In science and technology and one high school located in San Francisco and their approach to education. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend, television for serious readers. And now on booktv Lennard Davis provides a history and examines the impact of the americans with disability act, signed into law july 26, 1990. Our guest author is Lennard Davis who has written the first major book on the history and impact of the americans with impact of the americans with disabilities acts the hidden story of how the americans with disabilities act gave the largest u. S. Minority its rights. Lennard davis is an author and distinguished prof. Of liberal arts and sciences, at the university of illinois, and prof. Of medical education and disability and human developments, the director of project bio cultures which focuses on the link between medical and social science, cultural studies, disability studies and other areas. Lennard davis is the author of several books on dis
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Book, the 70s the great shift in American Culture as our main textbook. So, when i refer to schulman, that is what i am talking about. Tonight, we are using the 1973 film soylent green, starring charlton heston, as a window into both the Science Fiction film genre and into some of the most difficult domestic challenges of the 1970s, where all of the president ial administrations, but particularly for president jimmy carter. So that is why we are using soylent green. A quick synopsis, this film is set in a dystopian future. It is not a utopian ideal. It is dystopian where everything is terrible future. The big problem is overpopulation. New york city is wildly overcrowded with a population of 40 Million People. By way of contrast, the Current Population of new york city is 8 million. Were talking five times the normal population of new york city, which is outrageous. The Soylent Corporation oversees the citys food supply. So that is where we get our title soylent. The food supply mostly
Written a book Charlton Heston, talking to him on book tv about politics when did mr. Heston become political . Actually he was political for most of his life. He was part of the greatest generation. He saw action in world war ii, off the coast of alaska. He was on several missions because he was trained as a radioman. He enlisted after pearl harbor he was in school and took him a year to call him if up and just before he went out the married his wife and they were married for 65 years. When he was in aleutians they were about to the soldiers were about to invade japan for the final big push, and the estimate was that the army would lose up to a million men. When he bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki he was overvowed. That was other overjoyed and hat semenned hestons political view. For for the world war ii soldiers think greatest generation men and women, there is a very clear delineation between right and wrong, and between good and bad. They all felt that they were the goo