history
Past politicians, legislation and political movements have changed the course of history in ways both big and small. Welcome to our blast to the past.
Magna Carta
Leaders have elected their 25 members to support this cause and to maintain peace and freedom, and to provide and guarantee their charter. If we are not within 40 days of the date on which the charges were announced, the Chief Justice will take action, four of whom will say that they will take the matter to others and will disturb us and attack us. in every way, with the support of the whole community of the country, to oppress our castles, the land, and our property, save our people, the Queen, and our children until they defend the reward they will decide.
By Sita Dahal5 years ago in The Swamp
Atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Two bombs fell on Japan in 1945 and killed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still visible. Koko Kondo, who was buried under the rubble with his mother and eight-month-old baby after the Hiroshima attack, has spent his entire life fighting for nuclear disarmament.
By Radha Karki5 years ago in The Swamp
The Missing Pages Of American History Part IV
Throughout our brief history, the United States government has either subconsciously or not perpetuated a level of imbalances within our society. The consequences are profound. The inequality, the racial divides, and the level of corruption that has seeped into the very framework of our Democratic process have all succeeded in rendering our society almost incapable of bridging the enormous gaps of inequality in our nation today. In fact, any attempt to rectify the crisis we face has always created yet another crisis.
By Dr. Williams5 years ago in The Swamp
Biography of Adolf Hitler
In 1933 the Reichstag passed the Unifying Act, which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one-party dictatorship based on the Nazi dictatorship. On March 23 the German Bundestag passed the "Unifying Act", which gave Hitler full power and celebrated the merger of the country's capitalists with the old German institution under Hindenburg. In July, the government passed a law declaring that the Nazi party would be the only political party in Germany, and within months all non-Nazi parties, unions, and other organizations withdrew.
By saurab sharma5 years ago in The Swamp
Then and Now – How US Presidents have Handled Public Health Crises Through History
Almost every POTUS has been called upon to combat a crisis – political scandal, economic catastrophe, natural disaster, or terrorist attack – during their tenure. Few, however, have had to deal with a long-drawn out pandemic of worldwide significance. The COVID-19 pandemic has sorely tested America’s preparedness for an outbreak of infectious diseases and has posed a serious threat to public health and economy.
By Aileen Brent5 years ago in The Swamp
House on the Hill
There was a house built high up on a hill. This house was fashioned to be a shining beacon of freedom and a mansion for every man. Those that built this house reaped the resources around them by cutting down the trees, sawing the wood, laying down the foundation and positioning the corner stone perfectly. The architects truly had a master plan in mind when they erected this edifice. They carved and cut out the windows and furnished the house with the finest furniture making it a place of comfort and protection from the elements. Once the builders and the architects finished, they looked upon it and said “this truly is a fine house, spacious and comfortable with many rooms and enough beds for everyone and for all whom built it. Every hand that laid bricks for this house should have a say in how it is furnished and should have a room in it, a bed and should be able to eat from its kitchen—all who worked shall eat.” Upon hearing this, the architects and the builders all agreed and immediately began preparations to move into this new mansion built by the many. But, while some were making their preparations, others looked inside the house, looked at its many rooms and though it were a spacious house, abundant in every way, inside of these men was nothing but a spirit of lack. That lack, they projected onto the house and its rooms. “If Everyone gets a room, the less rooms we get” they said to themselves. “Why should we share with them, when we can have more?” they thought to themselves. Suddenly, the abundance of rooms appeared to them as not enough, the space suddenly shrank before their eyes and the hallways didn’t seem as long. So, the architects dichotomized the builders into groups: their group and the other group, the superior and the inferior, the worthy and the unworthy, the old and the young, the citizen and the foreigner, the majority and the minority.
By Robert Burton5 years ago in The Swamp
Freedom is NOT Free!
Freedom is not Free. As told by a fighter in the 60’s Civil Rights Movement Freedom is not free. Many decades ago, I sat my seventeen-year-old body in the streets in front of my college campus. Praying that the moving cars would indeed halt and not crush my young body, I knew I was fighting for freedom. I also knew that there was a risk I had to take to gain this freedom.
By Saja Bo Storm5 years ago in The Swamp
Pocket boroughs
The term “pocket borough” was used by 19th-century reformers in Great Britain to describe the situation whereby democracy was held to ransom by the rich and powerful, such that the election of some Members of Parliament was “in the pocket” of certain people. Perhaps the concept still applies today.
By John Welford5 years ago in The Swamp
Why the Tulsa Race Massacre Matters
I had a hard time with Black Lives Matter when the movement first started. All my life, I was taught to trust cops. I had no reason not to trust cops. Suddenly, people were telling me that they gun down innocent people just because they’re black?
By Teralyn Pilgrim5 years ago in The Swamp
Child Labour
Child labor is a term that you may have heard in the news or in movies. It means crime when children are forced to work at a very young age. It is like expecting children to do tasks like working and fighting for themselves. There are certain policies that set limits and restrictions on working children.
By Sumesh Bhaila5 years ago in The Swamp
