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J D Salinger World War Ii
1,312 words
Everyone struggles to find their place in society.
Some follow the rules society has set for them
exactly, while others have a hard time dealing
with the transition from childhood to adulthood.
The Catcher in the Rye was written post World War
II, and magnifies some of the problems Americas
youth was going through. Salinger uses everything
from comedy and obscenity to violence and death to
get his point across. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher
in The Rye exemplifies the struggles a forlorn and
confu...
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Minimum Wage Affordable Housing
1,176 words
Homelessness is a growing problem in the United
States. Countless people wonder the streets, sleep
in boxes, and wonder where their next meal will
come from. As a sociologist working on the Nation
Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), I would address
four main concerns: the links between poverty and
the homelessness, links between unemployment and
homelessness, lack of governmental support for the
homeless, and lack of affordable, and satisfactory
housing for the homeless. Poverty and homelessness
a...
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Israeli Prime Minister Moment Of Silence
1,355 words
As soon as Ilana Romana heard about the situation
in Munich, she expected the worst: "I knew who he
was. He would not sit quietly. He was not the
type. I knew it would end badly. " She spoke of
her husband, and, unfortunately, her prediction
was correct. Earlier that day, her husband,
Yossef, and his teammates were awoken by Arab
terrorists beginning an episode that would result
in the death of eleven Israeli athletes and
forever scar the 1972 Olympics, leaving the games
to be remembered for the...
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Television Shows Watching Television
1,181 words
Sex, luxury, and drama sells. But by watching
television shows are we putting fantasy thoughts
of reality in our head? Isnt that why we watch
television in the first place? No one wants to
turn on the television and see chubby, middle
class citizens go to a cubicle for 10 hours a day,
sit in rush hour traffic, get drunk every Friday
night with the boys, and spend the rest of the
time on the John. I think they had a few movies
like that in the last few years, what were they
called? Oh yes, Box Of...
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Act Four Act Three
772 words
Situation Comedy Before writing this essay, I
watched a old re-run of The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air, and I read the chapter in the television
textbook where a episode of Leave It to Beaver was
broken down into Act One, Act Two, Act Three and
Act Four. It was there that I realized that since
1951, with the premiere of I Love Lucy, that most
sitcoms follow a very basic, but successful
pattern. I will demonstrate how this is
accomplished in the sitcom week in and week out.
The first act must establis...
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White People Clybourne Park
1,263 words
... this guy who doesnt think about his actions
like I said before. Who knows how much farther
down hill this family can take. Later into the
story when Mama wants to buy the house, the
landlord stops by the apartment when Mama isnt
home and the Younger family discuss this house
with them. Mr. Lindner (the landlord) thinks that
the family isnt suited for Clybourne Park because
he doesnt think they will fit in. Well Walter
intimidates Mr. Lindner a lot by saying things
about why they arent suited...
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Parents Dad Divorce
620 words
Moving boxes make me think about the time my
parents just got divorced. It was second grade and
just after Christmas. (I guess spending Christmas
of ' 91 together was a kind of gift from my
parents to me. ) I lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, at
the time, and it was freezing. Snow blanketed the
grounds and the air was crisp. My mom and I were
moving out of the apartment that we lived in with
my dad. I remember being angry, confused, and
hurt. I was mad that my parents were splitting up.
Why couldn't t...
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Tyler Durden Narrator Begins
1,744 words
Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik follows the crazy,
madcap life of a man who attempts to escape the
system that is life by creating mayhem in the
world. The main character, the narrator,
throughout the book, remains nameless. He is Mr
Ordinary Joe, he goes to work, he does his job, he
comes home, and he spends his money. His job as an
auto-recall supervisor is event less and is one of
the main reasons he does not like his life. He has
no real friends, and all the time he has free he
spends attempti...
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Rear Window And Gentlemen Prefer Blondes On Display
1,486 words
Rear Window (1954) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953) have very different plots but still have
many striking similarities, such as the
manipulation of the spectators gaze. Gaze is the
transaction between the screen and a spectator.
Two examples of the types of gazes used in these
films are voyeuristic and fetishistic. The use of
voyeuristic and fetishistic gazes reinforce movie
viewing and gender roles during the 1950 s by
featuring manipulative and frivolous women as sex
objects. Rear Window i...
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The Great Gatsby Daisy And Myrtle
955 words
After first glancing at The Great Gatsby, it
didn't seem as if any similarities between the
wealthy, dainty Daisy Buchanan, the object of
Gatsby's worship, and Myrtle Wilson, the bawdy,
mechanic's wife who was having an affair with
Daisy's husband. In fact, it was felt that there
was no comparison at all, because I felt that
other than sharing an abhor able man, there was
nothing else to look at. But after deeper
analysis, there was more to their motives and
personalities go deeper than that. Fo...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,016 words
Holden Caulfield - The protagonist and narrator of
the novel. When the novel opens, Holden is a
sixteen year-old junior at a school called Pencey
Prep; he has just been expelled for academic
failure. Holden is intelligent and sensitive, but
he narrates his story in a cynical, jaded voice.
