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- 1321: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... a volute. All the Japanese architecture appears to be individualistic. The elegance of the architecture draws the attention for the viewer to observe the building. The Japanese society were in the part of the industrial revolution and the start of the modern architecture. Japanese people would need to integrate with the modern architecture to show the new revolution of machine . The Japanese designers combine Middle or Working Class people and the Machine Image to create output of modern architecture. Japanese domestic architecture was truly organic architecture. (Frank Lloyd Wirght, The future of architecture ...
- 1322: Ebonics A Bridge To Help Black
- ... think about how millions of people travel to other countries these days with little computers in their hands that helps them translate another language to what they understand. When they want to say hello in French, Chinese, or Spanish they look up the word "hello" and the translation is given to them. Would they have been given the French words first without any hint of what it means? No way, they began with what they knew to find what they needed to know. Many people may ask how should we teach ebonics with standard ...
- 1323: Martin Luther King and Patrick Henry: Cry for Freedom
- ... a general sense was that one calls for a change through violence and war, while the other calls for a peaceful solution. Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses calls for a revolution against Great Britain. This must have been a difficult speech for Henry to deliver because he was speaking to a group of people who were opposed to his ideals. They gave the speech pre-revolution and was an attempt to persuade the Virginia delegates to solve the colonies' problems with the British through war. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech was much different than Henry's. First of all, King ...
- 1324: European Integration - An Overview
- ... Great Britain and six other non-EEC countries formed the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1960. In 1961, with the EEC's apparent economic success, Great Britain began negotiations towards membership. In 1963, however, French president Charles de Gaulle vetoed British membership, particularly because of its close ties to the United States. De Gaulle vetoed British admittance a second time in 1967. However, in 1972, after nearly two years of ... contributions to the EC. The most significant development in European integration was the progress towards implementing a single European market in 1985. The campaign for the single market was led by Jacques Delors, a former French finance minister who was president of the European Commission from 1985-1995. At a summit meeting in Milan, the commission proposed a seven year timetable for removing nearly all the remaining trade barriers between member ...
- 1325: Anastasia
- ... drastically because of her dramatic childhood. Her eyes and fingers remained the same but her wonderful personality had disappeared (Klier and Mingay 193). The daughter of Czar Nicholas II, Anastasia, may have survived the Russian Revolution, but what became of her, baffled historians. Czar Nicholas was the last emperor of Russia and ruled from 1894 until 1917. Throughout his life Nicholas lived within the shadows of his father (Lieven 1). Nicholas ... of Anastasia and Alexis were never found (McGuire 90). The real truth died with Anna Manahan. Biblography McGuire, Leslie. Anastasia; Czarina or Fake?. Minneapolis: Greenhaven Press, 1989. Pipes, Richard. A Concise History of the Russian Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1995. Lieven, Domnic. Czar Nicholas II. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. CD ROM. Washington: Bloomsbury Publishing Place, 1999.
- 1326: Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
- ... Academy from 1795 to 1797 and was appointed first Spanish court painter in 1799. During the Napoleonic invasion and the Spanish war of independence from 1808 to 1814, Goya served as court painter to the French. He expressed his horror of armed conflict in The Disasters of War, a series of starkly realistic etchings on the atrocities of war. They were not published until 1863, long after Goya's death. Upon the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya was pardoned for serving the French, but his work was not favored by the new king. He was called before the Inquisition to explain his earlier portrait of The Naked Maja, one of the few nudes in Spanish art at that ...
- 1327: Louis XIV
- ... was ruler of France, he was quick to the draw and did not hesitate to start a war. To show the Catholics that he was still a catholic king ,Louis kept mounting pressure on the French Protestants, until 1685 when he revoked Edict of Nantes. Then he forbid anyone to practice Calvinism. To the people of France this showed great strength on the part of Louis, the fact that he could ... hand pick everyone of his generals ,bishops and other governmental figures himself I think this was to guarantee effiency, which was highly regarded by Louis because he started a whole movement towards a more efficient French government. Louis controlled everything in France nothing went down in France without his approval or him having his input into the matter at hand, I guess you could say that Louis kept a pretty tight ...
- 1328: Deng Xiaoping
- ... freedom to grow crops and more freedom in politics. Mao did not like this and began to feel paranoid. He believed everyone in the party was against him. As a result, he launched the Cultural Revolution that led to the downfall of several Chinese leaders including Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping eventually rose back to power (he had two more downfalls but regained power both times too). He never really opposed Mao ... Mao less "Godlike." To make Mao less "Godlike," he convinced the people that Mao did make mistakes while he was in power. Deng Xiaoping told the people that Mao's greatest mistakes were the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward Policy. After Mao was made less "godlike," it became easier to reform China. From the late 1950s to 1979, the economy of China was at a standstill. The living standard ...
- 1329: The Hoa Lo Prison Camp
- ... highly unlikely. The prison grounds were surrounded by a concrete wall approximately sixteen feet high and six feet thick. The wall was also covered by glass shards of curved and jagged glass, some from the French champagne bottles, protruded by the thousands from the top of the wall. Some of the shards were at least six inches high; most were green with a some of the glass colored red. Therefore, the ... the opportunity to study much of their literature. Of the 4000-year history of the Vietnamese people, I have seen that these poor people have always been exploited, first by the Chinese, then by the French and now the Americans. And now I ask you to stop immediately and for all time the bombing of these innocent people (Hubbell 206). The most outrageous lie was probably the story one pilot told ...
- 1330: Persian Gulf Crisis
- ... chemical weapons on the Iranian troops and even on their own Iraqi population. This was seemingly overlooked by the rest of the world because most nations didn't want to see the Ayatollah's Islamic revolution rise. Iraq often obtained foreign arms support from other nations because of this. It wasn't until the invasion of Kuwait that the rest of the world seemed to realize the danger that Iraq posed ... s quest for power by now was almost complete, except for nuclear capabilities and a naval power. Most of this support of foreign arms came during the Iran-Iraq war, against the Ayatollah's Islamic revolution. $500 million of the $65 billion was spent on high-tech equipment purchased from the United States. It is ironic that some of the missile sites that were set up by the United States would ...
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