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- 811: The Need For Horror and Thrill and the Movies
- The Need For Horror and Thrill and the Movies Our need for horror and the thrill of fear feeds our unconsciousness. As a society we obsess on murder, death, and destruction. The media sensationalizes these events and those individuals who are the cause. Take for example the long followed lives of Charles Manson or Jeffery Dalhmer, or the intense coverage of the unibomber and the mass suicides of Heaven’s Gate. Our culture also has a need to recreate the scenes of death and destruction. For example, in the late 1890’s, multi-murderer H.H. Holmes’ “castle” was opened as a tourist attraction. At approximately the same time mines and railroad tunnels were also opened for “accident ... fire, floods, and fear is instilled by roller coasters. Our society takes part in the communion of mass murder and destruction because it seems to protect us from having to deal with the shock of death and recognizing it. In Psycho, Hitchcock revealed out “shock of recognition” by not letting us see the cutting and death in the shower scene. Films made after Psycho usually refer back to this scene, ...
- 812: Death of a Salesman: Willy's Escape
- Death of a Salesman: Willy's Escape No one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as ... as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of the way. Willy Lowman's technique in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, leads to very severe consequences. Willy never really does anything to help the situation, he just escapes into the past, whether intentionally or not, to happier times were problems were scarce. He ...
- 813: Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman
- Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman Willy Loman is responsible for his own downfall. Willy finds his own hero and tries to become the hero in his own existence. Willy tries to become a very successful ... orders and everyone did as the old man said. When the old salesman, Dave Singleman dies, all the buyers came to his funeral. All the people Dave ever knew came. There were thousands mourning his death. From that point, Willy Loman found an awesome dream which he followed the rest of his life. Willy became a salesman. Willy is the most unqualified salesman ever! He never sold a thing. Willy stops ...
- 814: Kurt Cobain
- ... to release this album. Puhek 4 "In the beginning of 1994 Nirvana played an MTV unpluged concert, and they played what was to be their final concert in Munich 29th Mars 1994." After Kurt's death, Nirvana released their Unplugged in N.Y. album ("Biography"). The next aspect of Kurt Cobain's life was his struggle with drugs. Kurt had become addicted to heroin and morphine. Cobain tried to get his ... The police found Kurt on his back on the floor of his house. The gun's position and the head trauma made it clear that the gun was fired upward into Cobain's mouth ("The Death"). Also, lying on a nearby table was Kurt's suicide note (Handy 70). The suicide note, written moments before Kurt's death, portrays Kurt's feelings moments before he pulled the trigger ("The Death"). In the note Kurt writes: Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during ...
- 815: JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy
- JFK: The Death of a Conspiracy There is a plethora of conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They range from the incumbent of the former Soviet Union to organized crime. Pro-conspiracy groups are ... photographers. One of the photographers was Bethesda's medical school chief of photography, John Stringer (2797). Dr. Humes was told personally by Rear Admiral Kenney, Surgeon General of the Navy, to “find the cause of death” (2796). According to Breo, Drs. Humes and Boswell thought that the autopsy should be done by the A.F.I.P., but later learned t! hat Bethesda was chosen because Mrs. Kennedy requested it for ...
- 816: The Death of A Salesman: How Biff Shows Irresponsibility
- The Death of A Salesman: How Biff Shows Irresponsibility Have you ever felt as if you do not know what to do with your life? Everyone does sometimes, but certain people are like that their whole life. These people are irresponsible and depend on others to survive. In "Death of a Salesman", Biff is one of these people. He is irresponsible because he depends on Happy, depends on Willy, and does not know what to do for a living. Biff looks up on Happy ...
- 817: Death Of A Salesman 9
- ... is, in many ways, the earth mother who embodies the play s ultimate moral value--love. But in the beautiful, ironic complexity of her creation, she is also Willy s destroyer. In Arthur Miller s Death of a Salesman Linda continually suffers from Willy s frustrations. Even so, she manages to be the loving woman who attempts to keep her family happy However, by covering up failures and protecting pride, Linda ...
- 818: Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
- ... world of inner feelings of fantasy and the soul. Three sets of opposite characteristics that have a strong influence over feelings and the soul contribute to the depth and character of Dandelion Wine: life and death, heaven and hell, and the past and the future. The themes of life and death become entwined with raw fantasy in Dandelion Wine. One of the first experiences of young Douglas Spaulding is to realize that the pure, unbridled energy, emotion, and fantasy of the summer make him truly alive ... by fact that that realization that he, along with everything else, is truly Alive. This realization heightens his senses and expectations of the summer to come. But along with fantasy, happiness, magic, and life comes death. Death plays a major role in Dandelion Wine as the Unseen One, a semi-mythical murderer and kidnapper, takes people from the town and hideously mutilates them in a deep, dark, and fearsome ravine. ...
- 819: Death Of A Salesman
- ... Loman: A Man With A Dream A common idea presented in literature is the issue of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the controlling pressures of society. Willy Loman, the main character in Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller, epitomizes this type of person; one who looks to his peers and co-salesman as lesser individuals. Not only was he competitive and overbearing, but Willy Loman sought after ...
- 820: Death Of A Salesman
- Seeking the American Dream of Success Arthur Miller’s " Death of A Salesman" could be described as a study in the American Dream ideology, a system that at times is indescribably brutal and at other times compassionates.
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