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- 1621: Gun Control
- ... U.S. The Second Amendment has been a major issue in American politics since 1876. In question is the intent of this Amendment. Was it meant to insure that people in general have arms for personal service, or was it intended to insure arms for military service? The nation's powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, holds that it means the right to keep and bear arms -any arms. This ... the House shifted to favor the Republicans. Laws passed in the States of Florida and Texas have gone in the opposite direction. The Right to Carry Laws, were designed to reduce violent crime by making personal weapons an equalizer between violent criminals and potential victims. The Fort Worth Star Telegram recently reported that the fears raised about those laws had been proven unfounded, that the feared "Bloodbath" had not come, and ... measure off both chambers' schedules. On March 22, 1996 the bipartisan House voted to repeal the Clinton gun ban and get tough with armed criminals was achieved despite efforts by Administration allies who resorted to personal attacks. "What we are going to have is a partnership of strengthening laws against the criminal misuse of firearms, which everyone agrees is the real problem issue, and eliminating harassment of law-abiding gun ...
- 1622: A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Irony, Characters, and Foreshadowing
- ... the misfit is a loose from the federal pen” (pg. 354). Now, the first time a reader is reading this they night assume that the family will meet up with the Misfit. This is a writing technique that some writer’s use to give the reader small clues of who they might meet up with in the later part of there stories. Another thing forshadowing can add to a story can ... the woods by the hand of the misfit and a few other guy’s with him. This essay covered Flannery O’Connor’s usage of Irony, main characters, foreshadowing, and some symbolism she used in writing “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” While reading this short story, because of these writing techniques, the reader may feel that they know or have an idea of what my happen in the story. These writing techniques help a writer to entice the reader and help the understanding of ...
- 1623: Mrs Smith Sux
- ... Darwinism and its belief in survival of the fittest to all areas of life. They used it as a “natural law” which supported their actions and beliefs. Advocates manipulated the scientific doctrine to fulfill their personal needs and to justify religious beliefs, capitalism, and military conquests. Darwinism greatly impacted the scientific world purely through its specific doctrine. The enlightenment had paved the way for rational thinking and observation. People were willing ... the many drastic changes in the beliefs of the people and the advancement of the logical world that Darwinism was well accepted as a scientific truth. Beyond the exact definition of Darwinism, many people found personal applications to the scientific doctrine. Not only was survival of the fittest an established truth in nature, it was also more than evident in human society. Many people, after reading the benefits associated with reproduction of the strong, began to place human activity under the scrutiny of science. Those who found that the principles of Darwinism advocated their personal goals in society took great lengths to spread the word of Social Darwinism. This was a doctrine that called for free competition among humans and a setting in which the dominating class was the ...
- 1624: The Existence of God: Theories of Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm, and William Paley
- ... the Creature would rise above the Creator. He goes on to explain how conceiving an object and understanding it are totally different. These two things, conceiving and understanding lay the basis for most of the writing and basically it seems that he is talking more about faith than actuality. He seems to restrict most of his ideas to the minds and hearts of men and leave out the real aspect in ... I think not and through St. Anselm's writings he has done nothing to convince me of otherwise. William Paley: The Watch and the Watchmaker William Paley (1743-1805) was a leading evangelical apologist. This writing comes from the first chapter of his most important work, Natural Theory, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1802). Paley described a scene in which ... we know it was made to the world we live in and more specifically to us, mankind. Paley has many good points and his use of the watch as a metaphor for life in his writing is the work of genius. In contrast though, I believe his arguments to be flawed in that we know there is only one way to construct a watch (a person, a watchmaker, builds it) ...
- 1625: Invisible Man
- ... my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own."(22) Here we begin to see the invisible man looking inside himself for pleasure. He has found, through the writing of this book, great pleasure; whereas, in society, he had found little pleasure because his works were not his own. Freud admits that "one gains the most if one can sufficiently heighten the yield of pleasure from the sources of psychical and intellectual work."(23) The invisible man finds himself through the psychical work of writing this book. However, he still thinks he is invisible, and he lives underground. A particular passage from Freud seems useful here: While this procedure already clearly shows an intention of making oneself independent of the ... my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own."(22) Here we begin to see the invisible man looking inside himself for pleasure. He has found, through the writing of this book, great pleasure; whereas, in society, he had found little pleasure because his works were not his own. Freud admits that "one gains the most if one can sufficiently heighten the yield ...
