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- 881: The 1960s: Happenings, Causes, and Effects
- ... addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. the '60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. in spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution, john f. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. however, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ... out." you know why the nation celebrates 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 Civil Rights Movement The momentum of the previous decade's civil rights gains led by rev. Martin luther king, jr. carried over into the 1960s ... but after 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. 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. In 1965, King and other black leaders wanted ...
- 882: Eugenics
- ... new ideas was the concept of eugenics, or genetically improving the overall quality of the human race. It started out seeming like a practical way to eradicate certain genetic deficiencies, but became a full blown revolution in the attitude of many towards those with even slight deficiencies. The impact of the eugenics movement started small, but within a few years it had spread worldwide and defined many of the political ideas ... enough when they were proposed. The idea was that everything, from poverty to intelligence, was determined by a molecule found in every single cell of the body called DNA. This idea sparked a virtual cultural revolution that lasted nearly 50 years. Bibliography Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. and W.F. Bodner. The Genetics of Human Populations. San Fransisco, CA: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1971. Hutton, Richard. Bio-Revolution: DNA and the Ethics of Man-Made Life. New York: Mentor., 1978. Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 1985. ...
- 883: Latin America And Slavery
- ... This has four separate categories in which countries may be classified according to their situation. The category is countries with extremely high birth and death rates. This category has become unneeded due to the medical revolution. Death rates are lower because medicine can keep people alive longer than before. Common diseases dont have people dropping like flies anymore. There are no countries fitting this description in present day countries. If ... today, including Venezuela and Peru. The third category is characterized by midrange death rates and lower birth rates. Countries having this classification are more developed countries that have both the medical institutions of the medical revolution and developed economies. The highest grossing economies are not in rural based areas. They are in urbanized countries. Most developed Latin American countries underwent a rural to urban migration before the present date. Those with ... for help on the farm. Actually, excessive children are harmful to the blue collar worker on his limited income, and thus one reason for lower birth rates. Another is a direct result of the Medical Revolution. This is a drop in infant mortality. Again, this is just the product of better medicine and general health care. The Medical Revolution also produced better contraception, which lowered birth rates and made life ...
- 884: Jean Sartre
- JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Jean-Paul Sartre is a French philosopher, novelist, play-write, and journalist. He is mostly recognized for his leadership in French Existentialism. After questioning his own ideas he gave up his own ideas, and started to support Marxism. Existentialism was the ideology that he is mostly known and supported for. Jean Paul was born on June 21, 1905 and was schooled at Evole Normale Superieure in Paris, University of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the French Institute in Berlin. From 1929 he taught philosophy at some secondary schools. Resulting in the start of World War II, he was drafted into the military. Sometime during 1940-1941 he was captured by ...
- 885: Causes and Results of the Crusades
- ... European Christians to take back Jerusalem and other Palestine places of pilgrimage away from Muslim control. These expeditions occurred during the years 1095 and 1270 ad. It started on November 27, 1095 just outside a French city called Clermont-Ferrand. The Pope, Urban II preached a sermon to the many clergy at the church council that day in Clermont. He discussed his plans for a Crusade. The clergy liked the idea ... another Crusade, The Second Crusade. This idea attracted many new recruits including the king of France Louis VII and the Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad III. Conrad and the German army set out for Antolia. The French force followed about a month later. On the way the Germans got ambushed and only a few escaped. The French were a bit more fortunate, however they did have many casualties and only few of the original army actually made it to Jerusalem in 1148. Together with King Baldwin III of Jerusalem and his ...
- 886: Charles Et Secondat, Baron De
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu was born in 1689 to a French noble family. "His family tree could be traced 350 years, which in his view made its name neither good nor bad." (The Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, p. 68) Montesquieu's views started to be shaped ... control the monarchs. In 1721 Montesquieu published the Persian Letters, which he began working on while studying in Bordeaux. The book was a success. In the Persian Letters Montesquieu showed how relative all of the French values were. Even though the technique used in this witty book was previously used by other writers, Montesquieu did a great job making fun of the European values. At that time he already believed in ... immorality of European practices such as religious prosecution. The book gave roots for Montesquieu's later arguments and ideas. When in 1728 Montesquieu, with the help of his Parisian connections he got elected to the French Academy, he was happy to sell his office of president a mortier. In the course of the next three years he traveled all over Europe, visiting Germany, Hungary, England, Holland, Austria, and Italy. It ...
- 887: Drunken Boat
- ... and bitter the suns" (Rimbaud 1175). It is in these concluding stanzas that Rimbaud first diverges from the characteristics that are typical of 19th century writers. While many writers of the period embraced the Industrial Revolution as equally harmful and good, Rimbaud views it as a mechanism by which individuals are treated as machines, much like a commercial boat. In that sense, Rimbaud shares an idea later espoused by another great ... hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" (Marx and Engels 1329). Where Rimbaud differed greatly from these writers, however, was in his approach to a solution: Marx and Engels encouraged the use of revolution to propel the working class out of "slavery" and toward a classless society. Rimbaud's closing stanzas indicate a desolation that is inconsolable, and weary from a lifetime of struggle and hard work (1175): If ... s the black pond And cold, where toward perfumed evening A sad child on his knees sets sail A boat as frail as a May butterfly. Rimbaud closes his poem propelling his boat not towards revolution, but towards death. Rimbaud's "water-drunken carcass" is worn and "Covered with lichens of the sun and azure's phlegm" (Rimbaud 1175). The commerce of the river has worn his boat down, broken ...
- 888: Sir Wilfrid Laurier of Canada
- ... carefully develop the politics of reconciliation rather than conflict. In the year 1854 the young lad went to college, De L'assomption. In his studies he took subjects such as Latin, Latin classics, pre- revolutionary French literature, Greek, English and some philosophy. The education which Laurier got from this school was to prepare him for priesthood but he decided to study law in Montreal at McGill University. At the University Laurier ... the issue so then the problem ended up in a rebellion known as the Northwest Rebellion. Laurier had decided to try to defend the cause because he believed in minority rights although he had a French- Canadian background. Although Laurier was helping the Metis he did not really approve of Riel's ways. Some of the things Laurier said during that time was,"I am not one of those who look ... in this major historical event he gained the favour over the majority of the francophone community. On July 13, 1896 Laurier became the Prime Minister of Canada. He was the first Prime Minister to be French. During his early years as a Prime Minister he resolved the Manitoba school question by the Laurier-Greenway agreement. This agreement had everything the Catholics wanted and the issue was put to a close. ...
- 889: Hard Times
- ... of his time." Charles Dickens was an author during this period and his novel Hard Times reflects a number of different themes. The novel focuses on educational and economic systems of Victorian England, the industrial revolution, which spawned how industrial relations were viewed during the 1850's, and utilitarianism. I have chosen the two major themes of industrial relations and educational system during this period. Although, you can not discuss labor ... called Household Words, each issue dealt with a different social problem of the period. Hard Times began as a serialization in this weekly publication. In Hard Times Dickens writes about the horrors of the industrial revolution and was sparked by what he had seen first hand in Manchester, England fifteen years prior to writing Hard Times and the present goings on of a labor strike in Preston, England while he was ... the biblical passage, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"(Galatians 6:7). Book the Third, "Garnering," describes in a broad way the results of what industrialization did to Victorian England. The industrialization revolution brought many problems to Victorian England in the 1850's. Industrial towns such as Manchester and Preston sprung up in northern England. Prosperity came to those who owned the factories or mills, while despair ...
- 890: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... 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 ...
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