... of Scotland, I am William Wallace," proclaimed Wallace in an attempt to rally the Scottish troops. A young soldier contested, "William Wallace is 7 feet tall." Wallace responded, "Yes, I've heard. He kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. I am William Wallace, and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?" In some ways he is a god to his people. He unites them to fight against insurmountable odds in the English, something no other Sco ...

... Everything we know is perceived through reason. If we, as a race, didn’t understand reason, we couldn’t understand reality and existence itself. One knows the order of events because of time. We understand time because we realize that there is existence between events. Things happen in a certain order and not everything happens at once. Ethics is man, every man, is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuits of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life. Politics is the pe ...

... create a very unique sound -- a very American music." (Relix Magazine: “One Nation Under a Groove”) As LeRoi Moore states, “ It is this blend of influence that creates the blend of texture. “ (FAQ) This rich texture from the blend of influence is what creates the most compelling band around, Dave Matthews Band. The band came to be in April 1991, playing its first gig for an Earth Day celebration. Dave Matthews had always dreamed of starting his own band. He approached his favorite jazz players, (who he also served drinks to as a bartender) LeRoi Moore and Carter Beauford to make a demo tape of the songs he had written. Moore and Beauford liked what they heard ...

... swarmed down the gang planks. Why did they come? The immigrants came partly because Europe seemed to be running out of room. The population of the Old World more than doubled in the nineteenth century, and Europe began to generate a seething pool of apparently "Surplus" people. They were displaced and footloose in their homelands before they felt the tug of the American magnet. Indeed at least as many people moved about within Europe as crossed the Atlantic. America benefited from these people churning changes but did not set then all in motion. Nor was the United States the sole beneficiary of the process : of the nearly 60 million people who abandoned Europe in t ...

... Were we not at war with Germany and Italy? Did German Americans or Italian Americans go to internment camps? The answer was no. The U.S. government did not do anything against the German and Italian Americans who were citizens except those charged with specific acts of disloyalty, however, only enemy aliens had to register, and those considered to be dangerous were interned. This was only a few in number as compared to the many Japanese Americans. Early U.S. History In Dealing With The Japanese In 1785 the first American ship, Empress of China, made the long voyage to China. This vessel carried all sorts of beautiful Asian treasures. These treasures brought eno ...

... choreographers who were to follow her. Learning About Dance pg.61-62 Denishawn was a dance school created in 1915 by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Denis and Shawn were greatly inspired by different cultures, especially the Asian cultures. Although the dances Denishawn performed weren’t authentic, they were still able to bring other countries dance views to American audiences. The purpose of Denishawn was to educate the “total” dancer. Meaning to bring together the body , mind and spirit. Learning About Dance pg. 62-63 Martha Graham developed a technique known as “contracting” and “releasing” through the center of the body. This technique can be seen thro ...

... to investigate the activities of persons involved in the arms sale or contra aid or both, including marine Lt. Col. Oliver North of the National Security Council (NSC) staff. Reagan appointed a review board headed by former Republican senator John Tower. The Tower commission's report in February 1987 criticized the president's passive management style. In a nationaly televised address on March 4, Reagan accepted the reports judgement without serious disagreement. Select committees of the Senate (11 members chaired by Democrat Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii) and the house of representatives (15 members, headed by another Democrat, Lee Hamilton of Ind ...

... waitresses and cooks in railway cars, quarry workers, street sweepers, garden keepers, and coal miners. In these jobs they gained influence in years to come, during World War II as "Rosie the riviter", as well as jobs that were male-oriented and soon grew to be what we consider in today's society as jobs made for women, as nurses, secretaries, bookkeepers, etc. In April of 1917, women gained the most honorable status in society they ever received as Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was accepted as the first woman in the House of Representatives. In 1920, women composed 23.6% of the labor force, more than ever in American history, and beside that, these women were ...

... from large scale military intervention and subversion to covert spying and surveillance missions. They have known success and failure. The Bay of Pigs debacle was soon followed by Kennedy's ft handling of the Cuban missile crisis. The decisions he made were helped immeasurably by intelligence gathered from reconnaissance photos of the high altitude plane U-2. In understanding these agencies today I will show you how these agencies came about, discuss past and present operations, and talk about some of their tools of the trade. Origin of the CIA and KGB The CIA was a direct result of American intelligence operations during World War II. President Fran ...

... lead singer of "Murphy's Law" describes stage diving best when says, "It's like diving into a human carpet. Something like the old kids' trust game. Just my way of getting into it. Gospel people got their thing, I got mine."1 Politics Some punks consider themselves Nazis', or are concerned with issues like peace, racism, and nuclear war. Most punk is against parental, musical, and political authorities. On the other hand some isn't. Bob Mould of Husker Du talks about politics quite frequently in his songs. I don't write about politics because I'm not an expert. Some bands find it very necessary to claim they're politically relevant when in actuality they don't ...