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- 1231: Culture, and Arts of Argentina
- ... 1948 translated to the popular book "The Slaughterhouse." Especially significant is its use of allegory in portraying Argentina's dictatorial regime of the 1830s and 1840s: Internal political conflicts are described in terms of the violence of a slaughterhouse in which cattle replace the sacrificial sheep of the Bible. Argentine writer and statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, who firmly incorporated education systems in Chile and Argentina before becoming president of Argentina in ...
- 1232: Jamaica
- ... it was abolished there in 1838. Push for Independence Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the island began feverishly pushing for independence from Britain. Soon, political unrest with the slow reform sparked widespread violence in 1938. This caused the countries first two parties to be formed. The JLP was headed by Alexander Bustamante and the PNP by Norman Manley. The rise of power of the JLP or Jamaican Labour ...
- 1233: Central America
- ... in large-scale marches, labor strikes, and transportation boycotts. A little more on the radical side are the Guerilla groups. Composed mostly of peasants fed up with the government who see no other way than violence. This guerilla groups have special ties to the community. Many times they visit villages explaining their cause hoping to recruit new guerrillas. The typical guerilla varies from young to old, male to female. The Guerillas ...
- 1234: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... psychiatric ward in the early Seventies for daring to protest Solzhenitsyn's expulsion from the USSR. In 1980, 40 major creative artists in Estonia sent a letter to Pravda - which refused to print it - protesting violence in Tallinn. They called for an open discussian on Russo-Estonian relations, discussed food shortages, and laid out a whole plartform of complaints against the Soviets. (59) The Soviet state had a great deal of ...
- 1235: Pornography and the New Puritans
- ... know weather or not its actionable? Irving’s understanding of the bill is that it makes the publishers and distributors of the obscene material think conservatively- “that is when their imaginations turn to sex and violence.” After given the definition of the bill and given us his reasons against the bill, he describes how individuals and groups respond to the bill. The most important group that he describes and is against ...
- 1236: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed in-nocent blood. (Indian Opinion, October 26, 1907 439-440) Gandhi thought it was a good thing to go to jail for one’s beliefs. He said in Indian Opinion: “It was the ...
- 1237: Writing Styles of Poe and Hoffman
- ... alive. The second major point Kennedy writes on page 211 is one that is very easily related to a piece done in class. The contemporaneity of Poe’s writing lies not in his evocation of violence, alienation, or solitude… Rather it comes from the perception of death as an absolute horizon of existence… I believe that the point Kennedy is trying to make is that in some instances, Poe’s writing ...
- 1238: Strong Before Their Time
- ... A Student Edition with Commentary, Grammatical Notes, & Vocabulary. London, England: Feffer & Simons, Inc. 1978. Page, Denys L. M.A. Euripides Medea: The Text Edited with Introduction and Commentary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1938. Pucci, Pietro. The Violence of Pity in Euripides’ Medea. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 1980. Sophocles. “Antigone”. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 632-667 New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1995
- 1239: Similarities Between Primates and Humans
- ... muriquis receive from the leaves invigorate them for the forthcoming mating season. The muriquis’ and other monkey may render humans with information of the forest’s medicinal value. Smuts, on the other hand, examines whether violence and sexual persuasion of men toward women are similar between humans and primates. She focuses her observation on a female chimpanzee. The female chimpanzees display a small, bright pink swelling on their rear end when ...
- 1240: Definition Essay: Punk
- ... relationship with their neighbors and apparent in what they see as every day, casual behavior. Freud also believed aggression is another human instinct that brings us joy and happiness. However, civilization refuses any acts of violence, it oppresses this need of aggression deep in our consciousness. The first thing we do when no one is watching is anything civilization refuses to allow us to do. Freud's opinion of releasing aggression ...
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