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- 2481: How the Decision to Declare War was Influenced
- ... battle between the two navies. The British fleet had 150 warships while the German fleet had 99 warships. Both Germany and Britain claimed victory even though Britain lost more ships than Germany. Britain still had control of the seas. The U.S. had been so anti-war that they were not prepared when they entered. The war had not been a threat to American property or lives. Most Americans wanted the ... war was over, they lost their job. The demand for weapons and war supplies was so great that private industry could not handle it alone; so government had to get involved. President Wilson was given control over most of the economy by congress. He had the power to fix and regulate prices for war related industries. Wages rose as much as twenty percent in ship building, meatpacking and metal industries. Due ...
- 2482: Suffer The Little Children - S
- ... faces. The characteristics of Kings work demonstrate tension from the beginning to the end. The structure of the story itself builds up, but the mirror image is building down. At first, Miss Sidley is in control of the situation: Behind her, none of the children giggled or whispered..., Like God, she seemed to know everything at once. The author compares her to God, which put her in a superior position, as if no one could possibly be above her. But she slowly loses control of herself. It starts when Robert shows he is not afraid of her: instead of looking frightened, he has a tiny side-of-the-mouth smile in his face, that bothers her extremely and leads ...
- 2483: Existentialism In Film
- ... throughout the course of the film, moves from bad to worse. Despite his frantic and often misguided efforts, he fails to improve his situation, even becomes more and more entangled in sinister events he cannot control. The genre's short life thrived on these formulas. Joining Detour the same year in this new tradition opposed to mainstream film (represented at the time by Gene Kelly's musical Anchors Aweigh and Bing ... a solid group of quality independent works spring up in the fallout of the film school generation's creation of the global blockbuster movie. Eschewing all desire for fame and fortune in favor of creative control, the independent filmmakers of our nation have been much freer to handle dark and contemplative subject matter that owes its origin to existentialism proper or its related ideas. For the second part of this essay ...
- 2484: King Lear
- ... rule to his two evil daughters, Regan and Goneril. This is what eventually led to his mental breakdown and the deaths of many of the heads of Britain. If he had only chose to keep control over his kingdom or to give up control to someone trustworthy, no one would have had to suffer as they did. Some people knew he was committing a terrible folly, especially the Earl of Kent. This is apparent when he says, "Think'st ...
- 2485: Shakespeare's Hamlet
- ... contrasts the differences between Fortinbras and himself, and implying his desire to be more like Fortinbras in action. Hamlet admires Fortinbras for the mere fact that he is the head of state and he is control of a powerful army, while Hamlet can barely control himself. Fortinbras holds a position that Hamlet was destined for, yet Claudius intervened and took Hamlets rightful position. This fact may imply that Hamlet sees his fathers actions personified in Fortinbras. Although Hamlet ...
- 2486: Flowers For Algernon
- ... had lost his friends and knew now he was just a like a lab rat. Charlie had lacked faith in his fellow man. "...Thoughts of suicide to stop it all while I am still in control..." Everyday Charlie lost a piece of himself. He was starting to regress and thought about suicide to end his up and down life. He became irritable and edgy around people at the university. He would ... saw him watching me with his eyes wide open. I couldn't do it..." He experienced illusions when he tried to make love with Alice. The "Charlie" inside of himself emerged and started to regain control of his mind. All in all, Charlie suffered from the pain of not knowing how to deal with his peers and decisions. Therefore, after the operation, Charlie became a smart man but he had to ...
- 2487: Character Comparison in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dead Poet's Society
- ... stories, plays etc. For example the characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and the characters in "Dead Poet's Society", present themselves in a very similar way. Mr. Perry and Egeus tend to take control of their children's lives. Puck and Charlie are both pranksters. Cameron and Helena are insensitive. And this list of people's similarities could go on and on. Characters from the movie "Dead Poet's ... similar traits as Shakespeare' s characters in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This just shows how characters from two totally unrelated stories are similar. Both Mr. Perry and Egeus want to have total control over their children's lives. Egeus and Mr. Perry made the most important choices their children would ever have, rather than letting them run their own lives. Egeus states that he has the right to ...
- 2488: Macbeth-blood
- ... a symbol of honor to Macduff this time. It can be seen throughout the whole play that anyone who is willing to kill will get power but not all will have the great responsibility to control that power. Macbeth had that power but made a fatal mistake by not taking responsibility for his actions. "We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:"(Act 3 Sc 2 line 13) Macbeth ... fame but he wanted more and his greed got the better of him, not listening to his conscience or not thinking about the future, he was just acting on instinct and therefore he did not control his own power. So the reader can see that the meaning of the symbol of blood change from honor to treachery, and then to guilt, after this, it returns to the symbolic meaning of honor ...
- 2489: Demystifying The A-Team Formula
- ... times Daffy cracks under the pressure that he is only second best to Bugs and goes insane. He hops around the like a pogo stick yelling, "Woo-hoo." B.A.'s tough acting, out of control character can be closely related to the Tasmanian Devil (Taz). In every episode B.A. is called in to do what he does best, annihilate everything in his way. The Tasmanian Devil does just that. He spins around out of control destroying trees and rocks or whatever is in his way. Even the dialect between the two is similar. The mixture of grunts and groans from Taz can only be too similar to the vernacular of ...
- 2490: Chernobyl
- ... prior to shut down, however, due to operational error the power fell to about 30 MW where the positive void coefficient became a problem. The operators tried to raise the power by freeing all the control rods manually and at 01:00 hr. on April 26 the reactor stabilized at 200 MW. Within a short time, an increase in coolant flow and a drop in steam pressure required the operators to ... to maintain the steam pressure. Also, pumps that were powered by the slowing turbine provided less and less cooling to the reactor. This created additional steam in the cooling channels and the operators could not control a power surge estimated to 100 times the normal power. The sudden increase in temperature caused part of the fuel to rupture; fuel particles then reacted with the water creating a steam explosion, which destroyed ...
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