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- 151: Is The Mainstream Videogames Media Biased?
- ... either the games are bad (SC, Sonic, NFL 2K, Toy Commander, no way!) or you shouldn't be writing about this particular game or console. I have also noticed the Sega sites are awash with letters claiming writers are biased. To which the staff responds "We are true gamers. We buy every console. We don't like to deny ourselves great games." And I love their strategy. They convey DC fans ... you single console simpleton." Here's news though. This is a DC site not an every-console site. By definition the site itself is biased towards the DC. Also the reason there are so many letters of this theme sent to your mailbox is because many of your readers are dissappointed with your coverage. Customer is always right. Insulting and putting down your readers isn't exactly the best strategy. Unfortunately ... above passages in DC devoted and general console sites. Why is it that DC fans so dissappointed by the unenthusiastic, subtlely hostile media coverage given to the DC? All I am saying is that such letters of dissappointment indicate that you guys are not doing the job right. Where there is smoke; there is often fire. While this may seem like a harsh bashing of videogames media in general. It ...
- 152: Jane Austen: Her Life and Work
- ... and family. "She avoided literary circles like the plague." (Southam, pg. 12) There was little known about Austen's "emotional life, thoughts, opinions, tastes, prejudices and personality. (Wright, pg.6) Since Cassandra destroyed the intimate letters Jane had written, the only assumptions historians can make are from Jane's writings. It is obvious that Jane Austen had fallen in love sometime in her life with the way she depicts love in ... is possible that Jane fell in love with a clergy man, but he had died before their "friendship could develop." (Southam, pg. 14) As George Tucker wrote, it can be assumed by reading the surviving letters, Jane was a flirtatious girl. An occasionally sharp-tounged girl who matured into a compassionate, but critically objective woman of genius. (Pg. 3) Sir Walter Scott said "(Jane had) a talent for describing the involvements ... life. She started writing early. The first novel written, Love and Friendship, was written in 1789 when Jane was only fourteen. Next Jane wrote A History of England, when she was fifteen. A Collection of Letters and Lesley Castle were written when Jane was sixteen. Elinor and Marianne was written in 1795 and First Impressions was written in 1797. Jane began writing The Watsons in 1804 but stopped writing it ...
- 153: The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
- ... conquest of Mexico. The majority of the material on this subject has been taken from the Spanish accounts, such as the True History of the Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and the Letters from Mexico by Hernando Cortes. This makes it difficult to get an objective view of this important historical event. For this reason, a testimony such as The Broken Spears is a vital reference tool. The ... s downfall take on an added dimension of fate. Another fascinating aspect of the conquest was the incredible success of Cortes in regard to the Spanish propaganda that drove the purpose for the conquest. His letters display a sycophantic loyalty to Charles V, as if everything that he and his men are doing is for the glory of the Spanish crown. In addition, Cortes' propaganda takes on a religious tone, making ... election year, say that our best days are yet to come. As our nation enters the third millennium, I wonder how much longer it will take for history to repeat itself. Works Cited Cortes, Hernan. Letters from Mexico. Trans. and Ed. Anthony Pagden. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986. Leon-Portilla, Miguel, ed. The Broken Spears. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
- 154: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- ... moving articulate statement of the vindication of Sacco and himself in an atmosphere of hysteria the two were sentenced to die and were electrocuted on August 23, 1927. With the encouragement of supporters, Vanzeffi issued letters and articles from his prison cell and displayed a highly sensitive intelligence despite the fact that he was largely self-educated. The Sacco-Vanzetti case inspired controversy reaching worldwide proportions. Belief in their innocence became ... charges against them in the State of Massachusetts although considerable pressure has periodically mounted to bring this about. (Irving Horowitz, The Anarchists, 1964, Dell Publishing) From the Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians page. Bibliography The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Nicola Sacco, Marion Denman Frankfurter (Editor), Gardner Jackson. Rpt Edition Paperback, 320 pages. Published by Penguin USA (Paper). Publication date: August 1, 1997. Dimensions (in inches ... on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, by a famous author. The Trial of The Century? [Atlantic Unbound] A comparison between the O.J. and the Sacco and Vanzetti trials. The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti Letters Magazine: Vanzetti to the Son of Sacco Overview of The Sacco-Vanzetti Case from the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Sacco and Vanzetti Trial News and Commentary Who really was guilty in ...
