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- 3501: 1968
- ... the southern sit-in movement, "The first hint," wore a contemporary, "That there was a world beyond the campus that demanded some kind of personal response. "Not so much ideological as moral, in Jessica Mitford's words, "An Indignant Generation." Although an image of arrogance, even ruthlessness, had followed him from his early days as counsel to a Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, Robert Kennedy had shown a remarkable capacity to ... so doing, Saigon abandoned the countryside and dealt the pacification program what many felt was a considerable setback. "There always was a semi vacuum in the countryside," said one United States pacification worker. "Now there's a complete vacuum." By the end of the February, orders have gone out for pacification teams and some troops to return to the hamlets, but progress was slow. Although ninety-five percent of the five ... teams had returned to the countryside in I Corps, while in the Delta, entire provinces had to be temporarily abandoned to the Vietcong For six days prior to the first attack, waves of B-52's blasted enemy weapon sites, troop concentrations, and bunkers. Despite the tons of explosives rained down on the valley, the first helicopter assault on April nineteenth came under withering fire from antiaircraft batteries hidden in ...
- 3502: Stranger Than Fiction Brave Ne
- Stranger Than Fiction The task of predicting the future is as impossible as finding a needle in Texas. Huxley s predictions of the future has proven to be eerily accurate in several areas; his predictions with regards to sex, our obsession with youth and beauty closely resemble societies' views on these issues today. However his prediction on the futures view of parents is off the mark. Religion is slowing beginning to resemble progressing towards Huxely s view of religion. Huxley was a psychic because of the accuracy with which he has predicted the evolution of today s society over fifty years ago. In Aldous Huxley s Brave New World the people treat sex as a form of entertainment rather than a way to reproduce or a way to express love between ...
- 3503: Andy Warhol and Pop Art
- Andy Warhol and Pop Art Pop Art The pop art movement began in London during the 1950's and then quickly spread throughout nearly all of the industrialized world. Although the artists did have some overlapping styles, pop art focuses more on the subject and less on style, which was left up to ... used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way to play off the social issues of popular culture. The art form developed rapidly once reaching the U.S. New York City, often viewed as the epicenter of American popular culture, fostered the growth of many of the most highly regarded pop artists, including Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal and Lichtenstein. California, namely San Fransisco was recognized as the Pop Art capital of the west coast (Bourdon, 1989, 12) Subject The subject of Warhol's work revolved around various American social issues of the mid-century. As America exited from World War II and entered the Baby Boom era, the culture had become decidedly sanitized. Some of this could ...
- 3504: Maya Angelou's “No Loser No Weeper”
- Maya Angelou's “No Loser No Weeper” In Maya’s Angelou “No Loser No Weeper”, one of her many poems, she describes the emotional state she endured growing up in the 1920’s during the Great Depression. Because of the suffering that she endured as an African American during the 1920’s, Angelou’s life made her far more than a loser or weeper instead she would ...
- 3505: Social Darwinism
- ... that the theory of evolution originated from Darwin in the nineteenth century. However, the idea that species mutated over time has been around for a long time in one form or another. Therefore, by Darwin's time the idea that species change from one type into another was surely not new, but was rejected by most because the proposers of evolution could not come up with a satisfactory mechanism that would ... the other hand suggested that the change was discontinuous, large in magnitude, and occurred at the production of offspring. However, these theories of evolution were based on prior explanations that offered no demonstrated mechanism. Darwin's theory of evolution differs in that it is based on three easily verified observations. First, individuals within a species vary from one another in morphology, physiology, and behavior. Second, variation is in some part inheritable ... number of offspring, and thus, again a change in the composition of the population. Therefore, it was Darwin who made the theory of evolution feasible by providing the mechanisms of natural and sexual selection. Darwin's History Charles Darwin was born in England in 1809 and belonged to a wealthy and respectable family. His grandfather, Erasamus Darwin, was a noted botanical expert in his day who published two important books, ...
