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- 1091: Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal of William Randolph Hearst?
- ... and sell newspapers. And if there was no current sensation, Kane would create the news. Hearst did the same thing, revolutionizing his paper to take on "undignified topics" to gain circulation, sporting shocking headlines and stories of "crime and underwear." In a classic example of similarity, Kane nearly quoted Hearst exactly: "You supply the prose and poems, I'll supply the war," (Orson Wells, Citizen Kane) as Kane discussed what to ... if not for his efforts, it is probable that the war would not have even been fought. But Hearst, who would do anything for a headline, cooked up incredibly falsified tales of Spanish brutality. As stories of Cuban injustice became old news to the public, especially as there was no real war, a reporter telegraphed Hearst that he would like to leave. Hearst replied, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I ... his power, he had almost no savings and sometimes had to borrow money (Swanberg 88). Right after taking over The Inquirer, as told now by Bernstein, Kane ordered the editor to play up less "important" stories for the paper, the kinds of things that the nation wanted to see and read about, not just boring, plain "news." He became very involved in the editorial content of his paper, constantly trying ...
- 1092: Myths
- Myths The various complexes of stories about the gods are called myths. What people first think of when they hear the word "myth" is "false story", for they no longer believe in most of them. But there is another side, one ... belief that reality is intelligible. Myths are invented and accepted by people because they just do not settle for the experiencing things but want to discover the sense of things. Around the world, people tell stories of how the world came about, where they came from, why there is evil and death, why there are laws, why they is a summer, even why are turtles so slow. Some stories are so simple as to be brief folk tales. Others are grand myths tying together many aspects of life. All of them are a result of human intelligence beginning to make sense of things ...
- 1093: A Bird In The House
- ... Ewen and Aunt Edna all reach personal freedom, however only to a small extent because they are left with the pain of their memories and regrets. Vanessa reaches personal freedom to a small extent. The stories in A Bird in the House show the pains that Vanessa goes through while growing up. Vanessa travels on a journey form ignorance to knowledge. This journey is her comprehension of why things happen, and ... that aunt Edna was living in and her mother was going to have to live in again. Vanessa always tried to free herself of the things that went on around her by writing exaggerated adventure stories. When Vanessa wrote, it was her chance to get away from the things that made her feel trapped. Vanessa is freed of Grandfather Conner's tyranny when he dies, at least one thinks so. However ... the time that she has lived with Grandfather Conner however, when she has the opportunity to be free she doesn't feel that it is needed. Aunt Edna is a character in the compilation of stories that after many chances reaches freedom. Freedom from Grandfather Conner the person that made her feel like there was no where to run, she was finally free of him when she left his house. ...
- 1094: Saturday Climbing: Resolving Conflicts
- Saturday Climbing: Resolving Conflicts Dealing with a father-daughter struggle and conflicts, a turning point in the short story "Saturday Climbing" by W.D. Valgardson provides an opportunity for an individual to examine his ability to handle a situation, to learn to acknowledge and accept a fact that's imminent in his life, and to let go. of other when the time is right. The stubborn father in the short story, Barry, has discovered, through rock-climbing, his predicament of getting along with his teenage dauther, Moira, his awareness of Moira's leaving in the future, and his inability to retain his relationship with Moira ... hands, that she hsa her own road to walk, Barry eventually admits that it's time to let go. He can no longer restrain Moira from leaving home, and living her own life. In this short story, the author presents us with the difficulties faced by a man trying to raise his teenage daughter alone. He sets up protections for his daughter by over-controlling her life; ironically, however, those " ...
- 1095: A Bird In The House
- ... Ewen and Aunt Edna all reach personal freedom, however only to a small extent because they are left with the pain of their memories and regrets. Vanessa reaches personal freedom to a small extent. The stories in A Bird in the House show the pains that Vanessa goes through while growing up. Vanessa travels on a journey form ignorance to knowledge. This journey is her comprehension of why things happen, and ... that aunt Edna was living in and her mother was going to have to live in again. Vanessa always tried to free herself of the things that went on around her by writing exaggerated adventure stories. When Vanessa wrote, it was her chance to get away from the things that made her feel trapped. Vanessa is freed of Grandfather Conner's tyranny when he dies, at least one thinks so. However ... the time that she has lived with Grandfather Conner however, when she has the opportunity to be free she doesn't feel that it is needed. Aunt Edna is a character in the compilation of stories that after many chances reaches freedom. Freedom from Grandfather Conner the person that made her feel like there was no where to run, she was finally free of him when she left his house. ...
