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- 1411: Conversation With A Doctor
- ... we enjoyed it anyway. Yes, teaching. I got Arnaud to travel around Germany a bit, and we came back through France. No, I wish I had learnt it, but since I taught my students in French it didn't matter too much. And of course they all speak English. When we got back. The time we were there was fine. We'd rented it out to a couple from Qu‚bec ... t have to worry about meetings and all that. There is that. But I think it would be nice to work for yourself. How could I? There isn't much demand for private consultants on French Literature. I don't think I could change careers if I wanted to. I'd give up so much -- my seniority, all my benefits, my pension -- and anyhow teaching literature is what I do. No ...
- 1412: Personal Writing: Response to My Visit to the Boott Cotton Mill
- ... If the masks couldn't completely keep the dust out, I think it would help. The weave room was kept hot and humid to keep the yarn from breaking. Anybody who has studied the Industrial Revolution, knows that the machinery was dangerous. The mill workers were paid by the piece of linen produced. Together with the long hours, the hot temperatures that can tire the workers, the dangerous machinery and the payment system, I can understand why there were so many injuries. The upstairs exhibits demonstrated effectively how cotton textiles production was a cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of America. In 1790, the beginning of industrialization, the population of the United States was 4 million people. In 1820 there were 9.6 million people. The enormous growth was partly due ...
- 1413: Nostradamus and a Grim Future
- ... century (not referring to years) because there were 100 quatrains, or four-lined verses in each book (Nijweide 1-2). All the quatrains were written in an obscure style with a vocabulary extending from the French, Provincial, Italian, Greek, and Latin languages. In order to avoid being persecuted as a witch or magician, Nostradamus deliberately confused the time sequence of the prophecies so that their secrets would not be revealed. Nostradamus ... spotted and tracked as it approaches. The U.S. defense system will concentrate on diverting or disabling the bomb, and the U.S. will not be able to retaliate. As proof of their loyalty, the French are asked to retaliate, which they do with several bombs and weapons (Seine 291). This is just the beginning of a downward spiral of prophecies connected with a future holding no prospects, only dead-end ...
- 1414: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- ... communists, the Indonesian military steadily asserted itself, and under the leadership of then-Gen. Suharto, the legacy of Indonesia’s founder Sukarno steadily diminished. The PLA intervened to crush the Mao-inspired Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The PLA’s intervention not only stabilized a China that was oscillating out of control and moving toward chaos, but it created the framework that led to the victory of Deng Xiaoping over Maoist forces ... to achieve the same end. Thus, the Indonesian and Chinese armies had a more intimate understanding of technology and a more efficient means of organizing production than other institutions. In a China, where the Cultural Revolution had torn out the heart of the nation’s managerial class, and an Indonesia in which the managerial class had either been Dutch or had emigrated, turning to the military to facilitate economic development was ...
- 1415: Bleeding Ireland and Black America
- ... for control of a superior capital making outpost. Even at nine o'clock in the morning the combat tract roars on. I was one of those faces peering over the car hood with horror and revolution in my eyes. N. Richmond is a product of the same type of oppression and violence that hacks deep into the people of N. Ireland. In the logical evolution of an oppressed people a civil ... serve them and exploited them. The US government continual undermined the movement while it pretended to be helping it. Many of the people involved put their faith in the system and never thought of a revolution to change the system. From the Montgomery bus boycott to the sit-ins to the violent rebellions, black people are still not equal to whites. “Black infants die in America at twice the rate of ...
- 1416: History Repeats Itself
- ... number one market country in Europe. The British moved in where the Dutch had been. GREAT BRITAIN reached great heights in the middle of the eighteenth century. Starting out as the home of the Industrial Revolution, Britain was considered the workshop of the world. However, by the 1890's Britain was losing ground in the global market of manufacturing, specifically to the United States and Germany. The UNITED STATES, is the ... capitol away from Holland and did little to ameliorate its unemployment problems. Hollands financialization, like that of Great Britain, caused it to go from supportive to parasitic, as well. As a result of its Industrial Revolution, GREAT BRITAIN dominated the steel and textile industries and its merchant marines was the largest in the world. As it accomplished its world wide trade and manufacturing climax it witnessed the appearance of a considerable ...
- 1417: Biography of Robert Cormier
- Biography of Robert Cormier Robert Cormier was born in 1925 in French Hill, a French-Canadian neighborhood of Leominster, Massachusetts, and has lived in Leominster all his life. The second of eight children, Robert enjoyed a happy childhood in the nest of his close-knit family and community. His family ...
- 1418: Canadians, And Why They Should Be Banned From America
- ... The Canadian province of Quebec has tried many times to secede from the nation of Canada. The Quebecans, which are Canadian (currently) have a very large problem with unifying. They have their own official language, French, which subsequently causes all the signs in Canada to be in both French and English. If the Canadian government were stronger and not a Socialist one then they would be able to keep their people in line. The Canadians also have a very high immigration rate to the ...
- 1419: All Quiet on the Western Front
- ... questioned the values that he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war. After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front. During an attack, Paul killed a French soldier. After discovering that this soldier had a family, Paul was deeply shattered and vowed to prevent other such wars. Paul's unit was assigned to guard a supply depot of an abandoned village, but ... from his family and his childhood. With the return to his unit he again felt the presence of belonging. Soldiers had become his family. The mental anguish was again vividly displayed after Paul killed a French soldier; discovering that the soldier had a family, Paul slipped into a deep agony vowing to prevent such wars from again occurring. The depth of the emotions that soldiers experienced created a very believable example ...
- 1420: Joy Luck Club 3
- ... differences in etiquette in "Four Direction" that Waverly Jong wrote. When Rich, who is Waverly's fiancée, was invited by her family for dinner, and made many mistakes which started by bringing a bottle of French wine. If I think about it in American way, it is a polite manner to bring something to eat or drink for the people who invited me, and it is the etiquette. But it is ... much. They probably prefer to drink Chinese tea and wanted to recommend it to Rich, but Rich disturbed their plan, and he also lost the chance to drink Chinese tea by bringing the bottle of French wine which he prefers. The other mistake that Rich made is that he criticized her mother's cooking, and he proceeded to pour a lot of soy sauce on the platter. It is just very ...
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