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  Left-Right politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the left of the liberals came various stripes of radicals and republicans, who favored the overthrow of monarchies and the establishment of universal suffrage either on the model of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 or the French one of 1793.
The right wing of absolutist monarchism or theocracy became increasingly rare, and is practically non-existent in the west today.
The contemporary right in the United States is usually defined by its opposition to violations of constitutional law, removal of fundamental rights, excessive governmental regulation and income redistribution, open border immigration policies, social liberalism, and reverse discrimination.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Left-Right_politics   (2917 words)

  
 Left and right - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unlike the cardinal directions (North, South, East, and West), left and right are based solely on the viewer's perspective.
In the vast majority of the population, the heart is slightly to the left of the body's centre line and the liver is to the right.
In politics, "left" and "right" are labels applied to socialist and conservative political figures or ideologies, respectively.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Left_and_right   (454 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Left-Right politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the Right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics.
Edmund Burke The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator and political philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party.
The New Left is a term used in political discourse to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Left_Right-politics   (6929 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Left-Right politics Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Originally, this meant the rising bourgeoisie (left) vs. the aristocrats (right), but it rather soon came to mean, more commonly, the working class and unemployed (left) versus all wealthy and/or aristocratic classes (right).
The terms Left and Right to refer to political affiliation originated early in the French Revolutionary era, and referred originally to the seating arrangements in the various legislative bodies of France.
In general, left implies a commitment to social equality, support for the class interests of the less privileged, and support for a liberal social policy of individual cultural freedom, though not necessarily equally concerned with individual economic freedom.
www.ipedia.com /left_right_politics.html   (1574 words)

  
 Left Brain : Right Brain
The right hand and eye could name an object, such as a pencil, but the patient could not explain what it was used for.
Further studies showed that various functions of thought are physically separated and localized to a specific area on either the left or right side of the human brain.
Creative writing courses often use this method to combat "writer's block." The logical left side is easily bored by lack of input and tends to "doze off" during such activities as meditation (repeating a mantra or word over and over) or in sensory deprivation environments.
www.viewzone.com /bicam.html   (1692 words)

  
 'Right Brain' or 'Left Brain' - Myth Or Reality?
The left cerebral hemisphere is supposed to be the coldly logical, verbal and dominant half of the brain, while the right developed a reputation as the imaginative side, emotional, spatially aware but suppressed.
In the same way, the right brain proved to be good at working with a general sense of space, while equivalent areas in the left brain fired when someone thought about objects at particular locations.
These areas on the right side glowed with the effort of seeing the global picture, and the left- side equivalents fired when the demand was to concentrate on local shapes.
www.rense.com /general2/rb.htm   (2713 words)

  
 On The Right Side of the Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The drivers rode the left wheel horse, postilion fashion, or rode the "lazy board" at the left side of the wagon, or walked along the road at the left side of the horses.
The wagon was operated either by the postilion driver riding the left-hand near horse-called the wheel horse-or by the driver walking or sitting on a "lazy board" on the left-hand side of the vehicle.
He kept to the left in both cases in order to use the right hand to manage the horses and operate the brake level mounted on the left-hand side.
www.fhwa.dot.gov /infrastructure/right.htm   (764 words)

  
 Down With Left and Right by Anthony Gregory
Left and Right are quickly, and thankfully, becoming antiquated conceptual constructs.
On the other hand, there are those on the Right who don’t mind the welfare state, so long as it accompanies empire; and there are those on the Left who don’t mind bombing a few countries and trashing the Fourth Amendment as long as the government also provides a free lunch.
Instead of recognizing the similarities between Left statism and Right statism, many of the good folks on the Left and Right end up choosing the statism that appears aesthetically less offensive to their senses.
www.lewrockwell.com /gregory/gregory46.html   (1606 words)

  
 VINTAGE
Historical conservatism (people left to their own devices will do bad things, so they must be constrained) is something I agree with.
It was a grody place, all right, dank with groundwater, and rife with cobwebs and the mildewed dust that sifted downward whenever a body traversed the kitchen floorboards above.
They wer gorgeous, she in a scarlet bustier she made herself (right up to the moment of the music-less wedding march) and he in long gentleman's equestrian boots -- a regular knight of the garter.
www.xanga.com /home.asp?user=mfinley   (2543 words)

  
 Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction, by Norbert Bobbio - reviewed by Louis Andrews
He certainly agrees that left and right can change over time and place, but that the basic distinction based on the attitude toward equality will always remain at some level.
He contrasts Sorel on the left (though he was also an admirer of Mussolini) and Pareto on the right as such figures.
In fact, the revolutionary left often considers the moderate left as the bigger obstacle to power, and the same is true on the right as well.
www.lrainc.com /swtaboo/library/lra_lr.html   (1036 words)

