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- 1681: History Of Popular Culture
- ... sometimes adjusted the details of the legends and stories to fit the way they thought a certain festival should take place. Popular culture was mixed with ecclesiastical culture in many ways. The story of St. John the Baptist is a good example of this. The ancient ritual of bathing and lighting fires during Midsummer's Eve was a remnant of a ritual from the pre-Christian period. Fire and water, symbols of purification, could be seen as the tools of St. John the Baptist, and therefore a combination of the two elements of popular and ecclesiastical culture was obvious. It looks as if the Medieval Church took over the festival and made it theirs. The same thing ... Europe. This was probably partly due to the climate which discouraged an elaborate street festival at that time of the year. In these regions, people preferred to elaborate the festivities during the Midsummer festival (St. John's Eve). Two reasons for this are the pagan survivals that were stronger in these regions, partly because they were isolated from the rest of Europe due to geographical obstacles, causing a lesser ecclesiastical ...
- 1682: United States of American: Personal Freedom
- ... the government when he printed up a copy of the colony's charter. He was charged with seditious libel and spent more than a year in prison. A more famous incident was the trial of John Peter Zenger which established the principle of a free press. In his newspaper he published satirical ballads regarding William Cosby, the unpopular governor, and his council. His media was described "as having in them many ... immediately pardoned. The next attack on the First Amendment occurred in 1835. President Andrew Jackson proposed a law that would prohibit the use of mail for "incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." John C. Calhoun of South Carolina led a special committee that opposed the proposal on grounds that it conflicted with the First Amendment. The proposal was defeated because it was a form of censorship. The next ... librarians to resign and the closing of libraries. On the morning of December 16, 1965, thirteen year old Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines, Iowa. She and her fifteen year old brother, John, had decided to wear black armbands as a protest to the Vietnam War. In advance to their arrival, the principal had decided that any student wearing an arm- band would be told to remove ...
- 1683: Black Civil Rights
- ... national stardom with the accomplishment. King often acted on and admired the ways of M. Gandhi. Soon blacks all over began to non-violently protest many segregated places. In turn many places were desegregated. President John F. Kennedy was a strong force also in the fight for black civil rights and his assassination in 1963 did cause setbacks. The blacks in the North felt that they had to do more than the blacks ...
- 1684: The Call of the Wild: Determinism and Darwinism
- ... Now a look at Jack London’s live and some of the other novels he wrote that were similar to this novel. He was an American writer, whose work used powerful realism. He was born John Griffith London in San Francisco, California. After completing grammar school, London worked at many jobs and in 1897, and, in 1898; he participated in the Alaska gold rush. When he returned to San Francisco, he ... behalf of socialism. In 1909 he completed his next nonfiction story called Revolution. This story was just a series of essays that highlighted London’s Socialist thought. His last nonfiction work was a story called John Barleycorn, which was written in 1913. John Barleycorn was an autobiographical memoir that dealt with the debilitating effects of alcohol. More information was given about this topic in the story ‘The Noseless one” Although Jack London had many ways of writing, ...
- 1685: Of Mice and Men: George and Lennie's Lonesomeness
- Of Mice and Men: George and Lennie's Lonesomeness In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, George and Lennie struggle to achieve their ultimate dream too save up and have a farm of their own. Lennie is a little delayed and George is just ... in the real world. While spending time on the farm, Lennie starts to talk to Curley's wife. They both want to be with someone so they aren't lonesome. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses George and Lennie's relationship to confirm the central idea of loneliness in the novel. The novel starts off and is set in Soledad, which means lonely. At the beginning they get a ... a dream, and their friendship covers up the loneliness that is there. The characters are isolated besides each other and they have never really had a companionship or other friends. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck used George and Lennie's relationship to emphasize the theme of loneliness in the novel.
- 1686: Computers
- ... the machine on a roll of punched paper tape, rather than being stored in the computer. In 1945, however, a computer with program storage was built, based on the concepts of the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann. The instructions were stored within a so-called memory, freeing the computer from the speed limitations of the paper tape reader during execution and permitting problems to be solved without rewiring the computer. III. EARLY PROGRESS The rapidly advancing field of electronics led to construction of the first general-purpose all-electronic computer in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania by the American engineer John Presper Eckert, Jr. and the American physicist John William Mauchly. Called ENIAC, for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, the device contained 18,000 vacuum tubes and had a speed of several hundred multiplications per minute. Its program was wired into the processor ...
- 1687: Learned Optimisim
- ... area, to find Negroes floating in rivers. The KKK burning crosses, and the FBI's infiltration of groups, as the Black Panthers. Detroit the Poet's hometown had riots that were deadly. The assassination of John F. Kennedy, tragic as it was, is still remembered today, but not those little young people. The Viet NAM war could not cloud the killing of Negro leaders in America. The killing of Dr. King, and the ...
- 1688: The Crucible: Deteriorated Rational and Emotional Stability of Salem
- ... of the Puritan society created a rigid social system that did not allow for any variation in lifestyle. The strict society that was employed at this time had a detrimental effect on the Proctor family. John Proctor, a hard working farmer who had a bad season the year before and struggling this year was occasionally absent at Sunday service. This was due to the fact he needed to tend to his crops. Also, Proctor did not agree with the appointment of Mr. Parris as the newest minister, and therefore did not have his last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This transfer of blame is also noticeable when the truth is first discovered about what the girls were doing in the woods. The girls were not blamed. The ...
- 1689: Brave New World - Is It A Warn
- ... forward to. The people in Brave New World are everything we, as a society, want to be. Mustapha Mond sums up the perfections of the society in Brave New World with an explanation he gave John: “The world’s perfect now. People are happy; they get what they want and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re ... and if there happens to be one, it is easily controlled with soma. It is not known for a person to be violent in that society as shown when Lenina was shocked and startled with John’s reaction to her when she tried to seduce him. Mustapha Mond points out to John that people aren’t able to act rash: “ . . . they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave.” (p. 177) Brave New World is not a warning. It ...
- 1690: Machiavelli's The Prince: Views of A Leader
- ... worry about breaking your word to them. A strong president is better than a nice president is. From the stories of Thomas Jefferson and his affair with a slave to the family-man myth of John F. Kennedy, we've long indulged our leaders' lies. We live in a world where we lie about traffic tickets, sell cars and houses without mentioning defects, falsify resumes, and fudge our tax returns. History also shows ...
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