... veterans in the United States. Nevertheless, Washington was the most prominent African-American in the country, and a number of Presidents, as well as business leaders relied on Washington as an advisor. Other African-American leaders and intellectuals such as the most notably W.E.B. DuBois, resented Washington's message of political accommodation in favor of economic progress and distrusted his reliance on wealthy white Northerners for assistance. Leaders such as DuBois resented Washington's willingness to use his political and economic influence in controlling ways that led them to refer to the "Tuskegee Machine". W.E.B. DuBois died on August 27,1963 on the ev ...

... man could never hope to achieve. Job is a book about a man who believed in God, a believer who was badly advised by three friends who were ill equipped to counsel, and had no grasp of the spiritual realities that God teaches. God permits suffering in the life of the believer in order to strengthen his faith. It is precisely when the hedges are moved from around us that we find ourselves depending upon God. The more we are deprived of the temporal supports for our earthly happiness, the more we are driven to the Lord for our comfort. This is why Job was chosen. Because of his completely undeserved suffering, his steadfastness in faith, and his complete submission t ...

... have to capture the audience’s attention. Shakespeare achieves this by introducing them to the main characters of the play, the main aspects of the plot and also by including effective sound effects, which create a captivating atmosphere.The play opens with a meeting of three witches up on a heath with the emphasis of lightning, thunder and darkness. Shakespeare instantly creates a mood of terror and unearthly evil. The audience is immediately plunged into the midst of things and captures their attention by introducing them to the main themes, evil and good, in an effective way. The witches are highly ambiguous creatures that create a sense of mystery. As ...

... his ever nearing death. As he approaches his middle age, he feels that he has failed as a father to his son, William. Speaking to Will, he tells him, "(I am) always looking over your shoulder to see what's coming ahead instead of looking at you to see what's here." He fears that death is going to come to him and he would have missed out on his son's life as well as his own. Meanwhile, a carnival comes into Green Tree, Illinois, offering eternal youth while at the same time threatening with fear in the form of death. When Mr. Halloway is lost in the carnival's Mirror Maze, the mirrors show him aging and slowly dying as they "bled him lifeless (and) mouthed him dry." ...

... has the money to hire expensive lawyers , and they can tie up the system as long as they want. A jury would be more likely to convict a poor person in stead of sending a respectable rich one to jail. The jury might think, If he has money , why would he rob someone ? Because the fact that he/she is rich ! But this is just one place where money can play a big factor in life . Look at the medical field. If you don't have any money, then you probably don't get the best service you can . Its easy to get a bill in the thousands for a hospital visit or a doctor visits. Some of the medicine out today is expensive too. Medical care is outrageous , so if you don't h ...

... important criticism of the Petrarchan ideal of femininity came from the women writers of the Renaissance because they fully addressed not only the absurdity of the Petrarchan woman but also the desperation of the true Renaissance woman. Writers like Mary Sidney refuted the ideal of Petrarch and retold it to reflect the true suffering that the real woman of the Renaissance was faced with, a life that was weighted down with the chains of an abusive patriarchal society. The difficulty that female writers faced cannot be understated. As Wendy Wall states, "When women wrote, privately or publicly, they had to confront forms and figures that alienated them from the pos ...

... main character, Gregor, is transformed into a bug overnight and soon learns the difficulty of not being "normal." He learns to live in a way that does not disturb society, or even his own family. Prior to becoming a bug, Gregor was a hard working salesman who was under appreciated by his family. After his transformation, Gregor is neglected by his family, with the exception of Grete, and the family soon disregards Gregor as one of their own, just as society disregards people who are not "normal." Gregor's father can be compared to the abusive people in society. He is the dominant figure of the family and remains abusive throughout the story. The father's agg ...

... a god like feeling. “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dusk which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-Their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face but, instead, From a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose . . . his eyes, dimmed a little by many painless says under the sin and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.” The description gives a sense that there is a giant being that watches constantly over the land in any weather. The eyes are also describes as unhappy, as thought i ...

... them for years to come. By observing and understanding certain issues presented in his book, I was able to comprehend what type of person Greenspan is, what he believes in, what he represents and what he would do for his profession. The wheels of Jurisprudence are always turning, and I came to realise how Greenspan worked and bargained for his status in the country to be solidified. This book also flourished with innovative situations pertaining to the most diversified of criminal charges, to the most uncanny regions of law ever dealt. It was this thorough look at Greenspan's life which impressed this reviewer the most. It was quite clear that after the fourth ...

... the wind is used to represent conflict that disrupts the peace that is a still lake. "There was a howling wind as the moon rose and it’s powers pulled at the still waters of the lake."(Anaya 120) The wind here is used to represent forces of disturbance caused by nuclear testing taking place south of the town, just as wind kicks up dust and blurs the view. Another element of storms is thunder and lightning. In Tony’s dream he sees, ".....a flash of lightning struck and out of the thunder a dark figure stepped forth. It was Ultima......I sought more answers, but she was gone, evaporated into a loud noise."(Anaya 71) Lightning can offer glimpses ...