1966- Wole Soyinka’s play Kongi’s Harvest opens the first Festival of Negro Arts I n Dakar, Senegal 1967- Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez publishes his masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude 1974- Nadine Gordimer wins Book Prize fir her novel The Conservationist 1980s- Wislawa Szymborska writes under a pseudonym for an underground press in Poland 1987- Octavio Paz publishes hiscollected poems from a 30-yyear period 1995- Writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other environmental activists executed by military dictatorship in Nigeria
Metamorphosis is a book about a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa who wakes up to find that he has turned into a giant insect. Everyone who looks at him runs in fear, including his family. After some lodgers had stayed at the house and Gergor scared them off, the family agrees that they cannot accept the fact that the ugly insect is their son or brother. He dies that night and a weight is lifted off the family (The Metamorphosis, Sparknotes). This book is open to interpretations and many have been made. Most interpretations discuss the social treatment of those who are unique and different from the norm. Others speak of isolation and what occurs because of it. Some others discuss the book as being existentialist because of the ‘absurdity of human existence’ (The Metamorphosis, Wikipedia). Metamorphosis is a book about a traveling salesman named Gregor Samsa who wakes up to find that he has turned into a giant insect. Everyone who looks at him runs in fear, including his family. After some lodgers had stayed at the house and Gergor scared them off, the family agrees that they cannot accept the fact that the ugly insect is their son or brother. He dies that night and a weight is lifted off the family (The Metamorphosis, Sparknotes). This book is open to interpretations and many have been made. Most interpretations discuss the social treatment of those who are unique and different from the norm. Others speak of isolation and what occurs because of it. Some others discuss the book as being existentialist because of the ‘absurdity of human existence’ (The Metamorphosis, Wikipedia).
Timeline: Events in World History 1903- In U.S. Wright brothers make first successful airplane flight.1914-1918- World War I between the Allies (Russia, France, Britain, and later U.S.) and the central powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary)1917-1920- Russian Revolution topples czar and brings in communist government.1920- World’s first commercial radio station broadcasts in U.S.1922- Benito Mussolini and Fascist Party gain control of Italy1928- Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin1929- Stock market crash in New York soon plunges world into Great Depression1933- Adolf Hitler and Nazi party come to power in Germany1937- Japan invades China1939- Hitler invades Poland; France and Britain declare war on Germany, beginning World War II1941- Japan bombs U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, causing U.S. to enter war
Timeline: Events in World History 1945- Germany surrenders; Europe divided into communist east and capitalist west1945- U.S. drops two atomic bombs on Japan, causing Japanese surrender1947- Muslim Pakistan splits from Hindu India after independence from Britain, resulting in thousands of deaths1948- Mao Zedong leads Communists to victory in Chinese Civil War1950-1953- War in Korea between Communist and UN forces results in division of country1951- U.S. engineers invent first commercial digital computer, UNIVAC1953- Scientists discover the double helix structure of DNA1953- Cold War escalates after U.S. and Soviet Union test the hydrogen bomb1954- In Vietnam, French troops surrender to Ho Chi Minh’s Communist forces; country is divided.1957- Ghana is first African country to win independence from Britain rule
Timeline: Events in World History 1959- Fidel Castro leads Cuban Revolution1960- Nigeria wins independence from Britain1962- Algeria gains independence from France after years of violent conflict1965-1973- U.S. troops unsuccessfully battle Communist guerillas in South Vietnam1966-1979- Cultural Revolution in China stamps out intellectual and artistic activity1971- On International Women’s Day in London, women march for job opportunities and other issues.1974- First personal computer introduces in U.S.1983- Scientists discover virus that causes Aids1987- Palestinians in Israel begin intifida, or uprising, against Israeli rule1989- Chinese crackdown of pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square1989- Demolition of Berlin Wall dividing Germany signals fall communism in Europe
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