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- 721: Man's Evil Nature in Lord of the Flies
- ... nature. The characters are represented with Jack as id, Ralph as ego, and Piggy and Simon as superego. Freud's theory of id, ego and superego influences the spheres of ones being. The id represents violence, and the drive to kill. The id is the desire to hurt others, and to dominate. In contrast the ego persuades one to make actions that make one's actions acceptable by others around them ... commandments. Jack as id, represents the carnal drives in man. He illustrates this through painting his face. By painting his face, Jack suppresses his ego and superego, causing Jack to be capable of acts of violence without having any repercussions. Jack portrays this violence in different ways. First, Jack enjoys hunting because he gets to kill pigs. Often, in Lord of the Flies, Jack is consumed by killing pigs, and desires nothing more. The drive to kill rules ...
- 722: The Real Reason Behind The Rec
- ... influences resulting in the recent tragic school shootings. As much as society continues to focus the killing rampages on factors such as television and music, what children are exposed to in reality contributes to the violence. The most recent school shooting in Michigan involved a six-year-old first grader who killed a classmate with a .22 caliber pistol. The news coverage had vanished after two or three days, and I ... and many other illegal drugs were commonplace. Also in this “home” guns were easily accessible to the child. Children growing up in this type of environment certainly are likely to be held accountable for future violence. Even though I am against the news media presenting too much school violence, Americans should have been deeply disturbed by this shooting because of the child’s young age. The Michigan shooting should have enlightened Americans to the dilemma we face in this country. Two weeks after ...
- 723: Debate - “crito,” By Plato, An
- ... they say to follow the desegregation rules because it is the law instead of it being morally right. Finally, he brings up the point that they commended the Birmingham police for keeping “order” and “preventing violence,” however the police used violence to accomplish this. He wishes they had commended the protestors for being brave and dealing with their aggression in a nonviolent way. He closes with the hopes that everything will fall into place and this ... right thing to do. To conclude his beliefs, King felt that it is wrong to urge an individual to stop their efforts in trying to gain their constitutional rights because the act may lead to violence. A powerful quote said by King is that, “Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber.” So, although he may have felt that it was wrong for Socrates to be in jail, and ...
- 724: Lord of the Flies: Jack
- ... what he said. "He was tall, thin, and bony, and his hair was red. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness." A cruel and ugly bully, he early develops a taste for violence. He is a leader of the choir at first, and then of the hunters. His leadership resides in his ability to threaten and frighten those under him. He is always ready for a fight. His victory over Piggy represents the triumph of violence over intellect, as he smashes one of the lenses of the fat boy's glasses. The knife that he carries is a symbol of the death and destruction that accompany his every act. He does ... of the hunter, whose face is covered with the blood of his first kill. Finally, if the novel is read as the story of human civilization, Jack represents the influences of unreason and confusion and violence as they operate counter to the progress of human virtues and social institutions.
- 725: A Date with Kosinski
- ... see his life through the eyes of Levanter. Jerzy Kosinski was born in Lodz, Poland in 1933. Kosinski was separated from his parents shortly after Nazi Germany's invasion of Lodz, and the fear and violence that he experienced during World War II left a scar on his soul. Shortly after the war, Kosinski was reunited with his family. Kosinski studied sociology and political science at the University of Lodz. At ... the development of the story. Kosinski cleverly chooses the title to sum up, in two words, Levanter's whole philosophy of life. Joseph McLellan says: "It is a warning that, given the staggering proportion of violence in our society, life is, at best, uncertain-we might not live through the very next moment, our next blind date, so to speak." Blind Date refers to Levanter's life: he has a Blind ... book "It was nothing but an old Polaroid snapshot: no negative, photographer unknown, camera thrown away" (Kosinski 182). Everything remembered is in the mind of the reader. Works Cited Paul R. Lilly, Jr. "Vision and Violence in the Fiction of Jerzy Kosinski." The Literary Review Spring 1992: 389-400. Rpt. In the Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Sharon Hall. Vol. 53. Detroit: Gale Research. 1984. 223. Robert E. Ziegler. "The Romance ...
