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- 1801: Creation Story Of The Iroquios
- The Native American Indian tribe called the Iroquois contributed greatly toward America. They have many stories about the world, and how things came to be the way they are. They have one story about the creation of the ... the evil mind sinks to eternal doom. After the battle the good mind visits the people and teaches them what they will need to know in order to survive. One of the most important Native American groups in North American history is the Iroquois. The Iroquois Indians have been estimated to have been around as early as 900 ad. They lived in what are called long houses. The long houses were built in rows ...
- 1802: Flying Home
- "Flying Home": a Living Story. Ralph Waldo Ellison is perhaps one of the most influential African-American writers of the twentieth century. Ellison is best known for writing about such topics as self-awareness, identity, and the racial repression of African-Americans in the United States. His masterpiece, Invisible Man, chronicles the ... and the necessity of racial pride. It was during this time that Ellison composed "Flying Home." "Flying Home", is the story of a young man who is one of a very small number of African-American pilots in World War II. The story begins as the young man, named Todd, crashes his trainer plane into a Southern crop field. Injured and unable to move, Todd is helped by one of the ... Ellison’s mother Ida, had continuously worked to break down racial barriers throughout her life(Busby 9). Ellison was educated at the Tuskegee Institute, which has a history of being on the forefront of African-American civil rights. His road to Tuskegee was a bumpy one however. Ellison became sort of a hobo to get himself to the institute and on his way got tangled in the Scottsboro boys affair. ...
- 1803: Catch 22 - Satire
- ... danger of his position and tries various means to extricate himself from further missions. Yossarian is driven crazy by the Germans, who keep shooting at him when he drops bombs on them, and by his American superiors, who seem less concerned about winning the war than they are about getting promoted. Heller spent eight years writing Catch-22, is a former student at three universities--New York, Columbia and Oxford--and ... required to fly before being sent home so that no one is ever sent home. Heller's satire targets a variety of bureaucrats, the military-industrial complex, and the business ethic and economic arrangements of American society. Humor rising out of the crazy logic of modern warfare hits squarely on the mark. (Hicks 32). The following passage demonstrates the humor and enlightens the reader about the book's title and the ... Medals for Madness." Saturday Review. 44.40 (October 7, 1961) Kennard, Jean E. "Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity." MOSAIC IV/3 (University of Manitoba, 1971) Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real - The Confidence Man in American Literature." Oxford University Press (1982) Merrill, Robert. "The Structure and Meaning of Catch-22. Studies in American Fiction. 14.2 (1986) Seltzer, Leon F. "Milo's 'Culpable Innocence': Absurdity as Moral Insanity in 'Catch- ...
- 1804: E. E. Cummings
- E. E. Cummings: A Man of Poetry The background of E.E. Cummings, who was a distinctive, American poet, greatly influenced his literary achievements in poetry. This can be seen in the experiences of his early childhood. Cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 14, 1894 (Ulanov 565). He ... ambulance driver in France during WWII. From his experiences in La Ferte Mace (a detention camp) he accumulated material for his documentary novel, The Enormous Room (1922), one of the best war books by an American (Triem 2). After a lifetime of literary achievement, Cummings died in Conway, NH, on Sept. 3, 1962 at the age of 68 (Ulanov 565). Thus, his early childhood and his later years helped to shape ... The themes and techniques used by E. E. Cummings distinguish his unique writing style from all other average poets of his time. In his writings, Cummings , expressed many different themes. He attacks many aspects of American life, especially Puritanism and Philistinism (Cummings, Penguin, 470). In some of his poems, he favored toward the spiritual outlook of man. The poems showed his transcendental faith in a world where the self-reliant, ...
- 1805: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. In his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald epitomized the mindset of an era with the statement that his generation had, "grown up to find all Gods dead, all ... provide some of the best insight into the lifestyles of the rich during America’s most prosperous era, while simultaneously examining major literary themes such as disillusionment, coming of age, and the corruption of the American Dream. The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald is marked by as much, if not more, romanticism and tragedy than his novels. Throughout Fitzgerald’s life, he unsuccessfully battled alcoholism, depression, and himself, in a quest ... after Zelda became mentally ill, Fitzgerald clearly illustrated his unconditional love for his wife by compromising his artistic integrity in order to write short stories to support her medical expenses. Aside from Zelda, two major American literary figures played a substantial role in Fitzgerald’s life, and his personal decline as well. On an extended trip to Europe, and at the pinnacle of his fame, Fitzgerald met and became acquainted ...
