According to Dr. Blight, white Southerners used Memorial Day to uphold their Lost Cause mythology, the idea that the rebellion was an honorable uprising against Northern tyranny that had little or nothing to do with slavery....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — On the surface, it looked like prosecutors' easiest task at Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial would be convicting him of a much less significant charge — being a minor in possession of a firearm.
Slavery Divides the Nation Conflicting interests in north and south became increasingly apparent. Resenting the large profits obtained by northern businessmen from marketing the cotton crop, southerners attributed the backwardness of their section to northern expansion. Northerners, on the other hand, decl...
This chapter introduces the complex world of China, both from an economic point of view and from a financial and social point of view. Furthermore, it explains why the study on profit smoothing has focused precisely on this specific country. The development of corporate governance in China is ...
I think it must depend on the country. Here in the UK you can be forced to take meds when held involuntarily in hospital, and you can be held down and injected against your will if you refuse to take them. If you’re held “under section” in hospital, ie. involuntarily, it’s bee...
Years ago I went to teach in an urban school in order to join black people in their quest for equality. I was naïve, unaware of my ignorance, and totally conscious of race. What I learned was to question: why always in black and white? Please look for
4. In general, the reason of high levels of poverty in Sub-Saharan according to Jeffrey Sachs is that unlike countries in Asia, African countries failed to get onto the ladder of development which means exporting manufactures and services in world markets, and linked to the world in the netwo...
Without functioning ecosystems, which depend on healthy biodiversity, there would be no clean air to breathe, safe water to drink or food to eat Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve View east before leaving the damper part of the nature reserve heading south PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons ...
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on. — Edgar Degas Top 10 Long Suffering Quotes I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but ...
Do we not say repeatedly that poverty is slavery? "But then why do we oppose them? "The reason is clear: in reality the property that they defend is capitalist property, namely property that allows its owners to live from the work of others and which therefore depends on the existence...