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- 481: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... President, therefore his achievements were limited. Nevertheless, his influence was worldwide, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis may have prevented the United States from entering into another world war. Kennedy was especially admired by the younger people and he was perhaps the most popular president in history. Kennedy expressed the values of 20th century America and his presidency had ... states in the Northeastern United States, he received 303 electoral votes to Nixon’s 219. Kennedy was inaugurated on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he emphasized America’s revolutionary heritage, "The same beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe,"2 Kennedy said. "Let the word go forth from this time and place to ... Zaldivar. During the next two years, Castro would become increasingly hostile to the United States. When Castro began to proclaim his belief in Communism, Cuba became part of the Cold War, or struggle between the U. S. and its allies and the nations led by the USSR that involved intense economic and diplomatic battles. Many Cubans began to flee to ...
- 482: The Life Of Stalin
- ... Stalin was expelled from the Georgian Social Democratic Party in 1907 for taking part in a series of bank robberies and other crimes, in order to raise funds for the revolutionary. Shortly thereafter he migrated to Baku (on the Caspian Sea) and founded a Bolshevist group among the Baku socialists. Shortly thereafter, Stalin was arrested for his activities and imprisoned for ... quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally worked on while in exile). Stalin was rejected for service in the Russian Army in 1916 (by now Russia was at war with the Central Powers) because of the condition of his left arm. Stalin's Military Career: (1917-1921) In March 1917, Stalin immediately left Siberia (where he was still in ... of the revolution, for he remained in the background as an administrator. His work was largely responsible for the success of the bloody October Revolution in 1917. •During the civil war that followed the revolution, Stalin served as political commissar with Bolshevik armies on several fronts. In 1918, he directed the successful defense of vital Tsaritsyn against the White Army. ...
- 483: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... called "specialization." He understood nature's thinning mechanism, that when too many mouths are produced, fierce competition for survival ensues. Any chance variation, which confers an advantage in nature's 'war', will thus survive and be perpetuated, causing species to change. This Darwin called 'natural selection'. In 1838, he married his wealthy cousin Emma Wedgwood. In 1842, he and Emma escaped ... this viewpoint is an age for the earth radically different from the 6,000 years of the biblical creationists. Other key influences on Darwin were Malthus who had concluded that war and famine were inevitable as the human population grew more rapidly than available resources, and Lamarck who had proposed a theory of evolution based on a continuous process of gradual ... the radical acceptance, his ideas would seem like reckless abandon. For Darwin a gentleman's character was sacrosanct. He could not risk besmirching his. And procrastinated publishing his views. The revolutionary nature of his concepts began him dreaming of executions and he thought he should mention that astronomers were once persecuted for their startling new ideas. He knew what to ...
- 484: Biography of Ernest Rutherford
- ... the electric discharge from Helium gas. The alpha particles had travelled through the glass walls of the evacuated tube to collect as Helium gas. In 1911 Rutherford announced his most revolutionary idea on the nature of the atom. Up to that time this was based on the idea that an atom consisted of positively charged particles surrounded by moving negatively charged ... back from the foil. Rutherford has been reported as saying It is like firing shells at a piece of paper hankerchief and having them bounce back at you. This was revolutionary in 1911 and was the basis of the new nuclear science. In 1912 Niels Bohr joined with Rutherford and published his theories on the nature of the atom. These theories eventually gained general acceptance of this model of the atom. In 1914 World War I began and normal university life seized as many scientists left the laboratories until 1918. By this time Rutherford was confident that he could observe the transmutation of nitrogen. ...
- 485: Woman on the Edge of Time: Mother To The Tribe
- ... act of protecting "her almost child [Dolly]" (20); she is within the clutches of the vile modern system. Connie no longer has the rights given to the free individual. The war has begun; she will no longer tolerate the abuse that has been dealt to her throughout her life. The patriarch society has interfered too long to sufficiently achieve happiness within ... be mine" (40)! The reoccurring idea of a kicking child causes the reader to associate it as a symbol of Connie. The idea behind the kicking child represents the growing revolutionary conception Connie is conceiving. While in the future utopia Connie discovers many differences among the present and future culture. They (citizens of Mattapoisett) have decided to make mothering a child ... self. After being exposed to this paradise Connie is equipped with self-worth and respect giving her the ability to conquer the oppressive doctors. "I killed them. Because it is war" (375). Judith Gardiner writes: "Deprived of her own daughter, Connie dedicates her assassination to ‘you who will be born from my best hopes'" ( 75). This statement truly exemplifies Connie ...
