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- 10021: Irony, Humor, And Paradox In K
- ... 1. Narrator selection 2. Atrophy of protagonist B. Humor 1. Ruth Sullivan 2. Character over-exaggeration C. Paradox 1. Oppression of residents 2. Power of Nurse Ratched Bibliography Davidson, Dorothy, ed. Book Review Digest: 1962. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1963. Hicks, Granville. "Beatnick in Lumberjack Country," in Contemorary Literary Criticism. 1 vols. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. 1974. Magill, Frank N., ed. Magill's Survey of American Literature. 3 vols. North Bellmore: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterplots II American Fiction. 3 vols. England Cliffs. Salem Press, 1986. Magill, Frank N. Survey of Contemporary Literature. 8 vols. New Jersey: Salem Press, 1977. Irony, Humor, and Paradox in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest "My name is McMurphy, buddies, R.P. McMurphy, and I'm a gambling fool." So said ... two levels of meaning, composed in two keys together, it tells the direful tale of a struggle for survival in an institution for the mentally disordered, and it presents a parable of life in a world presided over by a tyrannical junta of compulsion and conformity.............(Davidson 648) The principal characters in this novel are the heart of the central themes, such as humor. Randle Patrick McMurphy, the protagonist, is ...
- 10022: Security 2
- ... key. However, people are often forget their passwords or lose their keys. A third method must be used. It is using something a person has --- physical trait of a human being. We can use a new technology called biometric device to identify the person who wants to use your computer. Biometric devices are instrument that perform mathematical analyses of biological characteristics. For example, voices, fingerprint and geometry of the hand can ... webbing where the fingers join the palm. After passing the investigation of the computer, people can use the computer or retrieve data from the computer. Although a lot of security system have invented in our world, they are useless if people always think that stealing information is not a serious crime. Therefore, people need to pay more attention on computer crime and fight against those hackers, instead of using a lot ... technologies promises unbreakable security. Experts in the field agree that someone with sufficient resources can crack almost any computer defense. Therefore, the most important thing is the conduct of the people. If everyone in this world have a good conduct and behavior, there is no need to use any complicated security system to protect the.
- 10023: Athletes and Domestic Violence
- ... violence cases that involve athletes. Athletes have been abusing their spouses since sports were created, but not until the OJ Simpson trial has domestic violence become "the issue du jour." When Simpson was arrested on New Years Day for beating his wife, none of the newspapers reported it. When he pleaded no contest five months later, there was a small brief in the second page of The Los Angeles Times' Metro ... to a study done by The L.A. Times. Abuse is the number one cause of injury for women. About six million women are abused each year; four thousand are killed (Cart). Although the sports world is not involved with all of these statistics, they are an important factor as to why the numbers are so high. The survey found that in 1995 there were 252 incidents involving 345 active sports ... a baseball fan, awarded her a sum of $7,500 per month, which is half of what she was supposed to receive. The biased judge then asked Bonds' for an autograph. We live in a world where men express their manliness by demeaning women. Where men are encouraged to act aggressive and dominant. Where men when asked, 'what are they going to do?' after they lost a game reply, 'I' ...
- 10024: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony were all leaders of the early women's rights movement. Select one of these women and discuss her contribution to the movement and the difficulties she encountered
- ... leaders of the early women's rights movement. Select one of these women and discuss her contribution to the movement and the difficulties she encountered. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York. She was the fourth of six children. Later she would meet and marry Henry B. Stanton, a prominent abolitionist. Together they would have seven children. Although Elizabeth never went to college she was very ... important person to the women's rights movement. This paper will present to you the difficulties she encountered and her major contributions. Nothing is easy when you are trying to change the opinion of the world. In the nineteenth century it was only harder if you were a woman. Elizabeth Stanton not only faced opposition from the outside world but also from those closest to her. After her only brother died she tried to please her father by studying and doing the things that her brother had done. Her father's response was ...
- 10025: Lou Gehrig
- Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig was born and raised in New York City, the son of German immigrant parents. His full name was Henry Louis Gehrig. After graduating from high school, he attended Columbia University where he became a football and baseball star. Lou's father ... there was no money for doctors and hospital expenses in the family budget, so young Lou quickly capitalized on his baseball skills. He accepted an offer from a scout to sign a contract with the New York Yankees, for $ 1,500 in cash as a bonus. Lou dropped out of college to play in the minor leagues and gain some experience until the Yankees needed him. Gehrig was 22 when he ... coveted "Triple Crown" of the majors, the Most Valuable Player award, made 2,721 safe hits for a life time batting average of .340. His magnificent playing helped the Yankees win seven pennants and six World Series championships. Though he had begun in the big leagues as a clumsy, poor-fielding first baseman, "Larruping Lou," as he also came to be known, over came his faults through perseverance, patience, tireless ...
