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- 641: Reaching Up For Manhood
- By: Anonymous Under-privileged, African-American boys are more prevalent in today's society than the typical person would like to recognize or admit. These boys seem to be faced with an ideal in which they need to follow or conform to as any and all cultures have ... fend for myself. I did not need to learn self-defense in order to stay safe on the playground. My mother did not coach me on which ways to walk home from school. I didn't have to worry about it since the schools were well equipped with buses and money was not a problem for any of the school districts in the area I call home. I could not imagine telling a child not to go to the playground and play after school because it wasn't safe. If put in this type of culture, I would feel like I'd have to shield my child from everything when the reality of it would be that I am not the educator. ...
- 642: Antigone - A Contrast Of Two T
- ... are the basis of this essay, H. D. F. Kitto, and Michael Townsend. The first difference I noticed between the two translations was that the one produced by Kitto was substantially more proper than Townsend's. It gives the initial impression of being more of what a Greek tragedy should be; florid, formal, and full of imagery. Through this, the translator succeeds in making his version of the play seem older. Even in the very beginning of the play, Kitto is able to make Antigone's opening line sound more dramatic. While Townsend opens his version with the simplistic, modern sentence structure of "My darling sister Ismene, we have had a fine inheritance from Oedipus" (Townsend, 3), Kitto has the heroine ... play. One such example occurs when Ismene is recollecting the story of Oedipus, her father, in an attempt to show Antigone how foolish her idea of bestowing on Polynices a proper burial is. In Kitto's version of the play, Ismene's line is written as a huge run-on sentence; "Think of our father, dear Antigone, and how we saw him die, hated and scorned, when his own hands ...
- 643: The Meaning of Abortion
- ... in the United States is covered under the United States constitution, and under the 14th Amendment women have been given the choice of abortion. In 1973, Harry A. Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that it's a women's right to have an abortion. Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Even though these people have been given the right, the case is not closed. Pro-life activists carry a strong argument, and continue to push ... these beliefs that violence has broken out in some known instances. Pro-choice activists, on the other hand, also carry very strong points. They believe that the child inside them is their property and it's life doesn't be until birth. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided that as long as the baby lived in the womb, he or she would be the property of the mother. ...
- 644: Catch-22 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View of the Institution
- Catch-22 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View of the Institution Laughter is often seen as a form of therapy by both optimists and doctors. Joseph Heller and Ken Kesey also saw laughter as a type of ... the military, schools, social mores, government etc... The absurdities that could and do take place in these institutions are paralleled, ridiculed and condemned in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The humorous but disturbing nature of the characters, imagery, and conflicts found in the two novels provides the reader a perspective on the roles they play in modern institutions and how they are affected by those institutions. Both Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest have been classified as black humor. Black humor is defined as being a form of satire using situations that are at first humorous but are actually very disturbing. The way in which these ...
- 645: Combining Individual Stories Into Larger Wholes
- ... cycle are often blurry. In his studies, Forrest L. Ingram has defined a cycle (he invented this term) as: “a book of short stories so linked to each other by their author that the reader’s successive experience on various levels of the pattern of the whole significantly modifies his experience of each of its component parts” (p.47 Brevity Expanded). Robert M. Luscher, in his essay The Short Story Sequence ... out and read as an independent short story, its meaning intensifies and sometimes changes when read with its “neighbours”. The reader usually feels a sense of community developing as he reads on. In Sherwood Anderson’s book Winesburg Ohio (often referred to as a model of the modern short story cycle) the community is localised in a particular place, a small town. In this essay I will discuss this book as ... is present in nearly all. In almost every story, someone talks with or about the reporter. The local newspaper is something that links the people in town together. Speaking to the reporter is the people’s only way of communicating. Simple, healthy conversation for these people seems to be a very difficult and rare thing. Everyone in this little town has trouble communicating and they each see in George Willard ...
- 646: How to Start a Billiard Club Business
- ... better pool players spend hours upon hours practicing. There will always be a need for a billiard club. Someone is always looking for a place to play, compete, and just have fun. Billiards halls aren't just for blue-collar pool-shooters anymore. Today's billiards parlors are meet markets for all types of professionals, from lawyers to bankers to accountants to managers and administrative assistants. During the past few years, the expansion has been fueled by greater media coverage ... a billiard club business. First, you must have a business plan. The business plan can make the difference between success and failure. There are many questions in your plan that should be answered. The Weisbord’s six-box model answers many of these questions. What business are we in? What are my products or services? Who are my competitors? Who is my target market? What is the best marketing strategy? ...
- 647: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: A Reaction, Assessment of Literary Value, Biography of the
- Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: A Reaction, Assessment of Literary Value, Biography of the Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire contains more within it's characters, situations, and story than appears on its surface. As in many of Williams's plays, there is much use of symbolism and interesting characters in order to draw in and involve the audience. The plot of A Streetcar Named Desire alone does not captivate the audience. It is ...
- 648: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- The Holocaust - The Way It Was Definition of the Holocaust What does Webster's dictionary defines the Holocaust as? ho·lo·caust 'hO-l&-"kost, 'hä- also -"kästor'ho-l&-kost\ noun 1 : a sacrifice consumed by fire, 2 : a thorough destruction especially by fire. (i.e. a nuclear ... Jewish population), the primary victims, but also 5 million others, approximately 11 million individuals wiped off the Earth by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It is hard to grasp the idea that it isn't just 11 million deaths, but 11 million people whose lives were cut off because of racism and hate, all in a period of 11 years (1933-1945). There are actually two main phases to the ... important point, and one this site hopes to help bring across. The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the "Aryan" ideal. The unfortunate ...
- 649: The Great Gatsby: The American Dream
- ... most important motif in The Great Gatsby by far. There are over 450 time words, and the word itself appears 87 times. Gatsby always seems to want to go back into time to recapture Daisy's heart and get back to that perfect moment in time. Some episodes which symbolize time are when Gatsby knocks over a clock during his reunion with Daisy and Nick's famous list of people who attended Gatsby's parties written on a timetable. Gatsby can't and won't accept the process of time. His most famous statement would probably have to be "'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why ...
- 650: Pride And Prejudice - Marriage
- ... and only wrote about gentry like herself. That is why the characters in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ are middle class people, like landowners, vicars, and officers. She does not mention servants much. Marriage in Jane Austen’s society marriage is the status all the women strive to achieve. Money and looks are essential for a good marriage, youthfulness also counts. If a woman never got married, because of lacking money or looks, she would go and live with a married sister or brother. If she did not have any brothers or sisters to live with, she would become a governess. ‘Pride and Prejudice’s’first sentence, ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,’ introduces the theme of marriage, and money, in an ironic ... that his wife believes. He does not demonstrate any affection towards his wife and is tired of the way she behaves. Mrs Bennet does not get upset when she is the object of her husband’s sarcasm and is not intelligent enough to discriminate between important and trival information. When she is frustrated she complains about her nerves. Mrs Bennet does not understand Mr Bennet, and whilst Mrs Bennet’s ...
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