Glenn Ford

In their journey to California, the Joads have to deal with the increasing reliance on technology. However, this new technology ends up being a negative thing, pushing out people from their homes and wrecking the land. The struggle between technology and nature can first be seen when a truck driver sees “the turtle and swerved to hit it” and “roll[ing] it off the highway” (Steinbeck 22). The turtle represents nature and the people, while the truck and its driver represents technology. Like the…

Warren G. Harding is regarded as one of the worst presidents in American history. Why you might ask, is he held in so little regard? During his presidency, Harding allowed appointed friends and family, known as the spoils system, to official positions which allowed for a great amount of corruption. Such as, the Veterans Bureau Scandal. In which Harding allowed for the corrupt leader to escape to Europe as well as another member of the board to flee Washington D.C. and his name was removed from…

One of the most common methods of enhanced interrogation is waterboarding. Waterboarding is when the prisoner is strapped to a gurney inclined at an angle about 10 or 12 degrees. Once strapped in, water is poured on a cloth covering the prisoners mouth and nose. They pour the water for no more then 40 seconds at a time (“Interrigation”, par. 16). Waterboarding much like most of the methods are used in last resort when the prisoner no longer provides information (Rosso, 389). With waterboarding…

Stephan Seljan The Legacy Lives On “The legacy is ongoing in some areas, and still causing controversy”-Jack Granatstein(Cheadle,2010). Pierre Elliot Trudeau was born on October 18th, 1919 in Montreal, Quebec(Encyclopaedia of World Biography, 2004). He was the youngest of three, son of Charles Trudeau, a French Canadian Lawyer, and Grace Elliot, an English Canadian. Trudeau had received top marks in school, which lead to his success in becoming a lawyer in 1943. He remained outside of the…

Feedback is necessary for all organizations to thrive. Much like a chef at a restaurant would want to know if his food tastes poorly to his customers, governments and those in power need to know whether they are satisfying the needs of their citizens. To do this, large scale polls or surveys must be conducted, representing all cohorts and demographics as accurately as possible. One such Gallup poll that aims to do this is The Gallup Poll Social Series. Gallup conducts a number of surveys…

Nixon had issued this order and may have been involved in many other scandals. Numerous noticeable individuals from the President's organization surrendered. VP Spiro Agnew was likewise compelled to leave for taking rewards. Congress then had Gerald Ford take the place of Spiro Agnew. A select Senate panel, headed by Senator Sam Erving, drove an examination concerning the debasement. Nixon asserted no learning of the illicit exercises, yet John Dean III, a previous White House legal counselor,…

Meta was sitting on the on the edge of her bed watching and waiting for the clock to turn midnight, so she can begin celebrating her twenty-fourth birthday. While she sat her mind began to reflect back on her life experiences. One particular experience stands out more than all the rest; she recalls an incident when she was eight years and got stitches. Early on a spring day in California in 1999, where the mornings can be cold, by the afternoon it can get really hot. She laughs at herself,…

Each author has a way of expressing their intended purpose to their audience, many do so by using rhetorical strategies. A rhetorical device is a way to convey meaning or to persuade. Rhetorical strategies are found in every piece of writing but we generally do not realize it. In the speeches by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, they use rhetorical strategies to convey their messages. In Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried, rhetorical devices are found throughout his writing. Between these…

Deception. Deception is everywhere in politics! Throughout history, many people have been using the art of artifice, or deception to try and persuade people to join their side. These people often make up facts within their cause to obtain more followers. In politics, this is everywhere. Politics have been known to be full of lies throughout world history. One would say that artifice is the most important skill to have in the world. This is due to how politics have been corrupted in…

In the year of 1960 Nixon was selected for the Republican nomination to run for office, and nixon was up against Cabot Lodge. He had a campaign against a team of senators including JFK and Lyndon Johnson. Nixon then lost to Kennedy, but it was a close, he lost by one hundred thousand votes out of the sixty-eight million cast. Soon as Nixon was defeated he then returned to Los Angeles to return to law. After the defeat by President Johnson. Nixon soo wondered that he is a serious presidential…