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- 261: Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio
- ... and private humiliation of and discrimination against a specific group of American citizens? In order to examine these questions, we need to look at the social, economic, political, and sexual mindset of our society. The Depression Era created vast impoverishment, economic dislocations, fewer marriages and fewer births. The traditional family structure received a severe blow, whereas some families banded together, many broke up or never began as a result of the ... of the 1930's and 1940's came many factors that created specific social, economic and political needs that clamored to be met. Some of the factors included: The economic and social realities of the depression. World War II. Emergence of a gay subculture. However, these are not inclusive, but only some of the factors that help make up the complex political and social structure that emerged in the 1950's ... and Ubiquity of Homosexual Trends They believe that at the bottom everybody has some homosexual inclinations. They cite historical examples of know or thought to be homosexuals like Walt Whitman to prove their legitimacy. Inner depression and Exorbitant Malice Scratch a homosexual and you find a depressed neurotic. They use the term gay to ward off masochistic depression. Malice is pseudo aggression not normal aggression. Some pseudo aggression characteristics are: ...
- 262: The Yellow Wallpaper: Going Crazy
- ... as submissive to men and often-characterized women as oppressed by society, as well as by the male influences in their lives. The “Yellow Wallpaper” presents the tragic story or a woman’s descend into depression and madness. Gilman once wrote “Women’s subordination will only end when women lead the struggle for their own autonomy, thereby freeing man as well as themselves, because man suffers from the distortions that come ... her. The narrator of the story goes with her doctor/husband to stay in a colonial mansion for the summer. The house is supposed to be a place where she can recover from severe postpartum depression. She loves her baby, but knows she is not able to take care of him. “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with ... I am sick. And what can one do? If a physician of high standing and one’s own husband assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency-what is one to do?”(Gilman, 292). Her husband is not the only male figure who dominates and oppresses her. Her brother, also a doctor, “says the same thing”(Gilman ...
- 263: Explain How And Why The Jews W
- ... to run Germany. There were two extremist parties, the Communists and the Nazis. People had little confidence in the democratic system and turned towards the extremist political parties like the Communists and Nazis during the Depression because they needed to get out of the crisis that they were in at the time. The Nazis bullied all the other parties out of the July Election in 1932, so the only party to ... the Nazis won 107 seats in Reichstag (the German parliament) from the 12 seats it had in 1928. The Nazi vote was slow to increase during the 1920s while things were going well, but the Depression changed the situation dramatically. Because Hitler had despised the Jews all his life, he made a scapegoat of them. He blamed the Jews for all of the things that had gone wrong with World War I, and because this man who was to get them out of this “Depression” said so, the German public hated them also. Hitler believed in a hierarchy, in which Aryans, people with blue eyes and blond hair, were at the top. These were commonly known as the master ...
- 264: Tracking the Economy Report
- ... very difficult to understand. It is so difficult because we cannot predict what will happen in the next century, the next decade, or even what will happen tomorrow. Our economy hasn’t been through a depression, since the Great Depression in the 1930’s. We have been anticipating another depression for quite a while, the last few decades, in fact. But our economy has been lucky enough to stay away from such a horrible thing. Predicting the way our economy will change is very ...
- 265: The Yellow Wallpaper: Exemplifies Women's Position In the 19th Century
- ... like our room one bit. I wanted to move downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window¡Kbut john would not hear of it"(Gilman, 631). Being diagnosed with temporary depression, the narrator is forbidden to read, write or even think. Having been denied the medium to express herself and her individuality, she is left with a non-communicated inner world with an imaginary woman within ... nervous breakdown, the narrator is taken to a secluded house in order to recover. However, this does not elicit the intended response from that which was originally thought. The narrator further dwindles into her pyschological depression. Through this we can assume that setting plays a symbolic role in the story. The narrators impression of the garden directly allows us to conclude that she envoke in intellectual thought: "There is a delicious ... bedroom by her husband. This once thought therapeutic treatment by her husband, is having an opposite effect on the narrator. Her confinement feeds her boredom, which in turn causes the narrator to fall deeper into depression. The longer she stares at the wallpaper the more she sees, and the worse she gets: "...they connect diagonally, and the sprawling outlines run off in great slanting waves of optic horror, like a ...
