Abstract
This paper discusses Alfredo Vea's novel, "Gods Go Begging" that presents many vignettes and interrelated stories in a strange canvas of the real and the imaginary, that force the reader to provide his own definition of the world in the wake of the war in Vietnam. The paper discusses the plots and characters of the book and what the reader can take away from the novel as a whole.

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"In their own way, these various characters are like characters in Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson: grotesques. But Anderson was not quite right in his belief that these various characters had become grotesques because they had seized upon some single and incomplete truth (Anderson, 23-24), but because of their inability to express themselves. (Cowley, Introduction," 14) In much the same way, Vea's characters in Gods Go Begging suffer from a similar inability to express themselves. Trying, failing, trying again, they often lash out against whatever is in their path, sometimes attacking the very things they love. (Vea, 312)"

Tags:character, plot, murder, courthouse

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This essay is something of a meditation on "Gods Go Begging," a novel about the Vietnam era and its terrible after-effects, as seen through the eyes of a defense attorney. The essay considers the music that has appeared in Vietnam War movies, notably "Platoon," which closed with the haunting sounds of the "Adagion for Strings," and "Apocalypse Now," which opens with the sound of Jim Morrison.

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"In his novel "Gods Go Begging", Alfredo Vea presents many vignettes, interrelated stories in this strange canvas of the real and the imaginary, that force the reader to provide his own definition of the world in the wake of the war in Vietnam. One of the more telling moments occurs late in the novel, while protagonist attorney awaits the verdict in the double-murder trial of Calvin "Biscuit Boy" Thibault. In a coffee-sipping gathering of the regulars, the attorneys of the grim criminal law beat that surrounds the courthouse in almost any city and many towns, an attorney tells of the aftermath of murder case which he defended."

Tags:vietnam, napalm, trauma

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The paper looks briefly at Janie Ho's 2006 article, "Attracting Gay MBAs," and offers a brief summary of the article along with an analysis of its strengths, its weaknesses and what additional things can be done to improve the situation of gay men (and women) in corporate America. The paper asserts that the article is informative - but it does beg the question of why someone's sexual orientation needs to be any kind of a qualification for a prestigious corporate position.

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"The following paper will look briefly at Janie Ho's 2006 article, "Attracting Gay MBAs," and offer a brief summary of the article along with an analysis of its strengths, its weaknesses and what additional things can be done to improve the situation of gay men (and women) in corporate America. All told, the article is informative - but it does beg the question of why someone's sexual orientation needs to be any kind of a qualification for a prestigious corporate position. Overall, the article discusses how many gay workers feel themselves mildly..."

Tags:gay, organizations, men

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This paper critically analyzes and reviews Wengfang Tang's article entitled "Media Control and Public Opinion", which presents a largely descriptive study of the relationship between state institutional control and media production/consumption in contemporary China. The paper further argues that while the article is interesting, it would have significantly benefited from a more analytical perspective. According to the paper, several key points in the article - most notably the role of the "profit motive" in strategies of media control - beg for more critical attention.

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"From Public Opinion and Political Change in China Wengfang Tang, in the article "Media Control and Public Opinion," presents a largely descriptive study of the relationship between state institutional control and media production/consumption in contemporary China. As this critical review will argue, while the article is interesting, it would have significantly benefitted from a more analytical perspective. As will be seen, several key points in the article - most notably the role of the "profit motive" in strategies of media control..."

Tags:review, critical, china

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In this paper, the premise of literary realism is present with these two works by Theodore Dreier and Hamlin Garland, as they describe the direst conditions of poverty in America. For Hurstwood, the paper notes, it is the hobo lines that beg for bread; for the working farmers in Garland's writings, it is the brutal and unforgiving nature of farm life. However, the paper asserts, reality has many facets, which are often left by these authors that wish to only show the life of those that have no other option to escape their poverty.

Tags:poverty, hobo, line, depression, America

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This paper discusses the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" by Nora and Delia Ephron. The paper examines how the entire plot is based on feminism, beginning with the moment the boy calls the radio station and continuing until the moment Tom Hanks, Beg Ryan and Ross Malinger are together. The paper points out that feminism can be seen in the characters of Annie, Sam and Jonah. The paper explains that Annie must find a man who excites her and not settle for someone who is stable and offers security while Sam must find a perfect love like he had with his wife.