- 486: Fahrenheit 451: Change
- ... burner, sees pleasure and titillation from burning books and destroying lifetimes of important ideas. When outside influences put confusion in him, he begins a series of changes, eventually becoming a revolutionary in a society where books are valued. Many factors contribute to the changes found in Montag. One of the first influences during the story is the exquisitely observant Clarisse McClellan ... he is a totally changed person. He wants to change the society. He wants to teach the people about the books, so that they will not repeat the mistakes of war and destruction. Montag is not walking blind anymore. He is seeing 20/20 vision, and sprinting full pace! Montag's change is finally stated when he joins the new society ... learning how the meaning in books can be applied to what is happening in society. Killing Beatty shows his change from being a passive reader and spy to an active revolutionary. Finally, Montag's changes are completed when he joins the organization that values books, therefore becoming a soldier of an influential army.
- 487: Pablo Picasso
- Constant Change: The Life and Styles of Pablo Picasso Now is the time in this period of changes and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before. - Pablo Picasso, 1935. (Barnes) Undoubtedly Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and well-documented artists of the twentieth century ... various periods - including a Blue period from 1900 to 1904 and a Rose period in 1904 - before creating the Cubist movement that lasted until the beginning of the First World War. Picasso initiated Cubism at the age of twenty-six after he already had established himself as a successful painter. According to Souch re, Picasso led the evolution towards cubism in ... Draw & Paint Still Life. London: New Burlington Books, 1986. · Marrero, Vinvente. Picasso and the Bull. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1956. · Packard, Fred M. The Effects of War on the Works of Two Spanish Painters -- Goya and Picasso. Master's Thesis for Kent State University, 1961. · Picasso, Pablo. Bull's Skull, Fruit, Pitcher (Tete de Taurea, Fruit ...
- 488: An Analysis of The Wretched Of The Earth
- ... the methods of control the white world uses to hold down the colonies. Fanon calls for a radical break with colonial culture, rejecting a hypocritical European humanism for a pure revolutionary consciousness. He exalts violence as a necessary pre-condition for this rupture. Fanon supported the most extreme wing of the FLN, even opposing a negotiated transition to power. His book ... the year after his assassination, was rejected. Seale and Newton's unwillingness to acquiesce to more moderate views was in large part influenced by Fanon's ideas of a true revolutionary consciousness. In retrospect Fanon's efforts to expose the colonial society were successful in eliminating colonialism but not in eliminating the oppression taking place in the colonized world. Today the oppression of French colonialism in Algeria has been replaced by the violence of the civil war in Algeria, and the dictator of Algeria who has annulled popular elections, a the emergence of radical Islam which seeks to replace colonial repression with religious oppression. But this ...
- 489: Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)
- ... also understand the newspaper. He learned to write reasonably well. Paul was 19 when his father died and the year was 1754. Paul Revere was a silversmith and a American Revolutionary Patriot. He also made artificial teeth, surgical instruments, and engraved printing plates. Paul also made printed money for Massachusetts Congress and he designed the first official seal for the United ... Paul died in 1813, he had sadness and grief other than being healthy. When tension developed between the colonies and the mother country after the end of the Seven Years War group of artisans who identified themselves with the critics of the policies of the Mother Country. In 1765 Paul had began experimenting with engraving on copper and he produced several ... produced dental devices. In that same year he made one of the most famous pieces of American Colonial silver - the bowl commissioned by the fifteen sons of Liberty. After the war Paul operated as a Brass foundry and he manufactured sheet copper at Canton, besides him continuing his successful trade as a silversmith. In 1770 it was the year of ...
- 490: The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
- ... the methods of control the white world uses to hold down the colonies. Fanon calls for a radical break with colonial culture, rejecting a hypocritical European humanism for a pure revolutionary consciousness. He exalts violence as a necessary pre-condition for this rupture. Fanon supported the most extreme wing of the FLN, even opposing a negotiated transition to power. His book ... the year after his assassination, was rejected. Seale and Newton's unwillingness to acquiesce to more moderate views was in large part influenced by Fanon's ideas of a true revolutionary consciousness. In retrospect Fanon's efforts to expose the colonial society were successful in eliminating colonialism but not in eliminating the oppression taking place in the colonized world. Today the oppression of French colonialism in Algeria has been replaced by the violence of the civil war in Algeria, and the dictator of Algeria who has annulled popular elections, a the emergence of radical Islam which seeks to replace colonial repression with religious oppression. But this ...
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