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- 3971: Movie: All About Eve
- ... the play that week due to the fact that she adored Margo and she would have nowhere else to go anyway. Doing this allowed Eve to get her foot in the door. If it wasn't for Margo's conceitedness, Eve would have had to work a little bit harder to get this. Margo took her into her home. Margo's secretary-aid, Birdie (Thelma Ritter), was the first to sense something was strange about Eve, but her position made it not her place to speak her mind. Eve knew this and also knew it ...
- 3972: Dreams And Dignity About A Rai
- ... that if you work hard and play by the rules, then something good will happen to you (Stein 1). In the film, Walter Lee Younger does not do either one of these things. Walter doesn t show up for work regularly and he certainly has no intentions of playing by the rules to get a business licenses. Walter Lee is a man stuck in a dead end job that he sees as demeaning and he becomes desperate to free himself from the bonds of poverty, oppression and racial discrimination. Walter Lee feels that with money he can change the hegemony s view of him as a poor, stupid, black servant. The hegemony s social construction of reality about blacks as being lesser and the hegemony s ethnocentric perception of being superior, is corroborated in an article titled The Colour Bar of Beauty from The Peak. Cristina Rodrigues, ...
- 3973: In Cold Blood
- ... such as car accidents and robberies are all too common. Who would think to worry of such things as murder? No one would until something happens to wake everyone up, such as in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”. The book describes the almost unthinkable act of murder in a small town setting. The novel is about the events and people surrounding the brutal slaying of the Clutter family in Holcomb ... his named Perry. Perry likes to travel. One of his hobbies is randomly picking a destination on a map and just going there. This is partly the reason that Dick is waiting for him. Dick’s real name is Richard Eugene Hickock. He was born on June 6th, 1931. He is a stout, blond man with blue eyes. He was imprisoned for many different crimes. He knew that Perry liked to ... the time of the murders. The motive for the murders was that the Clutters were rich, even though they were extremely modest about their wealth and fame. Dick came upon the knowledge of the family’s wealth by a prisoner who was celled with Dick and had worked for the Clutters. The prisoner meant no harm in telling Dick, as the Clutters had never mistreated him, he was merely conversing. ...
- 3974: The Watergate Scandal
- The Watergate Scandal "The Watergate Complex is a series of modern buildings with balconies that looks like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1). Located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. it contains many hotel rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972 early in the morning became a very ... had said. While on the stand he also revealed another name to add to the list of those involved, John Mitchell. (Gold, 246-247) The next witness scheduled to appear was John Dean. In Dean's testimony he exposed that the Watergate burglary had been only a part of a greater abuse of power. He said that for four years the White House had used the powers of the presidency to attack political enemies. They spied on and harassed anyone who did not agree with Nixon's policies. If a reporter wrote stories criticizing the White House they would be singled out for tax investigations. The White House also kept an "Enemies List" (Westerfled 43) of people that the presidents men ...
- 3975: Willy Lowman’s Drug for Sanity
- Willy Lowman’s Drug for Sanity No one’s life can be classified as “normal”. Everyone has conflicts that they have to eventually deal with. People do in fact deal with these personal conflicts in different ways; some take it easy some take it hard. Some ignore the problem as long as possible and some deal with it right away to get it out of the way. In Death of a Salesman, Willy Lowman’s technique to his problem solving leads to severe consequences. Willy never does anything to help the situation; he just escapes into the past to happier times when there were few problems. He uses this ...
- 3976: The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Great Morals and Lack of Glamour
- The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby's Great Morals and Lack of Glamour The Great Gatsby is a book of many different interpretations. One cannot begin to examine the conflicts without knowing the positions of each of the characters. This story portrays ... working menial jobs. At the age of seventeen, "James Gatz" had died and became Jay Gatsby. He felt this name represented his goals of life, which were to be rich, successful, and to win Daisy's love. Some may believe he changes his lifestyle to suit himself but it could be assumed that he was doing this for another reason, which may be the need for love. On top of all this, he wants to escape his background and past. Gatsby's life changed from being in the low or middle class to the high class. It is a big mystery of how he receives all this money but it is not from Cody. It is ...
- 3977: Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales By far Chaucer's most popular work, although he might have preferred to have been remembered by Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales was unfinished at his death. No less than fifty-six surviving manuscripts contain, or once contained ... during a tale, the pilgrimage framework is introduced with some kind of exchange, often acrimonious, between pilgrims. In a number of cases, there is a longer Prologue before a tale begins, the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the Pardoner's Prologue being the most remarkable examples of this. At Chaucer's death, the various sections of the Canterbury Tales that he was preparing had not been brought together in a linked whole. His friends ...
- 3978: Gender
- ... meet the amount. Workers were, of course, paid extra if they exceeded the certain amount, but the practice of "norm-beating" was not common and was said to be punishable through the loss of one's job. If the workers continually exceeded employers' expectations, then less work would be left for others the next day. Under socialism, this would encourage competition and unemployment would develop. There was simply no competition in ... dual roles, as homemaker and industrial worker. As was said before, socialism was supposed to "emancipate" its citizens from the troubles of competition and private property. But this "emancipation" only added further "responsibilities to [women's] full load at home" (Young, page 1). Men did not help their wives in any household work or in the upbringing of their children, except for financial help. With the growing and permanent amount of ... became evident in the working women. This became even more obvious since employers were not allowed to discriminate against pregnant women, only give them easier duties on account of their physical disabilities. (Lapidus 126) Women's dual roles did not allow them to have many children and still give them the appropriate amount of attention and care while having to work. (Kuniansky 117) Women's time now began to be ...
- 3979: U.S. Involvement in Kosovo
- U.S. Involvement in Kosovo War has been waged in the Balkans for thousands of years. Yugoslavia has been divided, reunited, divided again, undergone wars and been through depressions. Each country within the Yugoslavia region has experienced hardships due to a failing economy, poor leadership, and civil wars. In the past few years, a major upheaval in the political structure and the disputes concerning land between the different religions and ethnicity's has caused a civil war. The country and ethnic group of this recent dispute is Serbia and Kosovo. The Albanian Kosovars want their independence from Serbia, while the Serbs consider Kosovo the location in which their cultural and ethnic identity is placed. The United States became involved in the Balkan conflict in the end of 1998 ("Kosovo" 1). U.S. involvement in Kosovo is making matters worse for the innocent people of Kosovo. Kosovo, a small area in the center of the former Yugoslavia, is playing an important role in the Balkan conflict. In ...
- 3980: America
- ... any rehabilitation or readjustment, made much the worse than when they were first in society. Of course the many released on parole commit further crimes. What is parole, something that has power over a person's hardened character? "Correctional facility" is a lie. Where is the "correctional" influence in storing bodies for a period of time? Prisons are deprivation units. It's sad, but because of the hostilities within the prison environment, many prisoners are deprived of emotional stimulation, except for fear, anger and hate. In some cases a released person will even kill his victim to eliminate a threat to his survival in the world life's events have created for him; something it's doubtful he could have done before his conditioning experiences with hostile prison. There are circumstances when human life becomes secondary to survival, right or wrong. The ...
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