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- 2631: The Statutory Definition of Pornography
- ... the court to allow the expansion of the common law to include the tort of discrimination, and would have allowed the action to proceed. The question of whether the OHRC gave rise to an independent civil action was not entertained given this finding. Laskin CJ. in the Supreme Court of Canada said that the OHRC was meant to supplant the attempt to seek a remedy at common law, not to supplement ... from the propagation of pornography. The relative success at achieving remedies from OHRC provisions, as compared to the reluctance of the government to permit the exercise of the Criminal Code provisions, indicates that retaining a civil right of action for individuals will be the strategically better move for feminists insofar as they are seeking redress. I shall leave discussion of whether this is a tenable feminist political strategy for dealing with ... action for redress can be launched under the ordinance. Even though this is not a theoretical requirement of every system of redress for harm, it is both a theoretical and pragmatic requirement for launching a civil action. The frameworks of criminal law, tort law and the OHRC all presume an identifiable perpetrator of a harm can be identified. Even if it were not a legal requirement for a determination of ...
- 2632: The Life of Deadheads and Music of the Grateful Dead
- ... independence from their elders, to demonstrate their distrust of and disgust for society as their parents embodied it....[Their] ‘counterculture' peaked in the late 1960s, when people under 30 rebelled against American life, the Vietnam War, money, materialism and everyone over 30 (Folkers 6). In their rejection of society, they seem to march forward with a sense that everything would be okay: “Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will ... Armstrong's leap for mankind; Chubby Checker's Twist and Twiggy's mod minis; William Shatner as Kirk and “Heeeer's Johnny!”; then there was Vietnam.... More than any other historical event, it was the war in Vietnam and the arrogant manner in which our government conducted this war which catalyzed the rebelliousness of America's youth, and gave “ splinter groups” a sense of legitimacy. The recent declassification of secret government documents from the Vietnam War era reveal that Presidents Johnson and Nixon, ...
- 2633: Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... therapeutic surrey air. Then they traveled up the Nile River to Sudan, an East African country. This trip later provided the background for The Tragedy of Korosko. They traveled to South Africa during the Boer War in 1900, because Doyle was acting as a war correspondent. While in South Africa, Doyle published a novel called The Great Boer War in 1900. Then other short stories appeared in Cornhill Magazine, such as Some Military Lessons of War, in 1900.24 Following the end of the war, they returned home to Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex. About ...
- 2634: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... therapeutic surrey air. Then they traveled up the Nile River to Sudan, an East African country. This trip later provided the background for The Tragedy of Korosko. They traveled to South Africa during the Boer War in 1900, because Doyle was acting as a war correspondent. While in South Africa, Doyle published a novel called The Great Boer War in 1900. Then other short stories appeared in Cornhill Magazine, such as Some Military Lessons of War, in 1900.24 Following the end of the war, they returned home to Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex. About ...
- 2635: What Is Postmodernism
- ... even sees political leaders as becoming themselves simulacra having no real power or ability to change things. Power has disappeared and nobody can therefore exercise it. The main reason for this is nuclear weapons. A war is pointless due to the fact that both countries would be destroyed at the push of a button. Baudrillard s writings have been criticised for being highly abstract, however his view is in my view ... world powers what can either side do? If either side were to launch a nuclear attack the other side would retaliate. Threats can be made in the form of selling the image of a nuclear war, but in reality which side would launch such an attack in the certain knowledge that a similar attack will be coming straight back? Reality has died and we are merely left with images. Baudrillard even cites the Gulf War as something that did not take place. He admits that there was some military action but argues that this was merely presented by the media as a war. It was not a war in ...
- 2636: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World War II he served a brief tour of active duty with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific (1941-42) but returned to Capitol Hill when Roosevelt recalled members of Congress from active duty. Johnson continued ... that proved to be Johnson's undoing as president. It deflected attention from domestic concerns, resulted in sharp inflation, and prompted rising criticism, especially among young, draft-aged people. Escalation also failed to win the war. The drawn-out struggle made Johnson even more secretive, dogmatic, and hypersensitive to criticism. Confronted by mounting opposition, Johnson made two surprise announcements on Mar. 31, 1968: he would stop the bombing in most ...
