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- 3161: Child Abuse
- ... what he does to you when you are alone. He walks over to the couch and sits down next to you. His hand slithers it way onto your knee and you cringe in revulsion. “Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you,?he chides. Your mind feels panicky as you feel his touch in more intimate places and you scream involuntarily. His grip tightens as he places his hand over your mouth. “We’ll have to do this the hard way!?comes his intense whisper. You flail your arms at him, but it doesn’t help. His writhing massive body is on top of yours, and you feel so powerless. Eventually, you sink into a sobbing heap and simply wait for his passions to stop. You wait for the ...
- 3162: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... feverish writing periods and gloomy weeks. She was put in a Asylum or psychiatric hospital, and made attempts of killing herself. Lionel Aldridge was the defensive end for the Green Bay Packers in the 1960 s, and he played in two super bowls. Lionel suffered from schizophrenia & was homeless for 2 & 1/2 years in the 1970's. Lionel used to give inspirational talks to young people about his 20-year bout with schizophrenia and paranoia. Lionel has been in numerous newspaper and magazine articles for his ability to fight the disease he has fought most of his life. His message was simple to families who have mentally ill children or adults, don't give up on them. His motto was, ''Believe they can get well. Lionel lost his battle with schizophrenia and paranoia as he passed away in 1998. Eugene Gladstone O Neill was born on October ...
- 3163: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five; minuets from this period show remarkable understanding of form. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna (best known as Nannerl) was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich ... Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, who lived in the city. After their return to Salzburg there followed three trips to Italy between 1769 and 1773. In Rome Mozart heard a performance of Allegri's Misere; the score of this work was closely guarded, but Mozart managed to transcribe the music almost perfectly from memory. On Mozart's first visit to Milan, his opera Mitridate, ré di Ponto was successfully produced, followed on a subsequent visit by Lucia Silla. The latter showed signs of the rich, full orchestration that characterizes his later ...
- 3164: Muckraking Newspapers And Maga
- ... so common, the new journalism was filled with hard-hitting, well investigated facts. Muckrakers investigated the corruption of business, politics, and the labor movement and spread it all in front of their readers. They weren’t there to make friends or to appease the people who held power in the U.S.; they were there to make a point. They were there to point out policy and practice in America that needed changed or crushed and during the era, there were many issues to choose from. In ... to crime, but helping the criminal elements get away with their illegal actions . . . all for a percentage of the rewards of course. A society besieged with problems such as the industrial society of the U.S. in the late 19th century had one benefit though. Muckrakers had no problem finding things to write about. Three writers who had considerable influence due to their investigative journalism were Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. ...
- 3165: Death of a Salesman: Linda
- Death of a Salesman: Linda In the play Death of a Salesman, a character that doesn’t stand out very much in the play actually has much to offer to the plot - Linda. Linda attempted to perform a good job as a wife and mother, but subconsciously influenced the tragic ending of the play. Linda can be blamed for Willy’s tragic ending. At the very beginning of the book we see that Willy, originally on his way to Boston, returns home because he was unable to concentrate on the road. Just as he was beginning to figure out why, Linda took his mind off the subject by suggesting that the problem was with the car’s steering and not with his mind. “Oh. Maybe it’s the steering again.” “Maybe it’s your glasses. You never went for your new glasses.” By repeatedly doing this throughout the play Linda keeps ...
- 3166: A Three Generation Comparison of Discipline
- ... the military, and fought in W.W.II. Before the war he was a professional baseball player for the minor leagues in Minnesota. My grandmother would follow him around all over the state, which wasn’t easy while taking care of their eight children. My grandfather’s other hobby was bowling, which he decided to make a living out of. He opened up a bowling ally in Hibbing, MN, an iron range, ethnic type city. He always did good business, and is ... to California, where he is now, no doubt golfing. Like I said before, my grandfather is a full blood German, which stereotypically means he likes his alcohol. In his case, the stereotype is true. That’s another reason why I thought he would be a good source to interview. I wanted to know if that had any impact on how he dealt with his children. My mom has always been ...
- 3167: Theocracy and Guilt and Punishment in The Scarlet Letter
- Theocracy and Guilt and Punishment in The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s venerated psychological novel, The Scarlet Letter, is about the life a woman who is punished by a theocratic society. She is persecuted because she rebelled against the rules of this society. One major concept Hawthorne ... shown in Dimmesdale and how he punishes himself for his sin of adultery because society tells him that this is an evil and unacceptable act. It is also presented in the appearance of the town’s people and the town itself. The town’s people all wore very plain clothing, showing the virtue of humbleness that is often glorified in the bible, and the town is centered around the church building and the jail showing the emphasis on ...
- 3168: Symbolism
- ... The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”, written by William Shakespeare all have a strong common characteristic. Keeping in mind each author came from different backgrounds and had very different motivations for writing each novel/play it’s ironic that in each story the main idea is redundant. Each of the three stories uses symbolism as a way to relate conflicts in the story to the conflicts in the real world. Symbolism in ... the power to talk. “The conch shows how people use objects to give power in the world, like a crown, ribbon, or other things that show who has power. We also learn that objects don’t really give a lot of power when people choose not to obey it, like Ralph’s conch.” (Steven Magill, pg. 2059) The pigs head of Lord of the Flies are both important objects, to Jack it’s a sacrifice for the beast. This object shows that people will make religions ...
- 3169: Mozart 2
- ... the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five; minuets from this period show remarkable understanding of form. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna (best known as Nannerl) was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich ... Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, who lived in the city. After their return to Salzburg there followed three trips to Italy between 1769 and 1773. In Rome Mozart heard a performance of Allegri's Misere; the score of this work was closely guarded, but Mozart managed to transcribe the music almost perfectly from memory. On Mozart's first visit to Milan, his opera Mitridate, ré di Ponto was successfully produced, followed on a subsequent visit by Lucia Silla. The latter showed signs of the rich, full orchestration that characterizes his later ...
- 3170: Lord Of The Flies By William G
- ... of Lord of the Flies can scarcely be exaggerated, and horrific as it is, it cannot be dismissed merely as a horror-comic of high literary merit, as a ‘sick’ comment of R.M. Ballentyne’s nineteenth century views of the nature of British boyhood (Allen 120). III. A. He [Golding] entered the Royal Navy at the age of twenty-nine in December, 1940, and after a period of service on ... he became a lieutenant in command of his own rocketship (Baker xiii). B He [Golding] has constantly stressed his Hellenic parentage, claiming Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophoctes, and Euripides as kinsmen (Dick 120). C. His [Golding’s] first novel, Lord of the Flies finally appeared in 1954 after being rejected by twenty-one publishers; the author was then forty three (Dick 120). D. ....he is a genuinely religious novelist with a vision ... lieutenant in command of a rocket ship; he had seen action against battleships, submarines and aircraft, and had participated in the Walcheren and D-Day operations (Epstein 104). V. Ideas and Philosophies: A. The [ Golding’s early poems] foreshadow the considerable poetic talent evident in the fiction, but they are not representative of either his mature thought of technique because they come long before the trying experiences of the war ...
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