The most obvious symbol used in A Streetcar Named Desire is its title and the actual reference, in the play, to the streetcars named Desire and Cemeteries. ... [Blanche says, " They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields"] (s.1, 6). Williams seems to be alluding to a belief that desire leads to death, even though it is not meant physically, but rather in an emotional aspect. ... Soon after the death, she lost her job due to having an affair with her student. ... This was the symbolic meaning to ...

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The desire for positive popularity can be defined as the thirst for public acceptance through "good" actions as opposed to "bad" actions. This type of desire is less common and seeks the approval of authority rather then other teens. ... The action packed movie, The Fast and the Furious, for example is about street racers who race their cars on city streets at extreme speeds for enjoyment. The movie had influenced kids to be just like them and to race their cars on cities streets that they see in the movies. This in several cases has led to many deaths due to racing without the experience requ...

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It is at this important juncture that cars and culture collide. ... In 1941, the United States had 29.5 million automobiles registered, by 1950 49.3 million were registered and at the close of the decade some 73.8 million automobiles were on the streets. ... By 1950, Detroit had caught up with demand following the switch from war production and stopped offering "drab, clunky, warmed-over, pre-war designs and automakers decided to give Americans what they assumed they really desired- "big, powerful, flashy new cars-not next year-now!" ... These finned creations would remain the staple of car de...

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He is the one who names Ruth's son Milkman. ... The hospital is located on Not Doctor street, a name not recognized by the post office. ... After years of this informal name, the authorities decided to name the street Mains avenue. ... The people in the community look at the car in good natured envy, but they don't think of Macon as using the car as a car should be used. ... Milkman lies quietly feeling his fear and his eagerness for death return. ...

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The reason for his radical behavior is the fact that there are two sides to Claude as Susan Rosowski points out; "On the one hand there was Claude, a sensitive youth burning with desire to find meaning; on the other, there was his world-intractable, immediate, alien" (Rosowski 97). ... The full, uncut, cherry tree represented Claude's fulfilled desires and fantasies. However, his father cut down those desires before Claude had a real chance to experience them. ... Claude "followed them out of the crowd into a quiet street, and onto another, even more deserted, where the houses looked s i...

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The memories began when the narrator of the story, the brother whose name is never mentioned, reads about his brother getting caught in a drug raid for using heroin. ... Before her death and before he went back into the army, the narrator spoke with her. ... T"he story of their uncle getting hit by a car and perceiving their father in death was an atrocious thing that their father had to face. ... Sonny, by contrast, is a romantic artist who is not afaid of taking risks to pursue the things he desires. ... The narrator believes Sonny's passion for Jazz music will only be a short-lived...

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He was not allowed to be present during her illness, death, or burial. ... He made friends with all of the little white boys he met in the streets. ... In New York , Frederick dropped his two middle names and changed his last name to Douglass to avoid capture (Scruggs). ... In New York, he also met a man named Mr. ... He had to be dragged from the white cars. ...

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The 1920's and The Great Gatsby The Jazz Age and the Roaring 20's are just a couple of the names coined for this interesting era of increased pleasure and changing attitudes that redefined a still young nation. ... Gatsby finally receives his desire when he and Daisy rekindle their love but to a fruitless and ironic outcome. ... Gatsby was the owner of a yellow car. ... One may also point out the twist of Irony associated, for if Gatsby had not shown so much pride to have a yellow car he may never have been so easily spotted in the connection of Mrytle's death, causin...

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In Libyan culture this is a big taboo that is punishable by fifty lashes or being stoned to death. ... If they were caught the would both die so Asad strangled his girlfriend to death, then packed up his prayer mat and walked away. ... Then he caught a cab to his rental car and then killed the cabby. ... John Corey: "Well, the Muslims don't drink, I can't spell their f-ing names on my reports, and the women can't be seduced... John took an early retirement from the NYPD when he was gunned down on 102nd street in New York City. ...

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The director of the movie Scarface named Brian De Palma, is from New Jersey, USA. ... They get the cards in exchange for killing a former Cuban political official, at the demand of a powerful drug dealer named Frank Lopez. ... After some time Tony is sent to Bolivia, where he makes a cocaine importation deal, with big time Bolivian drug lord named Sosa. ... She has a desire for cocaine and which turns into an addiction. ...

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Whether it was for music, cars, girls or fame; no one seems to care; nonetheless it was a Cult (which automatically gave it power). ... They lived on the streets, did drugs and sat in groups strumming their guitars. ... With, literary hundred of thousands of people all together to militate for peace and love and of course to see the biggest names in music from that period. ... That was the time when experimental music, Indian influences, narcotics, sexual inconstancy, alcohol abuse, fast cars started being around. ... With the tragic death of former Beatle John Lennon and a few...

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His number one target for some time were the pregnant women who abused crack of which he named their unborn children "crack babies". ... Arresting people for drugs does not kill their desire to use them. ... Drugs can help people achieve their desired status, and more power. Ultimately, the desire for the drug is worth the risk of being caught. ... Extremely high usage of marijuana can cause death. ...

