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- 2271: Spin Cycle
- ... known as a press conference, Kurtz shows how the use of controlled leaks, meticulously worded briefs, and the outright avoidance of certain questions allows the White House to control the scope and content of the stories that make it to the front page and the nightly network news. As Kurtz makes clear, the president and First Lady are convinced that the media are out to get them, while the journalists covering ... submitting to ruthless, tabloid-like tactics? This book leaves you wondering. Maybe the real blame should be placed on the public. After all, if the people did not purchase the newspapers and watch the new stories, they would eventually cease. We like to blame the press for circulating dirty laundry. But aren t we, the people, equally to blame if we buy these magazines and newspapers and watch these television programs ...
- 2272: Soldiers Home
- ... front porch," he is protected. The girls walk "on the other side of the street"; nothing can touch him (147-48). Like sophisticated Brett Ashley, these small-town Oklahoma girls celebrate a new era with short skirts and short hair. Krebs admires them, yet he protects himself from the danger of sexual involvement as if he were still suffering from a previous affair. He has to control himself. Only as an onlooker can he ...
- 2273: Similarities Between Creon And
- ... law of the gods. Antigone puts the laws of the gods ahead of the laws of the state s. She goes ahead and buries her brother. Which was strictly prohibited by Creon. This shows her short-sightedness is because she only does what she thinks the gods want. Instead of abiding by the law that Creon decreed. Creon is also short-sighted because he refuses to believe any other opinions or laws than his own. Creon and Antigone are both so loyal which can also make them very extreme. Creon is an extremist in reason. He ...
- 2274: Shakespearean Comedy 2
- ... reasonable and weigh things out before actions are taken. These three plays all have different messages which are told in various ways. As a writer, Shakespeare was so talented he could write different types of stories with such grace. These three plays are just a few examples of the different extremes he was capable of. Writing and defining comedy can be very difficult. Many elements of comedy are in his plays and this makes they very enjoyable reading. Comedy helps me to identify with stories since I like happy endings much better than tragic endings. After finishing a book, I like to have a feeling of closure and in these comedies my need is fulfilled.
- 2275: Secret Sharer Character Essay
- Confidence Within In the short story "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad, the Captain changes from an insecure person to a confident leader because of the experience with the Secret Sharer. At first, the Captain felt reluctant to give orders ... reason you need concern yourself about is because I tell you to do so" (957). He is more confident with his orders and the opinion of his crew does not concern him anymore. In the short story "The Secret Sharer" it can be seen that the Captain has changed due to the interactions with the Secret Sharer. In the beginning he was an insecure person and then changed to a self ...
- 2276: Scars Of War
- ... not miss the gaping, rubble-filled holes that were once buildings. I was not ready for the scenes of destruction that I was about to witness. I have hiked the hollow fields of Gettysburgh, read stories of the war in Vietnam, listened to stories from friends and colleagues that had served in Panama and Somalia, and watched the 100 Hour War on CNN. Who really witnesses the effect and the price a city pays years after the bombs stop ...
- 2277: Rude Strength
- ... were poor, uneducated, and foreign to the language they were speaking, or drunk, or simply speaking in the unaffected, slipshod discourse used by the working-class folks I grew up around. I listened to the stories my father's sisters told me, in awkward, broken English, about their lives in Italy. I sat with my seven year-old legs dangling from a barstool in the tavern drinking strawberry soda pop and ... in calm, objective-sounding, and measured words, my language sounds even stranger than it did when I was an undergraduate. Often, I feel like my Italian aunts must have felt when they tried to articulate stories about their native village to me; I feel like I am translating my ideas. My language betrays my excitement, anger, and impatience, and I pause often to be sure that I'm being understood, making ...
- 2278: Role Of The Common Man In A Ma
- ... the story and, prove the importance of this character. As the audience discovers in the beginning of the play, the Common Man can change roles at will. The characters he takes on usually have very short parts. The characters are used to foreshadow future events and help in plot development. In the introduction of the play, the audience meets the Common Man. He is dressed from head to toe in black ... This quote foreshadows Thomas More not wanting to go against his conscience and swear to the King Henrys oath. The audience also meets the Boatman, who seems to be quite ordinary and poor. In the short conversation that he has with Thomas More, an additional line foreshadows the future. The river looks black tonight. They say it s silting up, is that so? (Bolt 28) In this line, river looking black ...
- 2279: Roland
- ... Yet, in the court of the high medieval period, the knights become slack in their virtue. For example, in the romance it is at the court of King Arthur, away from Laudine, that Ywain falls short of his obligations. He stays to long male bonding with Gawain and forgets about his wife. It is only after his wife refuses to take him back that he realized his mistake. He must do ... took on new roles in the high middle ages. Jesus was no longer the triumphant God, now he was the suffering human. As Southern states so eloquently, "it is a striking thing that the intellectual short-comings of this picture of Man's salvation [that found during Roland's time] only became clear at the moment when the heroic view of human life being lived between the mighty opposites of external ...
- 2280: Realism And Credibility In Mol
- ... that Defoe's and Behn's work is 'ineffective', but there is indeed a difficulty: it is the claim of truth. Defoe in his preface states, "The himself, ..." (Behn, 75). Although both authors claim their stories are true, and thereby that their characters are realistic, there seems to be a gap between the authors' claims and the "reality" of the characterization. This question is closely connected to the fact that both ... like. Thus, the rejection of traditional plots is in both novels expressed by the choice of biography as the method of presenting the story, because the aim is to attract the reader's attention with stories as authentic as possible. It is difficult to decide whether the narrator in Oroonoko is specific or rather a universal type. She is only a minor character in contrast to Moll. Oroonoko, however, is specific ...
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