Richard Wright

Introduction As a woman, I know that there is an expectation from other women and men alike that I have to and must vote for Hilary Clinton for president. However, I respectfully have chosen another candidate that I feel exceeds qualifications to be our next president. I believe in a candidate who stands for justice, equality, and has been a civil rights activist since a very young age. I know as a young adult myself how incredibly hard it is to not only stand up for yourself but to consistently…

Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops." Brought on by the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, the policy referred to U.S. combat troops specifically in the ground combat role, but did not reject combat by the U.S. Air Force, as well as the support to…

Margaret Thatcher was Great Britain’s former prime minister and in 2014 on June 11th, she delivered a eulogy in honor of Ronald Reagan to the people of America. She had worked closely with President Reagan throughout his presidency. [D1:Rephrase] Margaret Thatcher used several techniques in her speech to help prove her point. The top three techniques that Thatcher used that jumped out the most\were the many quotes from Ronald Reagan, a few examples of pathos, and a majority of the speech was…

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer born in 1858 and is known to have put a considerable amount of thought into creating the mood and literary components of his librettos (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p.280). Richard Wagner was a German composer born in 1813 to a theatrical family (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p. 289). Both of these composers are famous for their operas and are from the Romanic Period. Their compositions, La Boheme and Die Walkure, share the characteristics of…

Kevin went through problems. He immediately thought companies would buy the apparel. Some did, but not enough to buy the bills. He told article writer Richard Feloni, "I was so broke, I couldn't even check for loose change in the ashtray, in the seat cushions," (Feloni). It wasn’t until Georgia Tech bought his apparel, that he was getting deals with colleges and football teams. His idea didn’t become a…

disorganized killer, she was not highly intelligent. Wuornos was psychotic and she took the lives of people killings impulsively, her killings were never fully planned. Wuornos’ first known victim was a shop owner, the 51 year old’s name was Richard Mallory. Wuornos later claimed in an interview that he attempted to rape her and she killed in defending herself. She murdered Mallory by shooting him three times with a .22 pistol. She then dumped his body in a wood beside Interstate 95, and…

Journalist David Halberstam started his career in journalism in a comparatively unorthodox way from his peers. After graduating from Harvard, Halberstam went to work for small daily newspapers instead of the bustling cities that most journalists long for. So instead, Halberstam fortuitously went to Mississippi, where he was front and center during the cultural upheaval of the 1950’s. Racial tensions were high after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, and Halberstam found…

Egyptian hieroglyphs used picture symbols to represent objects which is really crazy. There wasn’t punctuation, spaces, vowels, and they were written in all directions. There are over 700 hieroglyphic picture symbols in the Egyptian alphabet. But in the 1960s pictures got more groovy. Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s affected pop art in many ways. Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s were Marilyn Monroes death, US sends troops to Vietnam, and the assassinations of…

Would you want your scandal aired out to the public? All over national Tv, newspaper and word of mouth. That’s what happened to one of our former presidents William Jefferson Clinton, he was a good president who made poor choices concerning his private life, and instead of being honest he lied about his actions which resulted in major consequences. Former president Bill Clinton was born August 19th, 1946, in Hope Arkansas. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton’s father died three months before he…

The authors purpose behind the reading; On the Arrogance of Power, 1966, is to depict the United States and its failure to spread Democracy due to its “arrogance of power” (Fulbright, 2012). More specifically, this article discusses the failure to spread democracy during the Vietnam conflict. The author begins his writing with an argumentative thesis: “The dilemmas involved are preeminently American dilemmas, not because America has weaknesses that others do not have but because America is…