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- 841: Last Of The Mohicans
- The book begins in the middle of the French and Indian War in upper New York State near the Hudson River and Lake Chaplain. General Webb has just gotten word from an Indian that Moncalm and the French are going to attack Fort William Henry and that Colonel Munro will not be ale to keep the fort because he only has one thousand men and that he (Webb) needs to send reinforcements immediately ... to the fort. They see that the fog is moving in form the lake and that this is their opportunity to get to the fort unnoticed. While in the fog, they are discovered by the French and another battle breaks out. At the top of the fort is Colonel Munro, Alice cries out to him and he orders the gates to be opened. After five days and many losses for ...
- 842: Labor And Unions In America
- The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years ... they were reduced to the status of common laborers. In bad times they could lose their jobs. Then they might be replaced by workers who would accept lower wages. To skilled craft workers, the Industrial Revolution meant degradation rather than progress. As the factory system grew, many workers began to form labor unions to protect their interests. The first union to hold regular meetings and collect dues was organized by Philadelphia ... that restricted immigration to the United States. Unions believed that a scarcity of labor would keep wages high. But events that took place in Europe were already threatening labor's gains. In 1917, a communist revolution overthrew the government of Russia. Communists also attempted revolutions in Germany, Hungary and Finland. Immigrants entering the United States at this time were primarily from southern and eastern Europe. Many of them, in response ...
- 843: Ressurection A Tale Of Two Cit
- ... does. Dickens refers to Jerry as-a man that digs up bodies for a living-as being a "Resurrection Man." Dickens refers to him as a "Resurrection Man" because during the Victorian Times, when the revolution took place, people who dug up graves would be called "Resurrection Men." To Jerry and his son he is only going, so called "fishing," at midnight. What Jerry is actually doing is resurrecting dead individuals ... although Christ died to wash away a clean man's accumulated sins, Carton died to wipe away his own sins that he had caused. Dickens used Carton as an example of a turnaround in the revolution. After all the bloodshed and gore that the characters have gone through, this gives the novel a sad, but yet new beginning to a new world rising through the ashes of the revolution. Carton saw, before his death, how the world was going to change and he also viewed a long life for Lucie and her family that was made posibble by his sacrifice. "I see the ...
- 844: Unemployement - The Unavoidable Consequence Of New Technolog
- ... means of using and controlling factors of production for the purpose of producing, delivering to users, and maintaining goods and services, for which there is an economic and/or social demand. Ever since the Industrial Revolution (1780s), the impact of technology has been subject to public debate over its effect on employment – does it cause unemployment or does it underlie the huge increases in standards of living (Jones 1996, p.11 ... similarly to that of their predecessors by the ‘Neo-Luddites’ of today (Stewart 1996, p.13). A prime advocate, author of The End of Work and US economist, Jeremy Rifkin asserts that technology is a ‘revolution’ which has taken over the world, posing a significant restructuring of the workforce and quality of life (Wyndham 1997, p.1). In an alarmist tone, he argues that governments worldwide are fighting a losing battle to find jobs for millions displaced by the ‘technological revolution’ and by corporate cost-cutting (Smark 1997, p.47). Says Rifkin (cited in Stewart 1996, p.13): technology is taking more jobs than it is creating, thus leading the world to catastrophic global unemployment...... ...
- 845: Elizabeth
- ... and capable of Catherine's brood. Destined to be the last of the Valois, he nevertheless kept his throne for 15 years in the face of chaos. --c. t. iannuzzo Web Resources: · House of Guise French ducal family, founded as cadet branch of house of Lorraine by Claude de Lorraine, first duc de Guise, 1496-1563, whom François I made duke and peer. His daughter Mary of Guise married James V of Scotland and was mother of Mary Queen of Scots. His sons François de Lorraine, 2nd duc de Guise, 1519-1563, and Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, 1525-1574, controlled French politics in the reign of François II, first husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Championing the Catholic cause against the Huguenots, they cruelly suppressed the conspiracy of Amboise (1560). After François' death they opposed the ... old, he is still a formidable figure. Revolt broke out in the Low Countries in 1566, and Philip--who is a devout Roman Catholic --became embroiled in a struggle that lasted until 1648. English and French efforts on behalf of the Dutch rebels led Philip to attempt an invasion of England in 1588. The disastrous results were the now infamous Rout of the Spanish Armada by Drake. Since then he ...
