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- 271: Romeo and Juliet: Prejudice Between Families
- Romeo and Juliet: Prejudice Between Families Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare, is a play which shows how prejudice leads to escalating violence. Prejudice leads to violence shown in the play when the feuding families, the Montagues and Capulets fight. In each case, disruption, fighting, injuries and death occur. Also, the prejudice against the two families never got resolved because they were ... involves the Lords of both families and the Prince. No death occurred, but the families attitudes against each other were worse then before. Which caused a lot of prejudice against the families that lead to violence. In like manners, another duel between the two feuding families start up again in the street of Verona in Act three Scene one. When Mercutio and Benvolio friends of Romeo, are confronted by Tybalt, ...
- 272: RAP CENORSHIP
- ... once Elvis pelvic gyration would not be televised, it is now an accepted entertainment technique. Bachs adventuresome textures that threatened his employment can sound boring now. Today we become offended by explicit sex or violence or language pertaining to such threats to morality. Robert L. Gross pointed out: ...this controversy is a replay of the age old generation gap, in a new and, perhaps, more striking form. Iron Maiden may ... United States today and comment on our culture, one would be very far off the track if one did something delicate or sublime. This is not a noble, delicate, sublime country (Zappa 1988). Explicit sex, violence, pain, suffering, and unusual human acts are characteristics of the human drama. Lyrical content is now censored when relating to "...explicit sex, explicit violence, or explicit substance abuse" (Baker 1989). Sexual acts, in particular, are commonly accepted in our society, but the language that denotes these acts is not. Perhaps it is the actual acts that the censors ...
- 273: The Godfather: Gangster Genre
- ... gangster films - the second one from Warner Bros. in the thirties. Director William Wellman's. The Public Enemy is toughe, violent and realistic (released before the censorship codes were strictly enforced), although most of the violence is off-screen. The lead character is portrayed as a sexually magnetic, cocky, completely amoral, emotionally brutal, ruthless, and terribly lethal individual. However, the cold-blooded, tough-as-nails racketeer and "public enemy" begins his ... just a baby" Since his father has died, the task of raising Tom has fallen to his pathetic, clinging mother and to his respectable brother. White Heat (1949) is characterised by an increased level of violence and brutality and classical elements. White Heat is a fascinating portrait of a flamboyant, crazed, mother-dominated and fixated, epileptic and psychotic killer, who often spouts crude bits of humor. The melodramatic, crime film is ... moving, slowing-down target and makes his way toward the front of the train. Although the film was made nearly twenty years after The Public Enemy nothing much has changed except for the increase in violence and the disrespectful and uncaring attitudes towards women being weaker and less important they still find away for a young women to shoot an old lady in the back (off screen). The Godfather (1972). ...
- 274: Why Kids Join Neo-Nazi Gangs
- ... former East Germany Army shooting grounds. They would also learn the art of bomb making. SHORTAGES OF JOB AND HOUSING CREATE FERTILE GROUNG ROR YOUNG NEO-NAZIS The skinheads have shown terrifying power to unleash violence against foreigners, especially in what was know as East Germany. There the populace went from Nazi to communist totalitarianism without any democratic interual. Since the umfication there has been economic instability rather than prosperity and has urped out the state subsidizedclubs that used to keep the young off the streets. Since they have nothing to do they turned to random and racially motivated violence. The national government counted 2,074 crimes maturated by hatred of foreigners in 1991 u.s only 246 in 1990. A Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a car to his death in Dresden, a ... gypsies in that hostel out because of themess they had made. The neighbors petitioned the politicians for months, but nothing happened. So the NEO-Nazis youths took matters into their own hands which led to violence. Social teens led by NEO-Nazi agitators from other part of Germany battled the police and burned cars for much of the past 10 days brd most of the hundreds of residents who had ...
- 275: Romeo And Juliet 2
- Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare, is a play which shows how prejudice leads to escalating violence. Prejudice leads to violence shown in the play when the feuding families, the Montagues and Capulets fight. In each case, disruption, fighting, injuries and death occur. Also, the prejudice against the two families never got resolved because they were ... the Lord s of both families and the Prince. No death occurred, but the families attitudes against each other were worse then before. Which caused a lot of prejudice against the families that lead to violence. In like manners, another duel between the two feuding families start up again in the street of Verona in Act three Scene one. When Mercutio and Benvolio friends of Romeo, are confronted by Tybalt, ...
