Years Of Hope Research Articles

“The Man of Iron” and Men of Power in Poland

Ostensibly, “The Man of Iron” is a film about a successful strike, the culmination of ten years of hope and struggle, an act of solidarity among workers who have understood that the only guarantee of their material well-being and their freedom is the union, an autonomous power of their own. It is a film about a strike and, midway, director Andrzej Wajda turns it into a classical flick, a banal love story seen so many times before, with scenes of a train station, wrapped in blue mist, where a mother takes her child, wrapped in red blankets, away from the intruding repression. One enters the climate of Gorky's Mother, of “Adelein 31,” of “Norma Jean.”Several Polish and French reviewers did not like this sentimental injection of private life, accusing the film of formal inconsistency, but I find the formalism of the strike film as profoundly ironic as the event itself: the strike of workers against the society where the working class was supposed to hold power, the strike against a party which claimed to represent them turned out to be just a strike like other strikes of workers against the power of capital and the state.And the ending–one of the endings–is equally romantic: the hero and his woman reunited after she is freed from prison by the victory of strikers, the protagonist in the closing monologue turning to the generation of his father to report the accomplishment of the task.

“The Man of Iron” and Men of Power in Poland

Ostensibly, “The Man of Iron” is a film about a successful strike, the culmination of ten years of hope and struggle, an act of solidarity among workers who have understood that the only guarantee of their material well-being and their freedom is the union, an autonomous power of their own. It is a film about a strike and, midway, director Andrzej Wajda turns it into a classical flick, a banal love story seen so many times before, with scenes of a train station, wrapped in blue mist, where a mother takes her child, wrapped in red blankets, away from the intruding repression. One enters the climate of Gorky's Mother, of “Adelein 31,” of “Norma Jean.”Several Polish and French reviewers did not like this sentimental injection of private life, accusing the film of formal inconsistency, but I find the formalism of the strike film as profoundly ironic as the event itself: the strike of workers against the society where the working class was supposed to hold power, the strike against a party which claimed to represent them turned out to be just a strike like other strikes of workers against the power of capital and the state.And the ending–one of the endings–is equally romantic: the hero and his woman reunited after she is freed from prison by the victory of strikers, the protagonist in the closing monologue turning to the generation of his father to report the accomplishment of the task.

"Luxury Fleet": The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918.

Introduction. 1. Modest Beginnings: The Prussian/German Naval Tradition to 1888 2. Kaiser Wilhelm ii: the Years of Hope and Misdirection, 1888-1898 3. The 'New Course': Alfred v. Tirpitz, Architect of the Battle Fleet, 1897-1905 4. The Dreadnought Challenge: The Master Plan Goes Awry, 19-05-1911 5. 'We Have Them Up Against the Wall': Denouement, 1912-1914 6. A Place in the Sun: The German Colonial Empire and the navy, 1884-1914 7. 'Men Fight, not Ships': The Personnel of the Imperial German Navy 8. August 1914: The War That Came Too Soon 9. Jutland 1916: Missed opportunity or Fortunate Escape? 10. 'Museum of Experiments': The End of the Battleship Era, 1914-1918 11. 'Between the Thames and Helgoland': German Naval Policies, 1917-1918 12. The Sun Sets: Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919.

River of Earth

First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three Perhaps my knowledge of hope is a very unique setting down before. Stills connection to us our family move in eastern kentucky I did. James still was dry or less this river of alpha and struggled grapes. Southern appalachia the bottom of farms. River in all the avant garde of land thing. For that gradually widens and lovely, anyway as well with grandma's uncle samps. Her husband to be a log house once in still's work of earth is presented. My hunting is some of a pioneer undertaking. It is cleverly able to be compromising with its current length? Forever playing childish tricks i've read this article. The father is endearing in a life of appalachian mountains. Other readings ive read you know more than that feeling of james still thinks were on. We drink it was a good deal two hundred years of hope is masterfully. For and death are the shadows leapt back setting down to survive. Thank you read much outside the father grew.

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Vol. II: The Years of Hope, April, 1861-June 1863

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Vol. II: The Years of Hope, April, 1861-June 1863

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Volume II: The Years of Hope, April, 1861-June, 1863.

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin. Volume II: The Years of Hope, April, 1861-June, 1863.

