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- 981: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- ... needs of each diverse interest group and faction rising within the province and ultimately buckled underneath the increasing pressure. Many Francophones believed that they were being discriminated and treated unfairly due to the British North American Act which failed to recognize the unique nature of the province in its list of provisions. Trudeau, with the aid of several colleagues, fought the imminent wave of social chaos in Quebec with anti-clerical ... in Canada. Trudeau candidly lambastes and ridicules the Federal Government's inability to recognize the economic and linguistic differences in Quebec. He defends the province by stating that "The language provisions of the British North American Act are very limited" and therefore believes that they continue to divide the country and aid the nationalist movement in Quebec. Using an informal, first person writing approach, Trudeau makes it clear that his words ... Trudeau are quite blatant through his immense historical knowledge and political shrewdness). Although he brings up the possible implications of a rejected Federalist state, he seems to scorn and laugh at the idea; "Separatism a revolution? My eye. A counter-revolution; the national socialist counter-revolution". Such passages are indicative of the attitude Trudeau held towards the political disorder of his own country and magnifies his disgust towards the sluggish ...
- 982: History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan.
- History of Turkish Occupation of Northern Kurdistan. Since 1984, and especially the last few months, the domestic problems of a major N.A.T.O, Middle Eastern, and American ally state have come to the forefront of the international news scene. That state is the Republic of Turkey and it's primary troubles stem from the past seven decades of acrimonious policies directed at ... dependence of women." A great amount of the P.K.K military force were female. The P.K.K also believed the only way to attain freedom and independence were through violence, much like the American and French revolution of mid 1700s. To conceive the P.K.K as completely leftist is untrue, they have adapted the Communist theme of ideology to counter-weight the Turkish entity as a NATO state, so it ...
- 983: The Roots of Judaism and Christianity
- ... time Moses Mendelssohn and a few other Jews were urging their coreligionists to acquire secular education and prepare themselves to participate in the national life of their countries. Such trends were intensified by the French Revolution. The French National Assembly granted (1791) Jews citizenship, and Napoleon I, although not free from prejudice, extended these rights to Jews in the countries he conquered, and the ghettos were abolished. After Napoleon's fall ... and Austria, even after 1870, discriminated against Jews in military and academic appointments; in these countries much popular hostility continued, now called Anti-Semetism and supposedly justified on racial rather than religious grounds. In the American colonies the Jews had suffered relatively minor disabilities; with the founding of the United States, Jews became full citizens- - although in a few states discriminatory laws had to be fought. Jews entered the life of ... settlement was later made smaller. From 1881 on, anti-Jewish riots, tolerated and sometimes instigated by the government, sent thousands fleeing to Western Europe and the Americas. Because Russia refused to honor the passports of American Jews, the United States abrogated a trade treaty in 1913. In response to these policies, new trends appeared in Russian Jewry. A movement of Jewish nationalism expressed itself in a revival of Hebrew as ...
- 984: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- ... asked his chief to let him search for the priest who, as the authorities understood it, was guilty of treason. Two photographs were pasted up together in police station. One was the picture of an American bank robber who killed several police officers in Texas; the other was that of the priest. No one noticed the irony, including the young lieutenant, who was more interested in arresting the priest. When the ... few words of Spanish. She wanted to make him understand that something was wrong with her child. He went with her and found that the baby had been shot; his immediate guess was that the American bandit had done the deed. After making rites over the child, Father Montez continued his flight. He went into the next state, where he was given sanctuary by a German plantation owner. After resting a few days, he planned to go to a city and there tell about his problems to his bishop. Before he could leave, however, he was found by the mestizo, who said that the American bandit, a Catholic, was dying and needed the priest. Father Montez answered the call, even though he was sure he was being led into trap. The bandit was really dying, but he was in ...
- 985: Thomas Paine
- ... right of representation in the Parliament at Westminster. Then he went one massive step further, he decided there was no reason for the Colonies to stay dependent on England. He published his opinions in the American independence pamphlet Common Sense. In Common Sense Paine states that sooner or later Independence from England must come, because America had lost touch with the mother country. He felt that the function of government in ... bright red military uniforms that they wore looked great, but made them extra easy targets, in the misty New England days. While under General Washington's command, Paine started work on the first of his American Crisis papers, which were later published between the years of 1776 and 1783 In these papers he wrote of how Americans must be willing to give it their all
"These are the times that try ... respect if they had a hard time overcoming it. "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly." In 1787 Thomas Paine left for England, when the French Revolution broke out. Originally intending to raise money for a bridge he was building, Paine was sidetracked and became deeply involved in the French Revolution. He began publishing The Rights Of Man in which he ...
