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- 871: Ernest Che Guevara
- ... returned home for his finals sure of only one thing: he did not want to become a middle-class general practitioner. He passed, specializing in dermatology, and went to La Paz, Bolivia, during the National Revolution in which he condemned as an opportunist. From there he went to Guatemala, arriving during the socialist Arbenz presidency. It was in Guatemala that he began to earn his living by writing archaeological articles about ... after him, and introduced him to Nico Lopez, one of Fidel Castro's lieutenants. While in Guatemala, he saw the CIA at work as the principal agents of counterrevolution. He confirmed, in his view, that Revolution could be made only by armed insurrection. When Arbenz fell, Guevara went to Mexico City (September 1954) where he worked in the General Hospital. Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez joined him. It was there that ... also a ruthless disciplinarian who unhesitatingly shot defectors, as later he got a reputation for cold-blooded cruelty in the mass execution of recalcitrant supporters of the defeated president Batista. At the triumph of the Revolution, Guevara became second to Fidel Castro in the new government of Cuba, and the man was chiefly responsible for pushing Castro towards communism. It was a communism that was independent of the orthodox, Moscow- ...
- 872: Visions Of The Future
- ... one hundred years ago, people were blindly optimistic about science. All work and products were created by man. People were not so concerned about making their work more efficient, easier, or better productive. The Scientific Revolution began to change many opinion of views of the people. The Scientific Revolution shaped the modern world by introducing mathematical and scientific theories. The formation of the empirical method , reason, and the laws of nature such as mathematical formulas, brought about more sense of thinking. Great thinkers and ... Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, etc., are just of the few who expanded ideas. They began to use the inductive method as a step-by-step to their understandings. The new outlook generated by the Scientific Revolution served as the foundation of the Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution gave thinkers great confidence in the power of the mind , which had discovered natures laws, reinforcing the confidence in human abilities expressed by ...
- 873: Player Piano
- ... he starts to think about the system of the society and social life, about his professional career, which he starts to see as not as important as it seemed to him before, and about the revolution. He starts planning. Firstly he wants to remain only an internal revolutionary. He buys one of the last farms in the country and he tells his wife to come to live there with him. She ... being hidden in a cell as a prisoner, and he is only an Official Head of the Brotherhood just a puppet to be shown to people. From this you can see that the idea of revolution was not bad at all, but it turned worse with the people's want for might. So it happens. The government does not accept their request, which means violence is used. The common people go ... They do not really care about which machine is really bad and which might be helpful or needful, they do not distinguish, so they just smash all down. The army makes a counterstrike, so the revolution is finished soon by violence. Paul does not belong anywhere now. The revolutionaries blame him for the bad success the industrial bosses treat him like a traitor and his own wife who said she ...
- 874: Five Imporant Events Of The 19
- ... to pursue their idea of change. Ngo Dinh Diem became the first president of South Vietnam in 1956 he was a catholic who opposed Communism and sought for an independent Vietnam while it was under French power. Although he was viewed as brutal, corrupt, and prejudice against non-Catholics and Buddhists, he did however help make Vietnam an independent country from France and help prevent Communist rule over all of Vietnam. In 1933 Ngo Dinh Diem was appointed Minister of the Interior by Emperor Bao Dai, at the same time during the 1930s Ngo Dinh Diem began to disapprove of the French rule over Vietnam. He decided to leave the government and follow the many Vietnamese nationalists who were also against French rule. In 1950 he left Vietnam and headed for the U.S. after Vietnam had fallen under rule of Viet Minh in August of 1945, seeing Communism as a threat to his values as ...
- 875: The Political And Religious Wi
- ... newly invented printing press spread these ideas like wild fire (Marshall 3). Now Godfrey was a martyr, there were many theories of his death, yet none could ever be proved (Marshall 1-2). The new revolution was now taking place; this was due largely to a new oath, which parliament required the monarch to take. This oath required the king to uphold the customs and laws of the Protestants. (Kishlansky 63). Now science and philosophy as well as religion were being questioned ( Wright 189). This revolution was one of the most important in history (Wright 187). Works Cited Buchan, John. Oliver Cromwell. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1934. Chapman, Hester W. The Tragedy of Charles II in the years 1630 1660 ... Parliament B. Death of Oliver Cromwell IV. Child of Hope (Charles II) A. Predestination B. Support V. Religious Unity A. Variable Unity B. Gods Work VI. Constitutionalism Versus Absolutism A. Constitutionalism B. Absolutism VII. Revolution A. Popish Plot and Martyrdom B. Revolution ii THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS WINDS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM CHARLES I TO OLIVER CROMWELL By Brad Evans Presented to Ms. Parsons English IV March 1, 2000
- 876: Organic Molecules Challenge
- Organic Molecules Challenge Silicon's Reign as King of Semiconductors There is a revolution fomenting in the semiconductor industry. It may take 30 years or more to reach perfection, but when it does the advance may be so great that today's computers will be little more than calculators compared to what will come after. The revolution is called molecular electronics, and its goal is to depose silicon as king of the computer chip and put carbon in its place. The perpetrators are a few clever chemists trying to use pigment, proteins ... we're trying to do," said Phil Seiden, manager of molecular science, IBM, Yorkstown Heights, N.Y. Birge, who heads the Center for Molecular Electronics at Carnegie-Mellon, said two factors are driving this developing revolution, more speed and less space. "Semiconductor chip designers are always trying to cram more electronic components into a smaller space, mostly to make computers faster," he said. "And they've been quite good at ...
