1. Arthur Miller
In modern society, one would think that there isn't any place for fantasy and superstitions, but the United States is full of people who are convinced that psychics can predict their future, they have ghosts living in their houses, aliens visit the Earth in flying saucers, and even that they can talk to the dead.7 People believe in the supernatural because they want to believe, because it makes them happy, even if those beliefs exist against logic or opposing evidence.8 In Detroit, "ghost-busting is back big time," with "at least five "ghost hunting" clubs" springing up in the met...
ATL 130 04/12/2001 Capital Punishment: The Abolitionist View "Historically, the death penalty always has been with us in some fashion. In ancient times, it was meted out of those who propagated radical ideas that threatened the political establishment. The death penalty has existed througho...
In chapter seven, the reader is shifted into the mind of a crooked car salesman who takes advantage of the great migration of farmers to the west by selling broken cars at outrageous prices, "listen Jim, I heard that Chevvy's rear end sounds like bustin" bottles squirt in a couple quarts of sawdust" (Steinbeck, 85) this suggests that car salesmen cheated their customers to gain more money at their expense. 7.What do the faces of the Joad family reveal about them? ...