... To the East blows the wind! Other new songs hit all ofthe themes ofthe mindscape ofthe East which grew out ofthe eastern front-experience ofthe First World War: In the East Wind Raise the ... yielded the central lesson ofthe experience of war in the East The imperative ofthe future had to be: leave out the peoples and take the spaces The Xaw in the project of German Work in the East ... triumphof Raum 265 But the true triumphofthe idea of Raum came with the advent ofthe Second World War in 1939, which fused the ideological concepts of war, space and race, and the East The Nazi...
... America— "the climate, the soil, the length ofthe day, the wants ofthe people, the habit and form ofthe government"—in short, to make the present facts of American life as important a source of inspiration ... them to the material of personality On the other hand, their ability to shape themselves to the needs of their audiences reflected a new kind of public, consensual process in the creation ofthe ... Antecedents of American Silent Film 21 Houdini, Keaton, and the Rise ofthe Body 43 Hart, Fairbanks, and the Vitalization of Landscape 71 Griffith, Gish, and the Narrative ofthe Face 107 The Birth of the...
... Wills contest the manipulation ofthe policy to mask the real reason for the occupation which, they argue, was the pursuit of profit For these two, the concern is not the idea of Benevolent Assimilation ... the “hierarchy of languages”162 in contemporary Philippines At present, English occupies the top ofthe hierarchy as it is the language of higher education, the language ofthe professions, the ... The examples, symptomatic of how the Americans envisioned their enlightenment, refer to the ideas ofthe equality ofthe races (the Civil War) and ofthe separation of church and state (Westphalia)...
... This is, of course, in contrast to the “good intentions ofthe United States and the serious purpose ofthe administration to benefit and advance the inhabitants [of the Philippines].260 These good ... the weakening ofthe power ofthe elite and the creation of a class of independent, literature peasant proprietors.”263 This is evident in the master plan that lays out in the 1904 report: the ... clear proof ofthe sentiments ofthe Filipino people for independence and an indication also of their sentiments about the American colonial government and their policies On the issue of English...
... in the revolution and in the context of their other anti-colonial agitations at the time, are the irrefutable evidence ofthe longevity and continuity ofthe cultural and linguistic ideals ofthe ... mention the fusionist option 348 Ibid 345 126 The acknowledgement ofthe role ofthe revolution in establishing the idea of a single nation and the idea of Tagalog as the language that binds the ... language of all our dialects The author of another essay which discusses the logic ofthe American officials for using throughout the Philippines, schoolbooks written in English The author of the...
... nation: the mother and the child The use ofthe image ofthe mother (ina) to refer to the nation (Inang Bayan), the language (Inang Wika) and the race or heritage (Inang Lahi), common in the Tagalog ... what the principal source of their writing was .it was clear to see, from their writing and their lives, the attempt to follow in the steps ofthe writers ofthe Propaganda Movement and ofthe ... The supposed authority ofthe United States began with the Treaty of Paris, on the tenth of December, 1898 The authority ofthe central government of Malolos is founded on the sacred bond of...
... into the epistemic formations that were the result of, among other things, the experience of colonialism The experience ofthe nation is an experience of struggle, ofthe threat of annihilation of ... in the essays of Rodriguez and Bernardo as they both reference Epifanio de los Santos who enlists the memory ofthe revolution: “If the national sentiment produced the miracle ofthe adoption of ... only for the last two ofthe eight articles An example ofthe quibbling rhetoric in this debate may be seen in the issue ofthe Philippine legislature’s support ofthe English policy In the January...
... as the only official language ofthe Philippine Islands Of course, the English language has to be the official language ofthe Philippine Islands It is out ofthe question to think of any of ... up as the apotheosis ofthe American discourse on the correctness ofthe English policy in the Philippines However, the discourse is not all that unshakeable and in some ofthe details ofthe Monroe ... and then converge again in their (Santos a little later than Quezon) acceptance of modern American ideas ofthe state, of thought, and of progress and in their acceptance ofthe transfer of the...
... provided for the sale ofthe Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam by Spain to the United States On February 4, 1899 (two days short ofthe approval ofthe U.S Senate ofthe Treaty of Paris), the Philippine-American ... declarations ofthe superiority of English and are cognizant, if not respectful ofthe local cultures and the local vernaculars and their role in the forming ofthe varieties of Englishes These perspective ... situates the struggle for language in the University ofthe Philippines within the larger context ofthe struggle within the nation Her third chapter, The Consolidation of English and the Introduction...
... would be to disarm the natives ofthe Philippine Islands, even if I have to kill half of them to it Then I would treat the rest of them with perfect justice.”66 The concept ofthe doublethink, ... complete success should have been the result ofthe well-intended efforts of Government.91 The litany ofthe lack of “well-intended efforts ofthe Government” is there, of course, to emphasize exceptional ... meaning ofthe Empire, and the relation of Burma to the Empire,” and the preparation of suitable text-books.”106 To ensure that the work ofthe Committee was to be disseminated in all schools, the...
... yielding. About half ofthe students who answered incorrectly admitted that the pressure from the other members ofthe group overwhelmed them. They thought there was a trick they did not see, or they felt pressured not to go against the group. The other half actually believed ... someone else’s answer. Nevertheless, the subjects ofthe experiment felt compelled to conform to the crowd If one views the Sherif study in the context ofthe stock market being a reflection of investor sentiment, the ... from the theory. Hypothetically, profits could be made in one of two ways: either by following the professional investors or by going the opposite way ofthe nonprofessionals Unfortunately, the first alternative offers limited hope. Professionals, because they are rela...
... dykes; the fungus killed 700,000 of them But the reason that the Netherlands became the center for research on the pandemic was the leadership of Johanna Westerdijk After all, by the end ofthe ... follow their historical appearance nor the history of their recognition by humans Instead, the book opens with the story of chestnut blight, the fungal disease that reshaped the forests ofthe eastern ... harvested to meet the demands ofthe leather industry Hemlock trees were the preferred source of tannins, but the rapid decimation of groves of this conifer in the nineteenth century led to the increasing...