Fitna The first Muslim civil war originated in the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs which began in 632 CE following the death of the Prophet Muhammad. The main events of the civil war technically took place from 656-661 CE, however, in order to understand these events properly, it is necessary to recount the context and setting in which these events took place. In 644, after a ten-year reign, the second caliph ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab was assassinated in Medina as he was leading a prayer in the mosque
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the minds of generations before me when those of the opposite race became involved in a relationship. There are similarities in the prejudice that exists nowadays in those who oppose gay marriage, or even civil unions and those compared to those who opposed miscegenation prior to the civil war. [pic] 2007 Movie, “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” Brooklyn firefighters Larry Valentine (Kevin James) and Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) have watched each other's back since they met
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The Cold War took place from 1945 to 1991. Although there wasn’t always actually battles happening during this time, the tension between the two main powers at the time, being Russia and the United States, was consistently apparent. The two countries, backing different political ideologies, raced across the world to the countries that had been left in disarray after World War II invasions. The Americans hoped to convert more countries to enter a democratic government, while Russia and The Soviet
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mid-term elections, amidst the hype of the Tea Party and Republican takeover of Congress, it seemed like the presidential race would prove to be a thrilling ride, but the election in 2012 was disappointingly routine. However, events surrounding the nomination process and leading up to the election have set the stage for the possibility of a realigning election in the near future. In the days following the election, it was repeated over and over that Mitt Romney’s loss to President Obama signaled the
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Influence of the 1960s The sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the
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pacification, then external resistance”*3, and his use of foreign relationships and criminal organizations to gain superiority and exterminate the communists each played a role in confirming Chiang’s failure. In the fight against the Japanese in World War II, Chiang’s single-minded focus on the Chinese Communists allowed Japan to gain a strong grip in China and occupy parts of the country. It eventually required the help of the United States to defeat and oust the Japanese. Chiang’s repeated military
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The US Constitution, written in Philadephia in 1787 by the Founding Fathers was the product of the revolutionary war of independence, with it’s foundations strongly influenced by the works of political theorists such as Montesquieu and Locke. The Founding Fathers favoured a government that prevented any individual or particular group becoming tyrannical. Furthermore, they strongly opposed the notion of excessive government power, seen as the potential threat to individual freedom, wanting to protect
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the United States could not have won the Vietnam War. There are a few instances where the United States faced hardships, yet did not complete or take the necessary steps to overcome them. For example, the U.S. soldiers were unfamiliar with the terrain, the fighting tactics the soldiers had been taught were not adequate, and the soldiers were all young and inexperienced (Bernstein). To better understand how the U.S. would have lost the Vietnam War, it’s best to look at what went wrong and what contributed
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Germany steadily increased in the years 1933-42? The question of whether or not the persecution of Jewish race has had a steady intensification, relates closely to whether you adopt an intentionalist or structuralist viewpoint on this historical event. An intentionalist will claim that the process of persecuting Jews in Germany is a planned sequence and was outlined by the Nazi Party; they claim that the roots of Hitler’s politics was about eliminating the Jewish race from Germany and the evidence
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Post-World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The term baby boomer is also used in a cultural context. Different groups, organization and individuals may have widely varying opinions on what constitutes a baby boomer. Baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values. In Europe and North America boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up in a time of widespread government subsidies in post-war housing
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