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- 2981: Short Story Analysis Of Edgar
- Short Story Perversity Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the best-known American Romantic who worked in the Gothic mode. His stories explore the darker side of the Romantic imagination, dealing with the grotesque, the supernatural, and the horrifying. He defined the form of the American short story. As one might expect, Poe himself eschewed conventional morality, which he believed stems from man's attempts to dictate the purposes of God. Poe saw God more as process than purpose. He believed ... deliberately shed the accouterments of convention to travel Poe's intellect? Yes, yes, emphatically, yes. It is also helpful to consider that Poe performed his search very much from the Romantic tradition and in the American spirit. He searched individually, passionately, but entirely alone. Yet his quest for transcendence to the unity of the godhead and his profound postulates governing the spiritual universe rarefied him from his literary and social ...
- 2982: The Blackfoot Indians
- ... in different multicolored attire, all with either bows or spears in hand. As they move in for the attack, the mystical scene slowly fades from vision.... This dreamlike scene was once everyday life to the American Indian before they were robbed of all that made their life real. The Indians originally came over to North America via the Bering Strait at a time when the ice age caused the gap to ... tribe, its customs, and its child-like purity can never be brought back. They no longer exist. However they can be remembered and a lesson can be learned. It's amazing that the majority of American citizens have some form of Indian blood flowing through their veins, yet know nothing of this lost heritage beyond what those John Wayne and Gene Autry western shows taught them as children. We as Americans ... human mistakes caused the annihilation of a race of people, along with its customs, traditions, and human rights. Even though we think we are the most knowledgable people, we could have learned much from the American Indian. Maybe we could have learned how to freely love other people and accept them regardless of their strange ways. .
- 2983: Laws Must Be Passed To Address The Increase In The Number And Types Of Computer Crimes
- Laws Must Be Passed To Address The Increase In The Number And Types Of Computer Crimes Over the last twenty years, a technological revolution has occurred as computers are now an essential element of today's society. Large computers are used to track reservations for the airline industry, process billions of dollars for banks, manufacture products for industry, and ... interstate telecommunication systems. "Computer crime often requires more sophistications than people realize it."(Sullivan, 40:4) Many U.S. businesses have ended up in bankruptcy court unaware that they have been victimized by disgruntled employees. American businesses wishes that the computer security nightmare would vanish like a fairy tale. Information processing has grown into a gigantic industry. "It accounted for $33 billion in services in 1983, and in 1988 it was ...
- 2984: The Things They Carried By Tim
- ... opinions concerning the Vietnam War and the draft that was used to accumulate soldiers for the war. While thinking of escaping to Canada, he says: "I was drafted to fight a war I hated. . .The American war seemed to me wrong"(44). O'Brien feels that U.S. involvement in Vietnamese affairs was unnecessary and wasteful. He includes an account of his plan to leave the country because he did not ... values concerning the war revolve. The antiwar statement is enhanced by O'Brien's use of connotative and informal diction to describe the war, its belligerent advocates, and its participants. The connotation in the adjective American in describing the war seems as though O'Brien believes the Americans are making the war revolve around themselves, instead of the Vietnamese. While also criticizing Americans, he manages to once again question the necessity ... warfare and bright, colorful explosions; however, in the guerrilla warfare of Vietnam, the grudging participants loathed the idea. Tim O'Brien very effectively portrays their hatred and the severe negative effects the war had on American soldiers in his excellent, convincing novel The Things They Carried. The skillful choice of details and several types of diction that reveal his theme of induced violence, his anti-war statement, and his view ...
