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- 4731: The Glass Menagerie: Ignoring Problems Of The World
- The Glass Menagerie: Ignoring Problems Of The World Is being able to shut off one’s mind like a light switch a blessing or does it signify a detachment from reality? The characters in Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie are all able to ignore the problems of their world, just as if they were turning off a light. Laura wingfield is the daughter in the play and is very detached from the reality of her life, her mother Amanda is even more detached. She assumes her children are normal, but underneath she knows that they aren’t and this leaves her to live in a world of make-believe. She understands that they are different and does not know how to treat them. She bounces back and forth from yelling at them to encouraging them. All in all Amanda Wingfield ...
- 4732: Concentration Camps
- ... camps, they usually consist of barracks, huts, or tents, surrounded by watchtowers and barbed wire. Concentration camps are also known by various other names such as corrective labor camps, relocation centers, and reception centers. In World War II more than 4 million died in German concentration camps, but there have been other camps throughout history. Western Camps Modern concentration camps appeared at the end of the 19th century. The Spaniards used ... in successive waves of mass arrests: independent farmers (kulaks); victims of the great purges; populations deported from the Polish and Baltic territories annexed in 1939; groups such as the Volga Germans considered potentially disloyal during World War II; Axis prisoners of war; and Russians returning from German captivity. After the death of Joseph Stalin (1953), when many inmates received amnesty and were released, the camps continued on a smaller scale. In ... units) operated the camps with brutal military discipline. During the 1930s six major camps were established: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, and, for women, Ravensbrück. In 1939 these camps held about 25,000 prisoners. During World War II the camps increased in size and number. Important new ones included Auschwitz-Birkenau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Gross Rosen, Stutthof, Lublin-Maidanek, Hinzert, Vught, Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. Millions of prisoners entered these camps ...
- 4733: Macbeth - How The Magnitude And Horror Of His Actions Are Un
- ... the night is strangling the earth, representing the anger of God at the events in Scotland. The "Dark night strangles" (Act Two, Scene Four, Line Seven) the earth, showing God’s, overall grip on the world. The King at this time had an absolute monarchy (power of life and death over everyone in his kingdom). The belief was that God had passed special powers to all Kings, such as that for ... was defending the King in battle, yet he is the one who eventually kills him. Characters such as the Sergeant in Act One, Scene Two, build up a heroic stature of Macbeth, when he says "Brave Macbeth…Valour’s Minion." This again creates irony, as Macbeth turns out to be quite the opposite. In Macbeths’ soliloquy in act one scene seven, Macbeth debates with himself as to whether he should carry ... other senses, or else worth all the rest" (L.44), implying the eyes, even though they may be more foolish than the rest of the senses, and the most trustworthy. This shows that the supernatural world of imaginary is taking over Macbeth, and when he kills Duncan, he will enter that very world. Macbeth knows what he is about to do, and he shows this by saying "hear not my ...
- 4734: Marilyn Monroe
- ... named Goddard, and they wanted to move away with his daughter. They could not afford to take me, so they married me off to a family friend, Jim Dougherty. Jim went into the service during World War II, and I took a job folding parachutes. Photographers came to take pictures of us to send to the soldiers. One, David Conover, took a particular interest in me, and directed me to Snively ... a stripper. I said fine and went back to working with Marilyn Monroe Productions. I began training with past acquaintance, Lee Strasberg, and under his advice, began seeing a psychotherapist, Dr. Hohenburg. While working in New York with M.M.P., I felt a new independence, but with it came extra stress for which Dr. Hohenburg prescribed me more drugs. Time went by and I was reintroduced to Arthur Miller, whom I had met briefly four years before. We ...
- 4735: Medical Budget Spending
- Providing Cancer Clinical Trials for Medicare Beneficiaries Less than three percent of cancer patients participate in clinical trials of new therapies. Many scientists believe that higher participation could lead to the faster development of therapies for more of those in need. Moreover, the elderly, who are most likely to get cancer, often cannot participate in ... through their current CHIP allotment. Increasing Biomedical Research: Progress in biomedical research has ensured that many diseases that Americans faced a generation ago can now be prevented or treated. Smallpox has been eradicated from the world and polio is gone from the Western Hemisphere. Surgical procedures, such as organ transplants or cardiac pacemakers, can restore normal lives for those who once had few treatment options. The scientific community is now poised to make even more advances that, with sufficient investment, could dramatically alter and improve the way we treat diseases. Several new technologies in medical research show great promise. Specifically, important strides in imaging technologies make it possible to visualize living cells and entire organs, providing new insights into the structure of disease; computer- based systems ...
