Critical Analysis of "Bring Back Flogging?" (ENGL 015S) - Xuan Zhou Sign In Xuan Zhou Home Blog Educational Experience Professional Experience Contact Critical Analysis of "Bring Back Flogging?" (ENGL 015S) By XUAN ZHOU on September 9, 2010 6:58 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks SEARCH THIS BLOG Full Text Search Tag In his article, "Bring Back Flogging," columnist Jeff Jacoby tries to tell us about the deficiency of today's criminal justice system and to persuade us to bring back flogging as a punishment for certain crimes. His title clearly and directly states his thesis. Techniques such as evidence and assumptions are used in this essay to persuade readers.
You can tell a lot about a book from its cover. Barbara Olson's previous book, Hell To Pay has an absolutely awful picture of Hillary Clinton on the cover; and the book's content paints an absolutely awful picture of Hillary Clinton. This book has a much nicer picture on the cover, of a smiling Bill & Hillary waving good-bye, and it paints a much nicer picture of them than Olson's first book. Olson published Hell To Pay in 1999, as an attack on Hillary as she ran for Senate. Olson published The Final Days in 2001, after Hillary was elected to the Senate and after the Clintons had left the White House.
Upon arriving in France, the delegation was told by three French agents, referred to in reports as X, Y, and Z, that in order to speak to Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, they would have to pay a large bribe, provide a loan for the French war effort, and Adams would have to apologize for anti-French statements(militaryhistory.about.com). Refusing to comply, the delegation departed and returned home. This event prompted the Federalist slogan, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." The Quasi War also had many effects on both France and the United States. The biggest effect was the new United States navy and the weakened French(American Pageant 13th ed.).
Furthermore, the notion that girls will witness their future husbands adds a romantic and passionate feeling, endorsing Keats’ adherence to romanticism instead of rationalism. The connotation of ‘eve’ as the time between two separate days may indirectly allude to the Age of Enlightenment, where science and reason became the predominant culture in society. This change in social beliefs was criticised by Keats who supported romanticism, and this can be inferred by the cold semantic field at the beginning and end of ‘The Eve of St Agnes’; ‘Ah, bitter chill it was!’ and ‘slept among his ashes cold.’ This circular narrative could suggest that Keats felt contempt towards the idea of a new age, so he incorporated this cold reception in his opening and closing stanzas by using a negative
How does Browning tell the story in the Laboratory? Robert Browning’s poem “The Laboratory” is set is France before the revolution which can be told from “ancient regime” and Browning manages to successfully tell the story using setting , time and sequence , characterisation and voices in the text correctly. The dramatic monologue is about the narrator herself and her plotting of revenge against her ex lover and his current lover and as tells the reader how she plans on doing so she shows how she believes her actions are justified and reasonable. In the poem the story’s tone is set with the setting which also helps create vivid imagery for the readers, making it easier to understand. Browning uses the title to set the scene for the story as “The Laboratory” is a place where scientific experiments take place but oddly in the poem it’s a place the narrator (a woman) uses the tell her feelings and plot revenge.
The President surprised the diplomatic arena with his early dismissal of one of the State Department's most experienced, Henry White, the Ambassador to France. The only suspected reason for this decision was that White was thought to have somehow slighted the President and his wife 25 years earlier on their honeymoon in Europe. Taft was oblivious to the serious damage which this decision caused his political reputation. [64] (The following year White accepted Taft's appointment to head a delegation to the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires.) The President made it a top priority to reorganize the State Department, saying, "It is organized on the basis of the needs of the government in 1800 instead of 1900.
Forbidden City Connections * One of the main connections I have made in this book that popped in to my head was when I saw about the words Goddess of Democracy and the author describing what it was built for. The Goddess of Democracy was built by the students and citizens of China to try and promote a more democratic environment around the country, and trying to lessen communism. The Statue of Liberty reminds me of the history of it why it was built for. It is obvious that both of them are statues but the reason why it was built for is quite similar. You see Liberty Lady was a gift from France to celebrate a hundred years of history of America and to promote everlasting peace between the Americans and the French, while the Goddess of Democracy
William Ottenjohn The Portable Edmund Burke Edmund burke was a quintessential forerunner of the revolution. All though he was only a forerunner in thought he helped to set the stage for how the rest of Europe would view the French revolution. Burke did not initially condemn the French Revolution. In many of his letters he wrote how England was gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether it would be for the better of the content of if it would be disastrous for everyone involved. Then events on 5–6 October 1789, in which a mob of Parisian women marched on Versailles and took King Louis XVI turn to Paris, turned Burke against the entire movement because it became to radical.
By 1403, Philip of Burgundy commissioned her to write a biography of his father, King Charles V, perhaps influenced by Christine’s famous quarrel with Jean de Montreuil regarding the Romance of the Rose. Begun in the 1230s by Guillaume de Lorris and completed forty years later by Jean de Meun, the work’s treatment of social and moral subject matter prompted Christine to send a letter to Montreuil in response to his praise for the Rose.3 Christine’s opposition to de Meun’s characterization of women, the obscenity he used in the text, and what Christine read as inappropriate usage of representative characters, such as the priest and Reason, led her to call the work “useless” and “dangerous to innocent
The proposed SHIELD Act is anti-shield law Decades after the passing of the Espionage Act in 1917, lawmakers are being forced to shake the dust off this old law and redefine the term “national security.” The WikiLeaks “document dump” in December 2010 opened a set of double doors to the national security world (and consequently to the inherent First Amendment freedoms at stake). WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange are seen as either heroes or hackers. The First Amendment could either be strengthened or weakened. And transparency could become a trend or a threat. The bottom line, though, is that journalism took a hit, and legislators are exploiting it.