  
 Why do Mirrors Reverse Left and Right?
"Left" and "right" are not so easily defined, and you'd have a much harder time telling the Martian what you mean by these.
That's because "left" and "right" are relative: they depend on our deciding on an "up" and a "front" first.
We have invented the words "left" and "right" because we needed them quite often to distinguish between the two orientations--of course not only referring to the two sides of our body, but also all kinds of other things with two sides.
math.ucr.edu /home/baez/physics/General/mirrors.html   (1413 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hormones administered to the rat fetus after birth were able to alter asymmetries in the right brain and change tail posture, an indication of cerebral laterality (Diamond,1984 and Rosen et al, 1983 as review in Geschwind and Galaburda, 1987a).
Thus, his or her strongest talents should be consistent with the functions of the right brain.
The right brain is superior in visual- spatial; such abilities are useful in mathematics and architecture.
hcs.harvard.edu /~husn/BRAIN/vol2/left.html   (4030 words)

  
 Left Right  Hemisphere Brain Processing
Right brain students may know what they mean, but often have trouble finding the right words.
Right brain students need to know that it may take them longer to write a paper and the paper may need more revision before it says what they want it to say.
Left brain students know the consequences of not turning in papers on time or of failing a test.
brain.web-us.com /brain/LRBrain.html   (1374 words)

  
 Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus: Kalbach and Bosenick: JoDI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They speculate that the right brain hemisphere, which controls spatial interpretation, the processing of images, and the left field of vision, is better suited for handling the task of navigation through a Web site.
The left hemisphere, the rational side controlling text, speech, and the decoding of information, corresponds to the right field of vision and is better for processing text and information.
Group 1 (N=32) was assigned to the prototype with the right navigation; Group 2 (N=32) was assigned to the prototype with the left navigation.
jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk /Articles/v04/i01/Kalbach   (4816 words)

  
 Neuroscience for Kids - Sidedness
In other words, the right hand is dominant...right-handed people prefer to use their right hand for most tasks.
Mark your data sheet depending on whether they use their right or left hand.
Observe your subject to see if he or she writes with the right or left hand.
faculty.washington.edu /chudler/rightl.html   (1160 words)

  
 The TGF-{beta} family member derriere is involved in regulation of the establishment of left-right asymmetry -- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In situs solitus (left, control), embryos show normal heart orientation, with outflow tract (arrow) to the embryo’s right and ventricle (arrowhead) to the left, and normal gut orientation with counterclockwise coiling.
In situs inversus (right, derrière-injected into R3), embryos show reversed heart orientation, with outflow tract (arrow) to the embryo’s left and ventricle (arrowhead) to the right, and reversed gut orientation with clockwise coiling.
Induction of a partial secondary axis was observed in 68% (bottom left; N = 57) of derrière-injected embryos, and this effect was completely rescued by co-injection of Cm-derrière (bottom right; N = 41).
emboreports.npgjournals.com /cgi/content/full/1/1/32   (4010 words)

  
 LEFT-RIGHT
For most people, knowing your left hand from your right hand is simply a matter of memorizing which is which.
I would eventually figure out which way was left, but not before going through the motions of handwriting (with my right hand) or sticking out both thumbs frantically looking for that tell-tale "L" that stood for left.
I suppose one could "name" left and right with any kind of word that creates a visual image, but for me the added sequential factor (A always being before B in the alphabet) seems to make determining left or right a lot faster.
www.geocities.com /leeforgy/leftright.html   (788 words)

  
 Right to left - findnice.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The right and left gloves should be different and labeled.
The separation between the right and left sides of the brain is not complete.
the political use of the terms "left" and "right" has evolved across in common with other right-wing groups beyond their opposition to the left.
findnice.net /?q=right-to-left   (1195 words)

  
 Left & Right - This is the GREATEST F*CKED IN THE HISTORY™   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Left & Right - This is the GREATEST F*CKED IN THE HISTORY™
What I do remember is that, by the time we got to the Fox, the captain had announced we had reached cruising altitude, turning off the "No Smoking" and "Fasten Seat Belt" signs, and we were free to move about the cabin.
Right before the show, my roommate Billy took me to the front of the stage and told me to look up.
www.leftandright.us   (598 words)

  
 USS Clueless - Left and Right
In particular, he uses the common parlance of calling people on one end "left" and "liberal" and those on the other end "right" and "conservative".
Liberals believe in the rights of the masses, and want to try to limit the power of the state over how the masses live their lives.
From my point of view, this amounts to a measurement of the extent to which someone believes that everyone has a right to "scandalize the neighbors", by saying or doing things that the neighbors don't like, even though the neighbors are not really harmed by it.
denbeste.nu /cd_log_entries/2003/05/LeftandRight.shtml   (2733 words)

  
 Back Pages: Left, right, blogs, links, etc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I would regard we of the libertarian/conservative side to be revolutionary, as opposed to the current left; the left wants to maintain the status quo of statism and welfarism, and increase government's intrusion and supervision of society.
The politics of the RWDB is not the politics of ‘right’ and ‘left’.
The Left is relatively united on immigration (more), multiculturalism (good), free speech (bad), and identity politics (subsidise), so they will not be faced with any major problems in the years ahead, assuming they are not forced to actually defend their positions in a federal election.
backpagesblog.com /weblog/archives/000574.html   (8269 words)

