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Television, What A Waste Of Timme
... shocked us at first has now become customary dinner-time cinema.
With the increase in the number of television sets in America, more and more
young people have been robbed of their creativity. With TV, hardly anything is
left to the imagination. Before the existence of television, all people wre
forced to create their own opinions and images of things in their own minds.
But with TV, all the images are created for you and almost all the arguments are
one-sided. With TV, you no longer create your own ideas; you are told them.
Television has a great impact on the health of America. The seductive topics
and biased broadcasts shows daily across America are lu ...
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Of Mice And Men: Compare/Contrast Book And Movie
... to own a farm of their own, where
they could work for themselves and be self dependent. They didn't have
enough money at the time to start the farm, but they did have the willpower.
The only way they could think of raising money is to go to work on another
farm and to save up for their dream.
At the new farm they worked on Lennie proved very quickly what a
good hand he was. What he was told he would do, and, he could do twice
what the other men could do. Many people said things about him. They said
how he had "paws" instead of hands and how he was a giant. George was
Lennies' hero in a sense. Lennie loved George with all his heart, whatever
George said, L ...
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A Clockwork Orange: Review Of Book And Firm Version
... cruelty of "the Government." This faction tries to force Alex to
suicide in order to gain a martyr, but Alex's attempt fails and he is nursed
back to health and his natural mental state by the Government, who in the end
comes out on top.
Alex, whose last name is not mentioned in the book, is a violent,
aggressive teenager of fifteen, who is the leader of a four-person gang. He
truly enjoys violence, reveling in the sight of blood or weapons. Alex's love
of hate is not simply a rebellious emotion, but as he explains, it is his very
nature, and he could not change it if he wanted to. Despite his passion for
what most see as ugly and disgusting, Alex does have ...
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Essay About Criticism Of Shakespeare's Plays
... of acclaim for her strengths of
character as well as in opposition to the male characters and various subplots
within Lear.
A common interpretation of Lear is one of the juxtaposition of good and
evil within the play. Many traditional critics have made this idea their
primary focus in interpretations which often ignores the feminist and class
conscious theme that are also present in King Lear. Most recent critical
essays of King Lear do make note of the class struggle within the play; however,
critics tend to ignore the gender struggles which upon thorough reading are
clearly as obvious as the class issues. I have chosen an interpretation of King
Lear from ...
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Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest
... Jack(Ernest) Worthington represent the prototypical male
bachelors. In the opening act, set in Algernon's flat, the two meet and display
what appears to be their usual daily activities. Neither is employed, and it is
apparent that their only occupation is the pursuit of leisure activities and
social matters, subjects of major importance to them. When Algernon inquires as
to the purpose of Ernest's visit to town, Ernest replies, "Oh pleasure,
pleasure! What else should bring anyone anywhere? Eating as usual, I see Algy!".
Algeron and Ernest are characterized by their extravagance, a luxury affordable
only because of the money accrued from family inheritance. ...
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A Doll's House: Theme Of Emancipation Of A Woman
... the dance, he proclaims "When I
saw you turn and sway in the tarantella--my blood was pounding till I couldn't
stand it" showing how he is more interested in Nora physically than emotionally.
When Nora responds by saying "Go away, Torvald! Leave me alone. I don't want
all this", Torvald asks "Aren't I your husband?". By saying this, he is
implying that one of Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at
his command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which exemplifies
Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion when Torvald gives
Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry; in
modern time ...
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The Crucible: An Analysis
... themself to be a witch. The families may try their hardest to
persuade them to tell a lie and set themself free, but they would also have
to live with the lie, and the perpetual doubt of the town. Some of these
women have very young children, who would be scarred for life because of
the horror in the town, at their early age. Some of the youngsters
themselves are being put on trial, as the witches' familiars.
It is also an ordeal for the girls, because they are finally having
power thrust upon them, after being shunned all their lives, because they
are both female and children. By giving the pointing finger to the girls,
they suddenly have the highes ...
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The Direct And Indirect Impact Of Rhetoric In The Color Purple
... her
at the mercy of Albert Johnson's more dominant attitude. The rhetoric that she
expresses to him, of innocence and always complying to his orders, forces her to
live a large portion of her life sheltered and overshadowed by Albert, who
continuously beats her into submission. Celie also passes on what she learned
from “Mister” to his son Harpo, the rhetoric of “the importance of a man giving
his wife a good beating.” Albert Johnson does not even realize how important
Celie is to him until she is gone. At that point he returns some of the love
that is shown to him by helping Nettie and her family to return to the United
States in order to see Celie. This a ...
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A Clockwork Orange
... up to the individual. That one should determine the cause and then find an exclusive treatment to resolve that individual's case, then apply it. This is the case with the character Alex, a juvenile delinquent introduced into prisonization then conditioned by governmental moral standards. This lack of personal moral choice imposed upon Alex creates conflicting situations in which he has no control over. This is apparent when trying to readjust into society. As conflicts arise within the spectrum of criminal justice the main focus is revolved around the corrections aspect of reforming the criminal element.
Within the confines of the seventies Londoner. The c ...
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Hamlet: Spying
... his father by spying on the King of Denmark. This gives Hamlet two good reasons to kill Claudius. First, he hated the fact that his uncle married his mother in just a few months after his dad died. Second, his father's ghost wants revenge on Claudius. Most of the time Hamlet does his own spying. He tries to force Ophelia to give him information, but she ends up lying to him in ACT III Scene i.
Hamlet: Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but
yet I could accuse me of such things that it were
better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud,
revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my bec ...
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