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- 3321: England's Territorial Expansion
- England's Territorial Expansion 17th century England could have never known that its territorial expansion would be the downfall of its global dominance. Each land charter that was granted in the New World was, in a sense, a ticket for rebellion. The urge for separation began to grow among the settlers long before the War of Independence. And when England took notice of these feelings, it imposed restrictions on the colonies that only fanned the flames of the revolution. After the victorious French and Indian War, England had accumulated an extremely large debt. Since the war was fought for the benefit and protection of the colonies, England expected them to pay for at least a third of the debt. So ...
- 3322: The Joy Luck Club
- ... narrate all four Woo stories in her mother's absence. Confucianism and Taoism were both responses to times of conflict. Confucianism is usually dominant in times of peace, while Taoism is dominant in times of war or strife. Jing-Mei's mother created the Joy-Luck Club during a war, and although the Joy Luck Club is a ritual (Tan, 21), its relativism is essentially Taoist: People thought we were wrong to serve banquets every week while many people in the city were starving . . . to ... school and back home." "Why?" "You can't understand these things . . . because I haven't put it in your mind yet." (Tan, 109) Ying-Ying not only states explicitly that Lena's experience of the world is, or at least should be, fully mediated by her mother, she also instills her own basic distrust of life that arises from her childhood experience of getting lost (of losing herself). In a ...
- 3323: The Joy Luck Club 2
- ... narrate all four Woo stories in her mother's absence. Confucianism and Taoism were both responses to times of conflict. Confucianism is usually dominant in times of peace, while Taoism is dominant in times of war or strife. Jing-Mei's mother created the Joy-Luck Club during a war, and although the Joy Luck Club is a ritual (Tan, 21), its relativism is essentially Taoist: People thought we were wrong to serve banquets every week while many people in the city were starving . . . to ... school and back home." "Why?" "You can't understand these things . . . because I haven't put it in your mind yet." (Tan, 109) Ying-Ying not only states explicitly that Lena's experience of the world is, or at least should be, fully mediated by her mother, she also instills her own basic distrust of life that arises from her childhood experience of getting lost (of losing herself). In a ...
- 3324: Bitter Sweet Aspartame A Diet
- ... was bombastic. "My doctor gives it to me every day. Anybody who says saccharin is injurious to health is an idiot!" Still, saccharin was banned, only to be restored during the sugar-short years of World War I. Available as powders or pills, to say nothing of in a huge variety of processed foods, saccharin remained popular throughout World War II. Its only drawback was its bitter metallic aftertaste. Food processors licked that problem by combining saccharin with cyclamate, another artificial no caloric sweetener. Then in the 1960s came disturbing news. Two different ...
- 3325: American Language
- ... been able to learn English successfully. In order to become a naturalized citizen, immigrants have to know the English language (Alter 24). So why are they not learning? They must learn to communicate with the world around them, instead of squeezing by, knowing the absolute minimum. There is much to consider when declaring an official language for an entire country. Where will the money come from to teach the immigrants English ... s Independence.” The American Geographical Society Fall 1997:37. King, Robert D. “English as the Official Language:The Problem of Multiple Cultures.” Current (Washington D.C.) July/August 1997:3-8. Mc Bee, Susanna. “A War Over Words.” U.S. News and World Report 6 October 1986:64. “Reagan Information Interchange, The.” Congress Acts to Make English our Official Language. 1999.http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document- 8.5.1996.3.html (6 May 1999). ...
- 3326: Immigration To Canada
- ... of the immigrants came from these regions. The majority of the immigrants were natives of southern and Eastern Europe, with nationals of Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Russia constituting more than half of the total. Until World War I, immigration had generally increased in volume annually. From 1905 to 1914 an average of more than a million aliens entered Canada every year. With the outbreak of war, the volume declined sharply, and the annual average from 1915 to 1918 was little more than 250,000. In 1921 the number again rose; 800,000 immigrants were admitted. Thereafter the number fell in ...
- 3327: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... with a wide-ranging economic and social program, the New Deal, designed to counter the Great Depression of the 1930s. He also led the nation through most of its participation in the global struggle of World War II. Roosevelt attended a high-class high school and later graduated from Harvard in 1903. He quickly gained recognition by his leadership of upstate New York Democrats in a fight against Tammany Hall's nominee ... On that evening, Roosevelt told Americans that, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." His New Deal established programs like the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Works Progress Administration, and theTennessee Valley War II, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Great Britain's prime minister, personally determined Allied military and naval strategy in the West. But, under the pressures of wartime leadership, his health deteriorated. After the Yalta Conference, ...
- 3328: Images Of Control Progaganda
- ... late into the night (Bonnell, 1997, Figure 4.17). One of the best examples of Stalin appearing as a father figure is a 1950 poster from a period known as “High Stalinism” which occurred after World War Two until Stalin’s death (Bonnell, 1997, p.243). This poster is titled “Spasibo rodnomu Stalinu za schastlivoe detstvo!” (Thank You Dear Stalin for a Happy Childhood!). It shows Stalin on a podium being approached ... expression of love and caring on his face as he embraces the boy (Bonnell, 1997, Figure 6.13). This poster is a good example of a trend in posters at this time that reflects the war being over and a hope for a better life for the Russian people. One of the most well known and alarming facts about both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR was the mass ...
- 3329: How People Interacted With Eac
- ... London grew from one million to four and a half million. In London the fancy area was the West End. The East End was full of poverty and misery (Pool 28). The 1950s, which followed World War II, were part of the Truman Years and Eisenhower Years. In 1950, Joseph R. McCarthy insisted that there were conspiracies in the Federal Government. During this decade there was a huge population increase from one ... in love , and were together all night (Shakespeare 318-358). It took Eugene to attract Lizzy to him a while (actually Headstone had to beat the crap out of Eugene) (OMF). The 1950s followed two World Wars and because of the time soldiers spent away they probably missed being with their sweethearts and families, but because history repeats itself there are some similarities between the Victorian era and the 1950s. ...
- 3330: America and the Computer Industry
- ... an enormous step forward; they provided a means of input, output, and memory storage on a massive scale. For more than 50 years following their first use, punched-card machines did the bulk of the world's business computing and a good portion of the computing work in science (Chposky, 73). By the late 1930s punched-card machine techniques had become so well established and reliable that Howard Hathaway Aiken, in ... by card punch and electric typewriter. It was slow, requiring 3 to 5 seconds for a multiplication, but it was fully automatic and could complete long computations without human intervention (Chposky, 103). The outbreak of World War II produced a desperate need for computing capability, especially for the military. New weapons systems were produced which needed trajectory tables and other essential data. In 1942, John P. Eckert, John W. Mauchley, and ...
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