Globalization. Global Issues. GLOBAL DIALOG. Better World... The British dream: multiculturalism - Times Online. A Photo Essay on the Great Depression. World War I veterans block the steps of the Capital during the Bonus March, July 5, 1932 (Underwood and Underwood). In the summer of 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, World War I veterans seeking early payment of a bonus scheduled for 1945 assembled in Washington to pressure Congress and the White House.
Hoover resisted the demand for an early bonus. Veterans benefits took up 25% of the 1932 federal budget. Even so, as the Bonus Expeditionary Force swelled to 60,000 men, the president secretly ordered that its members be given tents, cots, army rations and medical care. In July, the Senate rejected the bonus 62 to 18. Most of the protesters went home, aided by Hoover's offer of free passage on the rails. The American Dream. Martin Luther King. My Science Fiction Life - Dystopias.
I hate the world and want to go home: the dystopia, British science fiction’s cautionary tale. Before we all start worrying too much about living in a nanny state, under constant CCTV surveillance, threatened by terrorism at every turn and bombarded by an ever-more-invasive media, it should be noted that things stand to get a lot, lot worse. Or at least they do in the imaginings of the great British dystopian writers and filmmakers of the past century: HG Wells, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess all revelled in projecting their fears for the future of society onto the pages of their classic novels: The Time Machine (1895), Brave New World (1932), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) and A Clockwork Orange (1962).
Filmmakers Ridley Scott and Terry Gilliam (honorary Brit) had a similar coruscating effect in the world of cinema with Blade Runner (1982) and Brazil (1985). Science fiction’s deepest roots lie in the great utopian writers, from Plato to Thomas Moore. Answering Globalization with Global Learning. That question aptly set the stage for a two-day conference on “Developing Global Competencies in Higher Education,” held at Fairleigh Dickinson’s College at Florham April 4 and 5. Designed to foster a dialogue among educators about global education and global citizenship, the program was sponsored by the University’s Office of Interdisciplinary, Distributed and Global Learning and the Internationalization Collaborative of the American Council on Education (ACE) — and supported by a grant from the AT&T Foundation.
Speakers included Adams, current and former United Nations ambassadors; a sociology professor who has written two books on globalization; a leading international advocate from ACE; a veteran study-abroad administrator; key members of FDU’s global education efforts, particularly faculty involved in using technology to bring the world to the classroom; and members of the University’s innovative Global Virtual Faculty program. A Need for Global Citizenship Defining the Skills. 2013AbiOberberg - home. Shakespeare's World. Shakespeare Independent Study.