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“No matter what your social issue, if you want to solve it get the money outof politics. Only then will lawmakers vote for their people rather than theirpocketbooks. ” Jack E. Lohman. Money corrupts politics, and when contributionsare being made to candidates it is not in the best interest of the Americanpeople. Campaign Finance is…

When thinking back and remembering all of the teachers that I have had in the past, there is one in particular that comes to mind. Her name was Mrs. Ladd. She taught math at the junior high school. Mrs. Ladd was not the most popular, funniest, hardest, easiest, nicest, nor the meanest teacher. I remember…

Family and Church: Enduring InstitutionsI. General Family LifeAs a result of myths of white family life, there has been much confusion over the nature ofblack families. One of the myths of the nineteenth century entails the close- knit white family, which was parallel to that of the European family. Also, as a result of these…

The Viet-InnocentImagine yourself in a newly strange, unfamiliar tropical jungle environment. The catch is, your purpose is not to take eye-catching photographs for National Geographic magazine. Instead, you are assigned to kill people of a foreign land you have never seen before, because your government tells you it is the patriotic, honorable duty you owe…

The Napoleonic expedition to Egypt tromp 1798 to 1799 brought forth a heightened interest among artists to explore the world of the Oriental and spurred a torrent of ‘Orientations” which became a pervasive force in 19th Century Western art, An “Orientals” is rather a broad term to describe artists who either portrayed an oriental theme…

In 1633, the Reverend Rowland Jones came from England to the colony of Virginia. He had graduated from Oxford University and in Williamsburg had served as minister for fourteen years. Two generations later Martha Dandridge, his great-granddaughter, was born on June 2, 1731 on a plantation near Williamsburg. She grew up in the Dandridge home,…

The Mill on the Floss: SummaryThe Mill on the Floss is a book written by George Eliot, whose real nameis Mary Anne (later Marian) Evans. There is a great deal of autobiography inthis book. The facts of Mary Anne’s life do not match Maggie Tulliver, butthere is an obvious reflection of her own life. Book…

IStern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze,Time crouches in the outer-world of nightAmid the shifting and entangled mazeOf dusk and star-shine and half-lightless light,And with strong fingers moulds the unformed clay,Ruling the refluence of night and dayWith shape of sun and satellite. All men he fashions and all living things,All aspiration and all great…

Faced so consistently with actors maneuvered by auteur-directors who disdain them almost as much as they loathe the transparency of good playwriting, I”m prepared, at last, to confess that Donald Wolfit was one of the greatest actors I ever saw. By which I mean to indicate, quixotically perhaps, that great actors in the full sway…

Ahab’s Evil Quest:Melville’s Symbols in Moby-DickHerman Melville began working on his epic novel Moby-Dick in 1850, writing itprimarily as a report on the whaling voyages he undertook in the 1830s and early 1840s. Many critics suppose that his initial book did not contain characters such as Ahab,Starbuck, or even Moby Dick, but the summer of…