James Campbell in "Why Bush Won" emphasizes the need to look at the context in which the election took place and the need to look at campaign developments. The writer also lays out three campaign fundamentals that can help explain why President Bush narrowly won the 2004 election: public opinion of the candidate, election-year economy growth (or lack thereof), and the advantage of party and personal incumbency. According to Campbell, all three of these fundamentals gave Bush an advantage. Public opinion of the president was slightly in favor of him at the beginning of the campaign cycle and an additional boost was provided by the natural post-convention bump. The economy was also an asset for 43 during the election.…
In Lizzie Collingham’s The Taste of War, she states, “for most combatant countries total war placed an immense strain on the food system,” (pg. 9). This strain was caused by increase in physical labor by civilians and soldiers alike. During World War II, the United States was the only country that had an abundant amount of resources to face this strain. Collingham references this capability of the United States in her book. She emphasizes on page 9 that the rest of the countries involved in the war, struggled to produce enough raw materials and goods for their military and civilians.…
The narrative, “A Story of War and Change” by Reza Kiarash details the gruesome horror of the Iran-Iraq war through the experiences of the author as a paramedic within the Iranian army. What is immediately noticeable by the reader is how the author recounts his memory in short, staccato esque sentences. Evidence of such is provided when the author writes “ Yes, it is”. The lack of sentence sophistication helps immerse the reader into the atmosphere of the campaign the author is fighting in. As events escalate further within the story, the choppy sentences help create an aura of urgency for the reader.…
Junger’s book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, begins by comparing our modernized western society to the lifestyle of tribal communities during the Stone age. Backed by personal accounts and statistical data, Justin describes how an individual in modern societies, like America and Europe, have become disconnected, anti-social, and detrimentally independent. Throughout the first chapter, Junger does not ignore the savage and uncivilized qualities of a tribal community but instead uses these qualities to further prove that by being outrageously savage and uncivilized, the society allows for individuals to form unbreakable social bonds - a tribe. Junger argues that a tribal system, similar to that of the Stone age, would not only be beneficial…
War is a picture that is often painted with the wrong colors. People may think they understand what war is but they are comletley worng. War is not something that you simply understand. You may try to figure it out but you’ll never understand war unless you’ve experienced it firsthand.…
Sitting Bull I read Sitting Bull: Champion of His People, written by Shannon Garst. Sitting Bull, born in 1831, leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota people, and father of two, Crow Foot, and Many Horses. Was not just a leader to his people, but also a champion. When he was younger he was fearless of anyone and anything that he came along.…
In Timothy Findlay's the wars, Robert Ross's journey of love, loss and war resembles a parody of romance. When someone thinks parody, they think of mimicking or imitating to criticize an initial piece of work. A parody can neutrally illuminate and/or simply comment upon a piece of work without necessarily mocking it. In this case, we see a parody of the typical romance; a strong male, a damsel in distress or perhaps some sort of wealth and the long fighting journey he takes to get to his goal. In the novel, Roberts journey starts because of loss and he is set out to forget this loss only to find something he didn’t know he was looking for, knowledge.…
After a National War What does person think when they imagine the future? Some people thought of science fiction movie, while others thought of Ray Bradbury. The author of my IGS book, the testing, imagined a unique dystopian future. Like all futuristic science fiction, Joelle Charbonneau used extrapolation to describe and characterize the future in The Testing. Extrapolation is the act of inventing unknown conflict, challenges, and animal.…
To know a history of a simple, everyday item can change the way you view it forever. Without a doubt, even a segment of the most diminutive of things can influence the events of history. Case in point, drinks, as meager as the contemplation is a refreshment is, as meager as it is in the ocean of history on the planet, it has its part. In the history of six glasses, Tom Standage cleared up how six unmistakable refreshments changed the course of history, and how they were accountable for change. People should think about what history their drink holds.…
Rod Ewdish 12/13/16 English 120 Professor Progar Men in Society Men go so far to prove what they fear than acquire what they truly desire. Throughout life, men are taught to be tough and to not express their true thoughts or emotions. The article “Bros before hoes,” written by Michael Kimmel, an American Sociologist specialized in gender studies, goes along and asks a number of men from different campuses and states what it simply means to be a man. What sorts of phrases or thoughts come to mind when someone instructs them to be a man. Richard T. Evans, a researcher of interdisciplinary studies, in “Faggots, Fame and Firepower” describes how most male shooters have been dismissed by their classmates/peers, both before and after their crime,…
Jared Diamond’s article “The Worst Mistake in the Human Race” provides critical insight to what archaeologists and anthropologists alike have contested to be the pinnacle of human advancement. Agriculture to many people among academic settings has been mutually agreed as one of the turning points from primal to civilized (Diamond, 1999); and has been known to benefit humanity for it’s greater good. Jared Diamond challenges this point in his article. He begins by introducing a progressivist view, which is the held notion that agriculture was adopted simply because it is a means of getting more food for less work (Diamond, 1999). Diamond thoroughly explains that there are advantages to agriculture, being that of convenience and mass production…
In the Shadows Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, along with other ethnicities such as Mexican and African Americans, live in America in hopes of having freedom and equal opportunity to succeed in the world. AAPIs, being that they are a minority, struggle in receiving equal opportunity and freedom. In the article, Why calling Asian Americans a model minority glosses over crucial issues, Vivek Wadhwa talks about AAPIs by providing general information on AAPIs, by talking about the issues among AAPIs, and by providing potential solutions to the problems AAPIs face.…
I define race as the characteristics of any individual that are inherited based on where their ancestry is from, and what their genetics are. For instance, if someone is White, I usually characterize them as European-American, or Caucasian. If someone is Black, I tend to identify them as African-American, and so on. My family is Scottish-Irish American, and we participate in the Highland games.…
Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to capture Chris McCandless’s dream of freedom in the wilderness. In his book, Krakauer tells about Chris McCandless and his life of adventure. Believing he was living a dull life, Chris wanted to go out into the word and experience what nature had to offer. Chris McCandless walked into happiness in that he liberated himself from emotionally charged human interaction; he was finally free, and he was able to experience adventure through the wild. Even though he walked in happiness, he was walking away from misery in the fact that he was leaving all of his troubles behind; however Chris was ultimately walking into happiness considering that the wilderness and adventure truly made him happy.…
John Hersey, at one point considered one of the nation 's most promising young writers, wrote many pieces that left an emotional impact on his audience. Although he portrayed himself as having a strict and immovable morality through his writings, he appreciated variety. He is known best for writing Hiroshima, in which he strongly expressed the horrors of the use of nuclear weapons. His writings and their meanings are based on historical events, such as the bombing of Hiroshima, allowing him to create an accurate depiction of what occurred. Hersey dedicated his works to revealing the effects of worldwide issues during that time.…