- 726: Ku Klux Klan
- ... They were most active during elections, when their nighttime rides to murder, rape, beat, and warn were designed to overcome Republican majorities in their states. In most states Republican authorities were unable to suppress the violence, fearing that they would provoke outright race war if they sent their mostly black state militias against the Klan. In many areas Democratic law-enforcement officials were themselves Klan members or sympathizers. Even where local officers took action, Klan members sat on juries and acquitted accused night riders. By 1871 the violence was so serious that Republicans in Congress gave President Ulysses S. Grant authority to use national troops to restore order in affected districts. Faced with trained soldiers empowered to arrest suspects and hold them without trial, the Klan collapsed with surprising swiftness. Although Southern whites resorted to violence to regain control of their states from 1874 to 1877, the Klan as an organization disappeared by the end of 1872. However, at the turn of the century the story of the Klan was ...
- 727: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- ... World War I the Klan expanded rapidly In addition to preaching white supremacy, it attacked non-Protestants, aliens, liberals, trade unionists, and striking workers. Like its predecessor, the new Klan burned fiery crosses and employed violence to scare its enemies. After 1921 the Klan grew rapidly in membership and influence, “In a six month period from 1920 to October 1921 the Klan added 100,000 new members, And made one and ... down into numerous, independent units. The Klan opposed the civil rights movement that gained force in the late 1950s, The Klan again rose up, and was believed to be involved in many incidents of racial violence. After passage of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 the Klan experienced a marked increase in membership. By the mid-1970s the Klan had gained somewhat in respectability; later that decade a resurgence of Klan violence occurred. A former grand wizard of the Klan, David Duke, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989.
- 728: The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
- ... example, Bell-Villada, with particularly forceful condemnation, finds that "[i]t seems almost inconceivable that the same man who created `Emma Zunz' could also have written `The Intruder,' a disturbing yarn of jealousy and frontier violence that implicitly celebrates a male companionship strengthened by misogyny" (188). Bell-Villada continues to berate the work, concluding that despite its "polished prose," the story is shallow and sketchy and that "[i]t goes without saying that the story's gratuitous violence against a female can only strike negative chords at this moment in history" (189). Martin Stabb also remarks that "[a] superficial reading of this piece might suggest that it was the work of another writer ... D., Jr. "Women in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges." Pacific Coast Philology 14 (1979): 13-19. Cirlot, Juan-Eduardo. Diccionario de símbolos. 3rd edition. Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1979. Dorfman, Ariel. "Borges and American Violence." Some Write to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Trans. George Shivers with the Hughes, Psiche. "Love in the Abstract: The Role of Women in Borges' Literary World." Chasqui 8.3 (May ...
- 729: Prohibition in the 1920's
- ... being smuggling across the U.S, orginization is crucial for successful business. Prohibition has increased the amount of organized crime in the U.S. With the increase of organized crime, competition between gangsters has escalated violence levles, in the streets of majors cities, to an all time high. News of gang shoot-outs, competing for new territory, can be found on the front page of almost every newspaper in the country. Prohibition, promising to lead this country from temptation, has delivered it to evil. This is why we need amend the eighteenth amendment; in order to eleminate the organized crime and violence, it causes, from the streets of our great nation. The Federal Council of Churches, which is in favor of prohibition, bases its support on four fundamental considerations. ”The conviction that no plan less thoroughgoing than ... our country. In conclusion, we cannot let the perlious effects of prohibition damage our country any longer. Despite the ban of alcohol, statistics have proven that even more alcohol is found in the U.S. Violence levels has risen and organized crime now rule the streets of major cities, all due to prohibition. The U.S Govenrment is being influenced by the ideas of Protestants and is danger of being ...
- 730: School Uniforms
- ... difference in a child’s academic performance? Wouldn't uniforms infringe the child’s creativity and self expression? The "clothes don't make the child" right (Hempill A15)? Wrong. School uniforms can drastically reduce school violence and help a student to focus on school work. In 1996, President Clinton endorsed public school uniforms in his State of the Union Address(Atkins 42). This created a rage among some education critics across ... lessen children’s individualism and creativity, infringing students’ rights and hint of racism. While proponents believe, uniforms will put the students emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing coolly, and they will help to lower school violence. The idea comes from a Californian elementary school in Long Beach. "In 1994, Long Beach became the country's first public school district to institute a mandatory uniform policy”(Atkins 42). The results were so ... weapons offenses, and a thirty-two percent drop in school suspensions(Mancini 65). All this in a time span of only one year. Proving that a child’s clothes does make a difference in school violence. In a time when school children are getting killed for designer jackets and shoes, uniforms are exactly what our children need(Mancini 63). Critics say that school uniform inhibit self expression. If you take ...
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