America Must Explore Alternate Energy Sources and Cease Dealing with the Corrupt Saudi Government
When Mohammed al-Khilewi, a high-ranking official at the Saudi mission to the
United Nations, defected to the United States in 1994, he reportedly brought
with him fourteen thousand internal government documents. He claimed that these
documents proved the Saudi royal family's corruption, human rights abuses, and
financial and technical support for terrorist groups such as Hamas, an
anti-Israeli group based in Lebanon, and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. Al-Khilewi
and his lawyer met with two FBI agents and an assistant United States attorney.
"We gave them a sampling of the documents and put them on the table," Michael J.
Wildes, al-Khilewi's lawyer, said. "But the agents refused to accept them"
(Hersh). Al-Khilewi was granted political asylum and never heard from the
American government again. He, his wife, and their three children still live in
constant fear of reprisals from the long arm of Saudi intelligence. He now wears
a bulletproof vest and is constantly bracketed by bodyguards and lives under a
false identity.
This is an example of the growing American tolerance for Saudi government
transgressions. Saudi princes "squander billions of dollars [from the Saudi
coffers] on palaces in Spain and at gaming tables in Monaco"(Cockburn) while the
Saudi people suffer severe unemployment and inadequate education, a major issue
in a nation in which 50 percent of the population is still in school. Religious
dissidents are dealt with brutally and quickly in Saudi Arabia by the
mutawwa'in&emdash;religious police&emdash;and Saudi women are kept as secluded and
unprivileged as those in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. ...
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rights atrocities without fear of punishment.
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In the Red Badge of Courage, the protagonist Henry, is a young boy who yearns to be a Great War hero, even though he has never experienced war himself. Anxious for battle, Henry wonders if he truly is courageous, and stories of soldiers running make him uncomfortable. He struggles with his fantasies of courage and glory, and the truth that he is about to experience. He ends up running away in his second battle.
The Red Badge of Courage, by Steven Crane, has been proclaimed one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story that realistically depicts the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy who decides to become a soldier. Henry, who is fighting for the Union, is very determined to become a hero, and the story depicts Henrys voyage from being a young coward, to a brave man. This voyage is the classic trip from innocence to experience. The soldier story, The Red Badge of Courage, was used to reflect the harsh Civil War realities. Cranes style of writing to portray these realities included the technique of symbolism. In this technique, symbols are hidden within certain objects throughout the story to help express the theme. Henry, Jim Conklin, and Wilson all symbolized a specific aspect of mankind.
The Red Badge of Courage is not a war novel. It is a novel about life. This novel illustrates the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Stephen Crane uses the war as a comparison to everyday life. He is semi-saying that life is like a war. It is a struggle of warriors—the every day people—against the odds. In these battles of everyday life, people can change. In The Red Badge of Courage, the main character, Henry Fleming, undergoes a character change that shows how people must overcome their fears and the invisible barriers that hold them back from being the best people—warriors, in the sense that life is war—they can be. Henry has a character change that represents how all humans have general sense of fear of the unknown that must be overcome.
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If it was not for Stephen Crane and his visionary work than American Realism would not have taken hold of the United States during the eighteen hundreds. During the years following the Civil War America was a melting pot of many different writing styles. Many scholars argue that at this time there was still no definite American author or technique. Up to this point authors in the Americas simply copied techniques that were popular in regions of Europe. Stephen Crane came onto the scene with a very different approach to many of his contemporaries. He was a realist, and being such he described actions in a true, unadorned way that portrayed situations in the manner that they actually occurred (Kaplan). He had numerous admired pieces but his most famous work was the Red Badge of Courage (Bentley 103). In this novel he illustrates the accounts of a Union soldier named Henry Fleming. At first the writing was considered too graphic and many people did not buy the book. Eventually the American people changed their opinions and began to gravitate towards Crane’s work. The readers were fascinated by the realistic environment he creates even though he himself had never fought in a war (Bentley 103). By spreading the influence of realistic writing Crane has come to be known as the first American Realist.
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In the Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, the main character Henry Fleming joins the army as a young fledging and ultimately matures to a courageous soldier ready for battle. The Red Badge of Courage is considered a Bildungsroman since the reader traces Henry’s development morally, psychologically, and intellectually. Henry progresses from a feared youth who in the course of a couple of days, in the line of fire, has crossed the threshold to manhood.
By looking to the United States government structure, there are three kinds of government, the Federal government, the State government, and the Local government. The Constitution of the United States divides the part of federal government into three distinct branches, the Executive, the Legislature, and the Judiciary. Article 1 of the Constitution sets that the United State Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government. This branch consists of the Senate and House of Representatives, where the laws of the country are made. Besides that, the Constitution sets explicitly powers to each house and the structure to create its own house, the process for creating laws, some powers that Congress does not have. In addition, there are more
Since the beginning of mankind, every civilization shows evidence of some sort of the religion and education institutions. These institutions are essential to organized human society. From teaching your grandson to assemble a tomahawk to worshipping the Greek god of war, people show religion and education in many different ways.