St. Louis Globe-Democrat Essays

  • Warden Elbert v. Nash on Running Penitentiaries

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    politicians had finally got their pound of flesh. Warden Nash killed himself. They could do as they pleased. According to the book “Somewhere In Time” by Laurie A. Stout, a few days later, Representative Peter J. Rabbitt (Yes, Peter Rabbitt) from St. Louis, released a full report stating that Warden E.V. Nash was “wholly lacking in administrate ability.” Enemies sought to destroy the penitentiary Warden, and in my opinion; they succeeded. If I am right, and I hope I'm not, may God have mercy on their

  • Can We Really Trust the Media?

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    28 Dec. 2009. Web. 3 May 2012. Roach, Ronald. Black Issues in Higher Education. 21.11 (July 15, 2004): p20. From General OneFile. Web. May 3. Sunde, Rob. The Quill. 81.3 (Apr. 1993): p10. From General OneFile. Web. May 3. Stoff, Rick. St. Louis Journalism Review. 35.278 (July-August 2005): p11. From General OneFile. Web. May 3.

  • The Awakening: America Was Not Ready For Edna Pontellier

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    The late nineteenth century was a time of great social, technological, and cultural change for America. Boundaries were rapidly evolving. New theories challenging age-old beliefs were springing up everywhere, such as Darwin's natural selection. This post-Civil War era also gave men and women opportunities to work side-by-side, and in 1848, the first woman's rights conference was held in Seneca Fall, New York. These events leading up to the twentieth century had polished the way for the new, independent

  • Edna Pontellier’s Sin in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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    assertion that life isn't worth living when you are just an animal. This is the awakening that is being glorified by Kate Chopin, and it is not healthy. Works Cited: Chopin, Kate. Walker, Nancy A. ed. The Awakening Boston, NY Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press. (c) 1993. Crowley, Aleister. The Book of the Law. Access via the world wide web.  URL: http://www.crl.com/~thelema/crowley.html Culley, Margaret. Ed. The Awakening: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism NY WW Norton, 1976

  • The Awakening

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    it was reviewed by critics they labeled it as morbid, vulgar, disagreeable and shocking. With its romantic theme of women’s rights and freedom, as well as rebellion against societies cultural norms, pushed her peers to their limits. The St. Louis Daily Globe Democrat (1899) stated, “It is not a healthy book; if it points any particular moral or teaches any lesson, the fact is not apparent…Mrs. Pontiellier does not love her husband. The poison of passion seems to have entered her system, with her mother’s

  • Right-Wing Influences in American Media

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    Brothers, 29 cable operations companies across the globe including CNN and Time Warner Cable, 24 book brands, 35 magazines including Time and Fortune, 52 record labels, the Turner Entertainment Corporation which owns four professional sports teams, and provides AOL internet services to 27 million subscribers in fourteen countries. In addition, the conglomerate owns multiple theme parks and Warner Brothers stores in thirty countries across the globe. AOL Time Warner is chaired by Steve Case, with Gerald

  • Gentrification And Gentrification

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    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” when they wrote "All men are created equal," they really meant men; but they didn't mean just any men, they meant white men who owned land. That's what they meant. My kind the Bluegum, Thicklip, Monkey the NEGRO was never intended to be included. The fact that we began the Constitution with