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- 4161: Government's Welfare Programs
- ... the poor no longer have the need to go out and commit crimes to attain that income. Welfare also aids in improving the economy because the children of these families can afford to go to school and have a chance to make someone of themselves. Instead of enrolling in welfare themselves, in the future these people will make contributions to the economy and will be tax paying citizens. On the contrary, welfare is currently a great government expense that tax payers pay for. Federal tax rates throughout the country are extremely high and welfare, along with Medicare and Medicaid, are main contributors. The purpose of welfare is to aid a person with monetary need in getting by until they can find a job to support themselves, but ...
- 4162: Death of A Salesman: Willy
- ... two sons Biff and Happy pick up this behavior from their father. He is idealistic, stubborn, and he has a false sense of his importance in the world. Willy is like an impetuous youngster with high ideals and high hopes. Children always have high hopes for their future. They all want to be astronauts or millionaires. Willy always believes he can achieve that kind of success. He never lets go of his wasted life. He dreams of being ...
- 4163: Death of A Salesman: Failure vs. Success
- ... to old friends he imagines to the chagrin of his family, but no one has the heart to confront him about it. Willy has a flashback of a time when Biff and Happy were promising high school students. In the flashback, Willy gives his sons a punching bag. He also condones Biffs stealing of a football and doesnt encourage them to study as much as they should. He emphasizes being ...
- 4164: Death of a Salesman - Willy's Escape
- ... mistress while visiting him on one of his trips to ask him to come back home and negotiate with his math teacher to give him the four points he needed to pass math and graduate high school. This scene gives the reader a chance to fully understand the tension between Willy and Biff, and why things can never be the same. Throughout the play, the present has been full of misfortune for ...
- 4165: Death of a Salesman: Willy Lowman
- ... mistress while visiting him on one of his trips to ask him to come back home and negotiate with his math teacher to give him the four points he needed to pass math and graduate high school. This scene gives the reader a chance to fully understand the tension between Willy and Biff, and why things can never be the same. Throughout the play, the present has been full of misfortune for ...
- 4166: 80s
- ... Show and Family Ties and Punky Brewster and what you talkin' 'bout Willis? We hold strong affections for The Muppets and The Gummy Bears and why did they take the SMURFS off the air? After school specials were only about cigarettes and stepfamilies, the Pokka Dot Door was nothing like Barney, and aren't the Power Rangers just Voltron reincarnated? We are the ones who still read Nany Drew and the ... The backdoor was always open and Mom served only red Kool-Aid to the neighborhood kids-never drank New Coke. Entertainment was cheap and lasted for hours. All you needed to be a princess was high heels and an apron; the Sit'n'Spin always made you dizzy but never made you stop; Pogoballs were dangerous weapons and Chinese Jump Ropes never failed to trip someone. In your Underoos you were ...
- 4167: 1984 Thematic Statements
- ... is an example of where ignorance was a strength. In the novel Girl of the Limberlost a young girl lived in the country and had no knowledge of material items. Then the girl went to high school and was introduced to money, fashion and other material items. The girl was happier before she knew of material items and therefore her ignorance was a strength. The third thematic statement and Party phrase is ...
- 4168: 1984 9
- ... know who is insane? The world is flat and the planets revolve around Earth were once sane statements. Finally do we control ourselves in this Democratic country or are we just puppets dancing to the high and powerful affluent members of our society. Or maybe G-d himself is the one who makes us do the things we do. The thought police seek out and cure the misguided people who simply ... are taught the ways of Ingsoc. They know right from wrong. One of Winston s peers was taken away because his own daughter told the thought police on him. In this society children are at school more than they are even home. It is very possible to have a closer relationship with a teacher than with a parent. On top of that, Big Brother and the inner party teach that it ...
- 4169: "A Man for All Seasons" by Robert Bolt: More's Moral Dilemma
- ... silence as evidence of opposing the king, which means he is "traitorously" denying the king of his title. This is the most influential pressure that More has received, because if he is found guilty of high treason, he will be executed; but he still sticks to his morals. More now has to deal with the harshest kind of pressure to face, because his life is in jeopardy. Wolsey also plays a ... you for chancellor?" (page 30). More is surprised to hear this, and says, "He was a statesman of incomparable ability," (page 30). Now More has to support the king, or he could be executed for high treason, which would prove to be the harshest form of pressure for More. When More realizes why Wolsey appoints him a political position, he realizes what a smart move this is by Wolsey, and calls ... him "a statesman of incomparable ability," but this does not change More's decision about the divorce. If Wolsey did not name More for chancellor, More would not have been able to be tried for high treason, and he would have been able to disagree with the king and not face execution. More receives many pressures from many people through King Henry, both directly and indirectly. In addition to Meg, ...
- 4170: Ulysses
- ... there is to do under the sun, and most impertinently on my deathbed, I want to be satisfied in every respect. A particular experience that led me to these beliefs, happened my junior year in High School. I was at my friend Dan Bernstein s house, and we were swimming in his pool. It was a very hot summer day, and I was trying to teach him how to do an inward ...
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