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- 781: Rights, Responsibilities, and Growing-up
- Rights, Responsibilities, and Growing-up In the past few years, as gun ownership came under ever-increasing attack, I came to realize that a firearm, and the right to own it, means a lot more than sport, or food, or tradition. More than utility or hobby or ... our first freedom. Among freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, assembly, and redress of grievances, it’s first among equals. Soon after a tragedy involving young people with firearms, President Clinton proclaimed, “A gun in the hands of a young person is a crime or accident waiting to happen.” Now, no matter how much publicity he got from saying that, it doesn’t reflect reality. I’d like to remind our president, with a father or uncle, older brother, or friend, that “A gun in the hands of a young person” is probably the most effective tool available for teaching personnel responsibility, sportsmanship, safety, ethics of hunting, and the achievement of marksmanship, and much more. For many young ...
- 782: Four Contrasting Viewpoints In The Sound And The Fury
- ... is one characterized by “sound” and “fury.” Benjy’s meaningless utterances and reliance on his auditory senses, the perpetual ticking of clocks, Quentin’s mysterious bantering, the insignificant accompaniment. Jason’s lust for power and control, the inescapable nemesis of time, Miss Quentin’s rebellious attitude. The Compson family in its entirety is that “poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.” Their lives are so full of ... back of the head and my throat made a sound” (Faulkner 40). His interpretations, in general, are simplistic and this is clearly reflected in the way he describes his experience with alcohol. The loss of control that is associated with inebriation is new to Benjy, and he doesn’t understand that his judgement is impaired and the champagne he consumed has altered his perception of the world. Instead, he only understands ... and thus weaves another strand into Faulkner’s intense lattice. Jason Compson presents the first sequential narration in this novel and, by doing so, establishes the fact that he is (or tries to be) in control of all around him. After his father’s death, he took on the role as the man of the house and, in comparison with his suicidal and idiot brothers and his promiscuous sister, seemed ...
- 783: The Coal Miners in France During the Second Empire
- ... action is oriented. The situation is composed of two elements; the conditions are that which the actor cannot manipulate in accordance with his end, and the means are that over which he does not have control. Finally there is a relation between these elements; where a situation allows alterna- tive means to the end, the course is selected from the normative orientation of the actor. (Parsons, 1968: 44) In order to ... the responsibility of he shop director to motivate the actual production. As the strike of the miners endured, it was first the shop directors, then the local and district directors that were immediately affected. The control of the corporate directors, however, was never in question. After several months of violent revolt and destruction the corporate body, whose legitimacy had not been questioned directly by the laborors, reinstitued the pre- strike traditional ... technology, which is exogenous and inexorable, but the exercise of power, which is endogenous and resistable. (Marglin; 1976:17) This implies, in keeping with the results of the coalminer strike, that the capitalist has some control over the work process. This control is limited by the economy, therefore I contend that a revolution transforming the class division in society is possible when the polity is as closely related to the ...
- 784: The Red Book and the Power Structure of Communist China
- ... tied to its developer Lin Biao's rise to power. Lin Biao was born in 1907 and was fourteen years younger then Mao; he joined the communist party in 1925 and until the communists captured control of China was at various times in charge of resistance forces, and armies of communist soldiers. When the communists took control in 1949 Lin Biao was behind Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yun, and Deng Xiaoping in rank (Yan and Gao, 1996: 179). But eighteen years later during the height of the Cultural Revolution ... Lenin and Mao" (Ming-Le, 1983: 50) Lin Biao saw that holding the office of the presidency which became vacant after the death Liu Shaoqi in 1969 was a tool by which he could assume control over China and fulfill his lifetime ambition. On August 25, 1970 Mao convened the conference and upon hearing of Lin Biao's plan destroyed it in a matter of two days. Mao did this ...
