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- 3531: Literary Theory And African Am
- ... significance in relation to social problems is extremely difficult. There are three theories that have been very significant in re-defining the term “race” throughout their composition. This essay attempts to define the current North American concept of “race” among the African American culture and other racial notions that have been created throughout the configuration of the Post-Modernist, Feminist and Post-Colonial theories. Post-Modernism is a complicated term, one that has only emerged as an area ... drug addiction, alcohol abuse, homicide and suicide. (Biddiss 17). Now, because of de-industrialization, we also have a devastated black industrial working class. I am referring to a sentiment of tremendous hopelessness. Very few African American intellectuals have talked, or written, about Post-Modernism. In J.F. Loytard’s book “the Post-Modern Condition”, he confronts the lack of recognition of black presence that much Post-Modernist theory reinscribes and ...
- 3532: Nuclear Power: Cons
- ... solved by adopting these newer, safer methods. A main source of energy that could lead the way for the near future is solar energy. It is clean efficient and is already a large part of American and Canadian electricity production. "Solar energy already supplies about 6% of the nation's [U.S.A] energy ... the industry is still in an embryonic stage, and opportunity exists for increasing this contribution by ten ... March 28, 1979, an accident involving reactor number 2 occurred at Three Mile Island. Although Public health was not so much threatened, an inquiry done revealed such operator incompetence that it affected the whole of American Policy on Nuclear Power. When a water pressurizer, designed to keep water at a 325oC burst causing insufficient cooling. Due to this some nuclear waste from the station had to be vented to reduce steam ... gamma dose rated at the site boundary reached levels of 25 millirem per hour during the morning, as compared to the regular 0.2 millirem per hour measured regularly." (Zipko, 90) Since the accident the American Nuclear Council (ANC) as well as many other countries have installed a second emergency pressurizer, it is feared however that in an extreme water pressurizer burst the emergency reaction system would not activate. The ...
- 3533: Dylan Thomas
- ... Horse Tavern" (Sinclair, 164). Dylan was even forced to leave his hotel because of "drunkenness" (Ferris, 232). Thomas had gained a reputation of being a heavy drinker and he wasn't ready to disappoint his American followers. "Dylan lived up to his roistering and shocking reputation, while turning in some of his greatest performances as a lecturer" (Sinclair, 166). "He was loudly applauded," Ferris wrote, "His rich voice overcame any problems ... all over America to lecture by day and drink by night. Tales of his growing dependence on alcohol preceded him. The quality of Dylan's lectures deteriorated as he moved west on his tour of American bars. For the final five weeks of his visit to America, Thomas returned to New York (Ferris, 248). Dylan described his last two weeks in New York as a "liquid, libidinous fortnight" (Ferris, 250). Thomas ... Dylan Thomas-No Man More Magical. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Wilson. 1975. Thomas. Caitlin and George Tremlett. Caitlin-Life With Dylan Thomas. London : Secker and Warburg. 1986. Poetry Exhibits : Dylan Thomas. The Academy of American Poets. March 26, 00. Ferris, Paul. Dylan Thomas : The Biography. Counterpoint Press. 2000
- 3534: Asia 2
- ... to discourage European expansion. In the mid-19th century, armed clashes between China and foreign powers forced China to grant trade and diplomatic concessions. In Japan western trade stopped, with few exceptions, until an 1854 American mission secured a treaty opening relations. In establishing supremacy, the European colonizers generally took a gradual approach. Requests for trade were followed by demands for forts and land. Advisers were then pressed on local rulers ... had spread among the Western-educated Asian elite, and movements for self-government and independence emerged everywhere. The training of native armies and the education of an elite prompted reform and modernization. For example, a revolution in 1911 ended the Qing dynasty in China. However, idealistic reformers were pushed aside, and during World War I (1914-1918) China disintegrated into warlord rule. A long civil war followed between the nationalist Kuomintang ...
- 3535: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... in tales of horror, and mystery. The work he produced was considered to be some of the most influential literary criticism of his time. His poems made him one of the most famous figures in American literary history. His influence on literature is seen in all literature books in schools everywhere. Some of his famous writings is that of "Annabel Lee"; his detective story, "The Murders in Rue Morgue"; "The Pit ... famous in 1845. "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Masque of the Red Death", made him a forerunner of symbolism, and impressionism. Poe antagonized many people with a scathing campaign against an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for supposed plagiarism. Later that year Poe admitted to being drunk, which further separated him from the public. Poe’s later years were full of economic hardship and ill health. Poe ... fears, and a ot of imagination which he expressed in his stories. It has been 150 years since Poe’s death but since his death, but he has had more books published than any other American author. I think he will always be remembered.
- 3536: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... 1895 he accepted the presidency of the Board of Police Commissioners in New York City. In this position he called for war with Spain , and occasionally embarrassed his superiors.At the start of the Spanish-American war he readily resigned to join his friend Leonard Wood in organizing the first volunteer Calvary, but widely know as the"Rough Riders" . Later he became the leader of the Rough Riders and led charge up Kettle Hill during the battle of San Juan Hill. His success in the Spanish-American war and the stories in the newspaper he became sort of a national hero . In 1898 , when he came back , he was nominated for governor two weeks after he came back. He won the election ... went to oversee the construction of the canal. ne other thing he did while president was to expand the Monroe Doctrine to the Roosevelt Corollary. This law said that we could intervene in any Latin American law He did so that if any of those countries posed a threat we could just invade them and do what we wanted to the government. In 1902 he won the Nobel Peace Prize ...
- 3537: Shaping a Nation
- ... with the Lend-Lease Act, which allowed Britain to place orders on supplies and weapons without paying money. Roosevelt was the president that launched the United States into its position as a world leader. The American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II are this nations most significant wars. Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt were the presidents that made the United States victorious in these wars. These conflicts pulled this nation together ...
- 3538: Edgar Allen Poe
- 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 ...
- 3539: Vietnam And LbJ
- ... crucial time. The Vietnam War had already been ignited and US involvement was apparent. Because Johnson was an insecure man, and with that insecurity came a fear of being ridiculed, he wanted to show the American people that he could be the best president in US history. Although his intentions to create a 'Great Society' and to win the war in Vietnam were probably for the best, he still managed to ... This consisted of a series of attacks in Vietnam which virtually wiped out the Viet Cong army. "Tet was the roof falling in." (Clark Clifford -sec. of def.) Not only were thousands of Vietnamese and American lives lost but LBJ's dreams and presidency seemed to die as well. The cost of the war was simply too high to keep the 'Great Society' going and everyone else around LBJ was fed ... as he wanted to consolidate all his elbow grease in bringing the war to an end. "Lyndon Johnson believed in the domino theory but his presidency turned out to be the last domino." (Theodore White -American journalism). Word Count: 937
- 3540: Edgar Allen Poe
- 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 ...
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