Michael Dukakis

Beckett examines how this process was racialized. Racial attitudes have been demonstrated to be an important predictor of support for law and order rhetoric and the majority of Americans believe that criminals are black and victims are white. What would it mean to further queer this work? I believe that this work can be queered in two important ways. The Criminal as a Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Subject In 1988, George H.W. Bush released a powerful and successful TV ad featuring the image of a large, black male named Willie Horton who was released from prison on furlough and then committed assault, armed robbery, and rape. The purpose of this ad was to portray his opponent, Michael Dukakis, as weak on crime. Most political commentators agreed that this ad was devastating for the Dukakis campaign. This image and the discourse surrounding this ad is used by Beckett to demonstrate the ability of elites to tap into racialized fears and anxieties to create support for tough on crime policies and gain political power. A queer analysis would examine this ad and the success it had by looking at not only the racialized aspect of this imagery but the gendered and sexualized imagery and discourse as well. What does it mean that Horton was not just black, but a black male? What does it mean that the crime he committed was a sexual one? To answer this question, I will turn to insights from Roderick A. Ferguson’s work, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004)…

This included a muscular foreign policy, economic libertarianism, moral conservatism, and law-and-order. This came after the President Carter administration, where many Americans were upset with the direction of the country to what they saw as weaker. When President Reagan finished his two terms, there was an election between his Vice President, George H.W. Bush and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. While Dukakis attempted to paint himself as a moderate, the Bush campaign branded him as a…

When Satan set’s his eyes upon Adam and Eve, it is doubtful they he knew how easy it would be to corrupt their minds. Eve, in my opinion was probably the easiest to manipulate and that is why Satan was delighted to come upon her first rather than Adam. Eve, is just like any other woman, so it is quite easy to distinguish what one needs to do to get on her good graces. Due to it being Eve, Satan tempted her with his evil offer by using flattery on her. Apparently flattery will get you anywhere.…

But when the door to the hall, into which no sound from the noisy Metropolis could penetrate, closed behind her, the ore voice of the angel of the cathedral struck at her breast like a steel fist, and she stood still, stunned, raising her hands to her head. Why was Saint Michael crying out so angrily and wildly? Why was the roar of Azrael, the angel of Death joining in so alarmingly? She stepped into the street. Darkness, like a thick layer of soot, lay over the town, and only the cathedral…

In order for a novel to be considered Gothic literature it has to have certain elements. Milton’s Paradise Lost exudes gothic characteristics. The first is Pandemonium. When Satan and his followers are banished to Hell, together they create Pandemonium. Gothic literature is really all about intense emotion and the confusion between good and evil. Powerful emotion is clearly evident in Paradise Lost as there is a constant grasping or pushing and pulling with good and evil, God and Satan. The…

"But how..?" It was a reasonable question, although one Amaimon had not intended to let slip from him, but the words had tumbled out long before he could stop them. Samael had been so strong, so powerful....who or what could have killed him. Lucifer? The two always argued and sure every now and then they had exchanged a few blows, but those were small scuffles and verbal fights....how could it have gotten to the point of murder? And if it had, wouldn't there have been evidence, or even just…

The devil, Satan, Iblis, is known by many names. In the Christian faith he is called Satan, while in Islam he is referred to in various places as Iblis, or Shaytaan in other places. Satan/Iblis, is mainly first introduced to us in the story of Adam and Eve in both the Christian faith and Islam. He is the first disobeyer to God and thus represents the rebellion against God and the path of the wrongdoers. In Islam, it was mentioned that Iblis is a member of a type of God’s creatures called “Jinn”.…

Free will is an extremely important concept in John Milton’s Paradise Lost that greatly impacts the fateful decision made by Adam and Eve. Many questions are raised in the face of a notion such as free will, which prompt the reader and Milton to understand God’s logic and Adam and Eve’s reasoning for turning their backs on it. God makes his new creations “just and right / sufficient to have stood, though free to fall,” and, therefore, obtain the explicitly stated ability to turn against…

Part of the reason that the Pearl of Great Price is so great at preparing people for making further covenants in the temple is because it talks so much about sacrifice. In this paper, I will show was sacrifice means in the Lord’s eyes and how Adam and Eve’s sacrificial behaviors can be applied to other righteous people in the Pearl of Great Price, as well as present day. I will also show the qualifications and blessings of true sacrifice, as well as Satan’s counterfeits for sacrifice,…

Once again, Salinger wasn’t oblivious to the meanings behind each character’s name. In fact, symbolism plays a part in the character Sybil Carpenter. “Sybil, bright with innocence but already tarnishing, symbolizes for Seymour the human condition: like the sibyls of old, she is the unconscious oracle through whom the prophecy is revealed, the instrument of truth” (Lane). A sibyl is defined as “a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god” (“sibyl”). It is…