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- 13361: Thomas Jefferson's Accomplishments
- Thomas Jefferson's Accomplishments Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, was the nation's greatest champion of representative democracy and the rights of man. He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, musician, and writer. His interests were boundless, and his accomplishments were great and varied. Through ... of independence, democracy, and philosophy. Three of his most important accomplishments were the Declaration of Independence, the acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase, and the founding of the University of Virginia. To many people, Thomas Jefferson's most important contribution was the creation of the Declaration of Independence. As a delegate in the second Continental Congress, Jefferson was elected to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. This committee asked ...
- 13362: Epic Theatres
- ... outside, studies." (Bertolt Brecht. Brecht on Theatre. New York:Hill & Yang, 1964. p37) The concept of epic theatre was brought to life by German playwright, Bertolt Brecht. This direction of theatre was inspired by Brecht's Marxist political beliefs. It was somewhat of a political platform for his ideologies. Epic theatre is the assimilation of education through entertainment and is the antithesis of Stanislavsky's Realism and also Expressionism. Brecht believed that, unlike epic theatre, Expressionism and Realism were incapable of exposing human nature and so had no educational value. He conjectured that his form of theatre was capable of provoking a change in society. Brecht's intention was to encourage the audience to ponder, with critical detachment, the moral dilemmas presented before them. In order to analyse and evaluate the action occurring on stage, Brecht believed that the audience must ...
- 13363: The Glass Menagerie Theme
- The mother's expectations "The Glass Menagerie," a play by Tennessee Williams, gives us a quick picture into the lives of three completely different humans beings. The mother Amanda Wingfield, is a women who is completely in love ... at times" (1898), but she is always present for her children. Laura, her oldest out of two children, is handicapped not only by her "defect" (1898), but by a big case of being shy. Amanda's youngest Tom a poet and a adventurer, is forced into the role of being the man of the house. Tom does not like this role at all. William's in this story shows us how this particular family with an overbearing mother that has particular goals for her children and it happens regardless of her efforts, the children do not grow up and ...
- 13364: Cognitive Dissonance
- ... Dissonance How do human beings make decisions? What triggers a person to take action at any given point? These are all questions that I will attempt to answer with my theoretical research into Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, as well as many of the other related theories. We often do not realize the psychological events that take place in our everyday lives. It is important to take notice of theories, such as the balance theory, the congruency theory and the cognitive dissonance theory so that one's self-persuasion occurs knowingly. As psychologist and theorist gain a better understanding of Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory manipulation could occur more easily than it already does in today's society. Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory is very closely related to many of the consistency theories. The first ...
- 13365: Kate Chopin A Style Of Her Own
- ... tell Leonce, he tells everyone that he and Edna were merely remodeling the house and Edna needed a place to stay. He says this because he can not stop her, being across an ocean. Leonce's lies just go to show that man had more important things to do in life than please their wives. Wives were the bearer of their children and rarely the apple of their husband's eyes. Edna inevitably tells her women - friends what is really happening; that she is leaving her husband. All of these women tell her of what she is about to do to her life, reputation, and ... does not know what to do with her life. In the end, She walks into the ocean and swims until she can swim no further. In this, it is inferred that Edna drowned. In Edna's drowning there is a lot of symbolism. Her death shows, in an odd way, the birth of women's freedom of individuality. In "Desiree's Baby", Chopin uses themes, such as, independence of women ...
- 13366: Catch 22
- ... American ideals. This was reflective of the increasing disdain for traditional viewpoints that was growing in America at that time. The book soon became championed as another voice in the antiwar movement of the 1960's. However, Heller himself claimed that his novel was less about World War II, or war at all, than it was an allegory for the Cold War and the materialistic "Establishment" attitudes of the Eisenhower era ... an everyman. Because of a traumatic experience, which is revealed bit by bit throughout the novel, Yossarian is terrified of flying. Yet Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly. Yossarian's attempts to avoid flying are met with the Army's Catch number 22, which is a sort of mythical stumbling block to free will and reason. In the end, Yossarian defects and takes a stand against his situation by running away from it. The ...
- 13367: A Student's Reading of The Politics of Rich and Poor
- A Student's Reading of The Politics of Rich and Poor Often times, a political analyst/scientist will write a book on the politics and economics of the time. This writer may also create a work which emanates ... medium" for economic growth. All of these factors support Phillips' theme and prove his argument of an up and down cycle of economic stability. From 1921 to 1925 the top one percent of the population's tax rate was gradually decreased from the marginally high rate of seventy-three percent all the way to just twenty-five percent. Over four years this elite group of Americans received a forty-eight percent ... the situation was reversed entirely. The economy crashed with unequaled consequences. The rich citizens who were living "the good life" four years ago were now stuck with paying seventy-three percent of the entire population's taxes. The stock market was on the down side, to say the least, the real estate and technological markets were also paralell to the stocks. The solution from the new democrats was to bring ...
- 13368: Black Legend
- ... was beginning a vast movement in efforts to dominate Europe by conquering lands about the New World. Lands in Mexico and areas near the Yucatan known as New Spain became the focal point of Spain s conquest. Being the first country to distribute their colonies throughout the New World, Spain was ridiculed by neighboring countries like England and France. However this type of ridiculing was largely due to the religion of Spain at the time. After the Protestant Reformation, Spain had remained to be a Catholic nation. Thus powers like England were able to attack Spain from all political sides. This new vision of Spain s bloody conquest in South America allowed Protestant Europeans to initiate a theory on Spain s conquests known as the Black Legend. This Black Legend was said to say that the Spanish were cruel to the natives in their colonies just because they were Catholic. Based on the given articles ...
- 13369: The Genetics of Violence
- The Genetics of Violence Introduction We, in the 1990s, are slowly and inevitably being faced with the sociological and biological implications of impending genetic power. This power is analytical, in such cases as the Human Genome Project, which will hopefully succeed in mapping out ... some as a great step forward, by others as a dangerous power with the ability to give birth to another Holocaust, and by still others as racist. At one time, it was believed that ones character could be determined from the bumps in ones skull. Much later, in the 1960s, as science marched on in its regular pace, it was theorized that carriers of an extra Y (male) chromosome were predisposed to criminality. Today, we are faced ...
- 13370: Faulkner's "The Unvanquished"
- Faulkner's "The Unvanquished" Though Faulkner's The Unvanquished is set during the Civil War, another war is being fought simultaneously. This second war is not one of guns and thievery, but one of beliefs. It is a conflict between two philosophies: idealism and pragmatism. This war rages on throughout the novel, but is decided by one event: Bayard's decision not to avenge his father's death. An idealist is one who is guided by ideals, especially one that places ideals before practical considerations. Life in Yoknapatawpha was idealistic, as was life everywhere ...
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