The Moment of Birth and Its Consequences
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We are all influenced by the moment of our birth. Even those of us who believe that horoscopes are nothing but silly fillers in the newspaper understand that there is a deep psychological appeal to thinking that the moment of our birth determines the course of our lives. Of course, such a line of thought can be self-defeating (why should we try to accomplish anything if everything is preordained?) - and for those of us who value the idea of self-determinacy and existential freedom, we would like to believe that we can do and be whoever we want. But of course history does matter: To be born in 1973 presents one with an entirely different set of life choices than would be true if one had been born in 1873, or 1573 or 1973 BCE. To try to deny this would be simply disingenuous. This paper explores some of the important events of the year of my own birth, 1973, events that would either in some way large or small change the course of history from that moment on or would simply mark the year in history, would serve as one of those things that people who were already grown in the year of my birth would look backward to as being important about that year.There were, as must surely be the case in every year, both good and bad things that occurred in 1973, events that would make people look to the future with a sense of dread and other events that would make them believe that perhaps the world that would be inherited by those just being born into would indeed find the planet a more ho
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- primarily Americans. Over the intervening years, the withdrawal from the field of battle by the Americans at this point has begun to seem more and more of the right thing to do and some of the terrible tragedy of the moment has eased.
Between these two milestones in Southeast Asia President Richard Nixon will appear on national television (on April 30) to accept personal responsibility (while still denying that he is personally to blame - a particularly Nixonian maneuver) for the Watergate break-in that would ultimately bring down his administration. He accepted the resignations of staff members H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman and fired John W. Dean as his lawyer. This strategy would prove to be insufficient to save Nixon from suffering the fate of being the first U.S. president ever to resign (http://www.infoplease.com/year/1973.html).
Again, reactions to Nixon's public acknowledgement of his role in Watergate were mixed - those who disliked his administration found just one more reason to do so while those who had believed in his message felt that he was being treated unfairly. He has, in large measure been rehabilitated in the intervening twenty years.
Other world leaders would find their own holds on power to be mo
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Approximate Word count = 1535
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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