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- 2161: Evolution Of Canada
- ... federal system of government, in which the provinces enjoy a large measure of autonomy. Land and Economy. The 2nd-largest country in the world (after the USSR), Canada occupies the N half of the North American continent, stretching E and W from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans, N from the 49th parallel to the North Pole, including all the islands in the Arctic Ocean from W of Greenland to Alaska. It ... the population is of British descent. About 30% is French, descended from the colonists who came to Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries, and now heavily concentrated in Quebec and New Brunswick. During the American Revolution many British loyalists fled to Canada from the United States, and after 1900 waves of immigrants from Germany, the Ukraine, and Italy settled on the prairie farmlands or the urban centers. Native Indians have ...
- 2162: The Computer and Mass Communication
- ... able to create a community with that virtual system (HREF 3). Access to the Internet has even empowered disadvantaged communities within society as shown at HREF 4. It was discussed how a group of African-American women from a low-income housing development in North Carolina used online communication to attempt to challenge not only the immediate issue of adequate housing but their position within the unequal power relationship between African-American women and white elite-dominated institutions. Use of online communication afforded the women an opportunity to operate outside the local and exclusive pathways of information, discourse and social action controlled by the institution of the ... 6). The emergence of cyberspace challenges the horizons and the habits of print- based culture. It is now more than five hundred years since the printing press was introduced, and with it came a social revolution in the Western world and the foundations of contemporary society (Spender, 1995). As Marshall McLuhan suggested in the 1960s, the content of any new medium is precisely the old medium that it has replaced; ...
- 2163: George Orwell
- ... This novel was intended to depict the inevitable course of all revolutions especially the Soviet Union.("George" Discovering 2+) Animal Farm a modern beast-fable attacking Stalinism("Orwell" Grolier n.pag.). The history of the revolution betrayed in the animal world is based partly on what Orwell had seen of the communist usurpation of power in Spain and partly on what he read of the Russian Revolution(Woodcock 21). In 1947, Orwell said that "Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole ... of hope that people will survive attacks by the greedy and powerful("Orwell" Grolier n.pag.). Although Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal Farm brought Orwell much success, it also brought him troubles. Particularly in the American society. They saw his dislike toward totalitarianism but they failed to note his interest in humane socialism and praised him as a conservative anti-Communist.("George" Discovering 14) Nineteen Eighty-four was not meant ...
- 2164: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... greatest military force in the world at that time. The 18th century witnessed the height of the British Empire, but the rough band of colonial freedom fighters discovered the power of the Minuteman, the average American gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and bear arms a constitutionally guaranteed right. Over the years, ...
- 2165: Condemnation of the Church and Foreign Intervention
- ... of opposing the government is prosecuted so that the government may receive funds from the United States In the film Quemada the island can serve as a metaphor of Latin America with foreign intervention, and revolution. By the British allowing the people of Quemada to be free they are forced to trade with the British otherwise their economy will collapse, Walker mentions the metaphor of a wife and a hooker, A ... directly depend on a husband for care, but she must depend on a customer for her survival. A prostitute provides equal results with less supervision. I think that this film is a representative of Latin American nation. All though the nations are independent they depend on foreign nations which in this case is the United States. The United States can reap the wealth of Latin America without conquering the territory; Latin ... United States went back to trading with Europe there was no longer a need to expose Miranda. In Cuba where institutions such as the church do not have the power they do in other Latin American countries. I think Cuba has progressed impressively. Burns includes an article from the Los Angeles Times by Frank Mankiewiez “ I traveled throughout Cuba ...during that time I did not see one shoeless child or ...
- 2166: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... greatest military force in the world at that time. The 18th century witnessed the height of the British Empire, but the rough band of colonial freedom fighters discovered the power of the Minuteman, the average American gun owner. These Minutemen, so named because they would pick up their personal guns and jump to the defense of their country on a minute's notice, served a major part in winning the American Revolution. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and bear arms a constitutionally guaranteed right. Over the years, ...
- 2167: Veterans People To Remember
- ... in our Nation's history. Most Americans are privileged to have friends, family members, and colleagues whom they can personally thank, on this significant day, for their military service. Since the birth of our Nation, American soldiers, sailors, Marines and pilots have showed heroism, courage, and daring during wartime. Veterans' Day is a reminder to the rest of us of the sacrifices they have made on our behalf. Veterans' Day is ... recognize the challenges faced, and sacrifices made, by those who serve during what passes for peacetime in today's, and tomorrow's, ever-changing the unstable world. The men and women who serve in our American Army are among our best and our brightest. The many soldiers who have risked their life toward the benefit of our country have earned our respect and our thanks. Ceremonies, speeches, displaying the flag, visiting ... we can use at our willing. Without our veterans, we would not enjoy the rights that we so often take for granted. Finally, I hope all of us will honor Men and Women in Vietnam, Revolution, the world wars, and others not mentioned. Everyone should set away some time, for a few moments on Veterans Day, and every day, to remember those millions of service members, not with sorrow or ...
- 2168: Rockefeller
- John Davison Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller is part of the family of American Industrialists, bankers, and philanthropists. Corporate development during the Industrial Revolution was made in part by entrepreneurs who were the people who took responsibility for the organization and operation of a new business venture. Rockefeller was born in 1839 and died in 1937. He established an ... He founded things such as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and the Univ. of Chicago. His vast resources built up the National City Bank of New York. Basically he contributed quite a lot to American society so lets leave it at that. To sum this all up Rockefeller created extremely successful companies, he used unscrupulous (or in our uneducated tongue "corrupt") methods in some aspect of his corporation building ...
- 2169: Walt Whitman 2
- During the time period that Walter Whitman lived, there were many controversial things happening to the American people as a whole. One of the most strenuous upon society at the time was the Civil War. The Civil War created many problems in the lives of most Americans during this time period. This ... as in I Hear America Singing (Whitman, 3). For some reason, Whitman enjoyed many of the strong workers that did the manual labor for the steel mills, and many other strenuous jobs. This time in American history was nowhere near the homosexual revolution, so by saying this, Walt was ahead of his time. Him being gay and all made him even more of activist, and more outspoken to the public. After the war had occurred, the South ...
- 2170: Social Darwinism
- ... February 1838. In particular, the following statement from the notebook provides valuable insight: In July opened first notebook on transmutation of species. Had been greatly struck from about the previous March on character of South American fossils, and species of Galapagos Archipelago. These facts (especially latter), origin of all my views. Therefore, it must have been at this time that Darwin's ideas took this turn. Furthermore, had the change occurred ... and the book's impact was felt almost immediately. In the mid nineteenth century English society where science was a popular topic of conversation, the book competed with such dinner party topics as the Italian revolution. Even those who most bitterly despised its content were quick to concede its importance. Within the scientific community the book was creating a new paradigm that threatened to disrupt the existing status quo. The mood ... each of whom saw in it evidence for their own ideology. Alongside the likes of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, Darwin has rightly earned his place in history as one of the giants of the scientific revolution. Bibliography 1: Microsoft Encarta, Charles Darwin 2: Britanica Online, www.britanica.com, Charles Darwin and Darwinism
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