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- 19231: The Crucible: Personal Turmoil
- ... conflicts of their own. In Millers’ play, there are many characters that manifest the towns’ battle into an internal struggle. Specifically, there are three characters that have the deepest of self-conflicts. Mary Warren, who’s whole personality turns upside down, John Proctor, who contemplates between the importance of his family and his own name, and Reverend Hale, who battles with himself on whether to carry out his job requirements or do what he knows is right. Mary Warren, John Proctor’s servant, is a girl who is faced with much inner moral turmoil. At the outset of the play she is perceived to be a very shy girl who will never speak her mind, as shown ... wind, a cold wind”(Miller, 114) brought on by Mary. Consequently, Mary is now faced with yet another grueling internal conflict: to do what she knows is right and probably die, or to follow Abigail’s ways and live. Instantaneously, Mary succumbs to Abigail’s "hypnosis" and turns to accuse John Proctor of forcing her to lie. Clearly, Miller wants his readers to understand the pressure and massive internal conflicts ...
- 19232: The 60s and Freedom
- ... they often tend to overlook is the large emphasis "freedoms" had on the era. This does not just refer to the freedoms already possessed by every American of the time. This focuses on the youth's fight to gain freedom or break away from the values and ideas left behind by the older generation. While some authors when writing about the sixties give serious accounts of the youths' fights to obtain ... and messages in mind. They all, more or less, aim to show the many freedoms which their generation was fighting for. These fights were used to help push for freedoms from areas such as society's rules and values, competition, living for others first, and the older generation's beliefs as a whole including the freedom to use drugs. The younger generation just wanted a chance to express their own views rather than having to constantly succumb to the values and rules left ...
- 19233: Depression of the 1930s
- ... of the 1920s, however, there were serious economic weak spots, a chief one being a depression in the agricultural sector. also depressed were such industries as coal mining, railroads, and textiles. Throughout the 1920s, U. S. banks had failed--an average of 600 per year--as had thousands of other business firms. By 1928 the construction boom was over. The spectacular rise in prices on the STOCK MARKET from 1924 to ... stock market and in real estate, along with the expansion in credit (created, in part, by low-paid workers buying on credit) and high profits for a few industries, concealed basic problems. Thus the U. S. stock market crash that occurred in October 1929, with huge losses, was not the fundamental cause of the Great Depression, although the crash sparked, and certainly marked the beginning of, the most traumatic economic period ... distress of the millions of people who lost jobs, savings, and homes. From 1930 to 1933 industrial stocks lost 80% of their value. In the four years from 1929 to 1932 approximately 11,000 U. S. banks failed (44% of the 1929 total), and about $2 billion in deposits evaporated. The gross national product (GNP), which for years had grown at an average annual rate of 3.5%, declined at ...
- 19234: The Two Last Suppers
- Compare Leonardo’s Last Supper with that of Tintoretto. The Last Supper by Leonardo is very different to Tintoretto’s representation of the same incident. The last supper is one of the most important occurrences which took place in the Christian religion such an important event that many have seen the need for the event visually recorded through art the two most famous of these representations are by far Tintoretto’s and Leonardo’s works. The Last Supper by Leonardo was created during the renaissance period and is a simple symbolic work with little emotion. Tintoretto however chose to represent the event in a surrealistic ...
- 19235: The Government and Environmental Policy
- ... to solve problems, which can be seen with the Clean Water Act. Public policy has also been employed to reform the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Although the United States government is noble in it's efforts to preserve the environment through these acts, the internal structure of public policy often retards these acts' effectiveness. This paper will explore the many ways in which factors such as horizontal implementation, divided government ... structure of the federal government, language difficulties, lack of control due to the threat of success by one particular agency, different perspectives, and direct change of intention due to factors such as voter pressure. It's amazing that in the midst of all this that anything can be accomplished at all, but thanks to the drive to be re-elected, things have to get done on the federal level or else ... A few other factors of definition come into play when one considers the intricacies of the Act. An animal is endangered if it is in danger of becoming extinct throughout all or most of it's natural range in the wild. An animal is threatened if it is very likely to fall into the endangered category in "the foreseeable future". Endangered species have the possibility of generating boundless resources for ...
