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- 3731: A Man For All Seasons - 16th C
- ... only and he was that it was something that allowed him to live life with confidence in himself. Only when he was denied that way of life was he able to accept his fate of death. Robert Bolt comments on this on page 13 of the preface. “…who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him, he was able to grasp his death.” This shows that Thomas knew that he had a sense of identity that no one else and he knew how important it was. After Robert Bolt selected this man, he began to write and realised ... was right to break him; he was all pride, Thomas; a proud man; pride right through. And he failed me!” (P30) This is showing More that the alternative to doing what the Kin asks is death. “MORE (Eagerly): Then why does your grace need my poor support?” (P32) Thomas is doing his best to get out of the task but the King will have what he wants. King Henry replies, “ ...
- 3732: Hamlet and Oedipus Rex: The Birth of Kings
- ... him of being the one who murdered King Laios therefore fulfilling his destiny in which he had sought to avoid. In the end, the actions taken by both lead to their downfalls in different ways, death for Hamlet and loss of vision for Oedipus Rex. In the beginning, we see Hamlet living in an illusion blocking him from seeing what is really there. Hamlet is under the belief that his father ... Hamlet poses the question whether people can live in innocence or if they can live with knowledge. Finding the truth at last, Hamlet chooses to handle it in a way that leads to his own death. Choosing to avenge his father's death, he takes "an eye for an eye" and kills his uncle. The question now exists whether or not he truly needed to get revenge for his father or for himself? This question is best ...
- 3733: Russia's Five Year Plans
- ... and established institutions in government. During this period, censorship and the subordination of interest groups such as trade unions was imposed to stop dissension and increase conformity to the new government policies. After Lenin’s death in 1924, Joseph Stalin quickly gained control of the Communist party and the oppressive reforms started by Lenin were continued and at length became completely totalitarian. Stalin was able to attain control as a result ... was to first turn the bedniaks, or poor peasants, against them offering the bedniaks the kulak’s castles and machinery. Then Stalin had the rest of the kulaks either killed or exiled to gulags. The death toll recorded in the anti-kulak campaign is between three and ten million killed. Many peasants killed their cattle, pigs, and horses, destroyed their farm implements, and either burned their crops or let them rot ... in his mouth, he had to have more and would have more by way of any means possible. Stalin made several industrial improvements for his country but that does not even begin to equal the death and destruction that he caused.
- 3734: After The Atomic Bomb
- ... came from burning fires that had ignited throughout the cities from the tremendous heat of the blast (3). The pressure of the blast waves created flying debris, collapsed buildings, and forcibly hurled people to their death (3). Undoubtedly those who survived the initial effects of the blast were very lucky. The amount of deaths caused by the blast itself was incomparable to the number of lives lost to the other effects ... referring to almost unavoidable nuclear devastation (2). More importantly “the threat of annihilation through nuclear war [had] influenced—consciously and unconsciously—entire generations, coloring their attitudes toward the future, family, marriage, work, time, leisure, and death” (2). The public’s opinion toward nuclear war had also been heard earlier in the 1960’s. Atom Ant was a popular cartoon broadcast by Hanna Barbera Productions inspired by the atomic bomb tests, the ... Feb. 1995: 30-39. Smirnov, Yuri, Adamsky Viktor. “Moscow’s Biggest Bomb: The 50-Megaton Test of October 1961.” Cold War International History Project. March 1994. Smirnov, Yuri, Vladislav Zubok. “Nuclear Weapons after Stalin’s Death: Moscow enters the H-Bomb Age.” Cold War International History Project. March 1994. “Summary of Damages and Injuries.” The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 3-11. “The Day After.” Cultural Information Service. (November ...
- 3735: Henry James And Daisy Miller,
- ... alone. Daisy queries Winterbourne, wondering if he believed that she was engaged. He tells her that it doesn't matter one way or another and that she should leave the Colosseum before she catches her death. Heartbroken and defeated Daisy tells Winterbourne that she cares not whether of not she catches the Roman fever or not. The Americans in Europe quickly learn of Daisy's nocturnal escapades and she is once ... and anti-Daisy Millerites," (Barnett 86). Like the fictional characters in James story society was at odds over how to perceive Daisy. Was she a just a flirt or was she something more? Was her death meant as a lesson to warn young girls away from such indiscrete pursuits or was it merely supposed to show her as the tragic heroine. Even today the debate continues. Many believe that James started ... of how extremely different she is from her European counterparts. When Daisy falls sick from her excursions many say it is deserving punishment for such a low class girl. However, it is only after her death that Winterbourne realizes how wrong he has been in judging her. Like everyone else he believed the worst about Daisy. When he says that he has lived too long among Europeans he characterizes them ...
