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- 581: Lysistrata -
- Lysistrata There is no beast as shameless as a woman Aristophanes was a craft comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes usual style was to be satirical, and suggesting the eccentric. The most absurd and humorous of Aristophanes comedies are those in which the main characters, the heroes of the ... female lead character of the play. It depicts Athenian Lysistrata and the women of Athens teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to conclude the Peloponnesian War. The play is a comedy, which appears to be written for the amusement of men. The play can be seen as a historical reference to ancient Greece, but it seems ... of a woman. If women were such beasts as Euripides stated then would women have managed to seize the Acropolis, and prevented the men from squandering them further on the war. Euripides might have referred to the vulgarity of the women s thoughts and language: It s a sair thing, the dear knows, for a woman tae sleep alone wi ...
- 582: With Malice Toward None
- ... without paying his dues along the way. For eighty days in the spring and early summer of 1832 Lincoln served in the military. On a constant search for Black Hawk, war leader of the Sauk and Fox Indians, he never saw any fighting but he did prove to be a superior leader of men in some of the most trying situations ... election to Congress as the only Whig from Illinois. His single term was only memorable in that he took an unpopular stand against President James K. Polk and his Mexican War, which Lincoln saw as unjust. Lincoln made unsuccessful bids for an Illinois Senate seat in 1855, running as a Whig, and the Vice Presidency in 1856, running as a Republican ... reinforced his belief that the Union was perpetual, and that states could not secede, saying, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not mine, is the momentous issue of civil war." (p 288) Lincoln also announced that because secession was unlawful he would hold the federal forts and installations in the South. All sided with the Union basically because ...
- 583: Socialism
- ... aims and methods of socialism. Their spokesmen emphasized the need to foster international solidarity among the mass of the working class and thus to avert the threat of a major war in Europe. This effort proved singularly unsuccessful: NATIONALISM in 1914 and later proved a much stronger mass emotion than socialism. Apart from a few exceptions, such as Lenin and his Bolshevik group, socialist movements supported the war effort of their respective governments. As a result of the general conflagration in 1914 the Second International disintegrated and therewith also the hopes of socialist unity. Revisionism Another important controversy ... and the Bolsheviks for their adoption of terrorist methods in the consolidation of their revolutionary gains in Russia. Marxist unity, like the Second International, thus also fell victim to World War I and its aftermath: from then on Marxists have tended to be either Marxist-Leninists--that is, communists embracing the elitist doctrine of the vanguard party--or moderate revisionists ...
- 584: The War Against Athletes
- THE WAR AGAINST ATHLETES In schools around the country, many athletes are being subjected to a great indignity. They are being stripped of their personal privileges. They are scorned and questioned of ... of the students are being accused of, and unrightfully suspected of drug use. But why just athletes? Why not the rest of the students? In their quest for a more civil society, administrators have forgotten their true goals equality for all students. If an athlete is to be stripped of his rights, why not another student? What makes an athlete more ... in the first place. A vicious circle exists between athletes and drug testing. Contradictive techniques are not totally moral, but like the saying goes, everything¹s fair in love and war. This may seem a little far-fetched, but what justifies a 9-year old boy having to be subjected to a urine test for illegal drugs? (Wren, A16) Nothing ...
- 585: Catch 22: Satire on WWII
- Catch 22: Satire on WWII Joseph Heller who is perhaps one of the most famous writers of the 20th century writes on some emotional issues such as war. He does not deal with these issues in the normal fashion instead he criticizes them and the institutions that help carry these things out. Heller in fact goes beyond criticizing ... almost all of America's respectful institutions. To truly understand these novels you must recognize that they are satires and why they are. Catch-22 is a satire on World War II. This novel takes place on the small island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean sea late in the war when Germany is no longer a threat. It is the struggle of one man, Yossarian, to survive the war. Throughout this novel Yossarian is trying to escape the war, ...
- 586: The Nuremberg Trials
- The Nuremberg Trials After World War II, numerous war-crimes trials tried and convicted many Axis leaders. Judges from Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States tried twenty-two Nazi leaders for: crimes against humanity (mostly about the Holocaust), violating long-established rules of war, and waging aggressive war. This was known as the “Nuremberg Trials.” Late in 1946, the German defendants were indicted and arraigned before a war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg. Twenty ...
- 587: Adolf Hitler
- ... keystone of his propaganda and policies, he built up the Nazi party into a mass movement. Once in power, he converted Germany into a fully militarized society and launched World War II. For a time he dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews and others whom he considered inferior human beings. Hitler was ... on small earnings from pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions, an admiration for the outstanding individual, and a contempt for the masses. In World War I, Hitler, by then in Munich, volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. He proved a dedicated, courageous soldier, but was never promoted beyond private first class because his superiors ... the Jews was to inure the Germans to this task. Setting out on his empire-building mission, Hitler launched Germany's open rearmament in 1935 (in defiance of the World War I peace treaty), sent troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in 1936, and annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland in 1938. In March 1939 he brought the remainder of Czechoslovakia ...
- 588: Abraham Lincoln
- ... without paying his dues along the way. For eighty days in the spring and early summer of 1832 Lincoln served in the military. On a constant search for Black Hawk, war leader of the Sauk and Fox Indians, he never saw any fighting but he did prove to be a superior leader of men in some of the most trying situations ... election to Congress as the only Whig from Illinois. His single term was only memorable in that he took an unpopular stand against President James K. Polk and his Mexican War, which Lincoln saw as unjust. Lincoln made unsuccessful bids for an Illinois Senate seat in 1855, running as a Whig, and the Vice Presidency in 1856, running as a Republican ... reinforced his belief that the Union was perpetual, and that states could not secede, saying, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not mine, is the momentous issue of civil war." (p 288) Lincoln also announced that because secession was unlawful he would hold the federal forts and installations in the South. All sided with the Union basically because ...
- 589: Catch 22 And Good As Gold - Sa
- Joseph Heller who is perhaps one of the most famous writers of the 20th century writes on some emotional issues such as war. He does not deal with these issues in the normal fashion instead he criticizes them and the institutions that help carry these things out. Heller in fact goes beyond criticizing ... almost all of America’s respectful institutions. To truly understand these novels you must recognize that they are satires and why they are. Catch-22 is a satire on World War II. This novel takes place on the small island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean sea late in the war when Germany is no longer a threat. It is the struggle of one man, Yossarian, to survive the war. Throughout this novel Yossarian is trying to escape the war, ...
- 590: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... degree, with high hopes of earning a living by playing sports. To his dismay, one year later he was drafted into the army to serve from 1942-1944. During World War II, he went to officer candidate school and became a second Lieutenant. During the time that Jackie was a Lt. in the army, he was court marshalled for refusing to ... to black Americans. He also served as Chairman for the Freedom Fund Drive. This organization sought to raise one million dollars for the Legal Defense Fund.(Jackie Robinson and the Civil Rights) By 1957, Jackie had had enough of President Eisenhower's reluctance to enforce civil rights laws, especially Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision mandating integration. Jackie decided to write a letter to President Eisenhower to encourage him to take action against ...
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