Our Town In the play Our Town, Thornton Wilder uses the commentary about certain social issues to further exemplify the point that the people of Grover's Corner are really quite conservative and rather passive while they let life pass them by. ... Very ordinary town, if you ask me... But our young people seem to like it well enough. ... Since suicide is very rarely seen especially in a small town like Grover's Corner, one would expect that the town's people would attempt to keep it a secret. ... At the beginning of the play it is mentioned that there is very little drinking...

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In our everyday lives we hear about drugs manipulating people to the point of nearly insanity. ... After reading Euripides's Bacchae, although not all in the same form, I noticed more than one occasion where manipulation took place throughout the play. ... Being gods, people felt like they had no say in what was happening or, as in the play, couldn't realize it until it was too late. ... The king of the town, Pentheus, feels as though it is his place to go into these mountains to somehow stop this madness. ... Using this play to compare to really helped me emphasize my point. ...

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From the opening lines of the play we see King Oedipus as the strong leader of his city. ... We know that Oedipus fled his home town to avoid a prophecy that foretold that he would kill his father. ... Even in our worst moments, when we've been caught with our hands in the cookie jar, we will still try to justify our actions in some way and avoid accountability. We will still try to find a way to control the situation to fit our needs. ... But humankind is arrogant and our harshest flaw is our need to control. ...

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Ever since I was a young kid playing sports I was introduced to many different cultures that had various backgrounds. Hostile confrontation was rare between the races or cultures that I knew of around the town of Ft. ... Like how Ruth McBride was taunted or robbed when she would ride her bike through a bad part of town. ... Although we did play certain teams that had racist players, we still never let them bother us when they tried to antagonize our team. ...

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With this new talent they were able to keep records and trade with other civilizations and therefore they formed into civilized towns. ... So what we have at this point is the foundation of how our world evolved. In the beginning it was very obvious that religion played a very important part in the life of the people. Temples were built and they were the center of the town. ... The plays were written to be preformed in the Greek theaters. ...

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These two freedoms are the very basis for our society. 1)FREEDOM OF SPEECH Freedom of speech is one of the most important freedoms we have because if we didn't have this one we wouldn't be able to speak our minds through speeches in public. ... This is also where some of the bads come into play. ... The Witnesses, she wrote, "Were actually herded together and fed castor oil, stripped of their clothes, and forced to walk through town." ... As our courts have reaffirmed, nothing in the 1st amendment converts our public schools into religious-free zones, or require that all religious ex...

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Her parents picked me up and we started on our journey. We went about twenty miles in the country, where there is no towns around for miles. ... As we pulled up and got out to go inside, I was waiting for the banjos to start playing. ... I would soon find out that this was not a regular Baptist church. 2 As the piano played and the congregation sang, some of the women began to moan and jerk. ... Needless to say, I never went back to church with Rachel again, and our friendship rather fizzled out after that incident. 3 Sometime later, I began to do research on this p...

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They bring the horse into the town. ... In each of the stories, the gods play a large roll. ... Traces of these myths are scattered throughout our society today. Children for many years have played with Hercules action figures. ...

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