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    The large Catholic minority in Germany did not hesitate in opposing anti-Catholic measures, and the Catholic Centre Party founded in 1870 by Ludwig Windthorst, a lifelong political enemy of Otto von Bismarck, stood as a firm pillar of opposition throughout the Kulturkampf. More importantly however, the Kulturkampf cannot and should not be seen solely as a struggle between German Protestants and German Catholics, but internal battles of religious, ethnic, and

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    The publication of “The Communist Manifesto” - in which Marxism first appeared as an influential political worldview - was a significant historical event. The book was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on the eve of the revolution of 1848-1849. “The Communist Manifesto” is considered as an important programmatic document of scientific communism. The book shows the depressed position of the proletariat in bourgeois society and opened a world-historical mission of the working class. Class

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    French political leader Charles de Gaulle said that “nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first,” by this definition turning points in Irish Nationalism can be seen not as what changed as in regards love for Ireland, but what changed hatred for the English withinin Ireland. There are numerous significant turning points in Irish Nationalism; it could be argued that The Great Famine is the largest turning point in Irish Nationalism as it encouraged independence through means

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    all the murky movements that are made so that a new king who is an assassin and a corrupt politician could assume the throne. I chose the theme of “Treason in Elsinore Castle in Denmark during Claudius

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    cause” (Cesar Chavez); a quiet, devoted, small catholic man who had nothing just like those he help fight for; “one of America's most influential labor leaders of the late twentieth century” (Griswold del Castillo); and one “who became the most important Mexican-American leader in the history of the United States” (Ender). Cesar Chavez; an American farm worker, who would soon become the labor leader that led to numerous improvements for union workers; it is recorded that Chavez was born near Yuma

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    Ever since the beginning of the 19th century people have been immigrating into the United States from all over the world for many different reasons. Reasons: religious freedom, job opportunities, famine ect. Old Immigrants: Irish The Irish were different in the sense that more than 2 million immigrants came to the United States; they had the biggest wave of immigrants. In 1798 Irish men started to immigrate to the U.S for job opportunities, and then in the 1840’s whole families started to move

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    Following the Reformation brought about by Martin Luther, the people of London began to expand their thought processes. In the instance of the Bible, it was now available in common languages, allowing peasants and those considered lower-class to read and interpret. Leading to the period of Enlightenment, scientific advances came about that challenged the church's beliefs more directly in terms of science. For example, Copernicus and Galileo challenged the belief that Earth was at the center of the

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    Just as the meanings of liberalism and conservatism have evolved in the United States, the dividing factors between both parties in Latin America differed throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Due to the importance of the Catholic Church in early Latin American history, identifying as liberal or conservative at first depended on supporting the Church. The meaning of the terms further developed during the Rondon Commission and the era of neoliberalism. Liberalism and conservatism in Latin

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    organizations include Cabrini Of Westchester, Cabrini Care at Home, Cabrini Apartments, and Cabrini Immigrant services. There are different locations of Cabrini Eldercare that are location in both Westchester and New York City. Cabrini of Westchester is a Catholic organization, which is sponsored by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. They have been providing phenomenal services to the public for over 200 years and have been a wonderful help to many families. This organization is very important

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    individuals who did oppose the Nazi regime. Youth movements such as the Edelweiss Pirates, The Swing Youth and The White Rose Movement opposed the Nazi regime, rejected their values and produced anti-Nazi propaganda in defiance. They were more prominent in the later part of the 1930s and into the war years and were dealt with very harshly by the Nazi regime; 12 of the Edelweiss Pirates were hanged publicly whilst leading members of the White Rose Movement were executed. Although the Nazis dealt swiftly

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