Soon the African National Congress (ANC), founded in 1912, became the major force opposing the apartheid system’s oppression of the 80% non-European population of the country. Who fought against the apartheid in South Africa? Mandela fought against apartheid, a system of white supremacy in South Africa. Under apartheid, everyone was…
Jonathon Swift opposed English imperialism of the British empire and its affect on the Irish economy by writing the satirical essay ’’A Modest… What does imperialism benefit colonized people according to Beveridge? How does imperialism benefit colonized people, according to Beveridge? It gives them a just and humane government they…
Elizabeth’s tolerant approach seemed to have worked on the whole, but it did not keep everyone happy and she faced numerous threats. Opposition came not only from Catholics, but also from more extreme Protestants, known as Puritans , who objected to any compromise with Catholic ideas. Elizabethan Religious Settlement is…
The opposition Democratic Party threatened to turn itself into an antiwar party. Lincoln’s military commander, General George McClellan, was vehemently against emancipation. Many Republicans who backed policies that forbid black settlement in their states were against granting blacks additional rights. Who did not support the Emancipation Proclamation? Four border slave…
Wilson and Lodge’s personal dislike of each other poisoned any hopes for a compromise, and in March 1920, the Treaty and Covenant were defeated by a 49-35 Senate vote. Nine months later, Warren Harding was elected President on a platform opposing the League. The United States did not become a…
According to the gathered leaders, including the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, though the first two stanzas began with an unexceptionable evocation of the beauty of the motherland, in later stanzas there are references to the Hindu goddess Durga. The Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah opposed the song. “The opposition…
In this story of innocents destroyed by evil, the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus, to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Due to their mimicking abilities, the spirit of mockingbirds is symbolic of imitation, lack of originality, and authenticity. At the same time, these birds…
The stake president (or someone under his direction) may ordain the person to the office of high priest, or he may authorize another high priest to do so. Only high priests may stand in the circle. The bishop (or someone under his direction) may ordain the person to the office…
In 1973, just as folk and soul were becoming more romantic and intimate, Roberta Flack released “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” Inspired by singer Lori Lieberman’s original a year earlier, Ms. Flack’s recording for Atlantic Records went to No. 1 for five weeks on Billboard’s pop chart. Who did…
Monopoly Was Designed to Teach the 99% About Income Inequality. In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, a down-on-his-luck family man named Charles Darrow invented a game to entertain his friends and loved ones, using an oilcloth as a playing surface. A woman named Elizabeth Magie came…