... question of the decline of American power and the damage to pride associated with it, inseparable in America from the question of American virtue and its fate The problem of power and virtue There ... balancing of tough realism on the one hand, and idealism on the other Of our understanding of the world as it is, and as it ought to be The question, I think, is whether in recent years we have ... started there), but that Americans were as capable of being bad as any other people in the world Carter did not repudiate the myth of American virtue and the American mission, but rather tried...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
... to the Cold War and the actions of previous presidents in the light of it The pivotal moral, political and symbolical role of the presidency made it the natural focus of the crisis of faith and ... remark of one senior American commander engaged in ‘‘resettling’’ peasants to deny the sanctuary of their villages to the Viet Cong – ‘‘Grab ’em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow’’ ... taking to the streets in protest The virulence and anger of the antiwar protests revealed the depth of betrayal and disappointment felt by youth reared on the American myth, who had imbibed the rhetoric...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
Moral capital and the American presidency - Denouement
... Arkansas to gain the highest 244 Moral capital and the American presidency oYce in the land at the age of forty-eight He was the Wrst baby-boomer president, and the Wrst to be elected in the post-Cold ... of their leaders provided they receive enough from them If so, then what might on the surface have seemed the nadir of the American presidency in the twentieth century, the seedy, squalid, rather ... Leadership and the Perils of Moderation (New York, Charles Scribner’s, 1999) 2 46 Moral capital and the American presidency as the resounding failure of his key health care policy and the furore...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
Great Britain and the American Civil War docx
... 18 46, might join the United States and thus swell the Northern and free states of the Union Cotton interests and trade became the dominant British commercial tie with the United States, and the ... until the end of the Napoleonic Wars [6] There were other, possibly greater, causes of the War of 1812, most of them arising out of the conflicting interests of the chief maritime neutral and the ... to the North, but not hitherto advanced In these first issues of the Reviews for 1 861 , there was frequently put forth the "Southern gentlemen" theory "At a distance of three thousand miles, the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20
Living Through the Hoop High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream ppt
... them the importance of teamwork on the court They would reveal to me both the simple and profound ways that race and inequality influence how they lived and how they played I would show them the ... the girls’ parents when I was a coach of the girls’ basketball team Since both 24 A Look Through the Hoop boys’ and girls’ parents formed the basketball booster club, the complaint from the girls’ ... their use of context to understand their life chances and opportunities for social mobility In chapter 7, The Dirty Trick,” I tie the book’s implicit and explicit themes together to reveal the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo " Criticizing behaviors by the Vietnamese and the American: topics, social factors and frequency " docx
... are the most important factors, whereas to the Americans the setting of the criticism, the distance between themselves and the H, and effect of criticism on the relationship between themselves and ... behavior First, the Vietnamese and the American differ in the ranking of factors affecting their criticizing behaviors To the Vietnamese, the goal of criticizing, the age of the H, and the severity ... important It comes fifth in the scale The purpose of the criticism and the status of the H come sixth and seventh respectively and, like with the Vietnamese, gender of the H considered as the least...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 11:20
Playing for Their Nation Baseball and the American Military during World War II pptx
... existence depended upon the popularity and the continuation of professional baseball, The Sporting News stressed the importance of the game to the fabric of American society and the integral role baseball ... By the spring of 1942, with the Pearl Harbor attack still fresh in the memories of Americans, the Japanese had already overwhelmed Allied strongholds in the Philippines and other Pacific islands ... that he and the other players “played as hard over there as [we] played here” and on remarkably well-maintained fields considering the situation.87 In the European theater, the lateness of the Allied...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 10:21
storming heaven lsd and the american dream
... activists and the love generation of the HaightAshbury and thousands of young men and women from every state of the nation embrace at the gathering of the tribes for a Human Be-In at the Polo ... Starting in the late Twenties (and ending only with their deaths) the two polymaths embarked on a grand tour of the esoteric They chanted and meditated, they counted breaths and tried to shed their ... in 19 46, when he won the three-thousand-dollar Ellery Queen Prize for a futuristic whodunit called The President of the United States, Detective They wrote and they waited; and then in early...
Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 02:02
goddess of the market ayn rand and the american right oct 2009
... they packed up their few possessions and set out on the long drive to New York By the time they arrived the young couple was nearly destitute Rand had drained her savings to write and spent the ... to donate $50 to the neediest girl in the club, and Miss Williams picked out Ayn Ayn thanked them for the money and then went right out and bought a set of black lingerie.”31 Rand’s financial problems ... De Mille, and plans for the movie.42 The screenwriting job was far more lucrative than working in the wardrobe department, and by the end of the year Rand was flush enough to quit work and begin...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 23:18
yale university press into the black jpl and the american space program 1976-2004 nov 2006
... past the countercultural rebellion of the 1 960 s and the Vietnam War into the thaw of the 1970s and then to the renewed chill that started in the late 1970s and lasted into the 1980s For the space ... the post-Apollo drawdown and then the remilitarization of space that culminated in the Strategic Defense Initiative And then there is that central event of the last half century, the end of the ... engineers and their relation to scientists and managers .6 The title has two other connotations that represent primary themes of this history The first is the relation between the civil space program and...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:49
the bank of the united states and the american economy (1999)
... Robert Morris, p 67 60 Ibid., p 68 61 Ibid., p 66 62 Ibid 63 Ibid., p 86 64 Jensen, The New Nation, p 63 The Bank ofthe United States 18 65 (New 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Ibid., pp 63 , 228; Harold ... Alexander Hamilton and the First Bank ofthe United States 19 The Period between the First and Second Banks 37 The Creation of the Second Bank of the United States 49 The Second Bank and the Panic ... have the specie, they would have to suspend their operations On the other hand, if the First Bank wanted to ease credit and expand the money supply, it delayed the return ofthe notes to the state...
Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 17:19
The triumph of tagalog and the dominance of the discourse on english language politics in the philippines during the american colonial period 6
... one’s language and inevitably one’s nation: the mother and the child The use of the image of the mother (ina) to refer to the nation (Inang Bayan), the language (Inang Wika) and the race or heritage ... see, from their writing and their lives, the attempt to follow in the steps of the writers of the Propaganda Movement and of the Katipunan .and each writer during this time did not avoid the duty ... time, the Tagalog speakers and the journalist in the Tagalog language came out and were used to introduce to the nation the goodness of the new regime, the evil of the previous rulers, the new...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:13
3341 at the bank vocabulary comprehension and grammar american money bank can 6 tasks 2 pages editable
... close the window? ( ) ) ) ) Can your kids go with me to the park this afternoon, Amanda? ( Can you walk the dog for me, please? ( Can I help you out in the kitchen? ( ) ) Can you take the garbage ... The teller gave the client two hundred dollars ( ) The teller also gave the client some coins to use when riding the bus ( ) ... use the pay phone ( ) The second client wanted to cash a check ( ) The maximum amount they cash travelers’ checks at the...
Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 19:22
Cambridge.University.Press.The.American.Puritan.Elegy.A.Literary.and.Cultural.Study.Jun.2000.pdf
... Weldon Hammond and Evan Ronald Hammond The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused ... approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England – the funeral elegy Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological, and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded ... caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00
The fall and rise of the American petty bourgeoisie
... at the decomposition of these effects on self-employment, the picture becomes somewhat more complex In both the 1970s and the 1980s, the detailed sectors of the economy within which there was the ... 40% at the end of the nineteenth century to about 20% in the 1940s and to under 10% in the early 1970s; from 1973 to 19 76 the self-employment rate was basically stable, but since then there has ... in self-employment Given the relative economic stagnation in the American economy from the early 1970s into the 1980s, it might be the case that the apparent reversal of the long-term trend in...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
Tài liệu Golf and the game of leadership 6 ppt
... removed and for the refrigerator to be lifted in through the window frame by a huge crane At the end of the convention, the president simply left the unit in the hotel and went home Everyone in the ... end of the round they had signed for what were in effect their playing partner’s scores, not their own When they turned the cards in to the Royal and Ancient official scorers at the end of the round, ... having detected the error when they reviewed the scorecards with the players A special committee considered the possibility of waiving the rule and allowing Roe and Parnevik to play the fourth round,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW ppt
... legislation and the police The ideal of the one is the good Samaritan, the ideal of the other is the tax-collector The one depends upon the wine and oil of sympathy and human brotherhood; the other ... Germany, Scotland, and Spain The same spirit and vigor that roamed the coasts all the way from Sweden and Norway to the mouth of the Thames, and to the Rhine, the Seine, and to the Straits of ... stormy and the country needed a strong ruler The Hungarians in the southeast, and the Wends, the old Slavonic population of Poland, were pillaging and harrying more and more successfully, and the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Complete subunit sequences, structure and evolution of the 6 · 6-mer hemocyanin from the common house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata pptx
... AJ512793 AJ431379 AJ344 360 AJ431378 AJ297738 2258 2283 22 36 2271 2209 2082 65 6 65 9 67 3 66 8 68 5 65 3 74.44 73.93 75.91 74.75 77.74 73.74 5.44 5.57 5 .68 6. 18 5.79 6. 16 0 .66 0.92 1.07 0.89 1.89 1.13 ... SDS/PAGE and in 2D PAGE (Figs and 2; Table 1) The N-terminal amino acid sequences (see above) allow the assignment of the HcA clone to the major sequence of the upper hemocyanin band in the SDS/PAGE ... comparison with other arthropod hemocyanins, the cDNAs cover the complete coding regions for the four hemocyanin subunits and HcX, plus 6 45 bp of the respective 5¢ untranslated regions and the entire...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
Trial and Error: J. Marion Sims and the Birth of Modern Gynecology in the American South docx
... throughout the world He standardized and patented the duckbilled speculum and silver sutures, and combined these tools with the position that he ‘discovered,’ which enabled him to view the pelvis ... operated on these women privately and anesthetized them before their operations, using sterile instruments He found that white women were “unable to withstand the operation without anesthesia, and throughout ... fistula.1 These are small tears inside the vagina, causing urinary incontinence and pelvic discomfort; if these lesions are left untreated, they can spread to the bladder, cervix, and uterus.2 These...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20
Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America docx
... determine the level of necessary 22 • • • • • • MMWR financial support from the federal government needed to control and prevent TB in the United States National reporting, surveillance, and analysis ... processes, and outcomes (215) Among these four components, structural capacity (i.e., persons who the work of public health, their skills and capacities, the places where they work, the way they are ... organized, the equipment and systems available to them, and the fiscal resources they command) represents the public health infrastructure for TB control The responsibility for TB control and prevention...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20