... breaks the law, that is defined as a ‘crime'. For example, purposeful and alleged manslaughter is a crime, because it is a law to not kill others; people are not allowed to go cavorting around killing whomever they please, if they did, civilization would fall. Laws and rules hold us to civilization. Another way to define crime is through ethics and morals. Each person on this Earth possesses a conscience; when we do something wrong, our conscience makes us feel guilty, although some people feel less or more guilt than others about certain acts; it varies individually. Based on this, one can define a crime as the things that make us feel guilty, although some cr ...

... structure. Society abhors welfare—hides from it—and hopes it will solve itself. Epstein quotes Bane and Ellwood (1994) in the book Welfare, Family Structure and Intergenerational Dependency, that shows the family breakdown and how it can dispel the governments’ ideas of reducing welfare to those in the greatest need. He quotes, “family dissolution and non-marital births account for a large amount of the reliance upon Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)…forty-two percent of all new spells on AFDC are associated with an unmarried mother becoming a head of household.” (Epstein 111) To prove that inequality exists in society we need to define the confli ...

... to the reader. The background and setting of the play are introduced in order for the reader to fully understand it. In Act II, the Act of Development, the plot develops, the conflict intensifies, and signs of character’s flaws appear. Act III is the Act of Tragic Decision. Characters usually act under the influence of a tragic flaw, causing them to make a crucial decision. In Act IV, the Act of Falling Action, the character realizes the error in the decision. In a futile effort, they try to reverse it but ultimately fail. The damage is beyond repair. In Act V, the Act of Catastrophe, the character suffers the consequences of the decision, and is dest ...

... p65). He said, “I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West-all dead now.” (Fitzgerald. p65) This shows that Gatsby wanted to kill his past even though he couldn’t since his father was still alive. He did visit his father two years before he died. However, he never went as a son but as a generous rich man. Mr. Gatz said, “He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.”(Fitzgerald. p174) Gatsby could only express himself in terms of money or rather his wealth represented him as a man of high status. He had no respect for himself because he went around telling people lies about himself and his family and the way he based ...

... example of his brutality is displayed when he beats his wife, Stella. Lastly, his arrogance and ferocious actions are most apparent when he rapes Blanche, while his wife is in labor in the hospital. Stanley Kowalski’s first exhibition of his brutal actions occurs at poker night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the r ...

... Jack to know." Within the posed partnership between the whites and the blacks in the Brotherhood is an underlying sense of authority and domination. Although a picture of alliance is what the whites wish to paint, even shallow reading brings out the irrefutable control which they possess over their black brothers. Unknowably, the narrator is under this control throughout the entire story, despite the recurrent instances that stare into his blinded view. The above passage is not a particular episode in the novel, yet rather a metaphorical representation of a main theme: control versus rebellion. It also acts as a foreshadowing for the latter section of the novel ...

... “man in black”. The boy’s name is Jake Chambers. Jake accompanies Roland on his journey to find the “man in black”. Later, after a sequence involving creatures known as slow mutants, Jake and Roland end up on a train trestle, high above a black abyss. At a critical moment, Roland must choose between letting Jake drop and finally catching the dark man. Though it agonizes him, he watches Jake fall, Jake's last words echoing in his ears: "Go, then. There are other worlds than these." Roland eventually catches the “man in black”. The “man in black” gives the gunslinger a vision, which nearly explains the cosmos to Roland. Then Roland has his future read with tarot ca ...

... aggressions concerning class associated positions boil just barely beneath the surface on the “killing floor.” Conditions at the meatpacking plant are considerably less then favorable. The hours are long, the work is backbreaking, and the position in which he works does not pay very well. However, Frank’s compensation for these conditions are his relationships with the other men whom he lives near and works around. Spending his evenings playing cards and talking with the men introduces Frank to more then just a little relaxation; issues about politics, race relations, and especially the “white man’s union” dominate the colorful conversations. During this time I’ ...

... He is difficult to live with, inconsistent, and moody."(115). These are only a few of the things that Jem does to show that he is growing up in his social ways. Mental change is another type of change that Jem goes through. Jem start to think like an adult as he gets older in the book. He shows it at the trial of Tim Robinson when the jury is in the jury room and he starts to talk to Reverend Sykes. He starts saying thing about the trial and Reverend Sykes ask him not to talk like that in front of Scout. Which shows that he knows what he is talking about.(see page 208-209). There is also the time when he had to go and read to Mrs. Dubose which he later fi ...

... told through the eyes of Winston Smith, is no exception. Orwell deliberately keeps the plot in 1984 simple, without any narrative twists or shocking surprises until the very end. He is very careful to present the idea that it is our society and government, not people, that are mixed up. The plot is not merely a boy meets girl story, but helps to pull the characters through the story. For Orwell’s purposes, the plot need not be too complex, for it might detract from his message. By keeping the time frame of 1984 to a short period and involving relatively few main characters, Orwell focuses on the important issues of totalitarianism and total government control th ...