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- 1381: Jfk Alliance
- ... of the United States to aid Latin America. The intended alliance marked a shift toward a policy of expanded U.S. economic assistance to Latin America in the wake of Fidel Castro s successful Communist revolution in Cuba. The United States was fearful of a communism spread due to the poverty and social inequities of the Latin American nations. The U.S. felt that the southern continent was ripe for violent ... the civil and economic rights that are necessary to human dignity. Kennedy was a moderate conservative and a rational idealist. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained. His domestic program, the ...
- 1382: The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
- ... offers a clear and convincing portrayal of unusual minds caught up in still stranger circumstances. As for the story, it is not at all surprising that Huxley chose to write about this particular episode in French history, as many of the events described exemplify themes that dominated his polemical novels and celebrated essays: present is the issue of man s ongoing obsession with self-transcendence which was so pertinent in the ... such as D.H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, and several of them appeared as characters in his early novels. His early collections of poetry, such as The Burning Wheel , are characterised by a reliance on French symbolism and a growing interest in mysticism and the inner spirit . Altogether he published over fifty complete works, the most enduringly popular being Brave New World , a satire on the domination of science and state ...
- 1383: Joesph Stalin
- ... to 1913. Stalin frequently attended Bolshevik party secret meetings. At these meetings is where Stalin befriended Lenin and they each had high regard for each other. Because of this friendship Lenin had Stalin workon the Revolution of 1917. Stalin was responsible for the murder of many in the bloody October 1917 revolution. In 1922 Stalin became Lenins trusted aide, but even Lenin, like everyone else, thought stalin was too violent. After Lenins death Stalin took over the rule of the U.S.S.R. During his rule ...
- 1384: Bilingual Education
- ... America is a country with more and more cultures mixing together with different areas of America speaking different languages. In California, Spanish is the dominant language next to English, and in states such as Maine, French is spoken. Other cultures should not be assimilated into mainstream America completely, but America shouldnt have to bend over backwards to make life easier for foreigners. In order to become more culturally tolerant, everyone ... sure that all teachers are fluent in both English and the language they will be teaching. Which means that there will be a demand for teachers that can speak either German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish. Then there will be the demand to those who can speak the local languages. For example, Lakota is widely used on most Sioux reservations in the US, so many parents may want their children ...
- 1385: The Comparisons of Charles Manson to Transcendental Philosophy
- ... family would gather together in a house, when generally they would sit contently and listen to Charles preach. Usually the sermon would last for an hour or two and include stories and prophecies about the revolution that Manson felt was coming. Manson called this revolution helter skelter, after a Beatles song, which he felt told about the future of our society. Manson believed that the African- American members of our society were troublesome and would over-through the white race ...
- 1386: A Critique of "Gone to Soldiers" by Marge Piercy
- ... connects the lives of women and men, Jews and gentiles by using family ties and steamy love affairs. The people have dramatically different profiles, some are rich some are poor, some are Americans, some are French, some are with power while others are persecuted, but everyone is connected by the war. War freed women by allowing them to work in factories and defy their husbands by hiding resisting French Jews. Piercy makes history exciting by making each character really experience love and hate and the mundane daily struggles of the individual. I completely enjoyed Gone to Soldiers, because several main characters prevented me from ...
- 1387: The Count Of Monte Cristo 3
- ... one will not prosper in vain as did the villains of this novel. Setting:France in the nineteenth century is a nation teeming with turmoil. Those loyal to Napoleon feud with those loyal to the French monarchy and Kink Louis. We are moved across this nation in this novel, and begin in a small port city in southern France, Marseilles. Marseilles is where the characters are introduced, and where the conflict ... the Chateau d If. From then on the Count is planning a slow harsh, and painful vengeance on those who crossed him. He first needs to be introduced into he crθme de la crθme of French aristocracy, and society. He achieves this by saving Albert de Morcerf, the son of a prestigious general, from bandits in Rome. Once made familiar with the elite of society, the Count recognizes many familiar faces ...
- 1388: The Software Industry Report
- ... capital value of the firm or the turnover by merger or internal expansion. 4.2 The Threat Microsoft and its empire is under threat. The two major threats being: 1. Netscape Communication - with the Internet revolution. 2. Sun Micosystems - the inventor of the new programming language for the Internet called Java. 4.2.1 The Internet is basically a way of linking multimedia documents around the world over a massive network of computers, and the revolution is expected to alter the software industry radically. The Internet can be seen as a completely different market which, by nature is far more contestable and completely separate from the market dominated by Microsoft (see ...
- 1389: The Condition Of Postmodernity
- ... for example, to link the rise of cultural "modernism" to the first crisis of capitalist accumulation in 1848 and to the first experience of non-linear "explosive" time on the barricades in Paris during the revolution of 1848. The concept of modernism he invokes in this context is clumsier than the one he uses in the first section, where he is careful to differentiate between various stages in the development of ... the beginning of the first world war, capitalism seemed to be functioning better than ever. Even the majority of the world's largest socialist party, the SPD in Germany, were convinced that reform within, not revolution against capitalism was the best way to achieve their goals. Harvey does point to the development of Fordism during this period, but as he himself argues, Fordism did not establish itself as the dominant mode ...
- 1390: Price Policies Have Wider Range of Destructive Demerits
- ... farmer, they were a nuisance for consumers. Monetary Compensatory Amounts (MCAs) were used in the 1970's when devaluations by France and revaluations by Germany made Green Money redundant. MCAs operated as levies on the French exports and subsidies on French imports. The reverse was applied to Germany. (7) MCAs, while allowing Community trade to continue even though common pricing was never established, had more disadvantages than advantages. They allowed the real level of prices to ...
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