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Making a Place for Ourselves examines an important but not widely chronicled event at the intersection of African-American history and American medical history--the black hospital movement. A practical response to the racial realities of American life, the movement was a "self-help" endeavor--immediate improvement of separate medical institutions insured the advancement and health of African Americans until the slow process of integration could occur. Recognizing that their careers depended on access to hospitals, black physicians associated with the two leading black medical societies, the National Medical Association (NMA) and the National Hospital Association (NHA), initiated the movement...
Written by a London police officer with a background in counter-terrorism, this book convincingly demonstrates that Western governments must listen to its Muslim citizens' grievances in order to combat terrorism.
There are many times we wonder what would happen if we lost all control over our emotions and acted on them, especially the bad ones. Most of us do not act on our hatred because of our laws and morality, but if those laws and morally werent in play, then what? There were many people who have pushed me to the brink, which made me ponder what I could do to them if I abandoned my morality and just went forward on pure emotion. Thinking of it is disturbing. Acting on it is frightening. Ron is a man who lived a less-than-happy life, but he was a very talented artist. He was so desperate for happiness he went into a marriage blindly. The one saving grace to a horrible marriage is a loving child. Sometimes even having one saving grace cant save you from going to the dark path. And if you do, you forfeit the people who bring light to that darkness. If anyone can walk away with one thing from Ron, its that the light will always destroy the darkness. He learned too late and struggled to recapture that light for just one moment.
The Lions of Marash is an eye-witness account by an American Near East Relief official of the tragic events which resulted in the annihilation of the Armenian population of Marash, in Central Anatolia, following World War I. On 10 February 1920, the French garrison at Marash withdrew abruptly under cover of darkness, thus abandoning more than twenty thousand Armenians to the Turkish Nationalist forces. The French pullout caused considerable embarrassment in Paris and roused a storm of angry protest in England and the United States, but for the Armenians of Marash, and all of Cilicia, it led to renewed massacre and to final exodus. American philanthropy administered through Near East Relief, ...
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This volume brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history.