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- 3061: A Clockwork Orange
- The new American edition of the novel A Clockwork Orange features a final chapter that was omitted from the original American edition against the author's preference. Anthony Burgess, the novel's author, provided for the new edition an introduction to explain not only the significance of the twenty-first chapter but also the purpose of ... kind of clockwork orange that is human. Burgess's little Alex is a clockwork orange until he reaches maturity in the twenty-first chapter. Stanley Hyman, a literary critic, provided an afterward for the original American edition of A Clockwork Orange. In it he states that "Alex always was a clockwork orange, a machine for mechanical violence far below the level of choice...". One must remember that this after word ...
- 3062: Morrison's Beloved: The Psychological Suffrage of Former Slaves
- ... believed that by including sadistic guards, murder, separation of family members, a big war, failed and successful escapes, and losses of loved ones to the violence of the mad order, Morrison was attempting to enter American slavery into the martyr ranks of the Nazi's abuse of the Jews (Crouch 38-43). Also, Crouch stated, " …she lacks a true sense of the tragic" (38-43). He supported this by stating " … it shows no sense of the timeless and unpredictable manifestations of evil that preceded and followed American slavery" (Crouch 38-43). However, Crouch realizes that Morrison has real talent, in that he believes she has the ability to organize her novel in a musical structure by using images as motifs. He also ... visualizable of all her novels. Also, Brown stated that " Beloved brings us into the mind of the haunter as well as the haunted" (420-21). Brown believes that this is an invitation that no other American writers has offered. According to Brown, Morrison manages to continually bring about images and specific memories like stones, and these images and memories disappear and resurface over and over. She believes that Morrison places ...
- 3063: The Last Gentleman By Walker P
- ... sound direction in life. Will Barrett discovered that caring for another gives life meaning. Works Cited Dowie, William. "Walker Percy: Sensualist Thinker." Critical Essays on Walker Percy. Eds. Donald and Sue Mitchell. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall & Co., 1989. 157-70. Hardy, John Edward. The Fiction of Walker Percy's Novels. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. Johnson, Mark. "The Search for Place in Walker Percy Novels." Critical Essays on Walker Percy. Eds. Donald and Sue Mitchell. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall & Co., 1989. 138-56. Kennedy, J. G. "Percy's Last Gentleman." Mississippi Quarterly. In CLC 14: 417-419. Lawson, Lewis A. "Walker Percy's Prodigal Son." Critical Essays on Walker Percy. Eds. Donald and Sue Mitchell. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall & Co., 1989. 243-58. Percy, Walker. The Last Gentleman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Schwartz, Joseph. "Life and Death in The Last Gentleman." Renascence: Essays on ...
- 3064: A Duty Dance With Exploring De
- ... 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 ...
- 3065: Psychology Comparison
- ... with an interview with two members of a family from the sample who, ÒparadoxicallyÓ, express surprise at the studyÕs findings. The scientific journal article on which Harmon based her report was published September 1998 in American Psychologist. The article is titled ÒInternet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?Ó The article begins with an abstract. They examined how the Internet effects Òsocial involvement and psychological ... causal mechanisms are discussed. They propose that perhaps the displacement of social activity and the lesser-quality relationships created on-line in replace of actual face-to-face relationships could be the mechanisms. Overall the American Psychologist article goes into far more detail than the report found in the New York Times. The research article is about eighteen pages in length while the Times article is only about five. Furthermore the ... overall sample results. It does, however, provide a more intimate appeal to the average reader. The tone of the articles is, in fact, in direct relation to the audience to which each is directed. The American Psychology article is seemingly directed towards a largely scientific community. At least a basic understanding of psychological terms and concepts was assumed in the writing of the article. Furthermore, the use of extensive details ...
- 3066: The Mafia
- ... Mafia members, there is a more formal organization within the Mafia and that the Mafia does have initiations. The United States Mafia definitely was different than the Sicilian Mafia when trying to generalize them. The American Mafia consisted of only around 24 families whereas the Sicilian Mafia consisted of hundreds of families. These families were much larger than their Sicilian counterparts and that the families were most definitely organized and formal ... their existence upon their strong beliefs that justice and honor are for oneself to take care of not for the government to control. Antithetical to this honor that is represented by the European Mafia, the American Mafia consists of more cold-hearted thieves and criminals. Although they based their organizational beginning around the model of the Sicilian Mafia, their actual actions do not coincide with the Sicilians. It seems as though the American Mafia sole purpose is to make money by whatever means possible. When beginning to analyze the Mafia from and economic standpoint one can see that the Mafia came into existent as almost a capitalistic ...
- 3067: “To legalize or Not to Legalize”
- ... praised as an instructor on the realm of senses, bodily self-awareness, sexuality, music, and dancing. Drugs also have had a religious impact on society in religions such as Sufism, Hinduism, tantriac Buddhism, and native American shamanism, as well as ceremonially in Christianity. (Toward a Users’ Rights Drug Policy - pages 387-388) Many say that drugs are apart of the American History and have played a vital role since the time of the Boston Tea Party and that free use of drugs should be part of the American Tradition. Many recall back to the constitution and say that there are amendments which say that the government can not control the sale and use of drugs or regulate personal health habits. Personal intoxication ...
- 3068: Gun Control
- Gun Control Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed significantly. Because of fast and steady increase in crime and ... America and licensing restrictions penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere. However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban ...
- 3069: Same-sex Marriages
- The proposed legalization of same-sex marriage is one of the most significant issues in contemporary American family law. Presently, it is one of the most vigorously advocated reforms discussed in law reviews, one of the most explosive political questions facing lawmakers, and one of the most provocative issues emerging before American courts. If same-sex marriage is legalized, it could be one of the most revolutionary policy decisions in the history of American family law. The potential consequences, positive or negative, for children, parents, same-sex couples, families, social structure public health, and the status of women are enormous. Given the importance of the issue, the value ...
- 3070: Insights on De Tocqueville's Democracy In America
- ... in it seem extraordinarily suitable even more than one hundred and fifty years later. Alexis de Tocqueville was born 1805 into a minor noble family, in which his grandfather had been guillotined during the French Revolution. He had come to the United States in 1831 to study the prison system, in which he did not do, instead he wrote Democracy in America. He had stayed in the United States through February ... One of Tocqueville's observations about the United States is that he thought there is no country in the civilized world that is less attention paid philosophy than the United States. This is applicable to American life in 1997 because the whole world is practically joined to the United States. Just about every country in the world trades with, tours in, and watches for the United States. What I mean by ...
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