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- 6761: Upper And Lower Canada
- ... et des libertés démocratiques pour quatre ans. 1700 prisonniers dans un Bas-Canada de 630 000 habitants c'est, en proportion de la population, comme si on avait incarcéré 17 000 personnes lors des événements d'octobre 1970, soit 30 fois plus. Voilà qui donne la juste mesure à ces événements. La plus vaste opération policière de l'histoire du Québec. Les Patriotes : à quoi ça sert. C'est en tout cas un véritable modèle de mobilisation populaire, sans égal dans notre histoire, qui a conduit ce peuple, vaincu par la Conquête, 70 ans plus tôt, à se soulever d'un bloc, au péril de son existence, pour réclamer certains droits ma foi très élevés. Bien que confiné au district de Montréal, cette mobilisation fut massive et intense, en particulier au sud de la province ...
- 6762: A Tale of Two Cities: Love or Hate
- ... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before you – self-flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misuse as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you to misery, bring you to sorrow and repentance, blight you, disgrace you pull you down with him. This shows that Mr. Carton does ... to imagine that love could overcome in a place where everything was filled with hate. In a place where murder and violence possessed everyone, a place where they can kill fifty-two people in one day, it is amazing to think that anything but hate could by a product of all this. But as Dickens says, “…love always so much stronger than hate” Pg.397 always finds a way to prevail ...
- 6763: Bad Choosers
- ... It is stereotypically a woman's position, while the children go to school, to stay home, go shopping, watch television (including her favorite soap operas), and do whatever comes to mind the rest of the day. Theoretically, a woman's day is complete and satisfying. Should she feel sheltered or isolated, she is fully welcome to venture out and about among society. Should she feel incomplete or hollow, she is wholly able to stay home and ...
- 6764: Killer Angels Civil War Book
- ... he accepted a position at Bowdoin teaching rhetoric. A good scholar, he was also an orthodox Congregationalist, an important factor to his Bowdoin colleagues, for the College was embroiled in the denominational quarrels of the day. Chamberlain knew little of soldiering despite a short time as a boy at a military school at Ellsworth. When the sectional crisis led to civil war in 1861, Chamberlain felt a strong urge to fight ... services to Maine's governor. He was soon made lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He is best remembered for two great events: the action at Little Round Top, on the second day of Gettysburg (2 July 1863), when then-Colonel Chamberlain and the 20th Maine held the extreme left flank of the Union line against a fierce rebel attack, and the surrender of Lee's Army of ...
- 6765: Bob Dylan
- ... very few people did there own songs back then. Around the same time though, Dylan was starting to find his song writing voice, and his second album, THE FREEWHELIN' BOB DYLAN, (my favorite Dylan C.D.) consisted of all but two songs that weren't written by him. The song BLOWIN IN THE WIND became, and still remains the fastest selling single in Warner Brothers history. This type of protest song ... n' roll roots (by incorporating the electric guitar into his music), there was almost an immediate uproar. All this controversy inspired Dylan so much, that these were by far his most fruitful years. Sometimes he'd write whole songs on the way to the recording studio or to a concert. By this time, Dylan was a household name. He had changed people’s way of thinking in so much of a ...
- 6766: Killer Angels 2
- ... and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union. Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped America’s future. Michael Shaara tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the generals and men involved in the action of the battle. The ...
- 6767: Billy Budd 2
- ... all good until he was hanged a crucifix by those who opposed his beliefs- again another stripped of his goodness. Last but not least, the comparison of Billy to Adam. Adam was a man, G-d first creation, and therefore is seen as one of the highest levels of hollies. He did not know evil, for he was the first, but what brought about his fall was the temptation of the ... at least three different lights. Vere as a stern but just judge, Vere as cold-blooded coward, and as a well-rounded man in a tough spot. Each give reason to why Billy stated, G-d bless Captain Vere. And through each it is easy to asset why in each it would make sense. Vere as stern but just judge; No one likes the fact that Billy hangs for killing Claggart ...
- 6768: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... and they have never seen him before. After the summer is over, school is about to start and Dill goes back home to Mississippi. This is Scouts first year of school and on her first day she gets into trouble with the teacher because she already knows how to read and write, and gets into a fight with Walter Cunningham. While walking home from school one day Scout finds a stick of gum in a hole in a tree by the Radley’s yard. Later on Scout and Jem find more gifts in the tree, but then suddenly Mr. Radley fills the ...
- 6769: Working Mothers
- ... first steps in getting working mothers into the workforce and alleviate their feelings of guilt. Many working mothers today are facing the reality of the “second shift”. This is where they put in a full day of work at the office only to come home to start their “second shift”, the one that entails all the housework and the raising of the family. Mothers feel that they have no choice in ... fixing dinner, and disciplining children. In order for the working mother to keep her sanity, the father needs to jump in and help with the chores that were previously held by the homemaker. In this day and age, the ideal homemaker is a thing of the past. Many women today want and desire careers and a place in this world. They want to stand on their own two feet, to become ...
- 6770: Battle Royal
- ... norms of society by accepting the idea of inequality. After the boy's speech, the white MC says, "Gentlemen, you see that I did not overpraise this boy. He makes a good speech and some day he'll lead his people in the proper paths"(182). By emphasizing "social responsibility" to his racial equals, the boy falls prey to the expectations placed upon him by the white race. The white men ... has lived his life in correspondence to how people think he should live, and he has sacrificed his own self-awareness on account of his fear of upsetting his superiors-the white race. On graduation day, he gives a speech that declares that humility is the only way that blacks will progress in life. He admits to himself that he does not believe this idea because of his grandfather's declaration ...
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