An Alternate Reading: New Historicism and Harjo’s Depiction of 9/11 After the terrorist group Al-Qaeda violently attacked the Twin Towers on September 11th‚ 2001‚ writer William Heyan asked fellow poets to respond to how the destruction “had awakened us and shaken our senses of identity and security” (Publishers Weekly). The resulting work was published in the anthology September 11‚ 2001: American Writers Respond. Rather than responding with surprise and shock‚ however‚ Joy Harjo’s poetic contribution
Premium Soviet war in Afghanistan Al-Qaeda United States
market-oriented policies‚ but also a shift in the ways in which development problems were framed and in the types of explanation through which policies were justi®ed. Key changes were the partial globalization of development policy analysis‚ and a shift from historicism to ahistorical performance assessment. The main challenge to this approach is a latent Southern Consensus‚ which is apparent in the convergence between East Asian developmentalism and Latin American neostructuralism. The demise of the Washington
Premium Economics Development Human Development Index
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Portrayal of the character Edna Her foils Setting- feminist mvment‚ etc. Style Intended to help the reader understand the character of Edna her actual beliefs external/internal influences Tone Helping the style‚ the tone also helps the reader understand the rest of the characters Mr. Pontlierre (Critical Essay quote) Mademoiselle (Speech about bird with strong wings. V. Conclusion Edna Pontlierre experiences a theme of self-discovery throughout the entire novel
Premium The Awakening Kate Chopin English-language films
James Wright’s poem “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry‚ Ohio” was published in 1963‚ and like many of his other works‚ points focus toward the nature of human life in the Rust Belt region of America. The open form poem follows a narrator’s thoughts of his immediate and regional surroundings while watching a high school football game. Within the Rust Belt‚ poverty was common due to the after effects of the Great Depression and the decline in mining‚ and sports were one of the ways that children of impoverished
Premium Poverty Family Buffalo
German Culture Germany has been remarkably called Das Land der Dichter und Denker (the land of poets and thinkers). The diverse culture of Germany has been molded by the major intellectual and popular currents in Europe‚ both religious and secular. This report is divided into several aspects of German Culture which are as follows. Language German is the official and predominant spoken language in Germany. Minority languages constitute Sorbian‚ Danish‚ Romany and Frisian. The immigrant languages
Premium Germany German language
What is Marxism? Write a note on the influence of Marxism on literature. Marxism is a sociological approach to literature that viewed works of literature or art as the products of historical forces that can be analyzed by looking at the material conditions in which they were formed. Marxism generally focuses on the clash between the dominant and repressed classes in any given age and also may encourage art to imitate what is often termed an "objective" reality. Contemporary Marxism is much broader
Free Karl Marx Marxism Communism
Aquinas on Distributive Justice “Pay to all what is due them; to whomever you owe contributions‚ make a contribution; to whom taxes are due‚ pay taxes; to whom respect is due‚ give respect; to whom honor is due‚ give honor. * Romans A. Justice The study is influenced out of a longstanding dissatisfaction with contemporary academic thinking about justice‚ and especially with the estrangement between that thinking and a sense of justice that has been‚ and remains‚ widely shared across many
Premium Justice Human rights Natural law
A summary‚ analysis and discussion of Søren Kierkegaard‚ Training in Christianity[1] I. Introduction In this essay‚ I will try to summarize‚ analyze and discuss several pages of Søren Kierkegaard’s Training in Christianity. I will try to focus on his approach to sacred history‚ a general Christian history and Christianity‚ which he discusses in this work in relation to faith in God. In other parts of this essay I will attempt also to relate these pages of his work to some key ideas of
Premium Christianity Jesus Religion
Jessica Baeza March 17‚ 2005 History 281 Journal Assignment #3 Post-Modernity and Its Effects on Historical Writings The struggle to find truth in telling the stories of history has been a source of constant debate amongst historians and intellectuals. With the emergence of religious rejection during the seventeenth and eighteenth century Enlightenment‚ the influence and undoubted supremacy of the heroic model of science provided historians with new ways for obtaining truth—absolute
Premium Age of Enlightenment History Truth
1) Principles of Pseudoscience a) Glymour & Stalker b) 6 principles of pseudoscience (pg93-94) b.i) A coincidence in hand is worth two in the bush. b.ii) A purpose to everything and to everything a purpose. b.iii) The taller the story‚ the harder it falls. b.iv) Even physics isn’t all that precise. b.v) Science is number and gauges. b.vi) Saying no nit pickers. c) This is Glymour & Stalkers answer to the demarcation problem. Principles of Pseudoscience and falsifiability are both attempts
Premium Conspiracy theory Scientific method