Both the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter were considered to be unsuccessful. They brought nearly no progress to the nation and their foreign and domestic policies achieved little. Both of these “weak” presidencies were unable to bring about any long withstanding or significant changes to the United States. President Ford and President Carter often are viewed in negative manner because of their inability to bring about any lasting‚ positive changes in either domestic or foreign policy
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Why did Jimmy Carter win the presidential contest in 1976 and yet lose to Ronald Reagan only four years later? Carter took the presidency with several issues that needed resolving‚ such as rising inflation and unemployment‚ a country disillusioned with the political system and turbulent foreign relations. To determine the reasons why he was successful in 1976 but not in 1980‚ it is necessary to look at what his successes and failures were‚ as well as the different situations in 1976 and 1980.
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and about what they can say and cannot say or do to their potential hires and employees. Also‚ sexual advances towards two women had been discovered within the cleaning company and threats had been made to fire her unless she socialized with him. Carter Cleaning Company can therefore be sued for Sexual Harassment under the Federal Violence against Women Act of 1994. “It provides that a person who commits a crime of violence motivated by gender and thus deprives another of her right shall be liable
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Racism‚ (neo-)colonialism‚ and social justice: the struggle for the soul of the Romani movement in post-socialist Europe Nidhi Trehan and Angela Kóczé For Reference “Postcolonial racism and social justice: the struggle for the soul of the Romani civil rights movement in the ‘New Europe’ ” by Angela Kocze and Nidhi Trehan‚ in Racism‚ Postcolonialism‚ Europe ed. G. Huggan‚ Liverpool: Liverpool University Press‚ 2009 ‚ pp.50-77 ‘It’s not of air and eternity‚ evil isn’t; it’s of earth; it’s physical
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substandard education and as a result a life of poverty. “A child living in an inner city is in school for only so many hours. It’s in the rest of the day—as well as the rest of the neighborhood—that’s the big influence‚ and the big problem‚” (2) Carter disagrees‚ he believes it is within the means of the public school system to make improvements for underprivileged children whether they are in the classroom or not. He demonstrates through 21 different examples how the principals of particular high-
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saved. Greenhill claims that this new plot exposes an inappropriate view for children and contradicts the original story which takes away from the traditional fairy tale. Swyt uses Angela Carter’s version of “Little Red Riding Hood” to also prove how the little girl is used as a sex symbol. She claims that the girl in Angela Carter’s Company of Wolves is supposed to show how the girl is becoming a woman and how the male is more dominant. This is shown when instead of being food for the wolf like in the
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the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode" A. Carter Angela Carter’s production could be located in the bosom of English writers generation influenced by the second feminism and also interested on revealing in their works genre inequality. The re-writing of myths is often one of the most successful ways of recognition by the hand of a writer and a poet like Michèle Roberts‚ Sara Maitland‚ Michelle Wandor and Angela Carter. Carter is characterized by her concerning about unmasking mythical
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replaced by simulation and spectacle 4. reconceptualizations of society‚ history and the self as cultural constructs‚ hence as rhetorical constructs 5. American and British writers of the 1960s and 1970s "metafiction" (Kurt Vonnegut‚ John Barth‚ Thomas Pynchon‚ John Fowles‚ and Angela Carter)‚ produced texts that simultaneously questioned and violated the conventions of traditional narrative. 6. The emergence and proliferation of feminist‚ multiethnic‚ multicultural‚ and postcolonial literature
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Angela Carter: "The Company of Wolves" (1979‚ excerpt) Men are powerful‚ strong‚ dominant. But what are women’s strengths? This question was widely discussed in the late seventies during the women’s liberation movement. Women all over the world were fighting for their rights‚ and this inspired female authors to put their thoughts into stories. Women could be manipulative‚ deceiving. They could control men when they wanted to. So why were the men in control of the world? By rewriting "Little
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Angela Carter’s Literary Culture Shift in The Tiger’s Bride Angela Carter was a vocal feminist and advocated women’s empowerment. This is often apparent by the strong female characters in her work which is quite famous for her representations of femininity. Carter’s portrayal of women opens up a lot of discussion on the feminist sociological perspective. When Anna Katasavos interviewed Carter‚ she described how Carter believed that women were represented in a negative light with very minor roles
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