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- 521: Orwell And Marx
- ... social doctrine George Orwell waited years to write; often misconstrued and rarely considered more than a criticism of totalitarianism, its natural tendency to be compared with Marxism has been too often overlooked. Selected Bibliography: Daniels, Robert V. Trotsky, Stalin and Socialism. Boulder: Westview Press. 1991. Lee, Robert A. "The Uses of Form: A Reading of Animal Farm,² Critical Essays on George Orwell, by Bernard Oldsley and Joseph Browne. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. 1986. Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. Preface. "A Contribution ...
- 522: Kennedy Assassination
- ... to assassinate President Kennedy. It did not seem likely that Castro would do such a thing, after telling a television reporter that it would begin a war and may cause Castro to loss his power. Robert Kennedy was working on persecuting organized crime, including the Mafia. The Mafia had said that it would be beneficial to them if either Robert or John were out of the way. The Mafia may have hired Oswald, many witnesses confess to seeing him with Mafia gang members. It would make sense that Jack Ruby was also hired by the ...
- 523: A Political Biography On Jfk
- ... as a classic political expression. Kennedy chose his cabinet to represent the country's main sections and interests. To reassure business, a Republican, C. Douglas Dillon, was appointed secretary of the treasury, and another Republican, Robert S. McNamara, who had been president of the Ford Motor Company, was named secretary of defense. Dean Rusk, who had headed the Rockefeller Foundation, became the new secretary of state, and Adali Stevenson was appointed ambassador to the United Nations. Robert Francis Kennedy, the president's Brother, became attorney general. Prior to the election , Kennedy had planned to present to Congress a sweeping legislative program similar to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "100 days ...
- 524: K.k.k.
- ... had to hide behind a front such as the Public School Defense League of Michigan, but some could be openly out such as in Kalamazoo. An Official Bulletin of the Kalamazoo Klan was found in Robert Anderson's collection. In it the Klan of Kalamazoo describes its organization in an effort to gain new members. Within their offices on the third floor of 171 Portage Street, the Klan consisted of three ... area and held many titles including Grand Tribunal, Past Excellent Commander, Past Grand Klaiff, Grand Officer and Past Kleagle. Other members of the KKK organization included John C. Shroeder, Claude Parr, and B.C. Pond. Robert Anderson's scrapbook contains many interesting clippings, poems, and pictures from Klan activities throughout the country. The cover is decorated with an American flag with the words "Kluxer" above it. On the back is a ...
- 525: Stephen Crane
- ... the truths and realities to his audience. His use of dialect and irony are only a few, but perhaps his most effective as well as his most powerful technique lies in his use of realism. Robert Cantwell claims, “Crane wanted to picture the truth unsparingly, as he saw it, in terms as violent as the life was violent, not for the purpose of starting a crusade, but because he believed that ... lives of many, but remains unnoticed and unheard by those whose lives remain clean and untouched from its corruption. Bibliography Works Cited Berryman, John. Stephen Crane: A Critical Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Cantwell, Robert. “Stephen Crane.” Famous American Men of Letters. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1956. 135-145. Colvert, James B. “Stephen Crane.” American Realists and Naturalists. Ed. Donald Pizer. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 100-24. Vol. 12 ...
- 526: The Mass Media and Politics
- ... story, and most important information is sure to surface somewhere. The choice of words and phrases used in a story can make something sound more or less severe than it is. Power to Persuade cites Robert O'Hara, an author, as saying "It is the choice of just the right adjective or verb to sum up a situation that evokes from the receiver the response the communicator feels should be adopted ... the laws and generally run the country. The mass media is at the beginning of a long chain, but nonetheless, the media has a powerful effect on politics in the United States. Works Cited Cirino, Robert. Power to Persuade Mass Media and the News. New York: Bantam Books, 1974. Gottfried, Ted. Privacy. Connecticut: Millbrook Press, 1994. Remy, Richard C. United States Government Democracy in Action. Ohio: McGraw-Hill, 1999.
- 527: Origins Of Communism
- ... thinker of that time, was similar to Fourier in many respects, although he valued a mixed society of capitalist thinkers and socialist workers which he believed would triumph in future French communities. Meanwhile in England, Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist, was developing his own brand of Socialism. Unlike many philosophers of his time, Owen based his ideas on experience rather than speculation. He managed a factory and realized that labor was ... lifestyle. He viewed it as an assisting force in man’s self-consciousness. Both Marx and Feuerbach were powerful spokesmen of the proletariat. They both knew that labor was an indispensable factor of production as Robert Owen did in the early 19th century. Throughout the class struggles of the late 20th century, Marx stood by the proletariat. He argued that the providers of a nation, the working class, should be treated ...
- 528: BoB Dylan
- ... significant musical movements in history, more specifically the twenty first century, few were more important than the folk revolution that took shape in the mid-nineteen hundreds. One of the leaders of this revolution was Robert Allen Zimmerman, known by his popular assumed name, Bob Dylan. Born in 1941 in Minnesota, Dylan grew up the grandchild of Jewish-Russian immigrants and had a surprisingly unexceptional childhood. His interest in music became ... opened many new vistas for the young Dylan and he took advantage of his situation by studying the roots of contemporary rock. He began to listen to the works of folk pioneers like Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, and Woody Guthrie. At the same time Dylan was beginning to perform solo at local Minneapolis night spots such as the Ten O’Clock Scholar cafe and the St. Paul’s Purple Onion Pizza ...
- 529: Dragons
- ... contact of air. When the dragon wants to breathe fire, the methane is released into the lung and when the gas is in the air, the phosphorous ignites and also puts the methane on fire. Frost Breather: Some dragons breathe a cone of frost. The explanation for this resides also in the food that the dragon ingests. The food is broken down in the stomach, primarily for nutrition, but the remains bear some chemical reactions that will give off ...
- 530: Responsibility And Duty As The
- ... the twenty-eight years of her life, Edna breaks down. She wants to pursue love and disregard her duty to her husband and children. She falls in what she considers "girlish" love with the character Robert. She proclaims to him: "I love you . . . only you; no one but you. If was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream . . .Oh! I have suffered! Now you are ... to be crushed by the bounds of mother hood. By nature she craves freedom and happiness, and as a mother she can neither provide that to her children or herself. Edna says the following to Robert: "I love you . . . only you; no one but you. If was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream . . .Oh! I have suffered! Now you are here we shall love ...
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