American Civil War

havent been taught it or is it because we are influenced to believe that black people are not capable of creating things on their own in my opinion I believe that both are reason as to why we are uneducated about black inventors. The first African American heavyweight champion was called Jack Johnson he won the championship on December 26, 1908 when racism was still rife in america during his boxing career he fought 114 fights winning 80 fights and 45 by knockout. In 1922 he invented the wrench which

The refusal of rosa parks -Biographie of parks rosa Rosa Louise mccauley parks was born the 4 februar 1913 in Alabama. She was a seamstress who became an African American civil rights activist, she was call "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1] Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (4 février 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama États-Unis - 24 octobre 2005, Détroit, Michigan), est une couturière qui devint une figure emblématique de la lutte contre la ségrégation raciale

organized crime, nuclear proliferation, environmental issues, terrorism, human rights ... It is indeed difficult to understand and delineate the boundaries of the discipline. The need to develop international policy has emerged after the First World War was to understand how devastating a conflict if he could break out, to avoid future conflicts of great magnitude. A series of institutions were then introduced: 1. Development of international law to promote the peaceful resolution of disputes; 2

CIVILISATION AMERICAINE | | Chapitre 1 : The current immigration dilemma I) A short reminder: American immigration policy until 1965 Debate: a lot of question about immigration today in US. The existence of the US is linked to the immigration. US created as asylum of a refuge for all the people that were poor, persecuted, etc. ->for a long time the US practiced an open door policy: they welcomed all the people who wanted to go. 19th: They started restricting, limiting immigration

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND WHAT WE HAVE HERE... Short story called « A Good Man Is Hard To Find » has been written by Flannery O'Connor, southern writer of 20th century, in 1955, 3rd person narrativ American novelist, short story writer and essayist, from a catholic family, influenced by Poe. Uses elements of grotesque and empathy (ex. Hutchback of Notre Dame) THE TEXT RAISES.... story of a grandmother reads newspaper : criminal calls « The Misfit » -GM & family (her

Democratic Party in the building of Watergate in Washington in 1972. (nineteen hundred seventy two) Journalists' investigations and a long senatorial inquiry find illegal practices within presidential administration. Affair is very notable in American history it became common to use the suffix - gate to indicate other scandals as for example the climate gate. 2 contexts -Policy Year 1972(nineteen hundred seventy two ) one year of presidential election in the United States is. In the republican

map Geopolitics is associated to territories = art. 4 different areas: - Land = most important - Sea (78% of the earth) - Air = important since WWI (i.e. military activities) - Space, since 1950’s (i.e. Cold War) History, geography, economy, demography and social characteristics (language, religion) are very important geopolitics. This term was used the 1st time by a Swedish professor, Rudolf KJELLEN (19th century) concerning the German process of unification

one thing, but the directory board in the lobby of the American Embassy in Pretoria, with its long list of military attachés, told a different story. […] Learning something of the cooperation between the USA and the white regime in South Africa […] was my first lesson that America was not always the noble force for freedom I wanted it to be. A few years afterwards, the Vietnam War underlined that lesson, for me and for millions of other Americans of my generation. Later encounters with the rest of

concerning Human Rights. Originally it was just created to be an appeal court. → why the politic of abortion would be determinate by the supreme court ? Because it have now the final statement on everything concerning morality : for example what Civil rights are, few years ago it also decided the presidency. The congress and the president expressed the will of the people that’s why they have to be elected: Senators : 6 years : they could be re-elected indefinitely. Representatives : 2 years

The Cold War in Brief In the aftermath of the Second World War two power blocs formed in Europe, one dominated by America and capitalist democracy (though there were exceptions), the other dominated by the Soviet Union and communism. While these powers never directly fought, they waged a 'cold' war of economic, military and ideological rivalry which dominated the second half of the twentieth. Pre-World War Two The origins of the Cold War can be traced back to the Russian Revolution of 1917, which