Rage Against the Machine

Identification and Evaluation of Sources The scope of this investigation covers the effects of technological development in American employment from the 1960s-1990s. It specifically focuses on the effects of computerization as computers began to replace human laborers. Source Evaluation #1: Primary Source One of my primary sources is the book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, accessed online. This book is a compilation of quotes spoken by President…

Bullets whizzed overhead hell-bent on hitting their targets. James pressed himself against the mud wall of the trench, as if by doing so it would take him away from the corner of hell that his old naive self had willingly entered. Allied planes tore through the open sky with kamikazes right on their tails. Gaping holes left in the ground by heavy artillery were full with stagnant water and the rotting corpses of dead soldiers, their weapons bent and rusted displaying a haunting past that time…

armored personnel carriers were riding through the people leaving hundreds of dead and mutilated on the way. The tanks, mortars, and machine guns were shooting innocent and unarmed civilians making a city a heart of bloody massacre. Several…

Only half an hour to go. The clicking noise of the sewing machines pounded, hammering away at the headache I always got towards the end of the day. My hands were heavier and I longed to be rid of the claustrophobic tables. “Did you hear that Violet in our building got engaged to a man in Virginia? I envy her for she plans to move with him after their marriage in the fall,” the girl sitting next to me blurted out. Beckie lived in the same building as me and was quite a plethora of information. I…

himself. He does not want to accept anyone else because in the result he has to disobey himself which he cannot afford. Both characters are evil and good at the same time. No one want to accept defeat. Both Ahab and Moby Dick are so determined in their rage that they forget any other emotion and their anger and hatred covers other emotions. Ahab is not an ordinary man, he is quite tortured soul, deep and possess complicated nature. He is mad as he does not think that he is not old enough that…

right to vote, but after a time of peacefully protesting they got their right to vote. It was a difficult struggle for women to attain their right to vote, they had to keep fighting the discrimination against them. In addition the women…

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver is about making an assessment based on future outcomes. Prediction is indispensable to our everyday lives. The biggest problem with predicting about the future is even though you are forecasting the future the data it is based off is usually from the past. Just because you are able predict the past doesn’t mean you are able to predict the future. Silver demonstrates in this book how many prediction practices have been flawed and suggest ways that might…

detaches violence from its human sphere and its consequences for others. As such, Arthur is so acclimatised to professional violence it affects his relationship with Lynda. Violence and language have become so interchangeable that when she speaks against him ‘the shortest way of stopping it I found was to hit her.’ Perhaps normalisation of violence during war has dangerously pervaded the post-war man’s fragile…

The party’s success is unlike any other powers before them. In the novel Orwell states, “the people before them founded the nation on love, compassion and Justice but, Oceania is founded upon fear, hatred, rage, triumph, and self- abasement” (220). Their goal is to become more merciless and less humane over time. The party is creating a place filled with people who can do anything whether it’s good or bad, they are creating a group of people who doesn’t think…

debate still rages on. Only this time,…