- 3506: Andy Warhol And Pop Art
- The pop art movement began in London during the 1950's and then quickly spread throughout nearly all of the industrialized world. Although the artists did have some overlapping styles, pop art focuses more on the subject and less on style, which was left up to ... used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way to play off the social issues of popular culture. The art form developed rapidly once reaching the U.S. New York City, often viewed as the epicenter of American popular culture, fostered the growth of many of the most highly regarded pop artists, including Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal and Lichtenstein. California, namely San Fransisco was recognized as the Pop Art capital of the west coast (Bourdon, 1989, 12) Subject The subject of Warhol's work revolved around various American social issues of the mid-century. As America exited from World War II and entered the Baby Boom era, the culture had become decidedly sanitized. Some of this could ...
- 3507: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- This story was written by Hemingway in 1933. It details an evening\\'s interaction between two waiters, and their differing perspectives of life. Hemingway uses an old man as a patron to demonstrate the waiter\\'s philosophies. Hemingway is also visible in the story as the old man, someone who society says should be content, but has a significant empty feeling inside. What follows is a line-by-line analysis, putting ... and their differing outlooks upon life. Their views are shown as they talk about an old man in the cafe, and each contemplate their life. The old man, who may be a reflection of Hemingway\\'s anticipated aging, enjoys drinking in the cafe late at night. This may be a reflection of Hemingway\\'s own writing in cafes in Paris. The old man prefers drinking late at night when the ...
- 3508: Leonard Bernstein
- ... Bernstein was born in Lawrenceville, Massachusettes on August 25, 1918. He was the first born child of Samuel and Jennie Bernstein, who lived in Boston, but had gone to Lawrenceville to visit some relatives. Bernstein's parents had little knowledge of, or interest in classical music. The only records Leonard remembers hearing on his family phonograph when he was a child were the popular hit songs of the day, such as ... and “Oh by Jingo.” For the most part, Leonard Bernstein was an unhappy child. He said, “ I was a miserable, terrified little child” (Musicians p.64). His family moved from town to town, during Bernstein's school days, not giving him a chance to make close friends or feel at home. Sadly, Bernstein's peers would make fun of and tease Bernstein. He was a very sickly child as he suffered from chronic asthma, rose fever, and hay fever. This pathetic child grew to be a very shy ...
- 3509: Themes Of The Color Purple By
- The Color Purple By Alice Walker The Color Purple is a story that is told openly and sincerely by a black woman named Celie. Throughout the course of the story, we are shown Celie's struggle to find herself, love, confidence, independence, and the courage to fight and fend for herself. The novel is written in first person by Celie through letters that she wrote to both God and her ... She made her own decisions, spoke her mind, and let no one, especially any man, take advantage of her. In a crucial moment for Celie, Shug stood up and made a decision, she said "That's it. Pack your stuff. You coming back to Tennessee with me." She acts on her own terms and does what she feels, no questions asked. Another example of this theme was the way Sofia, Celie's daughter-in-law, carried herself. She wasn't hesitant in the least bit to fight, physically and verbally, for herself or her cause. She offers her advice loud and clear, as blunt and aggressive ...
- 3510: German World Of Disappointment
- ... ended, he returns to a place that is familiar, but everyone he knows is gone. His new landlady constantly asks him if he knew her dead son. She talks endlessly about her dearly departed son’s life and shows him again and again all the pictures of her son. The final picture that was taken of the landlady’s son was of him at his job as a streetcar conductor. All the other occasions that the soldier had seen it he reminisced about his own time spent at that particular terminus. He remembers the ... recognizes any of the people in the picture until he had been there for three weeks and then he sees the girl in the streetcar. The landlady tells him that the girl was her son’s fiancée and that she is living in the room next to his. Pale Anna is what they always call her because of her extremely white face, but her face was unrecognizably destroyed when she ...
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