Brave New World: World Instability I. Video Intro of World Instability (3:50) II. Past examples of world instability (Chad) A. Russian Revolution a. http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution b. After Bolshevik forces executed Czar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918‚ the killers hid the victims’ mutilated bodies. The remains were discovered and exhumed in the late 1970s near Yekaterinburg‚ Russia‚ and eventually identified through DNA testing. B. World War II a. http://www.history
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Explication of ’Leningrad Cemetery‚ Winter of 1941’ This poem is about the World War Ⅱ especially in Leningard(1941.09.08~1944.01.18) in winter of 1941. Leningrad which is now St. Petersburg is once former capital of Russia and Russian Revolution so it was strategically important place for Hitler to have war with. German army siege this city almost 900 days and over 650‚000 people are dead from this war because of starvation‚ exposure‚ disease and so on. However‚ Leningrad did not surrender against
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horizon. Dilapidated buildings‚ a dilapidated city‚ a dilapidated world… Once again he was the first to wake. Untangling himself from sheets he stood‚ staring out over the city. Ever since the event‚ and the rise of the Knew World Order‚ the city was lost to the dogs and the filth that contaminated the streets. There were great walls that surrounded the city. The Knew World Order had erected them for fear that animals from the world outside would get in…or perhaps the animals from the inside would
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Evaluate the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in achieving global security. Though its inception since 2005 has been a benchmark in creating cooperation on mass atrocity crimes‚ the R2P doctrine faces significant limitations in achieving global security. R2P has been called upon by critics to be an imperialist doctrine‚ which would justify overextension of the dominant states into domestic affairs of smaller states. The inability of the P5 states to act in the interests of global
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1920 to 1945: Determining the Role of the Federal Government and its Spheres of Influence The United States experienced vast changes between 1920 and 1945. The “Roaring Twenties” marked the flourishing of the modern mass-production/mass-consumption economy‚ which delivered fantastic profits to investors‚ while also raising the living standard of the urban middle- and working-class. Following the Great Depression‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity
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Chapter 27‚ “The New Deal: 1933-1941‚” discusses the United States during the years of the Depression and President Roosevelt’s response with the New Deal. During the New Deal‚ Congress passed a multitude of new laws and created new administrations to try to combat the effects of the Depression. The chapter talks about how the New Deal affected a variety of groups‚ including women‚ blacks‚ Native Americans‚ and the elderly. Eventually‚ the Depression was ended by the outbreak of World War II in Europe
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New world exploration a. exploration origins of european expansion exploration b. consequences encounter a. conquistadors had superior weapons/guns & horses b. native american populations quickly shrank c. death due to diseases brought by europeans spanish empire a. financed by gold and silver from americas b. natives: died from diseases brought by the spanish some converted to christianity some resisted by the spanish control colonies spanish empire -appointed viceroys
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Account for social tensions in US society from 1919 – 1941. Social tensions among US society from 1919-1941 came about due to immigration restrictions‚ racial conflict‚ and anti-communism. In the early 1920s Americans living in the rural areas‚ approximately 50% of the total population) were persistent in maintaining a capitalist democracy based on Anglo-Saxon culture. White Anglo-Saxon Americans became alarmed at the increasing level of foreign immigrants arriving by the 20th century. These White
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Name ___________________________________ AP-______Date___________ Major Works Data Sheet Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Title: Brave New World Author: Aldous Huxley Date of Publication: 1932 Genre: Dystopian Literature Biographical Information about the Author: Aldous Huxley was a British writer born in Surrey‚ England on July 26‚ 1894. He studied science at Eton‚ but a problem with his eyes left him partially blind and he had to leave after three years. When it eventually improved
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BRAVE NEW WORLD Introduction This novel was written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. It is a fable about a world state in the 7th century A.F. (after Ford)‚ where social stability is based on a scientific caste system. Human beings‚ graded from highest intellectuals to lowest manual workers‚ hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries‚ learn by methodical conditioning to accept they social destiny. The action of the story develops round Bernard Marx‚ and an unorthodox and therefore
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