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- 901: Native Son: Reviews
- ... of the 1930s. Cowley feels that Wright was moved by the wrongs he had suffered in his own person, which made him hate people with whiter skin than his own. This aided in Wright's writing Native Son. He then goes on to say that Wright's feelings were clearly evident in his first novel, Uncle Tom's Children. However, with Native Son, Wright's sympathies have broadened and he has become less resentful. Cowley feels that Wright's purpose for writing Native Son was simple. He seems to be saying "Listen, you white folks, I want to tell you all about the Negroes in America. I want to tell you how they live and how they ... Native Son is a great work of literature. The main point that the reviewers made was that Wright really had a great idea for a story and presented it extremely well. He was not too personal in his writings, yet he gave us, the readers a novel which we could apply personal experiences to and enjoy as well.
- 902: Jimi Hendrix
- ... most memorable introductions ever (Fairchild, “Axis: Bold As Love” 13). “Little Wing”’s best attribute is its pleasing incorporation of Native American belief with guitar playing which could in no way be considered abrasive. The writing and production of “Little Wing” seems to mark the development of Hendrix’ confidence in both his lyrical and compositional skills. As for “Castles Made Of Sand,” Michael Fairchild states that “rock music reached its sensitive ... to London, the Vietnam War, and the years of rioting and protest against war and racial injustice all infused themselves into Jimi’s albums. The early commerciality and an undeveloped form of Hendrix’ later song-writing and playing are displayed on Are You Experienced? On the second album, Axis: Bold As Love, Jimi expressed his ethnic individuality, he expanded his musical repertoire, and he began his first voicings of malcontent. Electric ... a major change. His death in 1970 seemed to indicate a feeling of apathy from Hendrix; he died choking on his own vomit (Anonymous 1). Looking back on his albums, there is definite pattern of personal growth and decay, all influenced by everything that happened around, and inside, the legendary musician we know as Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix’ music can serve as an accurate interpretation of what was occurring around him, ...
- 903: William James: The Later Years
- ... experimentally, James said that since those acts are introspectively observable, any straightforward account of them can be regarded as literal. One other source of James's psychological ideas possibly the most important of all was personal and nonscientific: his naturalistic, perceptive, and wise interpretation of human behavior, based on his own experience and understanding. Many of his major insights came from psychologizing. James had influence in many topics of psychology but ... any act in the first place. The key factor, in his view, was a supply of information and experience about our ability to achieve a desired end. After twelve years of research, introspection, psychologizing, and writing, James completed Principles, which had been an almost intolerable burden to him. Principles was a big success, and had a lasting effect on the development of American psychology. By 1892, when James completed Jimmy, he had been teaching and writing about psychology for seventeen years, and grown tired of it. From then on he turned his creative efforts toward other things such as education , the practical results of different kinds of religious experience, and ...
- 904: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... up before the sun to get all the chores done that were assigned to him. If he got his work done then he was allowed to go to school. He was left-handed and his writing was awful. He was constantly scowled by the school master for the terrible unlegible handwriting. William decided the only way to perfect his skills was to write right-handed. So he practiced and forced himself ... school. Probably even the best handwriting in the whole town. At the age of seven years old his handwriting was put on display in the front window of the Newburyport bank. (Faber 19) The distinct writing ability that he gained from his determination to succeed would benefit him greatly to the end. At the age of 12, Deacon Bartlett helped William get an apprenticeship at the Newburyport Herald as a "printers ... Herald). Mr. Allen was referred to as a prime hypocrite by Garrison for praising the departed President. William could have easily omitted any mention of Mr. Allen but it was his nature to prove that personal feelings would never prevent him from speaking out when a matter of principle was involved. The time spent trying to make the Free Press a success was not completely wasted. Garrison learned that politics ...
- 905: "Stop Seeking Certainty.." Minow's Response To Bork
- ... by the Congress when he was nominated for the Supreme Court. Bork argues that by reading the text, and figuring out what the public understanding of the Constitution was at the time of it's writing, we can discern what the Constitution actually means. The problem here is obvious. It is very difficult to know what the public understanding at the time of the enactment of the Constitution was. It is ... of the neutrality principle as it relates to constitutional interpretation. According to Bork, a judge should make a decision based only on an original intent understanding of a given law in a given case. No personal pr eferences should come into play. Instead, legal principles should be applied equally across all cases which those principles encompass. It is Bork's assertion that his philosophy of original understanding can supply neutrality in ... all judges need to do in order define the breadth of a given principle is to take a historical look at the events a given principle concerned itself with at the time of the principles writing. Again, in this argument he asserts the responsibility of the judge to remain faithful to the document, so as to say that "where the law stops, the judge must stop" (Bork, pp56). Lastly, concerning ...
