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- 1601: John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer
- ... began in the 1890's. Benjamin Harrison of the Republicans was in power. The novel began by showing the problems of immigration both from the view point of the immigrant and of the already settled American. We are aware right from the first page that the life of an immigrant was extremely difficult. Jobs were extremely scarce and even when they were available the pay was low. However the immigrants had ... ship carrying Americans triggered the The United States to join. Before this book I had though it ridiculous that a country would go to war over a few deaths, but the author showed how the American goverment used propoganda to make the Americans want to join in the war and fight. Manhattan Transfer tells the tale of how a poor tailor became very rich when the were broke out. He managed ... plot as such. It is more the story of life in New York City from 4 different points of view. There are four main groups of characters in this book, 2 landed immigrants, a poor American family, a group wanting to become famous on Broadway, and a group of very rich people. Each group represents a different point of view. I am glad that the author John Dos Passos choose ...
- 1602: Assisted Suicide
- Assisted Suicide Over the past ten to twenty years a big issue has been made over a person1s right to commit suicide or not. The American courts have had to deal with everything from assisted suicides to planned suicides, and whether the constitution gives the American people the right to take their own lives or whether it says they have the power to allow someone else to take their lives. They have had to determine in some cases whether or not ... of suicide. Next, we'll look at what the constitution says and see if any of the states have allowed suicide. Finally, we'll study some of the cases that have been brought before the American courts. Suicide has become a big part of American society, year after year more people are taking their own lives for many different reasons. A lot of philosophers have broken down all the reasons ...
- 1603: The Right To Keep And Bear Arms
- ... the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" (Bill of Rights, Article II). This seemingly simple phrase is probably the source of more debate and argument than any other single sentence in American history. The argument is not black or white, pro or con. Rather, it encompasses many shades of gray. At the one end of the spectrum you have the National Rifle Association (NRA) which currently views ... the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) and Handgun Control, Inc. seek to make most firearms accessible only to law enforcement and the military ("CSGV" 1). In the middle there are organizations such as the American Firearms Association, who seek compromise regarding our rights (Lissabet, "Return" 2). Some organizations that one would expect to participate in this debate are noticeably quiet. One such group is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In "The ACLU on Gun Control", the national ACLU policy is neutrality (1). All factions in this debate have some merit, some more than others. All use a mixture of ...
- 1604: Huckleberry Finn - Critical Essay
- ... of Huckleberry Finn is] the most grotesque example of racist trash ever written" (Mark Twain Journal by Thadious Davis, Fall 1984 and Spring 1985). Yet, again to counter that is a quote by the great American writer Ernest Hemingway, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn…it’s the best book we’ve had…There has been nothing as good since" (The Green Hills of Africa [Scribner’s. 1953] 22 ... novel has been and will always remain the crux of any readers is still truly racism. Twain surely does use the word ‘nigger’ often, both as a referral to the slave Jim and any African-American that Huck comes across and as the epitome of insult and inferiority. However, the reader must also not fail to recognize that this style of racism, this malicious treatment of African-Americans, this degrading ...
- 1605: Salem Witch Trials
- Many of the American colonists brought with them from Europe a belief in witches and the devil. During the seventeenth century, people were executed for being witches and follower of Satan. Most of these executions were performed in Salem ... sense of political correctness. There were led by God, ran inquisitions, and created the "witch-hunt" of Salem. The Salem witch trials is just one example of types of hunts that have gone on in American history. The McCarthy trials and Watergate are other forms of hunts in the political spectrum (American Fanaticism). From the Spring of 1692 to the Fall of 1692, men and women were tried and convicted of being witches. The new Governor, Sir William Phips, who was sent from England, set up ...