- 1626: Sinclair Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis was an American writer. He lived from 1885 to 1951. His most famous works include Main Street, Babbit, and many others. His form of writing was satirical and his work reflected a lot of his life. Lewis was the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature. In total, Lewis wrote 22 novels and 3 plays. Sinclair Lewis ... 1891 when he was only six and his father remarried the year after to Isabel Warner. During his childhood he became very introverted since he didn't have many friends and he became interested in writing. In 1902, Lewis entered the Oberlin Academy in Ohio. He later left this school and enrolled in Yale. During his time in Yale University, he became the editor of the "Yale Literary Magazine". For two ... his wife. In 1917 he published The Job and The Innocents and his son, Wells, was born. In 1919, he published Free Air. After publishing these two novels, Lewis decided to devote his life to writing and in 1920 he gained fame with his novel Main Street. This novel was his first commercial success as a writer. It is about the protagonist ,an emancipated woman, who is eventually ostracized from ...
- 1627: How "First Love" is Represented by Different Artists
- ... important. First loves are important to most artists, no matter how, when or who. How first loves impacted the artists play a significant role in determining the lives of the artists and their topics of writing. In Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Hayden writes about his father and the abandonment his family showed him even though he worked so hard to provide for them. Hayden writes, "…cracked hands that ached ... ever thanked him" (590). Most artists observe the fact that they did not know of their first loves and do not realize their mistakes with their first loves until they are grown up and are writing about it. It probably provides them with a good topic to start writing about in the first place. The lack of realization seems to be a powerful motivator in the lives of these artists. All of the artists in the readings seem to have gone through a ...
- 1628: Lesbian Poetry
- ... with the accompaniment of a lyre. She wrote her own music and adapted the dominant meter to what is now known as "Sapphic meter," (Robinson 54). She became one of the Greek lyrists who began writing from the point of view of the individual instead of the view point of the gods and therefore made her contributions to lyric poetry in both technique and style (Robinson 55). She was also the ... hardly ever got out she did not withdraw from society on a mental level. Dickinson wrote many letters to correspond with many friends and relatives. The letters which survived her death proved that her letter writing skills were comparable to her talent as a poet (Cody 38). In her writings she is "enigmatic and abstract, sometimes fragmented, and often forcefully sudden in emotion." She often included her poetry in these letters ... These suggestions could be intentionally done, subconsciously done, or they could have been made coincidentally. It can also be debated if she did have an affair with her sister-in-law, or if she was writing from a male perspective, or if her intentions were innocent and present day readers consider have gone overboard with the implications of her imagery (Cody 83). Dickinson's sister asked Mabel Todd to edit ...
- 1629: Herman Melville Defined
- ... son was only twelve. This forced Herman to quit school and find work to help support the family. This cut his education short, and he never actually returned to organized schooling. He found jobs teaching writing at various schools but found it “unrewarding, boring, and poorly paid” (14). While teaching in May of 1839 he managed to publish his first piece, “Fragments from a Writing Desk,” in a newspaper. Searching for better employment, Melville joined a whaling crew on the ship Acushnet. He quickly grew to hate it and deserted ship with a fellow mate on an unfamiliar island. Melville ... Omoo. Shortly after this Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, and together they had four children. During his career, Melville was known as a great writer only for his early adventure novels. He was more interested in writing about “passion, innocence, religion, philosophy, and political subjects,” and refused to write, as he put it, “the other way” (13). The public disliked these subjects and his new style, compared to previous works. Due ...
- 1630: Langston Hughes
- ... Kansas, by his grandmother Mary Langston. Her second husband (Hughes's grandfather) was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to see the cause of social justice. As a lonely child Hughes turned to reading and writing, publishing his first poems while in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an unhappy year. Even as he worked as a delivery man, a messmate on ships ... the new rhythm of music and based many of his poems on it. As a boy he remembers hearing the blues perfomed in Kansas City. “Hughes was fascinated with black music, tried his hand at writing lyrics, and was taken with the possibilities of performing music and poetry together” 4 “Besides having both a love of this music and the common black folk it was created by and for, one of the reasons that Hughes began to draw on the blues tradition for writing his poetry is that he hoped to capitalize on the blues craze.” 5Though the markets for music and poetry were quite different, he thought he could somehow merge the two. “Hughes was a major ...
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