Carleton S. Coon

William “Billy” Franklin Graham, Jr was born November 7, 1918 close to Charlotte, North Carolina to loving couple William and Morrow Graham. Billy grew up on a dairy farm and was always outside. He attended Wheaton College where he met his future with Ruth Bell. They married in 1943. Billy Graham was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Western Springs, Illinois for a short time before he began his career as an evangelist. Billy Graham was an influential American in his evangelism,…

This chapter describes the condition of post-Civil War America, starting with the confusion in the South and the immediate plight of blacks who attempted to exercise freedom. Countless blacks, under the impression that they were free and equal to their white compatriots, attempted to start their own lives. Instead of freedom, many blacks were hunted down and killed on charges of unlawful escape. However, a great deal of blacks, empowered by the union army and years of pent up aggression, seized…

The bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 proved to be a controversial ending to the Second World War. There were several reasons why the bomb was dropped, but it still remains that the main reason given to the public was to end the war. However, the US used this opportunity to initiate a sense of power over the Soviet Union in order to discourage the spread of communism. President Harry Truman spoke of this bombing at the White House to inform the American public of his reasoning for this atomic…

General George C. Marshall was born December 31, 1880 and passed away October 16, 1959. General Marshall played a huge role in United States History. During General Marshall’s lifetime the United States was being reformed and military power and strength become key components to be a successful free country. The United States was building their military power to become the strongest country in the world and General Marshall helped the United States get there. These changes in the United…

T.S. Eliot’s works have often been thought of as hopeless and dreary because the topics in his works reflect the problems with society and humanity as a whole. They reflect an obsession with loss and isolation, and how it affects people. His modernist way of writing forces readers to think about his works in a multitude of ways. “The Waste Land” is a poem that is considered to be one of the best poems to come out in the twentieth century because of its ideas and the controversy surrounding the…

Milton Hershey was born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, on September 13, 1857. Hershey’s was the only surviving male child of father Henry Hershey and mother Fanny Snavely Hershey; he also has one sister Serina Hershey. Hershey’s spent his early childhood trailing his father, a dreamer who always had his eyes out for the next big opportunity. By 1857 Hershey’s father had largely cut himself out the picture. Fanny was tiered of her husband’s failures; the details of their separation are cloudy.…

Poster 1: Saving Our Country The poster displays Abraham Lincoln on the left and Robert E. Lee on the right, representing the North and the South. On the top middle you will see the words “We The People” which we all know it is from the Declaration of Independence, in the middle between Lincoln and Lee you will see a slave bearing the scars obtained from his brutal bondage as a slave. The images of the poster are intentionally laid out in such a way to tell this story: President Lincoln is…

In Stephen King’s, The Body, the inclusion of life lessons is the most evident component in the book. In The Body, four boys, Gordie, Vern, Teddy, and Chris set out on a two-day journey to find a kids dead body. During their journey, the boys’ face many obstacles from avoiding getting hit by a train to fending off a gang of delinquents. This coming of age story has many life lessons that the boys learned, including how not all friendships last, parents are not always reliable, and how various…

Defamiliarization in Mohsen Namjoo: A Marcusian Study of “Reza Khan” Estrangement: a short overview Mikics defines defamiliarization (estrangement) and as an example he cites Fredric Jameson, which is his accounts of Studying Gulliver’s Travels. It states: Defamiliarization in Russian, ostranenie: a term from the Russian formalist school of criticism, active in the early twentieth century. […] According to the Russian formalists, literary art devotes itself to the making strange (the…

In life there is suffering. There has always been suffering and there will always be suffering; it is part of what makes us human. This is something that has been known for much longer than any of us have even been a part of the human experience. It is something that both Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare took note of hundreds of years ago and something that both of them thought was a topic important enough to explore through their respective writings Dante’s Inferno and King Lear. With…