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- 17031: Witchcraft at Salem
- ... of an illness resulting from the ingestion of ergot--a fungus with LSD-like properties that resides in rye. Perhaps this is not the true cause of the strange behavior, but to the twentieth century world, it is a justification more believable than that of the village doctor. It is a human tendency to jump to conclusions without knowing all of the facts. In the case described above, the village doctor ...
- 17032: Review of Shaw Shank Redemption
- ... most out of it. It blows my mind to know that there are people out there that hurt others, even when they don't even know who the person is who they are hurting. This world is messed up in so many ways and I can't even begin to believe how life in prison would be until I saw this movie. The only things that I can do is worry ...
- 17033: Hamlet: A Revenge Tragedy
- ... in birth and person, a prince of extraordinary intelligence: and, as the action of the play proves, he is heroic. His defect (indecision, excessive imagination, irrationality, madness, etc.) prevents him from seizing control of the world Claudius has created. His death closes the play, but only after he experiences and expresses illuminations about human life and death. Hamlet begins after Hamlet's father has died. This has casted an unwanted and ...
- 17034: The Merchant of Venice: Is It A Classic
- ... understood to a Jewish person (rather to a non-Jew) in today's society. More and more Jews are leaving their faith in order to marry a gentile. The loss of Jewish identity across the world is staggering and is a very frightening issue for rabbis and Jewish people who practice and believe in the faith. The reaction, in a sometimes-left out silent scene, of Shylock after he learns that ...
- 17035: The Detriment That Society Can Cause to its Inhabitants
- ... early 1900's, the roles of men and women were defined specifically. Men were expected to be the "bread-winners", the person that supported the wife and the children with no help from the outside world. The male role was defined as the superior and dominant gender in society that looked down on females. The female's role in life was to be the child-bearer, or the person who took ...
- 17036: The Crucible: John Proctor Is A Tragic Hero
- ... for someone who has won? This is where the conflict lies and as we see in Proctor's realization, " The Crucible" will hold true to Miller's definition. Proctor learns something about himself and the world around him in his final realization before his execution. This is the concluding step in the tragic plot. "Tragedy seems to me to be an investigation of the possibilities of human freedom."(Kerr) Again, it ...
- 17037: Television Regulation: Government vs. Parents
- ... had their own set and it was used as a baby-sitter, entertainer and educator. Statistics also showed that by watching too much television and exposure to excessive violence, children and grownups alike develop Mean World Syndrome where people are afraid to go out. So they stay in the house and watch more television. Television has a very powerful effect - just look at the power of commercials. While it is a ...
- 17038: Death of a Salesman: Symbols in the Play
- ... wishes to leave some fo rm of support behind for his family as illustrated in his planting of the seeds. Willy feels that he must leave something behind something for Biff. In Willy's imaginary world he wants Biff to be magnificent and he symbolically plants seeds in his garden. In spite of such an action he is doomed to fail. Willy sta rts planting the seeds at night, but at ...
- 17039: Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus
- ... about the them, however, was an extremely interesting feature of this Sophocles drama, causing the reader to question the reliability of the chorus. The opening lines from the chorus merely inform the reader about the war which had just taken place between Thebes and Argos. Their last lines of this opening choral passage, however, introduced king Creon, making him seem quite noble yet mysterious to his loyal subjects. They state such ...
- 17040: Roger Williams
- ... served three terms. Always a trusted friend of the Native Americans, he often used his good offices in maintaining peaceful relations with them. But he was unable to prevent the outbreak of King Philip's War, in which he served as a captain of militia. Williams, though he remained a Christian, disassociated himself from existing churches. His writings, reprinted in the Narragansett Club Publications, reveal the vigor with which he propounded ...
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