Historians points out that the cold war reached its height during the Cuban crisis of 1962, when both superpowers, USA vs Soviet union achieved mutually assured destruction, known as MUD.
the Cuban crisis basically resulted from the soviet union placing its nuclear arsenals in Cuba territory, in retaliation of the USA pacing its arsenals in European Nato countries such as Turkey. could have any of the country overreacted, it would have resulted in another war; This time,all sides loaded with weapons of mass destruction, and the catastrophe would have been worse than have even been witnessed in history.
In 2003 the U.S Supreme Court found that antisodomy laws were unconstitutional in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. In its ruling, the Supreme Court h<span>eld that intimate consensual sexual behavior </span>was<span> part of the fundamental liberties protected by substantive due process under the 14th Amendment.</span>
the poem by Whitley is significant because of the two reasons:
D) It is among the first literary works published by an African American.
) It is the first literary work to assert African equality to whites.
Whitley uses a narrative unfamiliar to many of her peer slaves of the time to deliver her message in her eight stanza poem. She appears calm,composed and appreciative of conversion to christianity, while using its fundamental believes and ethics to counteract the issue of black hatred that had permeated good white christians.
