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Margaret Weddle

The last war: a world set free - Google Books - 0 views

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DigiCiv atomic war Google Books

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  • Margaret Weddle on 05 Nov 10
     
    H.G.Wells' book about the atomic war to come
Katherine Chipman

First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One - 0 views

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WW1 history war

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  • Katherine Chipman on 28 Oct 10
     
    An interesting site with a lot of information about World War I. It is also fascinating because it was put together to get the information up, not necessarily to be scholarly. This goes along with what we have been talking about in class---put the information and ideas out there, even before making sure they are ready for scholarly approval.
Brandon McCloskey

What do we mean by currency wars? - 0 views

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digiciv economics

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  • The strength of currencies has become a source of tension between some of the world's biggest economies, especially the US and China. Brazil's finance minister went as far as to warn that his country would not stand idly by as international currency wars threatened its competitiveness. What was he talking about? Watch this animated guide to find out about why countries are falling out with each other because of their currencies.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 10 Nov 10
     
    A quick description of what currency wars are
Kristi Koerner

Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est - best known poem of the First World War - 0 views

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    Wilfred Owen is one of the most famous WWI poets. As a young solider he wrote of the contrast of the heroic ideals of war and the stark reality.
Kristi Koerner

SCORE: The Great War - Hall 2 - 0 views

www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/...wwivmh2.html

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  • We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields
  • Kristi Koerner on 28 Oct 10
     
    More literature of the Great War including Flander's Field, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, etc
Kristi Koerner

BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1998 | 10/98 | World War I | Letters home: Forever sweethearts - 0 views

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    Letter from the war- couples, sons to fathers, mothers to sons.
David Potter

Student voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era - 0 views

www.ashp.cuny.edu/...index.html

digiciv ; atomic

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    In this oral history website Brookyn College students narrate two historical episodes: their experiences of working on farms during World War II, and the events surrounding the suspension of the Vanguard, the student newspaper in a postwar McCarthy era climate
Gideon Burton

Games | iCivics - 1 views

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civic video games icivics education2.0

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  • Gideon Burton on 03 Nov 10
     
    Video games meet serious citizen education. Try your hand at Argument Wars (using avatars to mock argue an actual Supreme Court case from the past) or at other games / simulations oriented around each of the three branches of government.
James Wilcox

Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace | Library of Economics and Liberty - 1 views

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digiciv john keynes economics books

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  • James Wilcox on 09 Nov 10
     
    This is an interesting book... especially because it was written between two world wars.
Kevin Watson

Col. Paul Tibbets dropped first Atomic Bomb « War Tales - 0 views

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digiciv nuclear col tibbets paul war atomic bomb enola gay

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  • Kevin Watson on 11 Nov 10
     
    Great blog about Colonel Paul Tibbets who dropped the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Kristi Koerner

The Great War Society (1914-1918) - 0 views

www.the-great-war-society.org

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  • Kristi Koerner on 28 Oct 10
     
    good resource for information on WWI
Danny Patterson

The Origins of WWI - 1 views

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WWI Origins of WWI

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  • Danny Patterson on 28 Oct 10
     
    This is a two-set video explaining the origins of WWI. The first part explains the background of the situation and what's going on in Europe/Asia and then in part two it dives into the war and the multiple alliances which were obligated to get involved.
Shuan Pai

The Great War | PBS - 1 views

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world war 1 pbs

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  • Shuan Pai on 28 Oct 10
     
    I love PBS. They always have good, interesting info about whatever topic.
Katherine Chipman

Take Cover: Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin ... - 0 views

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atomic

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  • By the late 1950s, officials of the Eisenhower administration, after having seen the results of numerous atomic bomb tests, had a fairly realistic idea of how difficult it would be to survive a nuclear bomb blast. They continued, however, to disseminate somewhat dubious survival information, primarily to give the American public a sense of hope and control over their own lives. They also believed that a public confident of surviving an atomic war would support the federal government's decision to increase its own atomic arsenal, even though its existence could provoke a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Katherine Chipman

Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views

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atomic

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  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

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activism socialmedia

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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Parker Woody

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 3) - 0 views

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      Kristi Koerner on 04 Oct 10
       
      The conflict with Christianity is interesting.
  • disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour
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      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      are these laid in contrast to the benefits?
  • It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation
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      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      city upon a hill
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  • The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat.
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      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      want everyone to be like them
  • It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois — for the benefit of the working class
  • These proposals, therefore, are of a purely Utopian character.
  • the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.
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      Parker Woody on 05 Oct 10
       
      Interesting how they appeal to the family and the loss of morals
Gideon Burton

They Call It Hacktivism - 0 views

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hactivism cyberactivism

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  • What are the limits of political protest in cyberspace, where the boundaries between public and private space are murky? How far can activists go without infringing on the rights of the people against whom they are protesting? As international reliance on computer technology increases, can anyone with a little technical know-how declare their own war?
  • 'In cyberspace, you don't have clear public byways intersecting private spaces, so there is no place to camp out and play your First Amendment card. If you try to deny service to someone else, by whatever means you use, you could be in pretty big trouble.'' The FBI spokesperson said that the use of Floodnet could constitute a federal crime: It is illegal to intentionally block access to an Internet server. But the members of the collective argue that they are simply gathering at the gateway, not chaining themselves to the door.
  • Gideon Burton on 12 Oct 10
     
    The onset of cyberactivism / hactivism in 1999 raises important questions.
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