Thomas Pynchon

Book Review: The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes James Oakes, a historian and renowned professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is also the author of the book The Radical and the Republican. His book goes into details depicting the debates and the civil war, which took place in the mid-1800.These debates were focused on Fredericks Douglass’s attitude towards slavery and the emancipation of slaves, as well as the political attitude of Abraham Lincoln. Oakes…

CHAPTER –4 JURISPRUDENCE FOR PROTECTION OF WILD ANIMALS 4.1 INTRODUCTION In view of James Mill, every man desires to have for himself as many good things as possible, and there is not a sufficiency of good things for all, the strong, if left themselves, would take from the weak everything, or at least as much as they pleased; that the weak therefore, who are the greater, have an interest in conspiring to protect themselves against the strong. It also appeared, that almost all the things, which…

Lee de Forest, also known as ‘Father of Radio Broadcasting’ and some of his peers were one of the first people to send a public radio broadcast, the broadcast was sent from the Eiffel Tower. The radio is the single best invention out of all the inventions our class discussed. Firstly, the radio gave us communication for when satisfactory moment happen or when dissatisfactory events happens. The radio saved countless lives when people were in life threatening situations. Secondly, the radio…

Should Jamaica accept failure and be ruled by the British? We all want to be independent but sometimes we are not ready to be independent on our own. Jamaica was a part of the British colony until 1962 when it decided to become independent. Leaving from under the British rule was one of the major blunders that Jamaica made. Providing that Britain is one of the most important and wealthiest countries in the world, Jamaica could have been striving. If Jamaica was still a part of the British…

Maxwell and Faraday- A Brief History of Electromagnetism The field of electromagnetism was established in 1819, twelve years before Maxwell was born. Hans Christian Oersted from Denmark was the first scientist who thought of the possibility that magnetism and electricity were related. He considered such a possibility because of the observations he made during an experiment. He Placed a wire above a compass and passed a current through the wire. He noticed that the needle of compass moved when…

After spending a couple of years in Europe travelling around, he decided to come back to America. While coming back to America from England on a boat in 1832, he met an inventor called Charles Thomas Jackson. They started discussing electromagnetism and how an electronic impulse could be carried along a wire for long distances. This gave Samuel Morse the idea of a telegraph. He started drawing sketches of a mechanical device that could improve…

just started at the man not giving an answer. What would a woman like Emily be doing with such a strong poison? Faulkner never reveals the true cause of death by Homer or who did it. It is more of a speculation that Emily killed Homer. According to Thomas Robert Argiro, “The received explanation for this mess is that Emily buys arsenic and poisons Homer on his return, just after the visit from her Alabama cousins; nothing confirms this however, since only circumstantial evidence exists: her…

A Game Of Thrones is probably one of the most intriguing and exciting books I have ever read. This book goes into great depth concerning politics and each character’s own story. This book is currently telling the tale of House Stark, an honorable family led by their father and house lord, Ned Stark. Ned has been called to King’s Landing, a southern city dominated by the house of Lannister and Baratheon to serve in a political position for his King and former ally in the Great Targaryen War,…

INTRODUCTION Lord Cornwallis became the governor general of Indiafrom 1786 – 1793.Lord Corwallis In Indiawas a pioneer of british rule of law . He considered the europeans superior and therefore created a europeanised framework under Indian Traditions . He contrinuted greatly to Administrateive and Judicial Reforms India. During his Term He introduced Reforms thrice in 1787,1790 and 1793. CORNWALLIS REFORMS OF 1787 The 1787 reforms of Cornwallis focused more on The administrative reforms. In…

Victor Hugo says in Les Miserables, "Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a cowardly and miserable writer; he is nothing but the fact…" making it clear that contrary to the dominant belief he sees Machiavelli to just be the narrator of thing around him. Machiavelli’s, book the prince has been the centre of debate since the time it was written owing to its insight in the matters involving virtu, morality, fortuna, freewill, authority to exercise power and power itself. It is…