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.

  • References

    • Douglas (1987).

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • Aaron Douglas was a notable artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
    • After completing his BFA at the University of Nebraska in 1922, Douglas moved to New York City, settling in Harlem.
    • Reiss' teaching helped Douglas develop the modernist style he would employ for the next decade.
    • Douglas’ engagement with African and Egyptian design brought him to the attention of W.
    • In 1926 Douglas married Alta Sawyer.

  • Measuring Productivity

    • Cobb-Douglas Production Function: One of the most useful frameworks, that allow for a technological relationship to be illustrated between the amount of two (or more) inputs is the Cobb-Douglas model.
    • This is an illustration of a two-input Cobb-Douglas Production Function, where the ability to benchmark an output in comparison to two separate quantities of inputs is feasible.

  • 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.

  • Managerial Assumption: McGregor

    • Douglas McGregor was a management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
    • Explain Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y approach, merging classical and behavioral organizational theories

  • 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.

  • Commander-in-Chief

    • Truman believed in a high amount of civilian leadership of the military, making many tactical and policy decisions based on the recommendations of his advisors— including the decision to use nuclear weapons on Japan, to commit American forces in the Korean War, and to terminate Douglas MacArthur from his command.
    • An immensely popular hero of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur's public insistence on the need to expand the Korean War, over the objections of President Harry S.