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- 3801: The Things They Carried 2
- ... physical weight on the characters, who were fighting to preserve their sanity and lives. The vivid detail and realistic narration were only tools used by the author to prepare a story that goes beyond the war in Vietnam, focusing on the other things that soldiers carried - inner thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The story was brought to life by the realistic but disjointed narration of the author, illustrated by returning to the ... responsibility to the men in his platoon. In the beginning of the story he was depicted as a Jones 2 boyish leader with dreams of Martha being his escape from the senseless reality of the war. When one of his men was killed he accepted the responsibility and guilt, which changed him into the leader he thought he should have been forgetting Martha and protecting his men. This plot linked together ... The soldiers in the story were barely into manhood and faced the reality of death every day. They would have to kill, or be killed. Their dreams gave them a way of escape from the war, but they had to live in the real world to survive. The Things They Carried contained all the elements of a work of fiction to justify calling it a story. There was special emphasis ...
- 3802: Affermative Action
- ... In contrast, the first goal of Affirmative Action was to help people who were poor or badly educated, elevating them to positions for which they were not objectively qualified (Buckley 95). Cousens, author of Public Civil Rights Agencies and Fair Employment indicates that the Affirmative Action techniques have the advantage of not only persuading employers not to discriminate when hiring or accepting, but to expand employment and educational opportunities for minority ... slowly first, ending Affirmative Action in the schools of California, leading up to the abolishment of Affirmative Action all together. An argument was declared by Mark Rosenbaum of the Southern California Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, Proposition 209 should be declared unconstitutional because it singles out women and minorities and, at a time when discrimination still exists, sought to preclude them from attaining constitutionally guaranteed right, like jobs and ... Times 1 Dec. 1996: 34. Benac, Nancy. Clinton Defends Preference Programs, Backs Reforms. Associated Press Writer. . 19 July, 1995. Buckley, William F., Jr. The Two Sides. National Review 14 Oct., 1996: 95 Cousens, Frances. Public Civil Rights Agencies and Fair Employment. New York: Praeger, 1969. Hair, Penda D. Color Blind-or Just Blind? Nation 14 Oct. 1996: 12. Once to Every Man. National Review 16 June, 1997: 12. Phillips, D. ...
- 3803: Creative Writing: X-Men
- ... low jobs were given to the mutates, who didn't even have mind enough to speak in protest. Eventually the X-Men helped to free the mutates, but, after failing to live peacefully together, a civil war broke out, leaving the once prosperous nation in ruins. The normal humans are not the only people guilty of racism in X- Men. The first villain ever fought by the X-Men was Magneto, a ...
- 3804: A Clockwork Orange
- ... would partake in this experiment that was to cure him of all the evil inside of him and all that was bad. Alex is given injections and made to watch films of rape, violence, and war and the mixture of these images and the drugs cause him to associate feelings of panic and nausea with violence. He is released after two weeks of the treatment and after a few encounters with ... Burgess was a composer of music since the age of sixteen years. He taught himself how to read music and how to play the piano. The inspiration for A Clockwork Orange came while during World War II, when his wife was assaulted while he fought. She died about a month after the incident from internal bleeding, along with their unborn child, who was killed during the assault. He compensated by releasing ... repeatedly reveals his powerful beliefs that even the most violent crimes are trivial when compared to the heinous crime of oppression. He considers it to be a destructive wrong against ones spiritual existence. His war is against moral oppression and the government causing it. His weapon, a powerful one, is his incredible satiric writing ability. Outside the sphere of violence, critics had praised Anthony Burgesss use of Nadsat ...
- 3805: Everyday Use By Alice Walker
- ... the family to trace down the generations of the family. That s about as far back as I can trace it, I said. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches. Well, said Asamalakim, there you are. [ ] There I was not, I said, before Dicie cropped up in our family, so why should I try to trace it that far back? (2243) The ...
- 3806: Anarchy
- ... current in "many of the social change and alternative lifestyle movements of the 1960's," reports David Farber in Chicago '68. "This includes parts of the feminist movement, the gay liberation movement and the anti-war and free speech movements. Even today, anarchism is flourishing." As well as thriving throughout time, anarchy does promote the most freedom for all aspects of life. To better understand other choices of political philosophy, it ... anarchism does not promote random violence like nihilism. There are also many different types of anarchists, allowing for many choices as to what type of peaceful protests an anarchist would like to choose (abortion rallies, war protests, political strikes, et cetera). Finally, anarchy is among the most "generation-conscious" of political philosophies. Preparing for the 21st Century, anarchists are looking forward to the safety of descendants and ancestors alike. Anarchist ideals ... viable way to transform one's own life while working for the radical and lasting social change that will transform the world. If the idea of anarchy, which is anarchism, was put into effect, poverty, war, disease, homelessness and lack of education could be abolished forever. Works Cited Pleck, Elizabeth H. "Emma Goldman, Feminist." The Reader's Companion to American History. Edition 1991: 453 Farber, David. Chicago '68. Chicago: The ...
- 3807: An Analysis of The Wretched Of The Earth
- ... colonial society were successful in eliminating colonialism but not in eliminating the oppression taking place in the colonized world. Today the oppression of French colonialism in Algeria has been replaced by the violence of the civil war in Algeria, and the dictator of Algeria who has annulled popular elections, a the emergence of radical Islam which seeks to replace colonial repression with religious oppression. But this violence might be one of the ...
- 3808: The First Movie
- ... Howard Hawks. The arrival of sound opened up new doors in the movie industry. They now could add intense drama and intricate plots. During WWII, the movie industry became somewhat less popular. But when the war ended, there were many great hits produced, such as the Gone With the Wind directed by Victor Fleming and Citizen Kane produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Wells. The impact of the war lead many European directors to make movies that focused on the problems of society. Another notable film was Casablanca which depicted struggles of war. This movie starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. It was directed by Michael Curtiz. This firm became one of the most popular films in America. Movies has become one of America's leading forms ...
- 3809: Personal Writing: History of Pete Dalberg Family
- ... over it. Fortunately our sister Marshland was born about a year later in 1915 in Deary and now lives in Libby Montana. Rowland was born in January of 1918 and died in 1985. During world war II Rowland was a fighter pilot. He had 59 missions when he was shot down in, Auckind Germany, and was a prisoner of war in Germany for 7 months. He was pretty badly shot up which probably contributed to his early demise. I Donald was born on Christmas day in Deary. That particular day as always we had reunions ... for maybe even a $1.00 to $1.25 a cord and could only cut about one cord a day. Later on my Dad worked at the Troy Mercantile in the butcher shop. When the war broke out and they started building Faragut my Dad went up to Faragut and worked up there first of all filing saws and then worked in the kitchen cutting meats in the kitchen. Later ...
- 3810: Affirmative Action
- ... hurt than to even tell their friends and relatives. (Brimelow 76) Most people realize that quotas do hurt people, but what most people do not realize is that quotas are illegal. The 1964 and 1991 Civil Rights Acts explicitly banned government imposed quotas, but nevertheless, they immediately spread though the economy. Even though quotas are becoming more and more popular, there is incredible denial. Some say that affirmative action, while a regulatory burden, is not massive in scale. Supporters of affirmative action insist that the 1991 Civil Rights Act did not impose quotas, although its key point was to override a Supreme Court decision and make work force racial imbalance prima facie evidence of employer discrimination. (Spencer and Brimelow n. pag.) California Democratic Representative Don Edwards, who is a mouthpiece of the civil rights establishment, claimed on the New York Times opinion page that quotas did not exist. This was said within three weeks of Supreme Court rulings about them. As much as people deny quotas and ...
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