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- 3601: Boys In The Hood The Begining
- ... N the Hood. This is the first film by a black director that actually goes deep inside the ghetto or inner city. Singleton carefully directs this film so that it appears to mirror the real world having value as a kind of anthropological study of an unfamiliar way of life (Thompson 2). Set in lower-middle-class, predominately black, south central Los Angeles, a neighborhood where constant gunshots regularly interrupt study ... with premarital sex, family, crime, single parent homes, drugs, and violence. From this powerful drama several other films have mirrored its plot and themes. Since this films production other films such as: Menace II Society, New Jack City, Clockers, Strapped, Set it Off, and Juice have followed. MENACE II SOCIETY This film directed by brothers Allan and Albert Hughes was also set in the inner city. This film showed the struggle ... II Society is an excellent film that proved one is not always a product of his environment (Walker 4). The Hughes brothers depicted typical life in this film showing, sex, violence, murder, drugs, and community. NEW JACK CITY This is a film following the life of Nino Brown. He has become an American success story with a twist (Rosenbush menace ). Brown is the main character who is young, smart, handsome, ...
- 3602: Addison And Steele
- ... and the Spectator". Through their hardships of life they came about understanding what others were feeling and the actions that they took. They documented five hundred and fifty-five essays that were depicted from the world around them. They used the feeling of love to show about human nature and what it did to achieve its goals. Through stories, such as "Jilts and their Victims", "Country Festival", "For Whom the Bell ... Charter House School in England where from their they became the best of friends. Through their hardships they ended up going separate ways. Addison went into politics where he became a popular figure in society.(World Book Addison) Steele went to the military where he later got knighted. In 1710 they were united when Steele asked Addison to join him in writing in the "Spectator".(World Book Steele) Addison gladly excepted and the two men would go out and view the world around them. The two men would write about any occasion, but whenever they wrote they were really in ...
- 3603: An Analysis Of If Men Could Me
- ... Men can make simple aspect such as physical size and strength, positive factors of their superiority, what would their command of a menstrual cycle and the ability to bear children cause an already male dominated world. Women would be subjected to further suppression and neglect by the now ultimate dominant specie. These views are not circumstantial; they are based on the human behavioural tendency to supersede the competition, in this case the females by slandering their credibility and necessity as viable components within the society. The males as the dominant sex, now as a result of their new ability to menstruate would begin to study the cycle and its effects in dept. They would create new and more effective ways to menstruate, all because the need arose. The menstrual cycle would become the centre of man’s world, because the demand became present. This hypothesis as presented by Steinem is ...
- 3604: Demographic Trends And Implica
- Trend #1: Increase in single-parent Households. It is evident that in today s society, one can see an increase in single-parent households. This demographic phenomenon will likely continue through the beginning of this new century. Before we can begin to strategize efforts to market our product to this growing demographic group, we must understand some history of this trend. There are several reasons that may lead to why society ... theme park marketing to attract this growing demographic group will insure that business will continue to strive. Hollander, D., Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States: A Government Report, Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 28, No. 1, New York 1996. Poussaint, A., Single Parenthood: Implications for American Society, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, University of Texas at Austin 1997. Russell, C., The Official Guide to the American Marketplace 2nd Edition. New Strategist Publications, New York 1995. Trend 2: Age Trends in the Hispanic Population. It may be clear to some that the percentage of the population of the United States made up by Hispanics is ...
- 3605: Huckleberry Finn: Review
- Huckleberry Finn: Review Huckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas were desirable allegiance. He stumbles upon the Grangerfords in darkness, lost from Jim and the raft. The ... guns to family picnics. He sees these as small facets of a family with "a handsome lot of quality"(118). He thinks no more about Jim or the raft, but knows he has found a new home, one where he doesn't have to go to school, is surrounded by interior and exterior beauty, and most importantly, where he feels safe. Huck "liked that family, dead ones and all, and warn ... a very personable narrator. He tells his story in plain language, whether describing the Grangerford's clock or his hunting expedition with Buck. It is through his precise, trusting eyes that the reader sees the world of the novel. Because Huck is so literal, and does not exaggerate experiences like Jim or see a grand, false version of reality like Tom Sawyer, the reader gains an understanding of the world ...
