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- 711: History Of Arabic Music
- ... Arabic music has almost an innate quality of enjoyment for me. Its songs speak of the life and culture of Arabic countries and its melody is not commonly heard on American radio stations. Its songs tell the story of the Arabic people, people who are similar to Americans but also different in many ways. The songs are a romantic and wonderful ... ancient heritage. In the last decades a growing global audience has come to appreciate the richness of this music. The global audience is hungry for information about these traditions, their history, the playing techniques and theories behind them, as well as news about performances, recordings, and concerts. Listeners, performers and students rely on word of mouth to keep current on Arabic ...
- 712: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League" by Scott Anderson, and Jon Lee Anderson Author: Chip Berlet "Inside The League: The Shocking Expose Of How Terrorists, Nazis, And Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated The World Anti-Communist League." Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson. Dodd Mead, New York, 1986. 352 pages. $19.95 hardcover. ISBN 0- 396-08517-2. Publication date May 28, 1986. For over ten years progressive researchers in this country and in Europe have been uncovering evidence linking certain American conservatives and rightists to racist and fascist movements around the globe through a shadowy organization called the World Anti-Communist League. Now the book "Inside the League" exposes the hidden ... camps of Nazi Germany into the parlors of Reagan's White House. The idea for the book came when Jon Lee Anderson was researching a series of columns on Latin American death squads for Jack Anderson, (Jon Lee's employer but not his relative). Enlisting the aid of his brother Scott, the two first began tracing the connections between the ...
- 713: The Politial Parties of America's History
- The Politial Parties of America's History In the beginning, there were two major political parties. The Federalists supported Hamilton and there was the Democrats led by Jefferson. Hamilton wanted to set down a Federal Bank for ... which was known as the Whigs. The Whigs were totally against Andrew Jackson. By this time, there were two major political parties. A new party raised up was called the American Party. This new party was totally against imigrants. They disliked them because they would take up jobs. Anytime they were asked their plans or were talked to, they replied simply ...
- 714: America's Social Contract
- America's Social Contract Throughout history, the American system of government has been regarded as one of the best in the world. In America everyone lives like a king. The government is fair and does not get involved ... world view of America is not true today. In fact, the current federal system of government in the United States is failing to meet its social contract obligations to the American people. The first way that the government fails to meet its social contract obligations is in the size and scope of the government. Many levels of bureaucracy exist in ...
- 715: History Of Singing Styles
- History of singing styles There have been distinct stages in the development of music and particularly singing over the previous hundreds of years. Looking back now we can easily see where ... and Guys and Dolls all the way to Andrew Lloyd Webber and his works. So opera became musicals. The other major influence on today's music came from the Black American culture. Early on black slaves were brought to America and introduced their music to Western culture by singing in the churches etc. This developed the Negro spirituals and eventually along ...
- 716: The Use Of Psychics In Police
- Throughout history mankind has been using psychics for many different reasons,recently police agencies have called upon them for their services. Although the use of psychics has varied through history they have shown to have very real and helpful powers.In the future the use of psychics will very likely become more accepted and used even more than they are ... quite frequently, until one case in which the police were made to look like fools by a psychic. This case was one of the most famous murder cases in British history, that of Jack the Ripper. In August of 1888 six murders of prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London's east end occurred, all of which were similarly butchered. ...
- 717: AIDS and Its History
- AIDS and Its History Professor Luc Montagnier, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1983, and Professor Peter Duesberg, who first mapped the genetic structure of such viruses, are to challenge the orthodox ... are not killed by the virus, as had been thought. But Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the American National Academy of Sciences, goes further. HIV is not a new virus, he says. It is perhaps "as old as America". It is carried by a small, fairly constant proportion ...
- 718: Marijuana
- Marijuana Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve various purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time to fit in with the current lifestyles. This pattern is also true in American history. The use of marijuana has adapted to the social climate of the time. Marijuana, whose scientific name is cannibis sativa, was mentioned in historical manuscripts as early as 2700 ...
- 719: Green Grass Running Water
- Coming Home In many Native American cultures, ceremonies of sacrifice and renewal are an annual activity used to promote community and individual well being. In the novel Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King suggests that when ... s own self and/or cultural traditions, a renewal celebration or regeneration of the spirit may give the individual's life direction or guidance in previously misguided areas. The Native American Sun Dance is a celebration where the sacrifice of past difficulties and misdirected ideals and/or paths may cause the participants to gain strength and understanding in their lives . This ... how the world was once created and to insure harmony between all living things. Thomas King proves this thesis using the characters Alberta, and Lionel. Alberta Frank is a Native American woman teaching native studies to a small group of "white" students at the University of Calgary. This Native American woman is lecturing on the "destruction aimed at . . . reservations," a ...
- 720: Harry Elmer Barnes
- In 1952, Harry Elmer Barnes wrote a timely article, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity" as the final chapter of the classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy ... of a more complete collection of historical facts, a more calm political atmosphere, and a more objective attitude." (2) Barnes had discovered that a more nearly accurate version of the history of the First World War was only possible after the fighting had ended and the emotional excesses had lessened. He was unable to predict that similar corrections of Allied propaganda ... the company's earlier position.(10) St. Martin's decided not to publish Irving's volume. Far from being widely condemned, the St. Martin's surrender was upheld by numerous American newspapers. Presumably St. Martin's Press would have acquiesced in a literal as well as a figurative incineration. Submitting to such tyranny is always simpler than standing up to ...
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