Cultural tensions are present in Blanche’s remark that Stanley is a ‘Polack’; during World War 2, the Polish were seen as the enemy; Blanche using this insult is not because she is against Polacks, but is her taking advantage of the frequently used insult at the time. Blanche is portrayed as a patriotic ‘Southern Belle’ she believes she can use Polack as an insult as she has the upper hand as an American. This change in society can be compared to Willy Russell’s play ‘Educating Rita’, written in 1979. Despite a time difference of nearly forty years, and a completely different country, there are similarities in terms of cultural change being evident in both plays. ‘Educating Rita’ was written at a time of social change in Britain, females were being given more opportunities with many taking on job previously uncommon for women, and a female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was now in power, encouraging independence for women.
These rephrase the main idea but are shorter. The sentences are also expected to be joined by words that effectively provide transition, and thus connect ideas (De, 104). An example of Jane Schaffer strategy for writing a two paragraph chunk would be as follows; TS, CD, CM, CM, CD, CM, CM and CS. This paper seeks to show that the strategy has been effectively used by Gerda Weissman Klein in displaying the themes of the book ‘All But My Life.’ It is about her experiences during World War 2. Gerda has used Jane Schaffer writing strategy in displaying various themes in the book.
The theme of this story is that when you experience a lost of a love one, you will go through an emotion time in your life. At first you will feel fury, doubt and lost but eventually through time you will learn that the spiritual understanding of death and suffering is about love and acceptance of the inevitable. Going for the Record is a classic novel that provides a convincing sequence of growth and coming of age through a lost loved one. Anyone who has gone through a loss of a loved one will recognize Swanson’s detailed explanations of illness and death. This book teaches people how to accept and learn how to move
Elizabeth Loftus began her research with investigations of how the mind classifies and remembers information. In the 1970's, she began to reevaluate the direction of her research. In the article "Diva of Disclosure" published in Psychology Today, she was recorded saying, "I wanted my work to make a difference in people's lives." That is why she began her research on the traumatically repressed memories and eyewitness accounts of people. Elizabeth Loftus suddenly found herself in the middle of sexual abuse stories and defending accused offenders.
Comparison Essay- Holocaust and Anti-Semitism As a field of study, history is open to different interpretations of the same events. Historians will no doubt see and understand the same event, or similar events differently. The Holocaust is one such event; Omer Bartov and James Glass each wrote different articles trying to explain the motives behind the anti-Semitism prevalent in Europe during World War Two (WWII) and the Holocaust which occurred as a direct result of that anti-Semitism. Each historian takes a different approach in explaining the same complex issue. Bartov's article, Enemies, Making Victims: Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust, focuses on long-term causes and effects of the anti-Semitism, using mostly secondary sources.
The general argument/point made by Anna Quindlen in her work Life of the Closed Mind is that America has become a country that sets its young people the terrible example of closed minds and that, that needs to change. More specifically Quindlen argues/suggests that we think about the world as good or evil when a statement like that shies away from rigorous intellectual engagement. She writes, “Is that true? Maybe there’s something to what she just said. Let me think about it.
In response, Priestley uses satire when the Inspector responds by saying: "After all, it's better to ask for the Earth than to take it." This tells the audience that Priestley is using Birling to represent a greedy capitalist who just wants to take everything for himself and not share his resources. As a socialist, Priestly would criticise this. As the play was written in 1945, three years before the development of he health service and after the Second World War, there was more equality and fairness within society, so Birling would be seen as quite old-fashioned and narrow minded. In addition, Sheila appears to be heavily influence by the way her parents behave.
Everyone is a part of 'one body', the Inspector sees society as more important than individual interests. The views he is propounding are again like those of Priestley who wanted his socialist views put across to the audience. He adds a warning about what could happen op if, like some members of the family, we ignore our responsibility: 'and I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson,when the will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.' Probably he is thinking partly about the world war which they had just lived through, the result of the governments blindly pursuing 'national interest' at all cost. No doubt he was thinking too about the Russian revolution in which poor workers and peasants took over the state and exacted a bloody revenge against the aristocrats who had treated them so
Much like John B. Watson, the man known for the Little Albert Experiment, Helmholtz is curious, but much too bored with his lifestyle. Bernard Marx, a reference to the philosopher Karl Marx, is determined to make his society a better place to live. Bernard does not approve of is loveless, careless, and scientific world. Karl Marx was also determined to make his society better. He warned others of what our world would come to be, “a classless society” (http://www.nationmaste.com).
However, people like Winston who lived early enough to know the feeling of having real freedom, are frustrated. Winston is a rebel amongst his peers and instead of following Big Brother tries to secretly rebel. He feels any attraction to anyone or anything that is some form of rebellion whether it is julia, the Book, or anything else. The book, 1984, shows deception in many different ways through Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Love, and O'Brien. The Ministry of Truth is a very deceiving name for a ministry that concentrates on lying to the public.