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- 461: Psychological Doubles
- ... of criminal man, , it invariably situates those concerns in relation to the practices and discourses of lawyers like Gabriel Utterson, doctors like Henry Jekyll and Hastie Lanyon, or even well-known men about town like Richard Enfield. The novel in fact asks us to do more than simply register the all-too-apparent marks of Edward Hyde s degeneracy. It also compels us also to examine how those marks come to ... face it while she is with him. Edmunson writes that the unfortunate heroine is not meant to break free of the beast (Edmunson 48). She is meant to sustain the man by ignoring the monster. Richard Hocks said of James fiction that it at once reinvents the very genre of double literature and simultaneously condenses rich and multitudinous levels of meaning into an economy of form" (in Thompson 192). For example ...
- 462: Confederate States Of America
- ... major stimulus to both industry and agriculture," says Brinkley (Brinkley 384). Since all Southern products were out of reach for Northern Americans, the North enacted a completely nationalistic program to promote economic development. According to Richard N. Current author of "God and the Strongest Battalions," "in cotton, the South had a cash crop of great value, and yet, in the midst of war, Southerners reduced their planting, burned the bales they ... itself into the worst economic inflation America has seen since the American Revolution. When dealing with the military issues of the Civil War, the army of the North had a great advantage over the South. Richard McMurry, of "Why the South Lost the Civil War," blames the South's defeat on its military commanders (Zebrowski 224-5). McMurry states, "the Confederacy did not have a competent commanding general" (Zebrowski 225). Lincoln ...
- 463: Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
- ... ability to whip the masses into a frenzy with wispy fallacies about American "imperialist" actions against Cuba was his main asset. He constantly found events which he could work the "ol Castro magic " on, as Nixon said , to turn it into another of the long list of grievances, real or imagined, that Cuba had suffered. Throughout Castro's rule there had been numerous minor attacks and disturbances in Cuba. Always without ... up for the Cuban exile invasion of Cuba. The fact that this secret was ill kept led to increased arms being shipped to Cuba by Russia in late 1960. President Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower-Nixon administration the operation that became the Bay of Pigs expedition. The plan was ill conceived and a fiasco. Both Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger describe the President as the victim of a process set in ...
- 464: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... more than retouchings of earlier works by others. Four plays dramatizing the English civil strife of the 15th century are possibly Shakespeare's earliest dramatic works. These plays, Henry VI, Parts I, II, III, and Richard III, deal with the evil results of weak leadership. Shakespeare's comedies of the first period represent a wide range. The Comedy of Errors depends on its appeal on the mistakes in identity between two ... The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Love's Labour's Lost are all comedies and satires. Next, Shakespeare's second period includes his most important plays about English history. The second period historical plays include Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V. These plays deal with English kings who lose their power to their successors. Outstanding among the comedies of the second period is A Midsummer Night ...
- 465: Watership Down 2
- Watership Down as Good Literature Watership Down, by Richard Adams, is considered good literature because of the literary techniques and because of the plot. Several literary techniques are used to pull the reader in and the plot is a well constructed to hold their ... He sends his guards to fetch the does and they attack the new warren. The rabbits have to defend themselves and repel the attack. Watership Down is good literature because of the techniques used by Richard Adams. He pulls you into the story and makes it interesting with the way he tells it. Watership Down will continue as a favorite of many for several generations to come.
- 466: William Shakespeare
- ... Shrew", and "The Two Gentlemen of Verone". Three plays which are in the category of tragedy are "Romeo and Juliet", "Titus Andronicus", and "Julius Caesar". In the category of history, three plays are "Henry V", "Richard II", and "Richard III".
- 467: African Diaspora
- ... Thornton's analysis of this issue is extremely helpful. He addresses the "no connections" arguments in chapters 6, 7 and 8. He outlines the claims made by scholars Franklin Frazier, Stanley Elkins, Sidney Mintz and Richard Price. Frazier and Mintz believe that the extreme trauma and disruption experienced by Africans during the process of enslavement and the middle passage minimized the possibility that they maintained aspects of their cultures in the ... Afro-centric" communities. This approach to the slavery and the slave era is relatively young and will have to be developed. A conclusion that is clear after studying works of Peter Wood, Gwendolyn Hall and Richard Price, is that the early arguments suggesting no connection of African heritage to the Americas are entirely invalid. Word Count: 1649
- 468: 27 Years of Influential 60 Minutes
- ... the 60 Minutes principle and created gossip, and shocking video segments. Still other shows, including the interview programs, borrowed from 60 Minutes' method of grilling the interviewee. Dan Rather once (in an interview with President Nixon during his downfall) riled up Nixon enough to prompt the question "Are you running for something?" And Rather shot back, "No, sir, Mr. President. Are you?" Tough reporting, taped evidence of scams, and in-depth stories of current events are essentially ...
- 469: The Tragic Challenger Explosion
- ... Us." Time 10 February 1986: 32-35. Friedrich, Otto. "Looking for What Went Wrong." Time 10 February 1986: 36-37. Church, George J. "Putting the Future on Hold." Time 10 February 1986: 38-41. Zoglin, Richard. "Covering the Awful Unexpected." Time 10 February 1986: 42- 45. Murphy, Jamie. "It Was Not the First Time." Time 10 February 1986: 45. Dumoulin, Jim. "51-L" [Online] Available http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle ... Time 10 February 1986: 38-41. This article told about the setbacks to the space program that the explosion would cause. It mainly told about the Hubble space telescope. This is a secondary source. Zoglin, Richard. "Covering the Awful Unexpected." Time 10 February 1986: 42-45. This article went to the media's perspective of covering the accident. It told about how the three major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) spend their ...
- 470: UFOs
- ... or as it is formerly know as the "'Cosmic Watergate' : the ongoing cover-up of the government's knowledge about extraterrestrial UFOs and their terrestrial activities (Stacey 36)" is believed to be started during the Nixon administration, which is still under alot of scrutiny. The Nixon Administration also established the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] in the 1970s', it opened the door to alot of truth and more coverups. " I don't think they would do a 300-page report on ...
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