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- 2091: Analysis Of Casablanca
- ... a success - though the film is a far cry from the novel - so far the film's title doesn't even make sense. To Have and Have Not has every necessary ingredient for success: sex, violence, suspense, and the occasional musical interlude. Hawks gives us a little of everything in his hacked-up version of Hemmingway, and when the sparks start to settle he has Bacall do a little number at ...
- 2092: A Post-Modern Age
- ... better” life, that science and technology create as many problems as it solves, that reality is not scientific and objective, but creates a socially constructed condition for which cultural debates intensify and can lead to violence and reactionary movements, and that social and public institutions are in constant change; thus, requiring and even demanding more stability. The benefits of Modernity or of Post-Modern structures can be questionable; many individuals of ...
- 2093: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... aware of the plot, and with help from you. At that point I had no problem following the plot, which actually became quite interesting. The French Revolution was very well displayed in all of its violence and anarchy. The underlying ideas of oppression and anarchy made it enjoyable to see how the characters interacted. I found Carton especially interesting. He knew that Lucie would never seek after him, before and after ...
- 2094: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... to his friend Rachel. He then said “Guard this object carefully” (Sweetman 293). Some reasons speculated for this unusual self-destruction were: 1. Schizophrenia 2. He failed to harm Paul Gaugin so he turned the violence on himself? 3. He was just filled with self-loathing? It was later discovered that he was tormented by voices and was having hallucinations. Had he attempted to silence the voices by cutting off the ...
- 2095: George Carlin
- ... in place for a number of years now and it would be devastating in this day and age to allow this type of openness, especially with the problems we are facing in our communities with violence and children. However, I also think that the "seven dirty words" are just in fact what they are, words. "Carlin is not mouthing obscenities, he is merely using words to satirize as harmless and essentially ...
- 2096: Lack of Love and Frankenstein
- ... influence of society on the innocent and naive creature. The result of this lack of nurture and parental attention was bound to result in tragedy, from which “an additional meaning emerges if we take the violence in the novel to constitute a language of protest, the effect of which is to expose the wrongs done to children in the name of domestic affection” (220, Kate Ellis).The creature discovered the feeling ...
- 2097: Huckleberry Finn: Review
- ... have been forgotten, and the Grangerfords do not hate, but in fact respect, their sworn enemies. They live their lives by tradition, and the fact that the feud is a tradition justifies its needless, pointless violence. From the dignified Colonel with "a few buck-shot in him"(121) to Buck, who is eager for the glory to be gained from shooting a Shepherdson in the back, the Grangerfords unquestioningly believe in ...
- 2098: An Analysis of “The Cask of Amontillado
- ... set in place, we know Fortunato’s doom has been sealed. I find that this story makes the hairs on my back of my neck rise every time I read it. There is no real violence in the modern sense of the word, it is almost more horrifying because rather than see it with our eyes we se it with our imagination.
- 2099: More's Utopia and Huxley's Brave New World: Differing Societies
- ... also make note of the fact that when Huxley wrote his book, more than four centuries had passed since the writing of More's Utopia, yet nothing had been done to mitigate the greed and violence that More had found so appalling. And 60 years after Brave New World, we find that the gulf between rich and poor grows greater, while large sections of our inner cities have been written off ...
- 2100: The Lord of the Flies: A Complex Web of Symbolism
- ... all symbolized, the reader can fully grasp the themes that William Golding tried to convey. There are several parallels between the society of the boys and modern civilized society, such as the competitiveness, destructiveness, and violence. Existing in both primitive and sophisticated communities, the similarities suggest that the problems that the boys faced are those that are still around today. Golding challenges readers to think about what he considered most important ...
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