Essays on Incendiary

This paper proposes to look at Amiri Baraka’s poem ‘Black Art’ and analyse the effect of the nocous language, the rhetorical severity and incendiary polemics implicit in the verse. The paper attempts to analyse the construction of the poem that is considered representative of Baraka’s Black Aesthetic, and delve into the chronical of controversial radical dissent and nationalist stance which constitutes the rubric of ‘Black Art.’ In attempting to delineate the above, the paper in the turn of its denouement, wishes to foreground the much-contested choice of form and style, and whether the chosen deployment serves to ...

Introduction

Bacterial meningitis is an infection that affects the meninges, the cerebrospinal fluid and the spinal cord that causes death and disability in a number of people worldwide. This is a highly contagious airborne disease that is spread through the transmission of three organisms present in the respiratory secretions: Neisseria meningitides, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The onset or origins of the disease varies among different age groups and geographic locations. According to estimates, 200,000 people die annually of meningitis. Case fatality rates vary with age at time of illness and also depend on the particular bacterial strain causing the infection ( ...

Reasons for the Allies Bombing of Dresden in the Second World War and Were They Justified in Destroying the City

Introduction During wartime, countries often suffer great losses to areas of their country, their cities, their civilians, and their landmarks. In World War II, the city of Dresden, the capital city of the German state of Saxony was bombed over the span of three days in February of 1945 by the British Air Force. The death toll from this attack on the city is estimated to be between 22,700 and 25,000 people. Furthermore, approximately 1,600 acres of the city was destroyed. There is great debate over whether or not this bombing by the British Air Force ...

Gender is a social construct, not tied to sex in any neat, definitive manner and hence, amenable and open to (re)construction in order to challenge power relations. This paper explores gendered power relations in Euripedes’ Medea and Sophocles’ Antigone, in an endeavour to explicate upon how such relations manifest themselves in the text, and thereby, shape, influence and contribute to an understanding of the overwhelmingly misogynist and patriarchal social reality of ancient Greece. The paper also seeks to take issue with the use of language as mediating an elucidation and plurification of meaning/s in the text, and aiding in ...

Dessler, A. J., D. E. Overs, and W. H. Appleby. “The Hindenburg Fire: Hydrogen or Incendiary Paint?” Buoyant Flight 52.2-3 (2005): 1-11. Electronic. This article points out problems with Addison Bain’s theory about the Hindenburg fire, which claims that the paint on the ship’s outer material was the point of ignition and the primary mover of the fire and is referred to in the article as the “incendiary-paint theory.” This theory holds that early in the fire, the fire did not look as though it was a hydrogen fire. The article’s authors determine that both ...

The portrayal of civil rights and the black experience in cinema has been a multifaceted and fascinating one. From early depictions of blacks as sexual predators and threats in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation to Tarantino’s blaxploitation ex-slave savior in Django Unchained, the black experience in America has been charted through cinematic journeys that reflect the time the films were created just as much as the eras in which they are set. In this paper, the films Birth of a Nation, Do the Right Thing, 2011’s The Help and 2012’s Django Unchained will be examined as cinematic ...

Book Review - Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

In Bray Hammond's Banks and Politics in America, the ways in which the practices of American politics and banking changed between the American Revolution and the time of the Civil War are explicated. Of particular interest to the author is the examination of these issues through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian lens, which he strangely refers to as ill-defined "agrarians" and those who support laissez faire. These terms have had very negative connotations in the past, as laissez faire was used even in the 1950s as an insult, and agrarian is often used to make those with that label seem ...

Having read numerous novels of various intentions and central ideas, it becomes easy to identify what is meant by authors and which features of the character are described to inspire or to teach the audience. In most of those novels, character himself is the message of the novel and depiction of author’s perception of reality. The novel “Incendiary” by Chris Cleave is not an exception. However, unlike most of the novels, his narration does not describe values he would like people to obtain; he shows the complexity and duality of human nature in the real environment, where goodness ...

Introduction

Fire investigations have been part of our society for a long time. This is because fire investigations give individuals answers concerning the causes of the fire and provides them with information on how to prevent such fires from happening in the future. For example, if the causes of the fire were accidental, then fire investigations can identify the likely causes and help eliminate them from the market to prevent fires from happening in the future. If a fire was started maliciously, then the investigations can help catch the perpetrators. It is also essential to note that fire investigations are of essence ...