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- 2391: Slaughterhouse Five
- ... states, I was there. By not referring to Billy as I, Billy is immediately an individual person. I is the narrator, while Billy is Billy. Their single connection is that they were both in the war. Kurt Vonnegut places his experiences and his views in the text. He begins the book by stating, All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true...I ve changed all of the names. Viewing war as a senseless act, Slaughterhouse-Five allows Vonnegut to express his feelings on the matter. Through Billy Pilgrim, he is able to indicate his views. Many things which he viewed as senseless acts were ...
- 2392: The Role of The Emperor in Meiji Japan
- ... newly established schools and wrote revisionist history books that claimed that historically the Emperor had been the ruler of Japan.Footnote5 The fact that the Tokugawa's policy of opening up Japan to the western world ran counter to the beliefs of the Emperor and was unpopular with the public made the Tokugawa vulnerable to attack from the imperialists. The imperialists pressed their attack both militarily and from within the Court ... control and authority over all of Japan. Historical examples bear out the fears of the Meiji Oligarchy; in 1467 the Ashikaga Shogun failed to control many of the fiefs and because of this a civil war raged in Japan.Footnote35 The centralization of power allowed the Meiji government to have taxing authority over all of Japan and pursue national projects.Footnote36 The unity of Japan also allowed the Meiji Oligarchs to ... gave to whoever was acting on the Imperial Will absolute right to govern.Footnote43 The symbols of the Emperor and the tradition of Confucianism did not end with the end of the Meiji era or world war two. Today the idea of filial piety is still strong, multiple generations of a family still usually live together even in cramped Japanese housing. The religion of Shinto that the Meiji leaders rejuvenated ...
- 2393: Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
- ... Butler Act was unconstitutional. They did not deny that Scopes had broken the law. He was convicted and fined $100. Darrow was quoted as saying, "Scopes isn't on trial, civilization is on trial." The world was changing and scientific advances made it harder to fully accept the Bible's interpretation of creation. The older generation seemed set in their ways. It would seem that a science was on trial defending ... few of the people arrested were actually communists. The Red Scare continued when on April 1, five legitimately elected members of the New York State legislature were expelled for being members of the Socialist Party. World War I ended in 1920 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Russia and the United States were allies during the war. After the war, both became the world's new superpowers. As the ...
- 2394: UFOs
- ... people to see things, but it still does not give bearing for what is out there and the numerous life witnesses of extraterrestrials. The UFO enigma is "the most 'well- kept and explosive secret in world history (Stacey 36). " The next issue that is going to be covered to prove the existence of UFOs is Sightings of UFOs. 'Flying Saucers' , 'fireballs' , or 'Unidentified Flying Objects '. Whatever the name, people just seem ... pilot named Kenneth Arnold "spotted nine weird, cresent-shaped disks flashing through the air as he was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, USA. Accounts of Arnold's experience were flashed around the world by the news media, and triggered a wave of 'flying saucer' reports across the United States. By 4 July 1947, there had been sightings in every state but Georgia and West Virginia; by 16 July ... or divides into two smaller lights that streak away at high speed that we find our attention attracted and realize we may, in fact, be in the middle of a UFO sighting (Huyghe 50)." "During World War II, especially after 1943, there were many reports of balls of light, varying in color and in size from several feet to a few inches across, flying in pursuit of warplanes. Because these ' ...
- 2395: Apartheid In South Africa
- ... people. And they were right to be - because Britain had decided that Transvaal would fit in well within their dream of a African British Empire. In 1899, after several incidents planned to increase the tensions, war broke out. The British style of fighting was very unorganized, but they still outnumbered the Boers. They burnt farms and crops, and sent women and children to camps, where most of them died - more, in ... into power, they gave more freedom to the region. Most of the Boers were eager to make peace and a former Boer general, Louis Botha was elected as prime minister. Some however still remembered the war wounds. The angry Afrikaners, as they were now called, formed their own political party - the National Party. The United Party, headed by Botha, ruled the union most of the time, except for a brief period in the 30 s. Only during World War I was the country split, and was there some actual armed rebellion against the United Party which joined the war against Germany. The Nationalist Party turned towards Hitler in the 1930 s, and ...