- 155: Emily Dickinson
- ... impact on Dickinson's life was Reverend Charles Wadsworth. She met him in Philadelphia on a road trip she took to see her father with her sister. They became very close friends, and they wrote letters to each other. [ 9. http://www.kutztown.edu/ faculty/reagan/*censored*inson.html ] Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an author and a critic. Emily sent her poems to him for criticism. He told her about anonymous ... several significant relationships. Emily began to dress in all white, resembling a bride. Around the age of thirty, she rarely saw anyone. She lived in her room and garden. She would communicate with people through letters. She only wrote to a select few. Nearly every letter she wrote would have a poem included. Her family and a few close friends would stand at her bedroom door, which was ajar, to talk ... page 288] Emily wrote many poems for close friend, Susan. In these poems, she expressed her love for Susan, her desire to hold and kiss her, and her sorrow being without Susan. These poems and letters have led some people to think Emily was a lesbian. [ 10. http://www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/ e_*censored*in.html ] Dickinson had her greatest poetic output during the Civil War. She wrote around ...
- 156: Publishers Clearing House Swee
- ... very specific, that they disclose all of their odds, and that people understand the promotions. Debbie Holland, senior vice president of the company insists that "people don't think that they win" when they receive letters from the company notifying that they are the "latest ten million dollar winner." Holland has also suggested that excerpts from their letters such as "you have to keep your customer status high" or "thank the prize patrol in advance" are not intended to trick consumers into purchasing products from the company, but are meant to "simply ask ... potential consumers. The advertisements are deceiving because of the material representations and the omissions. Reasonable people are definitely interested in winning millions of dollars, but some either do not understand the fine print (in the letters) or are so deterred by the messages that they have won that they do not pay attention to it. Finally, the money wasted on trinkets, magazines and other items that Publishers Clearing House pushes ...
- 157: Literary Paper of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
- ... for security. Steinbeck's use of the characters dialect is astoundingly excellent and unmistakenly realistic of the Joad's culture. Without this dialogue, it would not be as intense and vivid. J. Homer Caskey, in "Letters to the Editor" says, "Steinbeck's knowledge of the forces which hold a family together and the forces which cause it to disintegrate. He understands that family councils are an important part of the lives ... became a living and challenging part of the forgotten American dream. "There is a sense that man can survive in nature if he is, in turn, himself natural." ENDNOTES J. Homer Caskey, "The Saturday Review, Letters to the Editor," Ohio University, (May 1939): Vol. XX John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, (New York, NY 1992) p. 230, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, (New York, NY 1992) pp. 127-128 James N. Vaughan, "The Commonweal," (July 1939) Vol. XXX, 10c No. 14 BIBLIOGRAPHY Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath, New York, NY 1992 Caskey, Homer J. "The Saturday Review, Letters to the Editor," Ohio University (May 1939) Vaughan, James N. "The Commonweal," (July 1939)
- 158: My Lai Massacre
- ... the Chief of Staff. He later finds out that he s being questioned for murder at My Lai 4. Word gets out to the media about his actions and he receives loads and loads of letters. He received many letters from past war veterans supporting his actions in My Lai. At the same time he received just as many letters calling him a killer. Calley s trial date was set in 1970. His trial begins. Lets flash back to where it all started. The setting changes and we start out when Calley first walks ...
- 159: Bartleby And Civil Disobedienc
- ... Turkey and Nipping, he refuses. His boss offers him a home, and he refuses this as well. The ending footnote to Bartleby states that Bartlebys previous profession was a subordinate clerk in the Dead Letters Office in Washington. The dead letters he handled had no association to any living person. Bartleby was accustomed to working at a place where dealing with man is unnecessary. As Thoreau says, Dead letters! Does it not sound like dead men? (Melville 140). Bartleby has no connection with civil disobedience. King and Thoreaus ideas of what civil disobedience is do not match up with the actions of ...
- 160: Cicero
- ... near Caieta on December 7. His head and hands were displayed on the rostra, the speakers' platform at the Forum, at Rome. From Cicero's correspondence between 67 and July 43 BC more than 900 letters survive, and, of the 835 written by Cicero himself, 416 were addressed to his friend, financial adviser, and publisher, Titus Pomponius Atticus, and 419 to one or other of some 94 different friends, acquaintances, and relatives. The number constitutes only a small portion of the letters that Cicero wrote and received. Many letters were suppressed for political reasons after Cicero's death. Cicero made his reputation as an orator in politics and in the law courts, where he preferred appearing for the defense and generally spoke last ...
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