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- 1001: Langston Hughes
- ... claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in "Montage of a Dream Deferred." His life ... Unlike other notable black poets of the period--Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people without personalizing them, so the reader could step in and draw his own conclusions. Langston Hughes died in 1967.
- 1002: The Lottery: A Book Report
- The Lottery: A Book Report This masterful short story initially deceives, then shocks the reader into the realization of the dynamics of scapegoating. Its value lies in this narrative technique which dramatically engages the reader in the textual process such that the reader ... bouc émissaire." "The Lottery" also serves well to illustrate the role of literary theory in literature and medicine, particularly reader response theory, hermeneutics, and narratology. In “The Lottery”, one of Shirley Jackson’s most famous short stories, we are made familiar with her chilling sense of humor. “The Lottery”, was about a towns tradition of sacrificing a human so there would be a good harvest. Its also about a human nature. ...
- 1003: King Arthur
- ... Some of the new elements added include d the Round Table, courtly love and the love affair between Lancelot and Guenevere. In 1205 A.D. Layamon wrote the first English version of the King Arthur stories with a distinctly British perspective. Another nationalistic version of the story was Morte Arthure. This version was centered around fighting and action diminishing many of the character's parts, like Lancelot for instance. Perhaps the most widely accepted story of Arthur was written in 1485 by Sir Thomas Malory. Malory combines aspects of Wace, Chretien, Geoffrey and Layamon, expands on Arthur's court by adding short stories about some of Arthur's most important knights and writes of the collapse of the Round Table.
- 1004: Landfills
- ... 4]. JFK's introduction to the book provides this foreboding passage: "Each generation must deal anew with the raiders, with the scramble to use public resources for private profit, and with the tendency to prefer short-run profits to long-run necessities. The crisis may be quiet, but it is urgent" [Udall xii]. Oddly, the subject of landfills is never broached in Udall's book; in 1963, the issue was, in ... extant refuse [Rathje 113]. In today's landfills, decomposition is negligible. While the total tonnage of garbage decreases over years, due mostly to dessication, the volume varies less than ten percent. Most of the actual short-term rotting is from scraps of prepared food. Plastics biodegrade not at all. Biodegradable plastic is an oxymoron at best; the most unstable plastic requires intense sunlight to decompose, and sunlight is denied in a ... agencies have even taken to shipping garbage to third world countries, strapped for cash and eager for the infusion of Yankee dollars. This, of course, only transfers the problem from one population to the other. Stories of wandering garbage barges and orphaned garbage trains have made splashes in American newwpaper headlines. Covert garbage disposal has become a lucrative business, as the plethora of medical waste washed up along the New ...
- 1005: "The Beats Generation
- ... Square at night. The actual term “Beat Generation” was introduced in 1948 after Kerouac finished he first novel, The Town and the City. He met with another aspiring writer named John Clellon Holmes. Kerouac told stories of the Times Square junkies, the bop musicians, and the people he’d met on his cross-country trips. Holmes felt his stories described a new position toward reality. In trying to analyze the rather aimless direction taken by so many young men and women after the war, Holmes urged Jack to characterize the new attitude by trying ... than mere weariness, it implies the feeling of having been used, of being raw. It involves a nakedness of mind, and ultimately, of soul; a feeling of being reduced to the bedrock of consciousness. In short, it means being undramatically pushed up against the wall on oneself. A man is beat whenever he goes for broke and wages the sum for his resources on a single number.” Members of the ...
- 1006: Critique of "The Invisible Man"
- ... the Brotherhood. They are not pleased that the article only deals with an individual and not the whole Brotherhood. This leads to the man with no name to be moved out of Harlem for a short time. After returning to Harlem, he finds that Ras has taken almost total control. He sees Clifton on the street selling small black dolls. This shows how society can crush a man's will. After ... was for one simple reason, he was one of society's nameless victims. The author of The Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison. He was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician. He wrote many short stories and fiction for magazines. The Invisible Man won him the Nation Book Award and the Russwurm Award. He was a charter member of the National Council on the Arts and Humanities. He died in ...
- 1007: Civil War 6
- ... in society that were muted just a few years before. No matter a person’s color, gender, background, race, or ethnicity, the United States Civil War affected every person around the globe. If given a short background on the United States Civil War, one would learn this series of battles was based on a nation going to war over maintaining or abolishing the slavery of African Americans on U.S. soil ... the mid 1860s. The U. S. Civil War showed slavery would no longer be tolerated, setting a precedent around the globe of human equality. When the United States Civil War is spoken of, the real stories behind the action are often forgotten and misinterpreted. Summarizing Drew Gilpin Faust, author of “Mothers of Invention,” when Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted responsibilities that they were very ... greatly misinterpreted during the United States Civil War was the black population of America. When looking back at the Civil War, there are two sides to every battle and war story. There are the stereotyped stories that are portrayed in many movies and textbooks and then there are the Clarkson 4 factual accounts. Anyone who digs through the facts to find the truths behind the Civil War will find African ...
- 1008: Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe, son of Actress Eliza Poe and Actor David Poe Jr., born 19th of January 1809, was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his pshycological thrillers have been infuences for many writers worldwide. Edgar and his brother and sister were orphaned before ... habits forced White to eventually let him go. Edgar moved around to New York and Philadelphia, trying to establish a name in literary journalism but without any major success. His theories on musical poems and short prose narratives which were to aim at "a certain unique or single effect" can be for example be seen in "Ligeia"(1838) and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1839) which would eventually become one of his most famous stories. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is sometimes considered the first detective story. Examples of his use of a rythmic and flowing language are the poems "The Raven" (1845) and "The Bells" (1849). ...
- 1009: Serial Murderer Ed Gein
- ... suspicion in a few of his murders. This left Ed alone. He began reading books about the female anatomy as well as Nazi camp medical experiments(Schechter 56). He also became very interested in adventure stories involving head hunters and cannibals. At one point, a well-meaning person brought him back two shrunken heads from the Philippines. Ed found them very interesting and showed them off to many people in the ... close friends. However, after he was caught a man who was believed to be Gein's best friend became violently mentally ill and was committed to a mental hospital. He died in the hospital a short time later. The police think he may have been Gein's accomplice in the execution of his first known murder (Gollmar 45). On December 8, 1954, 51-year-old Mary Hogan disappeared from the tavern ... when Gein was visiting relatives, two blocks from her home. A pool of blood was found in the family garage after she vanished, with the trail disappearing at curbside. Mary Weckler was reported missing a short time later, from Jefferson, Wisconsin, with a white Ford seen in the area. When searchers scoured Gein's property, they found a white Ford sedan on the premises, though no one in Plainfield could ...
- 1010: Compare And Contrast The Way T
- ... the Gulf War. All the correspondents had to agree to censorship by the MoD at source (2). This censorship was made even more painful when the correspondents learned that no such censure would apply to stories written in Britain (3). This served to heighten tensions between the media and the military and showed that there was a mutual distrust between the two. The media reliance on the military was, as mentioned ... the extreme and attacking other newspapers that expressed doubts over the campaign in the South Atlantic. This, it has been argued, created an environment in which to question the government was considered to be just short of treason. This was to repeat itself in the Gulf War. Even the BBC itself was accused of "damaging the country's war effort" (5). However newspapers were also constrained by the ever-present threat ... Goose Green, that may have been of use to the enemy. This led to an outcry from those on the military and those in government. Baroness Thatcher, the then Prime Minister, called these speculations nothing short of treachery (8). The war in the Falklands was not only unique and unusual for the British military but for the media as well. For the first time in modern warfare they had to ...
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