Richard Hofstadter

The story "The most Dangerous Games" rotates around two characters that are assuming the part of hunter and prey. The plot of this story is how a hunter named Rainsford gets trapped in an island after he falls off his yacht and meets another character named General Zaroff. The General is a past middle age Russian Cossack with a costly house on an island called Ship-Trap and they start to share interests and beasts they have hunted. General Zaroff shows through his actions his immorality by…

The author arrives at his conclusion by making comparisons of his thoughts to government and private authenticated publications that give a narrative of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. This is arguably a good approach to follow because it reduces any form of doubt from the reader's mind. While there exist numerous publications on the life and times of President JFK, the author limits himself to credible and authenticated publications to avoid creating any level of doubt from the readers. The…

Abstract:The purpose of this research paper is to distinguish between the two stereotypes that the very popular and political family, The Kennedy’s, fit into. Introduction: The Kennedy family is one of America’s most well known family. From actively stepping into American politics starting the 1940’s until present day, to becoming prominent in great amounts of public service, many Americans believe that the Kennedy’s fill the role of “an American royal family”. Being in the public eye, the…

US President John F. Kennedy showed support of South Vietnam, whose neighbor, North Vietnam, was trying to take over and convert them to communism. Three different presidents were in office over the entirety of the war, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the most controversial decision-making coming from Lyndon Johnson, whose presidency by 1968 saw 30 billion dollars spent on the war a year and large numbers of…

The Bourne trilogy, specifically Bourne identity focuses on man whom suffers from retrograde amnesia. The film starts with a man found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with two gunshots wounds in his back. He is rescued by nearby fishermen’s, and on this boat happened to be a doctor. The doctor finds and extracts two bullets from Jason’s back and small microchip that was lodged in his hip. After waking up he spends the rest of the film trying to regain his memory given that one cue. The cue…

Many students, both men and women, had been protesting the government that is continuing to fight the war in Vietnam. The protesters believed the government was corrupt and something needed to be done. They thought that the best thing they could do was to protest, and that's what they did. All of these protestors had been getting furious with the war in Vietnam. From the early 1960s and 1970s, there was over 450 colleges protesting Vietnam around the United States.(history.com) There was a…

11/4/16 8-3 English FLE Black Boy by Richard Wright is an autobiography depicting Richard’s childhood through young adulthood. Richard is born on a plantation in Mississippi, where he is brought up until the age of four after an accident in which his curiosity leads him to burn down the house. This is the first display of Richard’s burning curiosity that stays with him, continuing to land him in trouble and sparking his desire for knowledge. Richard eventually moves in with his…

Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Texas, had served in the military, and had became America’s 34th president. Throughout his life, he had accomplished many great things, from signing the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1957, to keeping America at peace with foreign countries. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. Eisenhower was an amazing person, and helped America become what it is today.…

Introduction Thesis: In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Congress passed into law the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (“FISA”) to limit the power of the Executive Branch for the secret surveillance activities. Hence, to protect citizen privacy, FISA requires the government to attest that "the objective" of the surveillance is to gather foreign intelligence information. However, the difference between electronics surveillance conducted for national security and law enforcement…

The Vietnam War In times of war there are generally three people, the people in the war, the people watching the war, and those who don’t care. Photojournalist Larry Burrows happened to be two of those people. Larry Burrows died when his helicopter was shot down over laos while collecting photos of this gruesome war that claimed thousands of lives. Originally written January, 25th,1963 the Times article “America in Vietnam, 1963: Deeper Into War” provided a much deeper out look into the…