...In this narrative, a woman named Bronia serves as a courier delivering Aryan documents and passports to Jews in different parts of Poland. She is working to smuggle Jews to safety. One night while she is on the train she meets a young officer. This man tells Bronia that in Zhitomir he ordered the shooting of many men, women, and children. Bronia brings back the news of the awful killings to the town’s leaders. They tell her that those things would not happen where they live, and she should not stir up trouble by telling others. This story can be compared to the section of the book in Night when Moche the Beadle returns from being expelled by the Hungarian police. He tells the people of Sighet about the awful things that happened to him and...
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...visiting they dream up an idea to start a sports goods store of their own but just need someone to invest in their plan. This plan is a way for them to show their father that they can make it big one day. Next, Willy gets fired and Biff did not get his appointment with Oliver, their target investor for the sports goods store. Their dinner, a celebration of the reemergence of their past potential for success, did not go as planned as Biff did not get the big deal with Oliver. That night Biff and Willy had a fight while Happy and Linda were trying to keep peace between them. Everyone went to bed while Willy stayed downstairs eventually he leaves and dies in a car...
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...Though Amy Bach's book Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court doesn't specifically mention race as a motivating factor for the everyday injustice that takes place in American courts, there are parallels to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, and Max Geier's The Color of Night. Each of these books demonstrates the continued laziness within America's court systems, as well as the continued lack ambivalence towards this issue. Bach writes that her book "examines how state criminal trial courts regularly permit basic failures of legal process," while this is also mentioned in The Color of Night, with the case of Robert Folkes, as well as The New Jim Crow, and the prejudice that former prisoners can face (Bach, P.2). There seems to be an underlying theme of the poor and minorities being...
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...Ray Bradbury Research Paper The short novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury published in 1953 is a story that revolves around the near future where books and literature and banned and burned. Many aspects of this book where heavily influenced by events that happened in Ray’s life when he was a child and throughout his adulthood. The location of Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an urban American city, no specific name or location given, surrounded by suburban houses in the outskirts of the city. Ray had been living in southern California near Santa Ana around the time had begun writing Fahrenheit 451. It was around 1940 “…Ray wrote what he would later call ‘five ladyfinger firecracker’ which led to the ‘explosion’ of Fahrenheit 451.” (Weller 199) The story takes place in the 20th century with no specific year given where two nuclear wars had taken place since 1990. Ray was inspired by the events taking place at the time such as the rise of Nazi Germany, McCarthyism and the “witch hunt set out by the House Un-American Activities Committee in Hollywood in 1947…” (Weller 199) In addition to the setting, a few, but not all of the characters from Fahrenheit were influenced by certain events from Ray’s life. On a windy autumn night in Los Angeles, Ray had been out on a walk with a friend of his, when “A police car wheeled up beside them. The officer stepped out and approached the two men. He asked what they were doing” (Weller 199) in which Ray responded, “Putting one foot in front...
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...Healthy Grief in the Kübler-Ross Model, the Book of Job and Buddhism Grand Canyon University HLT-310V A loss of a loved one elicits the natural reaction of grief from human beings. Such a loss is a source of psychological and emotional trauma, especially when the friend or relative who passes away does so before the expected time in the “social clock (Myers, 2011, p. 184)”—the death of a child can cause a longer and more intense period of grief than the death of an older loved one. While grief is a natural response to lost relatives and friends, it is beneficial for an individual’s psychological and emotional well-being to transition away from a state of mourning without any long-term detrimental effects to one’s well-being. Healthy grief can be described as a manner of experiencing and expressing grief that allows for this smooth transition. Grief is largely a cultural phenomenon, with different practices and rituals that vary from culture to culture with regard to overcoming grief (Lehto & Stein, 2009, p. 29). This paper will look at some of these cultural variances, with the comparison and contrast in the views of grief among the modern Western world with the Kübler-Ross model, Western theological tradition in the Book of Job and the Eastern theological tradition, with the views of Buddhism on grief. The paper will also look at the conception and role of job in relation to grief in the three views of grief tackled by this paper. The Kübler-Ross model of grief is...
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...a University of Missouri study that sheds new light on why teens across Orange County and beyond continue to be caught in high-profile cheating incidents. The study found that the most common way students justify cheating is through "denial of responsibility," such as by saying that they "accidentally" plagiarized, that they had too much to do and too little time, or that an exam was beyond the scope of the course. The findings, presented at a conference last week in the United Kingdom, are based on an anonymous survey of 420 undergraduate students....
