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- 3041: Iran-contra Affair
- ... administration saw the Sandinistas not as nationalists, but as representatives of a communist conspiracy that must be stopped. “ Lurking in the background of these affairs, then, was the ghost of McCarthyism…”(Draper 568). The White House took the 1950’s idea of McCarthyism to take every method short of a full-scale war to overthrow the Sandinista regime. The War Against the Sandinistas The United States Central Intelligence Agency armed and ... out and it was made the center of media attention. Ignoring this warning, McFarlene and North traveled to Teheran personally to deliver missiles and talk to Iranian officials. North even brought Iranians into the White House secretly at night to discuss the situation. (“Iran-Contra”) The lies in Iran-Contra kept getting deeper and deeper, and Reagan and his administration refused to give up their fight. But, they would never be ...
- 3042: Emily Dickinson
- ... stop for death, is an example of her most commonly used metrical pattern (Watts 125). Throughout her poetry she used similes, or Comparative Anatomy. Emily used centripetal and centrifugal similes. In The props Assist the House, Dickinson is trying to convey a house under construction is like a soul in the process of being perfected (Shackford 2). Emily Dickinson never prepared for her poetry beforehand, but she made the meaning of her poetry as she wrote. She misleads ...
- 3043: Iran Contra Hidden Policy
- ... a Second-Hakim plan to permit Iran to obtain the release of the Da'wa prisoners. The NSC staff was secretly assuming direction and funding of the Contras' military effort. The CIA and the White House were secretly withholding from Congressional Committees all information concerning the Iran initiative and the Contra support network. Although the NSC was not so authorized, the NSC staff secretly became operational and used private, non-accountable ... December 5, 1985, approving the shipment retroactively. However, Poindexter also testified that the Finding was prepared without adequate discussion and stuck in his safe for a year. He claimed he forgot about it. The White House asserts the President never signed it. When events began to unravel, Poindexter claims he ripped it up. One National Security Adviser understood that the Boland Amendment applied to the NSC; another thought it did not ...
- 3044: Analysis On Electronic Data Imaging
- ... pilot study is completed we will pursue the roll out of the survey. Success will be based on the survey achieving a minimum of 35% participation in all vertical markets(Weathers, 1999). Utilizing our in-house staff, consisting of five interviewers, two technical support personnel, and the project manager, we will conduct a mail survey supported by both pre and post telephone interviews. Interviewers are skilled and trained professionals that are ... In addition a backfile conversion is one of the largest single jobs that a company will undertake. An organization must be sure that all steps have been considered before deciding to do the conversion in-house. Staffing is the largest problem the company will face. Most do not have personnel experienced in managing and organizing the work-flow of a conversion project. Also companies spend too long on a conversion. Businesses ...
- 3045: Gatsby's Pursuit of the American Dream
- ... not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them ... he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza ...
- 3046: Inca Empire
- ... Some Inca girls, also, received special education and distinction as so-called “chosen women”. The most beautiful 10-year-old girls of each “ayllu” were selected (Inca Empire 7), and they were taken to “the House of the Chosen Women”, where they were brought up by older chosen women in order to become the future wifes of the members of the Inca aristocracy (Rosso 132). Every adult male, upon marriage, received ... floor around a crude stove, which was made of stone cemented with mud. During the day, people spent most of their time out of doors, working in the farms (Inca Empire 6). A typical Inca house was an one-room rectangular building of adobe brick or stone without windows or chimney. Upper-class houses were often larger and partitioned into several rooms (Inca Empire 6). Two meals a day were eaten ...
- 3047: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... Baumer because he realizes that he can not communicate with the people on the home front because of his military experiences and their limited, or nonexistent, understanding of the war. When he first enters his house, for example, Baumer is overwhelmed at being home. His joy and relief are such that he cannot speak; he can only weep (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 140). When he and his mother greet each other ... s conscious misuse of language. During his leave, perhaps Baumer's most striking realization of the vacuity of words in his former society occurs when he is alone in his old room in his parents' house. After being unsuccessful in feeling a part of his old society by speaking with his mother and his father and his father's friends, Baumer attempts to reaffiliate with his past by once again becoming ...
- 3048: The Changing of the America Through Literature
- ... Jay Gatsby himself basically bought friendship by throwing all his wild parties. He barely knew his guests and they barely knew him but they still came. Gatsby wanted Daisy to come over to Nick’s house just so she could see the size of his house and how beautiful it was. One of the things Daisy really admired about Gatsby was how wonderful his shirts were. All people cared about were possessions, money and partying. Fitzgerald wanted his readers to realize ...
- 3049: Walker's Everyday Use
- ... appreciation in our society. Art can be valued for financial and artistic reasons, or it can be valued for personal and emotional reasons. I think that Dee just wants the quilt to hang in her house as a souvenir to show off to her friends, she really does not know the meaning behind it. While Maggie has always known the meaning, she values them for what they mean to her as ... that she would manage to come to see them but wouldn't bring her friends. Just by saying that you can tell right off that she was ashamed to bring her friends over to the house. She never valued anything; everything to her was old and worthless. Until she came to visit all of a sudden, she appreciated everything. She said, "I never knew how lovely these benches are" as if ...
- 3050: Huck Finn 2
- ... fell out of the tree...I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night to see such things. "Nowhere else is Twain's voice heard more clearly than as a mob gathers at the house of Colonel Sherburn to lynch him. Here we hear the full force of Twain's thoughts on the hypocrisy and cowardice of society, "The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of ... enough tobreak with what others assume is correct and just, and makedecisions for ourselves and the ability to stand on our own and dosomething about it. We are that mob that stood outside ColonelSherburn's house, we are the Grangerfords and Shepardsons, and weare the King and the Duke, and even the foolish townspeople inevery town they conned. Somewhere along the line we must becomeI, someone has to have the courage ...
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