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Life After DivorceOne of the hardest things in life besides death, sickness or being poor, is going through a divorce. The emotions affiliated with divorce are many. For some, it may be the best thing it could happened to them and to others the very worst. Whatever the emotions, one must control their emotions no matter what - you just have to learn how to adapt to your new life. Certain things, such as seeing your ex-spouse doing different things, maybe enjoying his or her life, or dating somebody new can be very difficult. After a di |
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Key Characters in Ordinary PeopleIn the novel "Ordinary People"," Conrad experiences a number of events that contribute to his recovery. The first positive event that contributes to his recovery is the fact that he decides to go to therapy on his own. This incident is positive because the event shows how Conrad is able to make a constructive decision that will only benefit him. Conrad wants to get better, and this is his first step in acknowledging that. Another important moment in Conrad's recovery is his visits with Dr. Berger. Each visit gives Conrad more and more insight about why he needs to let go of the guilt and blame he feels about Buck's death. The most important visits with Berger are when Conrad lets out all his anger at Berger, and when Conrad finally figures out who it is who can't forgive who. Instead of holding his feelings inside, Berger makes him realize that it's okay to release his emotions and frustrations with life. Conrad achieves recovery once he lets out his dark secrets that have been hold |
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Changes in the Land by William CrononThe Native Americans and English colonists inhabited many contrasting ideals, individual beliefs based on culture, and had distinctive technological resources available to each of them that will ultimately affect the way each group utilize the ecosystems of New England. In the novel "Changes in the Land", written by William Cronon, a collection of essays would be organized into a compilation of explanations and subjective reasoning to assist in a better understanding of how the two separate ways of living had such different effects on each other and the New England ecosystems. Cronon places emphasis on the fact that although the Native Americans and English colonists viewed and interacted with the environment differently, neither one of the groups supersedes or outplays the other. In fact, each group possesses a similar goal of placing their own personal influence on an allegedly "natural " system. This common goal that each group shared would become simple to achieve once each group f |
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When Appearances Matter the MostThe characters in John Cheever's "The Country Husband"" are very important to the point that Cheever is trying to make. In the story, the characters are described in great detail in order to get the full textual understanding of each character and for the reader to become familiar with those who populate the story. He gives each character very different personalities and utilizes them as foundational blocks to set up the story. The main character is clearly the husband, Francis Weed. His wife, Julia Weed, is also given a large role in the story - Cheever uses her character to fill us in on town gossip and who's who in the story. Another important character is the household nanny, Anne Murchison. Cheever gives this character beauty and surrounds her with suspense. Mr. Francis Weed is introduced as a husband of a beautiful wife and the father of three children - the "all American family"". Mr. Weed is a business man and by all accounts, a successful one. He has his own office and rec |
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Analysis: Grizzly Man and Into the WildA person's life is full of tragedies and experiences. As Don Herold once stated, "Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it"." This appalling quote perfectly represents the lives and the tragic ending of the lives of Timothy Treadwell and of Christopher McCandless. The insightful documentary "Grizzly Man" and the book "Into the Wild"" are both about two men who are unhappy in the world they live in and believe they can make a difference in their lives by finding some peace and solitude in nature. I disagree with Callarman's argument that Chris McCandless and Timothy Treadwell were ignorant people, these people were brave and cunning, and in reality they were not jeopardizing anyone's lives but they're own when they went into "the wild", they were passionate on what they did, they were admirable souls trying to get away from society, the real "wilderness"". Timothy Treadwell was a weird and yet an interesting person. He had great ideas, but not the greate |
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Harrison Bergeron: The Power of ConformityIn society, we long to obtain the perception of a Utopia, a visionary system of political or social perfection. A Utopia is an ideology that consists of a perfect society that runs by perfect regulations, and because of this, our society tries to place rules on us as individuals as to what is acceptable and what is not in order to achieve this sense of equilibrium. We are then left with deciding for ourselves whether to conform to such a social decorum. In Harrison Bergeron, we encounter a society that has finally reached complete equality in the eyes of the author. However, throughout the text, we learn that our expectations that are imposed by society could result in chaos and that there is an extent of danger that total equality presents with it. We live in a society where competition is valued, a certain amount of competition has always been good. From a health standpoint, competition makes us work harder and train to be better athletes, and thus healthier in general. From a |
