U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. Formed in 1976, U2 have consistently been one of the most popular acts in the world since the mid-1980s. The band has sold upwards of 170 million albums worldwide. The band consists of Bono (vocals ...

Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti ( July 9 , 1918- March 22 , 2007), better known as U.G. Krishnamurti, or just U.G., was a man who, even though claimed to have no message and not being a guru, philosopher or teacher, was sought by many people,...

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly....

Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some...

U Thant (1909-1974) was a Burmese and the first non-European secretary general of the United Nations. Though U Thant was frustrated by his limited powers, his elevation to the highest executive position in the international organization wa...

Each year, thousands of would-be immigrants from around the world apply to immigrate to the United States, others apply for asylum, and others immigrate illegally. The decision of who gets to stay is based on legislation that has establis...

In the mid-1950s, at a time when Detroit automobile manufacturers sold 7.92 million cars in one year and 70 percent of American families owned automobiles, the American road system was still noted for its inadequacies. No four-lane highway...

In 1938 President Roosevelt established the U.S. Maritime Service (USMS) for the purpose of training merchant marines (officers and crews of U.S. vessels that engaged in commerce). Before World War II began, the United States had roughly f...

Reading remained an important source of news and entertainment in America during the 1930s. Throughout the decade, more than thirty-nine million people read daily newspapers, even though radio had caused the number of different newspapers ...

Running from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida, U.S. One has served as the site and symbol for East Coast travel for much of the twentieth century. Stretching 2,377 miles, Route One got its name in 1925—when federal highway num...

A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is ...

The Big Money - John Dos Passos - 1936 Introduction John Dos Passos's The Big Money (1936) argues that the pursuit of the American dream ends in corruption. No matter what good intentions the characters possess, the desire for big mo...

ŚUBHᾹKARASṂHA (637–735), Indian monk and missionary, was the founder of the Zhenyan school in China. Śubhākarasṃha (Chin., Shanwuwei) arrived in the Chinese capital, Chang'an, in 716....

Do walls have ears? Not right now, but it will not be long before walls not only have ears, but will also be able to see what we are doing and even tell us things that are relevant to our activities. Traditionally, when people said that wa...

Yoshiko Uchida almost single-handedly created a body of Japanese-American literature for children, where none existed before. As the first Nissei writer to devote an entire career to writing for young people about her own rich cultural her...

SOURCE: Araki, James T. “A Critical Approach to the Ugetsu monogatari.” Monumenta Nipponica 22, nos. 1-2 (1967): 49-64. In the following essay, Araki offers an overview of criticism of Akinari's tales and an analysis of the structural t...

Uesugi Kenshin 上杉 謙信 ( 18 February 1530 — 19 April 1578 ) was a samurai warlord who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan . Sourced Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in...

SOURCE : "Ugetsu: A Meditation on Mizoguchi," in Favorite Movies: Critics' Choice, edited by Philip Nobile, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1973, pp. 61-9. In the following essay, explains why Mizoguchi's Ugetsu is one of his favorite films...