  
 A protein disulfide isomerase expressed in the embryonic midline is required for left/right asymmetries -- Hoshijima et ...
Expression of preproinsulin in pancreatic tissue (white arrowheads) and gata6 in liver (fl arrowheads) visualized in dorsal views of 60-h embryos reveals that the pancreas normally develops on the right side and the liver develops on the left side of the midline in control embryos.
the midline, and the liver to the left of the midline (Fig.
Roessler, E. and Muenke, M. Midline and laterality defects: Left and right meet in the middle.
www.genesdev.org /cgi/content/full/16/19/2518   (5874 words)

  
 gauche! Left-Handers in Society
Presented with ubiquitous right bias in the physical world, a left-hander or ambidextral has two options:  (1) to learn to use the tool in a right-handed fashion (awkward and inefficient at best), or (2) to learn to somehow hold the tool backwards so that it can be manipulated with the left hand (often dangerous).
This means that left-handers are often literaly "forced" by society to use the right hand for these tasks.
At one point (and for a while) his left hand was tied behind his back, especially for writing.
www.indiana.edu /~primate/lspeak.html   (1178 words)

  
 LEFT BRAIN - RIGHT BRAIN
So the evidence is clear that women hang out more in their left brains, whereas men tend to hang out more in their right brains.
Yet some recent research suggests that happy feelings reside in the left brain and unhappy feelings in the right brain.
Typical compensations are: (1)they may feel sexual in all sorts of situations that are not particularly sexual, (2)they may just head for their TV addiction instead of hanging out with an uncomfortable feeling or (3)they may get angry in situations that might call for a different response.
www.psychologyhelp.com /gend134.htm   (878 words)

  
 Leonardo: Right to Left   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Because people were superstitious, children who naturally started using their left hands to write and draw were forced to use their right hands.
Writing left handed from left to right was messy because the ink just put down would smear as his hand moved across it.
Try the Classroom Activity: Leonardo Right to Left to collect evidence and form your own conclusion.
www.mos.org /sln/Leonardo/LeonardoRighttoLeft.html   (255 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Left Is Right: The Survival Guide for Living Lefty in a Right-Handed World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
If you answer "they are all left-handed," right on, because these famous men and women are among the thousands of left-handers who have left their mark on the world.
In LEFT IS RIGHT: The Survival Guide for Living Lefty in a Right-Handed World, author Rae Lindsay presents an upbeat look at the sinistral side of life.
In modern languages gauche means "clumsy" or "awkward," as well as left; mancini indicates "crooked" or "maimed"in Italian; in Romany bongo translates as "evil" or "crooked;" and in Spanish, no ser zurdo means to be "very clever," in other words, not to be left-handed.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0965375307?v=glance   (1308 words)

  
 Turn Left Turn Right (2003)
Despite the fact that they live right next door to one another, they have no idea how to find the other, and as the two continue to grow sicker, their parallel lives grow increasingly despondent and predictable.
Ruby also spends her time acting spiteful, possessive, downright disrespectful (she moves into John's apartment and makes a mess while he's in the hospital), and generally makes young Taiwanese girls look really, really bad, even if they are cute, full-lipped and wear pigtails as well as Terri Kwan does.
Then again, knocking Turn Left, Turn Right for its lack of realism and generally lazy storyline is somewhat unfair, because this is a fairy tale about love and fate with very little room for actual reality.
www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/turn_left_turn_right.htm   (1674 words)

  
 Classroom Activity: Leonardo Right to Left   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Be sure students have visited the Leonardo Right to Left web page, and encourage them to discuss what they learned from it.
Distribute paper and pencils and encourage students to try writing their signatures in cursive from right to left.
Point out to students that not all languages are normally written from left to right.
www.mos.org /sln/Leonardo/ClassroomRighttoLeft.html   (499 words)

  
 Left Ventricle to Right Atrial Shunt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Left Ventricle to Right Atrium shunt results from a "membranous" VSD which connects the left ventricular and right atrial chambers.
Selective right atrial prominence with large shunt volumes.
The left atrium may also be enlarged as in other graphics/cases of VSD.
www.med.umn.edu /radiology/cvrad/chd/lvra.html   (83 words)

  
 Foolippic: Left 2 Right
In the aftermath of the 2004 Presidential election, many of us have come to believe that the Left must learn how to speak more effectively to ears attuned to the Right.
Although we have chosen the subtitle "How can the Left get through to the Right?", our view is that the way to get through to people is to listen to them and be willing to learn from them.
Many of us identify ourselves with the Left, but others are moderates or independents.
www.webamused.com /foolippic/archives/001961.html   (408 words)

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