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- 611: Extreme Nationalism
- ... occurs when a group of people whose members unite as a whole and want to form their own nation. France was one of the first countries to exhibit nationalism. Many countries were influenced by the French ideas of nationalism and as a result, nationalism spread throughout Europe by the nineteenth and twentieth century. The result of nationalism on Europe was the wanting of unification. The people of the nation states wanted ... of Communists of Yugoslavia, the LCY, played a mediator’s role among the quarreling people of the nation. The LCY promised the people of the nation an ideological resolution to their question through a social revolution that subsumed class and national distinctions within a socialist framework. Major ethnic groups located within the country were constituted as nations within this new federation. Communism within this federation would eventually provoke the tensions which ... suffered greatly, and fought bravely, with no idea of personal gain or advancement in mind” (Denitch, 155). In 1988-89, the Serbian Intelligentsia and Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbian Communist party joined forces to initiate a revolution to create what was called a “unified Serbia.” Croatian Serbs were also mobilized and helped to organize meetings where demands were made. These meetings supported the Croatian nationalist movements. Free elections in 1990 and ...
- 612: The Goals and Failures of the First and Second Reconstructions
- ... occupants of narrow huts inhabited by low White trash? Stevens plan in the Republican Press though drew unfavorable responses. The plan was called brash and unfair. Only one newspaper endorsed it and that was the French paper La Temps which said, "There cannot be real emancipation for men who do no possess at least a small portion of soil."28 When the bill was introduced in Congress it was resoundingly defeated ... anger and separatism. If we fail to bridge this divide the question of the Twenty-First century like the Twentieth will be that of the color line. Endnotes 1 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) p.228. 2 Ibid. pp.124-125. 3 Eli Ginzberg and Alfred S. Eichner, Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black Americans (London: Transaction Publishers, 1993) p. 148. 4 Ibid. p. 152. 5 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) pp.229-231. 6 Daniel J. Mcinerney, The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and the Republican Party (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994) p.151. 7 Eric Foner, ...
- 613: George Orwells 1984
- ... proles are the only people to live as they always have and to have freedom of speech and expression. Because of the situation that the proles are in, there is virtually no chance of a revolution occurring, since any possibility of a revolt lies with the proles, who are too uneducated and simple to understand the state that the world is in. Oceania is currently at war with Eurasia and allies ... Worship Eastasia, respectively, not totalitarian Oceania. Orwell's division of the super-states is more like that found in the Cold War than that of the 80's. There is no real possibility of a revolution occurring in Nineteen Eighty-Four, although this is not the case in the real world. There were many riots during the 80's, such as the protests at Tiannamen Square and the youth riots in ... upon it. (Orwell) Many of the ideas in Nineteen Eighty-Four were based on circumstances of the past which have repeated themselves, such as the use of secret police (used by the Jacobins during the French Revolution and Hitler during World War II, as well as many others.) (Orwell) Since certain aspects of history have repeated themselves before, such as the use of the secret police, I think he felt ...
- 614: Woman's Struggle for Independence
- ... there place in society. The 17th century was the first real growth of the women's movement. Up until this time women had been in the same category as property or slaves. But as the French society moved toward revolution women began to speak of the injustice against them. "The Vindication of Rights of Women (1792) called for the extension of the principle of the liberty to women and urging that equal public education be ... available for men and women" (Perry, 289). This list of the right that women were lacking was one of the first attempts at creating a legislation that included women in its laws. During the scientific revolution men were making discoveries and coming up with new ideas all over the world. This was not possible for women because the education was not able to compare with that of the men's. ...
- 615: Concentration Camps
- ... used Military style concentration camps. Spain had a series of concentration camps in Cuba. These camps were headed and planed by the Spanish general, General Valeriano. General Valeriano used the camps to suppress the Cuban Revolution. He did this by taking the Cuban civilians and imprisoning them. By doing this he kept revolution army leaders from attacking due to the fear that the imprisoned Cuban civilians would be killed. The conditions in the Spanish Concentration Camps were terrible. Many of the prisoners died. They died of diseases and ... Andrew Jackson and his brother were put in to these camps as children. A more well known and documented example of English cruelty with concentration camps is the Boer camps. In 1901 during the Boer revolution the Boer race of Africans began to rebel against England’s imperialistic hold over them. The English wanted to win this war badly so they began to wage a war against the civilians of ...
