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- 3031: Street Car Named Desire
- ... study journalism. His father, angry that Hazel Kramer, Williams's childhood sweetheart had also enrolled there, threatened to withdraw him. The romance soon ended, and Williams, deeply depressed, dropped out of school. He survived his depression for awhile through his poetry, plays, and stories, but the strain soon resulted in a nervous breakdown. "Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory" Williams once said. Tennessee used his stories to express his childhood pain. Alcohol was a prevalent theme in his childhood. His father's drunken attacks on his mother had a great impact on Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. "Drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!" screamed Stella Kowalski at her husband Stanley. Stanley had just finished throwing their radio out the window, because it was interrupting his ...
- 3032: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... selected in which events in Burgess's life can be shown to have heavy influence on A Clockwork Orange. Burgess published A Clockwork Orange in 1962, a time in England that was marked with a great amount of crime and very violent youths. Burgess himself had once cited this setting as the source of, or at least the inspiration of the stories of horror and violence told in this novel (Baldwin ... of A Clockwork Orange, Alex. Alex love music too. He often finds himself enveloped and surrounded by such classical works as Beethoven, to whom he refers to as 'Ludwig Van' in this passage: "Waving the great shiny white sleeve of the Ninth, which had on it, brothers, the frowning beetled like thunderbolttled listo of Ludwig Van himself....and I set the needle hissing on the last movement, which was all bliss ... go across an ocean to find a place to display his work. This is much like the difficulty Burgess had finding someone to publish his work (Roger 55). As mentioned before, Burgess always had a great interest in music. Burgess even taught himself how to compose music and play the piano.
- 3033: With Malice Toward None By Ste
- ... had some formal education, amounting to a little less than a year in all. To support his family it was necessary that Abe worked for a wage on nearby farms. "He was strong and a great athlete, but Abe preferred to read instead. Although few books were available to a backwoods boy such as himself, anything that he could obtain he would read tenaciously" (p 56). Although his formal education had ... won national recognition in the process. As a result of holding his own with the "Little Giant" (referring to Douglas's physical stature and political power), the entire nation was able to see just how great and powerful of a leader Abraham Lincoln could become. Lincoln put the Senatorial defeat in its proper perspective six years later when he said, "It's a slip, and not a fall." (p 143) After ... 1865 "Abraham Lincoln...was at home and welcome with the humblest, and had a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876 "If one would know the greatness of Lincoln one should listen to the ...
- 3034: Mercury Report
- ... Others are highly degraded, with rims that have been smoothed from the bombardment of meteorites. The largest crater on Mercury is the Caloris basin. Hartmann and Kuiper (1962) defined a basin as a "large circular depression with distinctive concentric rings and radial lineaments." Others consider any crater larger than 200 kilometers a basin. The Caloris basin is 1,300 kilometers in diameter, and was probably caused by a projectile larger than ... produced from the Caloris impact focused onto the other side of the planet and produced a region of chaotic terrain. After the impact the crater was partially filled with lava flows. Mercury is marked with great curved cliffs or lobate scarps that were apparently formed as Mercury cooled and shrank a few kilometers in size. This shrinking produced a wrinkled crust with scarps kilometers high and hundreds of kilometers long. Because ...
- 3035: The Day Of The Jackal
- ... that was particularly opposed to the Algerian policy -- and opposed to De Gaulle in general -- went underground, calling themselves the OAS (Organisation Armee Secret). War heroes and patriots turned bank robbers and seditionists, they took great pains to conceal themselves while waging a low-grade terrorist campaign against the French government. However, they did not regard themselves as criminals. They saw themselves as the true moral voice of France. As is ... to underestimate him. But, when given his assignment, Lebel is relentless, and he is not afraid to act outside of the cabinet's authority when such tactics are necessary. The Day of the Jackal, is great fun to watch, and it pulls off a neat trick by making the adversaries equally sympathetic. We admire The Jackal for his professionalism, his foresight, and his ability to use his wits when he is ... up some special-edition content for the latter, but that's probably not so easy when a film is more than 25 years old. The quality level of The Jackal is top-notch stuff, with great 5.1 audio and picture and extras that include a "making-of" documentary and a commentary track with Michael Caton-Jones. The Day of the Jackal has an acceptable print that, while a bit ...
