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- 1101: Multiculturalism in the United States
- Multiculturalism in the United States Who is an American? This question is very difficult to answer. According to the Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary the definition is: American: adj. 1. Pertaining to the United States of America. 2. pertaining to North or South America. -n 1.a citizen of the United States. 2. an inhabitant of America. This definition is still unclear. What ... same source: Pertain: v. 1. have reference; relate 2. belong as an adjunct, function, quality, etc. - pertaining to having to do with; belonging or relating to. After reading these definitions I figured out that an American is someone who belongs, is related or has something to do with the United States of America. But it is still difficult to know who is an American. I believe that this difficulty has ...
- 1102: China In The 20th Century
- ... the first ten years of Mao s regime was significant. However, the Great Leap Forward (1958-61) introduced catastrophic changes resulted in a famine in which some 30 million people may have died. The Cultural Revolution from 1966-76 led to further disruptions and the standard of life worsened. (all these will be talk in details later) After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, Deng Xiaoping came into power in ... his dominant position in the party with the failure of the Great Leap Forward, so he had to find some force outside the party to give expression to his concerns. Therefore, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was launched in 1966 (Liu 39). 7 The central theme of the Cultural Revolution was the need for a transformation of institutions, consciousness, and social values. It was seen by its proponents as a struggle between two roads, one leading to socialism and the other leading to capitalism. ...
- 1103: The Rise Of Communism In Russi
- ... to socialism. The class struggle of the future would be between the bourgeoisie, who were the capitalist employers, and the proletariat, who were the workers. The struggle would end, according to Marx, in the socialist revolution and the attainment of full communism (Groiler's Encyclopedia). Socialism, of which "Marxism-Leninism" is a takeoff, originated in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted support among the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that time were called intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution broke out over Europe in 1848 the modern working class appeared on the scene as a major historical force. However, Russia remained out of the changes that Europe was experiencing. As a socialist movement and ... of Lenin's long-time lieutenants, Zinovieiv and Kamenev, the Central Committee accepted Lenin's resolution which formally instructed the party organizations to prepare for the seizure of power. Finally, of October 25 the Bolshevik revolution took place to overthrow the provisional government. They did so through the agency of the Military-Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. They forcibly overthrew the provisional government by taking over all of the ...
- 1104: Censorship Of American Music
- By: Nick E-mail: rufrdr3333 Censorship of American Music Although is clearly states in the first amendment that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the ...
- 1105: The Corrruption Of Innocence
- ... authors, but now we come to see it in our lives a lot more frequently. According to authors like Emerson and Salinger, who although wrote their pieces so far apart, feel everyday in life the American Character is faced upon with the corruption of innocence that takes away from their unique American Character. In his book, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger focuses on the theme of innocence for a large amount of time. Holden constantly refers to everyone as being a phony and that ... Salinger, use the role of innocence as a major part we can see that they both have strong opinions on it. So when we search for why is innocence such an important issue in the American character who better to find the answer from but these two who themselves show such a preserved innocence in our sea of corruption. Considering that in their writings they use the constant idea of ...
- 1106: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League" by Scott Anderson, and Jon Lee Anderson "Inside The League: The Shocking Expose Of How Terrorists, Nazis, And Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated The World Anti-Communist League." Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson. Dodd Mead, New York, 1986. 352 pages. $19.95 hardcover. ISBN 0- 396-08517-2. Publication date May 28, 1986. For over ten years progressive researchers in this country and in Europe have been uncovering evidence linking certain American conservatives and rightists to racist and fascist movements around the globe through a shadowy organization called the World Anti-Communist League. Now the book "Inside the League" exposes the hidden nature of the League and ... ideologues marching from the death camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagan's White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson, (Jon Lee's employer but not his relative). Enlisting the aid of his brother Scott, the two first began tracing the connections between the death squads but soon were ...
- 1107: Death Of A Salesman Essay
- ... City and to beg for their meals. Although this is definitely the extreme that I have described. It is sometimes indescribably cruel and other times very gracious. This thing that I write about is the American system. In Arthur Miller's moving and powerful play, "Death of a Salesman", Miller uses many character to contrast the difference between success and failure within the system. Willy is the dreamy salesman whose imagination ... legitimate to ask where Miller is going. And the answer is that he has written a confused play because he has been unwilling or unable to commit himself to a firm position with respect to American culture. Miller prepares us for stock response-relief in escape to the West and the farm; firm satisfaction in the condemnation of the tawdry business ethic.1and then denies us the fulfillment of our expectations ... believe in his own manliness in any mature way. Just as Willy is called a kid throughout, and referred to as the diminutive Willy be everyone except Benn .Happy has been trapped by the infantile American Playboy magazine vision of the male" (Gordon p.324). In contrast, Ben has become extremely successful in life compared to his brother Willy. Ben is the only member of the Loman family to achieve ...
- 1108: Saddam, Iraq, And The Gulf War
- ... common fear of living in a divided society created the Civil War. The need to bring down an aggressive nation took the United States into the Korean War. And territorial disputes lay behind the Mexican-American and American Indian Wars. Like most countries, the United States, at different periods, has been victimized by the dark forces of war. Though reasons (or excuses) the American people have been given to the American people to justify military action were given before most of our wars, not every war has been popular. Ever since the Revolutionary War up until the Vietnam ...
- 1109: Rousseau And The Artists Of Th
- ... philosopher and writer. His book Du Contrat Social, ou Principes du droit politique (Social Contract) published in 1762, emphasised the rights of the people over the government and was a significant influence on the French Revolution . Rousseau believed that people were not social beings by nature. He stated that ‘Society corrupts individuals by bringing out their inclination toward aggression and selfishness’ . Fundamental to Rousseau’s beliefs for the utopia of society ... General Will’, to succeed it was important for the ‘people to respect each other and to see the government as their government ’. Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), was the leading French painter during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era . He painted primarily in the neo-classical style, dealing with serious, moral or intellectual subjects and improving on nature by perfecting it’s forms . It was not uncommon for eighteenth century ... Curiatii and they obey, despite the lamentations of the women’ . The painting is dated 1784, two years before the French government faced bankruptcy and subsequently increased taxes (the traditional start for documentation of the French Revolution ). However, it seem tempting to forge a link between the painting and the presentiment of family against family in revolutionary civil war The painting shows the father encouraging his sons to at the least ...
- 1110: African-American Troops in the Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts
- African-American Troops in the Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts was organized in early 1863 by Robert Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family. Shaw had earlier ...
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