Bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic depressive illness or manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by wide mood swings from high (manic) to low (depressed). Periods of high or irritable mood are called manic episodes.
James Byrd, Jr. was not engaged in a federally-protected activity when he was lynched and killed. The Matthew Shepard Act expanded the 1969 Federal Hate Crime Law to cover these and other types of brutal murders.
The Nuremberg Laws were anti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany on September 15, 1935, marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influences from Aryan society.These laws, on which the rest of Nazi racial policy hung, were written hastily.o create his homogeneous and harmonious Aryan society, Hitler had first to discard the Jews, a people incompatible with true Germans.. The Nuremberg Laws helped Hitler take the first step toward getting rid of these parasites and imposing racial conformity on society.