For my research paper, I plan on exploring the literary and visual techniques used by Art Spiegelman in his graphic novel Maus: A Survivors Tale. Spiegelman uses the format of graphic narrative as well as fable imagery to provide a complex view of the Holocaust from the point of view of his father, a Holocaust survivor now living […]
My paper will be discussing the first genocide of the 20th century. In 1915, at the outbreak of World War II, more than 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Turks and many more chased away from what is today the modern Turkey. Novel named Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian will be at the base of […]
For my final paper I will be writing about courage and what literature says about courage. I will focus on the argument that courageous acts during war are motivated by fear. I will be analyzing various characters from movies and stories and describe their acts of courage and how fear played a part in motivating […]
So I watched Syriana last night…hm. I will start off by saying that I went into it with a negative attitude since I had never wanted to see it and then on top of it netflix gave it a 2.8 for me. As of now I rated it a 2 because to be honest I […]
After a lot of consideration, I’ve decided to use the research paper to explore the justification of President Truman’s use of the atomic bomb against Japan. Some argue that it was a violation of ethics and, to use the more modern term, humanitarian law; others argue that it was purely military strategy, a necessity to […]
What I would like to explore with my final paper is “war as a theater of experience.” From the material we have read in class, it is obvious that anyone who experiences war (whether they’re a soldier, a civilian, a victim, etc.) is changed. The period I want to focus on is during the Vietnam […]
At first I paid this no mind, probably just an aesthetic Sacco chose to adopt while drawing his comics. But the more I saw it in the panels, the more curious I became: Is Sacco putting a flavor of Jesus in his comic? In early times, images of Jesus were always accompanied with a golden […]
This is the geopolitical map that attempts to establish new patterns of conflict, in the vision of Samuel P. Huntington, the conservative American political scientist, author of the article (later expanded in a book) “The Clash of Civilizations?” (Foreign Affairs issue 1993). Numerous critiques of this project have been published since then. Please read Edward […]
For this final paper, I kind of wanted to become more creative than others by not only writing a basic research paper but in addition to it writing a poem which is the basis of my paper. Before writing the paper, i will be writing the poem and once i have completed it I will […]
When Dr. Sorin questioned the class whether or not, it made me quite uneasy. No one ever thinks twice about going to the exquisite beaches of Mexico or the lavish resorts of Jamaica. However, if you follow the news you would realize that Mexico has had a history of kidnappings as well as drug issues […]