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- 3721: Racism - The Future
- ... southern parts of the country. The KKK committed hate crimes such as burning down of black churches, and putting crosses to fire. Not to mention torturing blacks and creating brutal 5 deaths such as the death seen last June in Jasper, Texas. A 49 year old black man by the name of James Bryd Jr. was dragged by the back of a pickup truck (Boven). Police got the call of a dead body and the man’s torso was found first, right arm second. The brutal death started by two young men picking up Bryd, he hopped in the back of the truck and one of the men became enraged that he picked up a black man. They then drove to a clearing and beat Bryd severely. Then he was chained to the truck and dragged, to his death. The two men who had many white-supremacist tattoos were charged with a capital crime offense (Boven). The Texas born Dennis Rodman paid for the funeral for his stand against racism. The future, when ...
- 3722: Oedipus And Antigone
- ... her against Creons order. It is evident in her statement of, “But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall die down with him in death, and I shall be as dear to him as he to me.” She will do whatever it takes, even if it is death, to bury her violated brother. The third example is the relationship between Haimon and Antigone. Although Haimon was loyal to his father, he later broke away from his grasp and went to the aid of his fiancée Antigone. He felt that he betrayed her by siding with his father when he was obviously wrong and being stubborn. He signifies his loyalty to Antigone with the statement of, “But her death will cause another.” He will openly defy his father in order to stand by her side. There are numerous examples of loyalty in the play Antigone. There are also many examples of loyalty in ...
- 3723: 1984: Government's Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens
- ... not good enough, however. The only way to completely eliminate physical opposition is to first eliminate any mental opposition. The government is trying to control our minds, as it says "thought crime does not entail death; thought crime is death." (page 27). Later in the novel the government tries even more drastic methods of control. Big Brother's predictions in the Times are changed. The government is lying about production figures (pages 35-37). Even ... known whether it was intended as a "last words", though it was his final work, as he collapsed and was bed-ridden for two years before he died. He did marry several months before his death saying it gave him new reason to live. Orwell's creation of Winston Smith shows a character who is: "in struggle against the system, occasionally against himself, but rarely against other people. One thinks ...
- 3724: Devil S Advocate
- ... the observations I made about the film was that Kevin's legal talents are the Devil's instruments of choice. It is his legal practices that destroy his wife and eventually lead to her horrifying death. An important quote which I recall was when Milton (Al Pacino) says, "nobody on earth could do his bidding better than a well trained band of attorneys". Kevin is working for Milton, and the more ... with the quote by Milton, "Vanity is definitely my favorite sin." He is talking about Kevin's vanity. Milton is telling Kevin that his clean cut, powerful lawyer look, is responsible for his wife's death. While Mary Anne was miserable in New York, Kevin refused to go back to Florida and loose his position in the firm. I agree that Kevin's vanity is responsible for his wife's death, and I feel that the ending was completely appropriate.
- 3725: A View From The Bridge
- ... View from the Brige How is it evident from the beginning of the play that it will end in tragedy? A tragedy within a play script is drama with an unhappy ending but not necessarily death. Without any reference to the play, a tragedy can be a sad event, calamity, serious accident or crime. A View from the Bridge is a tragedy because Eddie has both a serious accident and commits ... very little about the story itself, he stresses the importance of justice in the community suggesting a betrayal against this Sicilian ‘law’. When describing the setting he gives examples of crimes previously committed, resulting in death, but not directly relating it to the story he narrates. We can see that all he says is relevant to the play, immediately knowing it is likely to end in tragedy. The following line is ... gives us only one answer. Although it still isn't said, Alfieri's words so show us that justice is something very important to the Sicilians and when somebody, especially family, goes against this justice, Death is probably the result. Several lines at the beginning show the Sicilian ‘rules’ and way of life: “The less you trust, the less you be sorry” “I don’t care what the question is. ...