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As his car goes through the intersection it is hit in the passenger side by a truck. ... First, Adam meets Katherine accidentally on the street by bumping into her trying to take the same cab. ... Secondly, Alex will meet a very friendly stewardess named Cassie on his plane and ask her to meet him that night for drinks. ... Kate still angry about the death of Jenny and now with new motivation because of her desire to be with her lover begins to consider the possibilities of killing Alex. ... However, as fate would have it, a neighbor had seen Alex's car at home and asked Erica about h...

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- Superimposed pictures of Oswald were put on the street 8 hours after the president's death. ... The 3 cars circled the parking lot as if they were checking the area. ... - In 1961, while lee Harvey Oswald was in Russia, a man was using Oswald's name to buy cars in the USA for Democratic Cuba. ... JFK's death saved LBJ's political career and kept him out of jail. ... The CIA Initially I was flabbergasted by the accusation that the CIA was involved in JFK's death. ...

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Followers of Christ blamed the Jewish for the death of their messiah, and so despised them. The Romans kicked the Jews out of Rome for failing to worship the Roman gods, and, when Rome converted to Christianity in the early fourth century, the Jews were certainly not welcome to back; they had even been given the name "Christ killers". ... His mother let him stay home from school whenever he so desired. ... Hitler was relieved by his death, and with his mother's permission he dropped out of school and spent his time studying art. ... They were fined for owning cars and bicycles, for be...

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Such methods of social control and responsibility fall on the shoulders of law enforcement, and officers feel significant pressures from the public and the media to act as problem solvers, psychologists, and social workers to name a few... They are first on scene when a child dies, a woman is raped, a senseless homicide, a teenager's suicide, a car ablaze with victims trapped, drug overdoses, and domestic violence calls. ... Officers enter policing with high ideals and a noble desire to help others. ... (Violanti, 1995) Making arrests, clearing the streets, trying to diminish the drug...

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At one time, he was very rude when paying only ten dollars to a dog seller on the street... It shows that Nick's morals are high he can not hurt an old man who had just lost his son; whereas Tom's morals are so low, that he hurts a poor stranger walking down the street, who is trying to make a living. ... "After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes power of correction. ... Tom was very much responsible for Gatsby's death, for he led the killer, Mr. ... He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owed the car. ...

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The deaths of these two artists remain unsolved. ... In accordance to freedom of expression principles, which hip-hop was founded upon, some artists have decided to rhyme about fancy cars, clothes, and other riches. ... When we die, eternal fire or the street of gold Only God knows, vica versa. ... This is a life-and-death matter." ... Even though these two organizations have opposing viewpoints on how to change the hip-hop culture, the desire to free hip-hop of its negative image ...

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Tupac also had an extreme desire to achieve, he worked harder in his 25 years than most people could in 10 life times. ... His father and his mother separated during the pregnancy and his mother, Afeni Shakur, went on to marry a member of the Black Panthers named Jeral Wayne Williams AKA Mutula Shakur. ... Their father, Mutulu, was an active Black Panther who, a few months before his sisters birth, had been sentenced to sixty years for a fatal armored car robbery. ... He also spend two years of his young life homeless on the street and grew up having it hard to fit in. ... And his backgrou...

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The warden's men would volunteer their time, going around streets and would make noise to warn people that danger was coming they would also alert everyone and ask for help. ... Crazy enough the first woman that was recorded to be in the fire department was African American, her name was Molly Williams. ... For car accidents, heart attacks and other emergencies that do not involve a fire, firefighters are the first on the call. ...

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He was shot and then left on a pair of train tracks to suffer a terrible death, which was eventually ruled a suicide. The death of his father left his mother in a terrible predicament. ... On his trips to Harlem, Malcom sold sandwiches in the railroad cars and upon arriving in New York; he would explore the big city life. ... Malcom and Shorty would break into the house and based on the plans the women gave them they would steal things of value while Rudy waited in the getaway car. ... Muhammad expressed his desire to learn about the Muslim religion and his desire to help blacks in America...

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Lysergic Acid Diathylamide (LSD) was first made in 1938 by a chemist in Switzerland named Albert Hoffman whom first tested it on animals. ... A user often has enlarged pupils, rapid heartbeat, nausea, chills and trembling, convulsions, extreme mood swings, fear of insanity or death, and severe anxiety. ...

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Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. ... However, unlike Vonnegut and Heller's existential critique, Thompson's Stanislavskian reportage (that is, a kind of "method writing" conducive to great verisimilitude) involves him directly participating in the search for - and death of - the American Dream. ... Vonnegut shows us chaos in Breakfast of Champions through the stories of the main character, the absurdly-named writer of th...

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After learning about the Holocaust, I've asked myself many times how this could have happened. Why would anyone believe it's acceptable to massacre an entire people? This is my reasoning for writing my paper on how Christian theology influenced anti-Semitism. Much of the Holocaust appears to have it...

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Black Nationalism is the name given to revitalization movements among black Americans. It emphasizes black pride, desire to control their own communities, and sometimes the desire to form a black nation in Africa or some part of the United States. ... In 1817, shortly before Cuffe's death, the American Colonization Society was founded to accomplish his plan with greater efficiency. ... Members were reminded that their last names were names that had been imposed on them by the "White Devils" and that they should drop their Christian last name and substitute it with the letter X until their...

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