Guest sent the draft of Ordinary People to three different publishers with no letter of inquiry nor an agent. ... Within the next two years, Judith Guest's novel, Ordinary People, became first on the bestseller list. ... Ordinary People is a novel like no other. ... In Ordinary People, the novel switches between the third person narration of Calvin and Conrad. ... Ron Neuhaus, can also agree with the attributions given to the mother in Ordinary People (276). ...

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Browning has been criticized by other historians who believe that his characterization of the men in Reserve Police Battalion 101 should not be "ordinary men," but rather "ordinary Germans." ... While people are united by many common traits shared by all humans, they are also a product of their societies. ... Therefore, unlike Browning, people cannot discount racial hatred as a motive, and perhaps it was the primary one. ... He cites two famous psychological studies as evidence that this made these men "ordinary." ... Here the distinction between "ordinary men" and "ordinary Germans" is ac...

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Reserve Police Battalion 101 Ordinary Men is a book examining the background of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was involved in mass killings, focusing on the Jozefow massacre and deportations of Jews during World War II. While reading Browning's work, one wonde...

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Reserve Police Battalion 101 Ordinary Men is a book examining the background of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was involved in mass killings, focusing on the Jozefow massacre and deportations of Jews during World War II. While reading Browning's work, one wonde...

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Cleopatra rules her people but has to answer to Rome. ... The opening scene of the play shows that she is a woman to be feared and represents the common people's views. ... This helpless ordinariness suggested by "whistling" only accentuates Cleopatra's triumph over him. ... Cleopatra is shown to be no ordinary women. ...

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More often than not, people are defined by our acts of consumption and in the commodities we utilize in our day to day ordinary lives. ... The fact of the matter is that most people forget that these commodities we use come from all over the world. ... The Indian government has acknowledged this and is doing everything in their power to prevent the exploitation of their people. ...

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Yeats makes good use of pronouns to represent the people. ... Other people were portrayed as heroic figures by Yeats. ... The names are withheld at first which illustrates their subordinate identities as ordinary people and their weaknesses as humans (Meyer). ... This shows these ordinary people became heroes after the revolution and their names should never be forgotten. ... In stanza one, the Yeats describes the ordinary people he meets at a club every day. ...

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"They pleaded that too many were fathers with children and could not continue" (Ordinary Men,61-62). ... During the execution of the orders, peer pressure was what led people to continue with the shooting. Afterwards, they were usually ensured careerism (Ordinary Men, 169). ... For example, in "Ordinary Men," it took courage for a man to step out of the process of exterminating Jews. ... Can the resistance action from the black people be considered as courage? ...

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In the book of Acts, God used ordinary men and empowered them with his presence and they were used for his kingdom agenda. ... The Holy Spirit in the book of Acts used many people to do the works of the Lord, but the main focus is the Holy Spirit. ... The entire book is about the exploits of the Holy Spirit, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, and the people used by the Holy Spirit. ... They were ordinary men, with ordinary lives and with ordinary occupations. ... They were still ordinary men, but they now had the ability through the Holy Spirit to do extraordinary things. ...

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Ordinary men doing extraordinary things. Ordinary men doing extra ordinary things is a phrase used to describe the enigma known as the ANZAC spirit that instils patriotic pride in men and women of New Zealand and Australia. ... These men were not ordinary men; they were the cream of Australian society at the time. ... A chest width of 34" meant that only people with, large lung capacity, or figures of muscular frame were accepted. ... This is because of the type of people who signed up during the first enlistment drives. ...

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These can be called the ordinary people. In The Myth of Sisyphus Camus delegitimizes ordinary people for being stuck in self-set boundaries and social roles, "the absurd man realizes hitherto he was bound to the postulate of freedom on the illusion of which he was living." ... The narrator of The Plague Doctor Rieux, who is also Camus voice, differs in opinion of the ordinary people during the plague. ... The doctor does not condemn the people who chose not to fight the plague. He views these ordinary people with dignity for coping while faced with such an extreme situation. ...

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Manhattan gives the famous stereotypical view of New York: glamour, bright lights, high, distinctive skylines and wealthy interesting people. ... Without the shot, it would be very difficult to place the drama, as the roads and scenery around them: industrial areas, highway toll points, the usual roadway scene, symbolising ordinary life, look much like any other part of America. ... The effect of these things is that a strong impression is given of New York as a fast moving place, where, however, ordinary people lead their ordinary lives. ... The fact that he may work as a gangster, or in some...

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If a film does not appeal to a large number of people, it is doubtful that they will spend their money to go see it. ... Two films that espouse such ideals are Night of the Living Dead (1968) by George Romero and The People Under the Stairs (1991) by Wes Craven. ... Seven people come together in a rural farmhouse and must survive the zombie onslaught until help arrives, whenever that may be. ... Everything in the film is ordinary in every way. ... This condition of being totally ordinary helps the film give a feeling of realism. ...

