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- 2991: Edgar Allan Poe
- By: Tommy Smith 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 ...
- 2992: A Literary Analysis Of Toni Mo
- ... all the English mainland colonies and came to dominate agricultural production in the states from Maryland south. Eight of the first 12 presidents of the United States were slave owners. Debate over slavery increasingly dominated American politics, leading eventually to the American Civil War (1861-1865), which finally brought slavery to an end. After emancipation, overcoming slavery's legacy remained a crucial issue in American history, from Reconstruction following the war to the civil rights movement almost a hundred years later. 22) A bill has recently been proposed, by a white Ohio congressman to apologize for slavery. That congressman ...
- 2993: Who Was to Blame for the Cold War?
- ... a string of chain-reactions within the western powers, and therefore, a good deal of the blame must rest with him. Bibliography Aronsen, Lawrence & Martin Kitchen, The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective: American, British and Canadian Relations with the Soviet Union 1941-1948. London: MacMillan Press, 1988. Davis, Lynn E. The Cold War Begins: Soviet-American Conflict over Eastern Europe. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974. Dockrill, Michael. The Cold War: 1945-1963. London: MacMillan Education Ltd., 1988. Halle, Louis J. The Cold War as History. London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Jonsson, Christer. Superpower: Comparing American and Soviet Foreign Policy. London: Frances Pinter Publishers, 1984. LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945-1990, 6th ed.. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1991. Maier, Charles S., ed. The Origins of ...
- 2994: Battered Womens Syndrome - A S
- ... perception of helplessness or ineffective help sources to explain why she stayed with her batterer. Instead, the theory focuses on the psychological disturbance an individual suffers after exposure to a traumatic event. In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association added the post traumatic stress disorder classification to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III, a manual used by mental health professionals to diagnose mental illness. Although the diagnosis was controversial ... with the advent of the theory of post traumatic stress disorder, experts now attribute the etiology of emotional trauma to an external stressor, not a weakness in the psyche of the individual. Since 1980, the American Psychiatric Association has revised the criteria for diagnosing post traumatic stress disorder several times. Currently, the diagnostic criteria for post traumatic stress disorder include a history of exposure to a traumatic event and symptoms from ... experience, such events included rape, torture, war, the Holocaust, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanos, airplane crashes and automobile accidents, and did not contemplate applying the diagnosis to battered women. The American Psychiatric Association loosened the traumatic event criteria in the DSM-IV, which replaced the DSM-III and DSM-IIIR. Presently, the traumatic event need only be markedly distressing to almost anyone. Therefore, battered women ...
- 2995: Benefits Of Pet Ownership
- Benefits of Pet Ownership “I think I could turn and live with the animals. They are so placid and self-contained,” writes American poet Walt Whitman (Schellenberg 1). Yes, pets have been part of human culture throughout history, and in American households, they are more common than children. It is reported that 58% of U.S. households have at least one pet, whereas only 35% have children (Whitaker; Witherell 76). Owners spend billions of dollars each ... Indeed.” Harvard Health Letter. Dec. 1993: 1-3. Simross, Lynn. “Pets on Duty.” DollarSense. Summer 1996: 14+. Whitaker, Julian. “Adopt a Pet For Your Own Health.” Human Events. 15 July 1994. Witherall, Mary. “Rover, Heal!” American Health. Sept. 1995: 76-77.
- 2996: Business And Society
- LEADERSHIP American business is in dire straits and the blame is being heaped on its leadership or, more aptly, the lack thereof. There are probably no fewer business leaders today than there were 50 years ago. There ... presumable they have been exposed or have acquired the AIDS virus. The increase presence of AIDS in the workplace has crystallized a number of concerns for both employers and employees. However, Title I of the American with Disabilities Act covers those infected. The Act prohibits discriminating against individual with AIDS. States have different employment laws that apply to those infected. An employer can terminate someone from a job only if they ... workers to sign a waiver, not to sue for age discrimination. A company faces an indefinite future of court-mandated payments and damages if they are found guilty of violating age discrimination regulations. CAPITALISM The American ideology is base on capitalism. A capitalistic system is a system in which the means of production are privately owned. The market operates to guide production and distribute income. The terms free or private ...
- 2997: Cruelty Of Animal Testing .
- ... about our responsibility toward our relationship with animals has begun and continued to rise. As a result of pressures from animal advocacy groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and AAVS (American Anti-Vivisection Society), a number of large corporations have ceased all animal testing in recent years. These corporations include Avon, Amway, Benetton, Revlon and even General Motors, who used to subject animals to crash/impact ... non-carcinogens (PETA Factsheet). Non-animal tests are generally faster and less expensive than the animal tests they replace and improve upon. Eytex testing kits can test three concentrations of a chemical for $99.50 (American); a Draize test of comparable range would cost more than $1000, American (PETA Factsheet). There are a lot of steps the consumer can do to help and prevent the destruction of our animals. Buy cosmetics, personal care, and household products that have not been tested on ...
- 2998: Heros Of The Sixties Counter C
- ... of the Haight-Ashbury in the 60’s” and “Summer of Love” anniversary shows. Perhaps Ron Kovic said it best: “Tony Seldin is a truth teller like Whitman, like Thoreau. He is a gift, an American treasure, a poet of all the people.” Gary Snyder-In Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums, character Jaffy Ryder predicts that “millions of rucksack revolutionaires will take to the hills.” “Japhy Ryder” was none other ... connections to the natural world, and his role in introducing Zen Buddhism, with its emphasis on consciousness and an existence tuned in to the rhythms of nature, made him a spiritual mentor to the cultural revolution of the sixties. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for “Turtle Island”, and he continues to publish poetry, as well as to work on behalf of world peace and environmental awareness. He currently teaches ...
- 2999: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... Part of the inspiration for this policy came from the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, whose influence on Gandhi was profound. Gandhi also acknowledged his debt to the teachings of Christ and to the 19th-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, especially to Thoreau's famous essay “Civil Disobedience.” (Encarta) Gandhi thought the terms passive resistance and civil disobedience insufficient for his purpose, so he coined another term, Satyagraha, which means truth ... soul”), a title reserved for the greatest sages.” (Encarta) Gandhi, a man who would influence history, was very much influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau. In 1942 when Gandhi wrote his “Appeal to American Friends,” he said; “You have given me a teacher in Thoreau, who furnished me though his essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedience scientific confirmation of what I was doing in South Africa” (Tendulkar p144) In a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt, Gandhi wrote “I have profited greatly from the writings of Thoreau and Emerson.” (Tendulkar p177) During a conference in London an American reporter named Webb Miller, who himself was a longtime Thoreau admirer, asked Gandhi if he had ever read Thoreau. To which Gandhi replied, “Why, of course I read Thoreau. I read Walden first in ...
- 3000: Effectiveness Of Capital Punishment Essays of Orwell, Mencken, and Parker?
- ... and individual insight on any subject by an author, creates a very weak and ineffective platform when confronted with debate that does. Once again, I point the finger at Parker. “The overwhelming majority of the American people support capital punishment. Recent polls indicate that 72 percent of Americans favored executing murderers, the highest percentage since 1936. Support for the death penalty has risen sharply since 1966, when 42 percent of those ... By opening up paragraphs with such outright factual statements forcefully draws the reader deeper into the level of discussion at hand. This level of persuasiveness is quite spectacular in that the reader, being of probable American ideology, immediately identifies with the vast majority of what the American population reportedly feels, despite the issue at hand. Thus, creating a powerful affect well done on the authors part. Telling of “sickly light...high walls...jail yards...condemned cells...like small animal cages...” as ...
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