...Tennessee Williams was a revered playwright. This was because he used a lot of sneaky symbolism in his plays. His symbolism affects the audience by making it think. In A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the many symbols that occurs most frequently is the Varsouviana polka. The polka plays whenever Blanche is thinking about her husband or whenever she is about to panic or lose her grip on something. The first time we hear the Varsouviana tune is in scene one on page twenty eight, line six, when she is talking to Stanley about her husband who died when they were quite younger. Blanche has just arrived from Belle Reve in Laurel, Mississippi to the city of New Orleans to stay with Stella and her husband, Stanley. Stanley tries to make small talk with Blanche while Stella is in the bathroom as they have never met before. As the conversation goes on, Stanley asks Blanche about her previous marriage. As soon as he does, the polka starts to play. This instance of the Varsouviana polka gives more information about Blanche as before we did not know she was married. It adds to the story as before this instance of the polka, we did not know that Blanche was a widow and that she is still upset about her husband dying....
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...Modern Challenges XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX REL/134 March 23, 2015 Professor XXXXXXXXXXXX Modern Challenges Out of the many religions of the world and that were focused on during this class, I chose to focus on Christianity, specifically Catholicism. As the oldest Christian religion and notably the most unique and specific, Catholicism is revered throughout the world. It is the most talked about, both in society and religiously and the most controversial among the different Christian religions. As a world religion, there are some similarities that are shared with the other religions. The first similarity is the deity God that is worships. Among the Christian, Jewish and Islam world, God is the only deity that is worshipped. How he is viewed and worshipped is the only difference. The second similarity is between the Jewish, Islam and Catholic religions. This similarity is the traditions and rituals. Even though these traditions and rituals are performed in different ways and for different reasons, they are the foundation that holds our religions together. Finally the last similarity between the Christian, Jewish, Islam and Catholic faiths is that they originated from the same genealogy. In the Bible the reader gets to the story of Abraham. It is during this story that two faiths emerge, Jewish (Hebrew) and the Islam religion. The rest of the Bible focuses on the Jewish history and leaves behind Islam. However, it is during the time after Jesus’ death that the reader is introduced...
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...Slavery is fundamentally an economic phenomenon. Average prices of slaves rose dramatically in the 1820’s. Throughout history, slavery has existed where it has been economically worthwhile to those in power. The health of a planter’s work force was critical to economic success. Health and healing practices form a core part of life experiences, especially in circumstances such as the southern plantation, where life was particularly nasty, brutal and short for its laboring inhabitants. Slave workers prove the essential to plantation production and gave a basis of authority within enslaved communities. Not surprisingly, conflicts frequently arose between slave doctoring women and the whites who attempted to supervise their work, poisoning threats, African-based religious practices, and plagues intensified in the midst of it all. This gave slave healers a problematic role in balancing their need to aid their masters and their fellow slaves. Crowded living conditions, a relatively poor diet, and physical abuse by owners meant that slaves constantly faced health risks. As expected, slaves turned to slave healers for physical as well as emotional comfort. Ironically whites also found use in their slave healers in the making of their own knowledge and remedies. Nonetheless, the degree to which a slave healer benefited the white community, is difficult to establish. Whites trusted African Americans to treat them in times of sickness, the imbalanced nature of the relationship of the enslaved...
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...The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for Shylock and the famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech. Also notable is Portia's speech about "the quality of mercy”. The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who is the play's most prominent and most famous character. This is made explicit by the title page of the first quarto: The most excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylock the Jew towards the said Merchant etc. Antonio is a symbol of Christian kindness, generosity, and love. These attributes are usually shown towards Bassanio or his friends. “In this and other ways he is a romantic figure. To his contemporaries he may have had a broader significance. In a group of medieval tales called the Tale of Abraham and Theodore, the rescue of a borrower from the clutches of an usurer was a symbol of man’s redemption.” (Campbell) Antonio helped Bassanio and prevented him from having to borrow money from an usurer, taking his place as the borrower instead. Antonio’s symbolism as Jesus or the perfect lamb is brought to mind. In Judaism a perfect lamb is sacrificed for a sin offering killed to deflect the wrath of God. Antonio is the perfect lamb about...
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...hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them." Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King's original name was Michael King, Jr. His name was later changed to Martin after the German protestant leader Martin Luther. Martin Luther attended Booker T. Washington High School in Georgia and graduated in sociology from Morehouse College in Atlanta. After studying theology at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he pursued his doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University. King was awarded the Doctor of philosophy on June 5, 1955. Achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. The greatest achievement of King was undoubtedly as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. He defended the Americans with African descent and fought for their rights. Martin Luther was greatly influenced by Howard Thurman, a civil rights leader, theologian and educator. He was a classmate of Martin Luther's father at Morehouse College. King was also inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence and believed that resistance to non-violence is the only weapon to fight against inequality and injustice. He visited the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1959. This trip was a turning point in his life and deepened his belief in the...
