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- 211: A Personal Utopia, Analysis Of
- A Personal Utopia: An Analysis of a Key Passage in Brave New World The key passage of Aldous Huxley’s Brace New World takes place after John has been arrested and is a conversation with Mond. When John and Mond speak of ideal societies, a major part ...
- 212: The Lexus And The Olive Trees
- : The Lexus and The Olive Tree Summary: Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old. The trouble spread to one continent after another like a virus. USA Today On December 8, 1997, the government of Thailand shut down 56 of their countries finance houses. These finance ... out of practically all the Southeast Asian emerging markets, driving down the value of currencies in South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia. Southeast Asian slowdown began to have an important effect on commodity prices around the world, including Russia. Too many of Russia s factories couldn t make anything of value. Without much of a growing economy, the Russian government became dependent on taxes from crude oil and other commodity exports to ... its operating budget. The hedge funds the huge unregulated pools of private capital that search the globe for the best investments were the transmission device from Russia to all the other arising markets in the world, particularly Brazil. The declines in Brazil and the other emerging markets became the delivery that triggered a herdlike stampede into U.S. Treasury bonds. The abrupt drop in the yield on U.S. Treasury ...
- 213: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 to 1953, the despotic ruler who more than any other individual molded the features that characterized the Soviet regime and shaped the direction of Europe after World War II ended in 1945. Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the town of Gori, Georgia, which at the time was part of the vast Russian Empire. He was the third and only surviving ... National Question. Stalin was arrested and sent to Siberia before the essay was published in 1913. Stalin was released from exile upon the overthrow of the Russian monarchy in the February (or March, in the New Style calendar) phase of the Russian Revolution. He went to Petrograd (later Leningrad; now Saint Petersburg), where he became a member of the party’s Central Committee bureau. He then asserted editorial control over the party newspaper, Pravda (Truth). Although he did not play a prominent role in the Bolshevik takeover of the government in October (November, New Style), Stalin became a member of the new government’s Soviet (Council) of People’s Commissars (Russian acronym, Sovnarkom), heading the Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. Given the vital importance of nationality issues at a ...
- 214: Constantinopolis
- ... vermin. This is no trivial assignment even with the best modern technology. Building Materials The availability of suitable materials fostered the crafts to exploit them and influenced the shapes of buildings. Large areas of the world were once forested, and their inhabitants developed carpentry. Although it has become relatively scarce, timber remains an important building material. Many kinds of stone lend themselves to building. Stone and marble were chosen for important ... structural frames stronger than the traditional wooden frames. Moreover, steel rods could be positioned in wet concrete so as to greatly improve the versatility of that material, giving impetus early in the 20th century to new forms facilitated by reinforced concrete construction. The subsequent profusion of aluminum and its anodized coatings provided cladding (surfacing) material that was lightweight and virtually maintenance free. Glass was known in prehistory and is celebrated for ... places where gods can be propitiated or where the multitudes can be instructed in interpretations of belief and can participate in symbolic rituals. Another important purpose has been to provide physical security: Many of the world's most permanent structures were built with defense in mind. Related to defense is the desire to create buildings that serve as status symbols. Kings and emperors insisted on palaces proclaiming power and wealth. ...
- 215: Old Madison Square Garden: Fond Recollections of a True Landmark
- Old Madison Square Garden: Fond Recollections of a True Landmark From the world cup of soccer to the superbowl, people all throughout the world have dreams of being sport stars or even just meeting their favorite athlete. It is in some peoples mind, the ideal american dream. In a time known as the roaring twenties, people throughout New York were working toward the american dream. This dream included a more splendid lifestyle that allowed for freedom and fun. In the middle of the Manhattan burough of New York City was a lively ...
- 216: The Meaning of Society
- ... of all his revolutionary activities he did set a great influence on all communist literature. The situation of the banishment of Marx was very similar to what one of the characters in the book of, “Brave New World”, Bernard Marx, had to experience. This certain character is similar to Karl Marx because of the way in which he didn’t agree with the system that already existed. This caused the World Controller ...
- 217: The United Nations
- The United Nations The United Nations is an organization of sovereign nations not a world government. It provides the machinery to help find solutions to disputes or problems, and to deal with virtually any matter of concern to humanity. It does not legislate like a national parliament. But in the meeting rooms and corridors of the UN, representatives of almost all countries of the world large and small, rich and poor, with varying political views and social systems have a voice and vote in shaping the policies of the international community. The year 1995 marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization. The UN has six main organs, listed below. All are based at UN Headquarters in New York, except the International Court of Justice, which is located at The Hague, Netherlands. The General Assembly The General Assembly, sometimes called the nearest thing to a world parliament, is the main deliberative body. ...
- 218: Margaret Sanger
- ... radiant rebel", Sanger pioneered the birth control movement in the United States at a time when Victorian hypocrisy and oppression through moral standards were at their highest. Working her way up from a nurse in New York's poor Lower East Side to the head of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Margaret Sanger was unwavering in her dedication to the movement that would eventually result in lower infant mortality rates ... a rags to riches story that involves a complete withdrawal from her commitment to the poorer classes. My research indicates that this is not the case; in fact, by all accounts Margaret Sanger was a brave crusader who recognized freedom and choice in a woman's reproductive life as vital to the issue of the liberation of women as a gender. Moreover, after years of being blocked by opposition, Sanger also ... crusader, she became one. A great deal of her early life contributed to the shaping of her views in regards to birth, death, and women. Born Margaret Louise Higgins on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York to Michael and Anne Higgins, she was the sixth of eleven children. Anne Higgins was a devout Catholic while Michael Higgins was a stonemason with iconoclastic ideas and a flair for rebellion. It ...
- 219: Disease In Africa
- Disease in Africa "The fact remains that lowland, tropical Africa may well have the most intractable disease environment in the world."(Bohannan & Curtin,35) In order to understand diseases in Africa, one must first be acquainted with its geology. Africa is a gigantic landmass that is over 5200 miles long and 4600 miles wide. The continent ... which eventually ends in death. In the early 1900s, Uganda experienced devastating losses to its society due to trypanosomiasis. The disease ended up killing over 200,000 people in less than 6 years. "Understandably, the new colonial powers, including Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and King Leopold's Congo Free State, perceived sleeping sickness to be a grave threat to African laborers and taxpayers, which in turn could dramatically reduce the utility of the new territories."(Kiple, 556) Sleeping sickness is still a common disease that usually isn't discovered until severe symptoms set in. Treatment is available today, only if the disease has not caused brain damage. Another ...
- 220: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... Clive Staples Lewis Many people for different reasons know Clive Staples Lewis, from Christianity to his Chronicles of Narnia. Not only was Lewis a writer, but he was also a professor in England and a World War I veteran. Today he is known as C. S. Lewis because many of his works were always published under this name. Lewis's works dealt with Christianity and his constant questioning of his faith ... the younger of two sons in a very Protestant family. His brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, known by his nickname as Warnie, had been born on June 16, 1895. When Lewis turned four, he adopted his new nickname, Jack, and was used for the rest of his life (Gibson 3). In 1905, the family moved to Little Lea, which was a house on the outskirts of Belfast. However Lewis' life turned for ... to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In April of 1917 Lewis began his college career at University College, Oxford. Lewis’s time at the university was short lived until September of that year when World War I broke out. He enlisted in the British army and was sent to Keble College, Oxford, for officer's training (“Douglas Gresham,” About C.S. Lewis. Online.). Lewis was commissioned as a second ...
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