wrote memorable poetry and philosophical essays. Towards the end of the 18th Century and the beginning of the 19th‚ a distinctive criollo literary tradition emerged‚ including the first novels such as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi’s El Periquillo Sarniento (1816). The "libertadores" themselves were also often distinguished writers‚ such as Simón Bolívar and Andrés Bello. [edit]Nineteenth-century literature The 19th century was a period of "foundational fictions" (in critic Doris Sommer’s words[citation
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United States president Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary‚ an addendum to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine‚ in response to European nations that were trying to force Venezuela to repay its debts. Roosevelt threatened to send naval ships to Venezuela if those nations sought to forcibly collect the debt. Stability must be preserved‚ Roosevelt said in his 1904 annual message to Congress‚ even if it requires an "exercise of international police power." The Roosevelt Corollary‚ based on the
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Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational‚ national‚ or local groupings of high enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity‚ most commonly for their own profit. Seemingly‚ the highest rate of criminal violence was partaken in the 1920’s. With the prohibition laws in America and the world in an economic depression. People turned more and more too criminal activity‚ organized criminals such as the American mobsters and other crime organizations grew
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An individual ’s personality‚ opinion and even the way they perceive things are highly influenced by experience. Many experiences are documented‚ whether positive or negative‚ in the form of film‚ story‚ song or poem. The twentieth century was an era of imperialism‚ nationalism and decolonization which would all contribute to the outbreak of both world wars. Each war was both surprising to many people‚ as well as damaging. The state of a nations economy‚ moral and even landscape became a daily reminder
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end of the 19th century saw the continued expansion of Japan’s nationalism and imperial power within the Asia Pacific region. After the first Sino-Japanese war ended in 1895‚ Japan had taken control of Taiwan and Manchuria‚ gained a large influence in Korea‚ and replaced China as the framer of international order in East Asia. Undoubtedly‚ this power shift was the beginning of tension between Japan and the rest of the Asia Pacific region‚ but how did Japan’s action in the 20th century turn this tension
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From Embodying Ornament to Functional and Aesthetic Space in Early-20th-Century Architecture. "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." Despite the risk of sounding cliché by opening with a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote‚ this is where we shall begin. It is something that relates back to a basic human instinct that is so deeply rooted in our DNA. Why do we yearn so intuitively for ideas that are silly and nonsensical? The answer is balance. Everything in the universe
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half of the 20th century conceived of the world as chaos. Chaos was the oft-quoted blind play of atoms which‚ in mechanistic and positivistic philosophy‚ appeared to represent ultimate reality‚ with life as an accidental product of physical processes‚ and mind as an epiphenomenon.… It was chaos when‚ in the current theory of evolution‚ the living world appeared a product of chance‚ the outcome of random mutations and survival in the mill of natural selection. In the same sense‚ human personality
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The twentieth century was shaped by scientists‚ leaders‚ civil rights workers‚ entertainers‚ and so many more. Throughout the last half of the 20 century‚ many leaders have come to power to create great change in their nations. Such leaders as Ayotollah Khomeini‚ And Mahandas Gandhi has led their nations to independence by nationalism and civil obedience. From genocide of the Africans to abolishing westernization‚ some kf these changes have had positive as well as negative effects on their nations
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The Impact of Microorganisms on Human Affairs What is microbiology? Microbiology is the study of microorganisms or microbes. The word micro means small in Greek‚ implying that microbes are very minute or small life forms that cannot be seen with just the naked eye. One would need a microscope to see these small life forms. Microbes are everywhere and have a large impact on the world. It all started when one of the most important discoveries in history was made in 1665. Englishman‚ Robert Hooke
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During the early decades of the twentieth century‚ African Americans left the South in growing numbers‚ migrating North‚ with hopes of leaving a life behind that was dictated by racism‚ Jim Crow law‚ disenfranchisement‚ and violence based on hatred of black skin. With dreams of new opportunities for economic self-sufficiency‚ political participation‚ integration and freedom from racial violence‚ African Americans were soon
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