- 2637: Hemingway And Camus
- ... Arms serves as a precursor to The Outsider in many ways. Frederic Henry must lose faith in the several sources of meaning which he traditionally turns to: church, state, language, love. His experience during the war shakes his belief in these structures and institutions, leading, ultimately, to the composition of the novel in the Modernist mode. Meursault, on the other hand, seems not to place much faith in those structures and ... importance to the existence of these two fictional narratives, A Farewell to Arms and The Outsider. Death plays an important, one might say necessary, part in both novels, too: Frederic Henry is, of course, in war and witness to death many times, wounded himself, and loses Catherine; Meursault's story begins with his mother's death, he later kills an Arab, and then is himself tried and sentenced to death. In ... the world. The skepticism raised by the famous passage in Hemingway about the embarrassment felt by Frederic Henry when confronted with the emptiness of the conventional vocabulary is sharpened by Camus, writing after one more war, who condemns not only the inflated language of society, but also its institutions, with irrelevance at least and mendacity at worst. Frederic Henry finds "sacred, glorious, and sacrifice" to be embarrassing because they have ...
- 2638: A Separate Peace
- ... obsessively against their imaginary enemy. They develop a particular frame of mind in order to allay the fear that arises while facing their nonexistent enemy. In the novel, the protagonist, Gene, tries to fight a war with his best friend, Finny, not realizing that the enemy he sees is not Finny but is his own insecurity. At the beginning Gene believes that Finny is actually his enemy who is trying to ... to find his own value. Gene also realize that wars-both the wars there at Devon, such as between him and his imaginary rival, Finny; and the wars fought at other places, such as World War II-are caused "by something ignorant in the human heart." Gene feels "only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere." This ignorance in the human heart ... sense, the battles they fight are against their ignorance. This internal conflict is essential in terms of people recognizing themselves and growing out of the shadow of their own weaknesses. In the novel, Gene's war is fought between mself and the desire to change himself. He sees the god-like Finny as an idol, and wants to become just like him. He follows Finny to jump from the tree, ...
- 2639: A Look Into The Human Mind. Sl
- ... ends up displayed in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore making love to Earth porno-star, Montana Wildhack. He ends up in the cellar of a slaughterhouse when Dresden is bombed to ashes during World War II; Billy, his fellow Americans, and four guards were the only ones to live through the bombing. The Boston Globe best explains the book when it says it is “…poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement” (back cover). Vonnegut looks into the human mind of a man, traumatized by war experiences and poor relations with his father, and determines insanity is the result. Billy’s father is a source of his instability from the beginning. Mr. Pilgrim treats Billy as if he has no feelings ... coincidentally, have many similarities with the “alien” encounter and the “time traveling” Billy often experiences. The encounters are barricades Billy puts around himself so he does not have to face the reality of death and war. They are a way of shielding him so he can pretend everything is all right and there really is no death. Many times throughout the book, Vonnegut indicates that the “encounters” are merely figments ...
- 2640: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... had acquired a lot of my kin- by purchase, and swapping around, and one way and another- and was getting along very well. Then, with the inborn perversity of your lineage, you got up a war, and took them all away from me. And so, again am I bereft, again am I forlorn; no drop of my blood flows in the veins of any living being who is marketable. O my ... longer so bad be. Doch noch eins. I might gladly the separable verb also a little bit reform. I might none do let what Schiller did: he has the whole history of the Thirty Years' War between the two members of a separable verb in-pushed. That has even Germany itself aroused, and one has Schiller the permission refused the History of the Hundred Years' War to compose- God be it thanked! After all these reforms established be will, will the German language the noblest and the prettiest on the world be. Since to you now, my gentlemen, the character ...
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