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- 1941: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... and other erratic behavior, have all attributed to the controversial nature of the novel. Yet the novel is not without its sharp advocates, who argue that it is a critical look at the problems facing American youth during the 1950's. When developing a comprehensive opinion of the novel, it is important to consider the praises and criticisms of The Catcher in the Rye.When studying a piece of literature, it ... of The Catcher in the Rye, is derived from thoughtful and sympathetic insights into both adolescence and adulthood, his use of symbolism, and his idiomatic style, which helped to re-introduce the common idiom to American literature. While the young protagonists of Salinger's stories (such as Holden Caulfield) have made him a longtime favorite of high school and university audiences, establishing Salinger as "the spokesman for the goals and values ... youth during the 1950's" (qtd. in Davis 317), The Catcher in the Rye has been banned continually from schools, libraries, and bookstores due to its profanity, sexual subject matter, and rejection of some traditional American ideals. Robert Coles reflected general critical opinion of the author when he called Salinger "an original and gifted writer, a marvelous entertainer, a man free of the slogans and clichιs the rest of us ...
- 1942: Examine The Social Conditions
- ... South Wales in the late 18th century was influence by a number of social and political situations, which developed throughout Britain in the 18th century. The British society was dramatically changing due to the Industrial Revolution, soaring birth rates and higher age of death. The dramatic rise in the birth rate led to a lot of people being unable to find work and in desperation turning to crime. In 1776, Britain ... a place to send their convicts. British jails were in desperate ruin and ran in appalling condition. They were also overflowing and Britain needed to find a way to accommodate all the prisoners. The Industrial Revolution took place primarily between 1750 1850. It was a time of dramatic change in Britain. Due to the increase in national wealth, generated by economic growth the gap between rich and poor was becoming wider. Many wealthy people took the convenient view that this social order had been ordained by God and should not be interfered with. People before the Industrial Revolution manufactured goods in their own home, which was gradually phased out by factories. This meant for some a job in a factory under very harsh conditions and for others it meant unemployment, which led ...
- 1943: Legalizing Marijuana
- ... because their is no hard core evidence that proves that marijuana is a effective drug as a medicine. In twenty years of research have produced no reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value. The American Cancer Society , American Glaucoma Society,the National Multiple Sclerosis, the American Academy of Ophthalmology , or the American Medical Association , say that their is no evidence that marijuana is a medicine. The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and that knew findings ...
- 1944: Six Hours of Television
- ... other, having some of the same qualities. Looking at these shows in the perspective of an anthropologist some disquieting trends emerge. I will present the information as if an outsider, from another nation, were watching American shows, and believed what he/she was seeing to be true of what goes on in America. Perhaps more realistic than the other shows, NYPD BLUE, and HIGH INCIDENT represent the closest what life is ... are many cities like those portrayed in these two shows. Like the other shows I will discuss, these two have casts made up of predominately Caucasian males and females. Other nationalities, such as Asian, Afro-American, and Latino are sprinkled in just enough to make sure the shows are politically correct. To an outsider this would show that white males dominate society and life in America. While this is certainly true ... to come to America. After watching two hours of comedy and police drama shows he/she can make several conclusions about what America has to offer, and what he/she will find when stepping onto American soil. The cities of America are boiling with violence and aggression. There is hope though. It's very easy to make lots of friends, a few of whom are the off the wall type. ...
- 1945: Regulating Big Companies
- ... penalize them. I will also try to present ideas and theories to suggest more effective mechanisms to fight these problems. The first case, was dealing with sweatshops. The biggest legal challenge ever against sweatshops on American soil was made, which accused Tommy Hilfiger, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Wal-Mart, and other companies, of conspiring to put thousands of workers in bad working conditions and mistreat them to hold down production costs. These actions were taking place in the Northern Mariana Islands, which was an American commonwealth near the Philippines. The workers are described as predominantly young women from China, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Thailand, that often work twelve hours a day and seven days a week. They sometimes don't ... have been other cases like this over the past several years, but nothing seems to be working in stopping this activity. There needs to be stricter restrictions on labor laws and job conditions in these American factories in foreign countries. There needs to be routine checks on these factories on a regular basis to see how they are operating. These corporations will continue to abuse these foreign workers for personal ...
- 1946: Appalachian
- ... that all the major subdivisions except for New England lie in strips parallel to the Atlantic and to one another. The Appalachian mountains were formed due to several collisions between the African, Eurasian and North American Plates. Africa and North America were joined into one super continent. The collision of these land masses over 1 billion years ago metamorphosed the original rock producing the Pedler gneiss and Old Rag granite which ... rise to the Taconic Orogeny. Rocks metamorphosed and deformed in this event are seen in the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces. This all occured during the Ordovician time, about 425 million years ago. As North American, African, and Europe convergence continued, a small microplate known as the Avalon terrane, collided with North America producing a second phase of deformation, metamorphism and magmatism known as the Acadian Orogeny. This event had the ... 380 million years ago. With continued subduction, finally collision of the African continent with North America occured causing intense folding , which is most pronounced in the Valley and Ridge province, andmetamorphism. The European and South American plates were also converging with North America at this time to form a super continent called Pangea. Thiss all occured during the Alleghenian Orogeny furing the Pennsylvanian time. Pangea began to break up in ...
- 1947: Catch-22 2
- ... 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- ...
- 1948: Legalizing Marijuana
- ... because their is no hard core evidence that proves that marijuana is a effective drug as a medicine. In twenty years of research have produced no reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value. The American Cancer Society , American Glaucoma Society,the National Multiple Sclerosis, the American Academy of Ophthalmology , or the American Medical Association , say that their is no evidence that marijuana is a medicine. The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and that knew findings ...
- 1949: Karl Marx
- ... 1847, a group called the Communist League. At the leagues request, Marx and Engels drew up the Communist Manifesto in 1848. This is one of the most well known works of the pair. Once the Revolution of February 1848 took place, Marx was again banished, except this time from Belgium. He returned to France for the March Revolution, and then traveled to Germany where he published the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, from June 1, 1848 to May 19, 1849. Again Marx was banished from Germany, and again he returned to Paris. After the demonstration ... himself involved in political activity in the 1850's and 1860's with the revival of democratic activities. Most of the important works written by Marx can be summed up by the results of the revolution in "The Class Struggle of France." In these works Marx shows for the first time materialist dialectics to the study of an entire historical period. Marx tells the entire tall of causes, character, and ...
- 1950: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... textbooks to learn grammar, composition, literature, economics, philosophy, and politics. (Archer 17) His coworkers were so impressed with his determination to gain more knowledge that they taught him Latin and introduced him to English and American classics. (Archer 17) By 1822, a bold ambition took hold of this 16 year old apprentice. He was always setting type for other men's words why not set type for his own? On an ... color-it is their organ." (Archer 47) The prevalent feeling among northern whites in 1831 was reflected in a February public held meeting in the Boston State House to organize a Massachusetts chapter of the American Colonization Society. The Legislature was already to pass a $240,000 appropriation to resettle abroad the State's entire population of free Negroes, over a period of 28 years. (Archer 47) The Christian solution was to send them back to Africa. Garrison was appalled at this idea and threatened to expose the American Colonization Society as a fraud perpetrated on Americans to persuade them that Negroes were inferior subhumans and were fit to remain in the Nation only as slaves. (Archer 48) Garrison set out to build ...
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