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- 24291: The Crucible: Conflicts Between Individuals and Society
- The Crucible: Conflicts Between Individuals and Society In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, there was a conflict between individualism and society. Throughout the story there were those who symbolized individualism, the Puritan belief that conflicted with individualism, and Miller conveys the play about individualism and the responsibility of the individual of her/his society. The Crucible was an indirect description of what was happening during Miller's days during the time of Russian Communists immigrating to America. Americans treated the Russians the same way the people in Salem treated those who were accused of being a witch. Russians represent the society because Communism's theory exercises toward the community, and in the American Democracy individualism is exercised. A person who symbolized individualism would be John Proctor. He was an individual who believed that Salem was committing wrong deeds ...
- 24292: Auschwitz
- How could all this have happened? This is one of the many questions associated with the Holocaust. The Third Reich of no doubt on of the world’s largest and most feared empires. It could have easily overthrown the Roman Empire and was the most worthy adversary of the British Empire. The most overwhelming and terrifying aspect of the Second World War has got to be the ghettos, concentration camps and of course the death camps. The camp that stands out in everybody’s mind has got to be Auschwitz. Out of the 6.8 million killed there were 6000 killed at Auschwitz a day. What some people may not know is that Auschwitz was actually three camps fused ... The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941 and included a women's section after August 1942. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria, used to incinerate bodies. Approximately 40 more satellite camps were established around Auschwitz. These were forced labor camps ...
- 24293: Capital Punishment
- ... color. Whites and people of color are victims of murder in about equal proportions, over 83% of those executed since 1977 were convicted of killing whites. Approximately 20,000 murders are committed in the U.S. each year. Of those, about 200 result in death sentences. Those sentenced to die are not necessarily those whose crimes are the most atrocious. Instead, they tend to be people of color poor people, and those whose victim’s are white. Those who favor the death penalty say it is not racist or unfair. Pro death penalty activist Ernest van den Hasy said, "Murder has no color, class, or IQ. A murderer is a ... not sure if capital punishment is a deterrent to crime, or if it is fair, and I am not sure exactly how much it costs. Works Cited Lowe, Wesley. "Racism and Capital Punishment." Wesley Lowe’s Pro Death Penalty Webpage. (18 Apr. 1999) Martin, Phil. Personal interview. 20 Apr. 1999 Whenever the word death penalty comes up, people from both sides start shouting out their argument. One side says, deterrance, ...
- 24294: Pre-Employment Testing
- ... both willingness and ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position to be filled. In order to fulfill these principal objectives, Human Resource Managers need to decipher which test best suites their company's individual needs. There is a various number of tests on the market. It is important for recruitment specialist to know what kinds of information they need. Pre-employment testing can test any thing from skills ... most commonly used tests of this system are the Personality Profile and the Sales Aptitude test. The Personality Profile gives an overview of an applicants strengths and weaknesses. The Sales Aptitude Test assesses an individual's level of sales skills and Knowledge. Another system widely used is the Profiles International System. This system was created to assist clients in the move from traditional hiring and training methods to a new era ... in dealing with narcotics, but often these tests are incorrect or abused. Employers must recognize that the possibility of faulty results could serve to harm innocent employees with loss of job and damage to one's personal reputation (Desjardins and Duska 235). No form of testing is foolproof and there exist a variety of substances, which could potentially serve in a capacity to trigger inconsistent results from these tests. Another ...
- 24295: Othello: Iago As Satan
- Othello: Iago As Satan The Devil has been a significant part of many people's culture for many years, and in being so significant, has come up in numerous stories. Using Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, I will compare one set of depictions of the devil, to the way William ... for a long time, but neither the devil nor the hearth-money collector had gotten what they wanted. Coming across a woman working in her front yard, she yelled at the two men, "Oh, here's the hearth-money man--run away wid him,"5 the devil could do nothing but accept the offer and take him into "his big black bag". In order to get what he wanted and capture ... appearance, but knew that he had the ability to do so, "I would change my humanity with a baboon,"6 he said. The Irish folk tales were more vivid though, not just expressing the Devil's ability to change shape, but other supernatural powers such as blasting a door open "as if by the blast of a tempest."7 This quote came from "The Demon Cat" which as the title ...
