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- 771: Apartheid in Modern South Africa
- ... for apartheid can be seen in many organizations such as the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement. These conflicting battles for support of apartheid are not without their bloodshed in modern South Africa. On March 1994, violence rang out in South Africa about apartheid as three pro- apartheid supporters were shot by black soldiers (Lacayo 49). These three people were indeed members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (49). In TIME ... pro-apartheid movements can be seen throughout South Africa. The political end of South Africa looks in support of antiapartheid whereas the few who don't, condone violent actions taken place against the antiapartheid supporters. Violence will plague South Africa so long as people remain racist. But help from people such as South African President Nelson Mandela and former President of South Africa F.W. de Klerk will keep South Africa ...
- 772: Laidlaw
- ... the 90's and delivers a cutting insight to big industries and crime in society. McIlvanney creates a stunning atmosphere and examines the fascinating issues of why people commit murder and the devastating results of violence. One of the reasons I selected this novel wasn't just because of the quality and origin of the author and the setting , it was because of the infuriating character of Cheif Detective Inspector Jack ... Laidlaw is a universe apart from other examples of detectives , he examines the more intriguing issues of how and why people can commit the reprehensible crime of murder and the harrowing aftermath of crime and violence. Jack Laidlaw can deeply understand people more than anyone could ever imagine. Jack Laidlaw is an odd sort detective, and this is an odd sort of novel. He lives and works in the gloomy, cheerless ...
- 773: U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939
- ... 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. Civil servants, newspaper editors, soldiers and members of the judiciary were dismissed from their positions, while lawyers and physicians were forbidden to practice. Anti-Jewish violence peaked on 9 November 1938, known as the "Night of the Broken Glass" or Kristallnacht, when over 1000 synagogues were burned. Jewish schools, hospitals, books, cemeteries and homes were also destroyed3. The mistreatment of non ... serious moral headache. Three months after the conference at Evian the worst purging of German Jewry yet took place in what came to be known as Kristallnacht. Thirty thousand Jews were arrested and anti-Jewish violence peaked. In protest, President Roosevelt ordered the American ambassador, Hugh Wilson, to return to Washington, but refused to impose diplomatic or economic sanctions on the Nazi government8. Roosevelt publicly denounced Nazi brutality, saying that he ...
- 774: Flagburning
- ... needs to stop. But they do have the right even though it's not right. What we who oppose flag burning need to do is protest against those who participate in flag burning, without causing violence. If we cause violence, then we would be stooping down to their low level, and it wouldn't solve anything. Flag Burning disgraces all who put their sweat and tears to fight long and hard for this country's ...
- 775: Ethnic Diversity In Nigeria
- ... end result was that party leaders would campaign against an entire ethnic group, only creating more anger and fear rather than just dissagreement on a political isssue. This party bred hatred led to tension and violence. Parties were abolished when the military government took power in 1966. The Biafran Civil War was a result of fears created by party leaders. The Ibo fears of genocide from more powerful political/ethnic groups ... Ethnic tensions in Nigeria have caused the end of the first republic, two military coups, and a civil war. As Nigeria is moving into its Third Republic, leaders are now aware of the tension and violence that ethnicity can promote. Hopefully, although there is talk of another secession movement by Yorubas fearing Hausa domination, the Third Republic will be able to look beyond ethnic bariers and toward a more unified Nigerian ...
- 776: Lyrical Analysis Of The End
- ... the single most astounding track the doors ever recorded. Jim Morrison uses words as much for their emotive effect as their meaning. The song suggests rather than states a mind filled with fears of sex, violence and death. Its the imagery more than the meaning of the words themselves that gets the message across. The imagery is terrifying-"the snake is long" and he's "old and his skin is cold ... destination to the driver of the "blue bus". The promise of wisdom for those who are willing to go to the "ancient lake." But the wisdom is sad, hopeless forbidden knowledge-the knowledge of evil. Violence, guilt, misguided love and most of all death. To forbidden fantasy of incest and patricide is to where the bus travels. The Oedipal section says, "Kill the father" it means kill all of those things ...
- 777: Gender Roles 2
- ... orientated. The message is totally different. They model they way they dress according to their favorite musicians, actors or sports figure. Perhaps if women s magazines were more aimed at how to protect yourself from violence, STD s, unplanned pregnancies or how to be confident, and promote education, sports, extra-cirricular activities instead of how to know if your popular, or the must have lipstick of the fall, or how to know if he likes you, or what your favorite BACKSTREET BOY likes and dislikes, then maybe the rate of abortions, teen pregnancies, STD s, obesity, eating disorders, depression, date rape, kidnappings and domestic violence would decrease. Whether they like it or not, society has a responsibility. They deem what is acceptable, it is time they deem what is right! There are some positive aspects of gender roles that even ...
- 778: Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
- ... and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner ... as she wants to have Charles Darnay killed, not because he has done something wrong, but because he is related to the Evrmonde family, which killed her relative. Though "Dickens seems almost to regard violence as the one way to bring about social change,"(Lucas,288) he then began to denounce the actions taken by some of the revolutionaries. The citizens let their righteous cause turn into vengefulness. Even servants ...
- 779: Analysis of Clockwork Orange
- ... community, goes through about three stages--1. He violates the laws society has set forth to maintain order. 2. He is caught and punished for his crimes against society. 3. He feels remorse for his violence and sexually deviance (although, at the end of the film, hes back to his old, delinquent self). The main character, Alex, is shown as a typical juvenile offender. He is shown in such a ... association, which is the process of social interaction by which definitions favorable and unfavorable to deviation are taught and learned. The gist of the experiment was this: Alex was given serum and forced to watch violence. Murders and rape were shown to him repeatedly, and by the end of the pillage, he was made to feel violently ill. We, in our society, have something just like this. We have pills people ...
- 780: The History of Greek Theater
- ... the miracles supplied by it were replace by the sudden appearance of a rich uncle, the discovery or new wills, or of infants changed at birth. Many proprieties of the Greek plays were attached to violence. Therefore, it was a rule that acts of violence must take place off stage. This carried through to the Elizabethan theater which avoided the horrors of men being flayed alive or Glouster's eyes being put out in full view of an audience (King ...
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