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The purpose of this research is to critically examine All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. The most popular account of the entire "Watergate" affair, the book remains an excellent example of investigative reporting. The book covers the eighteen month period during which Bernstein and Woodward, working as reporters for The Washington Post, systematically uncovered many of the details surrounding President Richard Nixon's illegal political activities.

Woodward and Bernstein were assigned the story as it first broke in June of 1972, with the arrest of five burglars who had been apprehended while breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The reporters' subsequent investigation, pursued in true detective fashion, utilized fragmentary clues found n address books, telephone calls, informants, and ... "

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" This study will compare and contrast two works by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward on the fall of the Nixon administration due to the Watergate scandal, All the President's Men and The Final Days.
All the President's Men is more mystery story than anything else, and mystery stories do not rely heavily on theses or arguments, so it is difficult to label this book with a specific thesis. Certainly the authors believe that there is a and should be an adversarial relationship between the government and the press. Certainly they would argue that the Nixon administration was a corrupt one, and that its corruption was made even more intense by the fact that it had claimed to be a force for goodness. The authors end their first chapter with the words of Democratic Party chairman Larry O'Brien: "We learned of this.."

Tags:BOOK, REVIEWS, (NON-FICTION)

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"The legend of Leonard Bernstein began with the fact that it was unusual for an American to conduct a major American orchestra. On the occasion of his New York Philharmonic debut, filling in for an ailing Bruno Walter, Bernstein was introduced by Bruno Zirato, the orchestra's associate manager, as "a full-fledged American conductor, born and entirely raised in this country." An American conductor was not unique, of course, and Zirato duly emphasized Bernstein's American education. In the 1930s, however, a conductor's education and opportunities could only have come from the European source even if it was located in the United States. The four conductors who had the greatest influence on Bernstein in his conductor's apprenticeship, and were all instrumental in starting his career, were the Greek Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), the Pole Artur Rodzinski ..."

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"As a conductor Leonard Bernstein considered Beethoven, "of all composers", to be "the most interpretable" (Bernstein, 1982, p. 292). As with his various approaches to most of the classical and romantic repertoire, however, Bernstein's interpretations of Beethoven met with a range of responses. Yet the responses could be favorable or extremely unfavorable even when they came from the same source. Harold C, Schonberg, once chief music critic for the New York Times, wrote of a 1960 performance of the Leonora Overture No. 3 and the Piano Concerto No. 1 that they featured "a couple of moments that were absolutely bizarre" and that the latter "was a highly personal and rather vulgar performance" which he disliked a great deal (quoted in Peyser, 1987, p. 303). But of a 1979 performance of the Ninth Symphony Schonberg wrote that although "some" might call it "vulgar" or ..."

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This paper discusses the opinions of Marxist revisionist, Eduard Bernstein. Th writer notes that, although Eduard Bernstein believed in Marxism, many did not see him as a true Marxist. He challenged the orthodoxy of Marxism because he believed in revisionism. The writer discusses that Bernstein believed that moral ideals should be the guide to the future. He thought that plans should be bent in order to adapt to new environments and circumstances, as opposed to following orthodox Marxist ideals without considering the current circumstances of society. The writer maintains that because of this, Bernstein brought new light to Marxism, and reformed it in many ways. The writer concludes that the idea for Bernstein was to help the working-class understand the process of legislative reform, and ultimately enable them to rise up against their oppressors through peaceful and longer-lasting methods. To transcend the self-deception of orthodox Marxism was to transcend the tyranny of the bourgeois, and ultimately bring about a new era of economic conditions.

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"Bernstein also believed that Marx contradicted himself. Marx said that political action was the most important duty of the movement, and yet he challenged his own convictions. For one, he said that the proletariat was not mature enough for their emancipation, and that the economic conditions for this were not present. On the other hand, he stated several times that all culture and virtue is only to be found among the
working class, and that even the most extreme revolutionaries should be right. Marx believed that legislative work over a long time appeared only as a temporary device. Bernstein, being a revisionist saw that Marx himself did not recognize free will of the people to decide their own economic conditions. Marx believed that everything would evolve automatically, and yet in contradiction to himself, he still sought to develop a revolution through appealing to the proletariat."

Tags:revolution, proletariat, reform, class

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of the thoughts on capitalism by Karl Marx, Edouard Bernstein, Vladimir Lenin, and the Marshall Plan. The paper posits that Marx and Lenin's arguments for socialism stands in opposition to the ideologies advocated by Bernstein and the Marshall Plan, wherein socialist communism is perceived and, as history proves, can be detrimental to the welfare of society in general. In a larger context, the comparative analysis of the works of Marx, Lenin, Bernstein, and the Marshall Plan reflect the politics involved in implementing the economic system of capitalism as evident in each political philosopher's analysis of capitalism and socialism as new modes of politico-economic societies.

