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- 1941: Western Films
- ... to name a few. Often the hero of a western meets his opposite "double," a mirror of his own evil side that he has to destroy. Typical elements in westerns include hostile elements, guns and gun fights (sometimes on horseback), violence and human massacres, horses, trains (and train robberies), bank robberies, stagecoachs, shoot-outs and showdowns, outlaws and sheriffs, cattle drives and cattle rustling, posses and pursuit or 'search and destroy ... paranoia of a lone, confused, tortured, vengeful western figure played by Stewart. The first in the series of classic westerns in the 50s was Winchester '73 (1950) - a tale of the relentless pursuit of a gun; Bend of the River (1952) was the stark and compelling story of the Oregon Trail journey across the country; the sophisticated and excellent The Naked Spur (1952) was a study of compulsive greed for reward ... How The West Was Won (1963). The popular film, The Magnificent Seven (1970) rewrote the Japanese classic by Akira Kurosaw titled The Seven Samurai (1954) as a Western and starred Yul Brynner and six other gun-slinging companions. One of the most exciting action-adventure westerns of all time was The Professionals (1966), with Burt Lancaster leading a group of mercenaries into Mexico on a dangerous mission to rescue a ...
- 1942: The Merchant of Venice
- ... to establish freedom for Antonio and Justice for the Jew. Portia uses the ‘stage’ of the courtroom to show that she is not just a pretty face, she is quick witted, cunning and in complete control at all times, a lady who likes power. Two of the best plots in the play are - the puzzle of the caskets and the courtroom scene. Portia had promised her father that she would marry ... believe that through Portia, the one character that we don't ridicule in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, Shakespeare showed us the art of true justice, painted on the canvas of mercy and reconciliation. Portia the Control Freak (The-Merchant-of-Venice) I would love to write a critical essay about the role of Portia in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," hailing her as one of Shakespeare's greatest contributions to the ... unfolded, the reader sees a wife in love with the husband who was wise enough to earn her love (and consequently her fortune!). Beware, gentle reader! Do not fall under the spell of Portia the control freak! The following scenerios must be proof that this woman is not to be trusted! First of all, let's evaluate the scene where Portia and Bassanio are before the caskets where Bassanio must ...
- 1943: Character Change in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House
- ... of Nora. Torvald makes little rules for Nora to follow. During the time period when the play was written, a husband controlling his wife and making rules for her was not uncommon. One incident of control is when Nora comes home from Christmas shopping. Torvald knows how much Nora loves macaroons and suspects she has bought some to eat. He comments to Nora, “My sweet tooth really didn’t make a ... for Students 109). If Nora has macaroons every once in a while isn’t a big deal. Torvald is making a huge issue over something small and worthless. This is an example of how much control a man had over a woman. Nora wasn’t suppose to do anything without going through him. Torvald controlled Nora in everyway possible or so he thought he did. Torvald wants his wife perfect and ... t act like he thinks she should. One incident is when she is practicing her tarantella dance. “Torvald is critical of Nora when she practices her dance because he wants to keep her passion under control and he is concerned with propriety” (Drama for Students 109). Nora begins dancing too fast and stops listening to Torvald instructions on how to dance. Torvald becomes mad when she doesn’t do like ...
- 1944: Sport Psychology
- ... psychology is imagery and visualization. Many self-help manuals for coaches and athletes currently advocate the use of imagery for a wide variety of purposes including skill acquisition, skill maintenance, competition prepar-ation, and arousal control. "Empirical investigations of imagery have tended to focus on the role of mental practice in skill acquisition, the role of imagery as a pre-competition cognitive psyching-up strategy and comparisons in the use of ... an athlete during perfor-mance is a function of self 1 and is symptomatic of the conflict between the two selves." (Butt, 1987:79) Self 1 can express itself linguistically and, therefore, usually gains this control inappropriately. According to Gallwey, it is not necessary to analyze why doubts and fears are away from the more relevant visual and spatial elements of the task. The Inner Game is directed toward allocating the ... developed in the early 1900's by the German psychiatrist, J.H. Schultz. Athletes are tutored in self-relaxation, based on self-suggestions and imagery. This is designed to create feelings of warmth, heaviness and control in different body parts and finally reach a state of mental equilibrium. Imagery relaxation, like imagery itself, works well for some people but is difficult for others. "Imagery relaxation involves imagining yourself in some ...