- 3036: Dr Daniel J. Boorstin
- ... graduate, has been his close collaborator. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Oklahoma, he received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Harvard and his doctor's degree from Yale. He has spent a great deal of his life abroad, first in England as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. More recently he has been visiting professor of American History at the University of Rome, Italy, the University of ... Democratic Experience. This book aims at a balanced assessment of the price and the promise of what American civilization has done with and for and to Americans. The book's anecdotal style makes it a great reading experience. However, Boorstin omits many happenings that had a great impact on American culture, such as the labor movement and the Vietnam War. Boorstin may "dislike important events"(Mohs,1973). However, those two events are too important for any historian to ignore.
- 3037: Critical Incident Stress (CIS)
- ... decision making, poor concentration and confusion, memory problem's, flashback's of previous scene's and poor attention spans.(Mitchell 81). The emotional reactions to an acute stress situation include anxiety and fear, grief and depression, feeling lost and abandoned, withdrawal from other's anger and resentment, feeling numb, shocked and overwhelmed.(Mitchell 81). The signs and symptoms of a stress reaction may last a few days to as long as ... Mitchell 81). The ESW's that are involved in critical incident's may experience a variety of symptoms which are similar to an acute reaction. The most common cognitive or mental symptoms are increased anxiety, depression and irritability. These symptoms are characteristic of a condition called Delayed Stress Response Syndrome (DSRS). Its not uncommon for ESW's to experience sleep Disturbance's, change's in eating habits and loss of emotional ... the event. The fear can be fantasised or real, but it remains powerful and often cause's ESW's to avoid activities associated with the event.(Mitchell 83). Physical and emotional problems such as fatigue, depression and irritability are often the most common symptoms, but in some case's it is difficult to associate directly to the emergency event.(Mitchell 86). An example of that would be the Grafton bus ...
- 3038: Huckleberry Finn
- ... Jim are running from, not only slave owners and a drunken father, but from a corrupt way of life in an attempt to lead a worry free life. During this novel the author adds a great deal of realism to it that has never been seen before. He shows how life really was for Huck and Jim. Twain does not try to hide the harsh realities and toughness they had to ... left one day, he managed to get free and fakes his own death. Now every one thinks he is dead, and this is where Huck begins his journey to freedom as he floats down the great Mississippi River. After meeting up with a runaway slave named Jim they set off with many goals in mind. Initially he wants to break away from society where he thinks "civilization" is totally unneeded. Along ... so they would have done anything to get Jim free of this thing called slavery. Huck and Tom both knew that they were doing something that could benefit humanity so no risk would be too great.. Throughout their attempts to free Jim there were many problems. Finally after all the p 712 roblems were worked out they freed Jim and the three were running away from the plantation Tom was ...
- 3039: Unconventional Medicines
- ... the how's and why's of reflexology, Kevin and Barbara Kunz, reflexology researchers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and authors of Hand and Foot Reflexology, say The results are obvious. Reflexology can be a great contributor to overall health. (Gottlieb,1995:107) According to reflexology, the body is divided into ten zones called energy zones. Every tendon, ligament, organ, muscle, bone, and brain cell in included in one of these ... can be used on their own, or blended with another for faster relief. They can also be incorporated with modern science and modern medicines, pain-killers, or supplements. For anyone seeking help for anything from depression and insomnia, to headaches, and the common cold, and thousands of more unwanted sicknesses, many believers of natural remedies will strongly recommend this form of healing which dates back thousands of years, to aid in ...
- 3040: To Kill A Mockingbird Injustic
- ... anything to suffer any kind of injustice. A group of characters that may not be seen as victims of injustice, the Cunninghams, suffered economical injustice. The Cunninghams tried to live like honest farmers but The Great Depression hit them hard financially. Much like Tom Robinson and Boo Radley, the Cunninghams did not do anything wrong, but now they have absolutely no money at all. The Cunninghams felt that they could deal with ...
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