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- 1181: The Rise of Violent Crime In Canada
- ... This fear is often equated with crime since all crimes have a winner and a loser or victim as would be the legal term. This equation often makes involvement in these acts of "crime" a personal thing. Which results in stronger feelings and sometimes irrational thinking towards the whole subject of crime. Many times people are not reporting these crimes because it is their duty in a society to help uphold ... enforce and act as a form of social control. "A formal system that responds to the alleged violations of laws using police, courts and punishments ..." Therefore although society as a whole sees crime as a personal failure and a choice of the individual to act upon. Society is the anvil on which ideas of good and evil are wrought and the individuals are hammered into conformity with applied force that is ... that they have been imprisoned. They just put you into a confined space with a lot of other individuals who are full of anger. Socially, these people are made to feel alienated with all their personal rights being taken away from them. Including the right to go where you please, any basic freedom is taken. This causes them to feel like outcasts in their own societies who consider them to ...
- 1182: Emily Dickinson
- ... her mother, Emily loved and admired her father. Since the family was not emotional, they lived a quiet secure life. They rarely shared their problems with one another so Emily had plenty of privacy for writing. During her childhood, Emily and her family attended The First Congregational Church on a regular basis. Emily did not like going to church because she didn't think of herself as being very religious. She ... way of thinking shaped neither by the church or society. By the time she was twelve, her family moved to a house on Pleasant Street where they lived from 1840 to 1855. Emily was already writing letters, but composed most of her poetry in this home. Emily only left home to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two semesters. Though her stay there was brief, she impressed her teachers with her courage and directness. They felt her writing was sensational. At the age of twenty-one, Emily and her family moved to the Dickinson Homestead on Main Street. This move proved to be very difficult for Emily. This was difficult for Emily ...
- 1183: The Yellow Wall Paper
- ... was to get his wife away from all the hustle and bustle and have her relax. John, a doctor, along with another doctor, gave John s wife a prescription of exercise, rest and absolutely no writing. They believed (along with society) that this was the best thing for people suffering from insanity. John never came out and said she was going insane. He just said she was stressed and needed rest ... if she wanted to get out, (Narrator 534). Which was exactly what she wanted. She couldn t express herself in the ways she wanted to. She didn t have any way of venting her emotions; writing was her escape. Most of the time she was by herself and didn t have anyone to talk to, and when her husband was there she couldn t really talk to him about all the ... the wall was free, so was she. Many times her husband stayed in town for long periods of time, which gave her plenty of time to do nothing. She couldn t write because of John. Writing is a great way to channel your feelings and thoughts. She was stuck in a lonely house with a mental disability. It seemed to get worse on a daily basis and she couldn t ...
- 1184: Ralph Lauren
- ... Mr. Lauren has always believed that fashion is function of lifestyle. He believes that clothed should be natural, comfortable and elegant, for the way people live today. His clothes have timeless grace and become more personal and special age. For Mr. Lauren, the starting point is always his concern for quality and attention to detail, while the creative drama comes from his own romantic sense of elegance and reverence for authencity ... a woman who possesses innate elegance, based on understatement, and feminity. His are clothes for women who would wear tailored clothing much in the manner of Hepburn or Garbo and, with their own sense of personal style. Today, Mr. Ralph Lauren has established his own medley of signature classic - well cut hacking jackets, man tailored shirts, pleated trousers, chic city suit and exquisitely-colored Fairisle and motif sweaters. His collection offers ... Lauren took a leading position in raising funds to build new exhibit space and a headquarter building for the museum. In 1989, Mr. Lauren united the fashion industry to support Brest cancer research. Through a personal contribution and fundraising, Mr. Lauren successfully launched the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research at the Lombardi Cancer Research Center at Georgetown University's medical complex in Washington, D.C. The Center is ...
- 1185: Stress On Police Officers
- ... of an experienced shooter. UB professor, John M. Violanti, Ph.D thinks the biggest reason for the high rate of police suicide is because officers think they have nowhere to go for confidential help when personal problems or job stress overwhelms them. "Police officers are more hesitant than the average citizen to get help for emotional problems. Because of their role, they mistrust many things, and they especially mistrust mental health ... administrators must be able to identify the causes of dysfunctional stress on individual officers. Much of the articles we find today on the causes of law enforcement stress, focus primarily on the factors that are personal to the individual officer. However, other researchers suggest that an officer's ability to live with this stress is hindered by the structure and operation of the organization within which he or she works. "Police ... roles. Police spend much of their time in activities not directly related to law enforcement functions, while correction officers are placed in both the role of providing "custody [and] treatment." Law enforcement officers can develop personal conflicts by being placed in the position of having to choose between one or more contradictory goals. Such contradictions include the loyalty to fellow officers and honesty within the department. Post Traumatic Stress Post ...
