Mandelstam was arrested in 1934 for writing poetry about Stalin. He was tortured in prison and later exiled with his wife to remote villages. He tried to commit suicide but it did not work and his exile was lessened to banishment from larger cities. He wrote a poem for Natasha Shtempel which was about women mourning. He was again arrested in 1938 for going against the revolution because he wrote another poem and was sentenced to five years in a labor camp. He died later on from madness and starvation on December 27, 1938. The conditions in the camp must have been horrendous because he died of starvation. He also was crazy when he died so the Russians must have tortured him physical as well as mentally.
Source: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mandelst.htm
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Research Question 3 for Independence v Swaraj
The ethical guidelines for journalism are easy to follow:
Journalists should by honest and fair when gathering information.
Test accuracy of the information obtained.
Support the open exchange of views.
Journalists should show compassion.
Be sensitive when obtaining and looking for information that is sentimental.
Avoid conflicts.
Be brave and show valor
Refuse gifts, free travel, and fees.
Encourage audience to voice problems within community.
admit mistakes if made and correct them promptly.
Source: http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Journalists should by honest and fair when gathering information.
Test accuracy of the information obtained.
Support the open exchange of views.
Journalists should show compassion.
Be sensitive when obtaining and looking for information that is sentimental.
Avoid conflicts.
Be brave and show valor
Refuse gifts, free travel, and fees.
Encourage audience to voice problems within community.
admit mistakes if made and correct them promptly.
Source: http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Blogging notes on Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1. Personal liberation in the book seems to be defined as finding one's self and purpose and not being brought down by conformity. The book doesn't seem to be anti women more like anti bossy women. "good female characters are females who aren't afraid to flaunt their feminism and body.
2. Nurse Ratched's name is significant because Ratchet mean set of teeth on a bar wheel allowing motion in one direction only and I'm pretty sure her name comes from that because there is only one way in the ward and it is her way.
3. America in this era was a matriarchy because women in this time period were discovering themselves and developing. They were doing new things that women have never done before so at this time women were running the world one step at a time.
4. This book has a lot of racial slurs but i really do not think it is racist just that he is trying to catch the dialogue of that time. During this time Blacks were not really accepted as first class citizens.
5. When McMurphy was about to get electrocuted he asked for his crown of thorns so that alludes to Christ and the patients looked up to him like a God. I guess Candy would be the Virgin Mary even though she is not exactly a saint.
6. The Mental hospital is like a mini version of America because it shows a person in charge who wants their citizens to conform to their rules and terms and hippies revolted against that.
7. The parallels suggested between communism and liberalism is that both need to be destroyed so people do not have to conform to rules and regulations that are not necessary. Most of the communist behavior is displayed by Nurse Ratched.
8. Chief Bromden is a reliable narrator to me because he tells the story accurately and tells a little about himself. Being Indian is significant because it seems Indians have been fighting to conform to whites for centuries and since this is a book about fighting conformity Indians need to be in it.
9. Freudian Theory and thoughts seem to be about unconscious thoughts dealing with repression and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud believed that people repressed painful memories into their unconscious. Since the book is dealing with repression Freudian seems to go hand in hand. Source: http://www.iep.utm.edu/freud/
10. Since this book is about the evils of these drugs then Hippies were using dangerous stuff. If this book really reflected how drugs can change a person then Hippies were in danger because these drugs were really powerful and back things doctors would approve anything.
11. It is like a manual for people trying to rebel against conformity. Almost like a bible of sorts to the rebels just starting out. Showing them that you can defeat conformity because McMurphy did it.
12. This is a powerful theme because not a lot of people criticized America because most people were afraid to speak out. Kesey thinks modern America went wrong when they started making people conform to unnecessary rules and when they started being double standard and hypocritical.
13. It seems cynical about democracy because when the patients were in the meeting and everyone voted to use the tub room but Nurse Ratched pretty much vetoed them even though it was in the interest of the patients. So maybe Kesey's believes democracy does not truly exist since the government think they make the right choices for us.
14. They gloried criminals and lunatics that should be self explanatory why the 1960s radicalism went wrong. They made them seem like misunderstood people and some of them are but most are really crazy and irrational.
15. McMurphy sees gambling as a chance to control everything for once. He can control what he does in the game but he can not control the outcome just the input.
