...fuel itself does not reflect the cost of providing the roads on which the vehicles travel. Nor does it reflect the cost of the environmental damage that burning fossil fuel creates. Nor the cost of developing alternatives when the oil wells run dry. All these costs will have to be paid for sooner or later, but they are not added to the price of the food. If they were we might think very differently about whether we wanted to pay the true price for fresh lettuces from California, strawberries from Israel, and flowers from Kenya. Food Miles Madness The real cost of food miles madness are seldom reflected in the price of food,' says SAFE Alliance co-ordinator Hugh Raven, 'It costs in terms of diverting land in food-deficit countries from producing food for local consumption into crops for export as with soya production in Brazil. It costs in terms of air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions from air and and road transport. It's madness to fly food halfway around the world when UK growers are going out of business - like the American raspberries on sale in the UK at the height of the raspberry...
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...father's ghost appears and declares that he was murdered. Exact dates are unknown, but scholars agree that Shakespeare published Hamlet between 1601 and 1603. Many believe that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare's work, and the perfect play. Prince Hamlet is depressed. Having been summoned home to Denmark from school in Germany to attend his father's funeral, he is shocked to find his mother Gertrude already remarried. The Queen has wed Hamlet's Uncle Claudius, the dead king's brother. To Hamlet, the marriage is "foul incest." Worse still, Claudius has had himself crowned King despite the fact that Hamlet was his father's heir to the throne. Hamlet suspects foul play. When his father's ghost visits the castle, Hamlet's suspicions are confirmed. The Ghost complains that he is unable to rest in peace because he was murdered. Claudius, says the Ghost, poured poison in King Hamlet's ear while the old king napped. Unable to confess and find salvation, King Hamlet is now consigned, for a time, to spend his days in Purgatory and walk the earth by night. He entreats Hamlet to avenge his death, but to spare Gertrude, to let Heaven decide her fate. Hamlet vows to affect madness — puts "an antic disposition on" — to wear a mask that will enable him to observe the interactions in the castle, but finds himself more confused than ever. In his persistent confusion, he questions the Ghost's trustworthiness. What if the Ghost is not a true spirit, but rather an agent of the devil sent to tempt him...
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...ill because the things he was demanding where horrible i think known in their right man would of think like that. Learning about the way he did things i tried to put myself in his shoes as far as possible and i came to the conclusion that he was a man with dreams that at the end he had no way to cronto them, what i mean is that like any man i believe with power a responsibility comes especially when it has to do with a country and lives in your hands. I think the power when to his head and made him crazy and end up making horrible actions. The analysis of Hitler will always be the same and madness and illness were on the roots of his acts. Although many say he was just stupid and a horrible human that create evil acts toward people who did nothing to him in no way cause him harm are one hundred percent right. He had no right to take life's way. Hitler might have stared out to redeem Germany with the best of intentions, but it sadly turned into Europe's worst nightmare. Because of the crimes he committed against humanity. I think that...
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...Adolf Hitler and WWII The reason I've chosen to write about Hitler is that he was a significant person, who has changed history, despite being an evil man. It's also because I'm interested in the reasons behind why he did what he did and lived like he lived. Background Hitler was born in april 1889. During his childhood his father abused him and his mother and three of his brothers died before he was even born. This might be one of the reasons he grew up to be the man he became. Except for this not much of Hitler’s childhood is known. It’s however known that he had good grades in primary school but worse in secondary school. Adult life and Career Hitler had always dreamt of being an artist. His father didn’t allow it but when he died in 1903...
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...very concerned state of distress. “Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated.” (Cite One) Instead of rectifying their actions, however, all of the major bankers and corporations in the US just offered to lend even more money instead, aiming to help themselves out more than the people they claimed to be helping. The corporations begged to be trusted again, but Roosevelt believed they assumed a position of false leadership. Hitler, on the other hand, believed that there were two major causes behind the economic and moral depression in Germany: the effects of the Treaty of Versailles and communism. According to his Proclamation to the German Nation, Germany “never received the equality and fraternity that we had been promised, and we lost our liberty to boot. For when our nation lost its political place in the world, it soon lost its unity of spirit and will…” Hitler never outright said it was the after effects of the Treaty,...
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...Arachnophobia, agoraphobia, and acrophobia are all common fears; however, during Nazi Germany, millions of people are afraid of the Jewish faith. The Holocaust is a systematic genocide of Jewish people and other groups that lasts from 1933 to 1945 under the control of a German dictator, Adolf Hitler. Elie Wiesel is only 15 years old when he and his family are sent to Auschwitz and 16 years old when he is liberated from the concentration camp. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the loss of Jewish identity during the Holocaust through his use of literary devices: personification, foreshadowing, and metaphors. The Jews experience a loss of identity and self value before they even get to the camps due to the dehumanizing acts of authoritative...
