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- 4851: Folklore
- ... Balys, 255). The term "folk" means "working class, marginalized, and grassroots" (Montenyohl, 230). The term folklore traditionally meant, according to Montenyohl, community-based, orally transmitted, and historically rooted (230). Folklore is an "integral part of American culture and are told and believed by some of the most sophisticated 'folk' of modern society" (Brunvand, xi) The definition of folklore has changed throughout the changing of time. Today folklore represents many different forms ... allow us to speak of our fears. "Legends fulfill a society's demand for gossip and rumor, reinforce or validate beliefs and inspire talking about shared unexplainable experiences. And since they reveal taboos and obsessions American urban legends tend to be about death, cars, hygiene or money" (Bishop, C10). These legends also tend to focus on sex, drugs, and any other unexplainable mishap imaginable. Urban legends are often a means of ...
- 4852: I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag...
- ... us, pledging allegiance to the Flag of the United Sates of America. And this flag we pledge to, it stands for freedom. As we grew up, we went and learned more and more what the American Flag stood for. As youngsters, we sang songs to it in music class; studied its history in Social class; drew pictures of it in Art class; and knew it well enough to praise it when ... military. This is America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. My opinions on the flag and flag burning are obvious and straight forward. But please don't forget that the meaning of the American Flag to me go much deeper and are more meaningful than that.
- 4853: Definition of War
- ... a possibility. It is only logical that in a war there must be some form of a protagonist as well as an antagonist, but in many cases, it is unclear who gets which label. The American Civil War is a perfect example. The South wanted the freedom to make decisions that benefited a large agricultural society, and when that freedom was denied, they withdrew from the Union. The Union, on the ... right, but when all of the negotiations had been exhausted, war was the result. In this case there was no other option because both sides believed in their cause. The soldiers in the war suffered. American men spent weeks at a time in rat infested trenches with lice all over their bodies in both World War One and Two. There are countless examples of horrible war crimes, biological weapons, napalm strikes ...
- 4854: America's Bad Choice In Leaders
- America's Bad Choice In Leaders The biggest misconception about people who are “Anti - American” is that they hate Americans. The way I think about it, America “the country” and Americans are two completely different things. When I say America it means the government, it doesn’t mean I hate ... more pot so the fire would look really big for the news cameras. No one knows where all that other pot that the farmers never grew came from but it didn’t matter to the American public watching their nightly news, because they didn’t know. Using the army to fight the marijuana farmers in California also caused the prices of harsher and more dangerous drugs like heroin to go up ...
- 4855: The Howl of a Generation
- ... generation of people see the world. That generation is now aging and its representative voices are becoming lost to eternity, but the message is alive and well. The Beats have forever altered the nature of American consciousness. The impact of the Beats would certainly not have been as universal or influential if not for the writing of one poem; "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg: I saw the best minds of my generation ... the poem an eternal and prophetic quality that has remained unrivaled in modern poetry. This examination of "Howl"’s history, structure, and themes brings to light the poem’s ultimate importance to the history of American literature and society. The Beat Generation of writers offered the world a new attitude. They brought to society a consciousness of a life worth living. They offered a method of escape from the stultifying, unimaginative ...
- 4856: Mancur Olson’s The Logic of Collective Action
- ... for a large amount of interest groups. Trade associations are groups that are formed in order to regulate and represent certain types of industry and business. Good examples of trade associations are bar associations, the American Medical Association, labor unions and other professional organizations. These three types of interest groups represent the majority of groups present on the national level. An exploration of these groups and other groups will provide insight ... interest groups raise fascinating questions. Who actually controls government? According to the by-product theory the majority of interest groups present will be businesses and trade associations. These groups represent the powerful economic interests of American society but only a small percentage of the total population of the United States. With these groups making up a majority of interest groups, are the interests of the common man being put forth. Are ...
- 4857: Silent Dancing: Memories of Childhood
- ... I got a taste of what was to come in my adolescence. It prepared me quite well, I think, for the social interaction of dating. It seemed innocent enough, but it was our first sexual revolution, a revolution in thinking and feeling that would influence the way we spent the rest of our formative years. I think back to these carefree and exploratory days in trying to sort through my interactions with other ...
- 4858: Chamberlain and Fabri: Strong Advocates
- ... need for jobs, which in turn caused a demand for raw materials, thus the need for new markets increased dramatically. A second important trend of this time was the spread and peaking of the Industrial Revolution which led to advances in all different economic areas of Western nations that in turn allowed people to produce more and more goods than could ever be consumed. This trend goes hand in hand with the severe depression struck the West between 1873-1890. This definitely caused a need for new markets, especially outside of Western nations because these countries (as a result of the Industrial Revolution) could not consume nearly as much goods as it was producing. So in order to avoid massive amounts of unemployment, new markets had to found; Furthermore, these markets had to come from outside of the ...
- 4859: Fallen Souls in "The Inferno"
- ... last class (with fear my verses tell it) were covered wholly; they shone below the ice like straws in glass,” (Literature 641). And among these ice covered souls is the soul of Benedict Arnold, an American officer of the American Revolutionary War. During Arnold's time as an officer he became one of George Washington's most trusted officers. But his deceit and worthlessness was shown when Arnold “sold his services to the British,” (New ...
- 4860: David Guterson and His Use of the Theme of Nature
- David Guterson and His Use of the Theme of Nature David Guterson, a young American author, has written two major works regarding aspects of human nature and human emotions. His first publication, a collection of short stories, entitled The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind addresses some of the ... literary works. He also uses them as literal tools to develop his work, beautiful cedars and elms which are magnificent, full trees with flowing branches that are visually pleasing and familiar to his readers. In “American Elm”, one of Guterson's short stories, trees are used as a metaphor to screen and sheild the sanitarium from the rest of the town. “Burrellville Sanatarium lay shadowed in a thicket of pines...”(Elm ...
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