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Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political futures—both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization of national states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe—a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every kind of interdependence, every kind of artificial social cooperation and civic mutuality. The second is being borne in on us by the onrush of economic and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and that mesmerize the world with fast music, fast computers, and fast food—with MTV, Macintosh, and McDonald's, pressing nations into one commercially homogenous global network: one McWorld tied together by technology, ecology, communications, and commerce. The planet is falling precipitantly apart AND coming reluctantly together at the very same moment.
These two tendencies are sometimes visible in the same countries at the same instant: thus Yugoslavia, clamoring just recently to join the New Europe, is exploding into fragments; India is trying to live up to its reputation as the world's largest integral democracy while powerful new fundamentalist parties like the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, along with nationalist assassins, are imperiling its hard-won unity. States are breaking up or joining up: the Soviet Union has disappeared almost overnight, its parts forming new unions with one another or with like-minded nationalities in neighboring states. The old interwar national state based on territory and political sovereignty looks to be a mere transitional development.
The tendencies of what I am here calling the forces of Jihad and the forces of McWorld operate with equal strength in opposite directions, the one driven by
Every parent worries the first time she leaves her children home alone. What if the children don't know what to do in the case of an emergency? In Dr. Seuss’s novel, The Cat in the Hat, Seuss explores the negative consequences of leaving children at home alone. When children are home alone strangers may enter the house, objects may be broken, and the children’s minds can be corrupted. In the story, an insane person enters a home while the mother is out and refuses to leave. Also, this insane man…
drinking party, which was against the prohibition laws and school policy, he continued to contribute to the magazine, signing his work "Seuss." This is the first record of The Cat in the Hat the "Seuss" pseudonym, which was both Ted's middle name and his mother's maiden name. This is the first record of The Cat in the Hat. The "Seuss" pseudonym, which was both Ted's middle name and his mother's maiden name. After he went to Dartmouth, Ted went on to Oxford University in England after graduation…
white hat complete with a spray of violets and a sachet. E - The irony in this statement is twofold. First, the grandmother is very careful about her appearance “in case” she were to die along the roadside, which she never truly expected; she was using this as an excuse to dress up and prove herself superior to the rest of her family (particularly her daughter-in-law who wore slacks). However, death along the roadside is exactly what happens to the grandmother, and the violets on her hat do not…
How many of you recognize the name, Theodore Geisel? Nobody? Ok, what if I told you he was an award winning writer? Alright, what if I asked, “Do you like green eggs and ham?” Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known under his pseudonym "Dr. Seuss," was the best-loved and certainly the best-selling children's book writer of all time. Geisel entertained several generations of young readers with his zany nonsense books. Speaking to Herbert Kupferberg of Parade, Geisel once claimed: "Old men on crutches tell…
organizing phonemes into morphemes and words into phrases and sentences. Examples: At the phonemic level: “Phl” and “sch” are permissible in English, but “ptz” and “rvc” are not. At the sentence level: The dog was bitten by the cat is permissible, but Bitten dog was the the cat by is not. Universal & Structural Properties of Verbal Languages Phonemes Morphemes Words Phrases Sentences Phonemes “…categories of sounds our vocal apparatus produces.” (Lilienfeld et al., 2011, p. 330). e.g. th, sh, é, â,…
October 31, 2013 DE British Literature A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams was great film I strongly recommend that anyone who likes films with drama and mystery to watch this. This film takes place in the 1950’s in Mississippi. This film is drama. The setting of this place is in a plantation house. The cast are the following: Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie Pollitt, Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt, Burl Ives as Big Daddy Pollitt, Jack Carson as Gooper Pollitt…
convince the family to appease her and change their plans. When they embark on their short journey, the grandmother is the first in the car, with her cat that is hidden in a small bag. Of course she could leave her darling cat Pitty Sing at home, not even for 3 days! The grandmother is dress in her Sunday best for the trip, frilly, flowered hat included! The family stopped for a brief lunch at a small dinner that is self-proclaimed to have the BEST BBQ and owned by a man named Red Sam, the family…
Cerebral Cortex: imagine a Texas cowboy hat on top of a brain. The cortex is the outer layer of the brain just under the hat where complex thinking occurs. * Corpus Callosum: The corpus callosum is the fibers that connect the two halves of the brain. Thus, it adds the two parts together. Think of the corPLUS CalloSUM. Since the corpus callosum coordinates communication between the two hemispheres, think of corpus Call Someone. * Thalamus: the thalamus takes sensations that come from…
animal is endangered and what people can do to protect it. The leopard is a large graceful cat. The leopard is a member of the cat family and it’s the third largest member. It lives in Africa (south of the Sahara desert) and in Asia. The leopard could see perfectly in the night. Leopards also have an excellent sense of hearing. Characteristics of the Leopard The leopard is a member of the cat family. Leopards are really good hunters. Leopards are good stalkers. Leopards can move so…
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! Happy Holidays not trying to be a downer but I feel some of this is useless info: eg: latin roots? really? some of it probably is, feel free to highlight what you feel is irrelevant Shouldn’t this be a study guide and not notes? Condense I think everyone should be able to edit it now. Please contribute if you can! Byzantium Early Byzantine Art: contemporary decoration influenced by interaction between christianity and asian/ middle east Historians refer to…