- 1806: Negative Effects of Television on Today’s Youth
- ... on television lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch those programs.” That was the final word from a 1982 report by the National Institute of Mental Health. Because of this report, the American Psychological Association passed a resolution that informed broadcasters and the public of the dangers that viewing violence on television can have for children (Berry 78). Children and teenagers that watch a lot of television are ... in school were more likely to be arrested or prosecuted for criminal acts as adults (Feshbach 233). The number of children that have access to these violent acts is astonishing. In 1950, only 10% of American homes had a television, and by 1960 the percentage had grown to 90%. Today, 99% of homes have a television. Also, 54% of American children have a television set located in their bedrooms (Jaglom 21). Also, proving that television is a major influence in children’s lives, children spend more time learning about life through media than than ...
- 1807: The Great Gatsby: America's Era of Disdain
- ... used by Scott Fitzgerald to manifest his eras lost dream. The society he describes substitutes present existence for moral and any other vicinity of feelings. Fame and wealth is the climax according to the Great American Dream. Those who are there carelessly trample over anything in path of their vicious cycle of present glory. The ones who were born in poverty and vulgarism live lives of sacrifice and disdain to obtain ... eminent refusal his dream became meaningless, deteriorated of reason. When embraced with the reality of her permanent loss his self-effort crumbled upon the empire he made himself. The joyrides finale. His definition of the American dream was raped from meaning. Gatsby's despair delineates an era in which some simply repelled the endless lifestyle of the American Dream. All who are left with the distasteful feeling from a fraudulent jade of such dream. Yet there are those who carry themselves through the vicious cycle well concealed with accepted greatness, and with ...
- 1808: US Politics and Foreign Policy
- US Politics and Foreign Policy Letter to the editor, Re: American Reluctance After decades of so called healthy, democratically provoked American military intervention in Central America, why is it the U.S. is reluctant to invade Haiti and restore the popular, and of course, democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide? What is Mr. Aristide? Basically, he ... previous, and maybe following, U.S. administrations. What of George Bush? You could say that these are totally incompatible with the so called "new world order" planned out by Mr. Bush. With some other Central American countries in mind, we should be looking out for the intervention of the American CIA, which could show yet another example of American intervention to topple elected governments which do not fit to their ...
- 1809: Drown: A Consideration
- ... rebellious nature on the disappointment caused by his father and the childhood illusion of America. Diaz, through language and symbolism, forces readers into an emotional bond with Yunior while exposing the illusory nature of the American dream. Although intertwined with each story, "Fiesta, 1980" allows for a more concise discussion of Diaz’s purpose. Diaz’s language, even at first glance, appears very different from conventional authors: Mami’s younger sister ... the phrases "got themselves" and "nothing to nobody" in the above quote, gives his narratives a certain rebellious quality. Not only does he rebel against America’s tendency to smother cultural values but rebelling against American rules in general, even the rules of grammar. Diaz continues his grammatical attack on the United States’ rules with his lack of quotation marks: Papi pulled me to my feet by my ear. If you ... and selfish, represents America and all of its false promises. The juxtaposed images represent the countries, opposites in Yunior’s mind. Yunior feels his homeland slipping away while America takes over, his culture fading on American soil: The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don’t belong to English though ...
- 1810: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... vocabulary (p.55). In building the case against racism, anthropologists were more important in the U.S. than in the U.K., whereas biologists were more important in Britain than in America (p. 57). Leading American biologists, drawn from old WASP families and particularly influential at Harvard, supported eugenics and its antiimmigration platform. These biologists, for example, Charles Davenport in his Race Crossing in Jamaica (1929), still worked within the old ... political commitment to egalitarianism was instrumental in leading these antiracist biologists to challenge established theories of biological determinism. While Parts I and II focus on anthropology and biology, including the infamous I.Q. tests on American troops in World War I, and the eugenicists' efforts to develop policies on immigration and the feeble- minded, the book does not address the role of the discipline of psychology. One suspects that here racists ... act (p.76). Here he and other Jewish intellectuals faced an entrenched antisemitism which devalued their critiques of racism, while not recognizing the partisanship of WASP defenders of racial inequality (p.77). Nonetheless, Boas persuaded American anthropologists to make a declaration clear in its rejection of Nazi racism, and more emphatic than anything their British colleagues could manage prior to 1939 (p.78). Ballen correctly shows racism under attack in ...
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