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annotated bibliography Communication Theory Annotated Bibliography April 16, 2013 Why does marriage work on an interpersonal level? Gottman, J. (1994). What makes marriage work? (cover story). Psychology Today, 27(2), 38. This article made some really good points on why marriages do and do not last. The research of the mid to late nineties stated that over half of all marriages fail and second time marriages have a sixty percent fail rate as well. Gottman makes a good argument, get mad as hell or avoid conflict at all costs. He does point out that the positive must outweigh the negative by a five to one ratio. Most people who enter marriage are scared and do not know exactly what to do. Gottman states that people should be scared because the failure rate in America is so high. Lasting marriages are in direct correlation to the couple's ability to resolve conflicts and therefore on an interpersonal level they are connected and feel closer so they share more thoughts with one ano |
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A Valedictory AddressGood evening Graduating Class of 2009, Parents, Coach Lindsey, Faculty, Board Members, and Friends. Life brings us tears, smiles, and memories "the tears dry, the smiles fade, but the memories last forever." We will always remember this night because tonight, 32 Marengo Academy students become alumni. I want to share with all of you what I have experienced as a member of this class for the past 14 years. We started our school days in kindergarten. Little did we know that we would become such a close class with endless memories. In 2nd grade, Chris spilled Dr. Pepper on his pants and cried because everybody laughed at him. That was the first time we saw "The Whitaker Cry", but that was okay because all the girls were still in love with him. In 4th grade, Parker accidentally hit Beau in the head with a bat. Beau had a huge knot on his head for months, and there's still a bump there. We can thank Parker for the way Beau is now. In 6th grade, Kyle got in-school suspension |
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The Influence of 1920's Women's FashionThe era of the 1920's has been remembered as the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, the decade long party, and the Age of Intolerance. No matter what it was called though, nearly every driveway had a Ford Model T, the family radio was the main form of entertainment, and the first talking motion picture was created. However, the topic that was hot throughout the twenties was the significant change in women's fashion. Fashion is shaped and influenced by the society and events which surround it. Society was speeding up, women were given the right to vote via the 19th Amendment to the constitution on August 26th of 1920 which may have been the direct cause to the drastic change in women's attire, accessories, and hairstyles; women felt free. So free that |
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The Responsibilty of MotherhoodMotherhood change the woman's lives in the book something like beautiful. It causes the women to act responsible to the new life they now have to care for and to become protective of themselves and the child, because they no longer wish to live in pain. Being a mother also force these women to access their relationships with their child's fathers, when faced with the reality of having to feed two months instead of one. However these women's are still victims of the past. Responsibility is evidence in mothers who care about oneself. Women who have born children obligate for their actions and decisions and they know it is essential for them to see how it affects them. By delegating responsibilities moms tasks get taken care of and life goes on. Delegation is a skill of which mothers have all heard but few understand. It can be used either as an excuse for putting failure onto the shoulders of others, or as a good tool for motivating themselves to realize their full potential. It i |
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Frank Capra's Quest for an Academy AwardOn his rise to fame, Frank Capra had only one thing in mind: winning the Academy Award for Best Director. After not receiving any recognition from the academy for his film, "American Madness", he came to the conclusion that they could not appreciate good movies. Therein, he set out to make an artsy film in an attempt to appeal to what he believed the academy wanted. Accordingly, Frank Capra directed "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" in this artsy manner. Although it later became a classic, when "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" was released, the film received mixed reviews. Some reviewers could not understand the picture for what it was. "No picture half so strange, so bizarre, had ever before passed outward through the astonished doors of the Columbia Studio"," articulated Phillip Scheuer, a journalist for the Los Angeles Times. Another review praised the acting as the sole redeeming quality of the movie: Nils Asther is the salt on this egg, and it isn't salt enough. (Tinee) Upon hearing these reviews, Frank Capra refuted that the audience could not grasp the complexity of his film, claiming the public simply "[didn't] want to think"" ( |
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The Persistence of Estates in EuropeThe paradox of constitutional persistence deals with the historical phenomenon of the persistence of what modern political scientists denote as the "Medieval Constitution"" in some, but not all, of medieval Europe. In essence, the paradox forces political scientists to answer for the occurrence of the constitutional order of kings and consultative assemblies such as parliaments, in some but not all cases, throughout Europe. Let us refer to these consultative assemblies as estates, as Thomas Ertman does in "Birth of the Leviathan". The estates are consultative assemblies consisting of members from a variety of backgrounds including those of the clergy, nobility, and third commons (privileged towns people), who in effect, consult with the territorial ruler on topics most commonly surrounding the issues of taxes, war, religious order. As we will see, although the territorial ruler holds a wealth of advantages over the estates, advantages such as popular support, procedural power, and the |
