Allen Welsh Dulles

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud was born on September 4, 1896 in Marseilles, France. He was one of three survivors out of nine children born to a Levantine Greek mother and a wealthy ship fitter father. His parents were first cousins. Such a successive mortality rate may have been in part due to congenital problems that played a major role in his illnesses. Artaud spent time in the Army and was discharged due to “self- induced habit of sleepwalking. His most productive works come only after a…

1. How did SIB’s status as an “offshore bank” facilitate Stanford’s alleged fraud? One reason is that the SIB’s status as an “offshore bank”, is that the bank did not have to follow any of the U.S. laws or regulations. Also the fact that it only had a portion of the assets of a multi bullion dollar company helped. 2. Why would investors be willing to sacrifice immediate access to the funds they deposited with SIB? It is because they wanted more return for their money. Since they expected above…

It’s a Mad Mad World: An Analysis of the Narration in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl In his famous poem Howl, Allen Ginsberg takes his readers on a journey through the world where he and his friends live in. He describes a walk in the streets of New Jersey and tells his tale of how the world is seen from his eyes. His tone changes throughout the different parts from a normal tone to an angry tone and to an ecstatic tone. Ginsberg’s chaotic narration of the 1950s imbues his poem with the feelings of his…

Tracy K. Smith is a poet, and she is the 22nd poet laureate of the United States. Carla Hayden appointed Smith a second term as poet laureate. Smith does not like how America has divided into two regions: urban and rural. Although she is from the urban region, she wants to discover solutions for the rural region. When Smith was in South Carolina, she met different people that were apart of segregation. Furthermore, she felt overwhelmed by two poems during her time visiting rural areas. The first…

Walt Whitman, born in 1819, is profoundly known for his later start in poetry. His works primarily focus on his personal experience within the Civil War. His two works deeply reflect his time spent as a nurse for the Union side of the war. Although one being fiction and the other nonfiction, Whitman is capable of getting his tone and ideas across to the reader in both The Artilleryman’s Vision and Letter to His Mother. Both works and their depictions articulate the Civil War experience through…

old enough to imagine a future, it has been in jeopardy”. Growing up between two world wars and amidst the Great Depression was motivation for the Beat Generation to live in the moment, and not to focus very far into the future. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were the two most-famous Beat Generation writers, and as their fame developed so did the movement…

Devastating and Drastic, the Irish Potato Famine changed Ireland in a variety of ways. Farmers and regular people were starving to death due to the lack of healthy potatoes. The people in Ireland were extremely dependent on potatoes and when the blight came the economy went down. As the fungus spread throughout the country, people began to lose their main source of food. Since the people in Ireland depended on the potato, it made the population cripple with the lack of a healthy food. The Irish…

Morgan le Fay is one of the Arthurian Legends and is known for being an evil enchantresses and a witch. Morgan le Fay’s legend goes that she is the half-sister of King Arthur. Morgan le Fay uses her lover, Accolon to steal King Arthur’s sword when this plan does not go as accordingly she throws the sword into the lake. Morgan le Fay is also considered a healer because in Vita Merlini by Geoffrey Monmouth she heals King Arthur’s wounds from the last battle of Calman but the only way that she can…

“’New Scottish Cinema’ suggests a new wave of film production and is often attributed to filmmaking that considers itself alternative or oppositional to other forms of mainstream cinema”, David Martin Jones, (2005:11). Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1995) is a film that worked around the social, political and cultural development in Britain in the late 20th Century. It gives rise to questions of identity, culture, and community. The main theme in this film is about a group of friends with a heroin…

lived in a flat for a week with the three actors. CLIP OF SHALLOW GRAVE Trainspotting, released in 1996, was the second film from the team of Danny Boyle, Andrew MacDonald and John Hodge. The screenplay was adapted from the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name. John Hodge took some persuading to make the film - he described the novel as having "no story" and Welsh's prose as "dialogue-driven". Again, it took 30 days to shoot. The film cost £1.6 million, financed by…