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- 931: Justifying Natural Born Killers
- ... we see a show called "I love Mallory Show" which is made to look like the "I love Lucy Show."(Stone) But this show is nothing like the Lucy shows. Instead it is about the sexual abuse that Mallory receives from her father, and how the mother doesn't help or even object to the fathers actions. In the end of the show, Mickey ends up killing Mallory's father, as ... But when the viewer stops to think at what he or she could have been or were laughing at, it can make someone feel uncomfortable because he or she was actually laughing at murder, and sexual abuse. The whole movie seems to follow this pattern; the viewer gets so involved with the movie that he or she forgets what they are actually siding for, and begin to justify everything that Mickey ...
- 932: The History Of Greek Theater
- ... was that from the Sicilian “mimes”, who put on very rude performances where they would make satirical allusions to audience members as they ad-libbed their performances. In the beginning, comedy was frank, indecent and sexual. The plots were loosely and carelessly structured and included broad farce and buffoonery. The performers were coarse and obscene while using satire to depict important contemporary moral, social and political issues of Athenian life. The ... intellect of the audience. Middle comedy, which dominated from 400 to 336 BCE, was very transitional, having aspects of both old comedy and new comedy. It was more timid than old comedy, having many less sexual gestures and innuendoes. It was concerned less with people and politics, and more with myths and tragedies. The chorus began its fade into the background, becoming more of an interlude than the important component it ...
- 933: Effects Of Advertising
- ... from this ideal, there's the risk of not being accepted by men. Advertisers, by setting ideals, not only sell their products, but in fact reaffirm traditional gender roles in mainstream America. Women portrayed in sexual ads are depicted as objects and commodities, to be consumed by men for visual pleasure and by women for self-definition. Any depiction of a woman in scant clothing ultimately makes her look vulnerable and ... physical features was what intrigued men. But this idea of Moss as a helpless child, with no real feminine curves at all, reiterates the argument that the male attraction to certain ads lies in the sexual power it gives them. Women please men in their nudity, their purity, and their body size. Women can never be happy with themselves until their representation in advertising become more reflective of reality. But if ...
- 934: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... in changing their given characters. The men's selection of lovers, in turn, continues to perpetuate their cycle of behavior shared with their relatives. Despite warnings, Kikuji Mitani and the Buendia men engage in hazardous sexual activity that harbors grave consequences. Lacheis' lots, in this case, are inevitable. Choice and independent action are impossible for these men since Lacheis has distributed the familial key to their female attractions. There is an ... before him, but with the next generation. Though Kikuji does not feel guilt about the association (93), he cannot explain why he chose Fumiko over a near perfect Inamura girl. In the Buendia family, too, sexual relationships provide evidence for a continuing predestined cycle. Only in One Hundred Years of Solitude, these relations exist in the form of incest. From the beginning of the novel the Buendia family is aware of ...
- 935: 1984: The Plot
- ... truth among other things. In the microcosm of 1984, the love which develops between Winston and Julia is exemplary of the struggle of those who have to exist in a society which scorns love and sexual desire. The Party’s altering of the past in order to deceive its citizens and create in them a sense of utopia is designed to reveal the conflict between truth and the mutability of truth ... s war against love and sex for purposes other than reproduction has succeeded in cutting off Winston from half of the human race. As a result of the Party’s oppression, Winston’s psychological and sexual life has been crippled. Winston is able to perform his duties for the Party without thought or question, but inwardly he represses every contrary or unorthodox thought in the vain hope that he will not ...
- 936: Comparison of Margaret Mead's "Coming in Age" to Russian Youth
- ... the political conscience of family members, especially that of children" (Shlapentokh, 1988, 34). Another negative aspect of the decline in family life is the rising incidence of divorce which is said to be caused by sexual incompatibility, inadequate housing, infidelity and a high rate of alcoholism (Traver, 1989, 64/65). These all leave the child confused, feeling alone and angry at society. He then looks for ways to express himself and ... with their own ideas. Another form of confusion for young soviets is the lack of discussion in the home about sex. Parents and teachers feel that talking about sex or contraceptives would likely encourage early sexual relations. Often this psychology backfires and many teenagers start sex without their parents knowledge. Their inexperience often leads to pregnancies which are terminated by abortions. In fact, the Soviet Union has one of the highest ...
- 937: Running a Thousand Miles from Freedom: The Victimization of Women In Slavery
- ... In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs, like Ellen, wants to have the chance to “fulfil herself as a true woman(Andrews 242). She wants the chance to be free from the sexual exploitation of slave women. Realizing that this freedom would probably never be because she has no husband and two children out of wedlock, she sought to make the condition of women in slavery known through ... Norcom would someday sell her to Mr. Sawyer, thus making it easier for her to gain freedom. Upon the birth of her second child, a girl, her need for freedom intensified. She feared for the sexual exploitation that, like herself, her daughter would receive. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs acknowledged this fear: “ I know the doom that awaited my fair baby in slavery, and I was ...
- 938: Aids 2
- ... were from New York City, California, Florida and Texas, and not all were homosexual men. Men and women who used intravenous drugs were also getting sick, as were men with hemophilia, the male and female sexual partners of people in these risk groups, immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, and some of the infant children born to women at risk. All these varied people had one thing in common: almost absent ... for only a year or two. By 1984, the virus called H.I.V. was firmly established as the cause of the mysterious syndrome. H.I.V. can pass from one person to another through sexual contact or contact with infected blood, settle into their T helper cells, and progressively destroy them. A blood test to detect carriers of H.I.V. was released in the spring of 1985. For the ...
- 939: A Comparison of Hamlet and McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- ... in the story during his first group meeting. As the doctor outlines McMurphy's history of petty crimes, gambling and fighting, special attention is paid to the statutory rape charge. McMurphy describes it as "overzealous...sexual relations", but it is unavoidable that the girl he was involved with was only of age fifteen. We have learned only moments before that McMurphy is thirty-five, displaying what is perhaps one of his ... till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. Possibly their relationships with females in powerful positions reflects on their use of non-threatening girls as objects of sexual desire. Although there is a lack of absolute evidence to this effect, it surely deserves contemplation. The most uncanny resemblance between the two characters in question, I found was how each feigned insanity to avoid ...
- 940: Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands
- ... and excitement Flor desired. So strong was this passion that it continued, even after his death. From Dr. Teodoro, she wanted security, stability, and social status. She also needed to put an end to her sexual frustration, as the words of the song she sang while cooking demonstrated: “If your guest seeks more refined game, serve him a more sensitive dish. A young and beautiful widow…Whose bed is a desert ... Vadinho mentioned several times, when he reappeared as a spirit that he came back because Flor had been calling for him. She had been calling him because of her despair at having lost the strong sexual passion they had shared. With her new relationship she got the security, stability, and social status she wanted but the Doctor could never give her the passion and excitement she needed. Vadinho wanted Flor to ...
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