1989

During the year of 1989, there was a press conference discussing the new travel regulations issued by the government to show an easier way to travel from the West Berlin through the Berlin Wall. Schabowski had received a copy of the regulations and hadn’t read them carefully. One reported asked when East German citizens could begin to take advantage of these new travel rules and a response from Schabowski stated ‘from now.’ In the evening, Reuters incorrectly reported that East German citizens…

Source Article Experiment #6, Baby Boredom, is based on a longitudinal study conducted by Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda and Marc H. Bornstein (1989). In this study, the experimenters wanted to determine whether infants’ habituation and mothers’ encouragement of attention at 5-months had any effect on language comprehension, pretense play, and representational competence at 13-months. The experimenters collected a sample of 37 infant-mother pairs (19 male, 18 female infants) from private pediatric…

Mystery Book definition/examples: “‘The best things cannot be said”’ (Pearce, 1989, p. 84). “One aspect of the experience of mystery is an awareness of the open-endedness of the world” (Pearce, 1989, p. 84). “Evens and objects do not come ‘prepackaged’ with their own interpretation, and they are not incorporated into the human world until they are interpreted. Further, interpretation is an act by an interpreter, not an attribute of the event or object interpreted; as a result, there is no…

We Didn’t Start The Fire was one of the most powerful songs in 1989, written by no other than Billy Joel. The number one hit mentions some famous events between the years of 1949 and 1989. In 1949 was when the singer was born and in 1989 was when the song was released. We Didn’t Start The Fire was nominated for record of the year at the Grammy Awards and was also number one in the United States at that time. But that’s not all the song was noticed for. The hit was known for it’s strong message…

him to do so. When he felt his veins bursting through his skin he “couldn’t stand it any longer, and took another step forward” (Camus, 1989) while briefly thinking that he was making a foolish move. Later in the novel during the trial, the Judge wanted to know Meursault’s motives of his crime, and Meursault tried to explain that it was because of the sun (Camus, 1989); the sun gave Meursault the impulse to pull…

Analyzing Velleman and Moran’s Thoughts According to Velleman (1989), there exists a kind of belief through which people can create the truth. The philosopher argues that choice aims at the truth, and belief is controlled by the objective of perceiving something as factual only if it is factual. On the other hand, assuming and imagining involves accepting a suggestion hypothetically without the objective of getting the truth. Further, Velleman (1989) argues that resolving a question in the mind…

According to (Gelso, 2006), a theory is a statement of some expectation whether factual or assumed that exists between two or more variables. Even though theories vary in levels of abstraction, the goal for researchers should be to make them explicit so that they can be empirically tested for validity. A theory should go beyond the propositional level and further explain why variables relate to one another (Gelso, 2006). Theories serve certain functions and those are descriptive function,…

did not cry, neither did he wish to talk anymore……he rose and headed home instead of the school.” (Carver, 1989, p. 48) When he journey home, he narrated the story to his mother, while sitting together with his mom on the sofa with his hand on her mother’s lap, he went into a shock,…

China 's economy in 1989 was booming and was linked to the world economy. This brought in foreign capital and technology and as a result, China achieved some of the world 's highest rates of growth and standards of living for many Chinese, some doubling in ten years. These…

The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 marked a significant time in Chinese history. On April 15th, students from Beijing University gathered in Tiananmen Square to mark the death of Chinese leader Hu Yaobang. The students protested and demonstrated for reform against corruption and inflation, asking that the government listen to their ideas. Several members of the Chinese government, including Deng Xiaoping (current leader of China), assumed that the protesters were attempting to overthrow the…