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- 811: Ballad of Birmingham
- ... culture here. The speaker is allowing the reader to make a mental picture of one specific march in Birmingham (Hunter 17). But, you know as well as I, that with peace marches and rallies comes violence and hostility. This is exactly what the little girls mother is afraid of, this is why she will not let her go to the march. It also seems weird that her mother is so sure ... march, will be the best thing for her. (Hunter 19-20). Typically, a church is to be a very safe and sacred place where no-one would imagine a bombing or any other type of violence to happen. What is ironic about this is that going to church turns out to be the worst place for her to be (Hunter 21). Something else that strikes me funny is that her mother ...
- 812: Spike Lee
- The movie, Do the Right Thing, by Spike Lee is a hard hitting drama that deals with violence and racism in today's society. This film is set in a primarily black neighborhood in close to the present time. Right in the center of this neighborhood stands a pizza parlor that is owned ... thought of that before he opened his mouth. In closing, the essay written by Bell Hooks brings up a good point that I believe pretty much sums up the movie. She says that the lunatic violence that erupts in not just this community, but all segregated black communities finally hurts black people more than anyone else. Even though it seems like it is Sal who came out on the bottom here ...
- 813: Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet
- Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet Sex, drugs, and violence are usually a potent combination, and only William Shakespeare could develop them into a masterful, poetic, and elegant story. In the play, "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," all these aspects of teenage life absorb ... which entice the audience into genuinely feeling the spirit of Shakespeare. First, the movie starts with an prologue masked as a news broadcast on television. This sets the scene of the play by illustrating the violence occurring between the two wealthy families, the Montagues and the Capulets. In Zeffirelli's film of "Romeo and Juliet," the prologue takes the form of a dry narrator relating the story of the Montagues and ...
- 814: Don Quixote And Le Morte D Art
- ... compilation of several dozen smaller stories, each written with an individual focus on one central character. Don Quixote is one story written around one character, Don Quixote. Malory s work is filled murder, death, and violence, while in Cervantes piece, no one is killed, all injuries are recoverable, and all the violence is mitigated by a touch of absurdity. But these two pieces are very similar in that they both are about multi-faceted characters who succumb to temptation, act rashly, and make bad decisions. These types ...
- 815: A Tale Of Two Cities - Foreshadowing
- ... desperate the people are. The quote also infers that many people are unemployed. As a joke, a man writes the word "BLOOD" on a wall next to where the cask broke open. This foreshadows the violence of the unruly mobs later in the novel. This scene points out how impoverished the people of Paris are and how rowdy a crowd can become when they are unified under a united cause. Later ... the revolution will get. People will die because of who they are related to, or who they work for. Madame Defarges knitting proves to be much more than knitting and it foreshadowed the savage violence that would occur later in the novel. After the Marquis is murdered for killing the small child with his horses, we come to see the theme of revenge that will become all too common. When ...
- 816: It Was For the Best: The Long Island Railroad Massacre
- ... even the outcome of something tragic could be looked at in an optimistic view. On December 7, 1993, the world as Carolyn McCarthy knew came to an end. A sudden, irrational, and inconceivable act of violence destroyed her family. Dennis and Kevin McCarthy were riding the Long Island Railroad, when a man named Colin Ferguson rose from his seat, took out a gun, and started to shoot at the 90 passengers ... commuter train was a tragedy with such extreme dimensions that, yet despite all the misfortune the outcome had an optimistic effect on the life of Carolyn McCarthy. A few years after the illogical act of violence shattered her family helped lobby congress for a ban on assault weapons. Later that year though the house of representatives, including her own representative Dan Frisa tried to overturn the bill. After he voted against ...
- 817: Terrorism
- ... has been going on for a very long time and they have many people and countries to back them finanicaly. The area of conflict which has generated the most significant and ruthless spillover of terrorist violence since 1968 is, of course, the Middle East. This may seem surprising in view of the astonishing breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and the PLO, the agreement on the Declaration of Principles in September 1993 ... Syria, encouraged by the USA, to resolve the prolonged dispute over the Golan Heights. Nonetheless, if one defines the Middle East as including Algeria and Turkey, both of which have spawned conflicts involving considerable terrorist violence, including some international spillover, this region remains the most dangerous source of terrorist challenges to the wider international community, accounting for over 21% of all international terrorist incidents worldwide in 1992, and over 23% in ...
- 818: 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 ...
- 819: A New Vision Of Masculinity - A Summary
- ... McAllister. The author depicts the traditional definitions of masculinity and problems with that. "Traditional definitions of masculinity include attributes such as independence, pride, resiliency, self-control, and physical strength."(78) Sometimes masculinity is related to violence; violence became the tool maintaining their masculinity among boys. Then, he mentions the two most critical socializing forces in a boy's life: homophobia and misogyny. He explains that homophobia, hatred of feminine qualities in men ...
- 820: Lady Audleys Secret
- ... respected doctors and trusted ladies, the crimes in Lady Audley s Secret shock because of their unexpectedness. Crime in the melodrama of the fifties and sixties is chilling, because of the implication that dishonesty and violence surround innocent people. A veneer of virtue coats ambitious conniving at respectability. Lady Audley s Secret concludes with a triumph of good over evil, but at the same time suggests unsettlingly that this victory occurs ... in which a criminal kills for the sake of killing, Lady Audley is brilliant in her bigamy, her arson, and her murder . The nature of her crimes reflect a general fear of intimate and buried violence, suggesting a growing anxiety about being threatened from within. Her moves are calculated and planned. Murders and robberies spring from a specific social context, not from psychosis or vindictive malice (Kalikoff, 81). Murders in Victorian ...
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