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Gender and the Author's VoiceToday's average reader does not usually stop to ponder the gender of an author and what impact a male or female hand may have on a body of literature. However, if analyzed closely, any given text may expose a distinct structural element associated with the author's gender. Femininity or masculinity within a written work is not so simple to identify, and once identified it is not so easy to pass-off as an by-product of one's sex. Nevertheless, women's literature tends to lend a much more prominent distinction of gender through the structure of poetry. Female writers such as Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, and Elizabeth Bowen utilize a poetic license in a gallivant manner to illustrate a story as it unfolds to them. In her composition "Ada"", Gertrude Stein uses a specific structure to symbolize a virgin thought or stream of consciousness. She narrates, "Barnes Colhard did not say he would not do it but he did not do it. He did it and then he did not do it, he did not ever think about it. He just thought some time he might do something (Stein, 165). Stein epitomizes |
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Psychological Disturbances in The RavenDeath is an inevitable event anyone cannot escape from. Everyone at one point in life will experience death, whether it's facing your own or losing someone close to you. As human beings death is the most stressful and common experience an individual encounters. The majority of time common factors of psychological disturbances affected by death come from depression, mourning, and grief. Which are all natural responses, however it's usually during bereavement when factors of death play a strong role on one's psychological state of mind. Therefore, "The Raven"" by Edgar Allan Poe should be included in the North Bergen High School curriculum because the poem educates students about the psychological disturbances the lost of a loved one can cause. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, to talented actors David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold. Shortly, after Poe was born his father abandoned his family, his mother died of tuberculosis, and was orphaned before he |
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Compulsive HoardingWhile some people believe it is not, hoarding is a mental disorder that is difficult to treat and is often judged as a personal problem rather than a mental disorder. The new appearance of television shows that are specific to this mental disorder, place this disease in the spotlight. Compulsive hoarding has become something that is looked down upon and that the person whom it is affecting is just messy and disgusting. Everyone has stuff, even if it's a kitchen drawer filled with old thumbtacks, a spool of thread or old birthday cards tucked aside somewhere. We are genetically programmed to collect, accumulate, and save a variety of things. Our forbearers saved anything that could be materially useful. So, to want more and to keep it is fundamentally human-a common, usually normal, and natural behavior. Compulsive hoarding is the excessive acquisition of possessions and the failure to use or discard them. "People who hoard typically cannot stop acquiring things (Hartl 2009). Many ind |
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Organizational LearningLearning organizations can be understood as institutions which allow for expansion of capacity among its employees or people. In such organizations, people have the opportunity to develop and give the desired results. Learning also allows for the nurturance of new ideas and thought patterns. According to Senge, learning organizations involve collective aspirations that are not restricted and enables individuals to be in a continuous learning process (170). The rationality for any learning organizations, according to Senge, is to remain flexible and productive even when they are subjected to drastic changes. Further, learning organizations are expected to remain adaptive and excel in a coerced environment. However, Senge is clear that such adaptive and productive mechanisms cannot just occur, but organizations and the leadership must see and trap the commitment of the partners or workers, and develop their capacity to learn at various levels (Senge 170). This is because individuals have |
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Stress in AdolescentsStress is directly related to the misconduct in teenagers today. Many believe that the rise in drug use and other behavioral problems in adolescents are due to society's inability to manage their adolescents (Benenson). They believe that a more strict view and more severe punishments would change how these teens behave. Parents set limits that seem reasonable in their eyes, but for some reason, they cannot get their teenager to follow through with their regulations. The teen years are said to be a difficult time in one's life. The changes of puberty and having to become a more responsible person are hard for many to go through. The stresses in society are often overwhelming for adolescents in this stage of life. School becomes a major factor in life. Many adolescents don't see school as one of the most important decisions that will shape their lives, but many do know that in order to make their parents happy, they need to get the grade their parents want them to achieve. This ties into |
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Misconceptions of CatholicismCatholicism is one part of the Christian religion but many believe that is a different religion. I view the Catholic religion as very different then what I practice in my church. The Catholic Church and its traditions are centuries old and these traditions are passed down from Christ through the twelve apostles. The Catholic Church, today, has grown into a vast universal venture that encompasses virtually every country in the world. The basis of the Catholic belief is the same as all Christian churches -- Jesus Christ is the Savior of all human kind. With nearly one quarter of the U.S. population Catholic, they make up a huge part of society and the largest Christian denomination. Yet with so many, the Catholics how are misunderstood and characterized by films, television shows, etc. My observation and research of the Catholic Church has made me aware of the true nature of Catholicism and has alleviated some of the misconceptions I had. Some of the misconceptions I had were that C |
