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Suffering
SUFFERING Suffering is the result of a feeling of alienation and insurmountable ambivalence; being a defensive attitude, its aim is the reduction of anxiety. When Sigmund Freud asserts in Civilization and Its Discontents (1930a) that "the three sources from which our suffering comes" are "our own... Read more |
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George Jackson
George Jackson 1941family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">–1971 Author, political activist Enjoyed... Read more |
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soliloquy
soliloquy the speech by a character in a literary composition, usually a play, delivered while the speaker is either alone addressing the audience directly or the other actors are silent. It is most commonly used to reveal the innermost concerns or thoughts of the speaker, thus pointing up the... Read more |
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Nathaniel Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon 1647-76, leader of Bacon's Rebellion in colonial Virginia. An aristocrat (he was kin to Francis Bacon, had been educated at Cambridge and Gray's Inn, and was a member of the governor's council), Bacon nevertheless became the champion of the discontented frontiersmen after only two... Read more |
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Bernard Bosanquet
Bernard Bosanquet , 1848-1923, English philosopher, educated at Oxford. He lectured there (1871-81) and at St. Andrews (1903-8). His major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The Philosophical Theory of the State (1899), and The Value and Destiny of the Individual (1913). They... Read more |
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Cassivellaunus
Cassivellaunus , fl. 54 BC, British chieftain, a leader in the resistance against the invasion of Julius Caesar in 54 BC Caesar crossed the Thames River into Cassivellaunus's home country. Aided by discontented British tribes, he attacked Cassivellaunus in his strong fort in the marshes (probably at... Read more |
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Emelian Ivanovich Pugachev
Pugachev, Emelian Ivanovich (1726–75) COSSACK and leader of a massive popular uprising in 1773–74 against the rule of CATHERINE II (the Great) of Russia. Deserting the army, he won the support of discontented serfs, cossacks, miners, and such recently conquered peoples as the Bashkirs... Read more |
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Fletcher Christian
Christian, Fletcher (1764–93?), a Cumberland man of Manx origin, who was launched on a sea profession by William Bligh and promoted by him from master's mate to acting lieutenant in the Bounty for her voyage to Tahiti in 1788. Relations between the two deteriorated, however, and after a... Read more |
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Liberal Republican Party
Liberal Republican party in U.S. history, organization formed in 1872 by Republicans discontented at the political corruption and the policies of President Grant's first administration. Other disaffected elements were drawn into the party. Among its leaders were Carl Schurz and B. Gratz Brown ,... Read more |
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Algeria
...Algiers has a Mediterranean climate: summers are warm and dry, and winters are mild...tend to have colder winters and warmer summers. The annual rainfall is less than 200mm...day but becomes cool at night. In the summer, the sirocco blows from the Sahara...domination of the ... |
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Richard II
...possibly novel, concepts of the nature of monarchy. In the summer of 1387 he asked the justices questions about the constitutional...opposition to Richard between 1388 and 1397, although from 1393 discontent began to develop once again, partly as a result of hostility... |
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Iran
...susceptible to earthquakes.Climate and VegetationIran has hot summers and cold winters. There are wide regional variations in climate...ownership and extending the franchise to women (1963). Discontent surfaced over increasing westernization and economic inequality... |
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Richard III, King
...of the crown. The play begins with the deformed Richard's announcement: ‘Now is the winter of our discontent | Made glorious summer by this sun of York’, that is the king, Edward IV, who is dying. Richard is determined that he shall... |
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China, Peoples Republic of
...time, the neglect of agricultural investment had produced some discontent among the peasants, who were, after all, the social and ideological...into the WTO in 2001, and its commission to host the 2008 Olympic Summer Games. In 20 |
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'Summer of discontent' simmers markets.
...holiday in the U.S.--the "unofficial" close of summer to most Americans. On the West Coast, it's been a summer of discontent in the region's gasoline-driven market--a summer when many normal seasonal patterns went awry. Looking... |
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[Summer of discontent, seasons of upheaval: elite politics & rural...
...model of high-quality collaborative work. In Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval the authors set for themselves...states. The first half of the book deals with the "summer of discontent," essentially politically-informed social history... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Countryside Alliance promises `summer of discontent' over proposed hunt ban
...SUPPORTERS launch plans today for a "summer of discontent" designed to save bloodsports...determined and consistent protest in a "summer of discontent". In an open letter...not at all clear the threatened `summer of ... |
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Ken Newton: Backyard bounty can help salvage this summer of discontent
...over on August, a signal that our summer of discontent draws more closely to a conclusion...entertained ourselves most of this summer by watching Feds with calculators...videotaped through gauze. The summer managed some small redemptions... |
 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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Hollywood's summer of discontent comes to a close.
...been the movie industry's summer of discontent. Domestic attendance for...is projected to lag behind summer 2004 by 12 percent, with...Saturday night? "It was a summer that will be remembered for...opening weekend crowds in summers past but ... |
 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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View points: Summer of discontent?(Letters)
...New Labour. Is their aim for a summer of discontent? Have they not learned from recent...history that the 1978/9 Winter of Discontent ultimately led to 18 years of...forgive the trade unions if a summer of discontent is their sole aim... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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Summer of discontent may not be seasonal
...President Bush has survived summers of discontent before. But this season...president also had a difficult summer in 2002 when he began selling...another returned from that summer's recess reporting, in...liability. This time, the discontent ... |
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Our summer of discontent lacks a defining moment
...Friday afternoons during the summer months. Compared with the other seasons, summer seems easier, brighter...oil. Of course, there were summers that were dark and fraught...There was that terrible summer after Martin Luther King and...This is the ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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FILMS' SUMMER OF DISCONTENT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
...the season of Hollywood's discontent -- too many films, not enough patrons. Summer is traditionally the time...But in Tinseltown terms, summer '97 is shaping up to be...playing through much of the summer,'' says Jill Krutick... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Summer of discontent; South Korea.(South Korea's summer of discontent)(Lee...
...Grand National Party confess they are worried about rising public discontent. Dong A, a conservative newspaper, marked Mr Lee's 100 days in office with a picture of summer storm-clouds louring over the Blue House, the office and residence... |
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