- 785: Fidel Castro 2
- ... Agrarian Reform (INRA) with broad and ill defined powers. Through the INRA Castro methodically seized all American holdings in Cuba. He promised compensation but frequently never gave it. He conducted investigations into company affairs, holding control over them in the meantime, and then never divulging the results or giving back the control. These seizures were protested. On January 11 Ambassador Bonsal delivered a note to Havana protesting the Cuban government seizure of U.S. citizens property. The note was rejected the same night as a U.S. attempt to keep economic control over Cuba. As this continued Castro was engineering a brilliant propaganda campaign aimed at accusing the U.S. of "conspiring with the counter revolutionaries against the Castro regime". Castro's ability to whip the ...
- 786: Eli Whitney
- ... into making such a big commitment. Coming from anyone else except Eli Whitney, the proposal would've sounded crazy. Up until this time, every rifle was handmade from stock to barrel. The parts of one gun were not interchangeable with any other gun, and weren't expected to be. Whitney's plan was to make all the parts of his rifles almost identical so that they could be interchangeable from one gun to another. He accomplished this by taking one gun, and making a template from each individual part of the gun. Whitney's next task was to invent the machine to cut the metal according ...
- 787: The Good Friday Agreement
- ... along. But the Protestants refused to and ‘as…settlers increased their hold on land and power…the Gaelic Catholics lost it.’ After the Battle of Boyne in 1690 the ‘Protestants made sure they had complete control of Ireland’ by introducing the Penal Laws. These laws were to take power and keep it from the Catholics. A few examples of Penal Laws were ‘No Catholic can buy land or lease it for ... be allowed to vote…join the army or navy…or take professional jobs.’ These laws were kept in effect until the end of the 18th Century so by that time the Protestants were in full control. It was at this point that Nationalists started working to get back Ireland from Britain. There were two types, Revolutionary and Parliamentary. The difference between them was simple – violence. Revolutionaries believed that violence was the ... Great Famine. What it did was wipe out what was left of the Irish Gaelic language as many were forced to emigrate to other countries. People could say that this is when Protestants had full control other Ireland as they had imposed their language and their ways onto the country. The revolutionaries tried a series of revolts which were unsuccessfulThe British didn’t want to let go as their empire ...
- 788: The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
- ... Their new positions, the Hindenburg line, were a defence in depth of three lines, the third being beyond the range of the British guns. Between these lines was barbed wire, scattered concrete pillboxes and machine gun nests. The barbed wire funnelled the attackers into killing zones swept by machine guns and carefully registered by the artillery so that the attackers could be annihilated by a crippling concentration of shells. (You can ... successful attack with two Australian Divisions side by side and supported by a Scottish Division on their left. It was here that 2nd. LT. Fred Birks won his posthumous V.C.; he rushed a machine gun post in a pillbox which was holding up the Battalion, killed the enemy and captured the gun, then organised a party to take another strongpoint and captured an officer and 15 men. A shellburst buried several of his men and Birks was attempting to dig them out when he was killed ...
- 789: Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
- ... Agrarian Reform (INRA) with broad and ill defined powers. Through the INRA Castro methodically seized all American holdings in Cuba. He promised compensation but frequently never gave it. He conducted investigations into company affairs, holding control over them in the meantime, and then never divulging the results or giving back the control. (7) These seizures were protested. On January 11 Ambassador Bonsal delivered a note to Havana protesting the Cuban government seizure of U.S. citizens property. The note was rejected the same night as a U.S. attempt to keep economic control over Cuba. (8) As this continued Castro was engineering a brilliant propaganda campaign aimed at accusing the U.S. of "conspiring with the counter revolutionaries against the Castro regime"(9). Castro's ability to ...
- 790: Hitler
- ... was the Jews and the Communists who betrayed the "fatherland" and it was here that his disliking of the Jews most likely began. Germany after the war was in chaos. With no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to take control. One day a bi His natural ability to speak impressed the leader of the group and at the end of the meeting he gave Hitler a pamphlet and an initiation the next meeting. He wasn ... opportunity to get his views across to the German people who have lost all hope. Of course people did not start to support him right away. After he came into power, the Nazi party took control over every aspect of every day life. Hitler ordered the creation of a special police force, the Gestapo, to make sure that all opponents would be eliminated. He also gave orders to set up ...
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