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Abolishing the PennyThe penny. It's been our smallest-denomination coin for 150 years. However, if people are willingly dumping out their pockets to leave their pennies at the cash register, it is time to get rid of them. The United States should abolish the penny because its value has greatly diminished and it is inefficient. To start off, the penny should be abolished because the value of the penny has greatly diminished in the last few decades. It takes nearly a dime today to buy what a penny bought back in 1950. " (Source C). If the penny needed to be kept around, then there would be something we could buy with it. Noting that nothing can be purchased with just a penny, the need for it is lost. Also, "Two-thirds of t |
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Villains in Literature and Elizabethan PoetryDifferent authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure in relation to being the villain in the play and his quest for power at any cost. Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. Doctor Faustus - Marlowe's Play Doctor Faustus in Marlowe's play is presented as a gifted German scholar at Wittenburg, who has reached the limits of human knowledge by succes |
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The Benefits of Human CloningAccording to The National Network of Organ Donors, in the United States someone is registered on the transplant waiting list, which means 130 people join the list every day. And if that statistic is not heart-rending enough, only 75 people receiving organ transplants each day on average, 19 of them waiting for transplants die each day due to the shortage of available donor organs. (TNNOD) This brings me to the topic of human cloning and how it may solve this tragic problem. Cloning technology is expected to assist in the results of several medical breakthroughs. Because cloning helps us understand the process of cell differentiation it is thought that there may one day be a cure for cancer. Furthermore, there are theories that exist that if other testing may lead to a cure for heart attacks and cloning organs f |
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Boyz in the Hood"One out of every twenty-one Black American males will be murdered in their lifetime. Most will die at the hands of another Black male." This is the first thing that pops on the screen when the movie "Boyz n the Hood " comes on. This is a movie that portrays young black males growing up in the hood. The hood is portrayed as a place deep in crime, murders; police patrolling around constantly, single parent homes and a high traffic rate of drugs and criminals. A very bright young man by the name of Tre gets into an altercation in elementary school. When this altercation happens, his mother realizes that he has to stay with his father. The reason being was only his father could teach him how to become a man. A man who takes the time to raise a son is such a rarity in the hood. Family, life in the hood, and hood dreams are the main points touched on in "Boyz n the Hood"," that show the struggle of making it as a black male during these times. Two of Tre's best friends are Doughboy and |
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Post Modern Essay - Text in ArtThe use of text within to the visual arts can be traced back as far as the inscribed carvings found on cave walls created by the Indigenous population of Australia approximately 46000 years ago. However, over the past few years, the use of text in art, also known as the art of typography, has become a frequent means of communication for artists in the creation of their works. Text within art can be projected, scrawled, painted, computerised and carved to the point that a work may be created of nothing but language. The art of typography is the technique of arranging type in such a way that makes language visible. It treats fonts as individual entities to be enjoyed by the audience. Some artists deal with language as a character on its own as opposed to a surface to draw upon. These artists place texts in ways that are intended to stimulate the way an audience perceives a work, to evoke emotion or to create a statement. However, others, particularly graphic designers, tend to focus |
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Plausible Points in Creon's ArgumentIn the Antigone, Sophocles recreates the story between Oedipus' daughter, Antigone, and Creon, the king of Thebes. Antigone insists on burying his brother, Polyneices, who is a betrayer of the country, while Creon forbids this action. Antigone argues that offering a proper burial to his brother is the obedience of the order of Zeus. However, Creon states that the enemy of the country should not be eligible for a burial and at the end, Antigone and Creon's wife and son die. The text provided shows the claim of Creon that he shall make a difference between enemy and friend of the citizen. Creon's principle of not respecting the enemy is plausible but not morally correct. It is plausible because as a ruler of the city, Creon needs to tell the difference between enemy and friend in order to provide security, but it is not moral because under a religious society, his action offends the "higher law " made by the gods. As a ruler of the city, the premier task is to provide security of the |
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Viva Voce and Identity CrisisOur postmodern position entails us to strip everything of definitive value resulting in the increased case of identity confusion. I envision my major work as a postmodern narrative which explores the connection between literature and an individual's changing perception of identity. While literary theory may seem divorced from reality, I believe it can illuminate our tangible struggles with identity. Through my major work, I wish to demonstrate the value of literary theory in articulating this postmodern phenomenon. Since my Viva Voce, my focus has changed completely from the exploration of the Fallen Man in John Milton's "Paradise Lost" to the current investigation of postmodern identity. This transformation owes to the belated discovery of my interests for the psychological realm of our existence. In engaging with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, a Preliminary Extension 1 text, I related Clarissa's re-evaluation of her position as "the perfect hostess"" to the atonement of her quies |
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