From the Paper " This paper is a summary of Susanna Haswell Rowson's novel, Charlotte Temple. The book was first published in Great Britain in 1791. It became extremely popular with American readers for reasons that scholars are still debating. Its simple story tells of an innocent girl who is led astray by a handsome stranger. He promises marriage. Instead, he lures her to America and then abandons her. When her father finally finds her, she has just give birth to an illegitimate daughter. She dies in his arms, disgraced and miserable, all because she abandoned her parents and gave herself to her lover. The story became wildly popular, especially with American audiences. They were touched by its tragic story of how a sweet young girl could be led astray so easily. It showed how dependent women in that society were on the kindness and good intentions of men. Charlotte Temple offers.."
Abstract This essay discusses Lord Byron's poem "Manfred" in terms of Boethian Philosophy. It looks at the ways in which "Manfred" supports Lady Philosophae's claim that poetry is an inadequate consolation for despair. The paper also explores the ways in which Lord Byron may have structured his poem around Boethian concepts. Byron's poem seems to support Boethius' idea that poetry is a detour leading one astray from the path that leads to "ultimate good."
From the Paper "Manfred flees from Philosophy and Reason and moves closer to Passion and evil. His body lives, and his soul dies. "You know, then, that everything that is remains and subsists just so long as it is one, but perishes and dissolves immediately it ceases to be one" (CP 105). There is no true consolation to be arrived upon through Poetry or Philosophy. Catechism and equivocation will keep a mortal alive as long as he has the passion to rebel and the will to argue. There is no divine agent that can alone conquer the ominous fury of despair. In reality and imagination, there is no power that rules destiny and fate quite like apathy and ambivalence. Reaction makes slaves of kings. Resistance makes kings of slaves."
Abstract This paper argues that violence among America's youth has reached epidemic proportions and that the causes of this violence can be found in the home, the educational system, the friendships children establish and the media. The paper concludes with the warning that if society's mentality about home life, schools, peers and the media remains the same and does not wake up to the need for change and the fact that these social systems promote violence, America can look forward to continued and increasing levels of violence among its youth.
From the Paper "In the '50s Ed Sullivan told the video cameras, taping Elvis live performance, not to shoot anything below Elvis' waist. He didn't want America to see the perverse image of hip shaking and wild dancing. We've come a long way from then, in what is allowed on television. As a matter of fact, stations now allow things that are much worse on everything from television to comic books. But then again America is a haven for violence. Violence is as American as apple pie. We are exposed to it constantly. Everyday violent dramas play themselves out on our streets and at our schools. Many believe that this violence has no particular cause. Yet others insist that the children themselves are genetic failures and they are just bad apples. Still others contend that the violence is just random and not aimed at anything specifically. The sad truth is that this epidemic of violence is the product of many factors. The main factors that stimulate the violence within American youth, are the upbringing a child receives at home and his education. The next variable that plays a key role in this is the violence portrayed in movies, the news and video games. The last catalyst in the reaction is the peer influences a child keeps at school."
Abstract This paper discusses the reaction when Al Gore won an Academy Award for his documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," directed by Davis Guggenheim. The paper contends that Al Gore's theories on global warming have led people astray and that Gore has employed rhetoric and bad science and has even deliberately misled the public in his claims. The paper attempts to understand what could be the underlying impetus for Gore's presenting global warming as an impending doomsday event that is just around the corner.
Table of Contents:
The Inconvenient Truth of Rhetoric
The Science
The Kyoto Protocol
Summary and Conclusion
From the Paper "The argument is made by both sides that they are not popular, and that powerful organizations and people back the opposition, such that their coming forward - both sides - in support of their moral conscience on global warming has earned them no amount of respect from the other side. One scientist in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a professor in Ottawa, claims that taking a stand against Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, has brought death threats to his door. This scientist and others who appear in The Great Global Warming Swindle, again, do not disagree with Al Gore. They agree that the surface of the planet is warming. They do not agree that it is necessarily man-made emitted CO2 emissions that are producing the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, or that it is even CO2 as the cause of the warming. What they are suggesting is that if we embrace Gore's theories on global warming, then we will be ignoring the potentially real reason behind global warming. If anything can be done about global warming, it should at least be done in the direction of the real problem, the surface warming."
