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- 4191: A View From The Bridge
- ... with the presence of Alfieri's office and a fire escape. There is also a phone box, which hints towards a tragic event from the arrival of illegal immigrants. The play is set in an American society when the immigration law has recently changed. The set portrays the life of most Italian immigrants with temporary or seasonal jobs and little money. The homes are simple tenement buildings with sparse amounts of furniture inside. With the "American Dream" not being lived by these legal citizens the idea of isolation between Italian cultures and the US is evident. The majority of people going to the theatre would be Middle class and well paid ...
- 4192: Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
- ... a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh. In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather ... Alto was the world s first personal computer, seams overstated; his strictly technological, mine involving price and marketing. However, in writing the book Hiltzik drew on the recollections of those who participated in the technological revolution of the 1970 s He interviewed all the obvious suspects and not a few innocent bystanders. Long before IBM launched its PC and laid the foundation for Microsoft s Windows with a prototype graphical user ...
- 4193: Capitalism In Mass Media
- ... of the product the business deals in. The commodity the media business sells is our most precious: news, opinion and ideas." (Chadwick 1989:221) Capitalism and its values are nurtured within the mass media. Popular American films have carefully targeted particular markets to sell the idea of a successful capitalist system. Competition, progression (, technology) and economic rationalism are some of the components that become visible when critically analysing these films. These ... the family or traditional life " (1986:1) Although, as Parenti describes it, the community is divided and the traditional business is forced to close, it appears as a natural occurrence. To watch simply one Popular American film, you have also watched several others. The formula the media uses is the same, dictating our ideas and what we should expect from life. The narrative is used to distract us from becoming active ...
- 4194: Color Purple 2
- "Celie's strengths as an African American Woman" Alice Walker s The Color Purple is a captivating and touching novel about life of a poor African American woman -- Celie, living in the deep rural south at the turn of the twentieth century. During her difficult life, Celie writes letters to God in which she tells him about her being. As the story ...
- 4195: Comparing A Streetcar Named De
- A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menageries were written by Tennessee William in the late Thirties, where the depression made countless of people struggled in poverty. Both of the plays used the typical American family during the Thirties as the background setting. There were many similarities between the plays: including characters and events. Did Tennessee William write the same play twice? Or, did the plays each hold a different ... desire, or may be any at all. If Laura does not have any desire, why does she end up like Blanche? Tennessee William writes the two plays to illustrate the confusion and corruption of the American society, and he foreshadows the Second World War. The two plays may seem alike, however Tennessee William produces an irony between them to separate them from one another. At the same time he projects a ...
- 4196: Israfel By Poe, An Analysis
- ... school students I doubt that any of them would beable to acknowledge it as so. It does, however, offer a differing veiw of a man that has been referred to as the "Father of the American Horror Story." It ,indeed, offers many aspects of the character of Edgar Allan Poe: his unbridled passion, his creativity and his dislike of the Transcendentalist movement as a whole. Works Cited Allen, Harvey. Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe. Farrar & Rinehart Inc. NewYork. 1934. Poe, Edgar A. "Israfel." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. W.W. Norton & Company. New York. 1995
- 4197: Iliad And Odyssey
- ... Springer episode. Near the end of book XVIII, Odysseus is engaged in a verbal argument with Eurymachus; during the argument Eurymachus actually throws a stool at Odysseus! A scene like that has never happened on American TV before. In book XXII, Odysseus kills at least seven men. In the Odyssey, the main character, Odysseus seemed to be "un-touchable." Odysseus survived the Trojan War, shipwrecks, the raid on the Cicones, The lotus eaters, and the Cyclops. Not to mention the encounter with Hades and the battle with the suitors. Like American "pop" culture, the hero is rarely killed, but rather slightly injured. Rambo, James Bond, Matlock, Magnum P.I., and Odysseus all have the same characteristics: astute, subtlety, self discipline, strong, but not necessarily adheres to ...
- 4198: Huckleberry Finn
- ... some African Americans from the boondocks used to talk, Clemens only applied the argot to Blacks and not to Whites throughout the novel. There is not one sentence in the treatise spoken by an African American that is not comprised of broken English. The but in spite of that, the broken English does add an entraining piece of culture to the milieu. "Against this tone, there is that of the witness ... 171) The second way Clemens differentiates people in the novel of different skin color is that all Blacks in the book are portrayed as stupid and uneducated. The most blatant example is where the African American character Jim is kept prisoner for weeks while he is a dupe in a childish game that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn play with him. "Huck discards the moral code he has always taken for ...
- 4199: Herman Melville- Moby Dick
- Herman Melville- Moby Dick I. Biographical Insights A. The culture this great author was a part of was the time in American history where inspiring works of literature began to emerge. It was also a time when American writers had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius' flourishing there. B. Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, he was the son of Allan and ...
- 4200: Maurice Agulhon. The Republica
- ... textbook. Both sources were good detailed accounts of history during the republican era. The importance and purpose of this book was to give the audience or the reader complete and detailed accounts of the French Revolution. The authors purpose was to tell from begging to end how the French went through many trials and failures before becoming a true form of democratic government. However, the overall impact of these individual ... If the Republic was better know during the forties and able to win supporters from beyond the restricted circle of republican survivors and their immediate, this was the achievement of History. The History of the Revolution had come into being many years earlier, under the Restoration, during the period when those who rallied to the white flag were in power.Pg.3 This paragraph gives the authors purpose and the role ...
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