Robert Browning

Willingness to follow authority is discussed as a reason for some of the policemen’s motive behind shooting. There are multiple aspects of this theory discussed in the book. In one part, Browning mentions that some followed orders by authority based on a desire to advance their careers. Others, who were not wanting to make a career in the police force could justify their actions to themselves by claiming they were just following orders,…

Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution Christopher Browning systematically searches through historical records to trace the actions of the Nazi police Battalion 101. This battalion consisted of older, middle-aged men who joined the police battalion to avoid conscription and the frontline, by all means these men were normal and respectable however, during the Final Solution they were turned into hardened killers. Browning evaluates the factors that these men experienced and attempts…

in Poland, uses records from the trials of Nazi crimes in Germany to examine the perpetrators. Browning, just like the scientists, could not come to any solid conclusion to explain how a regular man could commit such horrific crimes. He did nonetheless pose an important question: “If the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 could become killers under such circumstances, what group of men cannot?” (Browning 189). The controversy in the question of “ordinary men” exists because, whether one…

We see an early example shaker culture when Mr. Tanner gives young Robert the pig for help and apron with the calving. Mr. Haven and Robert are fixing the fence when Mr. Tanner brings the pig Roberts father states about accepting the pig “we thank you brother Tanner but it’s not the shaker way to take frills for being neighborly” (P 21). I think this shows that in the shaker culture they feel that is not right to accept a gift or payment for doing the right thing in any given situation are…

In the book, “Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary of State”, former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates describes his experiences as Secretary of State while serving for two Presidential Administrations from 2006-2011. This Paper will analyze former Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, as a strategic leader in two specific areas: his ability to build consensus and unite the Military and Congress with a unifying strategic approach to the war in Iraq during his first year (2006-2007) under President…

“How Do I Love Thee” , by Elizabeth Barrett Browning , is an English sonnet , written in 1845. It has fourteen lines in total. It has ten syllables per line. The type of poem supports the theme of the poem. Sonnets are considered the poetic language of love. The type of poem helps support the passion in the poem and magnifies it even more. The love in this poem , would not be properly displayed if it was written in any other form of poetry. The rhyme scheme for “How Do I Love Thee” is not the…

Victorian Poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote more than one poem, and one of them is Sonnet 43 “How Do I love Thee”. The Rhyme Scheme, symbolism and repetition allow us to see Browning and her husband’s private emotions of love for another. The Victorian era shifted between romanticism to realism, changed by novelists who enjoyed a golden age. Late Victorian writing move in naturalism and escapist fiction (Holt McDougal 919). Every person has a different story a different childhood, some…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “To George Sand: A Desire” serves to explicate Browning’s admiration for George Sand, a successful female writer, by underscoring that which makes Sand powerful. “To George Sand: A Recognition,” a companion piece to “A Desire,” concerns itself not only with Sand’s character traits but also with evidencing the actual challenges Sand faced to become the writer she was. Because of this, my primary inspiration and the poem I chose to imitate was “A Recognition.” “To…

Abstract: The play “Red Oleanders” is first written in Bengali language under the title “RaktaKarabhi”. Tagore conveys the message that the Utilitarian approach and vast industrialization throughout the world would resulting in diminishing human compassion and cause Ecological Imbalance.So he used characters as a metaphor of human instincts such as greed, power, envy, love, trust, and sacrifice. The play Red oleanders is a One-act play which follows the Aristotle’s rules. He fallow’s three…

In each of Anne Bradstreet’s poems her style has changed and contoured to fit the theme of the specific poem. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” Bradstreet seamlessly describes the love she has for her husband using a variety of literary devices such as metaphors. Using metaphors helps Bradstreet clearly demonstrate the point she is trying to make while writing it in a creative way. The strongest metaphor in this poem is, “My love is such that Rivers cannot quench” this line gives the reader a…