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- 2191: The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
- ... Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower middle class family of mixed race ancestry and receiving a conventional colonial education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the third world. Fanon at first was a assimilationist thinking colonists and colonized should try to build a future together. But quickly Fanon's assimilationist illusions were destroyed by the gaze of metropolitan racism both in France and in the colonized world. He responded to the shattering of his neo- colonial identity, his white mask, with his first book, Black Skin, White Mask, written in 1952 at the age of twenty-seven and originally titled "An Essay ... relationship as one of the non recognition of the colonized's humanity, his subjecthood, by the colonizer in order to justify his exploitation. Fanon's next novel, "The Wretched Of The ` ``Earth" views the colonized world from the perspective of the colonized. Like Foucault's questioning of a disciplinary society Fanon questions the basic assumptions of colonialism. He questions whether violence is a tactic that should be employed to eliminate ...
- 2192: Beer
- ... a spiritual drink that they offered to their gods. (Alabev) Although beer as we know it had its origins in Mesopotamia, fermented beverages of some sort or another were produced in various forms around the world. For example, Chicha is a corn beer and kumiss is a drink produced from fermented camel milk. The word beer comes from the Latin word bibere, meaning, "to drink", and the root of the Spanish ... daily, beer is reported to have increased health and longevity and reduced disease and malnutrition. The self-medicating properties of alcohol-rich beer also eased the tensions and stresses of daily living in a hostile world. (Buhner 35) Beer was a driving force that led nomadic groups into village life. Ten thousand years ago barley was domesticated and worshipped as a god in the highlands of southern Levant. With the creation ... liked by pub and restaurant owners. (Alabev) "For most of the past ten millennia, alcoholic beverages may have been the most popular and common daily drinks, an indispensable sources of fluid and calories. In a world of contaminated and dangerous water supplies, alcohol truly earned the title in the Middle Ages: aqua vitae, the "water of life," said Bert Vallee, Doctor. (Vallee 80) Frederick the Great, whose economic strategy was ...
- 2193: Evaluation of The Lord of the Flies
- ... in 1954 about a number of boys marooned on a tropical island and left to fend for themselves. While on the island, they discover quite a bit of evil within themselves. A few years after World War 2, a planeful of boys as young as 5 or 6 but most no older than 11 or 12 crashes near an uninhabited tropical island. As soon as they land, one of the eldest assumes ... to think, although not particularly good thoughts. It is him and those like him who put the spear through Ralph and dropped the stone on Piggy. If it was not for the Rogers of the world, much of the mindless, cruel suffering which is so often explained away through "But I was only following orders!" Although the military chain of command can be important, it is also important that officers ...
- 2194: Kosovo And Milosevic
- ... relentless assault of the Yugoslav army and police, amid unbelievably cruel carnage of human lives and burning of villages and towns. Kenneth Waltz s first-image theory rests on the assumption that the causes of war are to be found in the nature and behavior of man and on the role of specific individuals, as in this case Slobodan Milosevic. If you ask the question "Why is a war taking place in Kosovo?" a large part of the reply must be "Because of Slobodan Milosevic." In an interview with Newsweek s Lally Weymouth, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer bluntly linked Milosevic with the two names whose shadows still linger over modern Europe. Milosevic, said Fischer, "was ready to act like Stalin and Hitler to fight a war against the existence of a whole people." It is Milosevic who has lit the flame of evil; if it is to be put out, he needs to be understood. The year 1989 saw the ...
- 2195: D-day
- What day in your life was the most important? One of the most important days during World War II was D-day. Don't be mistaken by the word D-day it did not all happens in just one day but many days. D-day was just a code name for the day that Operation Overload started. D-day is very well known for the beginning of the end of the war in Europe and Hitler's rule over most of the ruined continent of Europe. Many say that if it were not for D-day Europe would have definitely fell to Hitler. So was your ...