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"Karl Marx is an important point of reference in discussing the detrimental effects of capitalism on human societies. With Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx conceived the "Communist Manifesto" a political treatise that questioned the benefits of capitalism on the social order of the modern society in the nineteenth century. Marx argues against the bourgeoisie, the elite and wealthy class who owns and controls all means of production (such as machineries and land) as industrialism emerged in the century. The bourgeois class, according to Marx, have evolved from being landowners to factory-owners, a class that "has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones." From this statement, he then goes on to enumerate how, with the dominance of the elite class, the proletariat or working class is continually oppressed."

Tags:capitalism, socialism, engels

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In this article, the writer notes that both William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" take up an old tale, once told by a different author in a different genre, and reconfigure that tale to create a new, artistic vision. The writer maintains that what makes both versions of the 'star crossed lovers' unique is not Shakespeare or Bernstein's storyline, plot or even their characters, but the way these stories are applied or not applied to contemporary situations. The writer discusses that Shakespeare creates a story for all time, while Bernstein creates a story about young people in America who are ostracized from society, have little hope of growing old and find momentary happiness in love rather than a real future. The writer compares the two works and looks at the aspect of music. The writer concludes that it is not the musical aspect of "West Side Story" that makes it stand apart from its original source, but the musical's unapologetic American qualities of theme and characters that makes it of its time, seemingly ripped from the headlines of the past, rather than transcendent of time and place.

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"Likewise, Bernstein adopted a previous tale to suit his own purposes, taking what had become Shakespeare's now-classic story of violent, warring lovers who are able to use love as a vehicle of compassion in a cruel and uncaring world. Bernstein did not select a far-off land, as Shakespeare selected Italy to add to the romance of the narrative. Shakespeare's hot-blooded, feuding Italians would have seemed foreign to his original English audience, but Bernstein selects a setting close at hand, that of New York City. Bernstein attempts to show that the sort of compassion evoked by Shakespeare for the young lovers in a never-never land of Italy is relevant to his own viewer's contemporary era and the racial strife of his day. The types of seemingly meaningless violent discord between Italian clans in Shakespeare are parallel to the struggles of Puerto Ricans and Anglos in New York, and ultimately just as empty and brutal in its consequences. Bernstein's evocation of "America," both in the song "America" suggests that the tragedy of Tony and Maria is not simply a sad event of circumstance and mishaps, but also a fundamental betrayal of the American dream of integration and that "everyone free in America.""

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This paper assesses the book "Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein." This book presents the perspective that the modern theories corresponding to business have fundamentally altered the economic system, both in terms of the economic system itself and the strategies that are used to assess that system. This paper investigates the theories that Bernstein provides to the reader in terms of those that first worked to create a new economic strategy, and how these ideas have impacted the modern economic system. This paper also investigates how economic theories can impact the student working in modern business theory.

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In "The Lost Children of Wilder", reporter Nina Bernstein examines the failures, disasters and tragedies that continue to plague New York City's foster care system. The paper shows that to do this, Bernstein tells two stories. The first details the history of New York City's child welfare system, a system that has been ineffective and mired in bureaucracy for the past 100 years. The second story focuses on the lives of Shirley Wilder and her son Lamont, two generations of children who have both been failed by a chaotic foster care system that refuses to reform.

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"To read The Lost Children of Wilder is an experience in frustration with the seemingly-endless loop of child welfare. The only solution appears to be increasing public funding to the city's shelter system and to mothers like Shirley, so they are in a better position to raise and educate their children. Critics may point out that women like Shirley should not be mothers. However, Bernstein's narrative leads me to believe that rushing children to foster care has much direr consequences, both for Lamont and eventually, the rest of society (who will eventually shoulder an average of $500,000 per child in foster care). After all, it is in everyone's best interests to ensure that all children receive a positive upbringing, with access to education, medical care and physical well being."

Tags:racial, disparities, Justine, Wise, Polier, juvenile, hall, Legal, Aid

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This paper analyzes the Anne C. Bernstein's article "Women in Stepfamilies: The Fairy Godmother, the Wicked Witch, and Cinderella Reconstructed" which parallels abusive domestic relationships in step families with the story of Cinderella and her wicked stepmother. It discusses what happens to a modern-day abused Cinderella in the real world without fairy godmothers. It looks at how the Cinderella myth has survived for historical and sociological reasons that are still existent in our culture and how women are responsible for the primary care giving in most families and feel a sexual and emotional rivalry with other women for male affection. The Cinderella story reinforces the idea of stepmothers and stepsisters as wicked and avenging, rather than potential allies, in the struggle to develop a new family. Ultimately, all the participants in a new family must discuss the issues raised by the fairy tale.

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"Bernstein traces this discomfort to the stepmother-stepdaughter connection evidenced in Cinderella. However, she nuances the simplicity of the fairy tale, not stating that both mother and daughter are he receptacles of cultural norms of femininity. "Having once been a girl herself," and assuming a certain level of feminine knowledge, a stepmother may be more apt to attempt to parent the girl before the girl is ready than she might be in the case of a boy. A girl may be used to being her "real" mother's confidant and be angry at the intrusion of a stepmother into her relationship with her custodial mother. She may see a stepmother as a rival to her mother; even after the divorce, even after her own mother has died."

Tags:abusive, domestic, relationships, stepdaughter, stepmother