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- 1731: Regeneration
- ... man at the institute whose life is rotting away because society believes that is the only just place for him. Burns experienced a very traumatic event when he was on the front line in the war. During his stay at Craiglockhart he had a hard time eating because of his experience. During his meals he would try to eat but just throws it all up. During the war a bomb exploded near him. The blast sent him flying in the air. When he landed, he came down face first in a dead man's carcass, with his mouth full of rotting entrails. One has to think to oneself, "How can putting him there at the institute with all other war stricken men help him." The point is, it can't help him. He spends his whole day reliving the war. He has to see people in uniform walking around. He constantly has a psychologist ...
- 1732: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... The advanced technology in upcoming videogame machines even allows the players to interact with screen images in ways never before possible. Analysts in this field say that it is only a prelude to the emerging world-wide network popularly known as the electronic information highway( ). Two of the Japan's formidable corporate giants, Sega of America Inc., and Nintendo of America Inc., are a real force behind the growing phenomenon. `The world wide home--videogames marketwhich they dominate is worth arouwnd $20 billion, of which about two-thirds represents thegames themselvesand one third the machines theyare played on....Their empires are based on a manufactureing and distribution system built around cartridges and dedicated machines (Massacre 71). Their battle for the market share and the massive multi-billion dollar world wide market and their expensive advertisement battles have attracted the public attention(Hulme 20). For instance, ten million marketing budget and the publicity fuel a national debate on Videogame violence which obviously helped Mortal ...
- 1733: Brave New World
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel that takes place in Utopia. Yet in this ideal place everyone is conditioned to be happy, it is a place where various things such as the arts are restricted ... none of the things he enjoyed and loved existed. In the novel, freedom of the individual will is one of the fundamental beliefs at the root of human ideals. While the environment or the public world (society) plays some part in forming the psyche of an individual, it is in the end, the choice of the individual (John) to be who they become The whole concept of Brave New World contradicts to everything John ever believed in. John came from a world where art and expression of variation from the society existed. People must face their problems and overcome them, and love requires commitment ...
- 1734: The Story of Sweetheart of the Song of Tra Bong: The Use of Setting
- ... irrelevant. Upon the second and third times through, however, his role as the storyteller stands out. It becomes more evident that he holds Mary Anne with the highest regard. He romanticizes her relationship with the war. He is so amazed with the fact that a girl can be seduced by the lure of the wilderness that he begins to talk about her with the listeners as if she were the attractive ... He shows the reader what Rat deems important, and he constantly adds his own twist to it all. As he said, he loved her. He is going to put her on a pedestal for the world to view and appreciate. On the top, the character (at this level, the only one that matters) is the setting. Just as Vietnam had it's oddities and tendencies, Rat's mind had it's ... skew of the stained glass window the story is viewed the through, one can begin to fully appreciate what happened to Mary Anne, and the conflict she encounters. She finds herself torn between the civilized world which has her long time love, and the uncivilized world, Vietnam where she can exist in her purest form. There is a slow transition, as she appears in preppy clothes, and she moves to " ...
- 1735: The Work of J.D. Salinger
- ... Many critics consider J.D. Salinger a very controversial writer, for the subject matters that he writes.. J.D. Salinger's works were generally written during two time periods. The first time period was during World War II, and the second time period was during the 1960's. Critics feel that the works during the 1960 time period were very inappropriate, because of the problems for which he wrote. The main characters ... for the character. (French, Salinger Revisited 133). The final function of religion as a means to attain happiness was to gain peace In "The Young Lion," Salinger uses religion to gain peace through a fictitious war. In the story many of the soldiers were dying and the countries were in turmoil (Lundquist 312). The leaders in the story see a vision on the battlefield that changes them, and stops the ...
- 1736: ON THE BEACH
- ... could bring about his own death. The most scary part, however, is that these chemical bombs are global killers, i.e. effect of the explosion of a nuclear bomb dropped in one part of the world can gradually spread all over the globe killing every living organism, sometimes even bacteria because of its intense radioactive levels. In the novel, On the Beach, when the character Moira Davidson, a young ambitious girl who wanted to study and visit places throughout the world is faced with the fact that neither she nor anybody else in the Southern Hemisphere is going to live for more than a few months because of a nuclear bomb launched in the Northern Hemisphere ... one who was complaining. Almost every soul on the rest of the planet shared her thought because of various reasons; a developing country like China who was at the peak of becoming one of the worlds biggest industrial power was destroyed, Russia, a country with abundant land was destroyed within days and last but not the least the people living in the countries of the Northern Hemisphere where the ...
- 1737: Overpopulation
- ... and depravity
. Lemme tell you a little something about our little overpopulation problem kiddo. Its cities like New York, Miami, and Los Angeles that most contributes to our societys plight. People out in the world are using up the worlds natural resources every day without any consideration for the consequences at stake, they reproduce like rabbits in the middle of spring, and are overall killing the earth as you see it! I know you ... You dont need to go without me! says Jim, as he grabs Little Billy by the shoulder and pulls him close. Just sit and let me share with you some fascinating information about our world, and the problems it faces. Jim sits, and forces a fear-stricken Little Billy to sit down with him. As he settles in, he puts his arm around the helpless Little Billy and continues ...
- 1738: Unions
- ... these shifting currents flow in complementary ways that might appeal to the vast majority of struggling workers. The three most important formal organizations were the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Socialist Party of America. All three of these organizations had there own strengths but the many weaknesses and divisions combined with outside influences caused the retardation of their radical, left wing ideas ... its union members and to govern it properly. Its more conservative outlooks and the racial boundaries it built may have also persuaded possible members to join other organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World or the Socialist Party of America. The Industrial Workers of the World was a much more radical association than that of the American Federation of Labor. Formed in January 1905, by William D. Haywood, a small band of labor radicals, and various left wing socialists, including ...
- 1739: Charles Lindbergh
- ... transatlantic flight, had just landed at Le Bourget field in France. Having just completed what some people called an impossible feat, he was instantly a well-known international hero. Despite his pro-German stance during World War II, Charles Lindbergh is also an American hero. A record of his happiness and success exists in the material form of his plane hanging in the Smithsonian Institute; however, much of Lindbergh's life was ... field to greet him, Lindbergh anxiously deplaned. In their excitement some of the crowd tore pieces of the plane's outer shell off as souvenirs. "Lindbergh's achievement won the enthusiasm and acclaim of the world, and he was greeted as a hero in Europe and the U.S." Lindbergh, the American hero, was sent home on a naval vessel specially chartered by Harry S. Truman. When Lindbergh arrived in ...
- 1740: The Atomic Bomb and Japan
- ... is thought to have not been the reason Japan surrendered. Japan surrendered because of a combination of things (conventional air power, naval blockade, Soviet intervention). However, in 1945, dropping the bomb on Japan brought the war to an end more quickly and therefore was morally justifiable. Truman's decision to drop the bomb was a strictly military measure designed to force Japan's unconditional surrender. He did not mean to intimidate ... specifics of this "new weapon" as he showed no special interest in it. Stalin only said that "he was glad to hear it and hoped we would make good use of it against the Japanese." War is an inherently immoral activity. But, it is generally accepted that any decision to minimize the loss of life in war is morally correct. The decision to drop "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" (the uranium and plutonium atomic bombs) saved countless lives. Truman estimated that there would be 250, 000 Allied losses if there was ...
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