Josephine Tschirhart Mrs. Hughes Advanced ELA 26 May 2016 Love and Fear A pair of star-crossed lovers. Two gangs who kill. Three young boys who die. In the musical West Side Story by Arthur Laurents‚ there are two gangs- the Jets and the Sharks‚ who are constantly brawling over a block in New York City. The leader of the Jets is Riff‚ and the leader of the Sharks is Bernardo. Bernardo’s sister‚ Maria‚ falls in love with Tony‚ who is from the opposite gang. The gangs eventually have a
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YWCA of West Central Michigan The YWCA of West Central Michigan is a community program committed to providing a safe haven for victims of domestic violence. Their mission statement‚ revised May 2009‚ asserts “YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism‚ empowering women‚ and promoting peace‚ justice‚ freedom‚ and dignity for all” (YWCA). Clark (2008a) defines‚ “ violence as the intentional use of physical force or power‚ threatened or actual‚ against oneself‚ another person‚ or against a group or community
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For instance in the narrative “Is This Love?” by Brittney West‚ West shows how sadness and doubt overcame her when her mother gave up on her. In the writing‚ she communicates her feelings by saying‚ “I always felt that if my own mother didn’t love me‚ than who would?” I believe that this reveals her loss of hope
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projects the overall conflicts of society‚ through most of his plays. Shepard’s True West captures the struggle between brothers and what could happen when apathy consumes them. Ironically‚ each of the seven deadly sins—lust‚ gluttony‚ greed‚ sloth‚ wrath‚ envy‚ and pride—and the seven holy virtues—chastity‚ temperance‚ charity‚ diligence‚ patience‚ kindness‚ and humility—are either lived out or ignored in True West. These sins and virtues‚ when juxtaposed with the two brothers in the play‚ reveal
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The Decline of the West by Hanif Kureishi We have now reached the stage in our society‚ where material goods have become a big influence and importance for us‚ especially in the Western capitalistic society. We are generally so focused on the material goods that we easily forget to carry about our family‚ but not least about the important life values. The recession is a great wake-up call‚ to get an opportunity to see things in a different way and a change disadvantageous behavior. The story “The
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camps to aid the injured. Approximately 30 doctors were stationed in Auschwitz to tend to the Jews ’ wounds and perform necessary surgeries. Out of those doctors came the infamous Josef Mengele‚ famous for his unique preferences in the medical field. Dr. Mengele ’s experiments were cruel‚ demeaning‚ and inhumane toward twins. Mengele ’s cruelty and fascination for twins led him to be one of the most well-known doctors of the Holocaust. While in Auschwitz Mengele performed various experiments on
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The film Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and Love the Bomb begins at Burpelson Air Force Base‚ in the middle of he Cold War. General Jack D. Ripper played by Sterling Hayden sends out a “go” code to an entire force of bombers. His commands are for them to drop their atomic payloads onto scores of quarries within the Soviet Union. General Buck Turgidson played by George C. Scott is called to consult with the nation’s military leaders and executive‚ as soon as the news of this disastrous
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According to many Western thinkers the “rise of the West” occurring in the last 500 years is attributed to internal‚ typically environmentally related factors that exclude or dismiss features relating to interaction and exchange among disparate societies at different levels of cultural development. The traditional narrative of global history offered by Max Weber proclaims the inevitable rise of Western Europe was made possible through an innate rationality unique to Western people. Karl Marx focuses
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West Memphis‚ Arkansas was home to three teenage boys that were accused and convicted of the murders of three young boys. These murders are now known as the West Memphis Three. Two of these boys‚ Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley‚ were put in extremely different circumstances that if switched‚ could have decided the fate of the case. If a testimony cannot be proven accurate or is not obtained by ethical means then it should not be accredited until proven otherwise. Damien Echols was an 18-year
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Americans started migrating west in the 1800’s due to many push and pull factors. Everyone had their own treacherous reason to go. All the people included‚ white free men and slaves‚ also the government. No one really knows where it all started‚ but it could be because of religious ideas such as manifest destiny. Or it could have been because americans just wanted to expand because they thought that‚ that was their land. From facts that are shown in the US history textbooks‚ americans wanted to expand
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