- 3606: The Nuclear Arms Race
- The Nuclear Arms Race In order to maintain peace and stability in the world, there must be a balance of power between countries. The Nuclear Arms Race was started because there wasn't a balance of power after World War II. The U.S. was the only country at that time which possessed nuclear weapons. Russia, fearing a United States domination of world power, developed a nuclear bomb of its own. Thus started the Arms Race, in which both countries attempted to gain the upper hand in terms of the number of nuclear warheads each possessed. However, ...
- 3607: American Psycho
- ... out with razor blades, battery cables, rats borrowing inside the human body, power drills to the face, cannibalism, credit cards, business cards, Dorsia, Testoni, Armani, Wall Street; all of these things are Patrick Bateman’s world. The only difference between Bateman and anybody else is what is repulsive to Bateman and what is repulsive to the rest of the world. Bateman has great interest in the upper class life, fashions, and social existence, but at the same time he is, at times, sickened by the constant struggle to be one up on everybody else. On ... a personality, and pursuit of happiness all come to mind. It’s hard to tell what exactly would make a person with so much so unhappy. Boredom does play a role in Bateman’s demented world, and so does lack of personality. It can certainly be said that Bateman is simply looking for happiness. I think Bateman does somewhat satisfy his boredom, and does make himself feel happy at times, ...
- 3608: Visions Of The Future
- ... man. People were not so concerned about making their work more efficient, easier, or better productive. The Scientific Revolution began to change many opinion of views of the people. The Scientific Revolution shaped the modern world by introducing mathematical and scientific theories. The formation of the empirical method , reason, and the laws of nature such as mathematical formulas, brought about more sense of thinking. Great thinkers and mathematicians such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, etc., are just of the few who expanded ideas. They began to use the inductive method as a step-by-step to their understandings. The new outlook generated by the Scientific Revolution served as the foundation of the Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution gave thinkers great confidence in the power of the mind , which had discovered nature’s laws, reinforcing the confidence ... would unlock all nature’s secrets, and humanity, gaining ever greater knowledge and control of nature, would progress rapidly. Science and Technology has driven things in the 20th century. Technological and Scientific contribution to the world have made great advantages. Due to science and technology people learned how to replace their work by machines. In this process many of those machines enabled humans to produce faster, more efficiently and in ...
- 3609: Welfare Reformation
- ... system for extended periods of time. In accordance with the lesser incentives, the government should place more emphasis on raising the current hourly wage (Haskins 126). Most importantly, the government needs to portray a working world in which job training is not only the standard, but also the required (Tanner 17). Providing jobs with training not only educates the person, but also supplies him or her with opportunities to acquire a ... it is true that the current welfare check is meant to assist those in need, it can promote illegitimacy, laziness, and illiteracy. Steps should be taken to reform the welfare system. The government should devise new way to help job placement, to end illegitimacy, and to raise education instead of spending money on programs that perpetuate the ongoing problems with the system. Bibliography Works Cited Donovan, Patricia. "The Family Cap: A ... but Unproven Method of Welfare Reform." Family Planning Perspectives July-Aug. 1995: 166-171. Money. Ed. Eleanor Goldstein. 1996. Art. 73. SIRS CD-ROM. CD-ROM. Boca Raton: SIRS, 1996. Garr, Robin. Reinvesting in America. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1995. Haskins, Ron. "Does Welfare Encourage Illegitimacy?" American Enterprise July-Aug. 1996: 48-49. Money. Ed. Eleanor Goldstein. 1996. Art. 126. SIRS CD-ROM. CD-ROM. Boca Raton: SIRS, 1996. Leavitt, ...
- 3610: The Roswell UFO Crash
- The Roswell UFO Crash In 1947 a UFO was seen near the town of Roswell, New Mexico. It was witnessed by many of the residents and was described as something not of this planet. The government denies any evidence of this event occurring and has covered it up for may years. Now that more information has become available to the public, it is clear that something extraordinary happened. The town of Roswell, New Mexico was the location of many UFO sightings in the later 1940's and was supposedly the location of a secret military base. Most of the local people had a story or two to tell ... if they dared to speak of what they saw. One incident in particular which has sparked a craze in the study of UFO's is when a flying disk allegedly crashed in the deserts of New Mexico near Roswell on the night of July 8, 1947. According to Roswell expert Henry Ritson, many civilians arrived at the crash scene and witnessed the bodies of alien beings (Roswell Reporter pg. 2). ...
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