Though he never says so outright, he longs to live
in a beautiful and innocent world, and finds the
hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him
almost unbearably painful; his cynicism is his
attempt to prote...
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Shock Treatments Sleeping Pills
1,418 words
The Bell Jar takes place during fifties and begins
in New York City, during a summer in which the
narrator, Esther Greenwood, is an intern at a
fashion magazine after winning a scholarship. She
soon becomes friends with Doreen, a fellow
scholarship winner who is kind of cynical. Doreen
out takes Esther for drinks, where they meet
several men, including Lenny Shepherd, a disc
jockey. Esther and Doreen go back to Lenny's
apartment, where Doreen and Lenny progressively
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The Theme Of Escape In Glass Menagerie
864 words
In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams uses
the theme of escape to help drive the play
forward. None of the characters are capable of
living in the real world. Laura, Amanda, Tom and
Jim use various methods to escape the brutalities
of life. Laura retreats into a world of glass
animals and old records. Amanda is obsessed with
living in her past. Tom escapes into his world of
poetry writing and movies. Jim also reverts to his
past and remembers the days when he was a high
school hero. Mr. Win...
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Jack The Ripper Serial Killers
2,439 words
Serial Killers audience: anyone who likes a
thriller movie thesis: define serial killing and
compare and contrast several famous serial
killers. A. Serial killers 1. Characteristics of
serial killers a. White, normal acting male b.
Seldom is there a woman serial killer 2. what
makes it serial B. Motive 1. What drives them to
do such crime a. Psychological damage b. Physical
damage to the brain 2. Why they leave "signature"
on crime scene a. Behaviors of a serial killer b.
Sexual desire of a seri...
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Death Of A Salesman Lack Of Communication
1,626 words
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915.
Around the age of 23 he graduated from the
University of Michigan, the place where he began
to write plays. Several of his writings include
All My Sons, The Crucible, Misfits, After The Fall
and Broken Glass. The most outstanding modern
tragedy, Death Of a Salesman, helped make Arthur
Miller on of the most successful American
playwrights of the 1940 s and 1950 s. In Death Of
a Salesman, Miller writes about social and
political pressures and their ...
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Gentleman Caller Glass Menagerie
670 words
In the Glass Menagerie Tennessee William s
presents us with a Family whose lives seem to be
trapped in avoiding reality instead of facing it.
The play, which is much like our own lives, is
constantly pointing out ways of escaping. The
characters in the play each try to find there way
to escape but find that they continue to tangle
themselves into there problems even more. Escaping
is a main theme in the play. Each member of the
Wingfield family can not live in the presents.
Each escape into a se...
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Mother Face Didn T
1,757 words
A Whole New Perspective She walked toward the
light. She felt a slight tug on the leash and
realized that she had to stop. She guessed that
the light was red and that was the reason the dog
came to a halt. However she could feel the breeze
of people passing by her and was curious as to why
the dog stopped walking. Suddenly the dog pulled
and they continued on their everyday route. Past
the bakery, where she could smell the most
delicious breads and pastries; she walked past the
hair salon on her...
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Solid Waste Huge Impact
1,347 words
Solid waste production is something we, as humans,
create every day. Most human activity involves the
creation of trash, for example eating or even the
recycling of the very paper I am writing on. I
decided to complete an environmental impact
assessment to observe my trash accumulation for a
week. This made me more conscious on the trash I
was throwing away, and it also made me aware of
the amount of garbage that could be recycled. The
project sounded easier than it was, collect data
by gatherin...
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Place In Society Racial Segregation
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Societies have always had different classes, or
subdivisions of economic and political standing.
Ancient Greece was divided into the educated upper
class, the middle working class, and slaves.
Europe in the Middle Ages had an upper ruling
class, and a poor working class. Africa in the
past on hundred years had two classes, colonists
and native Africans. Each class had a strict place
in society and each person in that society was
expected to conform to the behavior expected of
their class. In the...
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World We Live Art And Architecture
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Roman Art and Architecture Roman art and
architecture was the art and architecture of Rome
and its empire, which in its golden era extended
from the British Isles to the Caspian Sea (Roman
Encarta 96). The earliest Roman art and
architecture is generally associated with the
overthrow of the Etruscan kings and the
establishment of the Republic in 509 BC (Roman).
The end of Roman art and architecture and the
beginning of medieval art is usually said to occur
with the conversion of the emperor Cons...
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