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- 6981: Investigating The Style And Te
- ... Kerouac to express the theme of personal freedom is use of a spontaneous method of writing. This method creates a free flowing rhythm and structure, which emphasises the theme of personal freedom due to it s loose style and ability to capture the true feelings of the author as he writes. This original style was used by Kerouac in order subconsciously to express the thoughts of the mind in a continually ... raw land that rolls in one bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going...all the people dreaming in the immensity of it...and tonight the stars ll be out, and don t you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims over the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens ... knows whats going to happen to anybody beside the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty... This extract effectively conveys the sincerity of the characters feelings and shows how well Jack Kerouac s technique can portray free, spontaneous thought. For Kerouac, jazz is the ideal model for complete spontaneity and he states that the ideal procedure for writing spontaneous prose is blowing(as per jazz musician) on ...
- 6982: Incorporation Of The American
- Incorporation of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author incorporates the aspect of the American Dream to develop the story. The American Dream’s goals embody the story to show how one can attempt to put effort into accomplishing one’s aspirations in life. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald gives various examples of different characters so called American Dream. Some characters are able to achieve their goal and others are not able to accomplish their goal. From ... everything. For example, Nick describes him as: “It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body. His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed”(11). Nick’s description of Tom shows his stature of a bully and that how he maybe able to get things done. Then later in the story Tom does another thing, which shows his resemblance of this ...
- 6983: Ghost House - Compared To 4 Other Poems
- ... Speck" is a unusual poem about Frost noticing a tiny speck on his paper. Upon further observation, Frost notices that the speck is actually a extremely tiny mite, struggling to avoid being crushed by Frost’s pen. Frost appreciates the insect’s battle to stay alive and leaves it on his paper. Frost allows the mite to sleep on his paper because he values any intelligence, even one that is small as a bug’s. This poem is told directly from Robert Frost’s mouth. It shows how much the poet appreciates the little things in life. Regardless of size Frost understands that a life is a life, and ...
- 6984: Othello
- ... infidelity, greed, and his anger at being passed on for a promotion. These passionate motives drives Iago, turning him into one of the most evil of villains Shakespeare has created. Roderigo a solider in Othello’s army and once a courtier of Othello’s wife Desdemona is under Iago’s spell from the beginning. Iago’s manipulates him into aggravating Cassio, Iago’s rival and into giving him all his money to sway Desdemona. Iago tells Roderigo to, “ But, sir, be you ruled by ...
- 6985: “Smoke” The Prohibition!
- ... The second cost of this "war" is something economists like to call “opportunity costs”. Here, we have two resources which are limited: prison cells and law enforcement. When more drug crimes take up law enforcement's time and when more drug criminals take up cells, less ability to fight other crime exists. This becomes significant when an estimated 35-40 million Americans use drugs per year. In 1994, law enforcement arrested ... actions in these countries. The growth of the cartels, especially the Call cartel, has led to political corruption in that country. Because of the problems South American countries have faced because of Drug Prohibition, Colombia's Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Grace Marquees has written a manifesto declaring the drug war as "useless". Action abroad by the United States has also led to an increase in subversive organizations worldwide. Civil war ... that we will give our obedience and taxes in return for protection of our rights. Shielding our people from the dangers of a threatening world, therefore, seems to be an appropriate use of the state's power under socioeconomic rights. The danger in thinking in this manner is that it overlooks the individual's contributions to the nation. These contributions, either positive or negative, are generally difficult to regulate by ...
- 6986: Ronald Wilson Reagan
- ... as a sportscaster for WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. Reagan moved to Hollywood in 1937 and began a 25 year acting career. Some of his noted movies were Knute Rockne-All American, King s Row, and Bedtime for Bozo. During his acting career, Reagan was elected as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (the union for film actors) six times. He married Jane Wyman, had two children, but divorced her eight years later. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and they had two more children. As president of the union, he tried to remove communists from the movie industry. Reagan s first national political scene was when he did a speech supporting Republican presidential candidate Senator Barry Goldwater. Even though Goldwater lost the election, he brought in money and praise from fellow Republicans around the country ... November 1979, after making political friends at party fund-raising dinners around the country. He easily defeated the other nominees for the Republican nomination. He chose Gerald Ford as his vice-president. But when Ford s negotiators proposed that the vice-president should share presidential powers, Reagan chose George Bush instead. During the campaign against Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, the biggest issue was the economy. Reagan blamed Carter for weaknesses ...
- 6987: Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
- "Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev" Love, fear, jealousy, courage and death all have a major role in Adrienne Rich's "Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev." Adrienne Rich takes us inside Shatayev's head and depicts her joys and feeling of triumph along with her lingering undertones of jealousy. The use of the journals helps to relate the comradery and love within the team but also serves to paint a picture of an ungrateful Shatayev. Throughout this poem there are repeated declarations of love and friendship for the team members contrasted by subtle negligence of the husband's feelings. In the poem Shatayev seems to draw all her strength from the women of her climbing team. Rich writes in the sixth stanza, "After the long training the early sieges we are moving ...
- 6988: Deficit Spending: The Deficit Good or Bad
- Deficit Spending: The Deficit Good or Bad "Spending financed not by current tax receipts, but by borrowing or drawing upon past tax reserves." , Is it a good idea? Why does the U.S. run a deficit? Since 1980 the deficit has grown enormously. Some say its a bad thing, and predict impending doom, others say it is a safe and stable necessity to maintain a healthy economy. When the U.S. government came into existence and for about a 150 years thereafter the government managed to keep a balanced budget. The only times a budget deficit existed during these first 150 years were in times of ... war ended the deficit would be eliminated and the economy which was much larger than the amounted debt would quickly absorb it. The last time the budget ran a surplus was in 1969 during Nixon's presidency. Budget deficits have grown larger and more frequent in the last half-century. In the 1980s they soared to record levels. The Government cut income tax rates, greatly increased defense spending, and didn' ...
- 6989: Cathedral 2
- ... tend to picture a person with dark sunglasses, a seeing eye dog, and a walking stick. These are stereotypes and obviously do not remain true in the case of all blind people. In Raymond Carver s short story Cathedral," the main character is jealous and judgmental of his wife s friend who happens to be a blind man. It is the combination of these attitudes that leads to his own unique blindness." It is through this initial blindness, that the character gains his greatest vision ... of blindness came from the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. This explains where the narrator originally gains his misconceptions of blind people. The narrator s wife tells him that Robert will be visiting for the weekend. Once Robert arrives at their home, the narrator is shocked to find out that Robert doesn t wear dark glasses, carry a cane, ...
- 6990: Television Violence
- Television Violence In today's society television plays a big role. People watch T.V. for many different reasons. People watch T.V. mainly for entertainment, they also watch T.V. to learn, and to find out news. Some people watch T.V. and get the wrong idea about what they're watching, they feel that ...
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