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- 511: To Have Intellectual Freedom Or To Be Censored
- ... speech, the freedom of press, and the right to assembly, has usually been neglected or limited as it gives the entire right to live the nature of human beings. Intellectual freedom is seen as a big threat for the some interest groups that are in favor of censorship. These groups or people who want to censor the intellectual freedom support their reasons in many different ways in order to prove that ... as our independence is under the mortgage of the imperialistic system. Because of that, free and independent thought conditions are restricted or eliminated.) As it is clearly understood, intellectual freedom will be seen as a big threat for the imperialistic powers so people who want help from the imperialistic countries will always try to censor the intellectual freedom in order to please them. Because these people are so blind that can ... There is no need to put some laws that censor the whole world. The legal foundations like RTÜK doesn’t have any serious duty conscious and they do whatever they want and this is a big stroke to intellectual freedom. When governments leave their citizens to decide on their own, these citizens will be able to choose the right program, the right way, and the right method. And by doing ...
- 512: Lord Of The Flies: Comparison of Movie and Book
- ... then decide to build a fire on the highest part of the island so that if an airplane or ship went by they would see smoke. If they heard a plane, they would quickly through big green banches and leaves on it. This would make a lot of dark smoke. In the book they do all of this also. The differince is that they just make little huts or roofs for ... shelter. They also try to spell out HELP!. They figure that it is so low that a plane or let alone a ship would not see it. So they go to step B: build a big fire. The film and the book share similarities, such as; the boys go on "pig runs". A little boy once saw a pig, warthog, and they figured it would be nice to have something better ... split his skull open, then the ocean swallows him. In the movie Piggy was already at the bottom of the cliff. Both groups were disputing over something and Jack gives the signal to drop a big boulder on top of him. He was crushed and they stole his glasses. A death that was in the film but not the book was a little boy. He had a glow-stick and ...
- 513: Is There Life On Mars
- ... Mars is part of the Universe, its origin must have been included in the origin of the Universe (McGuire). Evolutionists hold the belief that the Universe was formed by various gases combining and creating a "big bang" which, in turn, formed the planets. Creationists argue that this is too random an event, and on to great a scale to form all the microscopic complexities of organisms, and the great expanses of the ...
- 514: Noah's Ark and The Great Flood
- ... Up to the top of Mt. Everest then? The volume of water would have been astronomical. Millions of cubic miles. Where did it come from? Where did it go? The polar ice-caps are not big enough. The atmosphere doesn't contain that much water. With a bit of armchair math, we can roughly calculate how much water would have been needed to cover the planet to the top of Mt ... record was indeed created during the flood, then why do we consistently find that the lower down you go, the smaller the fossils become? If you take a large tank of water, and empty a big bucket of stones (ranging in size from silt and sand up to large rocks) into it, you will notice that the BIG ONES SINK FIRST. If the fossil record was created during the flood, surely we should see large bones in the lower strata, and the smallest ones higher up. What we actually find is the ...
- 515: Marlow VS. Willard
- ... natives, Willard had a crew of American soldiers who were serving their country. Willard’s crew was comprised of mostly young men who had no idea what they were doing. “Come on all of you big strong me,” writes Joseph McDonald, “Uncle Sam needs your help again”(Class handouts, McDonald). This would describe the men that were with Willard. None of them knew where they were headed or why they were ... about this unique individual Kurtz. While Willard found out about Kurtz by receiving different packages throughout the journey down the river. What fascinated both Willard and Marlow was the fact that both Kurtz’s had big backgrounds and were extremely intelligent. The articles that Willard received were astounding. His qualifications and all his work in the military made Willard wonder why the government would want such a powerful man dead. The other big source where Willard found out many items on Kurtz was by the American photographer in Kurtz’s camp. On each of their journeys, Willard and Marlow observed so many different things going on around ...
