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- 4111: The Crucible: The Tragedy at Salem
- ... time, the witch hunts may not have taken place. There is a modern example of the hysteria and injustice that took place in Salem. It involves the wave of emotional accusations of child abuse against school teachers and caregivers. Regardless of guilt or innocence, once a person has been accused of abuse, they are automatically assumed to be guilty, and the accuser is never second guessed. As well, even if they ...
- 4112: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: A Reaction, Assessment of Literary Value, Biography of the
- ... to St. Louis, Missouri. His father taunted him for his reclusion and effeminacy, nicknaming him "Miss Nancy." As Williams grew up, he took refuge from his intense shyness in his creativity. He wrote for his school newspaper, and became a published writer in 1927 at age sixteen with the essay "Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" in Smart Set, for which he received third prize. In September of 1928 ...
- 4113: Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday
- ... near the Student Union in full view of a rank of guardsmen. Jeff Miller, was the fourth casualty of this conflict on domestic soil. Twelve hundred students filled the gymnasium at John F. Kennedy High School, for the memorial service in the young mans honor (Eszterhas, 233-257). "Who killed Jeff?" Theodore Sorenson asked at the service. " It was not only the guardsmen or the escalation of this nations war ...
- 4114: Death of a Salesman: Willy Lowman
- ... 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 ...
- 4115: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... death was immanent and "The opposite (of death) is desire" (Williams, 179). She escaped death in her use of desire. However, she could not escape "death" for long. She was a teacher at a high school, and at one point she had intimacies with a seventeen year old student. The superintendent, "Mr. Graves", found out about this and she was fired from her job. Her image was totally destroyed and she ...
- 4116: Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
- ... trials and will discuss how the play can be used in English and history, we will focus primarily on the artistic qualities of the play. The Crucible is extremely appropriate for use in the high school or college classroom. It is not difficult to read; it has an exciting plot; the characters and their relationships are intriguing; its themes are timely; and it allows students the opportunity to respond in terms ...
- 4117: Happy Loman: A Living Disgrace
- ... move on one (115). Happy needs to grow up and start treating women like people, not pieces of meat. Happy's insecurity stems from his father's behavior towards him. When Happy was in high school, Willy didn't pay as much attention to him as he did to Biff. In Willy's eyes, Happy wasn't good enough. Therefore, Happy was always trying live up to his expectations and please ...
- 4118: History
- ... women also. The relationship between the Civil Rights Movement and the feminist agenda of Second wave feminism those women played great role in both. They both of these want to have equal rights, at work, school, and also end the discrimination. Civil Rights Movement and Second Wave of Feminism struggled greatly but they had great success. In conclusion, I would say that Civil Rights Movement and Second Wave of Feminism struggled ...
- 4119: Compare and Contrast the Language of Romeo and Juliet in the Balcony Scene
- ... dream, too pleasing sweet to be true. Romeo lives only for the moment unlike Juliet who shows herself to be an eminently practical person who begins making plans. Juliet uses realistic imagery while Romeo uses school boy imagery. For example Romeo says "Love goes toward love as schoolboys... with heavy looks." Juliet imagines Romeo as a hunting falcon and he thinks of her as a young nestling. She uses imagery of ...
- 4120: Hamlet: Antiheroism in Hamlet
- ... Hamlet, to the point that it does not matter whether or not it hurts Gertrude in any way. This scene depicts Hamlet as the victim, much like two bullies picking on a smaller child in school, since the king, with the aid of Laertes, is out to kill Hamlet, this time with a passion. Much like a political revolutionary, Hamlet has the system against him and is facing death because of ...
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