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- 1191: Alexander's Empire
- ... Macedonian rule revolted. In 335 B.C. Alexander's army stormed the walls of the rebellious city of Thebes and demolished the city. About 30,000 inhabitants were sold in slavery. Alexander's action against Thebes discouraged, for a time, rebellion by other Greek cities With Greece under control, Alexander turned to his fathers plan for attacking the Persian Empire. In ...
- 1192: Jamaica
- ... Scotia and then onto Sierra Leone despite promises that they could stay in Jamaica. These factors, along with changing political tide in Europe caused the Africans to be emancipated from slavery as it was abolished there in 1838. Push for Independence Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the island began feverishly pushing for independence from Britain. Soon, political unrest ...
- 1193: From Village to City
- ... Class structure developed as the cities grew larger. Leaders and civil authority were in a higher class than that of the regular citizens. In this time period also there was slavery. Slaves, to which later became more commonly known as `Serfs'. Development of Writing: Cuneus: Given above is some text which has been written in the form of Cuneus. It is ...
- 1194: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure ...
- 1195: The House on Bluestone Road
- ... back and gave a chance for Sethe to forgive her. Years ago, the schoolteacher from Sweet Home had tracked down Sethe. To spare her child the pain and agony of slavery, she slits her throat with a saw. But her daughter had come back to her so everything was going to be alright, at least that’s what she thought. Soon ...
- 1196: Karl Marx's Teachings and Capitalism
- ... heads together and, as a class, compel the passing of a law, an all-powerful social barrier by which they can be prevented from selling themselves and their families into slavery and death by voluntary contract with capital.” If the rate of surplus-value is calculated by s / v, then we can expand the formula to incorporate a mass number of ...
- 1197: Thomas More's Ideal Society
- ... idea does not seem reasonable to me. Why does someone have to be a farmer? This would mean that whoever did not want to farm was forced to. That is slavery. What about all the other things that a community needs to survive? Are those needs going to be put on a hold until farming was finished? Will ill people have ...
- 1198: Is There Such A Thing As The American Dream?
- ... of equality. The law guarantees everyone in America is treated equally, no matter their race, gender, social level, or anything else. Although this may be true, America's past shows slavery, racism, and discrimination. These may all seem like past occurrences, but recent experiences show that some tension still remains. Women, men, African-American, Caucasians, Hispanics, and people of every other ...
- 1199: The Souls of Black Folk
- ... the "sole oasis of simple faith and reverence". With this frame of mind, he finishes his book with the idea of the sorrow songs. How they express the beginnings of slavery, the misery of the labor and the ways of which the Negro has sought for survival. In these songs, he outlines the hopes for a better world that blacks are ...
- 1200: The Common Theme Of Value Of Friendship In Literature
- ... property; Huck, who had befriended a runaway slave, sees Jim as a person, not property. In the end, Huck Finn decides that he would rather disobey society's teachings about slavery, than betray his friend by returning him to his previous condition of servitude. Further reiterating Forster's conception of the proper order of one's loyalty is a product of ...
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