Irving Berlin

God’s Instrument After years of typing away on his antique typewriter for hours on end, the Oscar winning storyteller John Irving triumphantly finished his seventh novel A Prayer For Owen Meany in 1989. The emotional tugging that the novel forces upon its audience made it one of the most read novels of the 20th century (McCarthy 2). This humorous yet heart wrenching tale tells of an unlikely friendship between two boys just before the Vietnam era. As a time full of war, death, and lost hope;…

A Life of Selfishness and Greed The author of “The Devil and Tom Walker”, Washington Irving, became a famed author of 19th century America. He was born in New York and became one of the first American fiction authors to gain international acclaim. Irving began his career writing satire essays, and he was specifically known for his works, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” In his work “The Devil and Tom Walker”, he tells the story of a man and woman whose greed was to such an…

research findings on the Berlin Wall, political activism expressed through graffiti in 1961 compared to graffiti during the 2008 presidential election. This paper will cover a brief history of the Berlin Wall and its intended social and political purpose. I will show how expression through art can change political space and majority opinion. I will conclude that the use of activist art in public space greatly affected the outcome of specific political events. The Berlin Wall can be seen as a…

America: As Tough As Steel… If Our Industries Allow It As an unexpected move from U.S. steel manufacturing companies drove prices of steel in America up by 3.5 percent, John F. Kennedy, then-president of the United States of America addressed this move by the steel companies through a commentary given on April 11, 1962 during a news conference. Kennedy, through this commentary, attempts to persuade the accused companies to lower the prices of steel for the benefit of the American people through…

city of Berlin was also divided into East Berlin and West Berlin by a wall called “The Berlin Wall”. When President John F. Kennedy arrived in West Berlin, he make a speech offers hope to the city’s residents, who were enclosed by communist East Germany. “There are people that don’t distinguish the difference between a free world and the communist word” –Kennedy, so he was honored to be at West Berlin because it represents the fighting of freedom. b.…

Reagan in West Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate delivered this speech. The purpose of this speech was to let the leader of the Soviet Union, which was Gorbachev, to tear down the wall, which separated East Berlin from West Berlin, causing division between both provinces. Even though Reagan made it very clear that he would like the wall to be torn down by Gorbachev, it is…

Washington DC that its government will not allow the communist ideologies to push them out of Berlin (Smyser, 2009). Additionally, he stressed that their extensive beliefs on ideology will not succeed either continuously or by them using violence. Because of this, he sternly emphasized for an increased defence US government budget. It was characterised by increased number of American reserves to minimize the Berlin violence. Again, he stressed that the government will purchase new modern weapons…

Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. At this time, the United States and the USSR were embroiled in a global power struggle, which resulted in a great deal of tension between democratic and communist countries. Many people at the time sought reunification of West Berlin and East Berlin, and an end to the Cold War. In “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate,” former president Ronald Reagan uses logos appeals, pathos appeals, and parallel structure in an effort to initiate the demolition of the Berlin Wall,…

For the unit 4, we watched movies that were focusing on the problems that Germany was facing after the wall came down and the unification. During this period citizens from both sides were kind of forced to get along and help each other so they can help the country and the government grow. But the problem was that these people were alien to each other and it was not really easy for them to get along. Also after the wall, there was a lot of economic issues that they were facing. A lot of people…

The division of Europe from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Balkan Peninsula in the South is famously called the Iron Curtain, and it exemplifies the political differences between France, Great Britain and the US had with the USSR before the Berlin Wall was raised; although the territory…