...English 080 A death in all its own Looking at me now, can you see the hell I’ve been through? No you can’t because I know I hide my dance with hell particularly well. You would never think to expect the women you see now ever had a brush with heroin. I’m not even sure I want to tell this story; but it needs to be told. Every person lives through things differently; every person handles different situations in their own way. My story will not be the same as the next, I imagine this is the very reason I chose to tell it. Not every relationship is butterflies and rainbows. Abuse is not always physical; it can be emotional and mental as well. How many times can someone get pushed down every time they try to get back up? Before they stop trying and decide to just lay there? He hit me; sliced my tires when I tried to leave; locked me away from my daughters; pushed me into a wall when I was seven months pregnant with our son; threw me up against steps and almost broke my back. The list of things that were done to me by him can go on and on. I won’t go into it all. See he was addicted to all different types of drugs and had anger issues worse then a hurricane. He got me started into all of it. Yes I had the choice to make. When it comes to either do this or never see your children again; you do what you are told, especially when you know if you don’t the worst will happen. That “relationship” already had me feeling like there was no way...
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...“All in the Family” Archie Bunker, America’s favorite old school racist is standing in his kitchen star struck by the presence of Sammy Davis Jr. The musician agrees to pose for a picture with Archie and as soon as the countdown to snap it ended, Davis puckered up his lips and laid a kiss on Archie’s cheek (All in the Family S02E21)! The look Archie Bunker had on his face said it all, it was the kiss heard around the world and one of televisions funniest and most profound moments. The television sitcom “All in the Family” aired on prime time CBS from 1971 to 1979. The 1970s were a time of social unrest; a social war between the old school and the new schools of thought. This was a time where racism, homophobia, and gender were fiercely debated in every household across the country while they were ignored on television. Archie Bunker was played by Caroll O’Connor and he was the main character. “All in the Family” used the forever hot topics of racism, homosexuality, and gender inequality in America as an overarching theme, which taught to people just how ridiculous and baseless those beliefs were while keeping viewers of all backgrounds entertained. As the story goes, Archie Bunker is a working class family man with a very strong set of conservative and often unfair views of the world. Bunker clashes with just about every person he comes into contact with on the show including his wife, strangers, random people and most of all his son in law, Mike Stivic or “Meathead” as...
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...Organ of Halloween and all saints day Halloween dates back to over 2,000 years ago in what is now United Kingdom, Ireland and Northern France would hold a festival commemorating the end of the year. The festival was call the Samhain, which mint the end of the year signaled the end of summer and the harvest season which would spark the begging of a land and harsh winter to come next year, this harsh winter would cause a number of death to the people and there livestock. They would kill there livestock during the festival because they knew that they would not survive the winter anyway, in these event they thought the night before new years that a wall between the living and spirit world would open allowing spirits good and bad to mingle with the living and they would believe that they would cause trouble, ruin crops, and search for a way back for the after life. The Samhain was considered a magical holiday, no one knows how the Celtics practiced or believed while they held the festival, some say that the spirits who were unleashed are those that had died in that year, food and water was use to aid them or scare them away. Others say that the Celtics would dress in costumes and make noise to scare the spirits away. All saints day saints day is on November 1, it is the day the church remembers the martyrs who gave there life for what they believed in. Back before the date was official, they would tell stories of the heroic men and women of faith for the witnesses to Christ...
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...All the world’s a stage What is life? Do we exercise our own choices or are we bound by destiny and the different phases of life? These are all reflections William Shakespeare handles in the poem As You Like it. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players; they have their exists and their entrances” As this quote illustrates, the author has a clear answer to the above-mentioned questions. Just as Søren Kierkegaard – William Shakespeare believes that we throughout our life goes through and experiences different phases. Unlike Søren Kierkegaard, Shakespeare is slightly more naturalistic in his way of presenting these phases. Initially, he describes the beginning of life as a human being: “At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms” Here, we are presented for the first of seven phases. By establishing an image of a completely helpless newborn baby and the absolute need for other humans, the first phase named the beginning is presented to the reader. Conversely, the second phase is quite simple and easy to understand. “Then the whining schoolboy. And shining morning face, creeping like snail” The second phase is when the child is ready for education. The contrast between shining morning face and creeping snail emphasizes Shakespeare’s personal feelings...
