Abstract This is a paper about ArchibaldMacLeish's "J.B." a post-WWII verse play. The author looks at the play in-depth. MacLeish displays the main character's purity of spirit through his relationships with his children, his wife and his friends. While others around him falter as their world crumbles, J.B. is able to maintain his purity.
From the Paper "Since the beginning of time, a troubling enigma has plagued mankind. Man has always asked his God why humanity must be stricken with suffering. If God is a fair and righteous God, then why does He punish us for paradoxical reasons? Some have concluded that human suffering is due to unholy sin, while others believe sin to be one small step in God's ultimate plan in one's life. Others determine that God reveals one's true character by testing them. Great philosophers and scholars have debated this distressing issue for centuries. This topic has been fully explored in all areas of life, especially in the written word. Literature's dominant theme is usually about human suffering in some form or another, whether it be the Book of Job in the Old Testament or Dostoyevsky novels or soap operas (Corliss 75). Archibald MacLeish, a noted American poet and playwright, explores human suffering in most of his works. However, his "post-World War II verse play," J.B., fully searches the topic (Adler 128)."
Abstract This paper compares and contrasts Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and the painting "Spirit of '76" by Archibald McNeal Willard.
Abstract This paper portrays the works of two poets whose subject matter and deliverance are comparable. The writer discusses their style of writing poetry to emphasise the differences between them and their understanding and belief of the art of poetry.
From the Paper "Terence immediately lapses into reasons why poetry can never be a substitute for beer: ?There's brisker pipes than poetry.? Why, if it's false happiness the reader wants, then by all means the reader should get drunk. "Malt does more than Milton can/To justify God's ways to man" refers to Milton's Paradise Lost and typifies Houseman's argument. The poet describes the breweries in England, wondering why anyone would prefer poetry to beer for curing malaise, especially those ?fellows whom it hurts to think.? Ale is the drink of choice for anyone who wishes to see the world through rose-colored glasses. When drunk, the ?world seemed none so bad,? declares Terence; but ?the tale was all a lie; the world, it was the old world yet.? "
From the Paper "Archibald MacLeish's poem "Ars Poetical' is an ironic work because it makes declarations about poetry and what poetry "should be," but it contradicts those declarations at the very moment it makes them. For example, we read that
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds (7-8).
But, of course, these lines are made of the very words of which the poet says a poem should be free. What MacLeish is saying in this and other declarations of irony and apparent contradiction is that a poem, if it is successful, appeals to a part of the reader that transcends rational, analytical thinking which seeks a linear "meaning" from life, experience and poetry. The true "meaning" of a poem, then, according to MacLeish, is more like a mystery unsolved than an object defined. The object..."
This paper discusses the Watergate Scandal, which forecasted the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon and led to his resignation on August 9, 1974.
Abstract This paper explains that the Watergate Scandal refers to a series of events spread over several years surrounding President Richard Nixon's administration and his alleged abuse of power while in office which encompassed the political undermining of the anti-war movement (Vietnam), the Democratic political party, embarrassing and inculpatory behavior by the administration and subsequent reporting by the press. The author reviews the timeline, events and major players in this scandal including President Richard Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew, Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox, White House Counsel and possibly the original architect of the cover-up John Dean, Attorney General John Mitchell, Judge John Sirica and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the "The Washington Post" reporters who uncovered the scandal. The paper concludes that the Watergate Scandal, which produced the first dual resignations of a president and vice president, indictments of forty prominent citizens and scarred the nation throughout the process, is the benchmark and term often applied to scandalous political behavior.
From the Paper "John Mitchell as the Attorney General was a loyal supporter of Nixon. In September 1972, stories published by "The Washington Post" linked Mitchell with a $250,000 slush fund that paid for the Watergate burglaries. He made a famously vulgar remark about the fact that if the stories were published, there would be political repercussions. He was right and later prosecuted for perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy. Elliot Richardson, the Attorney General (after Richard Kleindienst), appointed Archibald Cox as special prosecutor and later refused to fire him. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus both resigned during the "Saturday Night Massacre". John Sirica presided over the Watergate trials, while he was the Chief Judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. He was considered a maverick on the bench and actively questioned the witnesses and defendants during this trial. He surmised that the participants in the Watergate trial were not being truthful in their assertions. He ordered that the original audiotapes containing the recorded conversations be presented to the court, not the transcripts. The Supreme Court upheld this ruling in July, 1974, thus leading to the resignation of Nixon in August, 1974."
Abstract This paper examines how Zadie Smith's main theme and thesis in her book, "White Teeth", is, multi racialism and multiculturalism in London. In particular, it discusses how although this seems to be an apparently limited theme, at least from a geographical perspective, it gives birth to numerous implications and a global approach that seems natural and well received in an age where almost everything has turned global overnight. It also discusses whether the modern world lost tolerance and acceptance from its set of values.
From the Paper "A brief reference to the main characters in the book is essential in determining how the questions of the book are being addressed. Alfred Archibald Jones is a working-class Englishman, while Samad Iqbal, is a Bengali Muslim, now a waiter in an Indian restaurant in London. Having met in the Second World War (strange allusion and antithesis: while war disunites and divides nations, it sometimes helps unite races and simple individuals), the two have remained best friends ever since. Archie marries Clara, who has Jamaican roots, and have a daughter, Irie. Samad and his wife, Alsana, have twin sons, Magid and Millat. "
Abstract This paper discusses how the crucial events of October, which culminated in the infamous Saturday Night Massacre, were triggered by Archibald Cox's demand for White House tape-recordings that might resolve the conflict between President Nixon's claims of innocence and the testimony of former counsel John Dean, which implicated the President in the Watergate cover-up. The paper further discusses how ultimately, the existence of these tape-recordings, which had been revealed by Alexander Butterfield during the Senate Watergate Hearings in the summer of 1973, provided Cox with a definitive means determining who was telling the truth and who was lying.
From the Paper "Watergate unfolded over a period of two years against the tragic backdrop of the Vietnam War, which produced a powerful anti-war movement across America in the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies. Richard Nixon's Watergate crimes were a direct result of his fear that he would lose his reelection bid in November of 1972 to an anti-war Democrat, and a product of his rampant paranoia about leaks and obsessive penchant for secrecy. Ironically, the break in itself in June of 1972 was a minor crime compared to the massive cover up concocted and carried out by Nixon and high White House officials. "
