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- 2731: A Farewell To Arms
- ... when someone dies, which happens frequently, it takes days before he is located and even longer before the corpse is taken out of the train. He and the other stoic soldiers are viewed as "ridiculous [American] creatures" (Vonnegut 150), "incapable of concerted action on their own behalf" (Vonnegut 131). The Germans are "filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another [person] so far from home, and why the victim should laugh" (Vonnegut 51). The lack of compassion or care for death continues after Dresden is destroyed, when "absolutely everybody in ... 614). Edgar Derby, for example, is killed for stealing a teapot: "The irony of it is so great. A whole city gets burned down, and thousands and thousands of people are killed. And then an American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot. And he's given a regular trial, and then he's shot by a firing squad. (Vonnegut 5) Another soldier is depicted as ...
- 2732: Into The Wild
- ... this is he turned to nature. He thought that getting away would make him fell life for what it real is, but he wanted to do this alone. Chris and Thoreau view on how the American dream should be was not the same as how everyone else viewed it. They did not want success. They wanted independents away from everyone. They wanted to feel free. That’s how this book is connected into our class studies of the American dream. Chris’s and Thoreau American dream is different then everyone else’s. Nobody really knows why they think this way but that’s what makes this book so interesting. The audience wants to know why Chris’s wants to ...
- 2733: Written Speech On Teen Suicide
- ... to depression; they include new surroundings, family problems, failure, the ending of a relationship, or death. And in some cases there seem to be no reasons at all. Just like the case of an African-American male named Todd Robinson, who was in the lower risk category for suicide. According to statistics, on any given day, only five African-American men can be expected to take their lives. On July 7, 1987 Todd became one of those men. He shot himself in the head in his room. His parents didn't expect anything. He just ... is nearly twice as high as it is for nonwhites. Yet, statistics say that African-Americans attempt suicide more often than people of other races, they simply do not succeed as often. And among Native American youths, the number of suicides has tripled during the last 20 years. Studies also show that 25-30% of gay and lesbian youth attempt suicide. While there is no "typical" suicidal personality, experts say ...
- 2734: Rabbit, Run Happy Endings
- ... must be something wrong with you if you weren't married by your mid twenties. "During the postwar period, marriage was seen as an essential ingredient for a full and happy life. Fewer than one American in ten believed that an unmarried person could be happy." (Mintz, 180). Maybe that is a partial reason why Rabbit married Janice. "He married relatively late, when he was twenty-three and she was two ... the "family man." He fears what commitment could bring him, and where it would lead him. As Norman Mailer said in The White Negro, "A stench of fear has come out of every pore of American life, and we suffer from a collective failure of nerve. The only courage, with rare exceptions, that we have been witness to, has only been the isolated courage of isolated people." (p 95). Janice was ... you know best and eventually it will come. Giving up is not the idea here. One step at a time is where to start. "The 1950's stand out as the golden age of the American Family." (Mintz, 178). And when Rabbit realizes this, then he can begin to devote his life to making his family happy too.
- 2735: What Freedom Of Speech Means T
- ... to express their beliefs. Also, freedom of speech means to me that America is one of the best countries that involves the people. There is not one person making all of the decisions for the American citizens, so it is possible to have numerous ideas in the government. People who voice their opinions can pursway the many government officials to change their positions on certain issues. If the United States did ... be hardly any reason for the government official to change his or her position on a certain issue. I believe that it is important for people to express their opinions and ideas so that the American public can catch a glimpse of the opposite sides of different views. I believe that freedom of speech is a great aspect of the American government, and which also illustrates that the United States is a mature nation that respects and takes into consideration all of the ideas of all of the nations’ citizens.
- 2736: Africa 2
- ... too, realize the importance of education in attaining better jobs and higher social status. Schools and colleges across the continent are crowded with students. Thousands of Africans also are enrolled in European, Asian, and North American colleges and universities. Most African governments support these overseas students. Even though literacy is still at a low level by Western standards, modern communications media such as television and, especially, radio have spread information about ... higher. They hear about people whose lives are made easier through good health care, efficient transportation systems, well-equipped schools, and time-saving conveniences in their homes. Some scholars describe the resulting attitude as a "revolution of rising expectations" the demand of increasing numbers of Africans for a quality of life that North Americans and Europeans enjoy. Africa has the highest death rate of any continent, reflecting the poor level of ...