16. Big Nurse is genderless, mechanical, and unemotional. Big Nurse symbolizes a machine.
17. The book portrays liberation as leaving the hospital when they are ready not when they are healed in the Nurse's terms. They feel like they can join society once more.
18. I actually could not really tell when he was on LCD in certain parts in the book maybe the part when Bromden was remembering his childhood after being shocked toward the end of the book because everything seemed crazy.
19. Laughter makes all the problems go away. well not go away but it makes people forget stressing things such as problems and just live a little.
20. The Loonies are more healthier than the sane because they are taking the time to actually think about the problems in their life while people on the outside repress their problems because they feel they have other things going on in their lives. insanity is the only sane response to a crazy world.
21. The arguments that Kesey seems to being forward is to laugh, fight conformity, and live. Which is great for a society because conformity can be suffocating and make people turn into loonies.
22. The author uses a lot of imagery and similes. It paints a picture in my mind when I read it and he uses diction very well.
2. Nurse Ratched's name is significant because Ratchet mean set of teeth on a bar wheel allowing motion in one direction only and I'm pretty sure her name comes from that because there is only one way in the ward and it is her way.
3. America in this era was a matriarchy because women in this time period were discovering themselves and developing. They were doing new things that women have never done before so at this time women were running the world one step at a time.
4. This book has a lot of racial slurs but i really do not think it is racist just that he is trying to catch the dialogue of that time. During this time Blacks were not really accepted as first class citizens.
5. When McMurphy was about to get electrocuted he asked for his crown of thorns so that alludes to Christ and the patients looked up to him like a God. I guess Candy would be the Virgin Mary even though she is not exactly a saint.
6. The Mental hospital is like a mini version of America because it shows a person in charge who wants their citizens to conform to their rules and terms and hippies revolted against that.
7. The parallels suggested between communism and liberalism is that both need to be destroyed so people do not have to conform to rules and regulations that are not necessary. Most of the communist behavior is displayed by Nurse Ratched.
8. Chief Bromden is a reliable narrator to me because he tells the story accurately and tells a little about himself. Being Indian is significant because it seems Indians have been fighting to conform to whites for centuries and since this is a book about fighting conformity Indians need to be in it.
9. Freudian Theory and thoughts seem to be about unconscious thoughts dealing with repression and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud believed that people repressed painful memories into their unconscious. Since the book is dealing with repression Freudian seems to go hand in hand. Source: http://www.iep.utm.edu/freud/
10. Since this book is about the evils of these drugs then Hippies were using dangerous stuff. If this book really reflected how drugs can change a person then Hippies were in danger because these drugs were really powerful and back things doctors would approve anything.
11. It is like a manual for people trying to rebel against conformity. Almost like a bible of sorts to the rebels just starting out. Showing them that you can defeat conformity because McMurphy did it.
12. This is a powerful theme because not a lot of people criticized America because most people were afraid to speak out. Kesey thinks modern America went wrong when they started making people conform to unnecessary rules and when they started being double standard and hypocritical.
13. It seems cynical about democracy because when the patients were in the meeting and everyone voted to use the tub room but Nurse Ratched pretty much vetoed them even though it was in the interest of the patients. So maybe Kesey's believes democracy does not truly exist since the government think they make the right choices for us.
14. They gloried criminals and lunatics that should be self explanatory why the 1960s radicalism went wrong. They made them seem like misunderstood people and some of them are but most are really crazy and irrational.
15. McMurphy sees gambling as a chance to control everything for once. He can control what he does in the game but he can not control the outcome just the input.
16. Big Nurse is genderless, mechanical, and unemotional. Big Nurse symbolizes a machine.
17. The book portrays liberation as leaving the hospital when they are ready not when they are healed in the Nurse's terms. They feel like they can join society once more.
18. I actually could not really tell when he was on LCD in certain parts in the book maybe the part when Bromden was remembering his childhood after being shocked toward the end of the book because everything seemed crazy.
19. Laughter makes all the problems go away. well not go away but it makes people forget stressing things such as problems and just live a little.
20. The Loonies are more healthier than the sane because they are taking the time to actually think about the problems in their life while people on the outside repress their problems because they feel they have other things going on in their lives. insanity is the only sane response to a crazy world.