- 516: Jobs Are Not For Me
- ... these things he would always take me to isle seven to yell and scream at me. Why couldn’t he take me into his office where it would be private? Instead he would make a big scene in front of all the old women shopping for those lovely canned foods and completely embarrass me. I never understood that. There was another reason why I knew my boss wasn’t the brightest ... One time I can recall where my job really interfered with my life was when I had tickets to go see a concert. Unfortunately I had to work that day. I did not see any big problem with this; I would just take the day off. Not with Bob around. To someone like him, groceries are life and they should be for everyone, especially me. Well little did he know that this little situation would end my employment with that wonderful shopping facility. I told him I wanted to see this show and he pulled out the big gun; he said “ Son, I don’t want to be a jerk but if you’re going to miss work for some concert, I’ll have to ask you to leave, for good.” I ...
- 517: The Reformation
- ... Europe, but Calvinism was one of the fastest rising religions during the Reformation (Mosse, George). A movement that sought to revitalize the church and oppose Protestantism was the Counter Reformation. Pope Paul III was a big part of this movement. He called together the Council of Trent in 1545 to deal with doctrinal and disciplinary questions raised by the Protestants. Pope Paul III not only used his political power, but he ... the Thirty Years’ War. The Thirty Years' War was a conflict that involved most Western European countries, and in the end, left Germany devastated (Http://www.calvin). In the end, the reformation had a very big influence on the people then, the people now, and the people for many generations to come. Some people gained such a belief in Protestantism during the reformation years, that their family today is still practicing ... and wealth from the high feudal lords and the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the middle class people and the monarchs. Almost all the regions of Europe gained cultural, political and religious freedom, which was a big change as to what it was before the Reformation. Finally, religion became less political and more a direct expression as to what the people believed in (Mosse, George). Works Cited Calvin, John. Institutes of ...
- 518: LA Confidential And Film Noir
- ... living in a city do not interact with each other as people of a small town might. Film noir played upon the idea of loneliness and solitude; two traits that are easily found in a big city (Monaco 246). Nighttime scenes were chosen because of the mystery that comes with darkness. Night projects a feeling to the viewer that he or she would not absorb in the daytime, very much the same way horror movies play themselves upon the night. Just like the basis of the big city, film noir acts upon the conventions of mystery and suspense: it is easier for the filmmaker to play with the viewer’s emotions if he or she is placed in a setting of uneasiness ... family is a household of embarrassment. Edmund’s co-workers, Bud White, Jack Vincennes, and Dudley Smith are more interested in advancement than honesty. When a case is solved in Los Angeles, there is a big “to-do” about the man behind the case. This publicity allows an officer to advance in the department, but also blurs the truth about the actual case findings. Edmund comes to a point in ...
- 519: No Greater Hero Comparison On
- ... loves through suicide. Willy was a smart man, and died heroically. He died for money and most of all for the love of his family. When he killed himself his family would then recieve a big sum of money. With this money he thought Biff would use to go on and be a big success. At his funeral he thought people would come from all over just for the death of Willy Loman. In the same way, Oedipus lived in a world in which he saw through his own ... of this play wa amazingly stroung. The reader feels for this man whose life was so common. He was an ordinary working joe with a family and wife to support. As any man, Willy had big dreams, but to see them come crashing down upon him left the reader with a sense of pity for the poor man. To us he seemed like some crazy man who had lost his ...
- 520: Clarissa Dalloways Double
- ... the scene where the airplane is skywriting, we are again introduced to both of their psyches through their respective stream of consciousness. Poetic techniques are constantly used to relate Clarissa and Spetimus in the novel. Big Ben is a sound image of great symbolic importance linking the activities of the two. Throughout the day, it counts out the hours, marking the progress of Clarissa and Septimus: "It was precisely twelve o'clock, twelve by Big Ben...twelve o'clock struck as Clarissa Dalloway laid her green dress on her bed, and the Warren Smiths walked down Harley Street. Twelve was their hour of their appointment"(122). Towards the evening, the strikes of Big Ben mark the climax of their journeys. Clarissa's party is about to begin while Septimus is undergoing a nervous breakdown and eventually commits suicide. Water is the recurring imagery used by Woolf to ...
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