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Ernesto Guevara
... in Guatemala, he had the chance to become
a government medical personnel. He refused this chance because he did not want
to join the Communist party. Therefore, he was penniless for a number of years.
Shortly thereafter, Guevara met one of Fidel Castro's lieutenants with whom he
fled to Mexico City.
In Mexico City, he also met Fidel Castro, and his brother Raul. In
Fidel Castro, he saw a great Marxist leader that he was seeking. Guevara joined
Castro followers at a farm where they were training for guerrilla war tactics.
The tactics were those first used by Mao Tse-Tung. At this time, Ernesto
Guevara first was ...
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Adam Smith 2
... a unified social theory. In France Smith met and associated with many of the leading Continental philosophers of the physiocratic school, which based its political and economic doctrines on the supremacy of natural law, wealth, and order. He was specially influenced by the French philosophers Francois Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, whose theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own.
The book dealt with the basic problem of how social order and human progress can be possible in a society where individuals follow their own self-interests. Smith argued that this individualism led to orde ...
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Napoleon 2
... a Republic because of the set Constitution. Through this Constitution, Napoleon set up a system of government that helped settle the disputes of France.
Napoleon’s career was arranged into a series of both accomplishments and defeats. He demonstrated his accomplishments during battle as well as in government. By setting up the Napoleonic code, Napoleon unified the old Feudal Law and Royal Laws. Many of the laws set up, were based on his knowledge of the Enlightenment. He simplified the laws of old as well as new, and allowed freedom of speech and press. His main idea with these laws was to give all men equ ...
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Sister Helen Prejean
... day, she explains this when she says she lives, in a state whose misery statistics are the highest in the nation—where residents bring home an average yearly income of $10,890 …where one in every six persons is a food-stamp recipient, one of every three babies born has an unwed mother, and the violent crime rate is ninth highest in the nation…I am meeting seventeen-year-old girls who have had one sometimes two children. Without a chance for college… [they are] vulnerable to the first young man who looks at them (7-8).
As she talks about this she seems surprised that things like this actually occur. She ...
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Siddhartha Gautama
... One day he was offered a bowl of rice from a young girl and he
accepted it. In that moment, he realized that physical hardships were not the
means to freedom. From then on, he encouraged people not to use extremes in
their life. He called this The Middle Way. That night Siddhartha sat under
the bodhi tree, and meditated till dawn. He cleared his mind of all worldly
things and claimed to get enlightenment at the age of thirty-five, thus earning
the title Buddha, or "Enlightened One." For the remainder of his eighty years,
the Buddha preached the dharma in an effort to help other people reach
enlightenment. ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. 9
... encountered racism at an early age. When he was 6, his friendship with two white playmates was cut short by their parents. When he was 11 a white woman struck him and called him a "nigger."
A bright student, he was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, without completing high school. He decided to become a minister and at 18 was ordained in his fathers’ church. After graduating from Morehouse in 1948, he entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. He was the ~ledictorian of his class in 1951 and won a graduate fellowship. At Boston University he received a Ph. D. in theology in 1955.
In Boston King met ...
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Susan B Anthony
... Susan long division, she was taken out of school and taught in home school set up by her father. A woman teacher, Mary Perkins, ran the school. Perkins offered a new image of womanhood to Susan and her sisters.
She was independent, educated, and held a position that had been traditionally been reserved to young men. Susan was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf ...
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Jfk Alliance
... America in the wake of Fidel Castro’s successful Communist revolution in Cuba. The United States was fearful of a communism spread due to the poverty and social inequities of the Latin American nations. The U.S. felt that the southern continent was ripe for violent radical political upheaval, which would eventually bring forth the spread of communism. The Alliance for Progress program was initially met with open arms by most Latin Americans leaders and immediately boosted U.S. relations throughout the hemisphere.1
The alliance’s charter was signed by all members of the organization except for Cuba at a ...
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John Marshall Harlan II
... do his graduate work, and returned to the United States upon completion in 1923.
After returning from England, Harlan began working for a law office in New York. At the same time, he was studying law at the New York Law School. In 1925 Harlan received his law degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to worki ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
... himself a devout Lutheran. At age six(two years after his father
passed away)Nietzsche, his mother and sister moved to the small town of Naumburg.
When Nietzsche was twelve he wrote “I saw God in all his glory”(Bentley, p.82).
Later his description of his own mental state was one of Gottergebenheit; “
surrender to God”(Bentley, p.82). At a very early age Nietzsche had already
displayed an aptitude for highly intellectual prowess. At fourteen, Nietzsche
left his home of Naumburg and went to an exclusive boarding school at the nearby
Schulpforta Academy. The school was famous for its grandeur of alu ...
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