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- 231: Solidarity-A New Hope Of Breaking Communist Ruling
- ... lives, and a chance to express their opinions without being worried that they can go to jail or be killed as it happened in some cases. Lech Walesa after getting Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, was still keeping the flame alight in order to get a non-communist rule in Poland. In 1988, there was one of the last strikes in ...
- 232: Introduction to Public Choice Theory
- ... different for each of five bureaucratic personality types that he identifies. For Niskanen, self- interest is the sole motivator. oSome History of Public Choice Theory James Buchanan, (winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 1986, for work in Public Choice) and Gordon Tullock are credited with being the primary developers of Public Choice Theory. Their book, Calculus of Consent, published ...
- 233: Nuclear Weapon Disarmament
- ... Voice of Reason”). General Butler is not the only advocate for nuclear abolition who is a former top military or political leader. Other Generals, admirals, heads of state, scientists, and Nobel Peace Laureates have joined in on the cry for nuclear abolition. There is an overwhelming consensus that nuclear weapons have no place in our society. Many argue that nuclear weapons ...
- 234: Apartheid in South Africa
- ... was forced out of office, and F.W. de Clerk became Prime Minister in 1989, to begin the official end of apart-heid. Mandela and de Klerk shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, for working together to end the civil rights abuse of non-white South Africans. They organized the 1994 all-race election of a new government under Man-dela ...
- 235: Mexico
- ... Martín Luis Guzmán, Andrés Henestrosa, Agustín Yáñez, and Carlos Fuentes; the playwrights Víctor Barroso and Rodolfo Usigli; and the poets and essayists Alfonso Reyes and Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1990. See also Latin American Literature. Music and Dance The distinctive folk songs and dances heard from region to region are accompanied by several kinds of ...
- 236: The Meaning of Life To Different People
- ... is to respect other people, as one would respect himself. "A person first starts to live when he can live outside of himself."6 The Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, believes that human beings are like tourists on holiday. If we cause disturbance, our visit would be meaningless. If during our short stay we live peacefully, help others ...
- 237: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... world, notably that of one Martin Luther King, Jr. Martian Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of a Baptist minister. He was a clergyman, Nobel Prize winner and internationally recognized leader in peaceful civil disobedience. Like Gandhi he was assassinated for his beliefs. King said of Thoreau: During my early college days I read Thoreau ...
- 238: Themes in William Golding's Novels
- ... In those years he started to write. He published “Lord of the Flies” (1954), “The Inheritors” (1955), ‘Pincher Martin” (1956), and “Free Fall” (1959). In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. His last book was published in 1995. He died in Wiltshire, England in 1993. In the first novel William Golding wrote, Lord of the Flies, is the story ...
- 239: Milton Friedman
- Milton Friedman Milton Friedman is one of this century's most distinguished and influential economists. He is a Nobel Laureate, and has been a teacher, presidential advisor, and Newsweek columnist. His 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom is a classic examination of capitalism as both an economic system and as ...
- 240: U.S. and Swedish Trends in Tax Reform
- ... Tax reform of the century - the Swedish experiment.", Agell, Englund, and Sodersten discuss the recent Swedish experiment in tax reform in 1991 (TR-91). As far back as 1978, the Nobel Laureate Gunmar Myrdal said that Sweden had become a "nation of waglers". Himself being greatly liberal, even Myrdal admitted that Sweden's highly graduated income tax was an incentive to ...
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