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- 2841: Salvador Manuchin
- ... a bar and grill. Introducing “positive feedback” (system-changing) loops into these families might include warning them about enabling, relapses and resistance to change and examining what family members gain from having a malfunctioning member (control? A scapegoat? Distraction from other conflicts? Someone to rescue?). Constructive intensity might re-calibrate the bias and make explosions unnecessary. Battery normally begins with emotional or verbal abuse (name-calling, shouting, intimidation, shaming) and escalates ... to beatings and even murder. Abuse gives rise to more abuse, violence to more violence: destructive synergy. In theory of constructive synergy, however, a batterer uses a batterer's group to learn and master rage-control techniques; those enhance his self-esteem; his wife praises his efforts and trusts him more; he feels good about that and shows her more empathy; the two get problems out on the table instead of ...
- 2842: How Should The United States Treat Todays Criminals?
- ... of his/her own free will and is held accountable for that action. In the ”Medical Model” when a person makes the same decision, it is believed that there are forces beyond that person’s control that caused him/her to make the decision. For example, in the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, an inmate brutally stabbed a correctional officer to death with a homemade knife. This inmate is not allowed to ... self. Statistics have proven that if people are forced into rehabilitation they will do what is necessary to get through the program and not actually attempt to change themselves. My best friend was out of control, drinking heavily and even drinking and driving. One night while he was out with some friends drinking and having a good time, he decided to go out and find another party. Well, of course, this ...
- 2843: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
- ... understand that she was going to the doctors to find if there was. Janie really started to worry about the well being of her life. Tea Cake was confused about everything and he got a gun and aimed it at Janie. There were only three bullets in the gun and he pulled the trigger three times on an empty chamber. Janie shot and killed Tea Cake in self defense. Her first love was out of her life forever. Janie is better off at the ...
- 2844: Jane Eyre 3
- ... with "reason, and not feelings"(401) as his guide; he is "inexorable as death"(391). These seem to be the worst characteristics in a master that Jane could imagine, but she has no choice or control over the matter, coming to him as a beggar. St. John is extremely judgmental, and assumes the worst when Jane shows up on his doorstep, that she is spoiled and lazy. When his prejudices are ... St. John does not treat her with respect or appreciation, and so she rejects the idea of ever marrying him, for she will never be treated as an equal and he will always try to control and repress her. Nevertheless, she almost gives in to St. John's will to become a missionary, his "great work," his "foundation laid on Earth for a mansion in Heaven (399-400), because it gives ...
- 2845: Economics in Colonial America
- ... failure of this act was caused by inadequate machinery to enforce the law. The English colonies publicly defied the act and kept on trading with the Dutch. Another example of the British trying to exert control over America was with the Molasses Act of 1733. This Act imposed a duty of nine pence per gallon on rum, six pence per gallon on molasses, and five shillings per hundredweight of sugar imported from French or Spanish colonies. There was no tax put on British rum, molasses, or sugar imported from British Colonies. The British, trying to control the American colonies, were largely ineffective. The Americans vastly ignored the act. The Americans were not going to obey a law passed by the English, when the English had no way of enforcing it. The ...
- 2846: The Great Depression
- ... so that the economy could get a start on reestablishing itself. Other recommendations that would add to the purchasing power of the Nation were to refine federal aid highways; another step was to reinforce flood control and reclamation by adding additional funding to those programs. And finally to add additional funds for federal buildings over the country. After nearly coming to victory in World War I, Germany was the victim of ... were growing to big for the land they owned and with the rest of the world cut off, it had to take a step necessary to head off this growing problem. When Japanese officers gained control of Manchuria the rest of the world looked down on Japan. But they capitalized and developed Manchuria’s railways and heavy industry to speed up their growth. As a result of the Depression, authoritian governments ...
- 2847: King Lear - Parrellelism In King Lear
- ... was powerless and fearless in the eyes of both daughters. Immediately after the division of power, both Regan and Goneril intend to reduce their father's remaining authority so that Albion will be under their control. "Pray you, let's hit to- gether; if our father carry authority with such dis- position as he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us." (I.i.306-309) Similar to the ... utilities secondary plots and its parallelism to the main plot. Such artistic talent was wonderfully portrayed in King Lear to emphasize each character's emotions and intentions. The dramatic use of parallelism improves Shakespeare's control of tension in the audience. The essential themes of King Lear were examined with ease through complex literary devices. King Lear should be used to compare all literature with parallel secondary plots. The superb resemblance ...
- 2848: How Successfully From 1945 To
- ... t able to change very much, but he did bring the issue to the front of United States politics. His commitment to anti-racism was shown by his resisting in areas in which he had control over. He ended racism in the armed forces by an executive order and he appointed the first black Judge. Truman resisted the force of racism as much as he was able to. Truman's resistance ... make race an issue within American politics and make his views known. In conclusion, Truman did not resist the forces of intolerance in American society very successfully, but this was due to factors outside his control, rather than his personal beliefs.
- 2849: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... their parents...The culprit was Dahmer. Not his father, not his family, not the police." Fox believes that Dahmer was an unusual serial killer. "He fit the stereotype of someone who really is out of control and being controlled by his fantasies. The difference is that most serial killers stop once the victim dies. Everything is leading up to that. They tie them up; they like to her them scream and ... the killer feel great, superior, powerful, dominant...In Dahmer's case, everything is post-mortem...all of his 'fun' began after the victims died...He led a rich fantasy life that focused on having complete control over people...That fantasy life, mixed with hatred, perhaps hatred of himself which is being projected into his victims. If he at all felt uncomfortable about his own sexual orientation, it is very easy to ...
- 2850: Jimi Hendrix
- ... recorded at the 1969 New Year s Eve party at the Fillmore East in New York City (Murray 54). Lorraine Alterman, a writer for Rolling Stone who attended the party, wrote: Only one number, Machine Gun, stands out as truly exciting. Hendrix dedicated it to all the soldiers in Detroit, New York, Chicago and, oh yes , Vietnam. Of the other songs, she wrote: The rest of the songs...tend to sound very much alike. Stylistically they aren t far from Purple Haze days (Alterman 10). Through Machine Gun, the towering, explicitly anti-war song, one can begin to interpret Hendrix mentality as he planned that track. The title itself gives away the meaning of the song, and Hendrix had given up all hopes ...
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