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In this chapter I will be discussing how Bobby Sands’ Prison Poems presents fear and trauma through alienation and surveillance, in reference to his trilogy ‘The Crime of Castlereagh’, ‘Diplock Court’ and ‘The Torture Mill – H-Block’. The period of 1914-1991 has been referred to as: The Age Of Extremes’ (Hobsbawn, 1994) as it was inclusive of wars, peace, advancements, destruction, failures and fears, therefore, it is fitting to apply this notion to The Troubles of Northern Ireland as it appears…

Nancy Reagan Nancy Reagan was one of our country's most important first ladies. She was married to the 40th president , Ronald Reagan. During her time as first lady, from 1981 to 1989, she had a great impact on the United States. Nancy dedicated much of her time to helping charities and organizations. However, before she became the first lady she had a successful career of her own. Nancy was born in New York city on July 6, 1921 to parents Edith and Ken Robbins. She was a…

(Martes, 2012). In 1977 she received the Lula Hassenplug Distinguished Achievement award from the California Nurses' Association then in 1981 she received an excellence in nursing award from the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Dorothy died at the age of 80 in February 1999 (Martes, 2012). Dorothy's theory began to develop in the 1940's the same time she began to teach. Dorothy stated that her theory is a product of “philosophical ideas; sound theory and research; her clinical…

to help determine position and relation to other celestial bodies he located. He focused on light and space penetrating power. He was not as concerned with accurate positional measurements, as he was in the light and space between objects (Schaffer 1981).…

the experiences of women. In the 1960. A librarian, writer poet, teacher, feminist and lesbian, Lorde won numerous awards including a National Endowment for the arts grant and the American Library Association Gay, Caucus Book of the Year Award in 1981 for The Cancer Journals. She died of liver cancer in 1992. A self designed, black, lesbian, mother, warrior and poet Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing…

The Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion (ELM) is a one of the oldest and most referenced theories when it comes to marketing and advertisement. Now a little over 30 years old, ELM was created by two psychologist named Jogn Cacioppo and Richard Petty who in 1986 described persuasion as a dual process. This theory has been reworked and reviewed many times over the years; this paper will focus on the main literature on ELM by its creators and other critics. Years prior to their ground…

agricultural sector than the North, it lagged behind in many other categories such as manufacturing and education. The South’s inability to keep pace with the North when it came to industrialization was the main concern of Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss’ 1981 book, A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy. Drawing from census information gathered in the 1850s and 1860s, they attempt to reason an explanation via economic analysis for why the South fell behind…

is one of the biggest animal- rights cases to ever happen and the first to be brought to the U.S Supreme Court. It involves the highly acclaimed animals-rights group PETA and Dr. Edward Taub from the Institute of Behavioral Research. During May of 1981 in Silver Spring, Maryland, Alex Pacheco of the animals-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) went undercover as someone looking for a job at the Institute of Behavioral Research (IBR). IBR referred Pacheco to Dr.…

During mid 1979 to mid 1981 the city of Atlanta was terrified as a serial killer murdered twenty-eight young African-Americans and discarded their bodies in isolated areas and rivers (Townsend, 2017). Finally, in June of 1981, the police arrested Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of two adults whose bodies were recovered from the Atlanta River (Townsend, 2017). Furthermore, prosecutors believed Williams was responsible for the murders of twenty-three children making him the prime suspect…

Written in 1981, Obasan explores the negative treatment Japanese-Canadians experienced in the internment camps during World War Two. Kogawa uses three women (Obasan, Aunt Emily, and Naomi) to illustrate the perspectives that the different generations have in regards to Canadian multiculturalism and how it relates to Japanese-Canadians. In the article “Joy Kogawa’s Obasan: Canadian multiculturalism and Japanese-Canadian Internment”, the author Laura K. Davis examines Obasan through a lens…