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produce a change. The humanization of a murderer is difficult idea to grasp but is a necessity to clearly define the blindness and innocence of the killer. Ultimately, the confection of these concepts sets the stage for a murder novel. In his book, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote illustrates the murder of a family with strong metaphors and symbolism to attempt to display the humanization of the murderers and the American Dream with the ideological changes in the town of Holcomb. The…

However, the idea of irresponsibility takes on an entirely new meaning in Truman Capote’s true-crime novel In Cold Blood. In the novel, Capote analyzes the personalities of the late Clutters, but also those of the culprits, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith. The author reveals volumes regarding their characters and even the parts of them that led to the murder of the Clutters. In In Cold Blood, an inability to take responsibility, on the part of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, led to the…

Post the Cold War Kenneth Waltz felt that the nature of the international system had changed with the end of bipolarity. Bipolarity can be defined as a system of world order in which the majority of global economic, military and cultural influence is held between two states. The fall of the Soviet Union displayed their inability to maintain their position and challenged the structure of international politics. Waltz believed that in the years to come, three great powers would rise. These great…

United States and Allied Engagement against the Soviets in the Cold War After the Allies defeated the Axis in World War II, Europe was devastated by the destruction of the War. The United States, and allies, including, Great Britain and France and Union of Soviet Socialist Republic occupied zones in Europe to help rebuild. The Soviets took the East and the Unites States and allies took the West. The Soviets power was a communist regime and they ruled as communist throughout the land they…

States and its allies, and the Soviet Union began a decades-long fight for superiority. This fight is known as the Cold War. Although the Soviet Union and the United States did not engage in physical combat or directly battle during the Cold War, they continually antagonized each other through political and economic clashes. One of the biggest and most memorable confrontations of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest point that the United States and…

"…in the case of the second bomb, timing was everything…Truman's refusal to delay it – was America's first act of the Cold War" (Campbell & Logevall, 2009, p. 56). The Pacific Theater was one of the fronts of World War II and the main clash of the Allies was against the Empire of Japan. Even after Nazi Germany's surrender the Japanese were unwilling to submit - as dictated by their culture. There was no option of an unconditional surrender by Japan. Only keeping the Emperor in power. The allies…

Truman Capote, an enthusiastic American novelist, published the nonfiction piece “In Cold Blood” with the intention of recreating the murders of the Clutter family, and its impact on Holcomb, Kansas. Capote blends imagery along with figurative language in order to manifest the tone of the passage from happy to mournful. The passage opens immediately with the device of imagery. Capote describes the Clutter’s house starting with Nancy’s bedroom “There were four bedrooms on the second floor, and…

Foreign policy was influenced by the Cold War when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate in 1946. A premise that created the turning point in history was when Stalin declared communism would ultimately triumph over capitalism. The need to stop the spread of communism became the fundamental foreign policy priority of the United States, as well as other members of the United Nations. In order to accomplish this America adopted a foreign policy of…

The East and West had it in deep for each other causing the Cold War, but the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union had been hostile way before this and having to struggle with the communism in “The Red Scare” (Gerdes, Barbour, and Cothran 10). The history events that we see and hear of now were often caused by civilians, but during this time, Cold War and the Red Scare, it seemed as if both sides of this fight thought they were doing the right thing. In the end it did not…

It has been 25 years since the end of the Cold war, the silent battle between the West Capitalism and Russian communism. The ever constant threat of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) created the American culture of the fifties and so on. Those born into it were used to the bomb shelters, space race and the constant détente. The conflict of two political and ideological ideas that control most of the world will affect most of what the world would have been today. The surge and rise of massive…