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Get the Summary of William Strauss and Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning in 20-minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five-hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras, or "turnings",...
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#1 Weyrich was a behind-the-scenes man who had helped build the conservative movement. But in 1990, he gave a speech at an Ethics and Public Policy Conference where he explained to the conservative foot soldiers that they had spent so much time repeating the myth that they originated from backlash to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, that they had come to believe it themselves.
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Pourquoi. les messages qui nous plaisent nous plaisent-ils ? Derrière cette question simple se cache l'un des plus vieux problèmes théoriques de la communication, mais aussi l'un des plus importants dans le bouillonnement contemporain des contenus culturels, politiques, médiatiques et distractifs. Cett. recherche s'attaque à ce défi sous un angle nouveau, au moyen d'une approche interdisciplinaire et expose de façon très stimulante les ressorts...
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#1 Police will lie to you. Do not talk to them. If you do, you are waiving your Fifth Amendment rights. I'm not talking about the innocent mistake of saying yes to a request from law enforcement when you really didn't mean to. I'm talking about the deliberate execution of a Fifth Amendment right by accident. If you are in the back seat of your car, and law enforcement...
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#1 Rosie was going to be bringing a very important man to Cottisbourne. She was bringing a major-general, no less! She was sure he wouldn't be scared of ghosts.
#2 Nancy went ghost hunting, and she was excited to see what she would find. She was driving to London, and she was accompanied by a smile from Rosie.
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#1 The courtroom was solemn, and the judges' attention was focused on the suffering stories they heard. They were not theatrical, and their conduct was natural.
#2 The trial was not a show trial, and Judge Landau, who presided over it, did his best to prevent it from becoming one. The proceedings happened on a stage before an audience, with the usher's marvelous shout...
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#1 The DeploraBall was a party and a media spectacle. It was a mix of both fans and media crews. Fairbanks was dressed not for the people in the room but for the fans at home.
#2 The DeploraBall was an independent pre-inauguration party hosted by and for the internet trolls and ultranationalists who had memed Donald Trump into the White House. The event took place at...
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#1 On June 30, 1939, a major art auction took place at the Grand Hotel National in the Swiss resort town of Lucerne. The objects had been exhibited for some weeks before in Zurich and Lucerne, and a large international group of buyers had gathered.
#2 The auction of German art was a disaster. It did not bring in nearly as much money as was hoped, and the museums did...
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SOUTH CENTRAL L.A. CRIPS is the story of why nearly 10,000 people were destined to get killed, during the 1970's, 80's and 90's in a social explosion that began in L.A. then spread across this nation and, indeed, the world.
This is the story of O.G. Jimmie Black (aka O.G. Bobby Johnson in the movie), who evolves during those explosive years in South Central L.A. from the Watts Rebellion (1965) to just prior to the days that sparked the L.A. Uprising...
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#1 The word quantum is evocative, bewildering, and fascinating. It is a testament to the success of science, but it is also a symbol of the limited scope of human intuition as we struggle with the inescapable strangeness of the subatomic domain.
#2 The world around us is made up of atoms, and the more we understand about the elemental nature of the world, the simpler...
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#1 Trump, despite being unschooled in genetic mutation and viral transmission, still decided that the COVID-19 virus was not a big deal. As a result, America took totally inadequate protective measures, and became widely infected with the virus.
#2 The first known victim of the coronavirus was a Chicago woman who had traveled to Wuhan and become ill after returning...
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Get the Summary of Edward Bernays' Propaganda in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed the "engineering of consent". During World War I, he was an integral part of the US Committee...
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#1 The threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party affects the right of all to live without fear. As Beijing is emboldened by the feebleness of resistance, its tactics of coercion and intimidation are being used against an increasingly broad spectrum of people.
#2 The distinction between the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese people is important to understand that the...
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#1 The Chinese government knew that the virus was going to be released, but they used it to their advantage, mass producing many of the supplies that the West desperately needed, and spreading disinformation about their own country's effectiveness.
#2 The Chinese government, under the leadership of the Communist Party, used a stealth war strategy to spread the...
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#1 I was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, a suburb of Orlando. I grew up with two loving parents, but we didn't have a particularly stable home life. My parents' choices in men weren't the best. When I was four, my mother met a man named Mike who was visiting from Colorado. Their connection was so strong that Mike immediately made the pitch for my mother to visit him...
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#1 The men were Sikhs, and they were waiting for the Karachi-bound train. The train was carrying Muslim clerks and officials to Pakistan's capital, Karachi.
#2 The creation of Pakistan, which was to be a homeland for the Muslims who lived in India, seemed like a curse to the Sikhs living near the canal. The new country would pass right by their village.
#3 The fight...
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This book is written for the world of students. These students are transforming their social thought into helpful living. In this book, any seriously-minded person should find a fundamental background for understanding the central theme of human progress, a substantial basis for attacking the most important problems of the day, and a call to renew his faith in the soundness of human aspirations. In as much as this treatise is written for students,...
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#1 We were up against some tough terror. We couldn't pity people. We had to work quietly, like the Abolitionists in the South during the Civil War, behind drawn shades and locked doors.
#2 The South was a new frontier for Communists eager to get on with the task of revolution. They brought with them the cultural and ideological baggage of a Northern, urban-based movement,...
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