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- 8021: Multiculturalism In Music
- ... as a euphemism for sex” (R&RG, 20). Concepts of rhythm and clues such as “complex rhythms and call-out response” and “blending work of both joys and sorrows in the South” were taken black American heritage (R&RG, 23). These styles of music were set to anglo-style songs and thus produced a new style of music. This new style of music set the stage for some of the most ...
- 8022: Spin Cycle
- ... the book, one find’s themselves lapping it up like a kitten with milk, but near the end you finally begin to ask yourself: how in the hell does he know what he knows.. All American presidents in the modern era have had a special group of political advisors to assist the president in his dealings with the media. This isn’t anything that is new. But the Clinton spin team ...
- 8023: Stephen King
- ... was not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for review. After a couple of weeks and a couple rounds around the department, the English professors were stunned. They realized that they had a real writer on their hands. >From then until ...
- 8024: Stranger In The Kingdom
- ... The Kingdom I was astonished that something like that took place in Vermont. I have always been under the misconception that racism isn’t extremely prevalent in our local culture today. Once again my white American’s views were challenged when I read Snow Falling On Cedars, by David Guterson. The two books seem to me to be exactly the same story, only they occur about forty years apart from each ...
- 8025: Liberty Valance
- ... with key issues and so on, and it is difficult to absorb all these in the one viewing. From what I’ve heard, nearly all of the movies directed by John Ford are relevant to American History, and this one is no different. He shows how someone’s life can be built up on a lie. Take the lie out that it is built up on, and then the rest of ...
- 8026: Les Mis
- ... if she could not have Marius, no one should be able to. So she wrote him a false letter telling him to meet Cosette when in actuality he was simply being led into the French revolution. Yet when the barrel of a gun was pointed towards Marius, it was Eponine who placed her hand over the end, sending the bullet through her and out of her back, slowly killing her. Though ...
- 8027: La Amistad 2
- ... fighting for the slaves was their lawyer, who had almost no experience whatsoever. The story ends happily, with the slaves being freed and the slave fortress at Sierra Leone being destroyed by British cannons! The American government tells the slaves (through interpreters) that they will take them back to Africa to lead their regular lives again. When Cinque gets back, he find his wife and children gone, it is believed that ...
- 8028: Sula
- Many works of contemporary American fiction involve one individual's search for identity in a stifling and unsympathetic world. In "Sula," Toni Morrison gives us two such individuals. In Nel and Sula, Morrison creates two individual female characters that at ...
- 8029: Surfacing - A Reason To Kill
- ... complete control of the continent and to turn everyone into a single type of creature : "Are the Americans worse than Hitler. It was like cutting up the pieces of a tapeworm, the pieces grew." Being American means being replicated for a prototype of the ideal creature and forced to live in a society separated from life' s most fundamental qualities. If people are living in a culture which separates them from ...
- 8030: Sweetness And Power
- ... sugar, and the infamous triangle trade became significant. "The first and most famous triangle linked Britain to Africa and to the New World: finished goods were sold to Africa, African slaves to the Americans, and American tropical commodities (especially sugar) to the mother country and her importing neighbors" (Pg. 43). Mintz then mentions the importance of plantations to sugar production and the importance of sugar to the increase of plantations. Topics ...
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