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- 121: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... Shlapentokh, 1988, 34). Another negative aspect of the decline in family life is the rising incidence of divorce which is said to be caused by sexual incompatibility, inadequate housing, infidelity and a high rate of alcoholism (Traver, 1989, 64/65). These all leave the child confused, feeling alone and angry at society. He then looks for ways to express himself and usually finds it in a youth group culture with similar ...
- 122: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- ... strong barrier against social change." This play was banned in England from public performance as morally offensive until World War I. In The Philanderer, the character Reverend Samuel Gardner "is a figure of farce" whose alcoholism and degradation may have been based on the same characteristics of Shaw's father, a technique he frequently used. Pygmalion examines the assumptions of social superiority and inferiority that underlie the class system, and demonstrates ...
- 123: The Life of John F. Kennedy
- ... mourning the loss of a great political figure. Another, more tragic effect was the life of Kennedys son. He had seen his father get shot on TV. This lead to a great problem with alcoholism and later in his life, he killed himself. The final effect is that thiis event changed the course of politics for years to come. Who knows what would have happend if Kennedy was president. However ...
- 124: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncles committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt would jerk around as if he was being electrocuted. After his death, the sale of Nirvana memorabilia increased dramatically. As you can see, both Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain have ...
- 125: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... worked briefly on the Evening Mirror, the Broadway Journal, and wrote a series of sketches for Godey's Lady's Book. he was successful in getting such editorial jobs, but he never held them long. Alcoholism and mounting mental disorder made Poe quarrelsome and unreasonable, given to outbursts of senseless rage. The title of one of his stories was The Imp of the Perverse. Such an "imp" seemed to possess Poe ...
- 126: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncles committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt would jerk around as if he was being electrocuted. After his death, the sale of Nirvana memorabilia increased dramatically. As you can see, both Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain have ...
- 127: The Life of Franz Liszt
- ... schampagne and tranquilizers on March 4.Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncle's committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of disfuntional marriages and alcoholism present.During a concert, Kurt would jerk around as if he was being electrocuted.After his death, the sale of Nirvana memorabilia increased dramatically. As you can see, both Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain have ...
- 128: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... Orange. In April, 1944, Burgess's pregnant wife Lynne was beaten and robbed in London, and miscarried. The doctor ordered her never to have children, and this caused Lynne to sink into a pit of alcoholism. She died of cirrhosis of the liver in March 1968. Burgess felt that the attack was "an important cause of her death. [Burgess] transmutes this wrenching real-life experience into the fatal attack on Mrs ...
- 129: Frank Lincoln Wright
- ... the company, Sullivan's quantity of contract declined quickly. Sullivan soon ran into economic troubles and his international reputation dwindled by 1920. Sullivan was soon reguarded as worthless to the architectural world. He resorted to alcoholism and died in 1924 without regaining the glory of what was held in their early years of Chicago. LIFE AFTER THE FIRM Wright quickly built up a practice in residential architecture. At one point in ...
- 130: Hooked on the Internet
- ... find themselves ignoring important aspects of their lives, in favor of playing in cyberspace close to 40 hours a week. "It is tearing families apart, destroying careers, and shattering relationships in much the same way alcoholism and drugs abuse do", argues Lehrman (61). Net addiction can cause depression and withdrawal from reality. People use Internet to avoid problems in their lives or because they lack social skills, employing the Internet as ...
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