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...Through the decades, the female fight has morphed and adjusted to reflect society. From conquering suffrage, marital rights, career options, to shattering the glass ceiling, we have persevered with dignity, paving the way for generations like ours, in the 21st century. Today, we are entering an incredibly pivotal time for feminism in the US. Recent politics have stirred and added fuel to an already blossoming, enlightened frontier of women’s rights, but the new disputes are mere skirmishes compared to the laborious battles that past generations of women fought. In reading literature from the Gilded Age, and analyzing the unimaginable despotism that was commonplace for a woman, one can understand, and more importantly, appreciate how far civilization...
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...film named “Rashomon” which Kurosawa directed in 1950 and starred Toshiro Mifune whom he collaborated with on numerous films. The film Rashomon introduced western audiences to Kurosawa’s work. Kurosawa’s acclaim and influence started to fade later in life. However his influence on film, critical acclaim, international recognition, successes, and collaborations are topics which are often discussed and debated. Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa is arguably the most influential and innovate filmmaker in the history of cinema with a career that spanned nearly six decades. His contributions to the Japanese film industry and film in general are more than apparent. Not the only Japanese cinematic giant, but undoubtedly the most famous and revered in the West, Kurosawa has made exemplary films of various genres: historical, Samurai, and contemporary (Cohen-Shalev, 2008). Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in the 1930s with the film Sanshiro Sugata. Kurosawa's maiden directorial effort, Sanshiro Sugata, was panned for being too "British-American"(Maxfield, 1993) and he did not see his first real...
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...Literature Through Time Literature depicts the morals of time it shift and morphs into less power in the divine and more faith in man. Stories began being written by monks and the clergy which in time turned into regular men with stores that focused on more secular matters. English literature fills up the gap between wars, between societal change, you can see time progressing, you can see our values and morals changing, you can see history passing by. In the beginning there was Bede, a philosopher, speaker of many languages, a man who looked around him and saw a world in peril that only God could save, a man full of faith. Time passes and we see Shakespeare, a genius, a man with a queen, a man who rallied against the common, Shakespeare was a man with deep loves and a strong voice. “The Story of Caedmon”, was written during a time when Christian religious dogma was primarily hagiography, “the telling of the life of virtuous men and women that represents what it means to be a good Christian.” These stories are used as a form of reflections on one’s life as to make it better in the future. Religious dogma needed to be made more accessible to the congregation which was widely illiterate, so the stories were written with easy points and then acted out so that the congregation would not only be awake and attentive, but so that these stories of morality and faith would really sink in. “Caedmon” is probably the earliest extant of Old English poetry, Bede tells about Caedmon, an...
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...antagonists of both stories according to Kennedy’s and Gioia’s definition of the terms. According to them, the definition of a protagonist is: the principle person who thrives” and an antagonist is “a character who opposes and interferes with the protagonist as he seek his objectives”. In the first story, “Godfather Death”, the protagonist is the doctor. Even though the doctor is the protagonist, there were multiple actions taken by him,...
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...you today; it's also a calculated pre-emptive measure because sooner or later, one way or another, I am going to fall into your hands. And when our paths do cross, I naturally would hope that you are not only professionally excellent but also socially committed and compassionate. Today is the graduation ceremony for your Study Phase I, medicine, and it's also the inauguration ceremony for your Study Phase II, the study of life. So I'd like to share with you some of my own notes about life. I grew up in a port city in southern Taiwan called Kaohsiung. In 1961, when I was in the 2nd grade, something happened to my class. A girl vomited so violently that she had to be taken to the hospital. Very soon we were told to go home; all schools were shut down indefinitely. When we came back to the classroom some days later, several seats were empty. That was the first time I heard of the disease called "cholera." Of course I didn't know that our...
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...Andre Ferguson English 120 September 30, 2014 Argumentative essay Promoting Sexual Education between Doctors, Parents, Schools, and Children as Early as Elementary School The debate over whether or not comprehensive sexual education ought to be schooled in faculties is not any less heated than it absolutely was once it 1st became a recent disputation within the 1960’s. Some argue that it shouldn't be schooled in the slightest degree, in or out of the house. What several area unit unaware of is that sexual education has been a significant ethical perplexity since the year 1892, once the National Education Association passed a resolution citing the necessity for “moral education within the schools” (Cornblatt). This hot-button issue has created notably slow progress over the course of history, mostly as a result of spiritual principles implementing political theory. Today, sexual education is obligatory publicly faculties in twenty two of fifty states within the U.S. as a result of very little advancement created within the administration of sexual education schemes, voters of the U.S. have unnoted a deeper underlying issue – which is, at what stage in adolescence is it necessary and most helpful for this difficult, life-long learning method to begin? Additionally due partially to the slow progress these programs have revamped time, some oldsters have even neglected to the touch upon the difficulty entirely. What’s a lot of, these continued failures to be proactive have...