- 3736: Summary of Oedipus
- ... is a bad a thing to cast off a true best friend as it is to kill a man.” Oedipus in all his rashness retorts: “Then let him go, though I am bound there by death. His nature is his biggest burden.” After having hearing where the murder took place, Oedipus recalls for the first time those highways. This happened just before his arrival. Oedipus speaks to a messenger to inquire as to the murderer's appearance. The messenger returns with a slave who witnessed the whole incident. For the first time Oedipus is inquiring into the death of Laius. Nobility will come only after the truth is sought. A time after Oedipus arrived in Corinth, a slave asked to be sent to another town; after seeing Oedipus, he knew he was the ... father has died from old age: “Hurry to your master with this news...This is the man who Oedipus feared and shunned lest he should murder him, and now this man has dies a natural death, and not by the hand of Oedipus. Unwilling to rest, Oedipus learns that his believed mother is not his mother at all, but she had simply taken him in after someone had abandon him ...
- 3737: Ch.23 Study Guide
- ... governments in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay tortured and killed citizens who opposed their leaders. In Cuba, Castro imprisoned citizens who spoke out against his regime. The governments of Guatemala and El Salvador allowed right-wing death squads to assassinate farmers, priests, nuns, students, and labor leaders. 15. Military governments in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay tortured and killed citizens who opposed their leaders. In Cuba, Castro imprisoned citizens who spoke out against his regime. The governments of Guatemala and El Salvador allowed right-wing death squads to assassinate farmers, priests, nuns, students, and labor leaders. 16. Small-town life, the clash of cultures, and living under a dictatorship were all major themes of Latin American literature. 17. Latin America has ... eventually removed the missiles from Cuba. In 1977, Cuba and the United States set up limited diplomatic relations, but tensions remained. The trade embargo with Cuba remained. 6.El Salvador - El Salvador allowed right-wing death squads to assassinate farmers, priests, nuns, students, and labor leaders. 7.Honduras - American forces intervened in the affairs of Honduras 6 times. In each case, they stepped in to protect American lives and property ...
- 3738: King Oedpius: Oedpius A Person of Great Importance
- ... but his own suspicions? Would a "good" man wish his own brother-in-law dead when no one could even testify to his guilt? Would a "good" man threaten a timid shepherd with pain and death merely because he was hesitant to reveal the harsh realities of Oedipus' life? Oedipus' tale of meeting Laius is another troubling point. In Colonus he states in plain terms that King Laius would have murdered him had he not killed Laius. In his initial speech to Jocasta on Laius' death he tells a different story. It sounds as though he provoked, or at least escalated, the attack on him, striking the first real blow instead of going off the road, which was all Laius' party ... Corinth, not summoned by the king, revealing that Oedipus is not truly Polybus' son. Finally, the shepherd reveals all of Oedipus' past, after having been called for the purpose of providing more information about Laius' death. The coincidental nature of these events contradicts this vision of Oedipus as a sort of Greek private-eye who relentlessly digs out clues in a self-destructive search for his parents. Yes, Oedipus is ...
- 3739: Interpretation of Romeo and Juliet
- ... are killed and Romeo gets banished leaving Juliet without a husband or a cousin. "O, I am a fortune's fool," (Act III, Scene I) explains how Romeo felt at the moment of Tybalt's death. He felt that he fell into one of fate's many cruel games and it was too late to get out. When things are just getting worst, Lord Capulet arranges for Juliet to marry Paris ... back to Friar Lawrence. Fate wouldn't just stop there. He just kept on going. He has it arranged that Friar John, the messenger who was suppose to deliver the news of Juliet's fake death, quarantined. Romeo finds out that Juliet is dead from Balthazar and screams out, "Is it e'en so?--Then I defy you, stars!" (Act 5, scene 1, pg. 213). He blames Juliet's death on fate and returns to Verona with poison to join her. He leaves a little before Friar John tells Friar Lawrence about his failure to deliver the message. Still, fate didn't stop there. ...
- 3740: Overpopulation
- ... human population was growing at a low but steadily increasing rate. Then in less than 200 years, the world population went from 1 billion to 6 billion people. Why? Because the balance between birth and death has been broken. The recent global population growth is not the consequence of ncreased birth rates but of an unprecedented decrease in death rate. The 20th century has resulted in victory over famine-related and infant mortality, as well as significant advances in public health and medicine. In the world, five women give birth every second. UN projections ... researchers that are ethical and unethical. In some countries, particularly Africa, the AIDS epidemic has reached devastating proportions. In the most affected country, Zambia, nearly one in five women of childbearing age is infected. The death rate has already increased by 50%. Eventhough mortality has increased, it has remained less than the birthrate and the population has not decreased. No other country has seen its population decrease because of the ...
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