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...Topics: Films of Terry Gilliam May 6, 2103 Escape from Reality The modern world is plagued by the departure from an idealistic and imaginative state of mind into a realm of superficial social anxieties. Director Terry Gilliam, an American-born British director and member of the comedy group Monty Python, displays the theme of the rejection of pragmatism in favor of imagination in many of his movies. The theme of escaping from mundane reality into an alternative, inspired universe is most prevalent in his films Time Bandits (1981), The Fisher King (1991), and Tideland (2005). In Time Bandits, escape is more physical than mental as inspired pre-teen Kevin leaves his mundane life and consumerism-oriented world for a taste of adventure. The Fisher King presents a much different type of escape- Parry is a man who witnesses the murder of his wife and falls into a catatonic state only to emerge as a man who abandons his old life, including memory of his late wife, in order to find the “Holy Grail,” a worthless trophy that he sees in a magazine. Tideland is depicts another mental escape scenario and tells the story of the young daughter of two drug addicts in perpetual denial of her abused state who is aided in her fantasy world by doll heads that she wears on her fingers. Whether physical or mental, escape can provide a temporary panacea, but the problem with it is that one must always return. Time Bandits, released in 1981, was Gilliam’s first solo-directorial box office success. It...
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...The novel I have chosen is The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A universally lauded literary classic, the book deals with several subjects that I consider critical to humanity’s philosophical development. One of Dostoyevsky’s primary ideas was that human redemption can be achieved through the act of sons atoning for the sins of their fathers, which in turn would lead to a type of human unity not yet seen. It is because of this belief that the novel revolves around the concept of patricide, to serve as a reversal of his idea. The brothers do not redeem their father; instead they are complicit in his death which would be considered a polar opposite (human disunity) by the author. One of the novel’s themes is the benefits and disadvantages of free will. Whether it be the freedom to believe in God, rejecting or adhering to the tenets of basic morality, or acting virtuously or maliciously towards your fellow man. Ivan the intellectual middle brother believes that free will is more a curse than a blessing and expounds this notion in his poem within the book “The Great Inquisitor”. He allegorically explains his views on freewill through Christ’s denial of Satan. He states that Christ’s decision was not really rejecting evil but instead renounced the comforts of bread (relief from hunger), power (the safety that it ensures) and the certainty of Jesus’ divine nature (by the performance of a miracle.) Ivan believes that mankind is not strong enough to find the answers to life...
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...losing his mother to tuberculosis and his father by desertion (Allen). He was taken in by the Allan family, but during Edgar’s year-long stint at West Point in 1830—and subsequent expulsion—his relationship with his foster father suffered irreparable damage (“Biography”). His life soon became a mélange of depression, alcoholism, unemployment, and financial hardship (“Biography”). He died in 1949 while on a trip to Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances: theories of “congestion of the brain,” alcoholism, rabies, epilepsy, and carbon monoxide poisoning continue to swarm today (“Biography”). Having lived a life of constant struggle and turmoil, it is not surprising that his works are imbued with brooding and despondency, and that the common themes in his writings revolve around derangement and death. His short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” provides a perfect example of his fixation with madness, murder, and melancholy. It is this very fascination with all things grotesque, combined with his uncanny ability to weave multiple literary elements together to create a bizarre tapestry that appeals to readers, and what makes Edgar Allan Poe such a great writer. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” an unknown narrator recounts the events leading up to his murdering of an old man. The story opens with the narrator defending himself against the reader’s assumption of his madness: True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous [I] had been and am; but why will [you] say that [I] am mad? The disease...
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...Hinton, you will learn how one action can change your life forever. I think that conflict changes the way that people see themselves and others. One of the major lessons that you will learn in the novel, is finding your self worth. S.E. Hinton was born in 1967 but, she was 17 when she wrote The Outsiders, While she was attending Will Rogers high school in Tulsa Oklahoma: The book is about the different classes in the 70’s and, how a boy gets in trouble for something that Thesis: The characters in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, often come across many different conflicts. I think that the most brod conflict is person vs nature. This type of conflict is shown in the novel when, Johnny and Ponyboy rescue children from a burning church. : In the novel The Outsiders by, S. E. Hinton, she shows many different types of conflict. One of the major conflicts for me was Person Vs Nature. Identify Conflict, Explain who was...
