.... was on the rise slowly and Americans were starting to contend in the growing world market. Throughout American history, people have fought for equality in any shape or form and the mid 1900’s was no exception. Having gone through leaps and bounds in terms of civil rights. The 1920’s to the 1940’s was a transitional period for all Americans and minority groups. During this period of American history, America was one of the most modern countries in the world but still facing economic turmoil. The Great Depression put most people out of work and made big businesses hit an all time low. Americans from every walk of life were a .....

.... advocates control, could not have provided the people with such liberation, but in theory should be able to maintain the peace among the people, the peace that seemed so lacking during the French Revolution. The French Revolution was a disaster for the following reasons: it happened too fast, it went too far, and it achieved too little. Thomas Paine a radical thinker of the era once said ‘Time makes more converts than reason’. With this quote we can see why revolution was successful in England, but not France. England slowly used the Magna Carta (1213), Petition of Rights (1628), and the Habeas Corpus Act (1679) to limit it’s mo .....

.... Wundt, the son of an Evangelical pastor, was born near Manheim, Germany, on 16 August 1832. He was from an academic family with members who were scientists, professors, government officials and physicians. He was often inattentive in his own schooling and was a habitual daydreamer. He failed his first year of high school and was sent to Heidelberg to live with an aunt. Here he improved academically and graduated at age 19. He decided to embark on a career in medicine and indeed excelled in this area. His achievements lead him into the field of physiology and he decided to proceed into the academic side of this subject by becoming a lecturer. As .....

.... young men, Nobunaga and Hideyoshi rose to political control. This marked the end of the hundred years of conflict and the Azuchi-Momoyama period began in 1568. was not all glamorous and powerful from the start. He was born in 1934 in Nagoya into an obscure family. His family was a sublineage of a deputy military governor (shugodai) house in Owari Province since about 1400. Though his father Nobuhide was a vassal of the Kiyosu branch of the Oda, he was actually a sengoku daimyo. The Oda were shugodai of Owari's lower four districts. As the lord of Nagoya Castle, he had the power to compete with daimyo of neighboring provinces. He made peace wit .....

.... of the Rocky Mountains and the salty beaches of the Pacific Coast-Americans considered the west to be an empty wilderness. And in less than fifty years, from the 1803 purchase of Louisiana Territory to the California gold rush of 1849, the nation would expand and conquer the West" (Herb 3). The ocean had always controlled New England's interests and connected it with the real world. Puritanism was still very strong in the north so the moral unity of New England was exceptional. Having a very unmixed population of English origin, New England contrasted very much with the other sections. All this and the fact that they needed to cross p .....

.... in tact. What I mean when I say this is that the church officials would do anything to make money, if it was to sell false indulgences to the people or to make the churches so beautiful that people would have to pay in order to get in. The popes were also more concerned about being political leaders rather than priests or religious leaders. They wanted to be more involved in the government because they thought that if they had power people would follow their religion and maybe they could use that power to force people to practice under their religion. These were the first reasons for . After this there were many more events that led to the f .....

.... He timed it with his pulse and found that, whether it swung in a wide or a narrow arc, it always took the same number of pulses. From this, society gained it¹s first constant method of keeping time. discontinued his studies of medicine at the University of Pisa and shifted solely to mathematics and science, but in Pisa at the time there was only one notable science teacher, Francisco Buonamico. Buonamico was a Aristotelian, therefore became a disciple to him, and as shown in ¹s book Juvenilia he was very into Aristotelian physics and cosmology. Due to a lack of money, was forced to drop out of the University of Pisa in 1585. Soon after drop .....

.... listening to it. George Herman Ruth was born in the early 1890's to a couple of German immigrants who ran a local bar. His parents had there hand's full with the bar, and had very little time to tend to young George. His trouble making, and lack of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary's that Babe started his life of giving. He would sa .....

.... the emir's picture was another." There is a reasoning behind erasing Kuwait's identity that seems important to Iraq; to take from the rich and give to the poor; a sort of Robin Hood justification. Although trying to justify what Iraq did to the Kuwaitis is futile, Iraq did what any starving animal in the wild would do, steal from its neighbor. "The occupiers looted Kuwait as a matter of policy, reasoning that the wealth of the 19th province was needed elsewhere in greater Iraq." (Strasser 36) Iraqis showed no mercy when it came to looting. "The city the Iraqis left behind appeared to have been worked over by a huge army of drunken teenage va .....

.... of Duke of Guise, a massacre of Huguenots. The massacre was carried out on August 24, 1572 in the early morning of St. Bartholomew's Day. In Paris on that day 10,000 Huguenot people were murdered. The Huguenots blamed France for the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day and started a civil war over the event. A twist in fate helped the future of the Huguenots. For Henry IV was in a delicate position with his public, over the assassinations of Duke of Guise and his brother, the cardinal, which forced him to alie with Henry of Nevarre a Huguenot. Later after Henry IV got assassinated himself; Henry of Nevarre inherited the French throne in 1589. He .....