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...* Liberty and Justice for All GEN/195 August 28, 2012 * I seem to use my reasoning skills (rationality) to determine what processes and systems should be put into place to assure fairness and justice for all the community (equality). Using reasoning skills and justice thoroughly explains why my personal preferred lens is the relationship lens. I seek to have relationships with others, especially the underprivileged. Great relationships are built while helping others who sometimes do not have the ability or resources to help themselves. * * My blind spot is overconfidence in a process. There is truth in this because I do overly trust in the “process”; the process of fairness. I do not like seeing or hearing of anyone being treated unfairly and it bothers me to find out that not everyone has what I consider to be valuable morals. Also, to find out that someone less fortunate or inadequate according to America’s standards (i.e.-financially, physically, or a minority) isn’t being treated fairly literally makes me angry on the inside. This ultimately causes me to fight harder for the process’s sake-fairness and equality for all; especially the underprivileged. * * It is comforting to know that my strength is justice. Seeking justice in the overall community is very important to me because it ensures that if everyone is all right in the community, they too will be more willing to reach out a helping hand as well. When the question is asked, “Am...
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...When the young playwright Arthur Miller began writing All My Sons, he was embarking on a project that would be either the beginning or the end of his career. His first and only play to be produced on Broadway, The Man Who Had All the Luck, was an unmitigated failure, lasting only four performances. A practical man who had lived through the depression, Miller decided to give himself one more chance. If he did not have success with his next play, then he would quit the business and find "another line of work." In the meantime, Tennessee Williams had met great success with The Glass Menagerie in 1945, a very personal and psychological play with poetic overtones. Miller's plays, on the other hand, are public works, with straightforward (though not unpoetic) language, and which address issues of the individual's public persona and how people act. But he learned from Williams's success and set out to write a more commercial play, a drama that would "land" with audiences, in the language of the Broadway business. He also chose to write a play in a realistic style, a problem play in the manner of Henrik Ibsen, evoking a style he had not used in many years. The work of Ibsen influenced All My Sons structurally as well, for Ibsen had liberally applied the principle of Greek theater that stresses the influence of the past on the present. When the play was finished after five years of work, Miller asked his agent to send it to the director Elia Kazan. A former member of the Communist...
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...Dilemma and the misery from which it emanates is a pervasive theme in Colum McCann’s book Let the Great World Spin. Within the pages of his work, he uses this tenet to tie together his diverse characters in a diverse city. Both these things are as present inside the heart of the educated judge as well as the seedy prostitute. They lift up and beat down these characters, completely surrounding them. They dominate their lives, and is as recognized as the turbulence of the 1970s New York City in which this novel is set. They serve to fulfill the clichéd statement “Love conquers all”, and make sense of many of the actions characters in the book. In this case, misery and love make sense of the decisions of a prostitute named Tillie in the book. Tillie is an aging black hooker who dearly loves her daughter. Near the beginning of the book, Tillie is portrayed as a seemingly generic prostitute peddling her wares in the dark alleys of Gotham City and overseen by a seemingly omnipresent pimp who seems to be lurking around every dark corner. As the story progresses, however, a special dimension is added to this generic character. She is shown to exhibit many characteristics in common with other struggling single parents. She is a mother burdened with the responsibility of creating a better life for her daughter, who is also a prostitute like her mother. However, this creation of a better life draws upon her only source of income: selling her body. Torn between her love for her daughter...
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...Classic Movie Name: Joel Sanguinetti Title: All About Eve Year: 1950 Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck Three Performers: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders Costume/Wardrobe: Edith Head, Charles LE Maire, Sam Benson, Josephine Brown, Ann Landers, Merle Williams Hair and Make-up: Ben Nye, Bunny Gardel, Franz Prehoda, Kay Reed, Gene Roemer, Gladys Witten Set and Stage Design: Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott Musical Score Composer: Alfred Newman Cinematographer/Photographer: Milton R. Krasner Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Original Novel, Play, or Story: Mary Orr – The Wisdom of Eve Academy Awards (Oscars) Won: 1. Best Actor in a Supporting Role – George Sanders 2. Best Costume Design, Black-and-White – Edith Head & Charles LE Maire 3. Best Director – Joseph L. Mankiewicz 4. Best Picture – 20th Century Fox 5. Best Sound, Recording – 20th Century-Fox Sound Dept. 6. Best Writing, Screenplay – Joseph L. Mankiewicz Joel Sanguinetti Mr. Skillings English 101-B4N December 19, 2011 All About Theatre Theatre has evolved in many ways throughout history. Theatre goes back to the 6th century BCE and develops its origins from Greece. Around 1750, theatre was introduced to New York, and eventually became what we now know as Broadway theatre. All About Eve, directed and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, is a movie based on the novel The Wisdom of Eve, written by Mary Orr. All About Eve is a movie about Broadway theatre...
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...All the Kings Men All the Kings Men follows the final years of the life of a man named Willie Stark through the eyes of Jack, a friend. The story of Willie is based upon true events of Huey P. Long’s rising and abrupt end as governor of Louisiana in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. The main concept behind All the Kings Men is to show how even good-hearted men like Willie Stark can be corrupted when granted power. The concept was successfully passed to the audience through the use of stage and sound. The three-sided thrust stage setup helped the audience become a part of the play and feel Willie’s power as he ascended and descended from the throne of governor of Louisiana. Being a part of the play is important in the sense that the audience no longer feels like they are watching a play, but instead they are seeing events unfold in front of them as if in real life. This allows the audience to form their own opinions and judgments of the characters without any outside bias. The feeling of Willie’s increasing power is prevalent through the use of the stage. In the beginning, he is standing on the floor tier with Jack having a light-hearted discussion as a common citizen. The floor stage is commonly used throughout the play to relay a sense of powerlessness and vulnerability. Willie starts moving up the tiers of the stage only after he starts to drink for the first time of his life. After Willie becomes governor, he is most commonly seen on the highest tier giving speeches...
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...All Quiet on the Western Front Basic Information Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, published by Ballantine Books, 1956, 295 pages. Author Erich Maria Remarque was born on July 22,1897 and died on September 25, 1970 at the age of 72. His hometown is located in Osnabrück, Germany. His real name is Erich Paul Remark. Erich is the brother of two sisters and the son of Peter Franz Remark and Anna Maria Remark. His family never really stayed in one place, they moved at least 11 times. His original goal was to be a elementary teacher, and began his schooling at the University of Münster. He was drafted into the army in Germany at the age of 18 and was wounded multiple times. After returning from the war he became a race-car driver while working on his famous piece, All Quiet on the Western Front. His first real job he worked at was at a tire manufacturer. He was move to the 2nd company on Western Front on June 12, 1917. He then left Germany in the 1932, after he left the Nazis banned his books through all of Germany. After World War II he moved to Porto Ronco, Switzerland where he then married a famous actor Paulette Goddard. He then left Switzerland and arrived in the U.S. In 1939. Enrich later moved back to Switzerland in 1948, where he spent the rest of his life in peace for 22 years. Setting The time period of the book was during World War I from the 1914-1918. The scene of the book happens in the middle of the war. All the trees have been removed by...
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...7 AGES’ OF MAN All the world’s a stage, And all the man and women merely players ; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shinning morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then, the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he play his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloons, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world to wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything INTRODUCTION As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio, 1623. The play's...
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...ETHICS IN A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Joe Casey Milltown Institute PREAMBLE I want to begin with some comments on what led me to the topic of ethics and A Man for All Seasons. I had been looking at some fairly heated exchanges in the late 1990s in the journal Philosophy and Literature between Richard Posner and Martha Nussbaum on the possibility of ethical criticism (Posner 1997, 1998; Nussbaum 1998). Briefly, Posner takes up what he believes to be an aestheticist stance that ethics has nothing to do with literature, so that ethical criticism is ruled out, whereas Nussbaum argues that literature can be ethical and ethical categories legitimately be applied to it. In the background is Nussbaum’s view that certain works of literature may be necessary for ethics (Nussbaum 1990). Neither position seemed entirely satisfactory. It appeared evident to me, as against Posner, that literature could provide ethical insights, but Nussbaum’s suggestion that ethics is dependent on literature seemed too strong. But whatever the merits of the latter thesis, the weaker thesis that literature can be ethically revealing is worth defending. At some level a great work of literature represents a form of human existence, to which we may respond as human beings. That there is a moral dimension to human existence I assume. Hence, it seems clear that literature may represent that dimension. Robert Bolt’s 1960 play can serve as an instance of how literature can stimulate...
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...Willie Stark Willie Stark is a human being, endowed with the ability to feel and act in equal measure. In the beginning of the chapter, when he is the County treasurer for Mason City, he is shown as a frustrated young man who is unable to convince Pillsbury against building the School house through J. H. Moore whose rates are high but quality is low. He voices his protest against Pillsbury and expresses concern over his undertaking. He feels dejected when his suggestion goes unheard. However, when the building collapses under its weight, people remember Willie Stark and his warning. During the elections, when Willie becomes aware of the dirty plan of Harrison, he feels insulted. He frets and fumes about the injustice done to him but when he recovers from his depression; he exposes the hypocrisy of Harrison and declares his withdrawal from the contest. Therefore Willie acts in spite of being emotionally disturbed. After he becomes the Governor, he faces numerous problems, which affect him emotionally but he always takes hold of the situation and plans the course of action accordingly. Stark is an emotional fool but he is also a man of action. Willie is a man with a vision and a mission. Earlier, he had envisaged building a sturdy Schoolhouse, which would give confidence to its students to learn well and put in their best efforts. When he becomes the governor, he plans to use the State funds for developmental activities like making good roads and building hospitals...
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...Possibly it was his time in jail, or perhaps it was essentially his marking with Knight's Death Row name, however whatever the case, 2Pac rose solidified and eager with "All Eyez on Me", the first twofold circle collection of unique material in hip-jump history. It just took 2Pac two weeks to record the 27-track epic. "All Eyez on Me" was discharged on February 13, 1996 very nearly a year after 2Pac started his jail sentence. Unfortunately, the Grammy designated collection was the last to be discharged amid 2Pac's lifetime. The collection opened at number 1 on the Billboard 200, making 2Pac the first rapper to have two straight collections debut at number one. Albeit 2Pac spent the majority of 1995 bolted up and engaging the framework, the collection makes it clear that, instead of lessening his aesthetic capacities, the battles just hoisted his aptitudes. The majority of the tracks on "All Eyez on Me" are unashamed festivals of carrying on with the hooligan way of life ("California Love") keeping in mind there is the incidental memory about over a wide span of time companions ("Heartz of Men"), it moves far from the social and political cognizance of "2Pacalypse...
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...misconception among students that being smart is the way to be successful. Let me break this to you. It is not about being smart. There are many smart people who are absolutely incompetent managers. Not to mention the fact that many smart people are first-rate jerks. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying you have to be dumb to succeed. What I am saying is that you do not have to be a Mensan to make it to the top. All you need is average intelligence. But, you need other qualities. 3 Bill Clinton would have been an excellent manager. The man had his faults. But, he could communicate like few others. Bad managers are, frequently, terrible communicators. They have good ideas. They simply don’t know how to get them across. You cannot lead, motivate or sell if you cannot communicate. If there is one thing you want to do when you are in school, learn to communicate. 4 Don’t Lose Touch With What is Right. Do not use analysis to justify what you know to be wrong. Frequently, the wrong path comes dressed in pretty clothes. Don’t buy it. Hang on to your moral compass for all its worth. Remember what your mama taught you. If you think something is wrong, stand...
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