.... of one nation indivisible. (The Civil War, pgs. 14-16) Lincoln's primary concern was for the preservation of the union. , "Honest Abe" came to Washington as a newly elected President early in 1861. In an attempt to allay southern fears that his accession to office signaled a Republican determination to abolish slavery, he quoted from a previous speech he had made: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He then warned that he did not recognize the secession from the union of the sou .....

.... detail. Hitler assigned the attack to be somewhere between the Aachan area and the Southern Luxembourg-France boundary an eighty-mile front. The plan estimated four and five millions of gallons of fuel along with a fifty train loads of ammunition. Germany seemed to be spread thinly along their border. They would patrol the border during the day and go to the post at night. Some Americans thought it would be smartest to attack the Germans at breakfast and push until met resistance from the Germans, but it was thought to be a bad idea. Infantry reported hearing the sound of tanks and trucks coming from the German side. But the officers told them it was .....

.... was pharaoh in name only. For three years he remained in the background while Cleopatra ruled alone. Ptolemy's advisors - led by a eunuch named Pothinus - resented Cleopatra's independence and conspired against her. In 48 B.C. they stripped Cleopatra of her power and she was forced into exile in Syria. Her sister Arsinoe went with her. The Ghana Empire was founded along the Niger River between the third and fifth centuries. The Soninke people of West Africa, who quickly developed an economic life comprising agriculture, manufacturing, and international trade, established Ghana. They were superior metalworkers and produced iron swords and other weapons by wh .....

.... Russia. Rulers like Stalin and Lenin not only did not carry out the original goal of peace and living in harmony, they carried out bloody purges of people who did not fit “their plan” for a perfect communist society. They carried out the liquidation of the Kulak class. Instead of having a gradual change from a society with classes to a classless one. Communists in Russia not only opposed people who shared different views than their own, but they also opposed other groups of proletariats. This directly contrasts the original idea of a united communism movement, as stated in the Communist Manifesto: “The Communists do not from a separate party opposed to other .....

.... and at wartime this even more true. This it has been argued is due to the fundamental differences between the military and the media. The media sees publicity as the way to its success, whereas for the military secrecy is essential to the success of its operations. For the military information and the control of it is seen as a weapon (1). The British media suffered several problems in covering the Falklands. First of all there was the location of the islands. Being 8,000 miles away from the United Kingdom and more than 400 miles away from the nearest landmass and also being subject to a total exclusion zone the Ministry of Defence had the sole say in ho .....

.... of Calabria and Campania. (Worsnop 273) Traffic in drugs, chiefly heroin, provides the bulk of the Italian Mafia's revenue from Sicily. Cocaine is becoming more important, however, as drug lords from Colombia try to expand beyond the Americas. To gain a foothold in Europe, the Colombians have got to strike deals with the Mafia, which ironically guards its home turf. (273) Italy in general, has added to the crime list of the Mafia for over 100 years. The famous Al Capone, the Italian-American gangster of the Prohibition era, also known as Scarface because of a knife cut to his cheek. (Nash 79) He was born Alphonse Capone in Naples, Italy, and raised i .....

.... reform of women's rights. Through seven generations, it took many meetings, petition drives, lobbying, public speaking, and nonviolent resistance to make our world the way it is now. The Women's Rights Movement begins its task on July 13th, 1848, where a lady named Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided enough was enough, and she started the fight for her rights as well asall women's rights. Within the next week of her decision she held a convention in Seneca Falls called, "A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Stanton created a list to present called "Declaration of Sentiments" which stated areas in life where w .....

.... is one of glory, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says, "What bloody man is that?" This is symbolic of the chivalrous fighter who been injured in a gallant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution," he is referring to Macbeth's stalwartness in which his sword is covered in the blood of the enemy. After these few references to honor, the symbol of blood now changes to show a theme of deception and treason. Lady Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to "make thick my blood." What she is saying by this, is that she wants to make herself insensitive and remorse .....