Western Civ 2 12 Weeks

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Texts (8)

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Shooting an Elephant
The Significance of the Frontier
Letters to George III
Good-bye Asia
14 Points
What is to be Done?
First Inaugural Address (1933)
This Will Be the Century of the State (1932)

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Shooting an Elephant

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George Orwell
1936
Orwell describes his trip to Burma as an investigative reporter. He tries to blend into the culture by becoming a policeman. He finds out first hand how Westerners have gained control in these types of countries with their weapons and how they instill fear.

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The Significance of the Frontier

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1893
Frederick Jackson Turner
Turner describes how the American frontier, the movement of American settlers West, and the development of settlements across unchartered land of America, distinguishes Americans from all other people. He describes how the Frontier shapes Americans into a tough, adapting, and flexible people.

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Letters to George III

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Qianlong Emperor
1793
Wants British to stop trying to have open trade with China and send more Christians-- threat to Chinese culture.

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Good-bye Asia

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Fukuzawa Yukichi
1885
Fukuzawa was an interpreter on missions taken by Meiji leaders to study the world (US). He reveals his exposure to reigning social Darwinist ideas and the exent to which he had assimilated western ways of viewing the world.

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14 Points

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Woodrow Wilson
1918
Woodrow Wilson describes his plan for peace in the world and with respect to the European countries.

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What is to be Done?

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Vladimir Lenin
1902
Lenin makes his argument for socialism and a coherent, strictly controlled party of dedicated revolutionaries as a basic necessity for a revolution. Some have seen an analogy with the Jesuit Order in his proposals for an elite corps to lead the masses. One may see in Lenin's proposals a deep insight into to necessary requisites for a revolution, or a deep contempt for the working classes.
"Give us an organisation of revolutionaries, and we shall overturn the whole of Russia!"

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First Inaugural Address (1933)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDR gives hope to the American people who are suffering economically from the Great Depression. He is positive in his speech and describes his plan for action to restore the American economy.

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This Will Be the Century of the State (1932)

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Mussolini
Mussolini defines the doctrine of fascism. The people of Italy were dissatisfied economically, were politically weakened, and embarrassed on an international level. Mussolini offered a vision of the "corporate state" which would return Italy to the great nation it once was when it was the Old Empire.