Typewriters

to deal a psychological blow to the writer through privacy invasion: Even the privacy of this process can be invaded or threatened- as happened to me when Security Police searched my house, perused all my notes for a novel, even confiscated my typewriters; as happened to many of my black colleagues in South Africa when, sometimes simply on the strength of having written one poem or one play, they are detained for an indeterminate period, or intimidated in a variety of ways in order to dissuade…

gave all Americans a purpose to set aside all there differences. Within the following week tens of thousands of men volunteered to join the US arm forces to fight against Japan. The manufacturing sector of the United States, which produced cars, typewriters, and even sewing machines, was immediately transformed to producing surplus to be used by the military. These corporations now produce tanks, guns, parachutes, and clothing to be worn by the military soldiers. The country was just coming out…

where he continued to write literary works (Langston Hughes Biography). He wrote stories and poetry on a typewriter in his appartment (Meet the Writer 136). While working as a busboy in D.C., he met Vachel Lindsay, an American poet, where he showed her one of his poems (Langston Hughes Biography). She later brought his poem to a wider audience (Langston Hughes…

The Portrayal of Society and How it Affects Female Characters: A Look at Machinal and Trifles Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and Susan Glaspell's Trifles take place in two very different worlds, yet they encompass some of the same problems, with both women from these different time periods choosing to kill their husbands as it was the only way they saw to escape their situations. Treadwell's Helen Jones and Glaspell's Mrs. Wright are both restricted by the men in their lives. Helen Jones being…

During Steve Jobs speech to the graduating students at Stanford Jobs uses a lot of examples throughout his lifetime and tries to relate as much as possible to the students through stories about his lifetime and how his companies came about. Jobs uses different forms of Ethos, Pathos, and also Logos in his speech to Stanford. The issue is does Jobs fit the criteria to actually be speaking to graduating students about life challenges and his college experience. Here I’m going to go over the rather…

holocaust. In the documentary ‘Room 237’, about different theories on The Shining’s meanings, there are a few notable examples of references to the aforementioned genocides that a majority of the audience would miss. There is attention drawn to Jack’s typewriter which is of…

Rationing on the Homefront during WWII World War Two is remembered as being the most deadly war in the history of the world. To be exact approximately 60 million people died in the war(about 3 percent of the world’s population.) World War II lasted from 1941-1945 for the United States once they declared war on Japan. Right away when the United States entered the war, people were urged to ration. Whether someone liked it or not they had to ration in some way. A war is remembered for being…

Bradbury became one of the most honored American authors in the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery. In the 1950’s many authors were writing motivational novels, but not Bradbury. His desire for fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery set him aside from other authors and he was widely noticed. “When people asked about the purpose of his novels, Bradbury responded, ‘I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it’” (“Ray Bradbury” Encyclopedia). Ray Bradbury was…

the viewers could visualize the atrocity for themselves and wonder how a human could have ever been expected to swim side by side with such an enormous and unpredictable animal. The scene was described by a paramedic and the words were shown in typewriter font on a black screen so that the viewers could both read and listen to his account. He said, “she was, uh, scalped, and there was no blood […] we knew then that the heart wasn’t beating […] he didn’t (let go) of the arm, he…

hopes were crushed as I looked around. It was a storage room, though not for things like Will and I were collecting. Old yearbooks and outdated textbooks were stacked on shelves on the left side of the room; to the right was a small desk with a typewriter on it. We left the place as we found it and resigned ourselves to collecting projectors and math…