1927 Essays

  • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

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    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was one of the most destructive in the history of the United States, proving that the levee only policy was a failure and the limits of human control over the river. The beginning of the flood, from the initial crevasse, poured out “468,000 second-feet onto the Delta that triple the volume of a flooding Colorado, more than double a flooding Niagara Falls and the entire upper Mississippi ever carried” (pg 203). The flood of 1927 “shifted perceptions of the role

  • Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, by John M. Barry

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    In a passage from his book, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, author John M. Barry makes an attempt use different rhetorical techniques to transmit his purpose. While to most, the Mississippi River is only some brown water in the middle of the state of Mississippi, to author John M. Barry, the lower Mississippi is an extremely complex and turbulent river. John M. Barry builds his ethos, uses elevated diction, several forms of figurative language, and different

  • Sean Groubert Trial

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    South Carolina ex-trooper Sean Groubert pleaded guilty Monday and is charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in the 2014 shooting of an unarmed black man. According to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, on September,4, 2014 Trooper Sean Groubert stopped Levar Jones for a seat belt violation at a convenience store. Jones, who was unarmed, was hit in the hip with a bullet, police said. He can be heard saying, "I just got my license. You said get my license

  • Contracts In The Case Of R V Clarke (1927)

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    However, as seen in the case of R v Clarke (1927) where Clarke, oblivious of the reward for this performance, made statements to the police that led to the conviction of two murderers; because his motive was to prove his innocence and not in exchange for the offer, he could not claim the reward.

  • The Major Impact Of The Mississippi River Flood Of 1927

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    The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was one of the most devastating floods in the country. The flood had a major effect on the economy. Because of the flood, thousands of acres of agricultural land and animals were lost, many homes were destroyed, and people were displaced. In August 1926, heavy rainstorms began to swell the streams in eastern Kansas, northwestern Iowa, and part of Illinois, which fed into the Mississippi River. In December of 1926, heavy rains filled the Arkansas and Red rivers

  • The New York Yankees of 1927 Embody the Spirit of the 1920s

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    The New York Yankees of 1927 were a high-powered machine lead by some of the greats of all time in baseball. This baseball team was composed of seven Hall of Famers, six players including: Earle Combs, George Herman (Babe Ruth), Lou Gehrig, Herb Pennock, Tony, Lazzeri, and Waite Hoyt, and their Manager, Miller Higgins. (New York Yankees Hall of Fame Register, 70) The team had a no-mercy philosophy and had a sense of confidence exceptionally high noted by Babe Ruth: "It was murder, we never even

  • Memphis Tennessee Floods

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    Memphis Tennessee floodings are awful events, but some have left their mark in history, and have impacted society making many people search for solutions. Historical flooding events have dated back beyond 1927, but Memphis’s first calamitous flood was in 1927, then in 2011, but between those dates there have been street floods that happen without interacting with the river. Many important aspects of everyday life are lost during floods such as lives, homes, and money. People have been searching for

  • U.S.'s Influence on British Cinema Culture Between 1930 and 1980

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    U.S.'s Influence on British Cinema Culture Between 1930 and 1980 Britain and America have always had a very close relationship that could have stemmed from a number of different things. The English discovered America, they both speak the same language and the fact that America helped Britain in the first World War may have played an important part in why the two countries are so close. Due to this close bond or the 'special relationship' between the countries, over time we have influenced

  • The Prospects For A Reinvigorated And Diverse British National Cinema

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    The Prospects For A Reinvigorated And Diverse British National Cinema 'Is there scope for British Cinema in the future?' could be one interpretation of this statement and one that I intend to explore. I believe that with the dominance of Hollywood overpowering the British film industry, the past century has seen the traditional British cinema suffer. Although audience figures were utterly immense in the earlier half of the 20th century, we could argue that the Hollywood film industry enticed

  • To Kill A Mockingbird: Colour's Effect On Animals

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    expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before” (Lovecraft, 1927, p. 6). This shows evidence of the hunters and the townspeople being a little freaked out about the mutations that the nearby wildlife is starting to exhibit. They do not know how to stop the mutations from happening. Much like the problems going on with the wildlife, the narrator describes that “[t]he swine began growing grey

