Sentences with phrase «about dictatorship»

To teach works ranging from Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies about the dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic to Shakespeare's infamous tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we created literature units with supplemental nonfiction readings, as the Common Core standards suggest.

The script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

Highly ambitious and super intelligent, we can talk about dictatorship in North Korea or food, it doesn't really matter as long as it's cool

He talks about wage slaves, and he talks about the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a sad, drab history professor who gives the same lecture about dictatorships (and their repeating patterns), and goes home to the same evening routine with his girlfriend Mary (Melanie Laurent).

If this was a political conversation, we'd be talking about dictatorships and tyranny.

Not exact matches

While Chang acknowledges the late Kim Jong Il's brutal dictatorship and his refusal to liberalize North Korea's economy as millions of people were dying of starvation, he remains cautiously optimistic about the prospects of reunification under the young new leader, Kim Jong Un.

Organized religion is more about little dictatorships, than about what is right or good, for humanity.

That kind of progress is what socialism, communism or dictatorships are all about.

It is about fascism and dictatorship.

Although Thomas did not oppose the CIO role in overturning the communist Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954, he totally rejected Rafael Trujillo's cruel and absolute dictatorship in the Dominican Republic and expressed grave concern about the United States's general failure to oppose right - wing Latin American dictatorships.

Nonetheless, military coups, however decorous, are not part of the American tradition, nor that of the officer corps, which might well worry about how the citizenry would react to a move toward open military dictatorship.

In the most anticipated speech of his week - long trip to Burma and Bangladesh, Francis expressed support for Ms Suu Kyi's efforts to bring about reconciliation among different groups after decades of military dictatorship, and insisted that religious differences in must never be a cause for division or distrust.

Hey Joe Sardina... sorry I mean Giardina... what about all governmets in the business of killing kids, women and supporting dictatorships??? Remember Reagan??? Does Bush ring a bell?

(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)

We can all boycott, write letters of protest, encourage negative publicity about any company that sponsors a club with a total anti- supporter dictatorship.

So bad was his dictatorship, that you could be executed, just for making a joke about him.

Wenger is all about lies, excuses, dictatorship, arrogant, uncaring, dumbness, ambitionless and specialist in failure.

If you are interested in the question about personal dictatorship, arguably there was no personal dictatorship in the USSR after Stalin dead.

Also, you talk about prosperity in South Korea, but leave out the dictatorship and repression that continued for decades; it wasn't until relatively recently that South Korea became a prosperous democracy.

So while Blair was making inspiring speeches about the war on terror and the need to overthrow dictatorships, he failed to ensure adequate preparation for a war he knew was coming and which he was actively trying to make possible.

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

My first thought is about states like Turkmenistan - a dictatorship consistently ranked as the worst in the world.

You may be thinking about a) anarcho - socialism b) anarcho - unionism c) the socialist society that is supposed to be implemented when the proletarian dictatorship is obsolete (cf Karl Marx; the dictatorship is in theory not supposed to last forever)

He has been scathing about Europe's unelected divide - and - rule dictatorship ever since arriving in Brussels as a journalist a lifetime ago.

Lord Hailsham issued his warning about an elective dictatorship when Labour was in power.

At the end of the day, though, Stack Exchange Inc. has final say in all matters, and if we assume Stack Exchange Inc. as a single entity then we are talking about a benevolent dictatorship, a (mostly benign) authoritarian form of government.

It is also a song about power and dictatorship.

There's been enough written about Livingstone over the years for me not to have to revisit much of it here, but suffice to say his council tax rises, flirtations with dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela, and mismanagement of City Hall mean he is unlikely to be the one to tell Ed Miliband to take a sensible policy option.

«If what we're only concerned about in our elections is cost, then dictatorship is the cheapest form of government.»

George Lucas has said he wrote it as a Nixon - era parable for the Vietnam War, about how democracies turn into dictatorships.

When we show our enthusiasm for fractions or an analysis of totalitarian dictatorship or whatever, we're showing our students that learning about these things has value, and giving them more opportunity to become interested.

There is a feel of dictatorship about this government.

Where a democracy becomes a dictatorship, it is surely not about the model funding contract.

Explain to students that in this lesson they will be learning about how Germany went from being a democracy to becoming a dictatorship.

If you have time, this prompt can be used as a creative writing activity, with students writing and sharing stories about how life could change under a dictatorship.

Then, explain to students that through this timeline they will learn about how the success of the Nazi Party in the 1932 elections put Germany on the path from democracy to becoming a dictatorship.

The political model followed by most corporations is, literally, Medieval, and about as close to a dictatorship as one can get without formally adopting «1984» as the company operations manual.

And we didn't even need the clumsy apparatus of a totalitarian dictatorship to bring it about.

Students examine the steps the Nazis took to replace democracy with dictatorship and draw conclusions about the values and institutions that make democracy possible.

The same could be said about politics, but I think most people would agree that a participatory democracy is generally kinder to those ruled, than a walled garden, er, uh, dictatorship.

It appears that publishers have allotted Africa the slot for supplying the West with savage entertainment (stories about ethnic cleansing, child soldiers, human trafficking, dictatorships, rights abuses and so on).

They look at The Hunger Games and Divergent and think the public likes dystopian fiction about teenage girls fighting evil dictatorships, so they write more dystopian fiction about teenage girls fighting evil dictatorships.

Well, now that U.S. citizens can have a visa - free stay for up to 5 days in the last European dictatorship, you can see for yourself what Minsk is all about.

NoMAA is pleased to invite you to «La Caída de Rafael Trujillo» by Carmen Rivera, a play about the events that led to the implosion of a ruthless dictatorship.

She held dance workshops in the midst of the Chilean dictatorship, initiating a process of great transformation, not only in formal terms, but also in terms of a philosophy about the body in motion.

Their multimedia works use the languages of advertising and politics to initiate conversations about power, propaganda and manipulation, especially as they relate to fallen Communist dictatorships and the rapid rise of capitalism in Vietnam and beyond.

During his recovery, he started thinking about Haitian political history and the way his difficult family narrative — he had relatives on opposing sides of the Duvalier dictatorship — fit within it.

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

A universal worldview, integrating art, the histories of Korea and Lee herself Born in 1964, Lee grew up under a military dictatorship in South Korea and she developed her career as an artist at the same time that the nation adopted democracy in 1987 onwards and then rapidly set about modernizing and developing economically.