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- 7611: Utopia...Model Or Reality
- ... in today's society. These include having a commodity in one culture be totally worthless in another, communal living within cities, and euthanasia as a means of release from burden. There are commodities in the world today that are totally worthless in America, but serve as a main staple in many other countries. In Utopia, gold was the most worthless metal. It wasn't as strong as iron and was seen ... not in Utopia. Everyone rationally sees the killing of ones-self as a release from pain and burden to the rest of the community. Once again, it doesn't work that way in the real world. Mercy killing is an especially debated topic in today's society. It will never be as clear to the world as it seems to be in Utopia, but we can strive to attain a more universal understanding of it. Even now, mercy-killing has two very distinct sides to its debate-those who vehemently ...
- 7612: Jane Eyre 3
- ... liberty are brought to life and contrasted with each other in many instances throughout the novel. Inside, Jane at first desires to be a free spirit, but the social class stratification and conditions of the world that she lives in make this dream impossible to truly fulfill. Jane regards the concept of such absolute freedom a fleeting, ethereal, and "hollow" notion, and accepts her servitude; it is a vehicle that helps ... with excitement and no fear. However, her prayer for true liberty seems "faintly scattered on the wind;" she abandons it because it is a dream that she feels cannot ever be fully realized in the world and society that she lives in. She instead turns to the idea of at least a change, which she abandons again, turning to the idea of at least a new form of servitude. To Jane ... total desolation. Though Jane would ideally like to be completely free, she realizes that the sounds of such words as "Liberty, Excitement, and Enjoyment" are "hollow" and have no meaning for her. The cold, harsh world and society that she lives in prevents these things from ever really being attainable to her. She acknowledges this fact, and accepts servitude as her destiny in life, not as an inferior slave being ...
- 7613: Allen Ginsberg : Howl
- ... called, Allen Ginsberg rises above the rest as the pseudo-poet laureate of the group (Burns 125). His most well-known poem, "HOWL", caused an incredible amount of controversy; however, it also forever changed the world of poetry. Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926 to an upstanding middle class Jewish family. In a lifetime of literary accomplishment, he has moved from the position of a curiosity on ... including Columbia University and Madison Avenue, the Lower East Side, and Ginsberg's apartment. B. Lines relating to the "break of life between the womb of college days and the shock and alienation entering the world, making a crippled living outside of family and academic shelter--this motif accounting vocational failure or readjustment, leaving the city, or nervous breakdown, typical post-college crisis." (Schumacher 226) C. Lines "grouping together personal apocalypsis ... Footnote to Howl,' in which the name of Moloch is replaced by the word 'Holy'. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is ...
- 7614: Cloning And Its Implications
- Cloning And Its Implications Imagine having two of every person in the world running around. Every two people have the same DNA, therefore, the same blood type, same appearance, same fingerprints, the same person. This has the capability to create several problems. Scientists have been experimenting with the ... person himself has. Are clones actual people, or just a version of the existing person? Is cloning just? Should society be allowed the power to create life in such a way? Technology has improved this world and furthered the movement in education, medicine, and science. Is cloning taking this gift people have to invent and learn to an advantage? Are people destroying what morals still exist? People have different beliefs on how this world came about. A majority of people, who have a Christian religion, believe that God created the heavens and the earth. Other people believe that gases in the universe came together and formed the matter ...
- 7615: Gender And Communication
- ... flip side, Ive seen how society can mold the way we label ourselves in terms of gender. The well-known concepts of masculinity and femininity run rampant in our society. We live in a world where men are told to be masculine, women are told to be feminine and those who do not do as they are told, will suffer the societal consequences. The philosophy of masculinity supports the idea ... being a man in our society. This truth leaves most men chasing an illusory goal of attaining a masculine identity. Most men will take every opportunity to show their masculinity and to declare to the world that they are indeed a real man. This fact is evident when men gather in a bar. The beers going down, testosterone is pumping through the veins, and the motto is, I aint takin nothin from nobody. Most males are looking for a brawl and are looking to solidify their masculine place in the world. Inevitably a fight ensues, people get hurt, and the goal is accomplished. Well, at least for a day or two. Society would like all women to be feminine. That is to say, society would ...
- 7616: Eugenics
- ... put all Jews into these some of classes, no matter what their mental condition. In the U.S., many of the state sterilization laws had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court by the time World War I broke out. As a result of this, in 1924, the Virginia Legislature passed a sterilization statute designed to meet the constitutional objections.27 The advocates of the legislation needed, however, a test case to ...
- 7617: A Streetcar Named Desire 3
- In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, one of the main characters had the misconception that she was living in a world different than that of reality and this contributed to the central theme that hiding one's true self can hurt everyone involved. Blanche DuBois was introduced as the refined sister of Stella Kowalski, whom she ... onto Stanley's friend Mitch, but the reality she was hiding was slowly revealed. Blanche liked boys, she liked men and she liked sex, and these infatuations caused her to fall victim to the fantasy world she had created. The annihilation of Blanche's fallacies developed strong themes of deception and its consequences, of emotions and the outcome of suppressing them, and of illusion versus reality. Stanley researched her background and ... desperation, and this was no longer a secret. The external conflict experienced between Blanche and Stanley represented the inner struggle she faced in dealing with the truth. Learning that she could not live in this world of brutal realism, Blanche tried to hide herself in several instances. When she dated Mitch, she would only agree to evening meetings and even at home she insisted on keeping the light bulbs covered ...
- 7618: A Separate Peace
- Difference Too Often Leads to Hate Many times in the world, differences have lead to hate. Think of Martin Luther King, for example, who stood for fighting against one of the largest differences. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is one of many examples of differences ... ability to express himself. Finny, one day wears his school tie as a belt, but he easily solves of this problem by explaining that he did it to show the link between Devon and the war. (909-910). Finny, a natural person who shows himself to being incapable of doing something mean or ugly, has no trouble expressing his emotions openly. He responds to life with natural emotions and everything comes ...
- 7619: King Solomons Mines
- ... whims of infinite interpretation. As it is, everything within the novel seems to have the intention of being taken with a grain of salt. Haggard knew his audience, a pretentious and nationalistic society bent on world domination or at the very least determined to reduce the rest of the world to nothing more than a means to meet their desires. And with these precepts in mind, Haggard creates a fantastical tale, taking heed of what is socially acceptable and what is not, all the while maintaining western superiority over the rest of the world. The fact of the matter is, that I thought that the best plan would be to tell the story in a plain straightforward manner I cannot help thinking that simple things are always the ...
- 7620: Love Vs. Passion In Madame Bov
- In an ideal world, like the one Emma Bovary yearns for in the book Madame Bovary, romantic relationships are based on the principle that the two participants are madly in love with each other. But in the world Gustave Flaubert paints in his book, as in the real world, passion and personal gain are the only reasons people enter into a relationship. Before meeting Emma, Charles Bovary weds a much older woman. He had seen in marriage the advent of an easier life, ...
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