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Flowersun2013 Posted 13 years ago
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What does this mean?
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Cases are not hard to come by. For example, universities are known to reinvent their history when convenient. In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley was shaken by the Free Speech Movement. Popular among students, it was anathema to the administration and many of the faculty, who did everything they could to stamp it out and remove its ringleaders from influence. But life goes on, times change, and what was once a dire threat to institutional business as usual is seen nostalgically, twenty years later, as the shot heard ’round the world, the opening statement of the sixties. It was important, it was historic, it put the university on the cultural map.
I am not sure what the passage means starting "as the shot heard .."? What is a shot heard? What does "round the world" mean here? What does it mean by the university on the cultural map? Thanks...
Cases are not hard to come by. For example, universities are known to reinvent their history when convenient. In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley was shaken by the Free Speech Movement. Popular among students, it was anathema to the administration and many of the faculty, who did everything they could to stamp it out and remove its ringleaders from influence. But life goes on, times change, and what was once a dire threat to institutional business as usual is seen nostalgically, twenty years later, as the shot heard ’round the world, the opening statement of the sixties. It was important, it was historic, it put the university on the cultural map.
I am not sure what the passage means starting "as the shot heard .."? What is a shot heard? What does "round the world" mean here? What does it mean by the university on the cultural map? Thanks...
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A 'shot heard round the world' means an event having global repercussions. It comes from an American poem praising an important battle in the American Revolutionary war: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. flowersun2013 What does it mean by the university on the cultural map?
- A 'shot heard round the world' means an event having global repercussions.
- It comes from an American poem praising an important battle in the American Revolutionary war: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
- flowersun2013 What does it mean by the university on the cultural map?
- The university was the scene of an important cultural sea change, so it would appear in cultural history/studies (the 'map').
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A 'shot heard round the world' means an event having global repercussions. It comes from an American poem praising an important battle in the American Revolutionary war:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
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