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- 691: A Friendly Enemy
- ... through a man’s act of killing a bird. The poem flows through the practice, planning and execution of a common bird. The climax of the poem comes when he refers to his act of violence as an "Audubon Crucifix". Through various examples in history he validates this unnecessary crucifix. "A Formal Application" rejoins the human race by immortalizing the importance of death. The structure of the poem is separated into ... small scale kill to the few major slaughters of our history. First, with the word pious he again relates to religion by referring to his title as holy. Then he adds three examples of dramatic violence. The first of which is Arbeit Macht Frei, an ironic motto for the holocaust meaning work brings freedom. In the concentration camps prisoners were worked so brutaly, almost all of them died, therefore death becomes ... and the Molotov Cocktail. The Enloa Gay is the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Japan. This again relates one of the greatest massacres in the history of the world to his mere rebellious violence. Through the speaker’s violent actions he feels superior to others despite his justifications being much more significant then his own act. He creates a paradox by validating his "Audubon Crucifix" with some of ...
- 692: Powder: Questions
- ... and ridiculed at. He understood his characteristics and understood why the boys hated him It was fear! 3. I respect Jeremy's caring. Like Christ himself, he wouldn't fight or use any sort of violence to resolve problems. Jeremy would speak his words of wisdom, or use his divine powers of mental stability and force to express a point. He would, without hurting anyone, prove a point. This characteristic made ... teaches you the lesson, that you should not judge people from their external appearance. Men are created different, but all in the likeness of God. Powder also emphasizes the way society treats the unknown. With violence, persecution, and hate. As in the cafeteria scene, Powder is ridiculed and made fun of, yet he responds with love. Thus Powder, teaches the ultimate lesson that love is more powerful than violence. I can incorporate this into my life, by trying to understand that all humans are different in external appearance, some are pretty, some are not. But they all have gifts within to share with ...
- 693: Six Hours of Television
- ... comedy and police drama shows he/she can make several conclusions about what America has to offer, and what he/she will find when stepping onto American soil. The cities of America are boiling with violence and aggression. There is hope though. It's very easy to make lots of friends, a few of whom are the off the wall type. After making friends one should get married and then it ... only nurses and physician's assistant's, instead of doctor's or surgeons. There is however, the character doctor Benton, who is a surgeon, and is Afro-American. This program also shows some of the violence that an outsider can count on when coming to America. The biggest myth that ER shows is the level of treatment an outsider can expect to receive in any Emergency Department. While it is true ... guy to listen to, and Bill Clinton and Bob Dole are only good for jokes. The result is that watching a late night show could throw an outsider into a quandary, is America full of violence, good friends, or people who go around with little respect for authority figures? The debate is endless. An anthropologist comes to America and watches six hours of t.v. and then goes back home ...
- 694: History Of Popular Culture
- ... So what was the meaning of Carnival in Early Modern Europe? Was it merely an excuse for the populace to go crazy or did Carnival have a deeper meaning hidden behind the façade of food, violence and sex? Carnival was a holiday, a game. It was a time of ecstasy and liberation. The form was determined by three major themes: food, sex and violence. It was the time of indulgence, of abundance. It was also a time of intense sexual activity - tables of the seasonal movement of conceptions in 18th century France show a peak around February. Carnival was ... desecration. It was the ideal time to insult or pester people who had wronged someone, often in the form of a mock battle of a football match. A time for paying off old grudges. Serious violence was not avoided and in most areas the rates of serious crimes and killings went up during Carnival. It was also a time of opposition, in more than one way. It opposed the ecclesiastical ...
- 695: Bullying In School - Relevant Articles
- ... the United States. The author begins the article with a short recounting of Nathan Faris and his tragic and fatal reaction to bullying. The formation and prioritizing of the bullying problems is later recounted as violence in schools becomes more prevalent. In addition, legal recourse, available to students and their parents, now allow school districts to be held accountable for incurred damages. In other words, bullied students can seek compensation for ... various tactics been employed? Were they successful? The last article to be reviewed was “Bullies and Their Victims: Understanding a Pervasive Problem in the Schools” (Batsche & Knoff, 1994). The article begins by asserting that school violence is identified by three characteristics; assault, theft, and vandalism. Moreover, bullying is defined as outward aggression which is directed towards another student(s) by physical, psychological, or sexual methods. The article also maintains that “bullying may be the most prevalent form of violence in the schools and the form that is likely to affect the greatest number of students” (Batsche & Knoff, 1994). The possibility that bullying is “‘intergenerational’” is also considered. For instance, research has found that ...