- 877: Ballet, Sleeping Beauty And Ba
- Both Ballet Comique De La Reine and Sleeping Beauty have some similarities of the royal French Court such as costumes, some social dancing, mannerisms and scenery. They were both very expensive and lavish ballets. The first act of Sleeping Beauty is a portrayal of what the royal French courts were like around the same time as Ballet Comique De La Reine. But, both ballets have differences, especially in the time and location of the ballets. Besides the fact that Ballet Comique De La ... of the two ballets. Ballet Comique De La Reine of 1581 was choreographed in France while Petipa choreographed Sleeping Beauty of 1890 in Russia. Ballet Comique De La Reine was held by the actual real French court while Sleeping Beauty was an imitation. Since Sleeping Beauty was supposed to resemble the court life of the Renaissance/Baroque period, the cast were only performers who played the roles of royalty. Ballet ...
- 878: Liberalism and Freedom
- ... to determine their own fundamental beliefs. The right of individuals to be independent is the cornerstone of liberalism. This combined with the right to resist encroachments on this independence make up the legitimacy behind the revolution. The Declaration of Independence embodied these thoughts precisely and clearly. When Thomas Jefferson wrote about the "inalienable rights... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" he was speaking of the inherent rights of man and ... state became a way to reassemble society and educate citizens in the responsibility of leading an intelligent, meaningful life (Gerstle, 1994). At this time the world was facing many changes, among these are the industrial revolution and world war one. John Dewey elaborates on the feeling of the time in the following quotation: "The fact of change has been so continual and so intense that it overwhelms our minds. We are ... in turn could lead to an ongoing escalation of man's moral constitution. Men who agreed with Jefferson held strong to this tenet for years until a series of occurrences shattered this theory. The industrial revolution, better communications, and World War I all combined in a synergistic effect that changed this philosophy forever. The industrial revolution made the idea of a predominantly agricultural society in America little more than a ...
- 879: Martin Luther and his Teachings
- Martin Luther and his Teachings Martin Luther was German preacher whose own spiritual crisis led to a revolution in religious thought and practice. His belief in the concept of sola fides, which means by faith alone, caused great controversy among the people of the time. He believed that in order to reach a ... everyone had the potential to be godly and denounced the class of priests. Along with certain technological advances and social factors, his writings proved to be a powerful weapon in the inciting of a religious revolution. A main reason for how his teachings led to a revolution was printing and its effect on the disseminating of propaganda. Without it, the revolution would never have occurred. Between 1518-1524 the amount of books printed increased seven times and between 1517-1520, thirty ...
- 880: The Policies of My Way
- ... shape the many. This single-warrior syndrome explains many shifts and patterns in the Trudeau character. Diefenbaker revelled in the democratic panorama; Diefenbaker failed to keep urban Canada aboard his carousel and never really got french Canada aboard in the first place, but the Chief's strengths and weakness flowed from the ordinary people who loved him and the sophisticates and big city people who hated him. P.E.T. never ... 1919. Pierre wasn't the sort of person that you think would become one of Canada's longest in office Prime Ministers. At home Pierre's mother spoke mainly English, although she was fluent in french. His mother provided the English balance. Charles-Emily Pierre's father taught him sports as Pierre was very good at them. Pierre practised the art of KARATE and soon became a brown belt, one below ... put together a franchise of gas stations that grew to include 15,000 members and filling $1,400,000 for his stations. As a boy, living in Montreal, he favoured the English instead of the French and when his friends were unhappy of the French losing, Pierre was celebrating. Many of his teachers in primary school said that Pierre was a headstrong individualist who involved himself frequently in fights and ...
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