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...The Scarlet Letter Study Guide Published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter is considered Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous novel--and the first quintessentially American novel in style, theme, and language. Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Massachusetts, the novel centers around the travails of Hester Prynne, who gives birth to a daughter Pearl after an adulterous affair. Hawthorne's novel is concerned with the effects of the affair rather than the affair itself, using Hester's public shaming as a springboard to explore the lingering taboos of Puritan New England in contemporary society. The Scarlet Letter was an immediate success for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the United States was still a relatively new society, less than one hundred years old at the time of the novel’s publication. Indeed, still tied to Britain in its cultural formation, Hawthorne's novel offered a uniquely American style, language, set of characters, and--most importantly--a uniquely American central dilemma. Besides entertainment, then, Hawthorne's novel had the possibility of goading change, since it addressed a topic that was still relatively controversial, even taboo. Certainly Puritan values had eased somewhat by 1850, but not enough to make the novel completely welcome. It was to some degree a career-threatening decision to center his novel around an adulterous affair (but compare the plot of Fielding's Tom Jones). But Hawthorne was not concerned with a prurient affair here, though the novel’s...
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...Nathaniel Hawthorne's background influenced him to write the bold novel The Scarlet Letter. One important influence on the story is money. Hawthorne had never made much money as an author and the birth of his first daughter added to the financial burden ("Biographical Note" VII). He received a job at the Salem Custom House only to lose it three years later and be forced to write again to support his family (IX). Consequently, The Scarlet Letter was published a year later (IX). It was only intended to be a long short story, but the extra money a novel would bring in was needed ("Introduction" XVI). Hawthorne then wrote an introduction section titled "The Custom House" to extend the length of the book and The Scarlet Letter became a full novel (XVI). In addition to financial worries, another influence on the story is Hawthorne's rejection of his ancestors. His forefathers were strict Puritans, and John Hathorne, his great-great-grandfather, was a judge presiding during the Salem witch trials ("Biographical Note" VII). Hawthorne did not condone their acts and actually spent a great deal of his life renouncing the Puritans in general (VII). Similarly, The Scarlet Letter was a literal "soapbox" for Hawthorne to convey to the world that the majority of Puritans were strict and unfeeling. For example, before Hester emerges from the prison she is being scorned by a group of women who feel that she deserves a larger punishment than she actually receives. Instead of only being...
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...Across the nation, in every hotel, next to the bed, lay nestled inside a drawer; one can find the sacred writings comprising the Old and New Testaments. Combined of 66 books, the Bible tells Gods story, from creation, to the fall, to redemption, and restoration. But, out of those 66 books, only two bear the name of a woman, one of those being the book of Ruth. It is in this book that we find Ruth, a young women of Moab, after whom the book receives its title. This story takes place in a time when judges ruled the land, a period of religious and moral depravity, national discord and oppression. In its writings, we are given a glance at the lives of Israelite families. As well, it offers a wonderful account of loyalty, true faith and devotion to God. The introduction of our story points towards the central problem for our characters....
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...Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, Written by himself. New York: Blight, 2003. Frederick Douglass was known as the most important African American leader and intellectual in the 19th century. He became a major figure in the crusade for abolition, the drama of emancipation and the effort to give meaning to black freedom during reconstruction. He tells stories about the 20 years of living the life as slave to his amazing and courageous escape. Douglass portrayed the core meaning of slavery, for both individuals and of the nation in his narrative. His multiple meanings of freedom as an idea and reality of mind and body and of the consequences of its denial were his themes in the book. The narrative also uncovers Douglass’s symbolic strategies in moral and economic slavery, the master-slave relationship, the psychology of slaveholder, the aims and arguments of abolitionists and the impending political crisis between North and South. He believed in equal rights as throughout his narrative dreamed of being free and wondered why slaves where treated the way they were. Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He never new his exact age as there was never any record of his birth. Not knowing this information made him realize early on that there was a difference and unfairness in equality as he commented on he never met a slave in his life who could tell when their birthday was or how old they were. He continued saying...
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...Narcissism and the American Dream in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Narcissism och den amerikanska drömmen i Arthur Millers en handelsresandes död. Fredrik Artan Faculty of Arts and Education Subject: English Points:15.0 Supervisor: Magnus Ullén Examiner: Anna Swärdh 2014-06-18 Serial number Abstract This essay focuses on the theme of the American Dream in relation to narcissism in Miller’s Death of a salesman. The purpose is to demonstrate that a close reading of the main protagonist, Willy Loman, suggests that his notion of success in relation to the American Dream can be regarded as narcissistic. This essay will examine this by first observing how Willy´s notion of success is represented in the play, then look at how his understanding of it can be viewed from a narcissistic standpoint. The results I have found in my analysis show that there is a connection between Willy’s understanding of success and his narcissistic behavior. He displays traits such as grandiosity, arrogance, need of specialness and denial of emotions. His relationship with other characters reveals his lack of empathy, manipulation and exploitation of others as well as his need of superiority and fear of inferiority. The conclusion is that Willy and his notion of success could be considered as narcissistic. Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................1 The American...
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