...Robert Wiene’s silent film, “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari”, is an early cinematic gem that uses expressionist form in order to convey social and political messages to viewers. This film is not only a representation of the artistic styles within Germany at the time, but also an insight on the opinions of the German people during the early Weimar Republic. Sociologists, such as Siegfried Kracauer, have praised this film for its artistic form and political message. The expressionist stylings of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari are both immediate and abundant throughout the film. Gothic themes enter the storyline within the first scene when a man is observing the movements of the spirit of his fiancee. Title cards with disorderly designs narrate much...
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...Journalist, historian, solider, painter, he was also one of the greatest leaders of our time. His name was Winston Churchill and he rallied the nation in its darkest hour. Even tough he was one of Britain’s greatest leaders, he was also one of the hardest man to work with. With many failures in his political career his opponents called him “A man with a brilliant future behind him”. (Churchill the maverick politician) But most of his colleges and friends will remember him as a hardworking man who, after every failure, pulled himself back and began anew. Few people remember his early days. He was born in aristocracy, his father Lord Randolph Churchill was the youngest son of the Duke of Marlborough, John Spencer Churchill. His mother was a lively daughter of an American financier. When his mother was seven and a half months pregnant she stayed at Blenheim palace, were on the 30th November of 1874 Winston Churchill was born and baptized. He was brought up by a nanny, Ms. Elizabeth Anne Everest. She served as his confidante, nurse, and mother substitute. (Jenkins 10) At the age of seven his mother sent him to a boarding school. And at the age of thirteen he went to Harrow School. At Harrow school he showed great interest in fencing and the subject History of England. He also won the public school championship in fencing. His parents’ were too busy with their social life to pay any attention to their son. During his years at Harrow he sent several letters to his mother asking...
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...Nigeria for University Education where she read Political Science and graduated with first class honours. In 1981, she acquired her Master of Science Degree from the School of Oriental & African studies, University of London, UK. She began her Federal Civil Service Career in 1992, as the Clerk of the Senate of the National Assembly. She served in several Ministries, such as the Federal Civil Service Commission, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Information and National Orientation, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Finance. The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, found her worthy and appointed her a Minister of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in July 2011 and assigned her the portfolio of the Honourable Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. 2. GOVERNOR BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA |Gov. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) studied law at the University of Benin from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, LL.B. | | |(Hons), degree in 1987. | | |His legal career of almost two decades, covers wide-ranging areas of specialization as, intellectual property (registration of trade| |marks), commercial law, covering general contracts, company activities, mergers, acquisitions, rights issues, ownership of shares | |and equity...
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...KIEV, Ukraine—Ukraine's Parliament voted Saturday to remove President Viktor Yanukovych and set new presidential elections for May 25. The action came hours after he left the capital and protesters took control of the city center. Mr. Yanukovych vowed to remain in power, even as his political allies abandoned him in droves. In an afternoon interview with a small TV station in Kharkiv in the eastern portion of the country, he denounced the events in Kiev as a "coup d'état" that he blamed on "bandits." Protesters relax at Ukrainian President Yanukovych's countryside residence in Mezhyhirya, Kiev's region, Saturday. AP The Crisis in Ukraine * Russian role in Ukraine Ebbs—For Now * Read the Agreement Signed Friday "I have no plans to leave the country and I have no plans to resign. I am the legally elected president and all the international intermediaries I've talked to (over the last few days) have given me guarantees of security. We'll see how those are fulfilled," Mr. Yanukovych said in the TV interview. Oleksandr Turchynov, a leading opposition lawmaker, was elected speaker of parliament, which under the constitution makes him acting head of state. He told lawmakers that Mr. Yanukovych had tried to board a plane to Russia but was turned back by border officials and had returned to the area near his hometown of Donetsk in Ukraine's east, according to the Interfax news agency. In a day of fast-moving developments, Ukraine opposition leader and former Prime Minister...
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...What is majority rule? Majority Rule is the control of the majority. It is also the control of an organization or institution according to the wishes or votes of the majority of its members. Bahamian Society before the Establishment of Majority Rule 59 Novembers ago three men came together and form the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). They were Henry Milton Taylor, William. W. Cartwright, Cyril St. John Stevenson. They began meeting regularly discussing the pros and cons. They invited 7 men to join them but only 6 accepted the invitation. Henry Taylor was the Chairman, William was the treasurer and Cyril became the secretary. The party progressed in Nassau and decided to include the outer islands. When sir. Lynden Piddling came home from law school he joined the PLP party and that was the beginning of the road to majority rule. Sir Lynden Pindling, Randol Fawkes, Auther Hanna, Sir. Milo Butler Sr, Clarence Bain, Samuel Isaacs, and many other women and men planned and strategized to free there people from colonize. At that time racial segregation was a way of life in The Bahamas. The ‘blacks’ were referred to as coloured people. They were schools were coloured children were not allowed to enter. They were places like hotels, shops, and restaurants were colour people were not allowed to dine. There were also churches where coloured people were not allowed to sit in the same pews as the whites. In January 1954 the PLP held its first public meeting. In 1956...