- 906: The Crucible 9
- ... typical Depression--era trauma--the blow struck on the mind by the rise of European Fascism and the brutal anti-Semitism it had brought to power. But by 1950, when I began to think of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitors' violations of civil rights ... as routine, but there was an element of the marvellous in it which I longed to put on the stage. In those years, our thought processes were becoming so magical, so paranoid, that to imagine writing a play about this environment was like trying to pick one's teeth with a ball of wool: I lacked the tools to illuminate miasma. Yet I kept being drawn back to it. I had ... write about the period. Upham had not only written a broad and thorough investigation of what was even then an almost lost chapter of Salem's past but opened up to me the details of personal relationships among many participants in the tragedy. I visited Salem for the first time on a dismal spring day in 1952; it was a sidetracked town then, with abandoned factories and vacant stores. In ...
- 907: Flannery O’Conner and Grotesque Characters
- Cultural Write-Up on “Gone With the Wind” One of the most interesting characteristics of Flannery O’Conners writing is her penchant for creating characters with physical or mental disabilities. Though critics sometimes unkindly labeled her a maker of grotesques, this talent for creating flawed characters served her well. In fact, though termed grotesque ... brings shiftless to mind. Flannery O’Conner spent most of her adult life handicapped herself. In addition to her keen powers of observation, this was likely the source of her talent for this style of writing. Inevitably she transferred some of her personal experiences to her work, perhaps she was mirroring a personal tragedy with these two stories. The strongest common element is a female character left devastated when a man takes advantage of their handicaps.
- 908: Jimi Hendrix
- ... most memorable introductions ever (Fairchild, "Axis: Bold As Love" 13). "Little Wing"’s best attribute is its pleasing incorporation of Native American belief with guitar playing which could in no way be considered abrasive. The writing and production of "Little Wing" seems to mark the development of Hendrix’ confidence in both his lyrical and compositional skills. As for "Castles Made Of Sand," Michael Fairchild states that "rock music reached its sensitive ... to London, the Vietnam War, and the years of rioting and protest against war and racial injustice all infused themselves into Jimi’s albums. The early commerciality and an undeveloped form of Hendrix’ later song-writing and playing are displayed on Are You Experienced? On the second album, Axis: Bold As Love, Jimi expressed his ethnic individuality, he expanded his musical repertoire, and he began his first voicings of malcontent. Electric ... a major change. His death in 1970 seemed to indicate a feeling of apathy from Hendrix; he died choking on his own vomit (Anonymous 1). Looking back on his albums, there is definite pattern of personal growth and decay, all influenced by everything that happened around, and inside, the legendary musician we know as Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix’ music can serve as an accurate interpretation of what was occurring around him, ...
- 909: Thornton Wilder
- ... his own way, and who has clearly never sought the popularity which has periodically been his (Unger 355). The key to his significance is his extraordinary ability to combine his philosophy and ethics with his personal experiences in perhaps one of the greatest paradoxical plays ever written. Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on the twenty- seventh of April in 1897. His father, Amos Parker Wilder, was a strict ... classics at Oberlin College and Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 (Unger 356). Wilder spent a year as a resident of the American Academy at Rome, where he began writing The Cabala. Back in the United States he taught French at Lawrenceville High School in New Jersey from 1921-1928 and began doing graduate work at Princeton, where he took his Master of Arts degree ... comic,...but also to his requiring the actors to step out of their roles to discuss with the audience their own views on the play...and to debate and confess to one another their own personal dilemmas" (Unger 372). In this way, Wilder achieves other dimensions for the work; he also is able to drive home one of his favorite convictions: that the artistic validity of a play depends to ...
- 910: Donald Barthelme
- ... review (Harte and Riley, 41). His other jobs included serving in Korea and Japan in the U.S. Army (Barthelme Bio, 1), Professor of English at the City University of New York, teacher of Creative Writing at the University of Texas in Houston, and of course author of short stories and novels (Anderson et al, 919). He is the author of a number of collections of short stories including "Come Back ... there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no sense of place or community, no awareness on the part of his characters of any personal history or context of profession or family or, for the most part, personal relationships, no psychology of character, indeed no characters at all in the usual sense of the term."(Marowski and Matuz, 35)I agree with what Leitch says. The short stories I read did not ...
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