On October 1‚ 1949‚ the newly established People’s Republic of China faced the challenge of consolidating its power over a vast mainland and implementing the socialist policies it advocated. Of hindrance to the process of organizational and ideological remolding of China was the ambivalent ideological nature of China’s intellectuals. Special action had to be taken by the Communist regime to address the explicit and latent issue of non-Marxian thought and bourgeois ideals among its most talented educated
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Biography (Life‚ Major Contribution and Legacy) of CLR James James was born on January 4‚ 1901 in Port of Spain‚ the largest city in colonial Trinidad. He spent most of his youth in the village of Tunapuna‚ eight miles outside the city. His father was a school teacher‚ a significant position in the colonial Caribbean‚ and his mother had been educated in a Weslyan convent. The status and education of his parents marked James as somewhat privileged in relation to the other residents of Tunapuna. As
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Liberation The decade of the 1960’s was an era of spiritual journey for many individuals and a cultural crusade for others. This enlightened outlook and newfound brazen behavior was a stark contrast to the conformity and repression of the 1950’s. Liberation was the buzzword used by those seeking to break out of the stereotypical roles that society had forced them into from a young age. Women began to protest the mainstream thinking that “barefoot in the kitchen” was their destiny. Ethnic groups
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ART SUMMARY TERM 2 FRAMES Cultural This view is concerned with understanding how an artwork is influenced by the values of the society it is produced in‚ and‚ in turn‚ how the artwork influences the values of the society. This includes examining the historical and cultural context in which the work was made‚ and religious and/or philosophical beliefs‚ which may have influenced the work. Subjective This view is concerned with examining an artwork from a personal perspective. This might
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Biography Early life‚ education and monkhood Vasil Levski was born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1837 in the town of Karlovo‚ within the Ottoman Empire’s European province Rumelia.[14] He was the namesake of his maternal uncle‚ Archimandrite (superior abbot) Basil (Василий‚ Vasiliy).[15] Levski’s parents‚ Ivan Kunchev and Gina Kuncheva (née Karaivanova)‚ came from a family of clergy and craftsmen and represented the emerging Bulgarian middle class.[16] An eminent but struggling
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that did not last long after the martyrdom of the two said leaders in the battlefield. None of the Islamic relics in Manila were left by the Spanish vandals except for a fort known as "Intramoros." On the 10th of December 1898 AC‚ the "Treaty of Paris" was agreed upon by America and Spain by which the latter had to cede the Philippines to the former. What
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The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947 - 1957) This was a quote by Christian Dior‚ the man who invented The New Look and fore-fronted fashion for the 1950s. The 1950s marked a new era for
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of Calamba‚ Laguna‚ Rizal attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and then traveled alone to Madrid‚ Spain where he studied medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid‚ earning the degree of Licentiate in Medicine. He attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at the the University of Heidelberg. Rizal was a polyglot conversant in at least ten languages. He was a prolific poet‚ essayist‚ diarist‚ correspondent‚ and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels‚ Noli me
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leadership of (Points : 2) | Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Syngman Rhee. Chiang Kai-shek. | 5. (TCO 3) What city was divided during the Cold War and became a hotspot for espionage and intrigue? (Points : 2) | Paris. London. Berlin. Rome. | 6. (TCO 4) What was one reason for the rise in Japan’s gross domestic product between 1950 and 1970? (Points : 2) | The removal of protective tariffs. Its low military budget.
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: Homestead lockout U.S. labour strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steelworks in Homestead‚ Pa.‚ in July 1892. When the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers went on strike following a wage cut‚ the company’s manager‚ Henry Clay Frick‚ hired strikebreakers‚ with Pinkerton Agency detectives to protect them. A gun battle resulted in which several people were killed and many injured; the governor sent state militiamen to support the company. The broken strike represented a major setback to the
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