- 2985: Chemical and Biological Weapons
- Chemical and Biological Weapons Chemical and biological weapons are the most dangerous threats that our soldiers face today. But just how much do most of us know about them? The American public had been bombarded by stories of how our government keeps secret weapons, does secret experiments, and the everlasting conspiracies. And many accept it all. Rather than simply trusting our government, (which is perhaps as ... that United States troops were exposed eleven times to chemical and biological weapons. Yet, two other reports concluded the opposite. The DSB and IOM reports found that there was no reliable evidence to support that American troops were exposed to chemical or biological weaponry. Unfortunately, Iraq is not the only nation using chemical weapons. Former CIA director, William Webster, has revealed that nearly 20 other nations have the chemical industry that ... city, spreading the disease. The citizens of Caff fled the city in panic, and spread the disease to the rest of Europe. More recently, in 1763, the British gave blankets as gifts to the Native American Indians. What they neglected to mention to the Indians was that the blankets came from a small pox hospital. By deliberately infecting the Indians, the British soon conquered America. Chemical weapons were used extensively ...
- 2986: The Vietnam Era
- ... beginning of the war was that the public was gung-ho and behind the government to stop communism. Reporters and cameras were successful at bringing the war up close and personal. Americans were seeing their American GIs being killed. The Tet Offense was a U.S. victory in the field. It was a major loss at home and became the turning point battle of the war. The U.S. military lost American home backing. Americans turned against the war because it was not part of "our" problems. American soldiers were being killed because we were trying to solve their problems. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968. Kent State University was the site where protesting college ...
- 2987: The Vikings
- ... late 900's Vikings raids thinned out due to civil wars in Scandinavia. Even so in the 11th century they set up temporary residence in North America in what they called Vinland. (Barnes & Noble New American Encyclopedia Vol. 19 p. 594-596) The first Viking attack on Ireland was in 820, and like the monk's attacked in 793, the people of Ireland had no chance against the powerful Viking army ... out and then t urned, leaving the stitching on the inside. Subsistence and survival is a main factor in any culture for it to live and be prosperous. The Vikings were around during the agrarian revolution and when they stayed in one area for a long enough time they grew a lot of their food. They also were involved with animal husbandry for sheep and cattle on their farms for food ...
- 2988: Edgar Allen Poe
- By: Anonymous Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to American literature have become increasingly more prominent as the years have passed. As short fiction has become a more accepted genre in literary circles, Poe's theories are studied with more passion. Although he lived a ... will continue to be studied for generations to come. Though his place in literary circles was uncertain before, his place in the literary cannon is undeniable today. Bibliography Hart, James David. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 Jacobs, Robert D. Poe: Journalist & Critic. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969. May, Charles E. Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1993 Rosenheim, Shawn, and Stephen Rachman, eds. The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe, Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. New York: Harper 1992 Word Count: 1405
- 2989: Communication Through Pictures
- ... the army in 1863, James F. Gibson, Timothy O’ Sullivan, and Thomas C. Rote (“Photographs in the Civil War” Internet). The photos that they compiled went into the collection of Civil War photographs included in American Memory which represents the Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Easton Collation of Civil War Views. It’s housed at the Photographs Division of the Library of Congress (“Photographs in the Civil War” Internet). The nucleus of ... publication, Civil War Photographs,1861-1865 which reproduced 1,047 copy negatives in the collection(Ibid). Photographs in the Civil War changed the way we looked at war. The photographs for the first time in American history, showed the grim realities that war brings. At the same time, they showed the brave and magnificent soldiers. They help historians picture what the soldiers wore, and how they fought. While the photographers could only show still pictures, that didn’t stop them from photographing famous battles, they just had to find other ways to take pictures. Through the photographs, American people had an idea of what war really looked like. Before, people only knew what they read in newspapers or herd by word of mouth. This changed the way people looked at war. Gone ...
- 2990: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of people's lives for the better.The very earliest existence of the modern day computer ... for many other tasks (Osborne, 146). In 1971 Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., an engineer at the Intel Corporation, invented the microprocessor and another stage in the development of the computer began (Shallis, 121). A new revolution in computer hardware was now well under way, involving miniaturization of computer-logic circuitry and of component manufacture by what are called large-scale integration techniques. In the 1950s it was realized that "scaling down ...
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