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- 6931: An Indian Woman In Guatemala: Without A Trace Of Bitterness In Her Voice
- ... cultured and historic Mayan people. It it also the country of Rigoberta Menchu, an illeterite farm worker, turned voice of oppressed people everywhere. Guatemala also has the sad distinction of being home to Latin America's oldest civil war. "For more than three decades, left-wing guerrillas have fought a series of rightist governments in Guatemala. The war has killed an estimated 140,000 in the country, which has 11 million people." (N.Y. Times June 14, 1996 pA4 col 2) This is a story of a people in crisis, and one woman's struggle to use truth, as a means of setting her people free. The majority of the population are Indians, and much of the struggles arise out of the ashes of the past. Spain conquered Guatemala ... the native people of Guatemala. Since this time the native people have been ruled by the Spanish speaking minority, the Ladinos, many of which are descended from the Spanish colonists. Beginning in 1954, when Guatemala's elected government was overthrown by the army, the military began a brutal war against the Indian people. This type of torture and oppression continued, and during the 1970's the repression was especially harsh; ...
- 6932: Alfred Binet
- ... later, in Paris, at the renowned Lycee Louis -le-Grand, Binet went on to become a lawyer. This profession, however, was not suited to him, and he found himself immersed in the works of J.S. Mill, Bain and Sully at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He identified strongly with the associationism theory in following that his mentor was J.S. Mill. Binet began working with Charcot and Fere at the Salpetriere, a famous Parisian hospital, where he absorbed the theories of his teachers in regards to hypnosis, hysteria and abnormal psychology. During the following seven years, he continuously demonstrated his loyalty in defending Charcot's doctrines on hypnotic transfer and polarization until he was forced to accept the counterattacks of Delboeuf and the Nancy School, which eventually caused a split between student and teacher. Having been married in 1884 ...
- 6933: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... short-story writers of the late 19th century. Chesnutt lived most of his childhood in Fayetteville, NC where he worked part time in a family grocery store and attended a school founded by the Freedmen's Bureau. By 14 he had published his first short story in a Fayetteville newspaper. I think I must write a book It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task. (1) At 15 Charles dropped out of school to support his family. By the age of 16, he had come to Charlotte to teach the city's black schoolchildren and also to support his family. He had an intense thirst for knowledge. At a time when few educational opportunities existed for black Americans, he studied math, music, literature and languages. He left Charlotte to take a job as assistant principal of the State Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. There's time enough, but none to spare. (1) Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City to find work at Dow, Jones and Company and also writes a financial news ...
- 6934: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... how Internet users are reacting to this bill, and why they say it is unconstitutional. Some individuals disagree with one part of the bill. According to http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ query/z?c104:s.652.enr:, which has the Communications Decency Act on-line for public viewing,: "Whoever uses an Internet service to send to a person or persons under 18 years of age......any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image,........or anything offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs.....shall be fined $250,000 if the person(s) is/are under 18....... imprisoned not more than two years.......or both." The wording of that section seems sensible. However, if this one little paragraph is approved, many sites such as the: Venus de Milo site located at: http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/Treasures/gifs/venusdemilo.gif; the Sistine Chapel at: http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/michelangelo.creation and Michelangelo's David @ http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/images/image201.gif could not be accessed and used by anybody under the age of 18. These works of art and many other museum pictures would not ...
- 6935: Atomic Bomb 6
- ... surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction. Harry S. Truman appears to be perfectly confident in his radio address to the world on August 9th 1945. Confident that he has made the right decision in dropping the first weapon of mass destruction, and thus ... of the atomic bomb was perfectly justified by the horrors of World War II. However, looking at this subject in retrospect, the atomic bomb has been lowered from its savior status, and in some people s eye s ranks among the world s most horrible crimes of war. This debate has raged between historians for years, yet research and articles written in recent years how show the atomic bomb not only ended ...
