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78, no. 1, pp. 113-117. 14, Gale, a.k.a. Gale, 2002. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420040745/LitRC?u=ko_k12hs_d60&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=3238dbe8. Accessed 20 Feb. 2024. In his paper, The Magnitude of a Miracle, literary critic Edward Reilly argues that the theme of religious faith almost exclusively drives the plot of the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany. Reilly holds great familiarity with John Irving’s writing, as he is the author of a novel of criticism on all of…

Civil Rights as an important theme in American history since WWII Civil Rights refer to the rights that are granted to a person and are protected by the constitution of the United States and the Federal laws that were enacted by the Congress. They include the right to vote for leaders, right to having equal protection from unlawful discrimination, protection of the laws and the freedom of expression. During the post World War 11 period: between 1945 and 1950, the activists of the civil rights,…

After World War 2 a practice and ceremony developed among Japanese women called Mizuko Kuyo. Mizuko Kuyo or “water child memorial service” is a Japanese ceremony honoring fetuses that were aborted, stillborn, or lost during pregnancy; the Mizuko jizo. The Japanese ceremony originated from Japanese belief of liquid life. Liquid life is the idea that aborted or lost fetus return to the water and wait to rejoin the Earth. During the ceremony people, especially women, pray to and adorn small…

The production of his first two Broadway plays, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, secured Tennessee Williams's place, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, as one of America's major playwrights of the twentieth century. Critics, playgoers, and fellow dramatists recognized in Williams a poetic innovator who, refusing to be confined in what Stark Young in the New Republic called "the usual sterilities of our playwriting patterns," pushed drama into new fields, stretched the…

Under the veneer of praising Donald Trump in the title of her essay – “The rhetorical brilliance of Trump the demagogue” (Mercieca, 2015), Jennifer Mercieca explores Trump’s rhetorical strategy to rally the American public into supporting him in spite of his offensive rhetoric. Using Donald Trump’s December 7 Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration (Trump, 2015) as an example, Mercieca puts forth this essay to explain Trump’s “profound and persistent appeal” (Mercieca, 2015) through…

attention . However, the word choice in the book could be considered inappropriate. In the book, profanity is a big choice of word selection. Many people like it and others don’t, so should it be censored because of Holden and Salinger’s style? Many critics would want the book to be censored because of it influencing teenagers. I think this idea is absolutely absurd. In todays society, teenagers know a lot more about profanity. In an article by Chicago Tribune, It says “Teenagers are more…

get along with workers and some known reporters. In the section called, “Watergate” Eric Foner states, “He viewed every critic as a threat to national security and developed an enemies list, that included reporters.” When a President has foes and considers them enemies his job will become very hard and Americans can claim him as bias. Also, by having the mind set as a critic could really make world affairs a rough situation for Nixon. When America found out that the President was trying to…

which had strong hold over American politics for three decades. Historically, Roosevelt is remembered as a controversial leader due to his strong decision making over ruling the lengthy legislative chain. A number of historians admired him and many critics despised and criticized him. However, today the history remembers him as one of the greatest American presidents who steered America out of troubled times. 2. Aim. The aim…

at odds with [a] film's dramatic needs' (2010: 87), e.g. the viewer thinks of the late Amy Winehouse's death rather than concentrates on the film. This being said could be a possibility, although this opinion is completely disregarded by literary critic T. Austin Graham, whom describes the modern soundtrack as, 'a pop cultural vortex': 'This is the Jazz Age in a remix and mash-up culture' (Graham et al., 2013: n.p.), ultimately agreeing with Yang's previous…

Advocates of the new wage labor system felt that with the market revolution, the right to compete for economic advancement was considered essential to American freedom. Expanding commercial life opened doors for bankers and merchants and created a new middle class of clerks, accountants, and other professionals, such as teachers, doctors, and lawyers. Enterprising Americans could quickly find prosperity by taking advantage of opportunities that existed in the new economy. Success could be…