eventually led to a full-blown war in which each country tried to prove that they could be more powerful than the other under their preferred government – the Cold War. Writing as an American when the Cold War hit its peak, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. saw
The documentary, “Selling The American Way”, begins telling the audience what seems to be a Christmas story during a time period when television sets were being incorporated into every American home. Because of this, the 1950’s were a changing time when people were being bombarded with television ads which were thought to incorporate the ideas of psychology into the media with the purpose of persuading the viewers that they deserved to indulge on themselves. In the people, there was a fear of spending
The story “The Cold Equations” written by Tom Godwin was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1954. This was an early piece of science fiction genre where many of familiar icons today were deriving from. These icons of the artifact are the markers embedding in the story that signals it is a science fiction story. Some of the science fictional icons in this story are the use of the space cruiser, specifically the Emergency Dispatch Ship, a characteristic hero and the law. The underlying principle
Within the short story “Penultimate Conjecture”, Leonard Michael’s protagonist Nachman attends a mathematical conference in Los Angeles. In this conference, he hopes to attend a lecture by Bjorn Lundquist, who has solved the Penultimate Conjecture, a problem Nachman has worked on for decades. In the conference, Nachman meets Chertoff. Chertoff encourages him to act upon his anger towards Lundquist for solving the Penultimate Conjecture when Nachman could not. Throughout the story, Nachman is a
into every second of the Irish Civil War. Liam O'Flaherty tells a story like such in "The Sniper", a dramatic short story in which a man is fighting in the Irish Civil War. O’Flaherty is an Irish-born author who wrote many novels and short stories throughout his eighty-eight year life, focusing mainly on the hardships of war. A strong majority of his works consist of the struggles of war since he served in the Irish Guards of the British Army during World War I and joined the Irish Republican Army
The Degenerate Civil War “His neck ached horribly; his brain was on fire; his heart, which had been fluttering faintly, gave a great leap, trying to force itself out at his mouth” (Bierce 512). In his writings, Ambrose Bierce exposed the unpleasant facts about soldiers during the Civil War. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Bierce explores the mental psychology of a civilian in the face of danger as well as the opposing perspective of a brutal soldier. A literary movement of Realism swept
Chronicles is a compilation of short stories. These stories take place in the year early 2000’s (although they were changed to the 2030’s in a later printing). While it may seem somewhat silly now that Bradbury imagined the technology to colonize Mars would exist in the early 2000’s, the details in the story aren’t that important. The year could be 50 years in the future or 50000 years. The science and the technology in the book are not the most important elements to his stories. Bradbury wanted to get
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the United States deliberately used and discarded an entire tribe of people as the Navajos worked unprotected, in the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War between Germany and the U.S. In Judy Pasternack’s book, Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed, she documents this toxic legacy of uranium mining in the Navajo lands of northeastern Arizona, where radioactive dust wound up in the homes and drinking water, putting
Thesis Statement: In the aftermath of Cold War, a peaceful and stable world order emerged. However, this current unipolar stability, is being challenged by the “rise of the new powers” which would result in a return to a multi-polar international system. A. Samuel Huntingtons’s Unipolar International System • Westernization • Clash of Civilization B. Fareed Zakaria’s Multi-Polar International System • Declination of United States • Rise of the Rest Conclusion: In the contrasting view of political
and “the evil” in the faces of Grandmother and Misfit. Even though, the story presages the tragedy from the first paragraph and throughout the story, it is still appalling enough to discover that the whole family was murdered by Misfit and his accomplices. O’Connor confronts the delusion of faith, showing that “the evil” can and will defeat “the good” with ease. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” was written at the period of Cold War, post WWII. Great amount of men were gone, leaving women solitary to raise