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- 5281: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... parenting, head trauma, fetal alcoholism and drug addiction. Perhaps in some cases, these are contributing factors, but not for Jeffrey Dahmer. His father, Lionel Dahmer, wrote a very sad and poignant book called A Father's Story which explores the very common phenomenon of a parents trying desperately to give their child a good upbringing and discovering to their horror that their child has built a high wall around himself from ... child has slipped beyond your grasp, that your little boy is spinning in the void, swirling in the maelstrom, lost, lost, lost." Lionel seems to be fairly straightforward in recognising the negative influences in Jeff's life. No family is perfect. Jeff's mother had various physical ailments and appeared to be high strung, coming from a background in which her father's alcoholism deeply affected her life. Lionel, a chemist who went on to get his ...
- 5282: The Chase
- ... our 1 am visit to Coles. Ben was eating his sherbert with one of those little colored spoons. Meanwhile Mike was drinking his two-litre bottle of orange juice and looking very contented, which wasn't his usual manner. Normally, he'd be complaining about life or some other thing but tonight was different. We began to cross a bridge on the way back to my flat and Ben remarked how ... looked so stupid you just had to laugh. We continued over the bridge drawing nearer to my flat. I was getting ready to watch another movie when Mike suggested we take a walk. I couldn't see how this would help us in any way; my place was straight ahead about one minute away. Ben was all too happy to go as well, so I had no say. I think the walk was meant to savour the moment, which wouldn't be that bad. I felt content and I think the others felt the same way. We walked up a dark street, lit only by streetlights, just talking about nothing. We turned into the first ...
- 5283: Imagery In Waiting For Godot
- End Of Your Rope - Waiting For Godot Interpersonal relationships are extremely important, because the interaction of the characters in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as they try to satisfy one another's boredom, is the basis for the play. Pozzo's and Lucky's interactions with each other form the basis for one of the play's major themes. The ambivalence of Pozzo's and Lucky's relationship in Waiting For Godot resembles most human ...
- 5284: Hamlets Madness
- ... actions and thoughts catch him and slowly turn him insane. Not to say that he was a crazed madman out of touch with reality as was Ophelia, but a man driven crazy by thought. Hamlet's behavior throughout the play, especially towards Ophelia is inconsistent. He jumps into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum" [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved her, when she returns his letters and gifts, while she was still alive. Hamlet subtly hints his awareness of his dissolving sanity as he tells ...
- 5285: Transformation Power of Love
- ... attitudes, hopes and goals. In the story the person who undergoes the major change is Dmitri Gurov. When Dmitri first saw Anna, all he wanted was to have fun. His first thought was “If she’s here without her husband, and without any friends, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make her acquaintance.” He saw Anna as a person for usual short affair on the vacation. He did not consider this acquaintance anything more than temporary affair. For him it ... her love. She is afraid of her feeling. The end of the story is clear. We understand that Dmitri and Anna are happy only when they are together. A once very convenient arrangement of Anna’s frequent visits to Moscow is not satisfying them any more. They want to be together all the time. They have lived with the present. Now they want to have future together. “And it seemed ...
- 5286: The Micmac V.S. The Iroquois
- The Micmac V.S. The Iroquois Although the Micmac and the Iroquois Confederacy are both Aboriginal groups, they have many differences as well as similarities. One area of such, is their traditional justice systems. Their governments and laws are ... the confederacy in 1722. The Iroquois are bound in a treaty of friendship with the Ojibway to the North. The Micmac government was three-tiered, with local, district, and national chiefs, or ‘Sagamores'. Each settlement's council of elders chose a local chief. The chief was the focus of power in the settlement. The local chief attained position through both hereditary right and meritorious behavior. The oldest son of a dead ... followed by unanimous agreement between clans. The head chief would then announce the vote of his nation in the league council. In the Iroquois society, fifty "sachem ships" were created, these men represented their nation's interests on the general council, while continuing to exercise leadership at the local level. Together they formed the executive, legislative, and judicial authority of the league. Although each nation possessed unique responsibility in the ...
- 5287: Prozac: Harmful or Helpful?
- ... associated with more hospitalizations, deaths, or other serious adverse reactions reported to the FDA than any other drug in America” (qtd. in Freundlich 2). Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company created Prozac in 1974, but it wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1987. The first of the SSRIs, Prozac inhibits or blocks the recapture of the neurotransmitter serotonin by nerve cells (“Prozac” 2). This allows the serotonin to remain in the brain ... serotonin in the human brain are more like pharmacological machetes than they are like scalpels--crudely effective but capable of doing plenty of collateral damage” (Lemonick 3). Prozac is supposed to help improve a person’s mood by increasing the level of serotonin present in the brain. However, problems can occur if receptors in the brain stem and spinal cord are over-stimulated. Sufferers endure fever, chills, muscle spasms, agitation and ... over-prescription of Prozac are children. In 1997, at least 580,000 children were being prescribed Prozac, even though safety and effectiveness in pediatric patients had not, and still has not, been established (Huffington, “U.S. Attention” 1). As with most antidepressant prescriptions, doctors are prescribing Prozac for children without any psychiatric evaluation. Yet, in a Prozac ad, symptoms of depression included feeling “unusually sad or irritable” to finding it “ ...
- 5288: Obsession And Deviance
- ... of Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado" and of the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is obvious throughout the stories. The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is actually obsessed with the old man's eye, rather than the old man himself. It is this obsession with the eye that drives him to commit the murder, despite his relatively good feelings toward the old man personally. This is why he ... narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" in that his obsession with consuming the soul of Fortunato influences his every action. However, it is with Fortunato himself that he is obsessed. He feeds off of Fortunato's pain, unlike the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" who's obsession is with destroying a menacing inanimate object. Montresor's entire conspiracy is focused around making Fortunato suffer, and for him to know just who is causing this suffering. This is why he goes ...
- 5289: Waiting For Godot
- End Of Your Rope - Waiting For Godot Interpersonal relationships are extremely important, because the interaction of the characters in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as they try to satisfy one another's boredom, is the basis for the play. Pozzo's and Lucky's interactions with each other form the basis for one of the play's major themes. The ambivalence of Pozzo's and Lucky's relationship in Waiting For Godot resembles most human ...
- 5290: News of a Kidnapping
- ... place in late 1990 when the Colombian security forces mounted a nationwide manhunt for Pablo Escobar, the ruthless and elusive head of the Medellin cartel. Ten men and women, mostly journalists, were abducted by Escobar’s henchmen and used as bargaining chips against extradition to the United States. Although this book focuses mainly on the theme of extradition, I want to show the relevance of the problems that Colombia had to ... extradition became used a tool to pressure the criminals into surrendering. Pablo Escober is a figure that is all too familiar in oppressed countries. Although his occupation is not good and honest (drug trafficking), he’s a figure that is greatly supported and protected. Granted his main supporters ARE the poor and oppressed. These people, though for the most part religious, are at the point where they are willing to support anyone who supports them. As Che Guevara was to Bolivia and Subcommander Marcos was to the Chiapas rebels in Mexico, Pablo Escobar was to the poor in the Medellin area. Historically, third world country's governments are run by the rich and tend to reap the most benefits. Perhaps because of this, it is very hard for many of the poor to believe they have a future out of ...
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