- 1945: Utopia
- ... comes into play. I have heard of places that have experimented with the concept of a utopian environment but none have truly succeeded. One example is the community in Chicago which George Pullman attempted to control. He attempted to create a community in which every person was taken care for, all had adequate housing, medical attention and so forth. In return everyone would work for Pullman's company. The better he ... lead to what was called the Pullman strike. The anticipated utopia had turned into a dystopia. (A dystopia would be the exact opposite of a utopia.) Federal troops arrived on July 4th to try to control the unrest. Rioting broke out and several strikers were killed. It wasn't until July 10th that the troops were able to control the situation. The word utopia however does not necessarily have to be used to define a society. A utopia can also be used to define a certain situation as it is perceived by an ...
- 1946: Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order
- ... another. The panoptic system has implemented itself upon the world. It has created a system where no one force can overcome the next without any serious implications. If our country had one person in complete control we would be in grave danger. What if this individual decided he didn't like people with blonde hair. If one was granted enough power he could round up all of those with blonde hair and execute them. The panopticon prevents this. It forms a intricate network of the distribution of power so that one never feels that he can act without repercussions. This form of control goes so far as to question, how do we know that we are not being watched by other forms of life? Right now, as I write this paper there might be some other form of ... example of panopticism in our society. The police enforce discipline and they are given enough power to protect us from the ills of society. Yet they are not given too much so that they can control us. If an officer decides that he does not like an individual he has just arrested, the officer does not have the right to impose his own values upon the offender. He must act ...
- 1947: Nurture Plus Nature
- ... Take the example of a naughty or extremely hyperactive young boy raising hell, and throwing tantrums out in public. When we witness children in this category, we often automatically think, "Why doesn't his mother control him?" We assume that the cause of his behavior problems can be found in his environment, possibly poor parenting techniques. This false assumption, however, may be an unfair judgment upon actual quality parenting. Recent researchers ... twenty percent of normal children were temperamentally difficult from the time of birth. Turecki, a confused parent himself, recommended that "parents of difficult children make an important distinction between willful misbehavior which is under the control of the child, and expressions of innate temperament, which are really beyond a child's control" (Turecki). Thus it is crucial for parents to recognize which misbehaviors are related to genetic aspects and which are associated with behavioral decisions when discipline is necessary. Psychologists such as Turecki, Rowe, Alexander, Chess ...
- 1948: John Locke: Property Rights
- ... more for others in the common store, one was not infringing on another's natural rights. Irrelevant because property production or the use of labor was completely individualistic and one should not be able to control another's labor as it is an infringement on their natural rights. There are however limits, as far as property and labor are concerned. One limit is that of non destruction. God did not create ... here that we begin to see the limits of men as well as the limits of the soveriegn. After all, how anyone interfere with the wishes of God? Locke believed that the power for social control must come from the sovereign. This sovereign is responsible to the will of the people, but has a protective authority, governing both over land and people. Locke believed that if a body of people, that ... that the sovereign, created out of the need for the protection of individual rights, that is, out of the need for protection of the privacy of property, could not manifest itself publicly through excessive social control. Perhaps Locke's idea is better explained this way. “From privacy of possession, publicity of sovereignty does not follow...`no Man could ever have a just Power over the life of another, by Right ...
- 1949: Different Types of Explosives
- ... PETN like they do nitroglycerin, in treating some heart disorders. Low Explosives Gunpowder Gunpowder is an explosive material that burns rapidly to form high- pressure gas. Expansion of this gas inside the barrel of a gun can accelerate a bullet to great speed. Gunpowder is therefore used as a propellant in a variety of ammunition. It is also used in explosives for blasting operations, in fireworks, and in fuses. There are ... pellets. The basic formula for black powder has been modified for special purposes. Sulfurless gunpowder contains saltpeter and charcoal but no sulfur. It is not as powerful as regular black powder, but it corrodes the gun barrel less. Another variation is the black powder used in fireworks and blasting agents. The saltpeter is sometimes replaced by less expensive sodium nitrate. Cordite Cordite was one of the original smokeless powders used to propel projectiles from guns. It replaced gunpowder in many cases because it burned with a lot less smoke. However, cordite damaged gun barrels much more than gunpowder did. The name cordite refers to the cordlike lengths in which it was made. Cordite is composed of 30 percent nitroglycerin, 65 percent nitrocellulose, and 5 percent petrolatum. Blasting ...
- 1950: Canada's Ideal Population - What Is It? and How Should It Be Achieved?
- ... business to suit the situation. If population growth was deemed desirable which I think it should be, it would best be achieved through the use of many different methods. The decreased use of various birth control methods. Not only through the non-use of birth control can the effect be achieved though. After all not everyone can afford to bring new life into the world. Therefore I propose that serious financial incentives be introduced. Enough money to supplement the entire cost of the birth and the cost of raising the child for a minimum of sixteen years. Unfortunately killing birth control wont quite cover the amount of people that need to be brought into canada. It would be necessary to have more immigrants come into the country. That would mean lowering the level of standards ...
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