Abstract
An analysis of the life and political career of Angela Merkel, the first female leader of the CDU and Chancellor of Germany. This paper begins with her early career in pre-unification East Germany and follows through to her role in recent political events like the Euro Zone Sovereign Debt Crisis.

Outline:
School Life & Early Political Inclinations
Political Life
Chancellorship
European Financial Crisis
Conclusion

From the Paper
"With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel stepped into a full-time role in politics, becoming the deputy spokesperson for the Lothar de Maiziere pre-unification government. Post-reunification, she herself was elected to the Bundestag as a representative of her East German district, Stralsund-Nordvorpommern-Rugen, which she would represent until her ascendancy to the Chancellorship. From that point, she served in ministerial positions, including Minister for Women and Youth and Minister for the Environment and Nuclear Safety. During this time, she was taken into the mentorship of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

"After Kohl's defeat in the general election of 1998, Merkel moved on to a position as Secretary-General in her party, the Christian Democratic Union. During her tenure, she significantly expanded the influence and purchase of her party through several elections. A significant turning point for her came when she was forced to turn against Kohl, who had been implicated in a financing scandal, and pave a new road for the party away from his influence. This led to her being elected the chair of the CDU, the first woman to hold this position.

"As her reputation in Germany grew, suggestions began to emerge that she challenge Chancellor Gerhard Schroder for the Chancellorship. However, despite her increasing popularity generally, she faced opposition from within a faction of her own party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union-- a [predominantly Catholic organization that was opposed to her Protestant identity. The CSU's own leader, Edmund Stoiber, was put forth as the candidate and lost in the general election. After this defeat, Merkel was able to move into the leadership of the entire conservative opposition in the Bundestag."

Tags:Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, CDU, Christian Democratic Union, Germany' first female chancellor

Abstract
A book report on Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes". Author Frank McCourt's present-tense narrative gives a glimpse of his trouble-ridden childhood years and through a first person perspective he weaves a real-life yarn of poverty, destitution, the abuses of alcoholism and the torment and anguish associated with it.

Tags:rank, angela, ashes

Abstract
A review of "The Angela Y. David Reader", edited by Joy James. It explains how these writings cover Davis's academic and political life from the 1960s to the present and serve to show young black women one path to achieving more for their people and for themselves.

From the Paper
"The introduction by Joy James tells much of Davis's story and relates it to the political currents of the 1960s and after, including the many efforts by different governmental leaders to put down various movements seeking greater freedom of speech and other rights as promised in the Constitution yet denied to many, including blacks. The efforts by the government included a number of questionable and outright illegal actions to gather and keep intelligence on American citizens who dissented from the accepted political order of the time. Davis clearly fell into this group and was investigated for practicing her rights of political association and speech."

Tags:civil, rights, action, social

Abstract
This paper examines the role of the British in Frank McCourt's popular autobiography "Angela's Ashes". While the British are often blamed for the conditions in Ireland, the series of tragedies that occur in "Angela's Ashes" can be attributed more to the decisions of the McCourt family and to the prejudice of the Irish than any other source.

Abstract
In this article, the writer points out that on the surface, Frank McCourt's memoir "Angela's Ashes" is a true-life story of the American dream-an Irish family comes to America, and the sons of the family pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, in the form of the author Frank McCourt, and his brother Malachy McCourt. THe writer discusses that according to many literary critics controversies about the 'truth' of memoirs call into question not just the truth of specific memoirs but the way so many contemporary memoirs, including McCourt's, purport to accurately depict a community or point in time. The writer maintains that all memoirs, to some degree are lies because of their intense subjectivity, and in insisting upon the truth of his recollections, McCourt's memoir falls far short of creating historical accuracy. The writer concludes that at best, he can only convey what he as an adult remembers in an emotional fashion, of his previous life.

From the Paper
"Just like an author of fiction, he performs an Irishman who has made good in America and uses narrative tools to create that identity, as well as the identity of his mother. He renders his mother--his poor, oppressed mother, the mother of dead children and the wife of an irresponsible alcoholic--very different than the far stronger and resilient, and more socially connected individual witnessed by community members like Steinfels. McCourt's command of the collective voices of the community through reconstituted dialogue and also by chronicling their perceptions of his mother (as seen through his eyes) gives his memoir and authorial tone that is entirely literary in nature but which has been believed as history.
"In an interesting facet of the narrative technique noted by James B. Mitchell, because McCourt does not perform a interior childhood identity whose survival is in question ..."

