Said a young child to his mother: "Mommy, the people got hurt?" Said a mother to her young child: "The bad guys hurt a lot of people but the good guys were able to save most of them." "The bad guys tried to take what is most precious. They succeeded three times. But they can't take everything. They can't take our strength. They can't take our freedom. And most of all they can't take our heroic humanity." "You see, Baby, through the worst of what those bad guys did, they brought out the best…
Loyalty: The Symbolically Toxic Trait Songs about love have been a large part of our music industry for several decades now. As a result, it is no surprise that several artists write have had several different perspectives on the topic. There are several songs such as “All You Need is Love” by The Beatles, where they frame it as one of the most magical feelings a person can possibly feel. On the other side of the perspective, there are artists that decide to get analytical about it. “Loyalty” by…
ALIT 402 - FINAL TERM PAPER September 11, 2001 (A Tuesday) and How I Became Interested in Timothy McVeigh and Vice Versa from Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated by Gore Vidal “I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I’m a conspiracy analyst,” explained one of the most controversial writers, Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal was not labeled as a journalist alongside with his accomplishments as a great American writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and actor. Most commonly…
When Kubrick unleashed his final cinematic work Eyes Wide Shut in1999, like all his previous films, it was grievously misunderstood by audiences and critics alike. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick upholds a psychoanalytic parallel between the two, as the source story heavily borrowed from Freud’s theory of life (Eros) and death instincts (Thanatos). The task of transporting the overall…
countries. (J. Elgot: 2014) With the surge of global interest in the 2014 Ebola outbreak a new counter perception of Ebola has emerged out of academic cultural groups. These groups aim to explain the aetiology and prevalence of this virus through conspiracy theories. This primarily occurs in developed countries with well-educated individuals who have freedom of though and expression. Mark Fenster proposed the idea that Ebola is a human initiated virus that was released by pharmaceutical…
an extremely important issue that has yet to come to full fruition yet. We have had major wars in the middle east but we haven’t come to the world war three which I do believe is going to occur in the not to distant future. You can call me a conspiracy theorist but I believe that the the Islamic State in all the middle eastern countries will become in total control of these countries and will have the complete control of that countries military. The ISIS ideals believe that anyone that doesn’t…
and that of the mafia. Zirbel touches the subject of the mafia stating that Johnson’s people did have ties to the mob. Zirbel separates every theory by stating that Johnson had the biggest motive out of everybody that was mentioned in the various conspiracy theories. I mean becoming president is not a small feat and it is an extremely desired position maybe the most desired…
in the neck, throat, and head. After being rushed to the hospital, Kennedy was unfortunately announced dead (“November 22, 1963: Death of the President 2”). To this day, countless conspiracies — as to what happened, who shot Kennedy, and who was working behind the scenes with the shooter—have arose. Multiple theorists have decided that the blame lies on Lee Harvey Oswald; however,…
William Henry Drayton (Sept. 1742-3 Sept. 1779) South Carolina revolutionary leader. On February 8, 1776, William Henry Drayton, president of the South Carolina provincial congress, became the first Carolinian to openly call for a break with the mother country, when he told his fellow congressmen that Britain’s “hand of tyranny” directed against America had forced them to quickly decide between either “independence or slavery.” This revolutionary rhetoric is ironic considering that Drayton…
“The Ghost” Author: Robert Harris INTRODUCTION: Robert Harris wrote an interesting novel or story the title is “The Ghost”. Robert Harris is the author of “Impremium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland, and Selling Hitler”. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the Sunday times (London) and the daily telegraph. His novels have sold more than Ten Million copies and Ten Translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and…