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He is an ordinary young man, accepted by society, who is drawn by chance into a " journey" from life to death, and back to life again. ... His incident invokes fear and disbelief in people because " the pronouncement of his death clings to him, close to his skin," pg. 55 wherever he goes. ... He hadn't been among people since it happened. ... Wherever he goes he evokes fear and shock in people. ... In conclusion, Godrey Rainbird, the protagonist of Janet Frame's novel Yellow Flowers in the antipodean room is an ordinary man until he undergoes an exceptional chang...

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The first is being a hero must come from an ordinary life, doing ordinary things for a living. ... Jack comes from an ordinary life. ... He by no means lives an ordinary life, but he is a secret agent of the United States government, which alone makes his life not ordinary. ... He also has to deal with the problem of watching Gabriel kill eight people in the street. ... This is where Gabriel gets into their bus and then gets their bus flown to the top of the building and gets away without people realizing he's still alive. ...

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After the revolution of 1917 and the change in the regime, life for ordinary Russians took a very different course. ... Enemies of the party lead a life even worse than ordinary citizens, as they would possibly lost their jobs, be arrested, or exited (Fitzpatrick, 1999, 22). ... They were all under state ownership, and they just kept piling people in. While this was the case for ordinary citizens, those of elite party status were often given spacious apartments and access to quality goods, while the masses received the leftovers. ... This book truly does portray life of ordinary people in ...

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Before 1789, France was ruled by the nobles and the church which made up 1 - 2% of the population and the ordinary people that made up 97% of the population (Doyle, 2002). ... As a result the cost of food was increasing and the ordinary people could not afford it and were suffering from hunger. ... As a consequence, many people disliked absolute rule by the royalty and the nobility. The ideas of enlightenment started to make the ordinary people think differently; as they could see that the American Revolution had created a country in which people had more power on the government, instead of ki...

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It also limited the influence that ordinary people would have over the government. ... Along with clear limitations on the government, the Constitution creates a balance by limiting the influence of ordinary people. ... It also includes the Elastic Clause, which technically gives Congress uncontrollable power to create laws that are "necessary and proper" which in turn could place more limitations on ordinary people (pg.48). ... The Bill of Rights spells out the freedoms that the government cannot strip away from the people (pg.88). ... " This gives the people freedom of rel...

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For more than two hundred years, The Declaration Of Independence continues to speak for people worldwide who are in favor of democracy. "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" are undeniable rights of people in a free society. ... By first comparing living conditions in Oceania, the totalitarian state in the novel, the hidden truth behind the word victory is that ordinary people, who live in poverty are the real loser, while the mere winner is the ruling class, who wins absolute control over its people and so the resources. ... By looking at the so-called luxury goods in the eyes of ord...

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The Jews were mostly portrayed as heavy drinkers, smokers, and people who randomly wasted the wealth of the community. ... The familiar styles of the cartoonist were employed in these works to incite hatred and disgust on the ordinary Germans toward Jews and Gypsies. ... The victims of the racism persecution are not only the people who died in the gas chamber, but also the people whose mind are consumed by this hatred. The sterilization and euthanasia programs, for example, relied upon thousands of ordinary doctors, nurses, social workers, and administrators. Later on, the implementation of ge...

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From the beginning of the 1960s, social history was known to be a dominant tradition of political history.2 As social history began to evolve, it became more democratic, involving ordinary people such as men, women and children. ... Elizabeth Marsh was a woman who had a growing awareness of connection between different regions and people.6 In her travels she explored many different places such as the Caribbean, Africa, India and Morocco. ... Reason being is because, since social history includes ordinary people, Colley's text would allow for ordinary people to create their own social h...

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One may think there is always only one truth to be told and remembered, but in cases where truth can be used to serve a certain purpose, would what people tell us still be one singular truth? ... In The Beginning or the End, politicians, governors, army officers are those who mainly drive the story while ordinary citizens barely stage the play. ... For instance, a person dies because of radiation; a woman has been rendered sterile; people struggle to make ends meet due to property loss. With no character representing the upper social class was shown, the story is told entirely by ordinary citi...

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This in turn induces more questions and scenarios such as if there are any other ships around that can save the shipwrecked people, where they are and are they close enough to land to have some hope of survival, etc. ... Edward Bullough says that psychical distance is created when art causes us to disengage from our ordinary emotions towards a thing or event and when it proceeds to remove the ordinary sense or uses of an object and an aesthetic is created. ... Consequently they are pushed back into their ordinary emotions, losing the psychical distance and disinterest and thereby losing the po...

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Just as we talk about philosophy and related matters and principles in class, this book opens us up to new thoughts and ideas relative to management and philosophy such as this inspiring quote, "There are no ordinary moments!, and that razor sharp attention must be paid to every moment requiring much more patience than the ordinary person. ... For everything in the workplace and every employee to be ordinary, would be impossible. ... We as managers and as people are all guilty of this. ... In living these emotions and feelings we become more complete, better managers and people. ...

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Therefore, a prince is able to know the true nature of ordinary men because of his ability to see the big picture of them all, while ordinary men can know royalty by being beneath them and observing through their experiences. ... He also mentions that there is a basic desire for the ordinary people in one's society to like the family in power and to be in favor of their decisions. ... But in a new principality, he explains that the people are more likely to resist a new ruler that they do not know and revolt. ... He mentions people such as King Agathocles, who obtained power through crime...

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