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- 4421: Many Advertisements Use Codes to Convey a Fairy Tale to Consumers
- ... next objects are tarot cards and a spell book, both of which follow the patterns. These objects, along with the mood of the entire ad being dark, may be interpreted by the consumer to mean death or the devil. This is based on cultural beliefs and rituals. Most people believe angels and good guys wear white, and therefore devils and bad guys dress in black. Also, people usually wear black clothing to funerals, which is essentially a ritual for death. The next item in the pattern is actual cards from the game of Magic. These cards follow chronological order because they are the result of the movable-type printing press being invented in the 18th ...
- 4422: The Pigman
- ... Pignati (the Pigman), owner of a porcelain pig collection, they find love and reassurance; the meaning they find in themselves, in the unfolding of their relationship with Mr. Pignati and the drama leading to his death. John, a handsome and wild boy, drinks and smokes excessively; and, as Lorraine points out, only his good looks have kept him out of reform school. Lorraine, a shy girl John's own age, has ... Mr. Pignati cannot take the heartbreak. His wife is dead. The pigs are destroyed. His best friend Bobo is dead. Mr. Pignati dies, too. John and Lorraine know they are partly to blame for his death. They know now they are also responsible for what happens in their lives.
- 4423: Chaucerian Commentary
- ... the medieval people official life meant fear, humiliation, submission to the whims of those in power, the carnival spirit, in reaction, cultivated the misshapen and incongruous, combining images of birth and life with images of death, disfigurement or dismemberment. (Howard, 1) By nature the Canterbury tales are embedded in a theoretically religious venture. In the Prologue to the Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer depicts two side of the 14th century Catholic Church in ... told: the Knight is continually anxious about organizing, controlling, structuring, and discipling his own narrative. (Patterson, 7) All the tales pursue fault lines of human life, the thin line between nature and grace, life and death, Heaven and Hell. (Brother Anthony, 7) The aspect of judgment in the Canterbury Tales is complex. Through out the tales and the prologue Chaucer refrains from directly condemning the crudeness and immorality of the Pilgrims ...
- 4424: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... the life-affirming individual will that opposes itself to the moral conformity of the majority. In contrast to Kierkegaard, whose attack on conventional morality led him to advocate a radically individualistic Christianity, Nietzsche proclaimed the “death of God” and went on to reject the entire Judeo-Christian moral tradition in favor of a heroic pagan ideal. Heidegger Heidegger, like Pascal and Kierkegaard, reacted against an attempt to put philosophy on a ... itself in an incomprehensible, indifferent world. Human beings can never hope to understand why they are here; instead, each individual must choose a goal and follow it with passionate conviction, aware of the certainty of death and the ultimate meaninglessness of one's life. Heidegger contributed to existentialist thought an original emphasis on being and ontology as well as on language. Sartre Sartre first gave the term existentialism general currency by ...
- 4425: The Problem of Domestic Violence
- ... by their spouse every year" (Domestic V.), but at the same time "in 1992 in a high risk group of women aged 18-34 there was a total of 702 fatalities" (Domestic V.), granted, one death due to domestic violence is one death too much, but to exaggerate the fact by that great of an amount does the cause of stopping domestic violence a great mis-justice. Another widely used fact that no doubt is true, but the ...
- 4426: Female Genital Mutilation
- ... scars, keloid formation, labial adherence, clitoridal cysts, delayed menarche, genital malformation, urinary infection and pelvic infections. When the woman is older she will most likely have gynecological and obstetric problems including sterility. In cases where death occurs the practitioner is seldom blamed. In these cases, the death is blamed on the act of an enemy, the evil spirits, or is excused as God’s will. Infibulated women experience depression, anxiety, irritability, and reduced feelings of femininity. Sexual and marital problems are very ...
- 4427: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... they often died. First, there was Sydenham. (Finn 1999) He felt that he was only responsible to the Colonial Secretary in Britain and not the people. He did not favor responsible government. After Sydenham's death, Bagot took over and like Sydenham, he too did not favor responsible government but attempted to get along with the people. Bagot dies soon after. Metcalf assumes the position of governor general. (Finn 1999) He ... give the people responsible government. He did as he was told, but it was not long before he died too. (Finn 1999) In 1846, a new governor general was appointed for Canada after Metcalf's death. He was Lord Elgin, the son-in-law of Lord Durham. (Finn 1999) He shared many of Lord Durham's ideas about how the colonies should be allowed to govern themselves. He believed in the ...
- 4428: Torture, Not Culture - Female Genital Mutilation
- ... and in some regions, the teeth of the midwife. Because of this, there are many dangers threatenng the victim. The most immediate danger is exsanguination: there is no record of how many girls bleed to death because of this operation ("Female...", 1715). Other physical consequences include infection, gangrene, abcesses, infertility, painful sex, difficulty in childbirth, and possibly death ("Men's...", 34). No matter how much we learn, the pain will still be the same as when the first female circumcision was performed in the fifth century, B.C. (McCarthy, 14). The number of ...
- 4429: The Clinton Sex Scandal
- ... laced Calvinist minister, Wilson was depicted by Sigmund Freud as someone who identified himself with Jesus Christ. In fact, Wilson's reputation as a devoted husband and father was squeaky clean until his wife's death two years into his first presidential term. After a deep (but brief) period of mourning, Wilson began to enjoy the frequent company of Edith Bolling Galt, the widow of a prominent businessman. Public opinion swung ... for print newspapers and too titillating for the public to ignore. People flocked to the Internet in record numbers when the story broke. At Fox News Online, the Clinton scandal generated more traffic than the death of Princess Diana. At AP Online, the scandal outran the Super Bowl 3-to-1. At CNN Interactive, it contributed to a tenfold hike in traffic in one day. And the Washington Post's Web ...
- 4430: Child Abuse
- ... 8% for emotional maltreatment. Child Fatalities: Today many young children remain at high risk of loss of life. Between 1995 and 1997, 78% of children under the age of five, at the time of there death, while 38% were less than one year of age. Cause of death was from neglect, physical abuse, and combination of neglectful and physically abusive parenting. About 41% of these deaths occurred to children known to child protective service agencies. Since 1985, the rate of child abuse fatalities ...
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