- 6936: Deficit Spending
- Deficit Spending Spending financed not by current tax receipts, but by borrowing or drawing upon past tax reserves. , Is it a good idea? Why does the U.S. run a deficit? Since 1980 the deficit has grown enormously. Some say its a bad thing, and predict impending doom, others say it is a safe and stable necessity to maintain a healthy economy. When the U.S. government came into existence and for about a 150 years thereafter the government managed to keep a balanced budget. The only times a budget deficit existed during these first 150 years were in times of ... war ended the deficit would be eliminated and the economy which was much larger than the amounted debt would quickly absorb it. The last time the budget ran a surplus was in 1969 during Nixon's presidency. Budget deficits have grown larger and more frequent in the last half-century. In the 1980s they soared to record levels. The Government cut income tax rates, greatly increased defense spending, and didn' ...
- 6937: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... in a family of seventeen kids. His parents, Josiah and Abiah Franklin, were hard working devout Puritan/Calvinist people. Josiah Franklin made candles for a living. Since the Franklins were so poor, little Benjamin couldn't afford to go to school for longer than two years. In those two years, however, Franklin learned to read which opened the door to further education for him. Since he was only a fair writer ... mastered French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. He was soon to be named the best educated man in the country. When he was 12-years-old, he was apprentice to his brother in printing. Benjamin's brother founded the second newspaper in America. Many people told him that one newspaper was enough for America and that the paper would soon collapse. On the contrary, it became very popular. (Franklin, 2, Autobiography) Occasionally, young Benjamin would write an article to be printed and slip it under the printing room's door signed as "Anonymous". The following is a direct quote from Franklin's Autobiography. It describes his writing the articles as a boy. "He (Benjamin's older brother) had some ingenious men among his ...
- 6938: Building of Dwelling Houses in Estonia
- ... even the architectural critics seem not to manage with the simplest things. That reminds me an article in the EE some time ago about a Finnish lady (naturally in Finland) completing or taking her doctor's degree. She was examining Finnish post-war modern house, it's morphology, the structure of the Finnish family, the connections between them and making conclusions which extend to this day. Those observations about architecture were much more smarter than those that the most of self-confident architects could do. Unfortunately it has to be confessed that I don't remember such a research work or sentiments in Estonian science, but no doubt, they could be necessary. The typology of the houses used by most of the architects goes back to the living model ...
- 6939: Battle of the Bytes: Macintosh vs. Windows 95
- ... PC that has about the same things. This makes the competition much harder. Windows 3.x have been great improvements over the earlier versions of Windows, and of course over DOS, but it still didn't compete against the ease of use on a Mac. The Windows 95 interface is much better than Windows 3.x. It borrows some from the Macintosh interface and has improved on it. Some improvements are ... in DOS. Windows 95, unlike the Mac, logically groups data and resources. A Taskbar menu lets you call up and switch between any software application at any time. Thus feature is better than the Mac's because its use is more obvious. It clearly shows what is running and allows you to switch programs with a single click of the mouse. Control panels have been added so you can configure your ... that Windows 95 has, similar to the Macintosh Alias function, is shortcut icons. It calls up a program very easily, instead of searching through your hard drive. The Windows 95 shortcuts go beyond the Mac's, they can refer to data inside documents as well as to files and folders, and can also call up information on a local area network server or Internet site. Windows 95's plug and ...
- 6940: Various Works Of Ee Cummings
- ... writing, he also rarely had a title for his poems, thus, the first line would represent his title. In the following poem, one may wonder what is being said. "l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness" (Cummings 1) For the inexperienced reader, this poem would look like meaningless letters put together in a non-sentence structure. When this poem is looked at from a puzzle point of view ... together. When read appropriately, the poem then reads "a leaf falls in loneliness." His style was an unbelievable break through in poetry for his time, and still is today. The originality of E. E. Cummings's poems has been surpassed by few and possibly by no other poets. He has written many poems that have the same structure as "l(a". "In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling ... read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost." (Navasky 1) One would have to agree with the person who wrote the previous statement. The way E. E. Cummings wrote his poetry would grab one's interest the moment he/she lays eyes upon Cummings's work. His work may have appealed to a younger audience in the past, but now his poems are cherished by millions. E. E. Cummings ...
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