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- 2051: Thornton Wilder
- ... at Princeton, where he took his Master of Arts degree in 1926. The Cabala was issued as a novel that year, but was largely ignored by the critics. "Although over-age when America entered World War II, Wilder sought military assignment...and served in Air Force Intelligence in the United States, North Africa and Italy" (Block and Shedd 959). America's involvement in World War II changed Wilder's perspective. "He had too clear an idea of man's limited possibilities..." (Papajewski 109). Wilder wrote, "When you're at war you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one" (Papajewski 109). Wilder wrote his best works with this very theme while in the service. A ...
- 2052: Canterbury Tales: Who is the Narrator?
- ... Call me Ishmael," and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was not a hodgepodge of resurrected body parts. Neither was Chaucer identical with the narrator in the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was at various times a courtier, civil servant, ambassador, and prisoner of war, but the text doesn't indicate that the plump little narrator tagging along with the jingling, colorful group speaks as any of those(2). The narrator remains a writer and a pilgrim, and it is ... in elaborate ambassadorial speeches) or an ability to write (which he would have needed in a job such as customs-official or comptroller, both of which Chaucer held)(2). But whether a writer became a civil servant or a courtier, he wasn't limited to legal writing. Courtiers, of course, might have needed to be expert creators of tales and poems for entertainment on long evenings. But civil servants, too, ...
- 2053: Thomas Hobbes
- ... believes the nature of man to be bad. According to Hobbes, if we as men were left to exercise our own private judgement regarding our affairs we would most assuredly collapse into a state of war. He believes that when there is no singular, ever-present power to keep man in awe, and to control man by fear of punishment from that singular power, that man will break his agreements and ... self-interest, so without the terror of some ever-present power to instill fear in all man, we would abstain from no measure in order to preserve our own well being. In a state of war man is in "a Continual fear and danger of a violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (Hobbes. Pg. 107) The only way to prevent entering a state of war is to erect one common power, which is known as a commonwealth or sovereign, who is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every ...
- 2054: An Analysis Of Heart Of Darkne
- ... midst of. On the other hand, his friends on the boat simply don't know of these realities. It is their ignorance, as well as their innocence which provokes them to say "Try to be civil, Marlow"(57). Not only are they oblivious to the reality which Marlow is exposed to, but their naivetι is so great, they can't even comprehend a place where this 'so called' reality would even ... said: The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.sigmund Freud, 1915 The conflicts that Freud stressed were within the psyche: people at war with themselves and sometimes with the cultural authorities they had internalized. But he thought that the way we managed (or failed to manage) those conflicts had everything to do with the explosions of violence that ... the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.- Sigmund Freud, 1939 CRISES Freud thought that social life originated in unresolvable conflicts and hence that civilization was always vulnerable to radical disruptions. From World War I until his death in 1939, he witnessed increasingly violent social crises, which he took to be irrational "symptoms" of these primal conflicts. Seemingly senseless wars, escalating anti-Semitism, and the threat of Nazi ...
- 2055: The African Queen Summary Char
- THE AFRICAN QUEEN Short Summary: "The African Queen" is the tale of two companions with different personalities who develop an untrustworthy love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I. They struggle against the climate, the river, the bugs, the Germans and, most of all, against each other. In the course of much misery, they develop love and respect for each other. Detailed Summary ... a stuffy British missionary, Reverent Samuel Sayer and his spinster, prudish sister Rose Sayer, who is utterly devoted to her brother. Rose is also very naive and pious. She thinks, God would not permit a war between England and Germany or the whole world.. Some day, German troops marches into that village. Merciless, without any warning, these troops invade the village, they burn down the huts and the church. Livestock, poultry, pots and pans and foodstuffs even the portable chapel had been taken by the German soldiers. Only the mission bungalow was spared. Samuel goes on praying the awful calamity of war which has descended upon the world would soon pass away, so that slaughter and destruction would cease and that when they had regained their sanity men would turn from war to universal peace. Because ...
- 2056: John Adams
- ... very unstable and uncertain, both at home and abroad. Hamilton made bitter attacks on Adams policies (Elser, 1993). The fiscal situation was desolate. The national debt and the threat of what appeared to be inescapable war caused great stress, opposition, and even occasional violence (Onuf, 1993). Matters only became worse. The Federalist Congress created a provisional army which, though needed, added to the financial strain. Congress then passed three major oppressive ... Gundersen, 1975). Due to these congressional measures, citizens, including Jefferson, began to fear that the provisional army would not just fight France, but also use their military strength to attack protesting Americans, hence beginning a civil war. That Sedition Act had no immediate impact may be evidence that the Federalists were acting out of paranoia in their immediate frenzy to stop domestic opposition (Ferling, 1992). These events, along with the establishing ...
- 2057: The Role of Decision Making in the Pre-Crisis Period of India (15 March, 1959 - 7 September, 1962)
- ... that India was a considerably new nation-state. India also had to preserve her independence of action. It didn't simply fight for independence simply to become a camp follower of any of the Cold War Power blocs. The restrictions and limitations that such a position imply would be against India's national interest. And it was exactly this nonalignment policy of Nehru between the two sides of the Cold War which was the projection of Indian nationalism into world affairs (Maxwell, 1970). Nehru also expressed the idea that India was an Asian power that should not be overlooked at. He demonstrated that "in regard to ... countries of Asia, India has to be considered" (Gopal, 1980). During the 1950's and 1960's Nehru and his advisors realized that India was playing a far more than neutral role in the Cold War politics. She was a very important player on the world stage, where questions of war and peace were decided. He recognized that in s bipolar world, in which relations between the superpowers were based ...
- 2058: The Second Amendment
- ... of American youngsters rising at a stagering rate, we obviosly cannot sit and do nothing. Something must be done and gun limitations through the repeal of the Second Ammendment is a good weopon in this war. The second reason why a repeal of the Second Ammendment could be a good choice in limiting guns is the original purpose of that ammendment. The ammendment "grew out of the deep- seated fear of ... dificult to manufacture servicable firearms in ones home than to brew up a batch of homeade gin" (Wright,Ross, and Dailey 321). This ability to manufacture underground weapons was seen before during the Soviet Unions war with Afghanistan. The "Afghanistan tribesmen used wood and metal working equipment much like the equipment you can order in a sears magazine, produced hand crafted rifles that fire the Russian AK-47 assault rifle cartridge ... were presented with an English bill of right. This bill included a specific right for Englishmen to have Arms for defense" ("Gun Control"8), in fact if this right was not exersized during the Revolutionary War with England our constitution would never have been written. In conclusion " A well Regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms ...
- 2059: Slavery: A Justified Institution
- ... the industry by investing in the cotton. The fragility of the triangle was tested as controversy surrounding the labor methods used by the South was questioned and criticized. The controversy reached a high and the Civil War commenced, proving to be the ultimate imbalance and destructor of the economy. Meanwhile, the South also saw a war that was not winnable without foreign intervention; thus, the third party comes into play. It is obvious the South had to enforce slavery at this point based on their dependence on cotton as a ...
- 2060: Once A Warrior King---review,
- ... of Vietnam. David Donavan gives his account as the Army First Lieutenant in charge of a southern Vietnamese district. Based in the southern, rural village of Tram Chim, this book shifts the focus of the war from the political misunderstanding and shortcomings to the social effects they had on both the Vietnamese people and Donovan himself. Political The war in Vietnam is fraught with paradox. The facts of the war in Vietnam contrast sharply with American perceptions of it at the time. American intentions were as misunderstood as the people they were intended to protect. The information gathered in order to report the state ...
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