- 2396: Apartheid in South Africa
- ... whites kept the non-whites poor, malnourished, poorly educated and without even the basic rights and freedoms that all Canadians are guar-anteed. Apartheid - 'separateness' - made South Africa separate - shunned by much of the civilized world as a police state as hateful as any in world history for anyone but white citizens.. Apartheid laws 'sorted' people in terms of racial origin, to ensure white citizens got "the best land, the best jobs, the best social services; all other races got the ... protests against racial discrimination, for example, a strike among Indian miners. Ghandi won only minor reforms in South Africa, despite being arrested many times. Ironically, Ghandi won British medals, as a medic during the Boer War and the Zulu Rebellion, in South Africa. Ghandi left South Africa, without solving its racial problems. He went home to India, in the 1920s, where he led non-violent protests to end British rule ...
- 2397: Term African Slave Trade
- ... chart you can see clearly the late eighteenth century was the apex of the slave trade, as described by Philip Curtin. You can clearly see that over 60% of all slaves delivered to the New World were brought over between 1721-1820. Eighty per cent of the total were landed during a century and a half, 1701-1850. 2 I suppose one could find a similar spike in the sugar trade ... businessmen, and not as innocent bystanders. You may ask your self what where they doing to assist? Were they simply rounding up their enemies? Were they giving up their family? They would have a small war like raiding to take prisoners. They in turn were changing from a political model of trade to an economic model of enslavement. This was caused by the ever, increasing prices they could charge for their ... sell their children, men their wives, and one brother the other. But those who think so, do deceive themselves; for this never happens on any other account but are offered to us, are prisoners of war, which are sold by the victors as their booty.” Now that we have taken a look at the number of people brought to the Americas, and how it was being accomplished, we can now ...
- 2398: China
- ... by the imperial government and crop yields subject to drought and floods kept agriculture relatively underdeveloped and organized in small units with the use of primitive methods for basic subsistence. The conclusion of the Opium War of 1840 formally initiated a period of Western penetration of China from the coastal treaty ports. Railroads and highways were constructed, and some industrial development began. Such activity had little impact, however, on the overall ... introduced in October 1984 called for further decentralization of economic planning and for increased reliance on market forces to determine the prices of consumer goods. China has potential to be the biggest market of the world with 1.3 billion people. Furthermore, it posses billions of unexplored resources and the biggest and cheapest labor force in Asia. The size and underdevelopment make it a potential monster that has created interest in every investing and developing country in the world. The Chinese economy is an increasing economic possibility for anyone. Culture & Society Chinese culture and society can be divided into two major periods, Imperial China and Communist China. The modern Chinese society can be ...
- 2399: Solo
- ... in that she refuses to understand his changing behavior. Her son, Harold Krebs, is a young man who is returning home from his tour of duty in France. The overwhelming shock of his experiences at war molds Harold into a different man. Harold wants to talk about how the war has affected him. He is unable to tell his mother the unvarnished truth about his battles because of the time period in which they live. His mother has no concept of what really happens in a war and this is evident when she says "I know the temptations you must have been exposed to. I know how weak men are. I pray for you all day long." She prays for Harold ...
- 2400: Interview With An Alien
- ... Alien Ida Kannenberg, an elderly lady, lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she and her husband own and operate a successful antique shop. Although she is now nearly [eighty], she continues to travel all over the world searching out and buying antiques for their shop. She is highly energetic, well- educated, and interested in a wide variety of subjects. Mrs. Kannenberg's first physical UFO encounter took place in 1940, during a ... crossroads of human endeavor. I do not mean anything so simplistic as a single crossroads, but a convergence of many roads, each seductive in itself. A compromise must be made and maintained if the current world civilizations are to endure. The compromise must react onto many levels of human activity. World government leaders are struggling to find compromises on a political level, but the every day people of the world must find hteir own ways of compromise on an individual level, such as levels of ...
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