- 846: Of Mice And Men
- ... of story-telling", "catholicity of sympathy" and "'common touch,'" ease of character creation through "types" rather than "individuals," "love of exaggeration and a resulting humor," and "a basic sentimentalism" which results in his "gravest weakness" (French 56). Like Beach, Snell is positive about the early books. Particularly acute is his remarking that it was clear from the first that Steinbeck would never be "a literary naturalist" despite his interest in biology (French 57). In 1947, Snell thought Steinbeck still gave promise of being the "most gifted all-around novelist" (French 57). Lincoln Gibbs' "John Steinbeck: Moralist" is one of the few essays to handle the question of the morality of Steinbeck's fiction without revealing that the critic has some "institutional axe to grind" ( ...
- 847: Labor In America
- History of Labor in America The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years ... they were reduced to the status of common laborers. In bad times they could lose their jobs. Then they might be replaced by workers who would accept lower wages. To skilled craft workers, the Industrial Revolution meant degradation rather than progress. As the factory system grew, many workers began to form labor unions to protect their interests. The first union to hold regular meetings and collect dues was organized by Philadelphia ... that restricted immigration to the United States. Unions believed that a scarcity of labor would keep wages high. But events that took place in Europe were already threatening labor's gains. In 1917, a communist revolution overthrew the government of Russia. Communists also attempted revolutions in Germany, Hungary and Finland. Immigrants entering the United States at this time were primarily from southern and eastern Europe. Many of them, in response ...
- 848: The 1960's
- ... out.” Every person knows why we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. All of the social issues are reflected in today’ s society: the civil rights movement, the student movement, space exploration, the sexual revolution, the environment, medicine and health, and fun and fashion. The power and enthusiasm of the previous decade's civil movement led by Reverend Martin Luther king Jr. carried over into the 1960s. But for most ... his assassination, President Johnson, drawing on the Kennedy legacy and on the press coverage of civil rights marches and protests, succeeded where Kennedy had failed (Consort 161) However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. Rioting by urban blacks was to be a feature of every "long, hot, summer" of the mid-1960s (Consort 87). In 1965, King and other black leaders ... fashion contributed to the rewriting of our country’s history. The 1960’s changed the way our country looked apon not only social equality , but also our nation’s culture. The sixties was a cultural revolution. A revolution that changed the nation, and laid the ground work for the nation’s future.
- 849: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cuban missile crisis The world was at the edge of a third world war. This was the result of a variety of things: the Cuban Revolution, the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, US anti-communism, insecurity of the Soviet Union, and Cuba’s fear of invasion all made causes for war. However, war was not the result due to ... showed the world that compromising and discussion can in-fact prevent war. The world had almost seen another world war, the effects of which would have been devastating because of the weapons involved. The Cuban Revolution was a background cause to the crisis. To the communist party in Cuba, Fidel Castro appeared tempestuous, irresponsible and stubbornly bourgeois. In 1943 President Batista appointed a communist to his Cabinet, as he used communists ... 1960 Castro was swiftly pushing Cuba to the left wing, and as a result many Cubans left . There was so much opposition to Castro’s developments that he created a Committee for Defense of the Revolution out of fear of invasion from the US, and internal guerrilla uprisings. Castro had taken away the profit producing properties which had been owned by Americans, and this angered them. In 1898 America gave ...
- 850: Russia in 1910
- ... their survival rested. Their ruler, Czar Nicholas II, ruled of his disorganized nation. His government of appointed officials and men of inherited positions did not represent the people. All of Europe had experienced the industrial revolution, Russia had precious little machinery. To obtain more advanced machines, the government traded grains to other countries in exchange for machinery, though it meant more people would now starve. Compound this with the devastation and ... on shortly thereafter by the first world war, and there was no confidence left in the government. Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the Czar and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant revolution. Marxist promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or urban working class. The people were fed up with Russia’s state of affairs and ready for change. Change was presented in the form of Vladimir Lenin, a committed, persuasive ...
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