Manifest means something that is obvious and easy to see, and destiny is something meant to be in the future, or fate. Put these two together and you have manifest destiny. But what does it mean that something is easy to see and meant to be, and how does it relate to the United Sta...
The BREF document – so named as an approximate acronym for the term “Best available technique REFerence document” – puts down in writing the environmental performance standards that are expected of large combustion plants. It encompasses a variety of different facets perta...
You, you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.15 What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the God of hosts. The Haughty Women of Zion[k] 16 The Lord said: Because the daughters of...
What does Boxer Rebellion mean? What belief contributed to the Boxer Rebellion? What was the Boxer Rebellion a response to? What was the goal of the Boxer Rebellion? What caused the North-West Rebellion? What caused the Rebellion of 1837?
Consultative referendums and democracy - assessing the short-term effects on political support of a referendum on a municipal merger 2023, Local Government Studies Parliamentarians' Support for Direct and Deliberative Democracy in Europe: An Account of Individual-Level Determinants 2023, Comparative Politi...
when its people were first promised the right to decide if they wanted to be a part of the country's north or south.1 In 2011, they missed a second opportunity to vote on the territory's final status when the southern part of the country gained its independence.2 Last year, former Sou...
and when, in the aftermath of World War I, whites rampaged through the streets of major American cities, including the appalling massacre of black residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was taught that, until World War II, the term “race riot” generally referred to white mobs attacking black peop...
Acknowledging the pure ugliness of the very concept of slavery and recognizing that its preservation was the primary reason for the secession of the southern states I am still forced to ask a question.When will the politically correct crowd “call off the dogs”?
I.A.2 - What does “anarchism” mean? Peter Kropotkin defined "anarchism" in theEncyclopedia Britannica (1910)as follows: Anarchism [is] the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government - harmony in such a society being obtained...
In this old order, humans were comfortable with the idea that equality doesn’t mean anything and does not exist in reality. If anything, equality is a dangerous reality. As al-Hassan (the son of Ali bin Abi Taleb) is reported to have said in a cryptic way: “if all men were equal...