OODOC RECHERCHE & PUBLICATION DE DOCUMENTS

    Votre panier

    Accéder

    5

    Docs en anglais
    publié le 22/08/2012

    3,60 €

    Václav Havel: A biography

    Document de 5 pages au format WORD

    RÉSUMÉ

    Detailed biography of Vaclav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician of the 20th century. Valclav was a key figure of the dissident movement against the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. From his origins until his death, this biography focuses on four different periods of his life: the begining of his dissidence within the cultural movement, the years of the dissidence until his political leadership during the upheavals of the 1980's and 1990's and his presidency of the Czech republic after the Velvet Revolution.

    AUTRES

    Extract:

    When the Czech Republic was created, Václav Havel stood for election as president on January 26, 1993, and won. As the president of the transition Havel was confronted to important choice of society for his new Czech Republic, which he tried to influence with his own thoughts. But his own point of view soon enter in conflict with the one of his Prime Minister Václav Klaus – who promoted total privatization and full de-Communization – creating real public debates on the way that Czech Republic should take. At the opposite of Klaus' thoughts Havel saw that economic liberties alone do not necessarily create responsible citizens, he trusted more in the interconnecting activities influencing each others, so he tried to promote what he called the Civil Society. For him Czech Republic had to rebuild the social and cultural mechanisms which had been dissolved under Communism, he wanted “a society in which citizen participate in public life”, in order to protect the state against both popular tides of passion and demagogic political leaders. If the economical crisis starting in 1996 brought the departure of Klaus' government, the economical transition was already mostly done in favor of the ultra-liberal point of view of the latter. But the ideological conflict between the two Václavs was also visible in the Czech foreign policy. Havel saw European culture as a chance of providing a space for resistance both totalitarianism and to an exclusively market based economic rationality by basing this Europe on the value of Human Rights and Democracy. (...)

    Table of Contents:

    Origins

    I) From a new cultural movement to the dissidence

    II) The dissidence

    III) Revolution(s) and political leadership

    IV) A Czech president

    Reading list

    5

    Docs en anglais publié le 22/08/2012

    3,60 €

    Recommandations

    • Rousseau, "Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse", Malheur à qui n'a plus rien à désirer...

      3,60 €

      4.5

      Philosophie publié le 28/04/2008

      Descriptif

      Commentaire d'un texte de Rousseau, extrait de Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, 6ème partie, lettre VIII de Mme de Wolmar à Saint Preux. Extrait: On pense ordinairement que c'est quand ...

    • Michel Angelo's biography

      3,60 €

      14

      Docs en anglais publié le 08/01/2008

      Descriptif

      The world is full of treasures created years by years, centuries by centuries, millenniums by millenniums. Realized by different artists, with different tools, methods, styles and influences, each of those works of art has his own riches and characteristics. However, ...

    • Biography of Herbie Hancock

      3,60 €

      7

      Docs en anglais publié le 12/09/2007

      Descriptif

      Biography of the famous jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. In this document, you will find the story of his life, the evolution of his music style and, his relations with other musicians as well as his discography. Extract: "Herbie ...

    Du même auteur

    Voir toutes les publications de cet auteur

    Nouveautés en Docs en anglais

    Aller à la catégorie

    Les plus consultées

    • Marketing Study including SWOT analysis: Coca Cola

      1,80 €

      2.5

      Docs en anglais publié le 28/06/2010

      Descriptif

      History, background and reasons for the huge international success of Coca Cola. Extrait: Today, we will talk about a famous beverage, or we can say that it is more like a common phenomenon. If you are recognized as...

    • Le cas de la fusion Renault/Nissan

      1,80 €

      10

      Docs en anglais publié le 05/03/2006

      Descriptif

      Cette présentation de type PowerPoint réalisée en anglais étudie les problèmes organisationnels, structurels, culturels et stratégiques soulevés par les fusions des deux groupes Renault et Nissan, et les actions...

    • Essay: Number Eight, by Jack Richie

      3,60 €

      2.5

      Docs en anglais publié le 13/12/2007

      Descriptif

      Essay dealing with "Number 8", a short story written by Jack Ritchie. The first part introduces the two main characters: a mysterious narrator who is driving a car, and a young hitch hiker he picked up on the road. The setting is disconcerting: they...

    Accès membre

    Votre panier

    Derniers vus

    Publier vos documents

     

    Charte qualité

    déplier