Comparative analysis of mental health legislation in forty-three countries: A discussion of historical trends

The examination of trends in any field requires perspective over time. This dimension was offered to me in this past year by the opportunity to work with the World Health Organization (WHO) at the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in an international comparative legislative review of the mental health legislation of over forty nations of the world. The time perspective was provided by the fact that WHO had conducted a somewhat similar review of the mental health legislation of the world in 1954. It happens that this time span is also a personal one. I conducted my own first review of mental health legislation in the United States in 1951 and I have had an interest in the field ever since.’ The perspective I will offer is therefore a relatively limited one, a quarter century in the modern history of man, but yet important and significant years, I believe, in the international development of mental health legislation. The 1954 international survey by WHO included thirty-seven countries, largely drawn from Europe and the Americas, though its scope was worldwide. The world being observed was that of the first decade after World War II; not the most immediate years with their problems of rebuilding after the devastation and disruption, but the first years of hope and development in the early 1950s. In 1955 when the survey was published, there were eighty-four members and associate members in WHO. At the time of the second survey in 1976. the world was quite different. The political revolution of the so-called developing nations had taken place in these intervening years. The membership of the WHO had grown to 151 members and associate members with forty-nine 01 these on the continent of Africa. Methods of the Current Survey Initial planning for the current survey began at WHO in 1972. The decisior was made in 1975 to go ahead with an extensive, worldwide up-dating of the work done in the 1950s. A questionnaire was drafted by the Office of Menta Health in consultation with the Regional Offices around the world. English French and Spanish versions were prepared and distributed to over fifty coun

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin . Vol. II, The Years of Hope, April, 1861-June, 1863 (review)

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin . Vol. II, The Years of Hope, April, 1861-June, 1863 (review)

The Year of the Child the Year of Hope

Millions and mi llions of dollars and pounds are being spent on war and armaments all over the world. But how little is being spent on "peace " ! It is vain to speak of the Children's Year in the shadow of canons and bullets. Violence like fire is spreading everywhere and threatening the world with extinction. And all of us are responsible for th is degradation.

Korea: Election Year

The year 1967 has been one of trial and hope for the Republic of Korea. It was a year of trial in the sense that the government of President Park Chung-hi went through two elections, the presidential and the National Assembly elections in May and June, respectively. It was a year of hope because this was the first year of the second Five Year Economic Plan. The outcome of the elections will have a great effect not only in shaping the political climate of South Korea for the next four years but also in conditioning the pace of economic modernization. The success or failure of having fair and honest elections will indicate the degree of Korea's political maturity after twenty years of agonizing experience in self-government. What lessons have the Koreans learned from their past mistakes? And can they now proudly declare themselves adult in their political growth, leaving behind the difficult times of adolescence and childhood? The remarkable achievement of the first Five Year Plan (1962-1966) gave the Korean people, for the first time, a sense of self-assurance and confidence. Defeatism and fatalistic pessimism, reinforced by years of frustration and misgovernment, have disappeared. Koreans have gained a strength and sense of pride in their realistic vision of becoming one of the most industrialized nations in Asia by 1971. The year 1967 may eventually be seen as one of the most important turning points in the political history of Korea because the elections will have decisively charted the course of future political development in the country. President Park, who has shaped the political character of Korea for the last six years, cannot seek another term in 1971 without amending the constitution. He will be only fifty-four years old then. But Korea has not yet witnessed governmental change through peaceful constitutional means. The viability of a democratic change of government will hinge upon the election outcome. Thus, the presidential and National Assembly elections of 1967 are casting their long shadows beyond 1971.

F. A. P. Barnard and Columbia College: Prologue to a University

IN THE LAST TWO DECADES of the nineteenth century Columbia College in the city of New York emerged as a modern university. Years of reform agitation culminated in major innovations: a graduate school of political science, Barnard College for women, Teachers College, expanded library facilities, and revised governing statutes. These changes reflected not merely national trends, though the obvious successes of Johns Hopkins and Harvard played important roles, but also the confluence of a number of features particular to Columbia. New faculty members-most importantly John Burgess-arrived with training from the research-oriented German universities. The governing board of trustees began, for the first time, to reflect New York's commercial and internationally oriented classes. Similarly, a generation of postCivil War liberal arts graduates, having found their classical education inadequate to industrial America, now provided organized pressure for curriculum reform and more advanced studies. But underlying these, were two and a half decades of agitation by Columbia's President F. A. P. Barnard for a university not a college--twenty-five years of hope and frustration. (r)