21. The arguments that Kesey seems to being forward is to laugh, fight conformity, and live. Which is great for a society because conformity can be suffocating and make people turn into loonies.
22. The author uses a lot of imagery and similes. It paints a picture in my mind when I read it and he uses diction very well.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Research Question 2 for Slavery on the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan
There are tons of sweatshops in China. They usually make American goods like shoes, clothes, and toys. They have low wages, horrific working hours, and no air conditioning. The factories are dirty and not well taking care of. They are refused the opportunity to create labor unions to protest for better working hours, conditions and pay. The bosses of the companies ignore workers complaints because they want to save as much money as they can and if workers do complain they can be replaced easily with other unemployed people. There are efforts to change the troubling conditions but nothing is set in stone since they are their own country and can do whatever they like.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Research Question 1 for The United States of America vs Susan B. Anthony
America's woman suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who was politically activated in abolitionist and prohibition movements. The first national women's right convention was held in 1850 and then repeatedly annually. 15th amendment was passed for black males to be able to vote but not for females. Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton pushed for women suffrage by organizing groups and by the 1890 in Wyoming became the first state to allow women to vote. Role of women changed. They started to get an education and bearing less children and three more states agreed to let women vote. By 1920 the 19th amendment was born.
Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/19th-amendment-adopted
Source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/19th-amendment-adopted
Research Question 2 for Emancipation Proclamation
The effect of the Emancipation Proclamation is huge. Abolitionists and most northerners were happy with the change but the working class and southerners were not. The Ohioan working class did not want the Proclamation because they were afraid of blacks running up north and taking all of the good jobs. Southerners and slave owners argued that Lincoln did not have the power to end slavery because slaves were property of the owners and that taking property without due process is against the constitution. Either way the Proclamation went into effect whether or not if people agreed with it.
Monday, December 5, 2011
For Research Question 1 for State of Union Adress
Before the Indian Removal act was placed the Cherokees tried to protect themselves so in 1827 they adopted a constitution declaring themselves to be a sovereign nation. The states challenged them and took them to court in 1831. Indians based their appeal on the 1830 Georgia law that whites can not live on Indian territory. The law at that time was to stop white missionaries from helping Indians so the court agreed with the Indians that they had the right to self government. Georgia and Andrew Jackson refused to abide the court decision.
When Jackson took office he placed the Indian Removal act so that only he can negotiate with Indians. Most of the tribes were willing to go except the Cherokees so they had to be tricked into signing a treaty. Cherokees were given two years to migrate voluntarily but at the end of the time frame they would be forcibly moved. By 1838, only 2,000 of 18,000 migrated voluntarily so Government sent in 7,000 troops to flush them out. They made them march on the path known as the Trail of Tears. 4,000 people died of cold, hunger and exhaustion.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html
When Jackson took office he placed the Indian Removal act so that only he can negotiate with Indians. Most of the tribes were willing to go except the Cherokees so they had to be tricked into signing a treaty. Cherokees were given two years to migrate voluntarily but at the end of the time frame they would be forcibly moved. By 1838, only 2,000 of 18,000 migrated voluntarily so Government sent in 7,000 troops to flush them out. They made them march on the path known as the Trail of Tears. 4,000 people died of cold, hunger and exhaustion.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Research Question 2 of The Social Contract
The Social Contract was banned and condemned because it stated that men were noble savages and that they have to throw off the restraints of society. So French government thought that Rousseau was trying to over throw the government by putting false notions into the mind of public they were afraid of losing their position so they needed to silence him and burn the books. I think the Social contract was good for the public so they know what they could accomplish by knowing the state of nature. (I will finish this later)
source: http://www.online-literature.com/rousseau/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/#H4
source: http://www.online-literature.com/rousseau/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/rousseau/#H4
Thursday, December 1, 2011
For Research 2 of Second Treatise of Government
The audience that Locke was most likely targeting was the well to do people of that time period. The people who had the time to actually read something like it and the education to interpret the text accordingly. People who were land owners not poor people. Locke is trying to help his fellow citizens by informing them that there is a state of peace and a state of war and a state of peace is the choice that is the correct choice but state of war never can be avoided.
This is a short research question answer.
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