American Civil War

Part I : The Hippie Movement A) From the Beat Generation to the Beatniks The Beat Generation's birth occurred in the 50's, in the USA., with an international context marked by the Second World War and, after it, by the Cold War. The USA was, at this time, engaged in an affirmation of its model, advocating its capitalist system represented, in the country, by a growing bourgeois population and by a conservative society. It is in this America that begins the literature, social, and cultural

Lincoln Memorial à Washington durant la marche pour l'emploi et la liberté : « I have a dream » (Je fais un rêve). Il est soutenu par John F. Kennedy dans la lutte contre la discrimination raciale ; la plupart de ces droits seront promus par le « Civil Rights Act » et le « Voting Rights Act » sous la présidence de Lyndon B. Johnson. Martin Luther King devient le plus jeune lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix en 1964 pour sa lutte non violente contre la ségrégation raciale et pour la paix. Il commence

abolition of dollar convertibility in 1971 but has since reverted to an historic mean. Gold has not necessarily held its value in terms of purchasing power in periods of social and economic instability. In times of war, for example, the prices of other commodities, more directly needed for the war effort, tend to rise faster. But over the period of Germany’s massive inflation of 1918-24, when the value of bonds and stocks was severely diminished, gold maintained its purchasing power. Gold’s liquidity, acceptability

Cambridge University Press 0521771587 - The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard Edited by Matthew Roudane Excerpt More information ´ MATTHEW ROUDANE Introduction Sam Shepard conferred upon the American stage its postmodernity in the 1960s. Of course he was not the only one to do so, but he interjected a youthful, exuberant, and experimental voice that extended our appreciation of a postmodern aesthetic. In the 2000s, Shepard continues experimenting with dramatic form and structure. He traverses

Martin Luther King Jr., African-American Baptist pastor was born in Atlanta, Georgia January 15, 1929. His father and grandfather were Baptist preachers who had been actively involved in the civil rights movement. In 1947 he was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church. It is then an assistant in his home parish in Atlanta, alongside his father. Then June 18, 1953 he married Coretta Scott in Alabama. In September after they settle in the city of Montgomery. Then came December 1, 1955, on a bus in

noirs blancs jaunes ou bleues soient et vivent heureux. "Strange Fruit" is a poem written by Abel Meeropol in 1936, sung by an African-American singer Billie Holiday. She interpreted this poem for the first time in 1939 at the "cafe society" in New York. After the abolition of slavery and during the phase of reconstruction after the Civil War, racism is still deeply rooted in the United States of America. This poem is a poem in which strong words are used. A poem that aims to move the

Hands Key Powers to Parliament”, The Guardian “At Long Last, Here is a Chance to Start Rewiring Britain’s Creaky Democracy”, The Guardian LECTURE 3: The Monarchy 1. The Queen’s functions 2. The Queen’s speech 3. The cost of the monarchy Documents: Civil List “How Much it Takes to Live like a Queen”, New York Times. LECTURE 4: Parliament 1: the House of Commons 1. Chronology: historical focus on Parliament and its origins 2. The British Parliament: its organisation 3. The Gunpowder plot 4. Whips

programmes de réinsertion pour les jeunes de ces gangs qui sont entraînés dans un cycle infernal : chaque règlement de comptes est suivi des représailles adverses... It also shows the actions of the police, who acknowledges his inability to halt the war through a policy of pure repression, the police chief called for the establishment of rehabilitation programs for youth gangs who were involved in a cycle Underworld: each settlement of accounts is followed by reprisals adverse ... On peut aussi

British Society at War 1939-1945 Course plan: This course will deal with events leading up to the Second World War with emphasis being laid on the so-called “guilty men”. They apparently bear the responsibility for letting the quest for peace be transformed into excessive appeasement policies. During the course of the war, the political tide was to gradually turn giving Labour a distinct advantage and far more leeway to introduce the sort of social reforms they had been hankering after since

of fascism was its character as a secular religion which affirms the primacy of the nation understood as an organic and ethnically homogenous community. Moreover, this nation was to be hierarchically organized in a corporativist state endowed with a war-mongering vocation that searches for a politics of national expansion, potency and conquest. Fascism, in short, was not a mere reactionary ideology. Rather, fascism aimed at creating a new order and a new civilization.3 The word fascism derives from