- 266: Grapes Of Wrath
- The people and the Depression In the book The grapes of Wrath, the Joads undergo the hit of the depression, they have to leave their farm. They go to California for jobs, but find there are few jobs, and it Pays little, or at least less then what they were told. The government tried to ... economic situation of the country has a great effect on the fall, or succession of people like the Joads, but I don't believe government programs will effect them at all. For example, the great depression was a major economical event, and it greatly effected more then just people like the Joads, but programs like the public works administration, which employed people for government construction projects. Another program, the Works ...
- 267: Alcoholism - Pros And Cons
- ... be immunized against hepatitis B; they may need a higher-than-normal dose of the vaccine for it to be effective. Alcohol has widespread effects on the brain. The use of alcohol, however, eventually produces depression and confusion. In chronic cases, alcoholism can lead to mental disturbances. Alcohol can also cause milder problems, including headaches (especially after drinking red wine). Except in severe cases, the damage is not permanent and abstinence ... abuse in her male partner. Alcoholism in parents also increases the risk for violent behavior and abuse toward their children. Children of alcoholics tend to do worse academically than others, have a higher incidence of depression, anxiety, and stress and lower self-esteem than their peers. Children who were diagnosed with major depression between the ages of six and 12 were more likely to have alcoholic parents or relatives, than those children who do not have parents who are alcoholics. Alcoholic households are less cohesive, have more ...
- 268: Poetry Analysis of "No Loser, No Weeper"
- Poetry Analysis of "No Loser, No Weeper" In Maya Angelou's, "No Loser, No Weeper," one of her many poems, she describes the emotional state she endured growing up in the 1920's during the Depression, by using tone, diction, repetition, rhyme, and figurative language. Because of the suffering that she has endured as an African American Woman during the 1920's, Angelou's life made her far more than a ... Maya Angelo we must first understand her background. Maya Angelo grew up with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, along with her brother. Angelo has experienced a lot of negative things in her life. The Great Depression, her parents' death, racism, being sexually abused at an early age, becoming a single mother in her middle teenage years and bad marriages. This period in Maya's life constitutes much of the pain that ... hardships in her life. It made her mind stronger to deal with tougher situations. It only shows that even though she went through so much in her life; for instance, this poem shows signs of depression, but at the ended of the poem she shows signs of getting stronger by expressing her feelings to the other woman and in nonchalant way that she wants her man and that no one ...
- 269: Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven When I hear the name Edgar Allan Poe I think of darkness, death, solitude, and depression. I'm not sure what brings about these words whether it be his short stories, scary poems or his cryptic appearance, but they all describe one brilliant man.Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the ... conclusion that the raven isn't in fact really there. The "Raven" is merely a figment of the man's imagination that represents the loneliness that the man has built up inside. The loneliness and depression becomes too hard to handle so he begins to hallucinate the raven as if it were really there. Everyone, in a sense, has their own "Raven". It might be guilt, loneliness, sins, depression, or a haunting presence. In Poe's real life he himself had a "Raven". His was the guilt of not being able to pay for his wife, Virginia Clemm's, medicine. Now, he could ...
- 270: The Music of Generation X
- ... In Generation X punks, gangs, alternative people, ravers, hippies, and pop rockers have all been labeled into groups by their preference of music. Music has also affected people mentally, causing problems in society like suicide, depression, hate/racism, violence, and drug addiction. I am about to examine five different song lyrics of my generation to demonstrate the different tones and concerns they convey onto society and my generation. The first song ... a low class area. Jane is a girl who has had a heroine addiction. Her personal boundaries have been invaded and she wants out of the habit, "I'm gonna kick tomorrow…". She goes through depression and withdrawal, "She gets mad/And she starts to cry." Then the songs continues by talking about loneliness. Drug addiction is often the background for much of the music in today's society. People tend ... The last song was just released last Wednesday. "Hope in a Hopeless World," by Widespread Panic is a song that geniunely conveys the problems in today's society. The title itself explains the behaviors of depression and loss of reality. The song looks at the downfalls in our society and how things went wrong. The line, "What ever happened to the Golden Rule?" says enough to explain my thoughts. The ...
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