Yet he is also an author who writes with tremendous insight into the dark side of the human mind, and one who speculates with serious consideration about the nature of truth and its relationship to both fact and fiction. ... It is the story of two brothers--one of whom served in Vietnam--who must rely on each other to survive a disastrous skiing trip in the wilds of Minnesota. The factual nature of his first book and the relatively conventional narrative methods of his second give way to a much more imaginative account of Vietnam in Going After Cacciato (1978), the book that launched h...

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Poe, well known today for his poetry and short stories, such as "The Pit and the Pendulum", is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern detective story. He often wrote horror stories and psychological thrillers, while at the same time exploring the human mind and individual emotions. ... "Transcendentalists accepted the neo-platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic.... The human soul was part of the oversoul, essentially the spirit of the cosmos, and upon death, would return to the oversoul. ... In his essay "Nature"...

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She lived most of her adult life in Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco, writing articles and short stories using the Chinese pseudonym Sui Sin Far. ... The other theme apparent in "Leaves" and in many of her short stories is Eaton's defense of the independent woman. ... "In the Land of the Free" is typical of Edith Eaton's short fiction. ... For example, in "Criticism and Fiction" (1891), William Dean Howells, a advocate of nineteenth-century American realism, warns readers to avoid sentimental or sensational novels, which he claims "hurt" by presenting "idle lies about human natur...

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In fact, there were a number of stories circulating which focused upon sexually transgressive clergymen, and this may have been an influence on Hawthorne's portrayal of Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Although romanticism was not a clearly conceived system, it does tend to present certain characteristics: there is often a tendency toward primitivism, an interest in nature and the natural world, a pressuring of the past, and a foregrounding of the concerns of individualism. ... The political influences on American romanticism include 18th century notions about human perfectability, the ideals of ...

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Kanellis 3 We, as humans, are capable of controlling nature to some sort of degree, unlike any other animal on earth. ... Humans spew different poisons on the very land that we inhabit and anticipate nothing unpleasant for the present and the future. ... It eventually gets into the grass and corn and then into the bones of human beings and animals only to linger there until death" ("Contaminating the Environment"). ... In the short story "Devil Deer," by Rudolfo Anaya, Cruz comes across a deformed "devil deer" near a top-secret weapons laboratory at Los Alamos. ...

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The Native Americans lived off of the land so their clothing and such also came from the land and things that were provided for them from nature. ... For instance the Thanksgiving story, the story of Pocohantes, and the story of Sacajewa all contain stereotypical Native Americans and Native American white relations. ... Growing up I saw nothing wrong with these stories, but now that I am older I see that stories like these do not get across the truth about Native American white relations. These stories also only glorify and illustrate Native Americans were heroes only if they helped the whi...

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After a short discussion, the manager must attend a meeting and thus ends the discussion and promises to address it at another time. ... The book traces the nature and complexity of change that occurs in a maze where four imaginary characters have different approaches to confronting a situation at hand. The four imaginary characters in the story represent the complex and simple parts of all human beings regardless of their different attributes. ... The cheese in the story represents the success and happiness that all persons strive to realize in life whether it's money, relationships, a j...

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In the late 1940s, most of their Arabs (>80%) in Palestine were driven into what is now known as "The Occupied Territories" by fear of terrorism such as the massacre at Deir Yassin (either that, or they voluntarily left their family homes to live in squalid refugee camps in order to happily make way for the peaceful Jewish takeover, if you're gullible enough to believe that story). ... This forces Israelis to ask themselves the question: is Israel a western nation which recognizes human rights, or is Israel a primitive tribal society, based on race and religion? ... Human Rights and Isra...

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NAGPRA applies when human remains and funerary objects are recovered from federal or Indian land. ... The objections the Native Americans have to the study of Kennewick Man are firmly rooted in their history and are political, social, and religious in nature. ... The ARPA began the process of protection of Native American remains but still fell short. ... The result of this is what is known as the "Vermillion Accord on Human Remains. ... Human remains, as an integral part of the mortuary record, provide unique information about demography, diet, disease, and genetic relationships among human g...

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As more cities across our nation enact laws against feeding the homeless, so too are we hearing more stories about individuals who have faced arrest, fines, and jail time for feeding them. ... Laws against feeding the homeless are a violation of both the substantive human rights and the constitutional rights of both the homeless and those who feed them; and they are dehumanizing, counterproductive, and not economically viable. ... Substantive rights are the basic, human rights of all humankind – rights that are unwritten but recognized universally as absolute and guaranteed by the very n...

• Word Count: 2455
• Approx Pages: 10
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