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- 1481: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- ... crowds. Todd Gitlin went from a mild socialist to a “radical,” “anti-imperialist,” a partisan of “resistance,” a half-serious advocate of “destroying America,” and caught himself rapped up in the collective hallucination of “the revolution”. Near the early Seventies, the craziness was over—almost as fast as it had appeared. “Neo-conservatives” felt relief and accusation free, “Old radicals” felt differences of regret, despair, pride, and resolution and continued on ... unplugging from the normal social circuits—and hedged its bets with the mysticism. The human potential movement sprang from counter cultural visions. It was also the continuation of expressive politics by other means. “With secular revolution discredited as an escape from the iron cage of narrow rationality, individually subjectivity promise to reinvent a shattered world; act as if the world were not a prison, and your life will be made whole ...
- 1482: Cyrano De Bergerac - Book Revi
- ... Roxane. However, Roxane loves Christian and asks Cyrano to teach Christian how to write about love. Cyrano helps Christian win Roxane. The story takes place in Paris, France. It is during the time of the French war against Spain. It starts at the Hotel de Bougogue. Then, in Act 2, it is at Rageaneau's Bakery. Act 3 is at Roxane's balcony and Act 4 takes place at the scene ... a kiss at her balcony by telling him what to say to Roxane. DeGuiche is a general who hates Christian and Cyrano. He sends them both to war the next day. During the war the French are starving to death. Christian does not feel well. Every day Cyrano writes and sends a letter to Roxane from Christian. Roxane sneaks into the tent and brings food to Christian and Cyrano. At this ...
- 1483: Another 1984
- ... able to put down his feelings in his dairy. The diary was an old, yellow paged, ancient book purchased from the owner of the antique store. It was supposedly a book created before the great revolution and this is symbolic. It is symbolic because most books created before the revolution were destroyed. The best articulation that Bernard could come up with was his feeble attempts to make the director of the hatchery feel bad by going to the reservation over his objections. Bernard tries to ...
- 1484: Spelling Of Emigre Russians
- ... in unnecessary places but usually before soft vowels- some of the most common mistakes made by my former roommate. We had a long discussion about how he was "spelling in Russian like [he] did in French". He too claimed that he had been taught to spell in Russian differently than he had been taught to spell in French, and while living in France had little or no reason to ever write in Russian. I decided to test for phonetic influence using a diktant in two parts, the first part being a simple paragraph ...
- 1485: Cold War
- ... since there is a lot of money to be made. An example is the recent breach of an embargo which the US had put on a Middle-Eastern Country and which was broken by a French MNC. The US condemned this breach, whereupon the French government quite frankly expressed its support for the MNC and told the US to mind its own business. The US has certainly lost some importance of its leading role in the world, and this is ...
- 1486: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... our citizens their full rights as Americans. But no one can gainsay the fact that the determination to secure those rights is in the highest tradition of American freedom." In 1959, after several attempts, a revolution led by Fidel Castro finally overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar. During the next two years, Castro was to become increasingly hostile to the United States. The new regime’s agricultural reform laws ... of approximately $53 million. Most other Latin American countries had the same bad social, economic, and political conditions that had led to Castro’s success in Cuba. Many of these nations seemed ripe for a revolution that could easily be exploited by the Communists. Upon taking office, President Kennedy looked for a program that would accelerate change in Latin America by strengthening democratic institutions. In March 1961 he introduced the Alliance ...
- 1487: Integration Of UMTS And B-ISDN: Is It Possible Or Desirable?
- ... but to allow integration with a fixed network; this option is undesirable. [BUIT95] 2. Integration with and evolution from the existing Global System for Mobile telecommunication. (GSM, formerly standing for Group Special Mobil during early French-led specification, is now taken as meaning Global System for Mobile communications by the non-French-speaking world.) GSM is currently being introduced on the European market. This option has the advantage of using already-existing mobile infrastructure with a ready and captive market, but at the expense of limiting channel ...
- 1488: Health
- ... Warner Schaie(1989), research director of the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California, cites three reasons for optimism about future old age: The control of childhood disease, better education, and the fitness revolution.(p.2) The control of childhood disease often eliminates problems that occur later in life as a result of these diseases. Instead of going away, the minor assaults suffered by the body from disease, abuse ... and studies show that people with more education live longer. They get better jobs, suffer less economical stress, and tend to be more engaged with life and more receptive to new ideas. Finally, the fitness revolution has changed our habits with respect to diet and exercise and self-care. An article in Generations, Joyce Carrol Oates (1993) states, " per capita consumption of tobacco has dropped twenty-six percent over the past ...
- 1489: Henry David Thoreau
- ... life of solitude, the simplicity that every man should live by, and materialism. Thoreau’s stay was a noble experiment in three ways. First, Thoreau was intent upon resisting the debilitating effects of the industrial revolution. The Walden experiment allowed him to “turn back the clock” to the simpler, agrarian way of life that was quickly disappearing in New England. Second, by reducing his expenditures, he reduced the time necessary to ... with nature. Solitude was a noble thing in his experiment. His experiment was based on him leaving the town to find a place where he can’t be bothered by outsiders and by the industrial revolution of America. He wanted to be alone and being able to concentrate on nature and his spiritual side. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company ...
- 1490: Thomas Jefferson
- ... most momentous problem of his career. Spain transferred to France its rights to the port of New Orleans, and the stretch of land constituting the province of Louisiana. Louisiana in the strong hands of the French rather than the weak hands of Spain placed an almost overwhelming obstacle in the path of American growth and prosperity. It was essential that America acquire the Louisiana territory, either through peaceful negotiation or by war. When French dictator Napoleon, suddenly offered to sell for $15,000,000 not only the port of New Orleans but the entire fabulous slice of land from the Mississippi to the Rockies, Jefferson was faced with the ...
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