- 4736: Alexander The Great
- ... by the ingenious tactics instilled in them by Alexander. He and his armies conquered the Persian Empire, which stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India and formed much of what was then considered the civilized world. Through his conquests, Alexander helped spread Greek ideas, customs and laws throughout Asia and Egypt and adopted a uniform currency system to promote trade and commerce. He thus spread the rich Hellenistic culture enjoyed by the Greeks throughout the world. Alexander had a dream of the brotherhood of mankind where every person shared a common language, currency and loyalty, but he was unable to see his dream through due to an illness that claimed his ... now set forth to conquer Egypt. Upon arriving, he was welcomed as a ...divinely sent liberator from Persian rule and was crowned pharaoh (Durant 544). While in Egypt, he founded Alexandria, which would become a world center of commerce and learning, and he visited the temple and oracle of Zues-Ammon. In 331 B.C. Alexander marched back to Asia to attack Persia. He was greeted by Darius III and ...
- 4737: Managing People with AIDS
- ... large companies has had an employee with HIV/AIDS and one in 15 companies with 15 to 49 employees has had at least one worker with HIV/AIDS (according to the CDC in Atlanta). The World Health Organization estimates that by the year 2000, there will be 15 million new adult HIV infections, with six million people exhibiting symptoms of the disease. Since 25 % of new cases are in between the ages of 13 to 20 years old, this means that the teenagers of today who are HIV positive are the workers who will develop AIDS in 10 years. In ...
- 4738: Creationism vs. Evolution
- ... cannot yet ascertain what was before this beginning, but we now know that there was one. To suggest that the universe has always existed is a mere myth today. Much like the myth that the world was once flat. Today, we take for granted that the world is indeed round, for have we not seen pictures from the space shuttle in orbit of the earth. Not to mention the multitude of orbital shots from satellites. Consequently we would consider it preposterous if someone attempted to tell us that the world is a flat surface. Yet, upon blind faith, some are content to believe that a "creative hand" structured this existence. Although the figures (Gods) differ from mythos to mythos, all the ancient stories intend ...
- 4739: Justice in Orestes
- Justice in Orestes Aeschylus is primarily concerned with the nature of justice. In the trilogy The Oresteia, the Akhaians evolve from an older, more primitive autocratic form of justice, to a new concept of civil justice devised by Athena. He confronts the contrast between the old and new orders, the lives of the members of the House of Atreus, and the serious moral questions that Orestes' crime presents. The case against Orestes is strong. The son admits to striking down his mother, in ... motives. She appears to have justification for her actions. The curse on the House of Atreus is fulfilled. In the last lines of Agamemnon the chorus foreshadows Orestes' return. Clytaemnestra responds by saying to her new husband, "We will set the house in order once for all." (Agamemnon lines 1708) The chorus's purpose for suggesting Orestes's return is to show that the house is not yet cleansed of ...
- 4740: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Symbols
- ... it is made out to be. Kesey establishes this theme through the brilliant manipulation of setting. Kesey uses the specific setting of a fictional mental asylum to represent the non-specific realities of the real world. The literary term for such a technique is the use of a "microcosm" - a small universe representative of a larger one. Kesey uses the environment of the mental asylum to demonstrate just how hypocritical society can be. As aforementioned, Kesey utilizes many symbols that represent elements in the real world. The very fact that the story takes place in a mental asylum is in itself a commentary on society. In the asylum, it becomes highly evident that a great deal of oppression takes place. Although ... men personify the traits completely opposite to that of the Cowboy. The asylum turns them into weak-willed shadows of real men. This second use of contrast helps underline the amount of oppression in the world. The control panel in Nurse Ratched's office was another important symbol in the setting It gave her control over the entire ward. She could control what the patients saw on TV, the lighting, ...
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