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- 3831: Deng Xiaoping
- ... of Taiwan. Guomindang (aka. GMD, Kuomintang, KMT) Chinese Nationalist Party, founded by Sun Yatsen in as an anti-Manchu society in the late 1800s. Mao Zedong Founder and Chairman of the CCP until his death in 1976. Political Officer In communist countries, there exists a parallel structure in the military. There is a military hierarchy, and a political hierarchy, each with equal power except in times of battle. Sichuan also ... not unlike Deng Xiaoping himself. Zhou Enlai Member of the CCP since his youth, befriended young Deng in France in the 1920s, eventually rose to the rank of Premier, which he held until his death in 1976. Bibliography Books Deng, Maomao. Deng Xiaoping: My Father. Beijing: BasicBooks, 1995 Evans, Richard. Deng Xiaoping and the making of Modern China. New York: Penguin, 1994. Falkenheim, Victor C. Chinese Politics from Mao to ...
- 3832: Hands: Paranoia
- ... is dealing with paranoia. "He could not stand it" "The officer was putting on a bulletproof vest, a black shell around his own life." "They all came a little closer, where they squatted near his death." All of these are examples of either anticipation of death or fear of what will happen depending on what you do next. The officers are afraid of moving to fast. For if so the man may jump. "The tallest cop approached him directly, softly, softly ...
- 3833: Biological Determinism
- ... scientist Albert Einstein. Jewish immigrant from Germany, he was not rich, his parents were not professors or politicians. Because of his significant intellectual power, he became famous all around the world. And even after his death, his brain was taken by a scientist who tried to figure out what was the difference between him and the rest of us. Nothing unusual in his brain was found. This specific example contradicts the ... intellectual power he became the first person in the France. He did not inherit any imperious qualities from his parents, but he manages to become an imperator. We can say that his existence causes the death and starvation of millions people during the wars that he had. What can be the best proof of the power when person's desire for control decides for people to die or to live? History ...
- 3834: The Insanity Plea by Winslad and Ross: Summary
- ... Jonestown, at first all that was known, was that people of a religious cult shot and may have even killed California Congressman Leo Ryan. Then on November 27, 9 days after the news of the death of Congressman Ryan another 2 deaths happened. George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a city supervisor and the leader of San Francisco's politically active gay community, had been shot and killed at death in the San Francisco City Hall. The Police then sniffed-out and charged Dan White with the murders of the 3 people. In 2 years the trial ended with the verdict of guilty on the ...
- 3835: Prejudice In To Kill A Mocking
- ... soul. Tom Robinson was found guilty and convicted by an all white jury for a crime he did not commit, the rape of Mayella Ewell, on the night of November the 21st . The trial, and death of Tom Robinson is just one instance of racial prejudice found in the novel, but maybe one of the strongest issues of racism which exists. Atticus Finch once said, It s a sin to kill a mockingbird (Lee 90). So why did death come to Tom Robinson, such a kind hearted loving person, whose only true sin was pity for a white woman. There are many other instances in To Kill A Mockingbird where racism is clearly shown ...
- 3836: The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk
- ... the enslaved a space of meaning, freedom, and transcendence."Footnote9 Because slave religion was an invisible institution hidden by a veil from white slave masters it provided a way in which slaves could resist social death. The history of Black women is also the history of a people made invisible; hidden behind the veil. Bell Hooks in her study of Black women and feminism tries to bring to light the forgotten ... provided to very separate things for master and slaves. For the master religion was a way to justify slaveryFootnote16 and for slaves religion became a form of resistance and hope; a way to resist social death. In Eric Foner's book on reconstruction a veil separated black and white interpretations of reconstruction.Footnote17 For blacks reconstruction was a time of hope and freedom; for whites reconstruction was a time in which ...
- 3837: Night
- ... him. The incident that probably had the greatest effect on Elie and the other inmates was the hanging of the pipel. The pipel was a young boy with an "innocent face" who is sentenced to death by the Nazis for being involved in a conspiracy to hide information that cause a German build to be destroyed. The hang was held in the middle of the camp and the Lagerkapo could not ... boy's suffering is one image that can describe the suffering the Jews went through during the Holocaust. Both the boy and the Jews fought for their lives but in the end the result was death. When the war was over and the camps were freed Elie looked in the mirror and saw a "corpses". Elie felt he had no soul left. He felt that he was just a body and ...
- 3838: Middle East And Canada
- Introduction In December 1985, the Canadian press reported the death by suicide of hundreds of field mice in the Middle East. In an apparently instinctive reaction to a problem of over-population, the mice wilfully plunged to their doom off the cliffs of the Golan ... 1985. Most opinion pieces centred specifically on Canadian responses to Israeli policy, but in a manner that reflected a lack of sympathy for Israel. Thus, in a January editorial, the Sun asserted that as the death toll mounts and world opinion grows increasingly impatient with Israel, ``the lack of protest from the Canadian government becomes more and more inexplicable.'' Mr. Clark's March address to the Canada-Israel Committee prompted a ...
- 3839: Yalta
- ... was postponed until later, when prime ministers met in London, but it was denied again by Stalin. Roosevelt died two months later, after the Yalta conference in Warm Springs, Georgia. It was declared that his death was due to a brain hemorrhage. Many rumors were circling about, but the most important and the most believed was the Roosevelt had committed suicide, realizing what a grave mistake he had made. The long ... its highest intellect. Any person with higher education (than high school) that did not seem to agree with the concepts of communism (let alone talk or write against the government) was immediately put to death. Freedom is took for granted and the pain that a small country like that had to go through will not be forgiven in the years to come. Certainly, my generation will not forget it, and ...
- 3840: The Things They Carried: Possessions of Character
- ... but prove to be a heavy burden. Above all, he carries the responsibility for the lives of his men. He is dreaming when Lavender is shot, and so he blames himself for it. Lavender's death was something which "He would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war." He does not always pay attention to what is most important, his men. Lt. Jimmy ... Everything that Jimmy Cross carries bears more physical weight than the letters. Nothing, however, seems to be nearly as much of a burden. Cross is an ignorant young man going into the war. Lavender's death and everything going on around him opens his eyes to the immediate dangers. What he has, both inside and outside, have kept him from realizing this. "His obligation was not to be loved but to ...
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