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...------------------------------------------------- Executive branch See also: Article Two of the United States Constitution The executive power in the federal government is vested in the President of the United States,[7] although power is often delegated to the Cabinet members and other officials.[8][9] The Presidentand Vice President are elected as running mates by the Electoral College, for which each state, as well as the District of Columbia, is allocated a number of seats based on its representation (orostensible representation, in the case of D.C.) in both houses of Congress.[7][10] The President is limited to a maximum of two four-year terms.[11] If the President has already served two years or more of a term to which some other person was elected, he may only serve one more additional four-year term.[7] President Main article: President of the United States The executive branch consists of the President and those to whom the President's powers are delegated. The President is both the head of state andgovernment, as well as the military commander-in-chief and chief diplomat. The President, according to the Constitution, must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed", and "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution". The President presides over the executive branch of the federal government, an organization numbering about 5 million people, including 1 million active-duty military personnel and 600,000 postal service employees. The forty-fourth and current...
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...seventy-five minutes, leaving nine dead and 130 injured; • The 1979 assassination of Lord Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth II's uncle and the last Viceroy of India; • The 1984 bombing of a Brighton hotel where then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet were meeting, which wounded several British officials and killed four other Britons; • A 1993 car bombing in London's financial district, Canary Wharf, that killed one person and caused $1 billion of damage; • Mortar attacks on the British prime minister's residence and London's Heathrow Airport in the early 1990s; • Bombings of civilian targets, including pubs, shops, and subway stations, in Northern Ireland and Britain throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. • Involvement in organized criminal activities, such as extortion, bank robbery, smuggling, and counterfeiting. 6. What is being done to eliminate this terrorist group? The Good Friday Agreement The IRA ceasefire in 1997 formed part of a process that led to the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement between Ireland and British Governments. One aim of the Agreement is that all paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland cease their activities and disarm by May 2000. Calls from Sinn Féin, a political party in Ireland, led the IRA to commence disarming in a process that was monitored by Canadian General John de Chastelain's decommissioning body in October 2001. However, following the collapse of the Stormont power-sharing government in 2002, which was partly triggered...
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...In 1861, after decades of tension between the north and the south within the nation over issues including states rights and federal authority, westward expansion and slavery, the nation evolved into a Civil War. The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 had caused southern states to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America. The south felt out-numbered from partisan radical politics. The war between the South and North was a four-year awful and destructive war. After the war had ended in 1865, there were 750,000 soldiers dead from both sides. Slavery was abolished by the thirteenth amendment, the union had won, but the nation was still divided economically, politically and socially. The people, land and property of the South were devastated. Besides the challenge of readmitting the southern states into the union, there were plans made to reconstruct the defeated south. Reconstruction hinged on resolving the political, economic and social issues. The terms that the South had agreed to in order or rejoin the Union had an important impact on both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party took advantage of the south’s absence from Congress. The Radical Republicans from the north divided the Democratic Party after the victories in the elections of 1860 and 1864. Latter on the south was removed from the Electoral College. Both the Republicans and democratic leaders were fearful that readmitting the South would...
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...Civil-Military Relationship in the Philippines Since the establishment of human governance, a problem prevalent in almost all administrations has been assuring the subordination of military forces to political institutions. This subordination is often called civilian control and a country lacking in this may face serious obstacles to developing or consolidating democracy as well as allow the military to make national security subservient to other meaningful tasks of a country. However, according to Kohn, there is an ideal civil-military relationship for a democracy and this can be maintained through a laying out a clear chain of command, putting the decision of warfare into civilian hands, and paying attention to military policy. The Filipino people, having suffered under a personalistic dictatorship for almost twenty years enforced by the military, instead maintain a precarious relationship with military forces that has protected the interests military elites while still allowing civilians to survive in the political arena. While the recently elected Minister of Defense Voltaire Gazmin has a highly decorated military background and history of stopping military coup d’états as well as a policy of military transparency and peace, recent news articles suggest this may not be enough as a military coup seems imminent with war ravaging southern Philippines as well as the refusal of President Aquino III to step down after his alleged embezzlement of public funds. Kohn suggests...
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...The British Political Reflection through The Westminster Alice by Saki, The Parody of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland Lecturer: Dr. Novita Dewi, M.S., M.A (Hons) by: Miranda A. R Siregar Student Number: 136332007 THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2014 The British Political Reflection through The Westminster Alice by Saki, The Parody of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland I. Introduction Alice and the adventure in wonderland and Alice through the looking glass are the master pieces of literary work by Lewis Carroll. The characters in the story, particularly Alice herself become such an iconic character. Alice is basically a girl who has a high imagination and able to see the world differently, out of general border. We may discover several works based on Alice in wonderland, from the day the story was published until this present time. There are a lot of books and movies that inspired by Alice. In this essay, I would like to discuss is “The Westminster Alice” by Hector Hugo Munro (Saki) in 1902, The specialty of this book is so much different from any other work adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which most of them are actually similar story or the adult version of Alice. This book is a parody of British politic based on Alice in Wonderland character. The Westminster Alice is the name of a collection of vignettes written by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) in 1902 and published...
