Essays on Back Seat

A rhetorical analysis of language is not a summary or an interpretation of what the author meant. Rather, it is a treatise on how the author presents his or her material (Ramage, Bean and Johnson 16). At issue are the rhetorical features of the text-the author's purpose, the intended audience, what kinds of claims he makes, and the way he uses evidence (Ramage, Bean and Johnson 16). That evidence is used to show how an author attempts to persuade whatever audience he has chosen. The rhetorical plan is to analyze the text in terms of with the grain reading, ...

I. Introduction The Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from conducting “unreasonable search and seizures” on the public. While reasonableness depends on the circumstances, such whether the act is a search or a seizure, the United State Supreme Court has, nevertheless, determined that a reasonable governmental search or seizure of a person occurs with a warrant or probable cause of criminal activity (Miller et al., 2012). Absent a warrant or probable cause, a search or a seizure can still be reasonable if it satisfies one of a number of exceptions to the general rule. Accordingly, in the cases of Betsy ...

About five years ago, I had an unpleasant experience while driving with my friends. We got in a car and drove all over the city. At one point, while I was sitting in the back seat, a friend who was driving caused an accident. Fortunately, nobody was injured. However, I got very scared and couldn’t calm down for a while. Soon after that a friend offered to drive me home and I had to sit in the back. When I entered the car, I felt enormous fear. This can be explained by classical conditioning. In fact, this is a special type of classical ...

Divorce is a really difficult event in anyone’s life, no matter how old you are. My

parents never argued about anything specific that I could remember, and I just could not understand at that time in my life why Daddy left us. Today I know why they split up but in all the years since, I have never been able to get either one of them to talk about it to me; both of them saying “it was too long ago to rehash.” I had just turned four years old and my little sister was not even yet walking the day Daddy moved out. I remember my father traveled a lot and he would ...

The most outstanding concept that stands out when reading through the Hebrew bible is God wants his followers to devote themselves to him and him alone. There is always a common notion in the Christian circle that God is a selfish God. The Hebrew bible has not fallen short of proving that. God demands that those who claim to follow him should be ready to let go of all the worldly pleasures and follow his ways. This message was cross cutting amongst all the people that were mediums between him and the Israel nation time and again. In the books ...

When Back Seat Dodge first opened in 1966 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors threatened to withhold funding from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art if it insisted on including the work in a Kienholz retrospective. The museum finally agreed that the door would only be opened if someone over eighteen years old requested it and there was no one under that age present. The public was shocked that the museum would host a potentially pornographic display, so much so that over two hundred people lined up to see it. It has been that way ever since. Back Seat ...

Identity Conflicts never begin as identity conflicts

Literature Review: In ‘The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflicts’, John Bowen argues that although conflicts may at face value appear to have been simmering for hundreds of years under the surface, this is not always the case as can be seen in the former Yugoslavia conflicts. In ‘Ethnic and Nationalist Violence’, Brubaker and Laitin argue along similar lines to Bowen but they also delve into the problem with far greater detail demonstrating that perceptions of violence may not always be what they seem or what they appear. This is further reinforced by the fact that the former ...