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...What do you find most striking/interesting/relevant/significant/innovative about the film and why? Given the lack of advanced of digital technology available to the film industry then, the way special effects were created was through a synthesis of camera work and the use of props. The low budget of the film had compelled them to use props consisting of condoms, oatmeal etc. together with filming techniques to replicate certain scenes like the tunnels or the heat-ray effect. These innovative methods of mixing prop-use and camera tricks, have mostly been replaced by digital technology. Poor representations of what we would come to expect of advanced technology, these special effects back then would have been the acceptable visual standard of portraying the scientific fantasies of the 1950s era. These different special-effects standards notwithstanding, the genre-function of science-fiction is to represent a sort of fantasy with hyper-real elements, while concurrently being a parody of contemporary issues. Hence, with the normative expectations of that genre in mind, it is interesting to see how cinematic expectations have changed, for example, to see how boiled-oatmeal coupled with camera tricks could pass off as a heat-ray’s effect then. However, a judgment regarding the proximity to reality between past and present visual effects can be passed while avoiding anachronisms. Hence, where hyper-real elements – successful exaggerations of reality where representation fades into...
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...Darkness inside Human Mind Joseph Conrad, who wrote The Heart of Darkness, once said, “The mind of man is capable of anything.” What he is telling us was that a person will do any actions by any means regardless of its consequence. There is always an evil side living inside the human soul, and this evil side breaks out during times when there is a difference in culture; for example, during World War II, Nazis killed any Jews that appeared in Europe, and their reason was Jews were not considered Germans, and they were believed to be disloyal and untrustworthy. This shows the difference in culture that created darkness inside the mind of the Nazis, who told them to do unimaginable things. The madness, fear, imperialism, death, escape, and difference in culture are the main theme of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now; although they were written in different times, settings, and purposes, they both express how savage the human mind can be when he confronts with darkness. Both the novel Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now address the idea of imperialism. Imperialism, defining as a country’s political, military, and economic domination over another, is the theme that talk thoroughly in both works. For instance, in Heart of Darkness, richer nations are robbing the goods in Africa, such as ivory and slaves, while in Apocalypse Now America is trying to subvert Vietnam from being Communism. A modern example that relate to the idea of imperialism is America showing assistant...
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...had wood as the rails. As I was sliding down it my leg got to close to the side of the rail and I got a huge splinter in the side of my leg. I was crying very loudly because it hurt so bad, my mom heard me so she ran out there to see what had happened. I had to go to the emergency room to get the splinter removed so it wouldn’t get infected. I knew right then at that very moment that I wanted to be a nurse. Here are a couple things that I found to be interesting about nursing. Did you know that Jan 27th is school nurse day? Or did you know that in 1783 a black slave named James Derham worked as a nurse in New Orleans, eventually earning enough money to buy his freedom and move to Philadelphia, where he studied medicine and became a doctor? And I also bet that you didn’t know that the largest demand for Licensed Practical Nurses through 2110 will be in nursing homes? Or that the 4th week of May is National Nurses week, which is coming up pretty soon. And May 8th is national Student Nurses’ day (Start a nurse staffing agency). Well I didn’t know any of that either until I started my paper on my nursing career. In December 2010 I finished my schooling for a Licensed Practical Nurse at the JCTC Campus in the accelerated program. I chose to start out at that campus because its only five minutes from my house, and it was only for about ten and a half months. Now that the LPN program is over and I have completed my one hundred and twenty internship hours and passed the NCLEX...
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...people are abstaining from marriage and other sexual relations. You might think that one percent might not be a very significant percentage, but compared to the 320 million people currently populating the United States, one percent is actually a little more than 3 million people. We decided to look at celibacy and do a cross cultural comparison within different regions around the world. We looked at nine different cultures in different parts of the world. In Southern Europe, we studied the Basques, in South Eastern Europe, we studied the Greeks, in Southern South America, we studied the Onas, in Eastern South America, we studied the Guarani and the Bahia Brazilians, in Southern Africa, we studied the Zulu, in Western Africa, we studied the Akan, in Southern Asia, we studied the Vietnamese, and lastly we briefly looked at the Monguors in Eastern Asia. In some of these cultures, celibacy seems like a very odd and unusual concept to the people, whereas in other cultures, celibacy is a cultural norm, and is practiced among the people. We will be comparing these cultures in order to determine what characteristics they share that lead to the practice of celibacy, what are the differences in their practices, and we will also compare them to cultures that disapprove the practice of celibacy. The Basques reside in Southern Europe and mostly consist of extended families that focus mostly on farming. According to Douglass, it is expected that farms in Murelaga should hold a three generation...
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