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- 23761: The Grieving Process
- The Grieving Process Grief is one’s own personal process of loss. During this process of grieving certain events may take place. It is normal to experience a variety of emotional responses which include, shock, or disbelief, anger or depression, guilt, and ... or depression usually follows. This is a frequent response to a perception of injustice or powerlessness. During this phase the most common question asked is “Why me”, A signifi¬ cant loss can threaten a person’s basic belief about them¬ selves or about life in general. You find yourself question¬ ing how a merciful and loving God could have allowed this loss to occur. Most of the time your faith in ... imagined. It may may surface in thoughts or feelings of “If only”. You may feel more guilty forever having the feeling of anger. You may find yourself feeling guilty for things you did or didn’t do prior to the loss. In order to resolve this guilt, learn to express and share your feelings and learn to forgive yourself. Acceptance, the last phase of the grieving process. Acceptance does not ...
- 23762: The Shining
- ... As we know from everyday experience children seem weak because they are small and usually are very sensitive and easily hurt by the negative and destructive outbursts of adults. Our general sense of a child’s vulnerability is heightened by the way the child of The Shining is forced to grapple with such evil and terrible forces which are likely to be difficult for all of us. Another way the weakness of the individual is shown in The Shining is through the contrast between the family and the large hotel. Through out the film , the hotel seems just so large that even if it wasn’t haunted we could easily understand why one would not be comfortable in it. All the rooms seem so spacious and we know that it was not built for a small family but for hundreds of ... about their vulnerabilities. In the end or perhaps from the very beginning he is entirely subsumed in the evil forces that lurked in the hotel for hundreds of years. One way of another he wasn’t able to escape his destiny. THE SHINING, 142 minutes Director: Stanley Kubrick Producer: Stanley Kubrick Director of Photography: Ronnie Vianu Cinemtography: John Alcott Screenplay by: Stanley Kubrick; Dianne Johnson Based on the novel by ...
- 23763: Toronto Homeless
- ... be done to decrease the problem? With the economical wealth attributed to the name "Canada", one would have to wonder why there is a homeless situation at all. This problem is especially evident in Canada's wealthiest city, Toronto. When it comes to the affairs of the people, it is the government who should intervene. When I look at what the government has done with regard to the homeless problem, I ... of their fellow neighbour. If we were to stop being self-centered and start thinking about the other person who has less than us, I am sure that we would benefit from it. It isn't all that hard. A few advertisements on the television and radio, a little push from our society's leaders and we would be off on the right track. That worked for the recycling program. Now we should try employing this idea for even better reasons. I doubt that I will be around ...
- 23764: Elvis Presley
- Elvis Aaron Presley was born on Jan 8, 1935 to Vernon and Gladys Presley, in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Presley’s were poor as people could be at the time and Vernon tried a variety of jobs to support his family. He was often away and Elvis developed a close bond with his mother. She had ... at birth and her ability to have other children. She put all her hopes on her one surviving son and was not to be let down. The family moved to Memphis in 1948 and that’s where Elvis’ musical talent began to bloom. Young Elvis showed his natural musical talent at an early age and pursued music through his youth. At age 19 he was signed by Sun Records and in ... 21, was signed by RCA records. He quickly shot to the top of the national charts with his first RCA single “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956). He followed with the enormously successful single record “Hound Dog”/”Don’t Be Cruel” (1956) and “All Shook Up” (1957). After that, his American sales have earned him gold, platinum or multiplatinum awards for 111 different albums and singles, far more than any other artist or ...
- 23765: Blacks And Indians In The Deve
- ... had o suffer in the wake of their destruction. This essay will discuss the events that have taken place in history dealing with both the Indian and Black slave condition in M. L. Conniff and T. J. Davis', Africans in the Americas. As the Europeans explored, their interest broadened. Africa exemplified their greatest interest because of the slave labor it had to offer. Unfortunately, slave labor was at the expense of ... beliefs but to no real victory, they fought on. Eventually, the Indian civilization was reduced dramatically. As time passed, the slave trade increased. Traffic across the Atlantic with ships reached its peak in the 1780's. Over nine hundred thousand Africans were shipped. This brought about a problem to the Europeans. They thought the increasing numbers of Africans would surpass that of the Europeans. Therefore, leading to an uncontrollable number of ... to the economy because with such a dangerously increasing number, the Africans could ultimately rebel and they could probably outnumber the Europeans. "Thus stopping the flow of coerced labor from Africa in the early 1800's ensured that the Americas would become predominantly white rather than predominantly black." (Page 163) The Indians and Africans both went through some form of slavery at the hands of the Europeans. In the end, ...
