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Controversial continues to be the adjective that defines Kanye Omari West. On his Saint Pablo tour in San Jose Last week, Kanye proclaimed that if he had voted he would have voted for Donald Trump. The large rectangular stage he stands on is suspended from the ceiling and is at the center of a Colosseum style stadium. The lights casts a reddish/orange hue on the stage, a stark contrast against the blacked out crowd. The design of Kanye’s concert is very much a metaphor for how he is viewed in…

The novel Killing Lincoln, written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, portrays the steps leading up to the assassination of President Lincoln and the effects after. The author sequences the book in chronological arrangement through the historical events. Bill O’Reilly is a political television show host on the channel Fox News. O’ Reilly is an accomplished author; he has produced numerous historical novels. Also, the author majored in history and graduated from Harvard, so this knowledge makes…

When man and woman were created, the idea was to be equal among each other. However, as the world evolved so did women. Women developed into various sizes, colors and personalities. It’s the personality of women that made the world interesting by the design of stereotyping. A stereotype is defining someone in a particular group or class as either positive or negative that’s not necessarily true. For example, women can be defined as classy, intelligent, independent, gold diggers,…

Spoken language holds more information than written. This is because while speaking, an audience is able to understand the feeling of the speaker as there is tone and body language. In written language this is not known as its just plain text. The speakers feeling are also shown by paralinguistic features which are body language, posture, eye contact and hand gestures. As well as this, spoken language contains features like fillers and hedges. All this is adds emotion to speech which is…

Two billion dollars, two days and hundreds of thousands of casualties. The American decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was and remains one of the most complex and challenging ethical and moral dilemmas. May 8th, 1945 marked German surrender and Victory in Europe day and in the Summer of 1945 Japan was clearly doomed for defeat. Despite this, the battle with Japan showed no clear exit. In an attempt to beat Germany, the United States conducted the Manhattan Project, an…

In his book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, Thomas J. DiLorenzo questions validity of the revered symbol of emancipation that is Abraham Lincoln. Found within the pages of The Real Lincoln is a series of allegations towards Lincoln and his legacy. Throughout the work, DiLorenzo questions both the actions of President Lincoln’s Administration and the intentions. DiLorenzo claims that Lincoln used his power as the President of the United States…

Science Fiction is all about humans’ interactions and reactions with technology of the future. Through our own society we use these strange situations to encompass the unknown and face the bizarre. The future of humanity is uncertain and can be very scary as to what will happen next. Many wonder what will be the next big event? The novels that will be discussed are A Scanner Darkly, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. These books identify different aspects of…

eight sergeants) of Turkish Special Forces were forcibly put hoods on their heads and taken out handcuffed. After being taken out of Turkish Special Forces, US soldiers condemned to examine very harshly the headquarters even Turkish flag in the office of Turkish Special Forces unit commander was pulled down by tearing. "American soldiers seized 15 kg of explosives,…

Riley Pietraszewski Lauri Zumwalt ENGL 1613.050 16 October, 2015 Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft 2 On June 11, 1963, the 35th President John F. Kennedy delivered his civil rights speech on radio and television from the oval office for the citizens of the United States. A large portion of Kennedy’s presidency was spent dealing with racism and unfair treatment to the Negros. Kennedy presented his speech after there were a series of threats on the University of Alabama. The Alabama National Guard…

Introduction World War II is heating up. The United States is now involved. The President needs to find a way to end the war as fast as possible. During this time, suspicions are high that Germany is developing some sort of “super weapon” – possibly using nuclear/atomic energy. Already, German scientists had discovered the technique of splitting uranium atoms – called nuclear fission – by the bombardment of these atoms using neutrons, splitting them apart into rare isotopes, the most…