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- 5981: Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands
- ... want to leave him; even after he beat her, stole her money, and left her for several days. She blamed herself and her inability to have children for much of their problems. Even after his death, she did not want to leave him and her first dream came immediately; it included singing, dancing, drinking, gambling, and wild, passionate sex. In spite of her hating the excessive drinking and gambling, she could only think, “Never again his lips!” Vadinho gave her all the passion and excitement Flor desired. So strong was this passion that it continued, even after his death. From Dr. Teodoro, she wanted security, stability, and social status. She also needed to put an end to her sexual frustration, as the words of the song she sang while cooking demonstrated: “If your guest ...
- 5982: Critical Analysis Of Silence Of The Lambs APA Format
- ... Starling’s pragmatic way of thinking, to Jame Gumb’s inclination towards wearing the skin of another human being. Another aspect of the story is Gumb’s fascination with the metamorphosis of moths, particularly the death’s head moth. After the killing of each victim, Gumb places a moth just coming out of its chrysalis into the back of the throat of the victim. The significance of this is that with each skin Gumb is becoming more and more of a woman, with larger breasts, and a more effeminate body shape. The skull on the back of the moth is to signal the death of the old Jame Gumb, whereas the chrysalis is communicating the birth of the new Gumb. A tenuous theory put forth by Starling, and since it is fiction, the author could write the story in ...
- 5983: Clockwork Orange
- ... the milk bar, their first victim is a drunk homeless man. This is where Kubrick showed his audience why they were beating people for apparently no reason. Just before they beat the old man to death, he complained that there was no law or order anymore. And that everyone was in space "…circling around the earth and living on the moon…" This gives the simple reason that these four young gentlemen ... no hard feeling towards the government. Right away pictures are taken of Alex and the main head of the government. Then Alex says to himself "…I was cured all right." Smiling his grim smile of death and mayhem."The Clockwork Orange", what does the title mean? I think it was pertaining to the main idea of the movie. Orange meaning something organic like humans. And clockwork meaning something like conscription or ...
- 5984: Dementia
- ... is exceedingly limited, with many patients displaying partial or complete mutism. Late in the course of the disease many neuropsychological functions can no longer be measured. Also primitive reflexes such as grasp and suck emerge. Death usually results from a disease such as pneumonia which overwhelms the limited vegetative functions of the patient. Dementia is commonly differentiated along two dimensions: age and cortical level. The first dimension, age, distinguishes between senile ... the Cappadocian physician Aretaeus first described senile dementia with the word dotage (i.e., "The dotage which is the calamity of old age...dotage commencing with old age never intermits, but accompanies the patient until death."). Curiously, dementia was mentioned in most systems of psychiatric classification throughout pre-modern times, though the precise meaning of the word is often unclear (Pitt, 1987). Nineteenth Century It can be argued that the origins ...
- 5985: Braveheart Vs. Full Metal Jacket
- ... of the wedding. The conflict arises as she denies the advances of an English Lieutenant. He then proceeds to have her arrested, and after learning of her marriage, has her executed. After learning of the death of his beloved, Wallace sets out to sack the fort of the magistrate. This all culminates in an all out rebellion and ultimately leads to larger battles, which in turn leads to the capture and ... they're standing alongside William Wallace, lying in wait for the English. His previously mentioned motivational speech definitely set the tone for the remainder of the movie. His most memorable dialogue, however, may be his death scream of "Freedom!" The closing credits also feature him saying, " In the year of our lord thirteen fourteen, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They ...
- 5986: Cystic Fibrosis
- ... diseases that are known to be inherited from our parents, cystic fibrosis is the number-one killer. Each day three people die from it. Despite this bad news, CF is no longer the nearly automatic death sentence it used to be. Improved treatments are allowing more than half of the people with CF to live into their mid-twenties, and some are already in their forties, fifties, and even sixties. It ... juices. These clogs lead to frequent lung infections and digestive problems. Over time the continual infections may cause the lungs and heart to weaken, until they are no longer able to function properly ending in death. Mucus is normal in lungs. It helps to protect the lung and air passages by removing germs and dust. Normally mucus s thin and slippery, but when a person has CF, the mucus-producing cells ...
- 5987: Allen Ginsberg
- ... sunflower sutra. Ginsberg had many influences on his writings. One major and very important influence was his mother. His mother was the main topic for the poem Kaddish, which describes his mother’s insanity and death. Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs also had an impact on Ginsberg’s writings. Ginsberg used Kerouac’s methods of spontaneous composition and expressing poems through music. Burrough’s introduced Ginsberg to the “druggy-gay ... of horror which even he could not adapt to. Ginsberg also won the National Arts Club Gold Medal for lifetime achievement, and a National Book Award. Ginsberg carried on an active social schedule until his death, April 5, 1997. At the age of 71 Ginsberg died of liver cancer. He was regarded as the Walt Whitman and the William Carlos Williams of his generation.
- 5988: John Keats
- ... the unfinished poem "Hyperion," containing some of Keats's finest work, and three poems considered among the finest in the English language, "Ode to a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," and "Ode to a Nightingale." Death In the fall of 1820, under his doctor's orders to seek a warm climate for the winter, Keats went to Rome. He died there February 23, 1821, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery ... a very simple poem it is very effective in delivering Keats' message. Through the great use of the poetic technique of imagery Keats simply delivers his thoughts on life and the fears he has of death. In conclusion, in my opinion even though this is not one of John Keats' most famous or complex poems it is definetly a poem which outlines Keats' great ability as a poet and his ability ...
- 5989: Ancient Egyptain Art
- ... tomb secrets. Only the dead can experience these treasures however, for they were gifts from the living for the afterlife. The Egyptians, like so many other cultures, were polytheistic and firmly believed in life after death. To make the transition from life to death, the Egyptians would bury their dead with some of their favorite items to take with them to the afterlife. Some of these treasures were very extravagant and valuable. It seemed almost as if the afterlife ...
- 5990: A Brief History Of The Blues
- ... South," for it was in the Mississippi Delta that blacks were often forcibly conscripted to work on the levee and land-clearing crews, where they were often abused and then tossed aside or worked to death. (Lomax 233) Alan Lomax states that the blues tradition was considered to be a masculine discipline (although some of the first blues songs heard by whites were sung by 'lady' blues singers like Mamie Smith ... Bessie Smith) and not many black women were to be found singing the blues in the juke-joints. The Southern prisons also contributed considerably to the blues tradition through work songs and the songs of death row and murder, prostitutes, the warden, the hot sun, and a hundred other privations. (Lomax) The prison road crews and work gangs where were many bluesmen found their songs, and where many other blacks simply ...
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