- 1606: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... be evil at the end or vica versa. Their goodness or evilness is clearly shown from the beginning. A Tale of Two Cities takes place in England and France, during the time of the French Revolution. A Tale of Two Cities is a classic novel, where Charles Dickens presents to the reader archetypal main characters. From the beginning of the novel, the reader can know whether the characters are evil or ... it" said Carton (page 252). This also proves that deep down in Carton’s heart, he carried to hatred but love for people, since he practically apologized to Darnay. Couple of Years after, the French Revolution had started. Charles Darnay was arrested. He was to be executed because he was an Evremonde. Sydney Carton made his arrangements and decided to die instead of him. Carton did that because he loved Lucy ... 163). This also proves that Dr. Manette was a very unselfish man, and that he cared about other people’s happiness even more than his own. When Charles Darnay was in prison during the French Revolution, Dr. Manette stood beside him all the time. He did his best to get him out of prison. He defended him all the way. When Mr. Defarge (the leader of the French Revolution and ...
- 1607: Bypassing the Truth About Reality
- ... banks or filling stations or maternity wards, churches, armies or countries”(278). Hermaphrodites and Androgynous people are very similar and yet looked upon as being one freakish, and the other normal. Baldwin points out “The American ideal, then, of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity”(279). “This ideal has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white”(279). This means that if the American boy didn’t grow up into the ideal of masculinity, then he would be looked at as abnormal and freakish.“The human imagination” Baldwin writes, “is perpetually required to examine, control, and redefine reality, ...
- 1608: Biography of Ogden Nash
- Biography of Ogden Nash Fredric Ogden Nash was an American humorist who lived from 1902 to 1971. He was born in 1902 in Rye, New York, where he grew up with well educated parents. Microsoft Encarta 95 said that his parents names were Edmund Strudwick ... one of the best private high schools in the east: St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. Moving on in his life, he enrolled at Harvard at the age of 18 (from 1920-1921). Contemporary American Poets stated that Nash then took a job in the editorial and publicity department at the Doubleday and Doran Publishing Company. He worked very hard at this position, moving up the "executive" ladder very quickly ... 1931 was the greatest year of Nash's life. In June, he married Frances Rider Leonard of Baltimore, Maryland. Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse: "Hard Lines" and "Free Wheeling." Contemporary American Poets made an interesting statement on these first two books by Nash: "These two books show poetry of remarkable freedom of scansion (rhythm pattern) and uncoventional feelings of thoughts." Contemporary American Poets showed clearly ...
- 1609: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... aol.com With The Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists by the people of America. The dramatist was born in Manhattan in October 17, 1915, to Isadore and Agusta Miller, a conventional, well to do Jewish couple. Young Arthur Miller was an intense athlete ... the McCarthy period when Americans were accusing each other of Pro-Communist beliefs. Many of Miller's friends were being attacked as Communists and in 1956, Miller himself was brought before the House of Un-American Activities Committee where he was found guilty of beliefs in Communism. The verdict was reversed in 1957 in an appeals court. The Crucible is set against the backdrop of the mad witch-hunts of the ... of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse for ...
- 1610: Homeopathy And Women
- ... rid of stereotype and domination would make these traditions "alternative" in the deepest sense. At the focus of this paper are the life and works of Dr. James Tyler Kent, an eminent 19-th century American homeopath. Kent himself would never have used the word "alternative" for his personal brand of homeopathy, which he presumed was blessed by God; but with the distance that time affords, we can permit ourselves to ... they appear to be central to the doctor's worldview, and would therefore have been strongly defended. Overall, Kent's homeopathy constitutes but one strand in a wider discursive formation which may be termed "Victorian American;" yet it also departs from its cultural matrix enough to suggest that in his constructions of gender Kent drew upon sources other than popular culture and medical orthodoxy. Assuming this to be so, then a ... far as this exercised hegemonic authority with regards to women. A ground-breaking monograph in this regard is Barker-Benfield's Horrors of the Half-Known Life (1976), which focuses on a cluster of prominent American physicians, who as outspoken misogynists practised sexual surgery and instituted other suppressive methods in order to eradicate various aberrations, including masturbation and lustfulness. In a similar vein Haller and Haller's The Physician and ...
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