- 1186: Comparison Of Daniel Sonnet 6
- ... mistress, on a pedestal. Shakespeare turned these ideas on their heads by portraying a mistress who was by no means special and most certainly unappealing. During Daniel's time there was a traditional way of writing love poems. Many of these poems talked of an unattainable woman whose love and perfection was so great she could only be considered to be divine. This is exactly what Daniel did. He wrote of an idea of what the perfect love would be using metaphors. Daniel uses metaphors that related to something of great power or energy, such as the sun, writing "although her eyes are sunny." Daniel uses the sun to compliment the mystical sense of his mistress. When Daniel talks of the eyes, he is explaining the power that can be seen in her eyes ... s only child and being pure. To Daniel this is what kind of love and qualities his mistress has and this can only truly be an idea. In contrast, Shakespeare has his own way of writing this image. Shakespeare chooses an unconventional form of love poetry. The form he uses almost mocks the traditional form of love poetry that Daniel writes about. Shakespeare believes that true love is not an ...
- 1187: Open Arms
- ... lying and pamphlets and ivory paper-cutters. She was very quiet and noble, with two steady little eyes and a sweet voice. As I looked I felt her to be a friend, not exactly a personal friend, but a good and benevolent impulse. A scrap of her talk is preserved. We ought to respect our influence, she said. We know by our own experience how very much others affect our lives ... had none of those eccentricities and inequalities of temper which give to so many artists the endearing simplicity of children. One feels that to most people, as to Lady Ritchie, she was not exactly a personal friend, but a good and benevolent impulse. But if we consider these portraits of an elderly celebrated woman, dressed in black satin, driving in her victoria, a woman who has been through her struggle and ... to us, and went to Weimar, alone with George Henry Lewes. The books which followed so soon after her union testify in the fullest manner to the great liberation which had come to her with personal happiness. In themselves they provide to her with plentiful feast. Yet at the threshold of her literary career one may find in some of the circumstances of her life influences that turned her mind ...
- 1188: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... printed medium and undoubtedly made the reader aware of the similarities between them and her characters. Once the reader can understand the satirical overtone of the story, the absurdities become less important. For example, the writing is monotone but has a dramatic quality to it which O'Connor later uses to describe the family massacre. This mimics the newspaper the grandmother is rattling at her son's bald head. The grandmother ... concern for manners: Red Sammy's monkey eats his fleas as though he were eating a gourmet meal. The "white sunlight" and the "lacy chinaberry tree" becomethe monkey's intelligence and mannerisms. O'Connor's writing is so clear in this passage,and her entire work for that matter, because she will not separate what pleases her from what disgusts her. In her world, lacy chinaberry trees and chattering monkeys form ... least complicated and dignified. Self-conscious and articulate, the Misfit appears to be a man, not a cartoon, a creature capable of passion, reflection, and existential suffering." (Di Renzo 142) O'Connor incorporates into her writing tenderness and compassion but these caring qualities are intertwined with caricature and satire to avoid superficiality and insincerity. For example, when the family is traveling through Georgia, the grandmother's ability to nurture is ...
- 1189: Assumptions And Values (Othell
- In Othello, the character of Iago is alienated from society by his personal values. He is used by Shakespeare to demonstrate societies assumptions and moral values on a whole. Iago is the main antagonist to Othello in this story, and he succeeds in his plan to ruin Othello ... is okay for Iago to act as he has. The second thing that Shakespeare demonstrates to us is societies value that it is all right to go so far as to commit murder to gain personal advantage. That it is justifiable to commit horrible sins simply for personal advancement. Iago is used to demonstrate this through his own justification for his plan. Iago simply wants to be Othellos lieutenant, yet when Cassio was named, Iago decided to act. He formulates an ...
- 1190: The Catcher In The Rye: A Classic
- ... it may be a matter of opinion, to consider a novel a classic, there are certain standards it must follow. "The Catcher in the Rye" should be considered a classic because of the style of writing J.D. Salinger uses, his use of symbolism, and universal themes. The first element of J.D. Salinger's novel that makes it a classic is the way that he writes the book. The whole ... takes place in Holden Caufield's head, who is the main character in the book. This makes this novel into a classic by fully describing the characters in the story, especially Holden. This style of writing lets the reader know exactly what Holden thinks about himself and what he thinks about others in the book. Salinger is able to express Holden's opinions about a lot of people in the story using this style of writing. Salinger also shows that Holden does not like people who act fake and try to show off. For example, when Holden and Sally went to the show he said, "At the end of the ...
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