- 616: The Gothic Novel
- ... from reality; but it can only do so as long as it is separate from reality. He denounces critics who confuse art and life when they claim that the gothic was as subversive as the French Revolution, reminding us, that "a revolution in literature . . . is a very different thing from a social Revolution."(Kilgore 219). Often considered the modern Walpole, Summers was a scholar, antiquarian, and necromancer who raised the dead genre of the Gothic. He ...
- 617: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... days. The revolt was brutally suppressed - 900 persons were executed and thousands were either imprisoned or exiled to Siberia. The disorders in Lithuania, largely confined to rural areas, lacked the social-protest aspects of the revolution to the north and were directed primarily at Russian schoolteachers and Orthodox clergy. Excesses were comparatively few. The political aspects of the 1905 Revolution in lithuania was highlighted by a massive National Congress of 2000 delegates, which met in Vilnius (Wilno or Vilna) in December 1905. It resolved to work for autonomy, a centralized adminisration for the ethnic Lithuanian ... for a restoration of the independence of the Baltic states. The following moth 20 Baltic activists sent a message of support to Lech Walesa who was then emerging as a leader of Poland's `peaceful revolution.' Baltic dissidents were also among the foirst to condemn the invasion of Afghanistan. in January 1980, 21 of them addressed an appeal to the UN Secretary General comparing the occupation of Afghanistan to the ...
- 618: Biography Of Karl Marx
- ... his fiancée of seven years, Jenny von Westphalen. They moved to Paris which was at the time the centre of socialist thought. Marx met his life long buddy Frederich Engels here and they wrote the French German yearbook. The Prussian government intervened and Mark was kicked out of Paris. He travelled to Brussels with his wife and Engels. Marx began talking to the heads of unions and the working class in ... of December 1847 to the end of January 1848. The London Communists were already impatiently threatening Marx with disciplinary action when he sent them the manuscript; they promptly adopted it as their manifesto. In 1848 revolution erupted throughout France, Italy, and Austria. Marx had been invited to Paris by a member of the provisional government just in time to avoid expulsion by the Belgian government. As the revolution gained in Austria and Germany, Marx returned to the Rhineland. (Marx must have believed the ideas in the communist manifesto were becoming reality as the revolutions took off). During the same year Marx believed ...
- 619: Resurrection in A Tale of Two Cities
- ... imprisoned for eighteen very long years. Over the years, his condition deteriorates until he forgets his real name and mindlessly cobbles shoes to pass the time. In "Book the First", he is released by the French government and then put in the care of Monsieur Defarge. He is suddenly "recalled to life"(19, 35). However, his rebirth has just begun and does not become complete until he is reunited with his ... in A Tale of Two Cities, good tends to resurrect or be resurrected, while the forces of evil mimic or parody the resurrection theme. This is shown twice in the novel. Old Foulon, the evil French aristocrat, fakes his own death so that he will not be slaughtered by the revolution. He is found later, alive, and is murdered anyway. This pattern of false death and false resurrection is also followed by Roger Cly. He too is evil, faking his death and being "reborn" as ...
- 620: Tour de Eiffel
- ... used for a military observation station. Ever since 1953, though, its been used to transmit television programs. The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales (later becoming King Edward VII of England), opened the tower. Of the 700 proposals submitted in a design competition, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel's was unanimously chosen. However, it was not accepted ... to get to the top. It was almost torn down in 1909, but was saved because of its antenna - used for telegraphy at that time. In 1910 it became part of the International Time Service. French radio, and French television have also made use of its stature. During its lifetime, the Eiffel Tower has also had a few strange incidents, including being scaled by a mountaineer in 1954, and parachuted ...
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