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- 1011: A Separate Peace - Thematic Analysis
- ... anyone even peripherally involved. Adequately proven in A Separate Peace, there are also historical examples: the Nazi death camps, the American Japanese-American relocation camps, and the McCarthyism of the fifties. Apparently, in America, the Constitution rules until war is declared, then paranoia and vindictiveness take charge. When Gene had the opportunity to get back at Finny, he did, which is so human it is disheartening. This tenet of our nature ...
- 1012: Harrison Bergeron By Kurt Vonn
- ... Vonnegut s very scary view of a future society where everybody was equal. Nobody could be more intelligent than anybody else. Nobody could be stronger, prettier or faster than anybody else. The Amendments to the Constitution and the agents of the United States Handicapper General would make sure it was kept that way. People will have to wear handicaps to modify their intelligence or appearances. If they are beautiful they will ...
- 1013: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... as sacrilegious and was banned by New York City's commissioner of licenses. The 1952 Supreme Court ruling in the Miracle case officially granted motion pictures the right to free speech as guaranteed in the Constitution, reversing a 1915 ruling by the Court that movies were not equivalent to speech. Although the ruling permitted more freedom of expression in films, it also provoked public boycotts and repeated legal tests of the ...
- 1014: Amistad 3
- ... any one person or group. This event was going to happen no matter what. Whether it was to take place in 1854 or 1994, human rights issues have been continually been a part of our constitution ever since it was founded. I found myself thinking that this was truly a great film to watch, a story; then remembering that this was history, an actual event that changed the course of our ...
- 1015: George Carlin
- ... amendment.(Simones, 1995) Because of this Pacifica argued that "the first amendment prohibits all governmental regulation that depends on the content of speech."(Gunther, 1991) "However there is no such absolute rule mandated by the constitution," according to the Supreme Court.(Gunther, 1991) Therefore the question is "whether a broadcast of patently offensive words dealing with sex and excretion may be regulated because of its content. The fact that society may ...
- 1016: The Scarlet Letter: Do You Dread Guilt?
- ... is Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale handles it in a different way though, to him its more of a "concealed sin." A example of this is, "It may be that they are kept silent by the very constitution of their nature. Or - can we not suppose it - guilty as they may be, retaining, nevertheless, a zeal for God's glory and man's welfare, they shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in ...
- 1017: The Awakening: Casting Shadows
- The Awakening: Casting Shadows Happiness; is it essential or is it a mere unimportant simplistic virtue in life's plans? Does everyone have the right to happiness? It is stated in the Constitution that we as Americans have the right to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin the main Character Edna has the perfect life. The sweet loving husband ...
- 1018: Thomas More's Utopia
- ... would be a parodox if done so. I think one get's this false interpretation through the title of the text and the name of his socialist imaginary state with perfect political, social, conditions or constitution."(pg.395) It also states that "Utopia" is derived from the Greek words "no place". If More had this definition in mind it would clarify the a majority of the ambiguities within the context of ...
- 1019: Zinn's A People's History of the United States: The Oppressed
- ... are necessary to the historian, but he chooses to take a different stance in his writings. ...I prefer to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees, of the Civil War as seen by the New York Irish... of the First World War as seen by socialists, the ...
- 1020: Gulliver's Travels: Summary
- ... In this voyage Swift criticizes the Royal Society of England, in which he says is composed of useless philosophers, inventors, and scientists. The floating island signifies that the inhabitants are composed of the same airy constitution as the environment (Long 276). Projects done by such people are summed up by "the Universal Artist," who directs his followers to turn useful things into the exact opposite, which results in useless achievements. Some ...
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