<span>A committee that exists permanently in either the House of Representatives or the Senate is called a "standing" committee--much like a "standing invitation". </span>
According to the Constitution, slaves were considered three-fifths of a person for white male voting privilege.
The Fifteenth Amendment, while it allowed all men of any race the right to vote, denied all women the right to vote.
In 1890 twenty states made laws that gave whites privileged status over every other ethnicity.
How wide is the Amazon river at its widest point
"<em>There can be no friendship and harmony with white people; we must learn to live seperately</em>." were words said by Marcus Garvey who illustrates the importance of blacks to start and own businesses and creation of social institutions for blacks through the United Negro Improvement Association which he founded. Marcus also revealed that blacks had no desire to be white they were proud of their race. Marcus further believed that true reconciliation with whites was impossible; therefore he urged blacks to build up their own communities and plan for a future that would be separate from the white world.
Herodotus wrote that Phoenicia was the birthplace of the alphabet, stating that it was brought to Greece by the Phoenician “Kadmus” circa the 8th century BCE.<u> It is suggested that the Greeks had no alphabet before that happening.</u> <u>The Phoenician alphabet is the basis for most western languages written today.</u> Something interesting to mention is that their city of Gebal reffered by the Greeks as 'Byblos gave the Bible its name. Gebal was the greatest exporter of papyrus, which was the paper used in writing in ancient Egypt and Greece.
For all the formerly mentioned, it is quite easy to infer that one of the most significant influences the Phoenicians had on the Western world is:
A. the alphabet
