Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

situations Hinton uses to give an honest account of teenage struggles. Unfortunately, because of her raw honesty, many critics have seen the story as a problem novel. For example, one critic believes that the story is too realistic for the audience 's own good (Sardina 3). Another critic believes that Hinton’s novel achieves a kind of sleight hand (Tribunella 95). Though Hinton was misunderstood as a writer, her writing style lead to new ways of writing style lead…

Many people today look back on General MacArthur and the war in Korea and view him as a bad leader, a leader who did not follow the current Army Values. After his short campaign during the Korean War, General MacArthur gained a very negative reputation. He is now looked upon as a leader who did not lead by example. This paper explores that question. General MacArthur up to the start of the Korean War had already immortalized himself in American history. As a General, he was known as one of…

8. "Mercedes was left alone. Bathed in tears, she was seen ceaselessly wandering around the little village of the Catalans, sometimes standing motionless in the blazing heat of the southern sun, sometimes sitting on the beach listening to the eternal moaning of the sea asking herself whether it would not be better to let herself sink into the depths rather than undergo the cruel suffering of a wait without hope" (Dumas 40). The narrator is describing Mercedes life without Edmond. This quote is…

Greasers are what made the culture, the time, the people, so fascinating for the 1950’s and 1960’s. Being in that ‘Greaser’ stereotype, was so rebelliously cool to most American’s, and still is to this day. The revolutionary co-cultural movement of the Greaser stereotype was something that left a significant impact on the way the United States became the United States that it is today. Whenever you think about the 1950’s you think of girls in poodle skirts, jukeboxes, Elvis Presley, and tough…

The Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history, took over half a million American lives in just four short years. With the advent of advanced weaponry and extensively developed war strategies, American blood was spilled everywhere and no family was left unstained. However, many people overlooked a much deadlier force that hid behind the blazing guns and the explosive artillery, which ultimately contributed to the South’s demise. Disease (dysentery, typhoid, malaria) ran rampant throughout…

often mishandled the rights to uphold blacks newly found freedoms within the south and parts of the north. This mishandling of rights lead the South to create a much separated and segregated hatred view point that had lasting effects well into the 1960’s. It also lead to…

the most to the South’s eventual defeat of the Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg, but without the superb leadership of the Union general during this battle, it could have ended in a different result. Because of more popular names like Ulysses S. Grant and Stonewall Jackson, George Meade is often considered the forgotten general of the American Civil War. The three days at Gettysburg were the only three days that Meade had in command of the army, and with those days, he not only stopped…

"the President 's eyes, ears and legs" and provided objective information to her husband about what she learned while…

Prufrock” takes this fear to a whole new level. When reading the title of the poem, the reader would more than likely think that it was going to be a beautiful love song. Although, as the poem goes on its obvious that it is the exact opposite of that. T. S. Elliot takes what is a promise of a love song and turns it into more of a persistent reminder of how Prufrocks life is lonely and unfulfilling. Throughout the poem, Elliot uses irony in as many aspects as he could. The title is probably the…

victimize African Americans and Radical Republicans (white reformers) (Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 2011). From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan 's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance…