They had to do physical work like push ups, were mad fun of, were punished with no food or bed, and may have been put in the hole. ... Norms: the rulers of the prisoners were to obey the guards and if they didn't they were put in the hole or inflicted with some other punishment. ... Evaluation Apprehension: Prisoner 819 didn't want to leave, even though he was breaking down emotionally and put in the hole, because he was concerned what the others thought. ... Ex: The guards put prisoner 416 in the hole for not eating his sausages. ...

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But not all poets use this approach when showing feeling in their poems, such as David Huddle who uses the opposite approach in Holes Commence Falling (1979), he actually says less then what is meant. ... Holes Commence Falling is a great example of this, though the anger presented in the poem is understated, the impact of the poem is no less powerful. ... But in Holes Commence Falling the words led you to use imagery, to put yourself in that poem and to see what the company was doing to your town, that is the way to really feel the anger from this poem. ...

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"His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole the skin at his left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips, his right cheek was smooth and hairless, there was a butterfly on his chin, his neck was open to the spinal cord and the blood there was thick and shiny and it was this wound that had killed him." (124) O"Brien can't seem to get his mind off the grotesque image of the young man. "The star-shaped hole was red and yellow. ... His one eye was shut, the other eye was a star-shaped hole. ...

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His behavior was so peculiar that three customers of the tavern sat on the balcony and stared through a small hole in the door. Through the hole a shabby, old man, with haggard eyes sat in the dark with his shoemaking tools. ...

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Day in and day out soldiers carry the necessities that they need to survive. They carry pocket knives, M-16, and M-60, and more. Soldiers not only carry their equipment, they carry the physical and mental strain that the war puts on them. This country was built on war, and soldiers need help to cope...

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"With the silencing of the innocent, the mob devours the blameless as ropes tighten and whips crack." This scene portrays the power emotions can have on people's actions. When passion and emotions cloud reason, people act on gut feeling and this often ends in disaster. Walter Van Tilburg Clark illus...

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" Depression is like a massive black hole – a portion in space having a density and gravitational force so extraordinary that if we are being absorbed in its swirling vortex, we can never seem to evade it. ...

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"Pejor est bello timor ipse belli." Seneca, a Roman philosopher and dramatist, expresses that "Worse than war is the fear of war." Through this description of war, Seneca distinguishes the physical aspect of war and the emotional or psychological aspect. He also expounds that the emotional side domi...

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Mental Health has always been a mystery the human brain can not comprehend fully, but yet we understand somehow how we think, talk, feel somehow. Mental Health is something very new to science and to us, to understand how the human being functions and the reasons why it function how it functions. So...

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He has grown up in an environment where enormous rats fester in holes and water is a maybe situation, where meals are precarious and money is almost nonexistent, and where he is told time and time again that he has no worth, no dignity, no intelligence or creativity. ...

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Stepping into the Battle Living today all anybody is worried about is the war with Iraq. I feel confused and lost with all the talk of terrorism. Reading a good book can usually help get my mind off today's troubles. Instead of happy tales I personally love to read novels about t...

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He has grown up in an environment where enormous rats fester in holes and water is a maybe situation, where meals are precarious and money is almost nonexistent, and where he is told time and time again that he has no worth, no dignity, no intelligence or creativity. ...

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During the barbaric beating in the court yard scene the viewer had to watch at least twenty minutes of Jesus" flesh and body being torn apart bit by bit and then during the crucifixion scene his arm is dislocated to make it stretch to the other nail hole. ...

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Imagine it's five hundred years ahead of the present time yet the technology is as advanced as it was in the middle ages and it's a collectivist social structure so out of reach that Joseph Stalin would roll over in his grave. Imagine the only source of light is a candle and that the only things kn...

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