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"The "superwoman" must have the "superman" to have a life that is happy and blessed. Pure feminism is that the only way a woman can be happy is through marrying the "right" man. Feminism is seen throughout the movie of "Sleepless in Seattle" by Nora and Delia Ephron. Imagine a young boy making a phone call to a radio talk show to talk about the depression his father is feeling after losing the boy's mother. Feminism is seen in the social relations in this movie such as a superwoman who has a career and wants a superman and the feminist viewpoint that single fathers do not make good parents so Jonah needs a mother. Ephron begins the movie with a young boy, Jonah, who is worried about his father, Sam. Sam and his son recently left Chicago and started a new life in Seattle, after the death of Sam's wife."

Tags:feminism, love, women

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This paper discusses how judges can no longer render independent decisions when they are forced to campaign for their positions. This paper explains how the integrity of the justice system becomes weakened when the candidates are forced to beg for money from contributors. Once elected these contributors expect that the candidate will then hand out favors in the form of favorable decisions. The paper emphasizes that it is against electing judges.

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"It is important that current system of electing judges remain intact because the courts system is the one body within the government that is independent of Congress and the President. Currently, there has been a movement by the Republican party to remove those judges perceived to be activist judges, as these judicial officers' decision seems to go against the grain of conservative thought. According to one article, "The conservative crusade against activist judges has been even more effective on the state level, where elective judges who voted in ways displeasing to Republicans have been denied re-election by organized electoral campaigns"(Schwartz, "Opposing Viewpoints")".

Tags:election, judicial, law

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Up through the 1970s, teenage resistance to social authority was such a pervasive motif in American fiction that the adolescent struggle for autonomy embodied for many critics the national myth of self-reliance. The paper shows that in contemporary novels, however, youth's disaffected disposition is credited not to the oppressiveness of adult authority but to a lack of it. The voice in both "Catcher in the Rye" and "Less than Zero" is a detached, ironic voice that demonstrates a need for security and for home. The paper shows that by implicitly endorsing an idealized, nostalgic vision of family, these narratives split with the genre's anti-authoritarian tradition and re-script the utilization of adolescent disaffection. Whereas the teenager once intuitively asserted youth's moral supremacy over their elders, today's aimless, amoral kids cry out for adult intervention as they beg entry into the shelters of home. This paper examines the similarities and differences in the discourse of the young in both "Less Than Zero" and "The Catcher in the Rye."

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"In the penultimate chapter of Catcher, Holden declines to run away to California in order to spare his younger sister Phoebe from the cynicism and despair he suffers. He does so because he understands that if he lets Phoebe follow him westward he will fail in his dream of protecting her innocence; instead of preventing her terrible fall into adulthood, he will be just as guilty of pushing her over the edge of childhood as the anonymous "pervert" who scrawls profanity on her elementary school walls. Therefore, to save her, Holden must sacrifice his passionate disdain for adult phonies and submit to the indignity of their "asking me if I'm going to apply myself" (213). Through this concluding gesture, Salinger insists that adolescent rebellion is guided by moral intent and is not symptomatic of the narcissism and selfishness so closely associated with this stage of life. The intuitive morality that this plot ascribes to its teen protagonists implies that "if the young demonstrate their inability to accept the code of civilized society, the fault cannot lie in them but in those who have failed to provide acceptable values. By extension, youth's rituals of disaffection are not expressions of antisocial behavior but confirmations that they are engaged in an arduous quest, searching, seeking, grasping, testing in an effort to find the proper moral course in life (265, 269)."

Tags:Phoebe, Clay, Blair, Holden, Julian

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"The case of Young v. New York Transit Authority (903 F.2d 146 [2nd Cir. 1990]) was brought on behalf of William B. Young Jr., and Joseph Walley, among others, by an organization representing homeless people against the New York Transit Authority and a variety of other New York transportation entities. This was a class action challenging a transit authority regulation prohibiting begging and panhandling in the subway system in New York City. Enforcement of the regulation had been enjoined by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and this decision was appealed. The Circuit Judge for the Court of Appeals, Judge Altimari, held that the regulation did not violate the First Amendment as had been charged and reversed and vacated the previous ruling.


In 1989, the Legal Action Center for the Homeless (LACH)..."

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This paper begs the question of "all men being created equal". It argues that as much as society would like to think of itself of democratic and supportive of equality, most people in society are oppressed in one way or another due to a physical, cultural, social or religious "handicap".

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"The term equality has innumerable connotations. It may denote being exactly alike or of comparable value. Equality is usually associated with advantages and discussed when there is a situation wherein a subject is being deprived of a prerogative.
The phrase ?equality for all? has a nice ring to it but what exactly does it entail. It forms an image of the ultimate utopia, filled with peace, brotherhood, and justice but ?What are we aiming to be equal in?? and more to the point ?Whom do we want to be equal to??"

Tags:deprived, woman, homosexual, black, rights, gender, ethics, morality, principles, education, power