- 696: What Is Heavy Metal
- ... damage to our ears and pollution to our atmosphere. The lyrics used in Heavy metal do not fall in the category of pleasure either. It is very common to find obscene words and phrases promoting violence and revolution in the songs. The influence of Heavy Metal usually results in alterations in the adrenaline level of fans. It is not uncommon to see head banging, fights, and even nudity during the concerts ... Heavy metal songs will more than likely express the need for social power. In other occasions it may express hatred towards authorities, parents, and schools. All together the lyrics involved in Heavy Metal may promote violence among our society, again resulting in the opposite of harmony. We have clearly stated the two characteristics of music stated by the Oxford English Dictionary. The use of the word “and” within the definition suggests ... in our hands, only we can stop the growth in popularity by not allowing our children to be involved in it, and thus put an end to this. It is not only a source of violence but it is also a misrepresentation of one of our most valuable identities as humans, Music.
- 697: Ireland, History And Nature
- ... inhabitants have enough left to survive, if not it usually ends with struggles for freedom and uprisings, something which certainly happened in Ireland. Of course there had been a few uprisings and some acts of violence between the irish end the englishmen, but none of them had been planned good, and the uprisings had not been very hard to drive back. But there were no real uprisings before the great famine ... did not become independent until 1949. When you look at the earlier history of Ireland it is not hard to under-stand the reasons for Ireland wishing themselves independent, but was it necessary to use violence? If you look on England's history the conclusion almost surely has to be 'Yes, it was', because in modern history England has never given something away if they have not been forced to do so. But that fight was over control of the part of Ireland which wanted to be independent. The question now is whether, or not there should be used violence to achieve the goal that Ireland again becomes united. The other part, the northern part, or Ulster as it is called, still want to remain as a part of the British empire. But everybody ...
- 698: Schindler’s List 2
- ... you really thought you were viewing actual footage. There are so many things that made it like no other film. I know that a lot of the people found the movie disturbing because of the violence. Perhaps these people forget that this is not violence done just to make the movie “Oscar “ worthy. This is true violence that was done to 6 million Jewish human beings. A person would hope that one would be disturbed enough to take a stand against anything like this ever happening again.
- 699: Rap Music; It’s Impact On Society Since It’s Birth.
- ... a type of music that combines catchy beats with rhythmic music and thoughtful lyrics to create songs with a distinct political stance. Rap lyrics are about the problems rappers have seen, such as poverty, crime, violence, racism, poor living conditions, drugs, alcoholism, corruption, and prostitution. These are serious problems that many within the rap subculture believe are being ignored by mainstream America. Those within the rap subculture recognize and acknowledge that ... probed that the genre was not specific to the area. Boogie Down Productions laid down a prototype that was taken to more extreme measures by N.W.A., who reported on the crime, sex and violence of the ghetto with an explicit verve that some viewed as verging on celebration rather than journalism. Enormously controversial, and enormously popular with record buyers, several N.W.A. members went on to stardom as ... to praise in their music. At the same time, they could not let the xenophobic tendencies of these acts pass unnoticed, or ignore the frequent quasi-celebration in much rap music of misogyny, drugs, and violence, and the status to be gained in the urban community by the practice thereof. Passionate advocates of civil liberties and free speech wondered, sometimes aloud, whether rappers were taking those privileges too far. Newly ...
- 700: Israel
- ... Israel) had another opening to a very old tunnel made, so it would be easier for tourists to enter, and exit the tunnel. This upset some Palestinians. They started throwing rocks at Israeli police. The violence grew, and gunfire erupted on both sides. -Junior Scholastic November 1, 1996 On November 10, Israeli soldiers shot, and killed a Palestine protester, and wounded 11 others. The violence was about the expansion of a Jewish settlement called Qiryat Sefer. There were about 200 Palestinians rioting against the expansion. The soldiers tried to stop the protesters without violence. First they told the mob to go home, then they sprayed the crowd with tear gas, they fired guns in the air, to scare them, then they shot rubber shells at them. Still they ...
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