- 10026: Greek Theater 2
- The Greek Theater: "The arts of the western world have been largely dominated by the artistic standards established by the Greeks of the classical period" (Spreloosel 86). It is from the Greek word theatron, meaning a place for sitting, that we get our word ... was in ancient Greece - but it has not changed completely" (Taylor 8). This form of art has always had a special appeal for many people. Works Cited Arnott, Peter. The Ancient Greek and Roman Theatre. New York: Random House, 1971. Butler, James H. The Theatre and Drama of Greece and Rome. San Francisco: Chandler, 1972. Kennedy, X.J., and Dama Gidia, eds. Literature: An Introduction To Fiction, Poetry and Drama. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. 1102-1105. Spreloosel, Jackson J. Western Civilization Volume I. St. Paul Mn: West,1994. 86-88. Taylor, David. Acting and the Stage. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978.
- 10027: Research Paper: Models
- ... expectations that they have for women is "to always look their best, and to do whatever that is possible to make them (men) happy."(I personally think that they are still living in their dream world.) Men, for some unknown reason, feel and want "their women" to always look perfect. They show their desire for these perfect creatures but also in real everyday life. For example in the movie "Pretty Women ... many women have is the problem with our weight: we are either underweight or overweight. In an article of the Mademoiselle magazine, a writer wrote in that, "My friend won't stop talking about her new diet plan. She's absolutely obsessed with food. I want to be supportive of her efforts, but I'm bored to tears. What do I do?"(pg.46) The problem with diet plans is that ... felt that of she told anybody, they would think that she was crazy. This reader, like many other women, feel that what they were born with is: not enough or isn't perfect. In the world that we live in today, the majority of men view a women as two things: a possession and a bearer of babies. In the Handmaid's Tale,(Atwood,1986,backcover) Offred, "must lie on ...
- 10028: Sexual Harassment
- ... an issue due to the large number of cases presented. When Anita Hill, law professor at the University of Oklahoma, brought allegations of sexual Zaccarello 2 harassment against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the whole world started listening. This case was "the most celebrated sexual harassment case of our time," according to Martha Chamallas, and "Hill's revelations prompted women to tell about their own encounters with sexually harassing behavior-both ... since Anita Hill came out and voiced her opinion, it seems that the issue of sexual harassment has become a security blanket for men and women, and filing lawsuits of sexual harassment have created a new money making scheme. In 1996 my place of employment received two allegations of sexual harassment. In the case I testified in court that I never saw any event of sexual harassment that the lady in ... harassment out loud, women lose their power. As Jong demonstrates, "If we take our power and use it as badly as men have used theirs throughout the centuries, we will not have brought about the world of equality we seek."
- 10029: James Joyce
- ... live his life his way. He talks about how he knew he couldn't be accepted, "it wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture and that the monkish learning, in terms of which he was striving to forge out an esthetic philosophy, was held no higher by the age he lived than the subtle and curious jargons ... fleas afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation from an angry Jove." Ireland to him is the place where censorship and pain over old struggles that should be forgotten prevail over new ideas. He believes that his artistic abilities are being choked and that the bureaucracy of life in Ireland is too great for him for him to overcome. At one time Joyce thought he wanted to ... it had been almost a prison for his mind, telling him how to think and act. He often writes about how he would like to see the strict church open up it's mind to new ideas. He says this in Araby also, " In time, perhaps there will be a gradual reawakening of the Irish conscience, and perhaps four or five centuries after the Diet of Worms, we will see ...
- 10030: The Life of Beethoven
- ... theater orchestra. Beethoven visited Vienna in 1787 but returned to Bonn when his mother became ill. In Vienna he played for Mozart and took a few lessons from him. Mozart quoted "He will give the world something worth listing to". Beethoven also met Count Ferdinand Waldstein while in Vienna, who became his lifelong friend and helped him in his career. Beethoven's mother died in 1787. Five years later he left ... and wrote what has become known as the 'Heiligenstadt Testament". In the documents he wrote basically to his two brothers, he expressed his humiliation and despair about becoming deaf. That marked the start of a new period. By 1812 he had completed Symphony 2, 3 Eroica, 4, 5,6 Pastoral, 7 and 8, Piano ConcertoNo.4 and No.5 Emperor, the Violin Concerto, his opera Fidelio, the three Rasumovsky String Quartets ... he spent writing the last three Piano Sonatas, the Diabelli Variations, the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony. The Ninth Symphony, whose final movement is the triumphant setting of Sciller's Ode to Joy, broke new ground in terms of scale and introduced choral forces in the symphony for the first time. After the performance of the Ninth Symphony, Bee-thoven stood stone deaf on the stage, unaware that the ...
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