- 986: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... The publication of The Grapes of Wrath caused a nationwide uproar. This account of the migrant workers was taken more of a social document than as fiction. Some saw it as "a distorted call to revolution." As stated in Masterpieces of World Literature, "As a social document, the novel presents such a vivid picture of oppression and misery that one tends to doubt its authenticity." Daryl F. Zanuck even hired private ... of the novel, and his agents also reported that the conditions were much worse than Steinbeck had reported. Freeman Champney remarked that the novel "looked as if nothing could avert an all-out battle between revolution and fascism in California's great valleys." The social injustice depicted in the novel was depicted so sharply that Steinbeck was even accused of being a revolutionary. An Oklahoma congressman disliked the novel saying that ... ongoing theme throughout the novel: the transformation from the "I" form of thinking into the "we" form of thinking that results in the formation of a culture rather than a family. As the Twentieth-Century American Literature book declares, "The more one reads The Grapes of Wrath, the more thoroughly one knows the many ramifications of its informing theme, the more perfect and moving seems the novel's ending. Here ...
- 987: Cause And Effect Of Wwi
- ... powers towards this explosive war." According to the article above, the author stresses that the nationalism was one of the primary causes of the war. In the ninetieth and twentieth centuries, especially after the French Revolution nationalism was becoming a powerful force in Europe so people that had the same culture, language wanted their own country. And that was the problem for the government of Austria-Hungary that did not want ... them to blockade Britain by sinking British ships. The sinking of Lusitania is the famous example of the submarine warfare during the World War I. The Lusitania had civilians on board, where 100 passengers were American citizens. After sinking Lusitania a letter was sent to the German Government by President Wilson to warn the German government against killing Americans citizens. In October 1915 Ottoman Turkish Empire enters war on German side ... America was still not involved in the war. Fateful year of 1917 marked the beginning of the modern world. Several important events took place in 1917. First and the most important event was the Russian Revolution and the rise of a Communist Power in the World. The same year America enters the war against Germany. Two great non-European leaders with two different ideas of what is good for humanity ...
- 988: Chinese Economic Reform under Communist Rule
- ... it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the ... As Susan L. Shirk describes the situation in The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, restoring the CCP's prestige required improving economic performance and raising living standards. The traumatic experience of the Cultural Revolution had eroded popular trust in the moral and political virtue of the CCP. The party's leaders decided to shift the base of party legitimacy from virtue to competence, and to do that they had ... of acquisition. 'Some people worry: Won't we be suffering losses by letting foreigners make profits in our country?'" (52). The Chinese were as vociferous about issues of sovereignty. Nathan maintained that the Mao- led revolution, which culminated in victory in 1949, had been fueled by "an intense patriotism: ... once China had 'stood up,' no infringement on its sovereignty, no matter how small, should be permitted" (53). These feelings were ...
- 989: Computers and Society
- ... engine were to be done through the use of punched cards. Even though Babbage worked on the analytical engine for nearly 40 years, he never actually made a working machine. In 1889 Herman Hollerith, an American inventor, patented a calculating machine that counted, collated, and sorted information stored on punched cards. His machine was first used to help sort statistical information for the 1890 United States census. In 1896 Hollerith founded ... 1943, the Colossus was the computer that British cryptographers used to break secret German military codes. The first modern general-purpose electronic computer was ENIAC or the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. Designed by two American engineers, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, Jr., ENIAC was first used at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. The invention of the transistor in 1948 brought about a revolution in computer development, vacuum tubes were replaced by small transistors that generated little heat and functioned perfectly as switches. Another big breakthrough in computer miniaturization came in 1958, when Jack Kilby designed the first ...
- 990: The Causes of World War 1, and the Battles
- ... powers towards this explosive war." According to the article above, the author stresses that the nationalism was one of the primary causes of the war. In the ninetieth and twentieth centuries, especially after the French Revolution nationalism was becoming a powerful force in Europe so people that had the same culture, language wanted their own country. And that was the problem for the government of Austria-Hungary that did not want ... them to blockade Britain by sinking British ships. The sinking of Lusitania is the famous example of the submarine warfare during the World War I. The Lusitania had civilians on board, where 100 passengers were American citizens. After sinking Lusitania a letter was sent to the German Government by President Wilson to warn the German government against killing Americans citizens. In October 1915 Ottoman Turkish Empire enters war on German side ... America was still not involved in the war. Fateful year of 1917 marked the beginning of the modern world. Several important events took place in 1917. First and the most important event was the Russian Revolution and the rise of a Communist Power in the World. The same year America enters the war against Germany. Two great non- European leaders with two different ideas of what is good for humanity ...
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