- 276: Middle East And Canada
- ... the Mattawa would this religious item have been deemed worthy of coverage? Or was it the newspapers' sense of the irony of these events, of their news value as symbols depicting the pervasive conflict and violence we have come to associate with the Middle East that led to their selection for publication from the reams of teletype endlessly flowing into the editorial departments of the Canadian press? It would seem that ... Cumming, 1981; Keenleyside, Soderlund, & Burton, 1985; Kirton, Barei, & Smockum, 1985; Schroeder, 1977). (3) Conflict rather than cooperation, it was hypothesized, would be the dominant orientation of the press with articles focusing on political divisions, disasters, violence and war rather than on softer news related to such subjects as culture, education and development (Cuthbert, 1980; Dewitt & Kirton, 1989; Hackett, 1989; Inyang, 1985; Onu, 1979; Schroeder, 1977; Sinclair, 1983). (4) On the perennial ... or social turmoil, decay and/or disintegration. Using this broad definition, 86.7% of items were classified as conflictual in nature or both conflictual and non-conflictual. Of these, 340 or 72.3% dealt with violence in or related to the region. Canadian press coverage from December 1987 to September 1988 was also very heavily conflictual in character. As indicated, Israel was the dominant focus and the majority of stories ...
- 277: Society Points Guns And Finger
- ... himself and our culture. It often questions the values of American Christianity. It is often angry about the state of the world as he sees it. It does NOT advocate murder. It does not advocate violence. It advocates honesty. Marilyn Manson is not to blame for tragedies such as the one at Littleton. Instead, a look at what may be wrong with our family structure, our systems of education, or our ... or actors. What artist doesn t stray a bit from the norm? Is there anything wrong with that? I don t think so. The gothic people that I have met are not violent. In fact, violence is one of the reasons that these kids have chosen to exclude themselves from the other activities. Most of these kids are peaceful and are openly loving of each other. When a closer look is ... video for the song 'Coma White,' in which I enact the 'Journey of Death.' This is a pageant where I used the assassination of JFK as a metaphor for America's obsession and worship of violence. My statement was always intended to make people think of how they view, and sometimes, participate in these events. Little did I know that the tragedy at Columbine and the accidental death of JFK, ...
- 278: A Pro-Choice Argument
- ... pregnancy, as well as put themselves as well as their child in danger if their family situation is a violent one. "Among minors who did not tell a parent of their abortion, 30% had experienced violence in their family or feared violence or being forced to leave home."2 Although we middle class people would like to believe that no parent would abandon or punish their child like this, the fact is that many pregnant girls come ... a home where he or she will be cared for, emotionally as well as financially. Now let us address the topic of pro-life activists. I will refer mostly to the extreme activists, who use violence as their means of protest. The argument that pro-life advocates hold is that abortion is murder. "Why don't you give the baby a choice?" is a common rhetorical question posed by pro- ...
- 279: Martin Luther King
- ... to spread throughout the country. The boycott gave a strong psychological push of courage that would continue until Blacks obtained what was morally right. What made Martin Luther King striking was his conviction on non- violence. He believed that this belief could give blacks a superior level of morality over whites. This ideology was important for his success in later years. As a result, it helped restrain the use of violence from whites to blacks and vice versa. This philosophy was tested during the Montgomery bus boycott. Before the successful boycott, blacks used violence in order to protest racism. During the boycott, however, on both sides violence was not a measure to be taken. When someone bombed King's home, the fact that violence was used against a ...
- 280: Why Kids Join Neo-nazi
- ... former East Germany Army shooting grounds. They would also learn the art of bomb making. SHORTAGES OF JOB AND HOUSING CREATE FERTILE GROUNG ROR YOUNG NEO-NAZIS The skinheads have shown terrifying power to unleash violence against foreigners, especially in what was know as East Germany. There the populace went from Nazi to communist totalitarianism without any democratic interual. Since the umfication there has been economic instability rather than prosperity and has urped out the state subsidizedclubs that used to keep the young off the streets. Since they have nothing to do they turned to random and racially motivated violence. The national government counted 2,074 crimes maturated by hatred of foreigners in 1991 u.s only 246 in 1990. A Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a car to his death in Dresden, a ... gypsies in that hostel out because of themess they had made. The neighbors petitioned the politicians for months, but nothing happened. So the NEO-Nazis youths took matters into their own hands which led to violence. Social teens led by NEO-Nazi agitators from other part of Germany battled the police and burned cars for much of the past 10 days brd most of the hundreds of residents who had ...
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