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- 1461: 1984: Winston's Hatred of Big Brother
- 1984: Winston's Hatred of Big Brother George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty Four , in 1921 joined the Indian Imperial Police but seven years later resigned having come to hate imperialism. This was evident in the novel when George Orwell portrayed the Party of Big Brother, as a government we wouldn't desire but if we were not careful we too like Weinstein Smith, the main character, would suffer in our lifetime. But Mr ...
- 1462: The Cold War
- ... Castro of Cuba. Fidel Castro became Cuba’s dictator in 1959. Castro stood against the Bay of Pigs, an invasion from the U.S. government, and about thirty assassination attempts. Mikhail Gorbachev of USSR and George Bush of the U.S. sought an end to the hatred between the Soviet Union and the U.S., and ended the Cold War with the collapse of the USSR. The Cold War again was ... turn each side having a different government, Communism in the East and Capitalism in the West. Many other nations and people were involved during the Cold War but it was Mikhail Gorbachev of USSR and George Bush of the U.S., during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, that eased the tensions between the two superpowers by taking down the Berlin Wall (1989) and ending Communism (1991). This was ...
- 1463: Is Saddam Satan?
- ... being a wimp and decided that the most powerful country on earth should wage war on a third world county. A note on Bush’s foreign policy hypocrisy: “at the time of the Gulf War George Bush was the one head of state who stood condemned by the world court for ‘the unlawful use of force’. Bush contemptuously dismissed the Court’s demand for the payment of reparations to Nicaragua, while ... still under U.N. sanctions that the Iraqi people had, and still have, a vindictive attitude toward the U.S.. What the U.S. did to Iraq is inexcusable, the U.S. and more specifically George Bush needed to prove themselves and they did at the expense of the Iraqi people. Iraq, a country formed by the British, had been racked by civil wars and internal power struggles from the time ...
- 1464: The Atrocities of the Vietnam War
- The Atrocities of the Vietnam War The many decisions made by the policymakers in Washington regarding the War in Vietnam, perhaps America’s greatest foreign policy failure, had many consequences that, though unforeseen, could have been avoided. The main policymakers include: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M ... a high body count, the American GIs had this frame of mind; Basically, if it is Vietnamese, kill it, then it may be seen as a dead Vietcong. The pressure to send optimistic numbers to Washington led to a great number of brutalized Vietnamese civilians. This was a result of the decision to use the body count to judge whether or not the war was being won. The My Lai Massacre ...
- 1465: The Holocaust
- ... war on the Jews of Europe. END NOTES 1.) Rossel, Seymor. The Holocaust, Toronto:Canada. 1981 edition. 2.) Britanica Publishing Company. Britanica Vol.6, Toronto:Canada. 1984 edition. 3.) Americana Publishing Company. Americana Vol.14 Washington:America. 1988 edition. BIBLIOGRAPHY Seymor Rossel. The Holocaust, Toronto:Canada. 1981 edition. Britanica Publishing Company. Britanica Vol.6, Toronto:Canada. 1984 edition. Americana Publishing Company. Americana Vol.14, Washington:America. 1988 edition.
- 1466: China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland
- China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland (c) 1986, The Washington Post PEKING - China has made "great progress" in developing a manned space program and the day it launches a man in space for the first time is "not far off," an official newspaper said Sunday ... of China's national defense, science and technology commission confirmed last May that there had been debate over the feasibility of deploying a space shuttle. According to the China Business Review, a magazine published in Washington, D.C., China has been experimenting for more than 10 years with the thermal problems associated with spacecraft re-entry. The Chinese also have been developing space food and space suits for at least seven ...
- 1467: The History Of Canada
- ... this flag that the French lived until the fall of Quebec in 1759. The flag was used by the English from around 1700 was the Union Flag which contained two crosses-the cross of St. George and the cross of St. Andrew and St. Patrick was introduced. This flag is still used in Canada for special occasions. The Red Ensign was approved in 1945 for use by Canadians overseas and on ... the centre. The flag must always be twice as long as it is wide so that it makes a square when folded in two. The colours white and red were given to Canada by King George V, on November 21, 1921, when he granted arms to Canada on the recommendation of the canadian government. The Maple Leaf has always been an emblem of Canada. There is no significance to the eleven ...
- 1468: Social Effects of the Vietnam War on the United States
- ... wounded. Because of disorder Richard Nixon won the presidential election. He promised to bring order back to this country, and a "secret plan" to end the war. In 1969 antiwar demonstrations took place. In fact, Washington, D.C. was filled with over 250,000 demonstrators twice. During candle lit ceremonies names of Americans killed in Vietnam were read. To quiet the protestors, President Nixon used a policy of Vietnamization (7). President ... soldiers were also wounded emotionally and psychologically. They had a hard time finding jobs, and the soldiers also had a hard time adjusting to normal, everyday life. Finally, in 1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated. In the 1980's, to help Vietnam Veterans, support groups were formed around the country. The reason for the United States's defeat in the Vietnam War is still being argued ...
- 1469: Television Violence
- ... hands. All these actions were meant to be funny best evident by the laughter from the audience in the background each time something occurred. One violent act was when one of the main character’s George was standing in a hall way and someone walked passed him and he stuck out his cane and tripped the person walking past him. This wasn’t such a horribly violent action although it could ... the program to depict this random act of violence more realistically they maybe should have shown the man getting hurt, but then of course this wouldn’t be considered funny. Also later in the show George ends up getting beaten by and old couple with a cane. Once again there’s laughter but if this were to happen in real life someone would be seriously hurt. NBC poorly depicted violence in ...
- 1470: Affirmative Action
- ... 1996 Basic Books Race Matters Cornel West 1993 Beacon Press Affirmative Action Abroad Lennart Seldahl 1995 Bonnier In the matter of color Leon Higginbotham 1978 Oxford Press Newspaper/Magazine Articles Media Name of article Date Washington Post “Affirmative Inaction” Sept 18th 1999 Newsweek “Who needs a fair deal?” August 30, 1999 Washington Post “Americans Vent Anger at Affirmative Action” March, 24,1995 Internet Sites Name Full address Afronet www.afronet.com/WB/031597-2.html Geocities www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/3638/action.html Jewish World Review ...
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