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Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011): a satirical deviation from the cowboy western genre “The Wild West has always enticed the readers’ imagination” (Vanja 128). This research paper explores the context of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011). DeWitt’s use of a “stylized abstraction of western speech” (Vernon 1) offers its readers a respite from everyday life. Although it follows the traditional scheme of a cowboy western genre, the novel has certain innovations of its own…

as the “Robber Barons”, for the reason of their business practices, these names are known today and the decedents of their products are still in use today: John D. Rockefeller: Oil, John Jacob Astor: Real Estate and Fur, Henry Clay Frick: Steel, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt: Shipping and Railroads, Jay Gould and James Fisk: Railroads and Finance, Andrew Carnegie: Railroads and Steel, Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and George Mortimer Pullman: Railroads, Andrew Mellon,…

Throughout history of the United States, whenever there was a new “wave” of immigrants they became targets of racial slurs and stereotypes. This is ironic because the United States is supposed to be a melting pot of different races, cultures, and languages. Everyone’s families had to have immigrated to the United States from various other countries around the world. There is no surprise that when the Japanese immigrated to Hawaii, and then to the United States in the latter part of the…

Successful Individual Elon musk, PayPal and Tesla Motors founder and billionaire, also Founder of Space X, the Mars trip mission to place certain individuals on plant Mars . He is successful not only financially, but also in caring for the world and providing a way for our race civilization to continue its journey for the many centuries to come. An entrepreneur that has proven success time over time from creating PayPal, to Tesla Motors, the fast luxurious all electric eco friendly cars, Also…

While the Russian forces could have easily taken full control of the whole of Korea, they had chosen to halt at the 38th parallel to honor their agreement. However, this sense commodore was short lived as the allies that were once able to work together became bitter at each other, later making them Cold War enemies. Korea at this point was already partitioned at the 38th parallel, the USSR supported a communist regime in the region…

public in the 1970’s, modern society has greatly changed. The computer is a electronic device that manipulates data in the ways of being able to store, retrieve, and process it. Several of the first consumer based personal computers such as the Commodore, IBM 5100, Apple I, and Apple ll all perform the same basic functions. You can use it to type documents, send email, and browse the internet. You can use it to handle spreadsheets, accounting, database management, presentations, games, and much…

The industrial revolution began with the agricultural revolution where new farming methods were invented such as crop rotation. Through the agricultural revolution the enclosure movement began. The enclosure movement pushed smaller farmers off their land and they were forced to work as wage laborers for various landowners or to go to the growing cities. The enclosure movement helped to increase food production and with more food came an increase of the population. When the population began to…

Year Age Major Events 1940 25 Billie performed for nine months at Café Society. She was supposed to sing again on 1 October 1940 but she did not turn up. So Barney Josephson cancelled her contract. She was replaced by Hazel Scott who sang there for the next seven years. In December 1940, ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Performers) went on strike. 1941 26 On 25 August 1941, Billie married Jimmy Monroe, a never do well, an ex-trombonist and a former pimp. She had been engaged to Sonny…

his share. The company however, grew very fast. It’s revenue doubled every four month for the first five years. The Apple II launched next year was also designed by Wozniak. This was a groundbreaking machine as it challenged the big rivals like Commodore PET. It was chosen to be first desktop used for the Killer App. Visicalc, a spreadsheet program that was the “Killer App’’, it gave Apple a new market like never before. The arrival of Graphical User Interface known as GUI took Apple to even…

declared war on Mexico, even though Mexico never declared war in return. During the time of the war, roughly about 75,000 Mexicans had lived just north of the Rio Grande river. With the easy access to that part of the land, Col. Stephen W. Kearny and commodore. Robert F. Stockton had taken that territory. with little to no resistance of the people who lived there, it was fairly easy for them to take it. Although General Taylor had a little bit of a harder time to capture his land and it took him…