In “America,” Hoagland uses metaphors to illustrate the growing influence of consumerism, capitalism, and most of all the greed that rules the modern American society. Consumerism is a modern day blessing and a curse for America. Consumerism is the theory of society’s preoccupation with consumer goods. This is evident in the beginning of “America.” Hoagland writes, “Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud/ Says that America for him is a maximum-security prison/ Whose walls are made of RadioShack’s and Burger King’s, and MTV episodes/ Where you can’t tell the show from the commercials.” Here, Hoagland lists the details of American “trendiness” by mentioning hair color and body piercings. Also, Hoagland describes modern day businesses like Radio Shack, which market and sell consumer based goods, and fast food restaurants like Burger King that gives super-sized food portions.
McCarthy came on the scene. Hearings and investigations occurred in the late 40s. But Schrecker provides a robust detail chronological account the early stages of political repression of the left. Although the author can trace back all the way to the Mayflower compact and otherness of enslaved Africans, Anti-Communism in its modern form begins with the Paris commune of 1870-71, and the great railroad strikes of 1877. But it is the Haymarket tragedy of 1886 where anarchists and a bomb exploded killing police officers that we find the inter connection of local police agencies, robber baron business leaders, cash payoffs to law enforcement officers and the privileging American values of family flag and church as the beginning stages of a network towards the repression of the political left.
Sasha Rivera Mr. Moran AP English Language/Composition-Period 1 2 December 2013 The Devil in the White City Critique In his nonfiction novel The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson uses the two main characters to juxtapose the themes of good and evil. The book parallels the lives of Daniel Burnham, the chief builder of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and H. H. Holmes, a serial killer, during 1890s Chicago. Larson recreates the 19th century city and the two main characters to explore the development of good and evil. The author achieves this purpose using rhetorical strategies and symbolism. The book is divided in six parts: Prologue, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and the Epilogue.
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He called upon Congress to pass a law establishing the Food and Drug Administration and, for the first time, setting up federal inspection standards for meat. The Jungle, itself, is an extremely graphic novel depicting the real life of many immigrants once they come to America. This book shows the political scandal, bad working conditions, the taking advantage of cheap labor, and the treatment of immigrants of the early twentieth
It was a prison for the convicts, it was to ‘get rid of, or at least greatly reduce, crime in Great Britain’, Australia was home of the convict class of Britain, it was the “bottom” class. The arrival of the New South Wales corps in 1789 (mainly formed with the trouble makers, prison guards, the unwanted and ex-officers of Britain) immediately had the potential to create a power struggle in a society controlled by the decisions of the Governor general representative of the crown in Australia. When Governor General Philip left in 1792 it left, General Grose of the New South Wales corps, in charge of the colony. The New South
Joshua Civic Dr. Masembe ENC1101 18 October 2011 “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”(Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream). Race has stirred conflicts since the dawn of America. Many a great people have died in the fight against racism. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, freed the slaves with the passing of the emancipation proclamation. Lincoln was assassinated and died on April 14, 1865.
Nathan Graham Mrs. Chenault Pre-AP English-7 5 February 2013 In F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates a fictitious peninsula that branches off Long Island. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald creates a third party view of the struggles between New Money and Old Money. In The Great Gatsby, Nick recalls the events that led up to the death of his friend, James Gatz, known by the alias Jay Gatsby. Nick is a middle class man, served in the war, and is trying to start selling bonds and stocks. He is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan, a Old Money woman, with a New Money personality.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, the leader of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of the Public Prisons, revived the Quaker code in the late 1700s. The first prison was established in the United States in 1790 by the Philadelphia Society. A wing of the Walnut Street Jail was converted to house sentenced offenders as an alternative to corporal punishment. A regimen was created that involved hard work and doing penance for their offenses. Prisoners were given work to do during the day in their cells and at night they were encouraged to read the Bible and do penance.