.... of the twentieth century. King can be considered influential in his preaching of nonviolent protest during the civil rights movement. King quickly realized that there were two alternatives in the struggle against “the forces of injustice” (Ansbro, 233): violence or nonviolence. He decided against violence for obvious reasons. During this time in America, the African American community represented only ten percent of the total population. King felt that this made it impossible for African Americans who lack access to weapons to successfully wage a violent revolution against the white majority. Any attacks by the civil rights workers or their .....

.... Oswald was immediately suspected on the shooting of the President and was charged early the next morning with the assassination. There are two very controversial issues dealing with the assassination. One is whether Oswald could have fired the three shots in the time allotted and if the nearly whole bullet, which was the Warren Commission Exhibit #399 could have passed through the President, out his neck and then causing all of Governor Connally’s wounds. This bullet was found on the stretcher in the Parkland Hospital. (Compton’s Encyclopedia). IN 1964 and 1978, The Warren Commission and the House Select Committee did the best they could with photographic a .....

.... harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar; soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in later posts, his perfectionist tendencies and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age o .....

.... Lesslie, and his son, James. These two would be William’s patrons throughout most of his life. In 1820, William sailed to Canada with John, another son of Edward Lesslie. Mackenzie was immediately impressed with Upper Canada. Before the end of the year, Mackenzie was writing for the York Observer under the name of "Mercator" In 1824, Mackenzie started his most famous newspaper, the Colonial Advocate. The first edition appeared on May 18, 1824. The sole purpose of this paper was to sway the opinions of the voters in the next election. On June 8, 1826, a group of fifteen, young, well connected Tories disguised themselves as Indians, and broke .....

.... his brother moved to Kendall. There John, his cousin George, and his brother ran a school where they offered English,Latin,Greek,French and twenty one mathematics and science course. Their school had sixty pupils. After twelve years at Kendall John started doing lectures and answering questions for mens magazines. John found a mentor in John Gough,who was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman. John Gough taught Dalton languages,mathematics,and optics. In 1973 John moved to Manchester as a tutor at New College. He immediately joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and in the same year he published his first book: Meteorological Observations .....

.... (Douglass, 366). In Frederick Douglass, William S McFeely writes that Douglass sees what he is to become in Garrison. For most of the next 10 years, Douglass was associated with the Garrisonian school of the antislavery movement. Garrison was a pacifist who believed that only through moral persuasion could slavery end, he attempted through his writings to educate slaveholders about the evils of the system they supported. He was opposed to slave uprisings and other violent resistance, but he was firm in his belief that slavery must be totally abolished. In the first issue of the Liberator in 1831, he had proclaimed “I WILL BE HEARD” (32). E .....

.... history, he once taught thousands of students. Europeans derived the Latin form Confucius from Master Kong, or Kong Fuzi in Chinese, in 16th century. Few people have read any of his teachings today. Yet the truth and importance of his words resonate when they are heard, because Confucius' teachings developed in reaction to the times in which he lived -- and our times are very much like his. In the days Confucius lived were, compared to the past, a time of moral chaos, in which common values were widely rejected. Crime was on the rise and murder happened even in the royal court. Government was routinely corrupt or distrusted by the people. Confucius beg .....

.... of 75 in Syracuse. It is said that he was killed by a Roman soldier, who was offended by Achimedes, while the Romans seized Syracuse. had a wide variety of interests, which included encompassing statics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, engineering, geometry, and arithmetic. had more stories passed down through history about his clever inventions than his mathematical theorems. This is believed to be so because the average mind of that period would have no interest in the Archimedean spiral, but would pay attention to an invention that could move the earth. ^? most famous story is attributed to a Roman architect under Emperor Augustus, named Vitruvius. Vit .....