Tags:memories, recollection, accurate, account

Abstract
This paper cites the controversies about the truthfulness of memoirs representing not just the genuineness of precise memories but also the way in which so many contemporary memoirs, including Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes", are assumed to depict reality accurately. Next, the author demonstrates that McCourt's memoir, a real-life Irish American success story, does not quite represent historical accuracy but rather only communicates what he as an adult remembers of his earliest life. The paper concludes that McCourt's much lauded work is best recognized as an artful interpretation of events presented in a highly emotional style.

From the Paper
"McCourt constructs the dialogue and voices of the community and calls them objectively true, but his memoir is a storyteller's masterful presentation that can only deliver his current perceptions. When he does assume a child's voice, it is a "faux naive narrative voice" with a "selfless sense of responsibility, bordering on masochism" which "has helped secure the book's vast audience, since the innocent veracity of children is sacrosanct in American society, and a child racked with guilt tells a particularly compelling tale even though the book suspiciously has a literary feature in its overall tone."

Tags:revelatory, artistic license, infancy identity, interior monologue

Abstract
This essay provides a brief discussion of Angela Davis' activism then and now. The essay focuses on how, despite radically changed ideology and methods, Davis is the same with respect to being a tireless activist for the advance of social justice.

From the Paper
"In the ...s, Angela Davis supported Communism, was a member of the Black Panther Party and by ... became the third woman to be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. Today, Davis is no longer a member of the Communist Party and is currently the Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The activism of Angela Davis then and now propels her tireless efforts to advance social justice. In the ...s and ...s, Angela Davis..."

Tags:Black Panthers, Communist Party, criminal justice system, Iraq War, slavery, feminism

Abstract
Angela Y. Davis was one of the founding mothers of the radical black feminist and civil rights movement. Her participation in these movements was not simply vocal and intellectual, but profoundly political as well. In particular, it examines how a different, more artistic side of her political interests comes to light regarding Davis' works in "Blues, Legacy and Black Feminism", in which she shows an interest in black feminist works beyond that of the purely verbal and prosaic.

From the Paper
"Perhaps inevitably, the second half of the work and its project falls a bit short. The main problem with the methodology of emphasizing lyrics is that it tends to bring "the word" or a literary rather than a musical perspective to the forefront in understanding these performance artists. This bias may be inevitable, given Professor Davis' own background. But these women were not of the academy "their music was performed as a living text. However, although the inclusions of the lyrics and the lyrical analysis is not as strong as the first more historically oriented part of the book that seems to be more in line with Davis' abilities as an historian, the analysis of the lyrics does reveal that these artists did discuss issues of domestic violence and transgressing lesbian love in a way that is seldom given credit."

Tags:blues, jazz, consciousness

Abstract
This paper explains that female characters in fairy tales are sometimes viewed as being helpless and innocent and at other times as being powerful. The author then summarizes and reviews Angela Carter's story, "The Company of Wolves", and relates that it embraces a new form of the commanding protagonist, who thwarts both man and wolf using her burgeoning sexuality. The paper underscores that Carter's protagonist , like some of the female characters in fairy tales, has "more power" than men because of her very presence as the hero of the story.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Company of Wolves
Conclusion

From the Paper
"A young man appears before the girl on the path, a metaphorical sheep in wolf's clothing. Innocently trusting appearances, the girl is attracted to his obvious good looks and his attempts to woo her. Arranging a race to her grandmother's house whereby, if he wins, he will obtain from her a kiss, the man departs. By the time he has reached grandmother's house - earlier than the girl - it is clear to the reader he is a werewolf, or a "wolf-man". As in Little Red Riding Hood, the youth tricks his way into the grandmother's home and eats her up, as it were."

Tags:wolf-man, narrative, superwoman, allure, bedmate

Abstract
The paper is an overview of the history of Angela Davis, her biographical details, the type of childhood she experienced that may have contributed to her political views in adulthood, her role in organizations such as the Community and Black Panther parties, the Civil Rights movement, and her fateful encounter with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The paper concludes with an assessment of Davis' accomplishments, how her role is viewed by the public and an analysis of its relevance for African-American society.

Outline:
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Conclusion

From the Paper
"This legacy, though, discounts Davis's wide range of contributions to the Civil Rights movement and her subsequent work to further the condition of black people throughout the country. For example, carefully citing the historical basis of how blacks were treated in the United States, Davis railed against the "terroristic use of rape in order to put black women in their place" and the need for African Americans to celebrate and embrace black culture as a means of sustaining their sense of community is a hostile land. According to Hart (1994), Davis's activism was scholarly in its approach and even her detractors found themselves at a loss when confronted with the facts. For example, this author reports that, "In 1981 Angela Davis looked at how the larger birth control movement, comprised mainly of white, middle class women, neglected to address the needs of African-American women. Davis also condemned the racist and 'classist' slant of the American birth control movement for its stress on eugenics"

Tags:civil rights movement, community, black panther, African American, racism