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- 1511: Inherit The Wind
- ... sarcastically to this belief of Brady’s that “It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.” After all, what are we here for? To watch television, drink Coca-Cola and eat McDonald’s? No! A ship in the harbor may be safe, but that is not what a ship is built for. We must pursue our need for knowledge, and if ...
- 1512: Cooper Thompsons A New Vision
- ... and independence, is also very crucial. "Where will this change in socialization occur?" Thompson mentions that in a boy's first few years, his learning about masculinity comes from the influences of parents, siblings or television. And he points out that competitive school sports are the major problem. School athletics learn to win regardless of the cost to themselves or their opponents. And because school athletics are a "microcosm of the ...
- 1513: Criminology, John Widemans Bro
- ... fail dreams was drugs. Robert s aspiration is to achieve prosperity but rejected the method to accomplish this dream. Merton would define this type of behavioral adaptation as innovation, which explains why Robert stole the television from his family. Robby was obviously hooked on drugs. The urge to use drugs (goal) was overwhelming. To satisfy the drug habit, Robert burglarized his family (the means), to pacify his cravings. It is difficult ...
- 1514: Black Like Me
- ... as to hang Griffin in effigy from the town's stop light one morning. This prompted him and his family to leave the area until the situation considerably calmed down. Griffin was interviewed by various television and radio hosts as well as magazine and newspapermen after the book was made public. His main objective was to educate the public of the situation in the South and people couldn't help but ...
- 1515: Candide - Voltaires Writing St
- ... or four word descriptions of what happens in the canto. Many chapters in Candide end with some sort of lead-in to the next chapter, giving the book a certain feel similar to today's television serials. This method is used in Don Quixote (chapter 8), but in a much more dramatic fashion. Just as Don Quixote is about to go into battle with the Biscayan, the action is abruptly halted ...
- 1516: Aleins Among Us
- ... more than even the creatures had. He ran done isles of weeping people, carefully moving to keep away from the monsters. People called to him savagely. Some were speaking languages Jim had only heard on television. He ran past dozens of rows of people bellowing out to him, but he didn’t stop. Now almost twenty of the creatures followed him, and more still came. Jim turned down an corridor then ...
- 1517: American Beauty
- ... a tool required to transport them to their belief of the American dream: little yellow house with a white picket fence, couple of kids, a dog, and a wonderful hard working husband as shown on television. Young women are warned, "Men only want one thing!" Older women have been heard to say, "So where are those sex maniacs?" As comedians know, timing is everything. Psychologists who examine biology to explain the ...
- 1518: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- ... after W.W. II when violence began to grow rapidly. Women were coming home from the war, and men were demanding their voting rights. In the 50's crime was on everyone's mind, on television and in the moon. O'Connor's knew taht society was drastically changing for the worse, and she probably knew that one day we'd end with something liek the Internet with all its pornos ...
- 1519: A Tale Of Two Cities - Suspens
- ... creates suspense is through his use of cliffhanger-like episodes. I can’t exactly call it clever, but Dickens’s ends a chapter with unanswered questions and loose ends. This little scheme might work for television shows in which the viewer has a whole week between episodes to think about possible outcomes, but it doesn’t have the same effect when it only takes half of a second to turn the ...
- 1520: A Critical Analysis Of Oz
- "Inmates of 'Oz' are Evil" "Oz" is an eight episode miniseries drama which is shown on HBO Wednesday evenings at ten o'clock. It is necessary to note that since HBO is a cable television network, it is not subject to the same restrictions that are placed upon basic networks. Oz is the nickname for the Oswald Maximum Security Prison. The setting is Emerald City, or "Em City" as referred ...
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