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- 4721: Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude" and Allende's "The House of the Spirits": Satire
- ... his grandaughter Alba. To see how Garcia and Allende treat political issues we must first examine why they chose to examine them. When Marquez wrote his first works Colombia suffered the second greatest American fratricidal war of the twentieth century, as a result of the assassination of the popular Liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, in 1948. His novels examine in his words "… motives for that violence." The importance of politics in ... father in law. Despite Moscote painting the Liberals as "…bad people…" Aureliano comes away from the lesson sympathising "…with the Liberal attitude." Yet he still cannot "…understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand." The irony of this statement is at the core of Marquez's satirical attack on political conflict that being the stupidity in fighting over an ...
- 4722: Daddy
- ... ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak." Again this describes her fear toward her father. She is so afraid of him that she can’t talk and speak out against him. The barbwire represents the war that was taking place. She relates to the victims of war and sees herself caught in the barbwire that has been put up by her father, which keeps them separated. "I thought every German was you. And the language obscene an engine, an engine chuffing me ...
- 4723: Crime And Punishment
- ... works emerge from a writer's experiences. Through The Crucible, Arthur Miller unleashes his fears and disdain towards the wrongful accusations of McCarthyism. Not only does Ernest Hemmingway present the horrors he witnessed in World War I in his novel, A Fair Well to Arms, he also addresses his disillusionment of war and that of the expatriates. Another writer who brings his experiences into the pages of a book is Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Faced with adversity and chronic financial problems, he lived as a struggling writer in St ...
- 4724: Ebonics in Schools
- ... James McDaniel of ABC's NYPD Blue and S. Epatha Merkerson of NBC's Law and Order described the Oakland School Board's decision on Ebonics as a distinct genetically based language (Shister, p.1). Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson defended Oakland's school over a controversial plan to recognize black English in the classroom (N.A., p.1). On December 18, 1996 the Oakland School Board approved a policy affirming ... will speak about the district's recent decision to recognize Ebonics in the classroom. Other witnesses scheduled to testify at the hearing include Robert Williams, originator of the term Ebonics and Amos Brown of the Civil Rights Commission of the National Baptist Convention (N.A., p.1). The national debate on Ebonics reached Capitol Hill January 23, 1996 as a Senate subcommittee took up the provocative question of whether using African ...
- 4725: Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American
- ... their Jewish communities. Chaim Potok emphasizes the connection between Orthodox Jewry and the secular world by having his characters react to major historical events (PinkMonkey.com). The Book of Lights is set against the Korean War. In that novel, Gershon Loran travels to Korea and Japan, two countries that have never been influenced by Judaism. Loran has always been taught that Judaism is the civilizing force in Western Civilization. He must ... than a top grade in Talmud, for it was an unquestioned mark of one’s Americanism, and to be counted a loyal American had become increasingly important to us during these last years of the war (The Chosen 12). Danny and Reuven would never have become friends if they had stayed within their communities; they only came to know each other through a "potentially assimilationist" activity. Both boys grew to maturity ...
- 4726: The Challenge of Writing An Essay
- ... used it in doing homework so that I would have time to be with my friends while maintaining good grades in school. Without it the world would be a disaster. What if instead of declaring war after the Pearl Harbor bombing Roosevelt decided to wait until the mainland was being bombed to declare war? I would be writing this from Virginia, Japan, and it definitely wouldn't be written in English. Effective time management is the key to success. Being open to other people's ideas helps in writing ...
- 4727: Dante 2
- ... should have no business in politics, but Boniface saw differently as he made many political decisions in his Papal reign(Mandelbaum 356). When Edward I of England and Philip IV of France were preparing for war, both agreed that the church should provide the sinews(Mandelbaum 356). Complaints started arriving from bishops who felt that the church was being squeezed unfairly, and Boniface came to their rescue(Mandelbaum 356). In Clericis ... faced destruction(Mandelbaum 356). In 1301 Boniface VIII began his series of maneuvers against Dante, which drove him to ruin. Boniface became a person that Dante despised since he misused his sacred position and started war between Christians(Peterson). Even though Boniface was not the only Pope to deface his position, Dante had a certain hatred for the man that was responsible for his exile, from his home of Florence(Peterson ...
- 4728: The Atomic Bomb
- ... threat. F.D.R needed to do something, and do something very fast. This is why the president called to order the “Manhattan Project.” Nothing happened until Vannevar Bush, coordinator of scientific activities for the war, took charge. The program was called the Manhattan Project. It came under United States Army control in 1942. The Manhattan Project is a code name for the United States efforts to complete the separation of ... other countries have now made these terrible weapons of destruction. The making of this has only been a scar upon the world. Nuclear weapons led to many other problems in our world like the cold war. Many geniuses went to work to make great advancements in nuclear technology. It is a shame we could not have used these findings for a good cause. Brett Skyllingstad An Eyewitness Account by a Middle ...
- 4729: Economic Theories of Harsanyi, Nash, Selten, Fogel, and North
- ... of "free competition" required that the ability of each particular participant to influence outcomes be negligible. So instead, game theory found all kinds of immediate applications in the 1950's to problems of the Cold War, everything from airplane dog-fights to doctrines of massive retaliation. "In book '"Prisoner's Dilemma," writer William Poundstone records the heady intellectual excitement around the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Rand Corp. in ... University professor John Meyer. It was Meyer, with a seminal paper on the economics of slavery written with Alf Conrad in 1967, who started the excitement over using the econometric methods that emerged from World War II to the study history. Deeply embedded in North's theories about economic history is the belief that technical innovations alone are not enough to affect economic development; institutions, such as laws, constitutions, and norms ...
- 4730: The Great Depression
- ... like for farmers during the time of the Depression, as portrayed in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, and tells what the government did to end the Depression. In the 1920's, after World War 1, danger signals were apparent that a great Depression was coming. A major cause of the Depression was that the pay of workers did not increase at all. Because of this, they couldn't afford ... farms to the banks that held the mortgages. The farmers who lost their farms already would also receive low interest loans(Drewry and O'connor 569). The Great Depression was the end result of World War I. It affected the rich and poor alike, factory workers and farmers, bankers and stockbrokers. In short, it affected everyone; no one was left untouched. But of all the people hurt, farmers were the worst ...
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