Narrative
Essays

Hedley Bull wrote the Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics thirty years ago; that was nearly twenty-five years before the September 11, 2001 attacks in the U.S. brought down the World Trade Center and…

The Madness of Stanley Kubrick: An Avante Garde Analysis

Postmodern Rhetoric and "An Inconvenient Truth"

Personal Narrative within a Cultural Context

Human Biological Variation: Is human behavior genetically influenced or biologically influenced?

One of the most important meta-narratives that was evidenced in Mississippi Masala (and which is evidenced in daily existence, for that matter) revolves around issues of class, and the socio-economic projections that…

Mixed cultures and mixed ancestries are both a large part of the plot and the theme of Monkey Hunting. The characters of course bear the literary responsibility as to the impact of cross-cultural and mixed ancestries;…

This essay examines the film To Kill a Mockingbird in light of its rhetorical and narrative elements. In particular, two scenes of rhetoric serve to demonstrate the film's objective of revealing the underlying reasons behind bigotry as well as the difficulty of overcoming it with traditional modes of rhetoric. In the end, it is clear that Scout's personalized rhetoric is more effective than Atticus' traditional rhetoric in the face of ideologies resistant to logic and emotional appeal.

Cover Letter ONE: There are several purposes as to why I'm writing this essay. For one, exploring the writings of Du Bois is an education in itself; the man is a giant of letters and his editorial positions were actually prophetic because by the Civil Rights Movement of the late 1950s and 1960s many Blacks were demanding the things that Du Bois demanded years before. Another purpose was to show that there were several approaches taken by Black leaders in terms of the advancement of African Americans in a segregated, Jim Crow-toned society. TWO: After reading the assignment I did not change my perspective on the differences in approaches by Washington and Du Bois because I already was aware that the two were quite far apart in philosophies. But by once again studying the juxtaposition between the two, my understanding of the problems of Black folks came into greater focus for me.

Homeland Security – Article Critique Introduction ONE: The article by Pat Proctor of Kansas State University was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Strategic Security in 2012. TWO: The point of this article is not so much posing a question but presenting a proposal. The proposal is directed at the United States, suggesting in strong terms how the United States (and presumably its allies) could and should engage in "…mass politics" which Proctor calls "war without violence" (Proctor, 2012, 47). The theme of the article is the remarkable transformation that has taken place in Arab countries (called the "Arab Spring") such as Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East.