- 24296: The Hindenburg
- ... airship voyages, reporters, photographers and news reel cameramen had their eyes and lenses focused on the great dirigible as it approached. When disaster struck it was sudden. Without warning flames gushed from within the Hindenburg's hull; thirty-two seconds later the airship lay on the ground, ravaged. Never had the sights and sounds of a disaster in progress been so graphically documented. Within a day, newspaper readers and theater audiences were confronted by fiery images of the Hindenburg. Radio listeners heard the emotional words of newsman Herb Morrison, sobbing into his recorder, "It's burning, bursting into flames, and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. . . . Oh, the humanity and all the passengers!(Marben 58)" When this floating cathedral, called the ...
- 24297: New England And The Chesapeake
- ... the bible was the basis for all laws and regulations. From the Article of Agreement, Springfield, Massachusetts it is clear that religion was the basis for general laws. It uses the phrase "being by God's providence engaged together to make a plantation", showing that everything was done in God's name. The Wage and Price Regulations in Connecticut is an example of common laws being justified by the bible. Also in this document the word "community " is emphasized, just as Winthrop emphasizes it saying: "we ... of New England. The immigrants were not idealists, but materialists, most of whom sought money. As John Smith mentions in his History of Virginia, many sought gold. As it can be observed from the ship's list of emigrants bound for Virginia, the immigrants were mostly young people, most of them men, and like it is stated in the same list they were all conformists of the Church of England, ...
- 24298: The New Deal
- During the 1930's, America witnessed a breakdown of the Democratic and free enterprise system as the US fell into the worst depression in history. The economic depression that beset the United States and other countries was unique in its severity and its consequences. At the depth of the depression, in 1933, one American worker in every four was out of a job. The great industrial slump continued throughout the 1930's, shaking the foundations of Western capitalism. The New Deal describes the program of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1939 of relief, recovery, and reform. These new policies aimed to solve the economic problems created by the depression of the 1930's. When Roosevelt was nominated, he said, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." The New Deal included federal action of unprecedented scope to stimulate industrial recovery, assist ...
- 24299: New Deal America
- ... their resources were simply not adequate (Madaras and SoRelle 218). Hope seemed non-existent. Americans had never seen such a severe depression. They could not look to history for guidance. The New Deal was Roosevelt’s attempt to restore the economy. His willingness to act decisively and experiment with new policies set him apart from previous presidents. He often said, "I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average"(Tindall and Shi 1238). In the first years of Roosevelt’s term he worked hard to empower the federal branch. The New Deal set the precedent for 20th century liberalism. The first order of business for the Roosevelt administration was financial reform. Banking is a crucial ... relief offered during the first New Deal were temporary. There were no entitlements, once the money was gone…. it was gone. The Second New Deal focused on long-term maintenance whereas the original New Deal’s purpose was short-term relief. Roosevelt called the legislation passed during the Second New Deal "must" legislation (Tindall and Shi 1254). The Wagner Act prohibited employers from interfering with union activities and gave workers ...
- 24300: Writing Style And The Reader -
- ... than human. This allows many readers to become interested simply because they can identify with how the characters feel. Poe uses very basic human emotions like fear, hatred, anxiety and guilt to draw in audience s interests. The main character in The Tell-Tale Heart had an unnatural hatred for a physical characteristic on a friend. He thinks it was his eye! yes, it was [that]! One of his eyes resembled ... just saw this body part, far out of the control of the old man, as something to be vanquished. The simple emotions of fear and hatred put forth to the reader come through clearly Poe s writing technique. In the Black Cat, Poe s mechanism for the reader becoming intimate with the protagonist is the use of an alcohol driven rage. Many readers now and in Poe s life time would have understood and could visualize the effects ...
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