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Tag: United States of America

The Street by Ann Petry: Summary

Posted on June 9, 2019 by JL Admin

Chapter 1 The Street opens with the story’s main character, Lutie Johnson, braving a bitter, cold wind as she walks through Harlem in New York City. The wind Lutie faces is personified as a hostile character, mirroring the aggressive attitude of many white Americans toward African Americans during the pre-civil rights era. More generally, the…

Pros and Cons of Community Service and other Alternative Sentencing Programs

Posted on December 5, 2012May 31, 2019 by JL Admin

The American criminal justice system has adopted punitive measures of varying degrees, the harshest of them being capital punishment. Over the recent decades, the judiciary has decidedly moved toward incorporating more restorative measures in its sentencing. This is not applicable across the length and breadth of the country, as the conservative South is still differentiated…

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Unipolar World Order after the Cold War: Problems and Prospects

Posted on November 8, 2012May 28, 2019 by JL Admin

Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the balance of power swayed in favour of the United States. While the ruling elite of the United States seem to have benefited from this change in fortune, the rest of the world has had mixed consequences since the end of the Cold War. Political commentators…

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The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman: Summary & Analysis

Posted on May 20, 2012May 31, 2019 by JL Admin

The Wound Dresser is an intimate, graphic and deeply moving expression of the act of nursing the sick and dying. The poem is remarkable for its lack of exaggerated portrayals of pain and suffering. Yet, the attention to detail, the depiction of images, etc. are very sophisticated for a poem written in the nineteenth century….

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