- 3726: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... of the same generation but different uniforms against each other..” (Remarque, cover) Theme: A Broken And Sorrowful Youth “I am young, I am twenty years-old; yet I know nothing of life but of despair, death, fear, fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another...And all the men of my age ... of us if a time ever comes when the war is all over? Through the years our business has been killing;--it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come of us?” (Remarque, 263-264) ...This statement was made by Paul Bäumer while lying in bed with his shattered leg in a Catholic Hospital. The idea of ... impending “loss” of an entire young generation of European males was the underlying theme throughout the book. No matter where the young lads turned to, all there was to see was a vast expanse of death and destruction. Throughout the war, hundreds of thousands of men died needlessly for their country. No matter what nationality or race that was present at the time fighting, neither side really took the time ...
- 3727: An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
- ... by a crisis, he even denied what he had seen to Kurtz's Intended, though he was appalled by his lie as bringing with it a betrayal of truth which was essentially a kind of death. In "Heart of Darkness" the sense of human waste that pervaded the story was best unfolded in the ivory itself. It was an object for the rich - in decorations, for piano keys and billiard balls ... emerged from it pitiful and appalling as from a winding- sheet. I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving. It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of cloth and glittering bronze. The interconnection of Kurtz, evil, and ivory had far-reaching ... the source of evil and power up the Congo; and yet the reader recalls mainly stagnation. Time and space were halted in that jungle outpost, and Kurtz, that demon of energy, was ill, passive, awaiting death even as he made plans. The scenes of his final hours were images of futility and apathy. His evil impotence, the root of both his power and powerlessness, was incorporated into both tone and ...
- 3728: The First Battle of the Somme
- ... moved up the road to see who had lost someone. In many cases, the entire male component of the family died on the same day or the men of the same street would be killed (“Death” 2). Society before World War I was one of cordiality and technological advancement which granted the freedom to live in a higher degree of comfort with telephones, stocks, and ships and trains (“WWI”). The world ... the lack of a way to limit them ran a course of unrivaled devastation (“WWI”). It appears that society’s perception of life had changed after WWI because people started realizing that massive, futile, indiscriminate death was possible. It began to dawn on people that humans were capable of ignorantly producing machines that could destroy simpler ways of life. The tank, machine gun, barbed wire, mines, and submarines, to name a ... rose/battle.html (4 Mar. 1999). “Battle Photos.” http://www.somme.com/somme/battlephoto1.htmll (4 Mar. 1999). “Chronology of the Battle of the Somme.” http://www.somme.com/somme/chronology.html (4 Mar. 1999). “Death Notice.” http://www.somme.com/somme/deathnotice.html (4 Mar. 1999). George, David Lloyd. “Lloyd George on the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916.” War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, 1915-1916 4 ...
- 3729: The Tragic Fate of Oedipus
- ... tragic fate. In the beginning he is a mighty king, ruler of the city of Thebes. Then the people of Thebes come to him with a problem. The city is tragically on the surge of death. Oedipus, being the mighty king he is, is determined to solve the problem. Oedipus saved the city once before and became a hero. Now faced with this problem he would like to be a hero ... When the priest and the people of Thebes come to Oedipus, the priest tells Oedipus, “Your own eyes must tell you: Thebes is in her extremity and cannot lift her head from the surge of death.” (802). They then tell Oedipus that they know he is a great king and they turn to him to find a remedy. Oedipus saved the city once before from the Sphinx by solving the riddle ... at the end, ruin swept over him. It is said, “Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find life, at his death, a memory without pain.” (836). All Oedipus tried to do was to save the city that he once saved before, but ended up only being a tragic hero.
- 3730: Julius Caesar: Brutus
- ... I killing when I crossed you so? Oh, insupportable and touching loss! Upon what sickness? Impatient of my absence, And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony Have made themselves so strong for with her death That tidings came with this she fell distract, And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. And died so? Even so. O ye immortal gods! Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine. In ... love him well. But wherefore do you hold me here so long? What is it that you would impart to me? If it be ought toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death I know that virtue to be true in you, Brutus,....” ( I, ii, 79-90) Brutus had thought very deeply about joining the conspiracy. He had stayed up all night brooding about it. He feared ...
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