- 19236: Interest Groups
- ... public view, the intellectual transformation has for the most part occurred behind the scenes, in a network of think tanks whose efforts have been influential to an extent that only five years after President Reagan's election, begins to be clear. Conservative think tanks and similar organizations have flourished since the mid-1970s. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) had twelve resident thinkers when Jimmy Carter was elected; today it has forty ... dramatically expanded through the decade; nearly all are anti-liberal. No other country accords such significance to private institutions designed to influence public decisions. Brookings, began in the 1920s with money from the industrialist Robert S. Brookings, a Renaissance man who aspired to bring discipline of economics to Washington. During the New Deal the Brookings Institution was marked-oriented--for example, it opposed Roosevelt's central planning agency, the National Resources Planning Board. Only much later did the institution acquire a reputation as the head of liberalism. Through the 1950s and 1960s, as Americans enjoyed steady increases in their ...
- 19237: Huck Finn
- ... first few chapters of Huckleberry Finn, we can see traces of satirical elements begin to emerge from within the story. The very first satirical scene occurs after Tom plays a trick on Jim, Miss Watson’s slave. Huck goes on to describe how Jim reacts to finding his hat hung on a limb above his head. “Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode ... and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.” This note that Huck makes may have served a humorous purpose during older times, when Blacks were stereotypically superstitious. This also shows Jim’s gullibility and is referred to later on in the story. In the first eleven chapters of the story, the only evident character and element in the story being satirized is Jim and the simple stereotypes of an African American living in Finn’s and Clemens’ time. Jim is once again satirized in chapter ten, where he is bitten after Huck places a dead snake near his blanket. Jim, being superstitious, chides Huck after he touches a snakeskin ...
- 19238: Technology Has Influenced Our
- Technology has influenced our interpretation of the origin and nature of the universe starting in the early 1900's and continuing on until today. Technology continues to influence as people are willing to create and modify it. Applied science continues to advance and change bringing along with it changes in our theories about the ... miles an hour. These observations gave birth to the Big Bang theory and was an incredible feat for a time that had only inefficient telescopes and astronomical instruments. In the early part of the 1960's two scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were looking for the remnants that would inevitably be left behind if the Big Bang theory were to be true. The year 1964 brought an announcement that they ... what matter universe is composed of as opposed to how it came to be. In the study of the origin of the universe how the universes were created is the main focus. In the 1900's it was generally thought that atoms were similar to tiny balls. There were studies that showed that atoms could be placed into a category according to one like in a periodic table. This suggested ...
- 19239: Chinese Immigration into America
- ... People," completely left out the "uprooted" from the lands across the Pacific Ocean. (Takaki, page 10) This paper will give some information pertaining to the Chinese immigration into America. China is one of the world's oldest civilizations. It influence have reverberated throughout Asia. It's presence is felt in many of the surrounding cultures. The Chinese people have tried to keep their society pure from outside sources. When foreigners entered their homeland and poisoned the population with drugs, the culture ... steady supply of laborers. (Takaki, page 22) In 1848, after a war with Mexico, the United States obtained a region known as California. Finding Californina to be a commercial and agricultural center, it became America's gateway to Asia. (Takaki, page 20) With the large fertile lands of California, workers were needed to help reap the profits that would flow in. Aaron H. Palmer, a government official, stated, "No people ...
- 19240: Communism: Overview
- ... forth his philosophy on society and the way it would change. In essence, he developed "a set of proportions about human society and the way it is supposed to behave over time" (Daniels 5). Communist's state that the "greatest freedom, freedom from want, can only be realized went he abuses of big business are eliminated" (Leone 6). This would require her citizens to give up everything they own, and trust ... on, the two combined ideas and wrote not only the Communist Manifesto, but also the three-volume Das Kapital (Forman 138). Engles served his purpose as the "literacy executor" of Marx well (Ebenstein 13). Marx's genius was refined by Engles' brilliance. However, through the course of time, Marx's and Engles' theories did not remain as pure as they were penned. Marx himself declared "All I know is that I am not a Marxist" (Daniels 4). A great amount of credit for the ...
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