Blake Leyden Cristine Smith December 7‚ 2009 The Lords of Discipline A novel based on his own military experience at “The Citadel”‚ Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline takes place at the South Carolina Military Institute (a fictitious military school). Like most military schools throughout the United States‚ “The Institute” prides itself on its ability to transform “douche bags” to “whole men”. The authoritative figures responsible for this transformation are the cadre (upper classman)‚ carriers
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Regeneration is a prize-winning historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker‚ first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication.[1] It is the first of three novels in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War‚ the other two being The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road‚ which won the Booker Prize in 1995.[2] The novel was adapted into a film by the same
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“Sisters” by Pat Mora‚ the poem is about strong and special feelings for family‚ in special brothers and sisters because they represent love‚ hate‚ friendship‚ sadness‚ memories‚ etc.‚ it is a poem about a girl that is the younger sister and she tells the positive benefits of having an older sister‚ all the memories and good moments that they went together‚ the poem teach you that brothers and sisters are your first best friends‚ they help you and teach you new things every day since the first day
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In the novel The Great Santini by Pat Conroy‚ the reader meets the main character‚ Bull Meechem. Bull Meechem had many outstanding traits good and awful. Bull Meechem can be mistakenly called a racist though he is truly an abusive father‚ and yet he is courageous and honorable at times of war and then at moment before his death. Bull’s male desire to have control over his family often gets the best of him‚ the reader witnesses him physically and mentally attacking his family in drunken rages control
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Jorden House-Hay Rhetorical Analysis- Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor I chose Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor‚ by Garret Hardin‚ to analyze because‚ out of all the readings I have ever done for English‚ this particular one is by far the most memorable. It is also perfectly suited for my argument‚ because it is appropriately as offensive as it is logical. The essay‚ in short‚ is a rhetorical argument that claims that helping the poor or unfortunate people of
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In the passage‚ Garett Hardin illustrates in “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping The Poor‚” he describes his stand on global overpopulation and how it may effect on the resources. Hardin creates a scenario based on lifeboat to represents how the globe is divided into two class: rich and poor nations. Hardin‚ implies how the lifeboat represents the limit capacity of the lifeboat. The author is assuring if population keeps overleaping‚ that our resources are becoming limited. Hardin based the
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The Tragedy of the Commons Response Garrett Hardin’s The Tragedy of the Commons raises awareness on and suggests solutions for overpopulation‚ and Beryl Crowe’s The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited is a refutation of Hardin’s work. While Hardin attempts at discussing every aspect of the population problem‚ he has ignored the population trend that has begun from his era and has taken individual freedoms too lightly. The following essay includes a discussion of main points of Hardin’s and Crowe’s
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Critique Pat Buchanan is a political commentator and writer who served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. He twice sought the Republican Party’s nomination and was the Reform Party’s candidate for President of the United States. In “Deconstructing America‚” he argues that the a more diverse America become‚ the weaker she will be. For our nation to thrive Buchannan note that unity in diversity can’t exist. National identity must supersede state identity for America to survive (68). America
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Garrett Hardin argues for a very harsh thesis: we simply should not provide aid to people in poor countries. His argument is consequentialist: he claims that the net result of doing so would be negative -- would in fact be courting large-scale disaster. One of the things that we will notice about Hardin’s essay‚ however‚ is that whether he is right or wrong‚ he paints with a very broad brush. This makes it a good essay for the honing of your philosophical skills; you should notice that there are
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