  • Bed And Sof The Evolution Of Feminism

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    been. The movies Bed and Sofa (Room), made in 1927, and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Menshov), made in 1980, allow non-Russians and those not alive during the Soviet era to catch a glimpse of how feminism and women’s rights have changed over the

  • The Colour Out Of Space Lovecraft Summary

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    the boys grew afraid of her, and [her son] Thaddeus nearly fainted at the way she made faces at him, he decided to keep her locked in the attic” (Lovecraft, 1927, p. 8). Putting her in the attic works for a while but soon she “had spells of terrific screaming, and he and the boys were in a constant state of nervous tension” (Lovecraft, 1927, p. 9). Nerves become frayed as her screaming goes on for days with no end in sight. Soon her son begins to suffer from the same fate. “Thaddeus went mad in September

  • 'Rising Tide' Chronicles Flow of Changes

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    'Rising Tide' Chronicles Flow of Changes John M. Barry's Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, takes us back 70 years to a society that most of us would hardly recognize. In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded 27,000 square miles from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the government to help the victims. President Calvin Coolidge even refused to visit the area. As a result, the flood created and destroyed leaders: Herbert

  • Bill Bryson's One Summer: America

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    Bill Bryson’s One Summer: America, 1927 appears to be a mere retelling of the summer of 1927, however it explains much more to the reader. Bryson shows the reader how America came from being an average country, to a dominating force not only economically, but socially. “With American speech came American thoughts, American attitudes, American humor and sensibilities. Peacefully, by accident, and almost unnoticed, America had just taken over the world” (Bryson 334). This quote does not mean America

  • Is The Second Sex Beauvoir's Application of Sartrean Existentialism?

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    born a woman, but becomes one.' An analysis of Beauvoir's recently discovered 1927 diary, written while she was a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, two years before her first meeting with Sartre, challenges this interpretation. In this diary, Beauvoir affirms her commitment to doing philosophy, defines the philosophical problem of 'the opposition of self and other,' and explores the links between love and domination. In 1927, she thus lays the foundations of both Sartre's phenomenology of interpersonal

  • Heritage Counte Cullen Summary

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    Cullen’s demonstrates this by noting Africa as only being remembered from a listless book “Africa? A book one thumbs listlessly, till slumber comes. Unremembered are her bats circling through the night, her cats crouching in the river reeds” (Cullen, 1927: p1). The person is unable to experience the origins and traditions of his ancestors as he is forced to conform to the majority culture “One important phase is cultural assimilation (acculturation) —the change of cultural patterns to match those of

  • History of the Academy Awards

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    a dinner party held by studio chief Louis B. Mayer in the early 1927. Mayer and his guests- actor Conrad Nagel, director Fred Niblo and producer Fred Beeston wanted to get recognition as artists and movies as an art form. They wanted movies to be on the same scale as a dancer, composer of music and a playwright (Robertson). So they discussed about created an organized group to benefit the entire film industry. On January 11, 1927, they met for another dinner, this time thirty-six people attended

  • Achievements Of The Academy Awards

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    stuff dreams are made of” -Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Academy award winner in 2012. Since 1927 the academy awards have been fulfilling the dreams of actors, producers, and directors everywhere (History). From when the academy awards were first created, through the milestones over the years, and the iconic oscar statute, the academy awards have become one of the biggest award shows of all time. In early January 1927, MGM Studio Chief Louis B. Meyer held a dinner at his house. Conrad Nagel, Fred Hiblo

  • Rising Tide: The Mississippi's Unyielding Force and its Influence

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    completely justified by the author. It felt like the book just dropped off once the action of the actual 1972 flood had been told. The adding of additional information such as the improvements that took place on the Mississippi River after the flood of 1927 and I kind of wanted more information to support the length and depth of the Hoover research. I felt like the author during the last quarter of the book had just given up, because it just wasn’t as tightly uniformed as the rest of the book and it felt

  • The Farmer Isolation

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    Theme of Korean Identity in "The Farmers" Have you ever been in a situation where you felt completely isolated? Isolation can occur because of geographical or spacial reasons, but for social, political, and economic reasons as well. In Cho Myung-hee's 1927 short story "The Farmers," a variety of these factors isolate the farmers in the village beneath the Bukmang and Satae Mountains, as they all suffer during a drought. One could argue that isolation is a theme that describes not only these villagers