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- 1451: Social Criticism in Literature
- ... animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best ... and the government in 1917-44 Russia. For example, Old Major, who invented the idea of "animalism," is seen as representing Karl Marx, the creator of communism. Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revolution. He was driven out by Napoleon, who represents Stalin, the most powerful figure in the country. Napoleon then proceeded to remove the freedoms of the animals, and established a dictatorship, under the public veil ...
- 1452: The 1920's
- ... with cultural activity. In her book, Terribly Honest, she observed: "Imports [during 1918] dropped dramatically, but the economy, stimulated by the demands of foreign nations at war, filled its own needs effortlessly. This imbalance between American and European accounts was one of the precipitating causes of the Crash of 1929, and it persisted long after the Depression was over." Herbert Hoover, a Republican, was president from 1928 to 1933. He was ... was no unemployment compensation then. People ran out of hope, housing, and money. Very much the same sequence occurred in Europe, and depletion of investment capital reduced the buying power of the European consumer. The American export market weakened, and there was really not much European industry could export to acquire dollars. American industry needed help. Within months of the Great Crash of 1929, industry demanded protection. They got it in the form of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. By imposing a stiff tariff on ...
- 1453: Abraham Lincoln
- ... obvious--he entered politics, finishing eighth out of thirteen in a race for the Illinois House of Representatives in August of 1832. Abraham Lincoln was a strong supporter of Whig founder Henry Clay and his "American System." This system that arose from the National Rebublicans of 1824 was in opposition to the powerful Democratic party of President Andrew Jackson. Lincoln agreed with Clay that the government should be a positive force ... in those places. It had to be classified as a "military measure," such as depriving the South of the services of her slaves. Lincoln realized that in order to peacefully integrate the former slaves into American society he decided to train them as regular soldiers, and they fought gallantly. Some 186,000 colored troops had been enrolled in the Union army by the end of the war. The famous poet Henry ... It was Good Friday, April 14, 1865, only five days after the end of the war. Despite numerous warnings from some of his closest advisors, President Lincoln insisted on attending an evening performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater. Since General Grant was expected to attend the play with President Lincoln, the President's attendance was highly publicized. John Wilkes Booth, a staunch Southern supporter, was a well ...
- 1454: Concentration Camps
- ... used Military style concentration camps. Spain had a series of concentration camps in Cuba. These camps were headed and planed by the Spanish general, General Valeriano. General Valeriano used the camps to suppress the Cuban Revolution. He did this by taking the Cuban civilians and imprisoning them. By doing this he kept revolution army leaders from attacking due to the fear that the imprisoned Cuban civilians would be killed. The conditions in the Spanish Concentration Camps were terrible. Many of the prisoners died. They died of diseases and exposure to the elements. The English can almost be considered the fathers of concentration camps. They had some of the earliest concentration camps. In fact they have had concentration camps dating back to the American Revolutionary War. Andrew Jackson and his brother were put in to these camps as children. A more well known and documented example of English cruelty with concentration camps is the Boer camps. In 1901 ...
- 1455: Karl Marx
- ... 1848, Engels and Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto, a document outlining 10 immediate measures towards Communism, "ranging from a progressive income tax and the abolition of inheritances to free education for all children." When the Revolution erupted in Europe in 1848, Marx was invited to Paris just in time to escape expulsion by the Belgian government. He became unpopular to German exiles when, while in Paris, he opposed Georg Hewegh's ... as an alien" by the Prussian government. Marx then went to London. There, he rejoined the Communist League and became more bold in his revolutionary policy. He advocated that the people try to make the revolution "permanent" and that they should avoid subservience to the bourgeois peoples. The faction that he belonged to ridiculed his ideas and he stopped attending meetings of the London Communists, working on the defense of 11 ... of the society hoard their money which, because that money is out of circulation, causes more money to be printed. The one increases the effect of the other and thus, the downward spiral. Marx views revolution with two perspectives. One takes the attitude that revolution should be a great uprising like that of the French revolution. The other "conception" is that of the "permanent revolution" involving a "provisional coalition" between ...
- 1456: The Importance of Gender Conflicts Literature to Society Past and Present
- ... to males women throughout the passage of time have found themselves fighting our male dominated society in order to gain their rights and remedies in the legal system and society itself. At one time in American society, women were not permitted to own property, were discouraged from seeking higher education and were relegated to home and hearth. Men were hunter and women were gatherers. World War II and the subsequent Industrial Revolution put women into the American workforce, not only in large numbers, but also for the first time in American history, in jobs that were traditionally male dominated positions. The war effort actively recruited the women due to lack of ...
- 1457: Thomas Jefferson
- ... to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786. Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793. Sharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic ... cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean. Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803. During Jefferson's second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen. Jefferson's attempted solution, an embargo upon American shipping, worked badly and was unpopular. Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. A French ...
- 1458: The Difference Between W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington's Philosophies
- ... in many ways. Washington felt that Negroes must learn to do useful and practical things. While DuBois believed in higher education of a "Talented Tenth" who through their knowledge of modern culture could guide the American Negro into a higher civilization. W.E.B. DuBois was the most influential critic of Booker T. Washington's policy of racial accommodation and gradualism. He showed a genuine concern for the development of his ... congressional actions in the opening and training of Black officers, legal actions against lynchers, and set up a federal work plan for returning veterans in the United States. Nevertheless, Washington was the most prominent African-American in the country, and a number of Presidents, as well as business leaders relied on Washington as an advisor. Other African-American leaders and intellectuals such as the most notably W.E.B. DuBois, resented Washington's message of political accommodation in favor of economic progress and distrusted his reliance on wealthy white Northerners for assistance. ...
- 1459: Nicaragua: People and Way of Life
- Nicaragua: People and Way of Life Most Nicaraguans are mestizos. That is that they have white and Indian ancestors. There way of life is somewhat similar to that of Spanish Americans in other Central American countries. Most people belong to the Roman Catholic Church and speak Spanish. Most of Nicaragua's people are poor farmers. Many of those in the Pacific Region are peasants who work on their own farms ... teachers. Nicaragua has two universities. The national University of Nicaragua, in Le’n and Managua, is the older and larger one. It was founded in 1812 and has more than seven thousand students. The Central American University is a Roman Catholic institution in Managua. Government A president heads the government of Nicaragua. The people elect the president and a legislature called the National Assembly. The president appoints a Cabinet to help ... our own government. The president, most of the Cabinet members, and the majority of the National Assembly members belong to a political party called the Sandinista National Liberation Front. In 1979, the Sandinistas led a revolution that overthrew the government of the Somoza family, which had long ruled Nicaragua. From 1979 to 1984 the Sandinistas controlled the government largely through a three-member junta, or a ruling body. The president ...
- 1460: Mexico
- ... a wealth of different soil and plant species as well as being rich in mineral resources. Mexico has a rich history in music and art and their culture is a rich, complex blend of Native American, Spanish and American traditions. The people of Mexico were developing art and cultures long before the Spanish thought of discovering the New World. Their cultures were far ahead of any European cultures at that time. Many different peoples ... which brings to mind the balmy weather of this region. Also, in Mexico the Corridos are very typical. These are ballads that recount stories and legends and are probably Mexico's most outstanding contribution to American folk music. Mexico has an incredible variety of traditional dances. There are dances to the gods as well as waltzes brought by the French and Spaniards. Also, the two have blended together in a ...
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