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- 1531: William Faulkner
- ... other writers of his age. Many of his earlier books deal with this. (American Writers; 55f) As a veteran, he was allowed to enroll at the University of Mississippi. There he studied English, Spanish, and French, but he was only in residence for one full academic year. He took a job in a bookstore in New York City, but he soon returned to Oxford. He did odd jobs such as a ... work. He made trips to Hollywood to work on movie scripts, he made trips to New York, but he mainly resided in Oxford. Sanctuary brought him notoriety. Critical acclaim, however, came more slowly. Oddly, the French recognized Faulkner's power more quickly and more widely than Americans did. In 1946, Malcolm Cowley published his influential Portable Faulkner. At this time all of Faulkner's books were out of print and there ...
- 1532: United States of American: Personal Freedom
- ... ratification of the Constitution. Less than a decade after the Bill of Rights had been adopted it met its first serious challenge. In 1798, there was a threat of war with France and thousands of French refugees were living in the United States. Many radicals supported the French cause and were considered "incompatible with social order." This hysteria led Congress to enact several alien and sedition laws. One law forbade the publication of false, scandalous or malicious writing against the government, Congress or ...
- 1533: Gertrude Stein
- Gertrude Stein “I know I am” (Burnett 51). This response form Gertrude Stein was given in answer to the question “You think you are a genius?” posed to her by the French artist Henri Matisse. This was the epitome of Stein. Born in 1876, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Gertrude was the fifth child, and youngest, to Daniel and Amelia Stein, German-Jewish immigrants. She was a bright girl ... Modernist paintings, Gertrude and Leo became friends with the artists. Picasso was particularly friendly with Gertrude, and in 1906, he painted a portrait of her that became one of his best known. Under the rich French culture, Gertrude’s works flourished. “From 1906 to 1909, she wrote The Making of Americans, a novel based on her own family’s cultural history over three generations. She devised a complex narrative style that ...
- 1534: Child Labor In History
- ... The domestic system was prominent in England, on the Continent, and in North America during the 16th 17th and 18th centuries. This system still exists in some countries throughout the world. Along with the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century came a new ststem to replace the previous domestic system. The new system was the factory system. Children were used in this system from as young as the age of five ... I work for sometimes beat me with their hands if I am not quick enough. They strike me upon my back. I would rather work in a mill than in a coalpit." During the Industrial Revolution there were many children who had no parents or parents who were too financially unstable to care for them. At the time there was a law called the English Poor Act, through which government officials ...
- 1535: George Orwell
- ... This novel was intended to depict the inevitable course of all revolutions especially the Soviet Union.("George" Discovering 2+) Animal Farm a modern beast-fable attacking Stalinism("Orwell" Grolier n.pag.). The history of the revolution betrayed in the animal world is based partly on what Orwell had seen of the communist usurpation of power in Spain and partly on what he read of the Russian Revolution(Woodcock 21). In 1947, Orwell said that "Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole ...
- 1536: Deng Xiaoping
- ... of the political hierarchy in China, and a bevy of titles were bestowed upon him, these include: Director of the Finance and Economics Committee and Party Secretary. Deng as the Leader: Reform During the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping found himself in internal exile in China. Mao and his heir-apparent Lin Biao declared war on their own party. Deng Xiaoping was beaten and paraded through the streets of Beijing. His eldest ... him paraplegic. However, with illness pervading the upper echelons of the Party; Mao with Parkinson’s Disease, and Premier Zhou Enlai with cancer, someone was needed with the moxy to rebuild China after the Cultural Revolution. Zhou convinced the Mao to allow the exiled Deng to return. Mao allowed it, despite objections from his third wife, Jiang Qing. Deng Xiaoping returned to Beijing in 1974 as vice premier and chairman of ...
- 1537: Sexual Behaviour As The Means
- Sexual Behaviour as the Means Order Sexual behaviour has been changed and moulded into a revolution over the last 100 years. The changes in our societies have allowed the freedom of public displays of affection. Woman have also played a large part of the sexual revolution. They have gone from doing all that men want to asking men on dates. With this sexual freedom problems have arrived. Rape and sexual harassment have increased leaving us to ask questions. Is sexual freedom ...
- 1538: A Scientific Understanding Of
- ... most influential to colonial society. Educated and powerful political leaders began questioning their government under British rule, therefore, igniting dreams of independence. The Enlightenment theory added to the oppression of British rule led to a revolution. Although not as significant as the Enlightenment, the Great Awakening still had a deep impact on colonial society. Primarily, the conflict that arose between the religious revivalists and ultimately ended in a split in the ... use of abstract thinking to disprove religious beliefs suggests also a dream of an absence of church independence. Overall, the successful sweep of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening predicted the American colonists’ movements toward revolution and absolute independence. Bibliography Norton, Mary Beth, et al. "A People and a Nation: A History of the United States." 5th Ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999 Word Count: 439
- 1539: Russia
- ... the pool and find the key he left for you. Now unlock the second coded door and kill the guard. Pick up the memo of the sargent and enter the next room to meet the French Ambassador's wife and daughter. Belarus - Minsk You are about to save the two ladies and enter the first major shootout. Don't waste your bullets when the aim's yellow (you won't survive ... Run forward and squat behind one of the box and shoot at close range. After you eliminate all the terrorists, you need to fight your way back to cart 10 where you first met the French Ambassador. And don't forget to check out the rooms you haven't checked out yet for all the memos and ammo. Mason will now tell you his story and you must be wondering why ...
- 1540: Was Khruschev's Foreign Policy Successful?
- ... Korea, Malenkov moved to defuse tensions with the West. A Korean armistice was signed in July 1953 and the next year the Soviet Union helped a range of conferences that ended the war between the French colonial forces and communist gorillas in Vietnam. Relations with the west were further improved when the Soviet Union agreed in May 1955 to remove its forces from Austria and to permit the reunification and neutralisation of that country. In July Khrushchev and Nicolai Bulganin met with the American, French and British leaders in Geneva. The meeting yielded a few concrete results, but it did not provide an impetus for the policy Khrushchev was calling “peaceful co-existence”. Although certainly not insignificant, these episodes proved ...
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