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...clock forcing the two parties to come to a decision quickly rather than be granted independence only to be left in a civil war. However, the social and economic barriers between Muslims and Hindus also furthered the support for partition Tensions between the Muslim League and Congress led to the League’s increasing insecurity of being disadvantaged by having a single Indian nation dominated by Hindus and that their interests would not be accounted for. The Muslim League felt increasingly isolated which led them to push harder for the partition of India. Much of this sense of isolation was set about by the actions of Congress. For instance, in the 1937 elections the Congress won majorities in seven of eleven provinces in which no Muslim cabinet ministers were appointed unless they were members of Congress and relinquished their loyalty to the Muslim League. The Congress flag was flown from public buildings and parliaments opened with the singing of the Hindu national anthem. Hindu values were said imposed in institutions such as schools where children were made to “worship the portrait of Gandhi and that attempts were...
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...RECONSTRUCTION, WHAT WENT WRONG I. Historiography of Reconstruction A. Early Views Journalists, Poets, & Rebels Negative view of Reconstruction Sidney Andrews, The South Since the War (1866) John Dennett, The South as It Is. Southern frame of reference Sidney Lanier (poet) Attempt to justify Civil War B. Early Professional Historians John Ford Rhodes Ohio Democrat Not impartial Blamed North for problems of Reconstruction’ Claimed Black Rule forced on South at point of bayonet John William Burgess Tennessee Unionist Former Union soldier Studied at University of Berlin Organized History Graduate Program at Columbia University Produced historians such as U.B. Phillips and William Archibald Dunning Traditionalist view of Reconstruction Burgess, Phillips & Dunning Basic view: Stressed Southern problems Minimized achievements of Freedmen Regarded White Supremacy as normal in South C. Dunning School And Traditionalism William Archibald Dunning Taught at Columbia University Attracted best historical minds of his day Wrote histories of their own states James W. Garner, Reconstruction in Mississippi (1901) Walter Lynwood Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (1905) William W. Davis, Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida (1913) Clara Mildred Thompson, Reconstruction in Georgia (1915) Histories very detailed and accurate BUT hostile...
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...Japan Earthquake 2011 Facts about the earthquake * A massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, Friday afternoon, on 11 March 2011 at 0546 GMT * The quake was centered 130 kilometers to the east of Sendai. * A tsunami was sent crashing into the country’s north-eastern coast. * It was originally reported at a magnitude of 7.9, but later was upgraded to 8.9 and then to a 9.0. * It lasted 6 minutes. * That makes it the fifth largest recorded worldwide since 1900, according to the U.S. Geological Service, larger than the 7.9-magnitude Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo in 1923 or the 6.8 magnitude quake that hit Kobe in 1995. * It had 10,000 times more energy than the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, which struck 17 days earlier The Cause * Japan is located on the east edge of the Eurasian Plate. * The oceanic Pacific Plate subducts the Eurasian Plate. * This plate margin is “destructive” – it is not a smooth process, friction is present and the plates stick. * When the plates stick, tension builds up. * When this pressure builds up and is released, it causes a rapid shift in the plates and a lot of energy to be release, in this case about the same as the annual energy output of the UK. Impact * Japan was largely prepared for the earthquake and many buildings remained standing afterwards...
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...the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. She was born into a wealthy, politically prominent family based in Tarlac province, north of Manila. She graduated from Mount St. Vincent College in New York City in 1954 but abandoned further studies in 1955 to marry Benigno Simeon Aquino, Jr., who was then a promising young politician. Corazon remained in the background during her husband's subsequent career, rearing their five children at home. Her husband, who had become a prominent opposition politician, was jailed by Marcos for eight years (1972–80), and Corazon accompanied him into exile in the United States in 1980. Benigno was assassinated upon his return to the Philippines in August 1983. This event galvanized opposition to the Marcos government. When Ferdinand E. Marcos unexpectedly called for presidential elections in February 1986, Corazon Aquino became the unified opposition's presidential candidate. Though she was officially reported to have lost the election to Marcos, Aquino and her supporters challenged the results, charging widespread voting fraud. High officials in the Philippine military soon publicly renounced Marcos' continued rule and proclaimed Aquino the Philippines' rightful president. On Feb. 25, 1986, both Aquino and Marcos were inaugurated as president by their respective supporters, but that same day Marcos fled the country. In March 1986 Aquino proclaimed a provisional constitution...
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...It had been seven months since the government had made an official announcement that the virus had been completely eliminated. I was sitting on my couch watching a movie and relaxing, I didn’t have any desire to go out much anymore. My film was interrupted by a pounding on the door. “Michael, hey man open the door!” “Alright, alright, I’m coming.” I said after the eighth series of knocks. “Hey Nick!” “Let me in dude!” “Come in, long time no see.” I told him as he pushed past me. Nick had been my best friend all through school. We had also attended the same college for a while before the outbreak occurred. When it did, we both went our separate ways to be with our families. By the time it was over, we had lost touch with each other. Honestly, although I can’t...
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