Norman Mailer

“Banning books give us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight” (Stephen Chbosky). The First Amendment guarantees Americans the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. Freedom of the press means the government can not restrict television, radio, internet, or what is printed in newspapers and books. It also allows the dissemination of literature and the right to receive it. Without this freedom, the…

The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was by far the most violent and traumatic of America’s three wars in Asia in the fifty years since Pearl Harbor. In August of 1964 two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin were attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the bombing of military targets in North Vietnam as retaliation. By February 1965 the United States had begun regular bombings of North Vietnam (History.com). The war did nothing but cause problems for the…

Reinhold Niebuhr was a Civil Rights ethicist. From Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 to late 1968, Niebuhr published articles and editorials, and held public conversations interpreting the Civil Rights Movement’s ongoing actions to abolish juridical segregation and anti-black discrimination. As with the movement itself, these writings and discourses exhibit moments of optimism, celebration, misfire, disappointment, and reassessment. Niebuhr engages in what might called moral publicity,…

What Do We Want? America’s Cultural Revolution! When Do We Want It? The 1960s! The United States of America (and in fact, the whole world) has a long history of protest. From Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, to the trans-Atlantic Shakespearean rivalry that sparked the Astor Place Riot, to every workers’ strike from 1877 onwards; history can at times simply look like a long line of people taking action to right what they see as wrong. And yet there is one prevailing period of which the definitive…

Student’s Name: Prof. Name: HUM333: Photo and the Other Date: Diane Arbus and the others in her photos The world of art is full of several labels. In an effort to reduce obscure individuals to a particular category some specific labels have been generally applied in the art world, whether for religious, territorial, ethnic, sexual or national. For an all-purpose rationale, these labels are not applied in order to single out, but are an effort to give an identity to the minorities who have long…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…