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- 991: King Of The Seas
- By: li-c From the many inventions that emerged from the American Civil War, the Ironclad, designed by Captain John Ericsson and Robert L. Stevens, has impacted the world by advancing naval warfare technology. It gave America more influence in Europe and put America ahead of Europe ... long and drawn out. Although neither one emerged victorious, the world began to see what a major improvement in warfare these ironclads were. A reporter from the Norfolk Day wrote: This work will create a revolution in naval warfare. Americas improvement has impacted naval history in a way that no other invention ever has! (Davis,135) Many times in United States history the major nations of the world, such as England ... Mac Bride,43) In the past people have often thought of naval ships as only tools of war. Many never considered that a ship could be useful in improving foreign policy and in pushing for American influence, but when Europe heard about this invention they began to realize that America had an adequate navy and the largest and finest # destroyers in the world. Europe began to recognize America as a ...
- 992: Causes of The First World War
- ... 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 ...
- 993: Was Colonial Culture Uniquely
- "Was Colonial Culture Uniquely American?" "There were never, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel." Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son, February 22nd, 1748. Colonial culture was uniquely American simply because of the unique factors associated with the development of the colonies. Never before had the conditions that tempered the colonists been seen. The unique blend of diverse environmental factors and peoples caused the ... equal to that of the middle colonies (Sarcelle, 1965). The weather permitted both long growing seasons and tropical diseases (Brinkley, 1995). The people of the southern colonies were the most loyal to England during the Revolution. The dominant religious group of the South was the Anglican establishment. The culture of the southern colonies developed accordingly. The people took advantage of the long growing season and tobacco became the number one ...
- 994: The Goals and Failures of the First and Second Reconstructions
- ... whose major goal was unifying the nation. The fifth element were various fringe groups such as, abolitionists and Quakers. Strongly motivated by principle and a belief in equality, they believed that Blacks needed equality in American society, although they differed on what the nature of that should be.6 The Northern Radical Republicans, with a majority in Congress, emerged as the political group that set the goals for Reconstruction which was ... anger and separatism. If we fail to bridge this divide the question of the Twenty-First century like the Twentieth will be that of the color line. Endnotes 1 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) p.228. 2 Ibid. pp.124-125. 3 Eli Ginzberg and Alfred S. Eichner, Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black Americans (London: Transaction Publishers, 1993) p. 148. 4 Ibid. p. 152. 5 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) pp.229-231. 6 Daniel J. Mcinerney, The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and the Republican Party (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994) p.151. 7 Eric Foner, ...
- 995: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... mentioned in the poems, the majority of his works being somewhat biographical. It is said that Allen Ginsberg was ahead of his time, but in fact he was just riding the wave of a literature revolution. The decade of the 1950s was a time of change. America and the world was experiencing a transition from innocence to a more knowledgeable society. Revolutions in all aspects of life were going on ... you are madder than I am" This final section of the poem unfolds as once again Ginsberg uses the image of Golgotha in "where you accuse your doctors of insanity and plot the Hebrew socialist revolution against fascist national Golgotha" The most obvious of techniques in "Howl", and in the last part is the use of repetition. "It is Biblical in its repetitive grammatical buildup. It is a howl against everything ... Poems City Lights Books San Francisco 1961 Hyde, Lewis (Editor) On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor, MI 1984 Merill, Thomas. Allen Ginsberg Twayne Publishers Boston 1988 Stephanchev, Stephen. American Poetry Since 1945 Harper and Row Publishers New York 1965 Turco, Lewis. Visions and Revisions of American Poetry The University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville, AK 1986 Footnotes 1) Eberhart, Richard "West Coast Rhythms" from ...
- 996: Marxist Analysis Of Thomas Cro
- ... bourgeoisie was displayed as an unattainable position. It is a position that was out of reach during that time due to the fact that the period from the depression through the Vietnam war killed the American Dream. Back then it was not a matter of idealizing them but fearing them and staying out of their path. The new Thomas Crown is used to show a member of the bourgeoisie so successful ... to keep the lower-class down, and does not apply to the upper-class. Both versions of the Thomas Crown Affair perpetuate this theory. Another aspect of these movies which displays an important aspect of American culture is the fact that throughout the entire movie the pursuers of Thomas Crown, with the exception of Vicky Anderson (1968) and Katherine Banning (1999), are blue collar police officers who are members of the proletariat. Society dictates that the proletariat cannot defeat the bourgeoisie. "Simply as a Marxist-Leninist morality play, one notices a conspicuous absence: the triumph of the revolution is not portrayed" (Berger, "Film" 81). The revolution in this case would be the hunting the culprit of the respective crimes by the police officers. The end of both movies involves Thomas Crown pulling ...
- 997: Computers In Society
- ... to them more readily. In 1438 Johannes Gutenberg wanted a cheaper way to produce handwritten Bibles. His moveable type fostered a spread in literacy, and advance of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of the industrial revolution . Although most of the time technology changes at far too gradual a rate, slipping past our fingers, causing us to move on, and carry this new technology with us, seemingly in the same form as ... When an effect is exponential, those last three days mean a whole lot. We are now approaching the last three days in the spread of computing and digital telecommunications. In the same fashion 35% of American and Canadian families, and 50%of American and Canadian teenagers have a personal computer at home; 30 million people are estimated to be on the Internet; 65 percent of new computers sold worldwide in 1994 were for the home; and 90 ...
- 998: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... White House and Congress. Haiti was also important to the US as a possible dumping ground for freed slaves following the war (their reason for recognizing Liberia as well in the same year).(5) The revolution was followed by almost 200 other revolutions, coups, insurrections and civil wars due largely to the fact that the new elites treated the rural peasants just like the French had before them. For example despite ... of the people. This was the same year that US President Kennedy funnelled in large amounts of military aid and financed the Francois Duvalier International Airport in return for Haitian support in the Organization of American States (OAS) vote to expel Cuba from their ranks.(10) In 1971 the US Ambassador to Haiti, Clinton Knox, personally supervised the transition from Papa Doc to his son Jean-Claude'Baby Doc' Duvalier. Both ... and distribution of basic commodities such as oil, flour, matches and tobacco. He made "their personal fortune the very raison d'etre of state revenues."(11) Some of these fortunes came with the advent of American light manufacturers being successfully wooed by Baby Doc in the late 1970s and 1980s. By 1986 the country was ripe for a popular revolution again, in spite of, or because of, massive state repression ...
- 999: Pierre Elliot Trudeau's Federalism and the French Canadians
- ... 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 ...
- 1000: Causes Of World War I
- ... 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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