- 23766: Titanic
- ... and when she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY , she held among her 2,227 passengers. The cream of industrial society, including colonel John Jacob Astor. Macys founder; U.S. congressman Isidor Straus and Thomas Andrews, the ships builder. The ship was built of easily sealed-off compartments. If, for some unimaginable reason, the hull were punctured, only the compartment actually ruptured would flood. In an worst case example - builders figured that the Titanic would take from one to three days to sink, time for nearby ships to help, because there was only 16 lifeboats. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way. On April 14th, 1912 at about 7:30, at the first ominous hint of disaster has came. Into the earphones of the wireless operator on duty came amessage from the steamer ... ship sideswipes the ice. Because of the steels ductility,it would have absorbed massive amounts of energy. The ice crashed right through the plating as it grinded along the side, Strinking at an angle like s 300-foot zipper. ON midnight, April 14-15; fist six compartments were filling; water was beginning to slosh over. 12:40.; water filled 2,000 bathtubs 1:20 A.M.; The bow dipped; water ...
- 23767: The Works of Sinclair Lewis
- ... hypocritical and mercenary religious leader. In another of these crusading novels, Dodsworth (1929), Lewis depicts the egotistic, pretentious married woman sometimes found in American upper-middle-class circles. Among his later works are It Can't Happen Here (1935), the chilling story of a future revolution leading to Fascist control of the U.S., and Kingsblood Royal (1947), a novel on racial intolerance. Lewis was fascinated by the theater. He collaborated on a dramatization of Dodsworth (1934) with the American playwright Sidney Howard and did his own dramatization of It Can't Happen Here (1936). Lewis died near Rome on January 10, 1951. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published posthumously in 1952. His reputation was international. Although he generally scoffed ...
- 23768: The Crucible
- ... We often stifle our own conscience so that we are not ourselves condemned, and though we applaud those who uphold it, we usually do not have the strength of character to do so ourselves. Proctor s death becomes a moral exclamation point, and it would have a profound effect on modern audiences. Power plays a large part in the play. Miller serves a warning on the corrupting qualities of power, as ... of a theocratic government, the people in authority in Salem abused their almost absolute power, destroying many innocent people in the process. It illustrates how the law is not always right, and if it isn t, that we should stand up to it. That was what Proctor did by challenging the court. It cost him his life, but what he did not lose were his principles. Power is not often held ... then are much the same as the issues we deal with now. The modern audience can still relate to the issue of corrupting power, or the struggle to uphold the conscience, the issue of society s rules and our condemnation of those whoof those who go beyond those rules , along with our inherent desire to blame someone else , because of this connection. As with many good plays, The Crucible has ...
- 23769: Crimes in Schools Lower Academic Levels
- Crimes in Schools Lower Academic Levels It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that crimes in schools have increased. Over the past few years we have seen any incidents and heard of many on the news. Fact prove that the total number ... crime like that would happen in my school or somewhere nearby. After reading many articles there was this one article that grabbed my attention right away. The title of the article was “Violence against U.S. kids is common”. Just imagine how many students must have read that heading and felt unsecure about themselves. When a person reads such articles they do not sit there and worry about what is going ... crimes in school have caused many students to have lower academic levels of education. If you are not secure when you are at school studying then obviously you will have lower grades. Many people don’t take the issue about crimes in school too seriously. I personally feel that it is a very big issue, because there are many statistics and fact to back up every incident that happens. Whether ...
- 23770: Julius Caesar
- In Shakespeare's play of "Caesar" Brutus is a conspirator who portrays a person who favors a republic for Rome. Brutus is an honorable man. Many characters in the play show there reverence for Brutus. Brutus exemplifies his ... for his romans, therefore Brutus is an honorable man. Brutus is a scrupulous man, whose virtues endure. "No not an oath, If not by the face of men, the sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse-If these motives be weak, break off betimes, and every men hence to his idle bed; So let high sighted tyranny rage on, till each man drop by lottery" (Shakespeare 399). Brutus said that if the conspirators do not join for a common cause, then there is no need for an oath because the conspirators are self-righteous, and they are serving the romans. If the conspirators don't bind together, then each man will go his own way, become a weakling, and die when it suits the tyrants caprice. Brutus is advocates peace, freedom and liberty, for all romans, which shows that ...
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