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- 971: The Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath
- The Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath In the Hollywood blockbuster Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone plays a devious, manipulative, sex-driven woman who gets whatever she wants through her ploys for control. Stone's portrayal of this character is unforgettable and makes the movie. In book or film, the most memorable female characters are those who break out of the stereotypical “good wife” mold. When an author ... the woman often carries the story. In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, he portrays the Wife of Bath, Alison, as a woman who bucks the tradition of her times with her brashness and desire for control to present a woman's point of view and to evoke some sympathy for her. In the author's time, much of the literature was devoted to validating the frailties of women. However, in this ... and myn ese” (P217). The Wife's secret is simple, “For half so boldely can ther no man/Swere and lie as a woman can” (P234). She does something to every husband to maintain her control. However, Jankyn, her fifth husband, believes in everything that disparages women, which is exactly what Alison detests. She lashes out with all she has left: “[she] with [her] fist so took him on the ...
- 972: Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms": Henry - A Man of Action, Self-Dicipline, and One Who Maintains Grace Under Pressure
- ... can affront successfully. As the epitome of a code hero, Frederick is a man of action, self-discipline, and one who maintains grace under pressure. Whenever the situation requires, Henry rises to the occasion taking control of potentially dangerous incidents with quick decision leaving no room for second thought. After Frederick is captured by the battle police, he foresees his inevitable death if no action was taken and instinctively escaped detainment ... and is the only value that will truly serve a man. Although Henry is an avid drinker, he never becomes drunk to the point that he does not know what he is doing or can control his behavior and actions. "He poured two glasses and we touched them, first fingers extended. The grappa was very strong. ......We drank the second grappa, Rinaldi put away the bottle and we went down the ... 17). Presented with the invitation, Henry gladly accepted a few drinks an acted like a dignified gentlemen even though in the immediate presence of alcohol. A man of strength and character will not let substance control and influence his actions for only the weak are dependent and rely upon such means to live out each day. Frederick's self-discipline not only shines in his drinking habits, but shows in ...
- 973: Life, Death, and Politics: A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate.
- ... 1% of all rapes actually result in conception. That means that a large majority of pregnancies that resulted in abortion were the result of free-choice. The assumption is that a woman does not have control over her own body until after a male partner is finished with it. Only then does she hear talk of "rights." The term "pro- choice" evokes their sense of fairness, but what is really being ... of development, and therefore believe that the termination of fetal life does not constitute homicide. Further, proponents of abortion justify the termination of fetal life by asserting that the woman has the ultimate right to control her own body; that no individual has any right to force a woman to carry a pregnancy that she does not want; that parents have the moral responsibility and constitutional obligation to bring into this ... The leaders of the anti-abortion campaign emphasize the fetus' loss of life. However, some of the same people oppose the revolution in sex roles, the new freedom to express sexuality, and would make birth control illegal if they could. Many of them make no secret of their desire to see women return to obligatory domesticity and to a situation in which they are afraid to have sex outside marriage. ...
- 974: Should The Govt. Interfere In
- ... chose to use the analogy above. The economy of a country affects everyone living in it and the type of economy changes your values, your hopes, and especially your reality. I feel that total government control has many more advantages than a market economy and controlled economy gives a country a connected feeling. My first reason promoting total government interference is that the govt. supports handicapped and people with physical disabilities ... This makes a controlled economy much more steady and secure. Sudden drops and hikes are virtually unknown to a centrally planned economy and the economy benefits from that. The government of a central economy can control monopolies in large companies. In the late 1800's a man named John D. Rockefeller owned 90% of the oilrigs in America. Because he had horizontally integrated this business, Rockefeller could control the prices of the oil by supply and demand. Society was greatly hurt by this because if he felt like making a few extra bucks one week, with the snap of his fingers he ...
- 975: More's Utopia and Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
- ... pleasantly hallucinate" and has "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." All workers are required to take the drug (everyone receives a daily ration), making it an indispensable component of social control. The social control that both societies thrive on is one that our society lacks, the authors imply that a more structured environment might bring our society to a higher level. In order to maintain the social control that both novels posses, it is necessary to separate themselves from the ways of the past society. In Utopia, the king had the earth that connected them to land dug, in order to become ...
- 976: Communism - From Marx To Zemin
- ... often referred to.) It was his belief that private property was the cause of the poverty and degradation of the proletariat. Therefore, he came to settle on the idea that no one person should have control over production of good, ownership of land, and management of funds. In that same token then, no one class should be allowed to have control over these things. He went onto comment that the exploitation of the working class must come to an end. That end would be achieved through revolution. Once this was achieved, everybody would work according to ... went ahead at full speed, revealing not only the crimes of the Stalin era, but also the full horrifying dimensions of the contemporary crisis. In foreign affairs, not only was there great progress on arms control, but Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan. Most spectacular of all, in 1989, Gorbachev allowed Soviet control over Eastern Europe to evaporate, as communism was overthrown and independent governments were established in one satellite ...
- 977: Leon The Movie Review Essay
- ... himself to be worn down. The two of them move out of the apartment building and start a new life together. Leon begins to like having Mathilda around, even though he rarely shows the fact. Gun cleaning, target practice and assassination theory provide a form of courtship for Leon and Mathilda, although more at the father-daughter level. His guardian and mentor figure draws them closer together. Each has the ability ... Superficially the tale of an assassin and his young protege, Léon transcends the action genre by genuinely caring for its protagonists. Set in modern day New York, Leon (Jean Reno) is a top-flight hired gun who carries out the occasional hit for Italian boss Tony (Danny Aiello), part father-figure and part manipulator. Leon is truly exceptional at his job, as we see in the opening scenes, embodying an ability ... little from his work, spending his spare time training, caring after his plant and letting Tony "look after" his money. The twist comes when Leon spies his next-door neighbour's annihilation in a furious gun battle, the result of trying to trick the wrong people. As Leon watches, interested but uninvolved, he sees the daughter Mathilda (Natalie Portman) walking down the hallway, laden with groceries. Creeping under the gaze ...
- 978: Polygamy
- ... members of the relief society, picking their replacement. Not all Mormon women were members of the relief society, you had to be voted on to be admitted.] Easterners concerned with breaking up the Mormon political control, wrongly thought by giving women the right to vote, they would throw off the tyrannical shackles of patriarchal polygamy and join with local nonmembers in removing Church influence in politics. (Smith, p. 445.) 1870 January, a group of intelligent Mormons, called the "Godbeites", lead by prominent Mormons such as Amasa Lyman, whom had difficulties with Brigham Young's strong control over too many aspects of life in Utah, created a news paper which became the organ of the Liberal (non-Mormon) Party, for 20 years. (Smith, p. 446.) On the 3rd name change, it became ... salvation of the Church". It laments the efforts of the United States to stop this religious practice of the Church, but does not mention the more important goal that the government had of removing political control from the church. The manifesto claims that Wilford Woodruff intended to use all his influence to persuade the members to obey the law of the land. [The laws forbidding plural marriage had been confirmed ...
- 979: Abortion: Freedom Of Choice
- ... third to one half of all pregnacies in the United States end in abortion,2,500 of these abortions will be performed illegally. Although some oppose abortion for being used as a form of birth control,Abortion should remain legal because it is a womans choice and protects the privacy of an individual. Some teenagers and woman abuse abortion as a form of birth control. Many woman have used legal abortions as a drastic form of contraception, due to carelessness or ignorance of better methods. Abortion should remain legalized for the fact that if it's not kept legal many ... performing them illegally. This may do serious harm to the mother and her body. Aborton is a woman's choice. Woman accepted the definition that a womans prime role was as wife and mother and control of ones own body. Once they had choices about life roles, they came to feel they had the right to choose abortion to run their own lifes. Any woman should have the ability to ...
- 980: The Fall of Communism
- ... bettering the conditions of the individual, attempting to increase the supply of food and making goods such as home appliances, making automobiles somewhat available, and providing more housing. A new policy of efficiency and quality control was brought in. Although Khrushchev started a process of slight reform he was dismissed due to in part massive shortage of grain and dairy products, and the fact that he had started to seize more ... After the removal of Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev became the Soviet Communist Party Secretary General in October of 1964. Under his administration the majority of the decentralization of power was destroyed bringing a centralized form of control back into effect. Khrushchev’s denouncing of Stalin’s policies was criticized and slowly some of Stalin’s political disciplinary policies were restored. Stalin was named a war hero. There began an outright attack on ... presidency and transferred power from the Communist party to popularly elected legislatures in the union republics. In international affairs, he withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan, normalized relations with China, and signed a series of arms control agreements with U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George bush. In 1991, as the Soviet economy deteriorated, Gorbachev faced competing pressures from hard-line Communists, from free-market reformers, and from nationalists and secessionists ...
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