A Review Of Lawrence E. Walsh’s Iran/Contra
.... he has since gone on and wrote several more books on varying subjects. As the Independent Counsel investigating Iran/Contra, Walsh comes up with two distinct issues that Iran/Contra revolved around.
Two secret Reagan Administration policies that were coordinated by the National Security Council staff created the beginnings of Iran/Contra. The Iran operation involved efforts in 1985 and 1986 to obtain the release of Americans held hostage in the Middle East through the sale of U.S. weapons to Iran, eventhough there was an embargo on such sales. The contra operations from 1984 through most of 1986 involved the secret gove .....
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Homeric Simile In Paradise Lost
.... and Milton found it necessary to stop short of the complex metaphors that served the dramatists as instruments for psychological exploration and symbolic statement.
Homer’s similes provide a respite from the steady surge of heroic action, and broaden the scope of his poems. Into the simile could be introduced familiar scenes which would remind the listener of the world living on beyond the plains of Troy or Odysseus’ storm-beaten vessel. This precedent was followed, or at least honored nearly universally, by epic poets up to Milton. In Paradise Lost, tradition is modified to weave the long similes more closely into the p .....
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A Rose For Emily
.... This change occurred when the North took over the South. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all," (41). Miss Emily might have stayed out of the public eye after these two deaths because she was finally alone, something she in her petty life was not used to. Emily's father never let her alone and when he died Homer Barron was a treat that she was never allowed to have. Miss Emily's stubborn attitude definitely came from her father's strict teachings.
The characters of this story are very briefly mentioned, Miss Emily and Mr. Homer Barron are the two mai .....
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
.... so hard to make his mother believe he is. In reality, Julian's mother has sacrificed a great deal for her son's well-being. She's allowed her own teeth to rot to afford him braces, has worked hard so that he might attend college, and makes excuses for his unemployment. Although she talks only through a string of cliches, Julian's mother is all too eager to please her son and obviously lives through him. This makes Julian's harsh view of his mother even more irritating to the reader.
The theme of Old South vs. New South fuels the conflict between Julian and his mother. Ms. Chestny has been raised all her life too behave in the gen .....
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Alienation In "The Minister’s Black Veil"
.... than a physical separation from the people of his town. The people felt the veil was "the symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Hawthorne 256). Their fear and confusion of the minister’s motives caused strange behavior and unnatural withdrawal from their spiritual leader.
After the initial onset of the black veil, the minister was alienated from himself. After performing the wedding, he caught a glimpse of himself in the looking-glass, and "the black veil involved his own spirit in the horror with which it overwhelmed all others" (Hawthorne 256). He would no longer look in a mirror at himself because "his anti .....
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The Hanging Of Billy Budd
.... tends to follow the examples others set for them.
Because Billy was so well liked by everyone, Captain Vere was in a very difficult situation. It was very unlike Billy to ever do something so rash; he brought out the best in everyone. ‘A virtue went out of him, sugaring the sour ones” (pg. 5). Captain Vere felt in his heart that Billy’s actions were a mistake, but he could not be sure. The accusation Claggart made was mutiny, and mutiny was a serious crime. Vere had no proof that Billy was not guilty, so for the safety of himself and his crew, he sacrificed Billy’s life. In his decision making, Vere reminded himself .....
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Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
.... the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18).
The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine whose perverse similarity to a trained killer-dog. It was improves by a refined technology that allows it to inexorably track down and capture criminals by stunnning them with a tranquilizer. This hound would be very useful in today’s society.
The novel reflects censorship because the people can not read books or express themselves. Instead of firemen putting out fires, they started them. They are caretakers of the furture society’s of maintaning social orde .....
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Obasan: Book Review
.... the entire family which included her sister children, who she was taking care of. The novel discuses the camps that the Japanese families were sent to in Hastings Park during the war. It described the treatment the families received while there, including the lack of food and the smell of manure. Naomi during this time was being sexually molested by her next door neighbor and did not tell anybody about this. Naomi seems resentful during the novel, as she comes across as a quiet little girl, who does not seem to interact with many people. Aunt Emily finally finds a place in Slocan for the family to go live, but just be .....
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The Crucible - Witch Trials
.... girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I go back to Jesus; I kiss his hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!" Another girl, Betty, continues the cry with, "I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe with the Devil!" >From here on, the accusations grow and grow until the jails overflow with accused w .....
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Farewell To Manzanar
.... seems to have set up her own type of Jim Crow rules, like those in the South. She always had to be complaisant around White people and apologize or be submissive to them even if they were in the wrong. This was not anything that was enforced by law, like in the South, but it was self-enforced because she thought it would win her more respect and maybe gain her entry into the White world. As a junior high school student, Jeanne asked her best friend, Radine if she could join the Girl Scouts. Radine's mother was an assistant troop leader, however Radine's mother would not allow Jeanne to join, solely because she was Japa .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... One of the men responsible for this was their drill sergeant, Corporal Himmelstoss, who was a short, mean man. He would force the men to do unnecessary work and torture them with pointless assignments. Paul, Tjaden, Kropp, and Westhus were especially picked on by Himmelstoss, but they were secretly defiant. The training that they received was especially harsh, but it is what has saved them in the trenches. We now see the background that has shaped the men’s ideals so far.
Paul goes to visit Kemmerich at his hospital. Kemmerich now knows that his leg has been amputated, but Paul tries to comfort him and convince him that .....
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Holding The Dream
.... step always being careful. She lived in the Templetown house for many years, then she decided to make it out on her own. She was an attorney. Kate worked at the office for a company called Bittle and Associates. She loved where she lived it made her happy. She lived in Big Sur, California. She was happy to be with her foster parents Josh and Alexia, and Margo and Laura, and the other children. Kate lived a normal life with that family. Although she lacked and hated not having Margo’s beauty and Laura’s elegance,she knew that she had something special deep down inside of her. Something she wouldn’t find out until later in .....
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