In the movie Awakenings‚ a psychiatrist takes an interest in the patients that are in a statue-esque state. After much research and experimentation‚ he concludes that the patients were misdiagnosed‚ and actually have a severe case of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive nervous disease associated with the destruction of brain cells that produce dopamine and characterized by muscular tremor‚ slowing of movement‚ partial facial paralysis‚ peculiarity of gait and posture‚ and weakness
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Amanda Tharp ENGL 2328-WS1 L. Ranta 7/25/2013 The Awakening Analysis Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a novel critiquing society’s treatment of the late 19th century’s woman. The story opens in a New Orleans summer in the 1890s‚ introducing the story’s main character‚ Edna Pontellier‚ and her husband‚ Leonce. She’s‚ what you might call‚ a reluctant‚ respectable‚ 1890s gentlewoman. Later on‚ we are introduced to Adele Ratignolle‚ the ideal housewife or mother-woman‚ Robert
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Round-Robin: Efflux Lab (Formal Report) Michael Hunter‚ Yianni Dres‚ Endy Lau Section: W2-805 Professor Maase November 26‚ 2013 Introduction: The purpose of the efflux lab experiment is to determine the time it takes a liquid to drain from a certain height in a tank through an exit pipe under the influence of gravity. The time it takes to completely drain the tank from one point to another is mostly dependent on the exit pipe’s height and the inner diameter. Other factors
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What is The Great Awakening? The Awakening was a period of great revivalism that spread throughout the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It deemphasized the importance of church doctrine and instead put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience. What most people refer to as “the first Great Awakening” can be described as a renewal of religion that swept through the colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s. The beginnings of the first Great Awakening appeared among the
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What is in your movie? ENG 225 Hannah Judson March 15‚ 2010 What is in your movie? How does one analysis a movie? How does one watch a movie? What are you looking for in the movie? When you watch the movie‚ does the movie tell you a story or do you learn any life lessons from it? Movie making is considered an industry and an art form; as an artist media‚ it can come in a form of expression. A movie has so many components intertwined into it to make it overall and complete. Therefore‚ is
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Freedom: “ She began to look with her own eyes; to see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life. No longer was she content to "feed upon opinion" when her own soul had invited her.” (32) -This quote supports the theme of freedom because Edna has finally stopped listening to what others have to say‚ and altering her life to that. She beginning to control her own life. “But they need not have thought that they could possess her‚ body and soul.” (Chp 39) -This quote supports the theme of
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The legend of Robin Hood has been around for nearly one thousand years. For the past several hundred years‚ Robin and his Merry Men have been known for stealing from the rich‚ particularly tax collectors‚ and giving to the poor; however‚ because this is still stealing and Robin had also killed at least one of the king’s deer‚ Robin and his men were known as outlaws. While they may have been outlaws‚ Robin Hood and his Merry Men were more like knights in the way that they dealt honorably with opponents
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HINDUISM The Question of Origin – Hinduism seems to have been an open religion that is dated back to around 1500 B.C. (Halverson‚ 2004). Most of the Hindus lived in India or the religion is native to India. “Unlike other religious traditions‚ Hinduism does not originate in a single founder‚ a single book or a single point in time. It contains many different beliefs‚ philosophies and viewpoints‚ not always consistent with each other.” (Violatti‚ 2013) This sums it up and I don’t know how else to
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if they work hard enough. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) critiques this American dominant ideology of the “ideal” family‚ the “ideal” life and the pursuit of success‚ as well as female body standards. In his article “Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur”‚ theorist Robin Wood establishes twelve values which are present in American ideology and therefore “insistently embodied in and reinforced by the classical Hollywood cinema” (Wood 1997‚ 669). In Little Miss
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Edna did not fail‚ nor did she blossom into some strong symbol of female independence and grace. Neither argument seem true to The Awakening. In it‚ Edna embarked on a journey that would ultimately transform her entire identity and her satisfaction with life as it was given to her. Edna was certainly before her time‚ this did not make her mature by any means nor the more insightful as she grew. Edna kept her childlike fire‚ acting impulsively‚ selfishly‚ and all around contradictory. Edna was discovering
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