- 1096: The Book Of Judges
- The book of Judges is the sequel to Joshua. It is the seventh book of the Old Testament. It recounts stories and events from the death of the hebrew leader and prophet Joshua to the birth of the hebrew Samuel. That is roughly, from the end of the Israelite conquest of Canan in the 13th Century ... Death to the time of Samuel. It was written in about 550 BC, on tablets named the Ras Shamra tablets. The Ras Shamra tablets where later discovered in the early 20th Century, even though the stories and acountings of the judges where already known and written. The book of Judges belongs to a specific historical tradition which is called the Deuteronomic history. The author of the book of Judges, was in exile in Babylonia. While in exile he was deeply concerned with foreign domination. So he wrote many of his stories on the migration of the tribe of Dan to the North and the sins of the Benjamites. The author emphasized that Israel was being influenced by foreign powers and the loss of freedom and ...
- 1097: Affirmation
- ... is the reason they are studied all over the world. The Puritans affirmed their identity through their religious beliefs, utopian ideas and theocracy. The Puritans had a storyteller who spoke of their genealogy. Since these stories were based on the bible, most of the listeners (children) were isolated from the reality of life. They grew up with their same beliefs as their parents, grandparents, and elders. All Puritans were considered sinned ... for different reasons than that of the Puritans. Survival skills folk wisdom and hope, were the most common reasons and were important to their everyday survival. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear is one of many stories told by the griot (genealogist) which focuses on hope that the Enslaved African-Americans will one day be a trickster like Mr. Rabbit and escaped slavery; like the Rabbit escaped being hung from a tree ... repetitive cries felt like a beating heart of a courageous warrior in the midst of battle. Their songs were rituals passed down from generation to generation. that still exist today. The Native Americans griots told stories full of folk wisdom and their way of life. The stories told to children were meant as a guide of survival. Native Americans respected their elders and cherished every one of their folk tales ...
- 1098: Analysis -compare And Contrast
- ... poor pretty woman who thought she deserved a better life than one that she already had. The main character in this story is a woman named Louis, the daughter of simple working class man. Both stories include a sub theme of a hope for a better life, in which all men were created equal and all the ugly injustices in the world would cease to exist. But the cold hard fact ... can't, because we don't know how, and eventually the truth will show that is we don't what the truth really is. Using the slippery slope logic one can conclude that the two stories are more similar than they are different but because the assignment at hand requires for me to compare and contrast in an illustrative manner then I guess I should start. In the story the Star ... author of the star was clearly American. The main focus of the story is based on the importance of having money while the star is about the survival of the fittest. The similarities in both stories include that both deal with theme of hope. One is more graphic in the account of survival as portrayed in the star but the details in how the girl had to work hard in ...
- 1099: The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
- ... defense of the freedoms now under fire, and suggest ways to monitor the net without stifling it. As an example the reader must look at is Jake Baker who liked to write savage, pornographic snuff stories and post them to the Internet. Always written in the first person and tinged with an eerie realism, his tales were simple, explicit, and gruesome. "She's shaking with terror as Jerry and I circle ... to the attention of the University of Michigan. Baker was contacted by officers from the University of Michigan Department of Public Safety. Although he was surprised by the contact, he readily admitted to writing the stories. Baker waived his Miranda rights, and let them search his room and E-mail account. There they found an unpublished story and a number of E-mail conversations with a fellow rape fantasizer, Arthur Gonda ... case against Baker collapsed when real world standards were applied. Without the CDA or equivalent legislation creating different rules for cyberspace, Baker's posting to Usenet was no different than if he had distributed his stories as leaflets on street corners. Judge Cohn took a swipe at the CDA, which had just cleared the Senate by saying The Senate's recent passage of a telecommunications bill including Senator Exon's ...
- 1100: Amazing Grace A Book Report
- ... this documentary-style book, he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor, rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the purpose of telling the stories of the children who lived in these parts of the city. He dedicated his work to those children and it was his goal to inform readers that slums were in fact in existence and the ... deserve to live in such a poverty-stricken area. The question "Why should their childhood be different from others across the country?" arose often and needs to be examined by all. In some ways the stories, accounts and tales of these inner city children were shocking. I was aware that slums existed, but knew nothing of how they functioned, what living conditions were really like, or how the people there managed ... or because of the extremely unhealthy conditions they were living in and the poor treatments that were available at area hospitals. I cannot even imagine myself in those conditions or anyone for the matter. The stories of people s bravery in the face of so much adversity affected me the most. I am amazed by the people who live in these terrible conditions day after day year after year yet ...
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