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- 791: The Moon is Down: The Effects of War
- ... They never speak. They answer like dead men. They obey, these horrible people. And the girls are frozen" (71). Tonder who once felt the enemy should love him, now fears the enemy. Tonder starts losing control and says, "The enemy's everywhere! Every man, every women, even children! The enemy's everywhere" (72). Tonder who once wanted to settle in this town now longs to go home. Tonder says, "I mean ... we'll be going home before long won't we?" (75). Tonder is questioning if the town there are in has been conquered. Tonder states, "Conquered and we're surrounded! (77). "Tonder already upset loses control and suggests to Joseph that the `leader' is crazy, that the war will never end, and hysterically avows that the `flies conquer the flypaper'" (Clancy 104). In Tonder's loneliness he visits Molly Morden. "Can ... Tonder, who trusts Molly (Lisca 196). In the novel, The Moon is Down, Steinbeck shows us how war affects different people. Lieutenant Tonder started out as a poet who romanticized war. He ended up losing control. He felt that instead of being one of the conquerors he felt that the townspeople were the conquerors and that he was conquered. Colonel Lanser has a dilemma between his role as a colonel ...
- 792: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- ... cells, reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body with connections to the brain. When they die, the ability of the brain to start and control muscle movement dies with them. With all voluntary muscle action affected, ALS patients in the later stages are totally paralyzed; through it all, however, their minds remain unaffected. Amyotrophic comes from the Greek language. "A ... brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body with connections to the brain. When they die, as with ALS, the ability of the brain to start and control muscle movement dies with them. With all voluntary muscle action affected, patients in the later stages are totally paralyzed; yet, through it all, their minds remain unaffected. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language ... only that physicians referred by ALSA see many ALS patients. ALS, a motor neuron disease, was first identified in 1869 by the noted French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. However, the cause, cure or means of control of ALS are presently unknown. The onset of ALS is insidious with muscle weakness or stiffness as early symptoms. Inevitable progression of wasting and paralysis of the muscles of the limbs and trunk as ...
- 793: Deliverance: The Passing of the Torch
- ... t get at him. And if we can, we can kill him." Bobby says this to Ed during the evening of the second day. I believe that at this point in time, Lewis still had control over the remaining party. However, he was quickly loosing it to a more capable leader, Ed. Lewis is still making the plans at this point, which shows that he is still the leader but is ... in the town, Lewis says "You're doing it exactly right; you're doing it better than I could do. Hang in there." This quote, at least to me, shows that Ed had taken over control of the group, and Lewis approved of the action. From this point on, in the story, Ed had control over the group. It becomes more and more evident as the novel progresses, however, I believe that it was at this point that the passing of the torch took place. Throughout life, many things ...
- 794: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... difficult to attain. In both cases, one had to have been truly converted in order to become s member through a long and grueling process. After establishing themselves in Hawaii, the missionaries tried to keep control of the islanders and help them break from old customs, such as the system of tabus and the worshipping of idols and the ancient system of gods. In chapter IV, "From the Starving Village", Michener ... Tariff protected the United States sugar producers by penalizing those who imported Hawaiian sugar, and subsidized those who sold American sugar. So Whip and the eight others devised a plan to begin a revolution, seize control of the government, and turn the islands over to the United States. Queen Liliuokalani was the new queen, succeeding her brother after he died. She wished that the non-Hawaiian enterprises would leave; this included ... help of their friend and relative Micah Hale - a minister. There were two problems, though. First, would the rican warship at Honolulu send US troops ashore to fight the revolutionaries, and second, if they seized control of the government, would the United States recognize them as the legal government of Hawaii? Both questions were answered at the same time: The ships men would have the simple orders to "protect American ...
- 795: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... meaning in the structure of the whole society (Mead, 1973, 164). This gives a feeling of self-worth and shows that everyone is a valued member of the community. In contrast, Russian youth have no control over others and little control over their own lives. Soviet society stresses more importance on society and the current political regime. They see social interests as much more important than individual ones. Personal interests must always be sacrificed if in ... ultimatum: clean up or break up". Some groups went underground, others conformed to official approval and found themselves confined and suffocated, "their lyrics purified and their costumes polite". Official rock music was then easier to control and supervise. One of the sanctioned groups played in a youth club of a working-class suburb of Moscow. Some of the fans wore clothes with foreign labels and were known as "golden youth". ...
- 796: An Analysis of The Wretched Of The Earth
- ... and cultural traits of French society. In contrast Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower middle class family of mixed race ancestry and receiving a conventional colonial education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the third world. Fanon at first was a assimilationist thinking colonists and colonized should try to build a future together. But quickly Fanon's assimilationist illusions were destroyed by ... is a tactic that should be employed to eliminate colonialism. He questions whether native intellectuals who have adopted western methods of thought and urge slow decolonization are in fact part of the same technology of control that the white world employs to exploit the colonized. He questions whether the colonized world should copy the west or develop a whole new set of values and ideas. In all these questionings of basic assumptions of colonialism Fanon exposes the methods of control the white world uses to hold down the colonies. Fanon calls for a radical break with colonial culture, rejecting a hypocritical European humanism for a pure revolutionary consciousness. He exalts violence as a necessary ...
- 797: Lord of the Flies: Golding's Reality - Fact or Fiction
- ... Fiction A recurring theme in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies , is that man savage at heart, always ultimately reverting back to evil and a primitive nature. Golding believes that man has no control over his own destiny because of fear. Golding uses properties of setting, characters, and their behavior and the events of the book, Lord of the Flies, to build and support his vision of reality. William ... that should show evil right there within in there actions. Then later on the boys still thinking of their civilized ways decided to build a fire and as luck would have it went out of control. The boys hadn't even been there a week and half of the island had already been destroyed. At the end of the story when there are putting places of the forest on fire trying ... like Hitler and the Nazi's. Fear is a big cause for a lot of the evil on the island once the one group divides into two groups. Each group has the fear of losing control, especially Jacks group the hunters. The must be stronger in order to be able to defeat Ralph's group if there is a need. That causes Jacks group to make weapons for hunting and ...
- 798: The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath
- ... were seen as property. Women during this period of time, had limited choices when it came to societal roles. The Wife of Bath exonerates the accepted roles of society, reflecting women's attempt to gain control during the medieval period. The General Prologue presents an interesting description of The Wife of Bath. Her character is noted to be strong and bold and we learn she is slightly deaf. The Wife of ... shoes, broad hat, and spurs on her feet. She is obviously not dressed in a typical manner or style of other women in her time (Hallissy 42). She disapproved of her husbands attempts to inflict control upon her. She desires freedom and she wants financial information to be disclosed to her and she wants her independent freedom. The Wife of Bath believes that all women want is to gain control over their husbands. The fact that she is a skilled seamstress and weaver demonstrates that she is financially independent. This in itself establishes that her character is not a typical medieval woman. Through weaving, ...
- 799: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... Psychological Force A. Newspeak B. Doublethink IV. Both Government's Use of Physical Force A. Torture of Winston B. Operation On Fancy V. Conclusion Throughout time, people have wondered what happens when government gains complete control not only over people's actions, but over the thoughts that precede them. Is it even possible to gain such omnipotence over human nature that human beings will renounce all individuality? If such a society ... We and Orwell's 1984 have governments that repress thought and action through the use of physical and physiological force. One of the most visible ways the government of the United State is able to control the thought and actions of its citizens is by the use and abuse of a system by which each member of society receives a number at birth instead of given a name (Goldstein 54). The ... This deprivation of privacy, and how happy the people are about it, demonstrates exactly how the Well Doer is able to subtlety take away other rights. The most startling effect of the United State's control of all actions is their regulation governing the sexual act. "The United State, having mathematically conquered hunger, directed its attack against the second ruler of the world, against love." (Richards 547) The immortal Well ...
- 800: The Wretched Of The Earth: A Review
- ... and cultural traits of French society. In contrast Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower middle class family of mixed race ancestry and receiving a conventional colonial education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the third world. Fanon at first was a assimilationist thinking colonists and colonized should try to build a future together. But quickly Fanon's assimilationist illusions were destroyed by ... is a tactic that should be employed to eliminate colonialism. He questions whether native intellectuals who have adopted western methods of thought and urge slow decolonization are in fact part of the same technology of control that the white world employs to exploit the colonized. He questions whether the colonized world should copy the west or develop a whole new set of values and ideas. In all these questionings of basic assumptions of colonialism Fanon exposes the methods of control the white world uses to hold down the colonies. Fanon calls for a radical break with colonial culture, rejecting a hypocritical European humanism for a pure revolutionary consciousness. He exalts violence as a necessary ...
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