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...What causes the epidemic of mental illness in US? According to the World Health Organization, over one’s entire lifetime, the average American has a 47.4 percent chance of having any kind of mental health illness. Over a past few decades, psychiatry has made a great progress in diagnosing and treating mental illnesses and pharmaceutical companies developed effective medications to treat these conditions. Then why the number of people diagnosed with mental illnesses and disorders not decreases, but dramatically increases each year? A documentary The Marketing of Madness investigates how psychiatric diagnoses are created and how doctors make their decisions to recognize someone afflicted. The documentary emphasize, that when regular physicians have tests to diagnose illness, there is no objective testing in psychiatry. Even many psychiatrists admit that diagnosing in psychiatry is totally subjective. Psychiatrists, normally, just evaluate a patients’ mental health using descriptions in DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders from the American Psychiatric Association. The first DSM, was published in 1952 and listed 106 disorders. The second edition was published in 1968, and the number of disorders increased to 182. DSM-3 was published in 1980, and though homosexuality was excluded, the list of diagnoses was expanded to 265. DSM-4, published in 1994, expanded to 365 diagnoses and contained a wide range of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder...
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...1882. Virginia Woolf born (25 Jan) Adeline Virginia Stephen, third child of Leslie Stephen (Victorian man of letters – first editor of theDictionary of National Biography) – and Julia Duckworth (of the Duckworth publishing family). Comfortable upper middle class family background. Her father had previously been married to the daughter of the novelist William Makepeace Thackery. Brothers Thoby and Adrian went to Cambridge, and her sister Vanessa became a painter. Virginia was educated by private tutors and by extensive reading of literary classics in her father’s library. 1895. Death of her mother. VW has the first of many nervous breakdowns. 1896. Travels in France with her sister Vanessa. 1897. Death of half-sister, Stella. VW learning Greek and History at King’s College London. 1899. Brother Thoby enters Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently meets Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, and Clive Bell. These Cambridge friends subsequently become known as the Bloomsbury Group, of which VW was an important and influential member. 1904. Death of father. Beginning of second serious breakdown. VW’s first publication is an unsigned review in The Guardian. Travels in France and Italy with her sister Vanessa and her friend Violet Dickinson. VW moves to Gordon Square in Bloomsbury. Other residents of this Square include Lady Jane Strachey, Charlotte Mew, and Dora Carrington. 1905. Travels in Spain and Portugal.Writes book reviews and teaches once a week at Morley College, London...
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... it is nothing but pain says Fear It is hopeless says Insight It is what it is says Love It is ridiculous says Pride It is frivolous says Prudence It is impossible says Experience It is what it is says Love It is madness says reason It is what it is says love It is unhappiness says caution It is nothing but pain says fear It has no future says insight It is what it is says love It is ridiculous says pride It is foolish says caution It is impossible says experience It is what it is says love. Erich Fried (6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988) was an Austrian poet who settled in England, known for his political-minded poetry. He was also a broadcaster, translator and essayist. Born to Jewish parents Nelly and Hugo Fried in Vienna, he was a child actor and from an early age wrote strongly political essays and poetry. He fled with his mother to London after his father was murdered by the Gestapo after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany. During the war, he did casual work as a librarian and a factory hand. He joined Young Austria, a left-wing emigrant youth movement, but left in 1943 in protest at its dogmatism. In 1944 he married Maria Marburg, shortly before the birth of his son Hans. In the same year his first volume of poetry was published. He...
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...caused him to make menacing decisions that descended him into madness, despair and evil, just as Hitler has done in past history. According to Wikipedia, “power is the ability to influence or control the behavior of people. The term authority is often used for power perceived as legitimate by the social structure. Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings”. I agree with this quote, because that is a statement that both Macbeth and Hitler lived by being the power hungry leaders they were. Macbeth in the beginning on Shakespeare's play was decent man, he was a noble soldier. In the first act, Macbeth is described by Duncan as a kind and brave hearted soldier. ”Like valor’s minion carved out his passage, Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,” (Act 1 Scene 2 19-20 ). This portrays Macbeth as a fearless, and gutsy in the face of his enemies, the Thane of Cawdor. Leader of Nazi Germany, the creator of genocides and arguably solely responsible for the European half of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler (considered to be one the most evil persons the world has ever known), probably needs no introduction. Hitler was of similar status to Macbeth. Adolf Hitler before labeled an absolute ruler had a good reputation as a political leader, who only wanted the best for the Germany that the Americans left in ruins. Hitler came to power by...
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...Abigail Williams is a compulsive liar, her biggest lie being, “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all” (Miller 1137). She believes that she is God’s Finger, and will do anything no matter what the cost to save herself from being punished. I think that Abigail is most relatable to Adolf Hitler himself. Both he and Abigail believe that they were doing God's work. Like Abigail, Hitler doesn’t matter what the cost he just wants to control Germany. Near the end of the play we find out that Abigail and Mercy ran away, which is the same as when Hitler fled Germany after he knew that he had been defeated. I think that Mercy, Susanna, Betty, and the other girls represent Hitler’s followers. The girls follow Abigail for many reasons, the main one being fear. The girls do what Abigail says out of fear of what will happen if they do not. This is exactly how Hitler gained so many...
