Emanuel Hirsch Bloch

"This case has reached such importance that your sentence will be radioed around the world in three minutes. We are not at war with the Soviet Union, although the Soviet Union is regarded as an enemy. Who knows but that tomorrow the Soviet Union and the United States may reach an accord?" Mr. Bloch said Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally, convicted of treason, received terms of ten to fifteen years. In defense of Sobell, Mr. Phillips said he had been "kidnapped and abducted" from Mexico last year so that he could be arrested in Laredo, Tex. Mr. Saypol agreed that Sobell had been "kicked out" of Mexico as a deportable alien. Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, 69-year-old mother of Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass, sobbed in her small apartment at 64 Sheriff Street when she heard of the death sentence on her daughter. A widow whose husband died three years ago, Mrs. Greenglass awaits the sentencing of her 29-year-old son today. David and his wife, Ruth, are parents of two small children. Ruth Greenglass was cited in the indictment as a co-conspirator…

The city of Chicago has faced controversy for quite for time. Many claim the city has become so corrupt, that the trail leads all the way up to the city’s mayor, Rahm Emmanuel. Corruption is one of the major problems Chicago faces and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is the face of the corruption that plagues the city. In an article written by Judith Valente, Can Chicago offer a path away from gun violence? She states “More than 2,800 people were shot in Chicago last year, and by December 2015 there had been…

The poems Africa and Flying Man by Rabindranath Tagore show the negative effects of man-made destruction. The destruction is the way they have mistreated the people of Africa, as well as changing the way nature used to be, from the peaceful harmonious nature to inventing more modernised technologies, making man seem more arrogant. The focus of the two poems is how man has destroyed the earth with their actions, and the poet does this by using imagery and figurative language. In Africa, Tagore…

the entire novel. Bloch doesn’t place this image in an obvious manner, but knowing the jealousy he experienced when he witnessed his mother and his uncle acting on their incestuous relationship in bed, it was evident that this was not a normal mother-son relationship. Yet, the “creepy factor” continued to increase as he poisoned the two lovers, only to regret taking the life of his own mother, so he dug her up from her grave and kept her in the house with him for all these years. I believe that…

Helen Keller lived an extraordinary and wonderful life. She never gave up on anything in life, and she always kept trying. In the book, Helen Keller: A Determined Life, Helen stated, “We can do anything we want to do, if we stick to it long enough.” All Helen wanted was to live a normal life, and to have no one think less of her. We should all try to emulate her example of determination and dedication. She is an excellent role model to anyone who thinks they should give up or stop trying. She is…

I'm not even going to pretend that I'm qualified enough to critique the masterpiece known as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The film is pretty much near perfection in all regards and there is nothing I could say that hasn't been heard a million times before. However, there is one thing I want to talk about and that is, the differences between the movie and book. Alfred Hitchcock is quoted as saying that everything that is in Psycho was from the book by Robert Bloch. For the most part, that statement…

varying levels of sophistication in the three articles “The GOP’s health-care plan goes in the exact wrong direction,” “Who is to blame for the opioid epidemic,” and “Rahm Emanuel gears up for a modern day- Brown v. Board.” Lane supports each of his arguments with ample quantitative facts and figures. In his March 22nd column on the misdirection of the GOP’s proposed healthcare plan, he uses relevant statistics about who uses medicare. To support his claim that there is little to be gained by…

WILLIAM BLAKE is a 22-year-old student at Quinnipiac University. William is about to finish his senior year student teaching. After graduation, William and his evangelical Christian girlfriend MARY plan to start a life together as public school teachers. William is a staunch conservative. He is enraged when President Obama is re-elected. William dreams of an America in which conservative, Tea Party Republicans dominate the political landscape. While William thinks and talks like a conservative,…

Twenty-four-year-old Christopher McCandless was a strong adventurer who disappeared after graduating college to go on a backpacking trip which ended up in the Alaskan wilderness. Chris McCandless became Alex Supertramp because he wanted to explore the unexplored and discover a life without responsibility, possessions, people, money, lies, and abusive relationships. He severely wanted to prove that one’s life does not require road maps and plans but that one could be perfectly happy as a free man…

In the three novels, shelter plays a role in defining the main characters in the novel. The way characters act towards shelter, the condition of the shelter, and the actions that happen inside the shelter give it a symbolic meaning that relates to the main character’s personality and social life. In the novel, “Boys in the Boat”, shelter symbolizes the hard work ahead of Joe and the status of his family relationship. Joe, the main character, often lives in unfinished or very small…