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- 3161: Violence And Pornography
- ... sex and that the want to commit sexual crimes is acted out vicariously through the pornographic material (Whicclair 327). This argument, however, does not explain the crimes committed by serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacey, who regularly viewed pornography during the lengths of their times between murders and rapes (Scully 70). By saying that pornogrpahy would reduce harm to women through cathartic effects, pornography defenders display a large ...
- 3162: The Sedition Act of 1798
- ... perpetuate their authority and preserve their present places." Proof that this bill was politically motivated became obvious when the House voted to extend the act from the original one year proposed to the expiration of John Adams term, March 3, 1801. The States response to the passing of the Sedition Act was mixed. Kentucky and Virginia each responded with acts basically nullifying the Congressional act, but other states accepted the Congress ...
- 3163: Battle of Saratoga
- ... Burgoyne surrendered days later at Saratoga. Second Battle of Saratoga: The Battle of Bemis Heights After waiting several weeks for developments from General Henry Clinton's campaign along the Hudson River, British commander Lieutenant General John Burgoyne finally took the offensive on 7 October 1777. Like the First Battle of Saratoga, his plan focused upon a reconnaissance in force of three columns. The three British columns moved out from their Freeman ...
- 3164: Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid"
- ... the play. The play was well directed, acted, and produced and the audience response was tremendous- I was quite surprised that there wasn't a standing ovation. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Moliere; "The Imaginary Invalid"; translated by John Wood in 1959; Published by Penguin Classics. 2. Knutson, Harold. MOLIERE: An Archetypal Approach. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1976.
- 3165: "An Inspector Calls": Issues and Priestly's Viewpoint
- ... way. I think the most important speech in the whole play is as follows: "Inspector- Just remember this. One Eva Smith has gone but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, with what we think, say, and do. We don't live alone ...
- 3166: Affirmative Action - Does It W
- ... when employees were hired under a system of diversity management versus an affirmative action plan. (Gilbert & Stead 1) The second article "Diversity management: A New organizational paradigm," written by Jacqueline Gilbert, Bette Ann Stead, and John Ivancevich, defines diversity management and compares it to affirmative action. Furthermore they discuss strategies that will help to insure that a diversity management program is successful. (Gilbert et al. 1) In "Stigmatization revisited
" the authors ...
- 3167: The Theater of Dionysus
- ... in religion, as the theater would never have come about if it weren't for the worship of Dionysus by the Athenians Bibliography 1) Powell, Anton, Ancient Greece. Facts on File, Inc., 1989. 2) Onians, John, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age. Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1979. 3) Mills, Dorothy, The Book of the Ancient Greeks. G.P Putnam's Sons, 1977. 4) Skipp, Victor, Out of the Ancient World ...
- 3168: Ben-Hur
- ... Wallace's goal is to instill the belief of Christ into his audience. He wanted to defend Christianity and religions as a whole during the period in which he wrote. As has been noted by John Tebbel, the last two decades of the 1800's were a time when the great prophets of the American church were being replaced by the scientific theorists and theories of the day. Principle among these ...
- 3169: Oedipus the King: A Tragic Hero
- Oedipus the King: A Tragic Hero The downfall of a hero follows from his very nature. In Sophocles play, Oedipus the King, (reprinted in X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th ed. New York, NY 1995), the playwright focuses on a man named Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who is trying to discover the ...
- 3170: Romeo and Juliet: Chance And Its Role
- ... neither of them had intentions of killing the other. Also, the fight could have happened any other day but it just happened to happen on the wedding day. Another important coincidental event is when Friar John is unable to give Romeo a letter because he was detained during a visit to a friend. This is the reason that Romeo kills himself because he doesn't know that Juliet is actually alive ...
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