Douglas Coupland

(noun)

A Canadian novelist whose first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X".

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Examples of Douglas Coupland in the following topics:

  • Demographic Shifts

    • The term was penned by author Douglas Coupland in 1991 when he released his era-defining novel, Generation X.
    • Coupland's characters were in their mid-20s, going through a "quarter-life crisis."
    • In his book, Coupland discussed how his generation faced looming threats of nuclear war, which made forming meaningful relationships meaningless.
    • By pointing out major social problems such as AIDS, depression, and sexuality, Coupland helped define an entire generation.
    • Douglas Coupland's novel exploring the generation born between 1965 and 1988 coined the term "Generation X."

  • The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln

    • The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 helped Lincoln rise to national prominence and secure the Republican presidential nomination in the election of 1860.
    • The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas.
    • By refusing to enact slave codes, Douglas claimed, territories could remain "free" in every way but a technical sense.
    • The legislature then reelected Douglas.
    • Evaluate how the Lincoln-Douglas debates shaped Lincoln’s political career and the election of 1860

  • The Lecompton Constitution

    • Meanwhile, despite the controversial Dred Scott decision, Stephen Douglas and many other Northern Democrats continued their support of popular sovereignty as the final authority on the admission of slavery into new territories, while Republicans denounced any measure that would allow for the expansion of slavery.
    • In 1858, in an effort to win Northern support for the popular sovereignty argument, Douglas entered into a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln who was challenging him for the Illinois congressional seat.
    • Douglas argued that, while the Dred Scott case prohibited Congress from legislating on the expansion of slavery, citizens in the territories could effectively legislate against it via their own local governance or by refusing to reinforce infrastructure protecting slaveowners' interests within the territory.
    • Douglas broke with the Democratic Party leadership over the Lecompton Constitution.

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    • Douglas (IL), repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and mandated that popular sovereignty would determine any new territory's slave or free status.
    • Douglas and other representatives hoped that by tagging on the popular sovereignty mandate, they could avoid confronting the slave issue in the organization of the Kansas-Nebraska territory.
    • However, with the support of President Pierce, Douglas pushed the act through Congress, albeit with rigidly delineated sectional votes.
    • Douglas shoves a black man down his throat.

  • MacArthur's Leapfrogging

    • Operation Cartwheel (1943–1944) was a major military strategy in the Pacific theater of World War II that aimed at militarily neutralizing the major Japanese base at Rabaul and was directed by the Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA)—General Douglas MacArthur.
    • The operation was directed by the Supreme Allied Commander in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA)—General Douglas MacArthur—whose forces advanced along the northeast coast of New Guinea and occupied nearby islands.
    • Left to right: Mr Frank Forde (Australian Minister for the Army); General Douglas MacArthur; General Sir Thomas Blamey; Lieutenant General George C.

  • American Modernism

    • Influential Modernist painters included Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Aaron Douglas.
    • African-American painter Aaron Douglas is one of the best-known and most influential African-American modernist painters.
    • Douglas influenced African-American visual arts, especially during the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Lincoln and Republican Victory in 1860

    • Douglas of Illinois for president, but Southern Democrats responded by convening separately and nominating John C.
    • Douglas was the only candidate to win electoral votes in both the North and the South (in New Jersey and Missouri), but he finished last in the Electoral College.
    • Both John Bell of Tennessee (the Constitutional Union Party candidate) and Douglas had campaigned on a platform stating that they could save the Union from secession, warning Americans that a vote for Lincoln was a vote for disunion.

  • Containment to Rollback

    • Under the rollback strategy, UN troops under the direction of General Douglas MacArthur advanced across the 38th parallel into North Korea in October of 1950.
    • Douglas MacArthur, moved the United States toward a stronger commitment to the containment policy.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    • The resulting Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, drafted by Democrat Stephen Douglas (IL), repealed the Compromise of 1820 (which had previously closed Kansas to slaveowners) and put the Compromise of 1850 to the test.
    • The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and facilitate the development of a Transcontinental Railroad in the Midwest Douglas and other representatives hoped that by tagging on the popular sovereignty mandate, they could evade having to confront the slave issue in the organization of the Kansas-Nebraska territory.

  • Leapfrogging to Tokyo

    • In the other major theater in the Pacific region, known as the South West Pacific theater, Allied forces were commanded by US General Douglas MacArthur.
    • In the other major theater in the Pacific region, known as the South West Pacific theater, Allied forces were commanded by US General Douglas MacArthur.