- 2737: Invisible Man
- ... derived from this relationship, and this relationship suggests to Brockway that his identity is a "threat". However the viewer decides to see someone is the identity they assign to that person. The Closing of The American Mind, by Allan Bloom, explains this identity phenomenon by comparing two "ships of states" (Bloom 113). If one ship "is to be forever at sea, [and] ¡K another is to reach port and the passengers ... way people see him ¡V just as easy as how J. H. Griffin adopted his new identities when he "wakes up in a black man's skin" (Griffon 161). According to The Closing of the American Mind, all identities "depends on the free consent of individuals" (Bloom 110). A president holds his identity only because people elect to see him that way, otherwise he is like any ordinary Joe; even if ... the identified. Without people around, a person will not have an identity and there will be no need for one. That is the whole reasoning behind identity. Bibliography Bloom, Allan (1988). The Closing Of The American Mind. (First Touchstone Ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. Ellison, Ralph (1994). Invisible Man. (Library Ed.). New York: Random House, Inc. Griffon, John Howard (1996). Black Like Me. (35th Anniversary Ed.). New York: Penguin ...
- 2738: Violence And Pornography
- ... been stretched by mainstreaming movies, opening the way even further for the legalization of more explicit fare (Jenish 53). In most contemporary communities explicit sex that is without violent or dehumanizing acts is acceptable in American society today. These community standards have not been around very long. When movies were first brought out, they were heavily restricted and not protected by the First Amendment, because films then were looked upon only ... and violence is exaggerated and that the research linking pornography to sexual crimes is inconclusive. They state that the fundamentals of sex crimes are found inherently in the individuals and that the sexual permissiveness of American society cannot be blamed on the increase of pornography’s availability (Jacobson 79). David Adams, a co-founder and executive director of Emerge, a Boston counseling center for male batterers, states, “that only a minority ... ensure an unhealthy attitude towards women and their sexual identities. Only through discussion and individual action can the perpetuation of the negative impacts of pornography be swept from the closets and dark corners of the American household. Works Cited Allen, Mike. “Exposure to Pornography and Acceptance of Rape Myths.” Journal of Communication. Winter, 1995: 5-21. Bart, Pauline B., and Patricia H. O’Brien. Stopping Rape: Successful Survival Strategies. New ...
- 2739: World War II
- ... then first expected, problems ranging from the vailability of jobs in the work force to child raising and post-traumatic stress would make this return to "normalcy" very troublesome. This laborious task of reintegrating into American culture would eventually lead to problems in the gender relations in post war America. One of the major problems that G.I.'s faced upon there return to the States was the availability of jobs ... labor shortages and increased demand for war goods. By 1944 a total of 1,360,000 women with husbands in the service had entered the work force. This, along with the a migration of African-American workers from the south, filled the war time need for labor. This attitude toward women in the work force changed dramatically at the end of the war. The propaganda promoting "Rosie the Riviter", suddenly changed ... a difficult time finding jobs in post war America. This independence given to women during the war and its removal with the advent of the returning men, had a definitive effect on gender relations in American society and which one of the seeds of the womens rights movements in later decades. Another hardship encountered by returning soldiers was the reactions of the children they left behind. Most of the fathers ...
- 2740: Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism of Death in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism of Death in "The Fall of the House of Usher" Death is defined as, "The termination or extinction of something" (American Heritage Dictionary). Edgar Allen Poe uses this description in "The Fall of the House of Usher" in different ways. Poe's intention when writing "The Fall of the House of Usher" was not to present ... the minds of his readers and they are still horrified by his work. Bibliography 1. Abel, Darrel. Introduction. The Science Fiction of Edgar Allen Poe. By Edgar Allen Poe. Penguin Books, 1976. 2. "death". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 1992 edition. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. The Viking Press, 1964. 4. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. Supernatural Horror in Literature. Dover Publications, Inc., 1973. 5. Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Fall of the House of Usher". CD-ROM. Lake Ariel, PA: Westwind ...
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