law. For the longest time this privilege produced little or no incidents. However, this unique position of freedom that diplomats, their family, and staff have been graced with ... the realm of jurisdiction of the host country. Further they cannot be asked to stand trial or submit to having their possessions searched. The diplomatic staff are granted these same rights while performing official diplomatic business. Private servants have only been granted immunity from taxation. The privilege of complete immunity allows for the use of the "diplomatic pouch". This not an ...
- 1073: Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer ...
- 1074: Thomas Jefferson
- ... Jackson, J. E. Johnston and Longstreet. Of these, four were the products of Virginia, while none came from New England, nor did she produce a real, military leader throughout the civil war, though she poured out treasure like water and sent as brave soldiers to the field as ever kept step to the drum beat, while in oratory, statesmanship and humanitarian ... of the Sedition act. The Alien and Sedition laws were declared unconstitutional, and the sister States were invited to unite in resisting them, "in order to maintain unimpaired the authorities, rights and liberties reserved to the States respectively or to the people." These views were not only those of Jefferson, but of Patrick Henry, George Mason and nearly all leading Virginians ...
- 1075: President Millard Fillmore
- ... of its various bills, including the stringent fugitive slave law, which the President strove wholeheartedly to enforce. His first annual message on December 2, 1850 contained an affirmation of states’ rights. Aside from its stand on the Compromise, Fillmore’s administration was chiefly noteworthy for its interest in the nation’s economic development. Fillmore had earlier cooperated with Senator Stephen A ... of New York merchants that he got to South Carolina to urge temperate action, saying that the trip would do no good. Although he supported the national government during the Civil War, he felt that the conflict was unnecessary and was highly critical of the Lincoln administration. In the 1864 presidential election he supported Democrat George B. McClellan. During the Reconstruction ...
- 1076: Hernan Cortes
- ... to Spain. There he appialed to the king and was created marquis of the valley of Oaxica. There he was reappointed Captian-General but he was not returned to the civil government of Mexico. He married the daughter of the count of Aguilar and in 1530 he returned to Spain. In Spain he was constantly checked on his activities, all his stuff was confiscated, his rights contested with, and his popularity decaying. In 1536 Cortes found the peninsula of Baja California. In 1539 Francisco would not let Cortes search the seven cities that were there. He ...
- 1077: Adolf Hitler
- ... Jews were the principal targets of his diatribe. Among the 25 points were revoking the Versailles Treaty, confiscating war profits, expropriating land without compensation for use by the state, revoking civil rights for Jews, and expelling those Jews who had emigrated into Germany after the war began. The following day, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were published in the local ...
- 1078: The Role of Prejudice In The Merchant of Venice
- ... different in religion, looks, and motivation.He finds solace in the law because he, himself, is an outcast of society.Shylock is an outsider who is not privy to the rights accorded to the citizens of Venice.The Venetians regard Shylock as a capitalist motivated solely by greed, while they saw themselves as Christian paragons of piety. When Shylock considers taking ... jury of his peers, he has been ostracized by this society nevertheless, and in establishments where his money was once accepted, he, now is not.Pending the outcome of his civil trial, he may lose his money and property as did Shylock.In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare articulates the frustrations of the oppressed masses for all time with the words ...
- 1079: Flying Home
- ... worked to break down racial barriers throughout her life(Busby 9). Ellison was educated at the Tuskegee Institute, which has a history of being on the forefront of African-American civil rights. His road to Tuskegee was a bumpy one however. Ellison became sort of a hobo to get himself to the institute and on his way got tangled in the Scottsboro ...
- 1080: Jacques Louis David
- ... have been painted to honor her, its theme being one of love prevailing over conflict. It was also interpreted at the time, however, as a plea for conciliation in the civil strife that France suffered after the Revolution and it was the work that re-established David's fortunes and brought him to the attention of Napoleon, who appointed him his ... and indeed European -- painting, and his many pupils included Gérard, Gros, and Ingres. Jacques-Louis David: Stage Manager of the Revolution The savagery of the French Revolution, which declared the Rights of Man but turned to bloody-handed tyranny and repressive terrorism, has long puzzled historians. Among the list of causes, and one rarely remembered, Elizabeth Wilson writes, was the painter ...
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