Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thirty years ago a liberal arts education was defined by the Western canon. The University felt it had a mission to ensure that no student would leave Harvard without a strong basis in Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, and of course, the Bible...
...Western canon that so closely shaped a liberal arts education a generation ago is still a foundation of many academic fields, many professors agree...
...think it's difficult to design a list of 20, 30, 40 books. I certainly would have no problem," Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes says. "There are books that have made a very major impact on Western thinking: Locke's two books on human understanding and government, Rousseau's Social Contract, Mills On Liberty, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics...and the Bible," to name...
...arrived in North America almost a millennium earlier than previously believed. A hacked up mastodon tusk, 12,200 years old, showed evidence that humans had cut on its tusk -- in what is now Florida. That geographic location also plays havoc with the notion that humans first arrived in the western part of the continent; instead, they may have begun their spread from Florida and other places east...
...stronger embargo, which bars trade in goods except medicine and basic foods, is having an effect opposite to what its framers intended. By shutting down the most impoverished economy in the western hemisphere, the U.S. and the U.N. have managed to provide a lucrative opportunity for the enrichment of those it was meant to hurt. And that has left the great mass of Haiti's poor bitter, hungry and disillusioned...