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...Diego and I (1949) Frida Kahlo. Frida was such an amazing, inspiring, and creative artist, all her paintings had so much meaning about events that happened in her life. “Diego and I (1949)” is all about her and her husband Diego and what their relationship was truly about. Diego and Frida’s relationship had so many levels and each so full of pain or happiness. The thing I like most about this painting is that it shows the anguish that Frida has towards Diego Rivera. One key thing many people don’t know about Frida is that her husband cheated on her, constantly, and she knew that but still stayed with him. The significance of Frida’s painting is love and the joy and heartbreak it can cause. The meaning of Diego Rivera on Frida’s forehead is that she always has him on her mind and she loves him so deeply no matter how badly he hurts her, Diego is Frida’s third eye. Diego on the other hand, has an actual third eye resembling lying, and cheating, it shows that Diego does not think about Frida because if he did Frida would have painted herself on his forehead. The third eye references Frida made in her painting shows how their relationship works or how it was formed. The portrait includes a variety of symbols and objects including tears falling down her cheeks, a third on Diegos forehead, Diegos face on the middle of Fridas forehead, hair closing around Fridas neck and her mono-brow. The paint has been well blended and has been applied smoothly, but not to the extent that the portrait...
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...During World War 1, Germany had suffered many casualties and was blamed by a lot of other countries for raising the tensions during the war and was forced to pay reparations to Britain and France as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. If it weren’t bad enough a lot of countries placed protective tariffs on German goods, which prevented citizens from buying German goods, and thus made it nearly impossible for Germany to pay it’s reparations. The economic issues lead to Adolf Hitler being able to rise to power under the guise of making Germany great again. The Cabinet of Caligari predicted this with Dr. Caligari being representative of an evil force lead by a desire for power taking advantage of the common people (Cesare), and leading them to commit atrocities. Francis, the narrator, originally believes that Cesare is acting on his own free will, and then later realizes that Dr. Caligri is manipulating him. Siegfried Kracauer, a well known Jewish film critic at the time, claimed that The Cabinet of Caligri predicted the rise of Hitler in his book From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. Rüdiger Suchsland went on to direct a documentary by the same name. Kracauer was forced to flee from Germany when Hitler rose to power and began to persecute the Jewish people. It wasn’t until he got to the United States when he claimed that the German...
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...Q) Use the sources below and your own knowledge to explain how far you would agree with the statement that the cold war developed in the years 1945 to 1953 primarily due to the role of individual leaders? The term ‘Cold War’ refers to the period of struggle and conflict between the USA and USSR between 1945-1991. Each of the Superpowers saw the other as a threat to its continued survival and adopted strategies to preserve their positions. The two Superpowers never went to war directly with each other in this period, but became involved in conflicts such as the Korean War where each side stood behind the other nations involved. This statement suggests that the ever-increasing hostility between the USA and USSR during this time period was due to actions from Truman and Stalin respectively. I agree with this statement to a certain extent, however, there are certain flaws with this statement, in that it was not wholly the fault of the two leaders as individuals but more due to certain events and the manor of poor cooperation with which the dealt with them. Two factors in favor of this statement are the beliefs and attitudes of Stalin and Truman. Stalin’s fear of the USA led him to believe that the USSR needed a barrier of territory between Soviet territory and the USA’s allies in Western Europe. Stalin feared another anti-communist invasion of Russia from Europe as had occurred in 1918 and 1941. Stalin wanted to create a barrier against the West, a barrier made up of communist...
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...【UNDERSTANDING MOVIES】Mise en Scene in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 2:33PM / Standard Entry The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the first and major examples of the German Expressionism film movement, which features a dark and twisted style of film making. The plots and stories of the Expressionist movement films often deal with madness, insanity, betrayal, and other sinister topics. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is known for its particular and unusual settings. All the scenes are distorted and the objects in them changed in odd ways. For example, a normal window has an abnormal shape. Lines and other shapes are not regular even though the viewer can still understand what they are. Moreover, the lighting including the shadowing is drawn on the background screen directly, which makes the picture look unnatural. The subtitles and its background are also odd and bent. All of these techniques were used to make people recognize everyday objects but understand that it is part of the characters’ imaginations (or the director’s imagination). The director is leading people into his imagination, buried in the mazy town, fragmented frame, the twisted mirror, sloping walls, lopsided doors, the rough road, exaggerated tree branches, etc. One interesting note is the scenes where Alan, who seems the most “normal” of all the characters, is introduced. He is in a room with a chair that looks normal—it has straight lines and is the right size. But he looks out...
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