- 2196: Morocco
- ... petroleum products are produced chiefly for export. Casablanca is the main industrial center. Mining employs less than 2 per cent of Morocco's labor force but is highly important to the economy. Morocco is the world's largest exporter of phosphate rock, which is used to produce fertilizers and other chemicals. Morocco has about two-thirds of the world's known reserves of phosphate rock. Other minerals include iron ore, lead, zinc, coal, copper, and natural gas. Energy sources. About three-quarters of Morocco's energy needs are supplied by imports, mostly of oil ... from the same family), which governed Morocco for almost 200 years. The country's rulers came to be called sultans. Fez, the Idrisid capital, developed into a major religious and cultural center of the Islamic world. From about 1050 through the mid-1400's, Morocco was ruled by three Islamic Spanish dynasties. At various times, the Berber empires covered much of northern Africa and extended into the Christian lands of ...
- 2197: Assassination Of JFK
- ... questions still remain. "Who did it?" "Why did they do it?" "How was it done?" "Was there a cover up" The official answers complied by the Warren Commission have never satisfied the majority of the world's population. In this following essay I will try to show who was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I believe the only way to prove that there was a cover up, is ... CIA. Some high-ranking CIA officials have attempted to frustrate presidential policies and have initiated or sanctioned illegal operations, to include working with organized crime. JFK and the CIA were in a virtual state of war from the moment of the Bay of Pigs disaster until the day he died. JFK did not trust the CIA and he reportedly intended to dismantle it after the 1964 election. In Vietnam, the CIA ... have had in the assassination. Why would the Mafia have wanted JFK dead? Quite simply, because the Kennedy administration was threatening the very existence of organized crime in America. Robert Kennedy was waging an unprecedented war on the Mafia, a war that targeted not just Mafia operations but also Mafia leaders themselves. Soon after Lyndon Johnson took over, the war on organized crime came to a virtual halt. Sam Giancana ( ...
- 2198: Woodrow Wilson and The Presidency
- ... this trend for many years. Next, Woodrow Wilson was determined to conquer the Bankers. The old banking system had been greatly outgrown by economic expansion. The country's banking was still under the old Civil War National Banking Act which revealed many glaring defects. In the Panic of 1907, many flaws of the banking system, including the inelasticity of the currency, were overwhelmingly obvious. Wilson was determined to fix these problems ... for a plea to reform the banking system. And in 1913, again appealing to the public, Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, now considered the most important piece of eco-nomic legislature between the Civil War and the New Deal. The new Federal Reserve Board, appointed by the president, oversaw a nationwide system of twelve regional re-served districts, each with its own central bank. The final authority over these banks ... Mexican port of Vera Cruz, Huerta as well as Carranza condemned this American intervention. If it was for the intervention of the ABC PowersΎArgentina, Brazil, and Chile, America would have most likely gone to war with Mexico over this ridiculous issue. But in January 1916, "Pancho" Villa killed eighteen American citizens in Santa Ysabel, Mexico. Then in March 1916, Villa and his gang shot up Columbus, New Mexico, killing ...
- 2199: Michael Collins
- ... Collins returned in 1921 with an agreement that left the country in its current state of partition into an independent south and a unionist north. De Valera and his followers refused to accept and civil war broke out. The following year Collins was ambushed and murdered by extremist republicans. Collins's life and death are apt metaphors for the long, ongoing tragedy of Irish nationalism: a tale of incandescent love of ... to have him show symptoms of mild dyspepsia when he has 19 British agents murdered on Bloody Sunday. As an introduction into the causes and history of one of the longest-festering wounds in the world today, Michael Collins might be a landmark, but its scale is more broad than epic. A `greater truth'? As a film, Michael Collins is a triumphant achievement, a powerful, exhilarating yet tragic portrait of one of the most charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Michael Collins, who was assassinated on Aug. 12, 1922, founded the Irish Republican Army and, from 1919 to 1921, led a guerrilla war campaign against repressive English rule. Collins' exploits from his participation as a foot soldier in the failed Easter Uprising of 1916, through his violent campaign against the English, past his treaty negotiations, and into ...
- 2200: Picasso - Life Stile
- ... in Paris, where he progressed through various periods - including a Blue period from 1900 to 1904 and a Rose period in 1904 - before creating the Cubist movement that lasted until the beginning of the First World War. Picasso initiated Cubism at the age of twenty-six after he already had established himself as a successful painter. According to Souchre, Picasso led the evolution towards cubism in order to "escape the tyranny of the laws of the tangible world, to fly beyond all the degradations of the lie, the stupidity of criticism, towards that total freedom which inspired his youth." As Barnes notes, Cubism was an art that concentrated on forms, and an ...
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