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    In “Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History‚” Art Spiegelman evokes German expressionist wood-cut drawings‚ similar to Lynd Ward‚ to convey and suggest depth and weight through his use of heavy and jagged lines. This strategy in turn helps the viewer embrace the emotional anguish Artie is feeling after finding out his mother had passed. Spiegelman sets the shockingly confessional tone of the piece in the first two frames by wasting no time describing his mother’s method of suicide. The 1972 story’s

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    How does Willy Russell make it clear to the audience in the final scene of ‘Educating Rita’ that Rita has changed since the beginning of the play? ‘Educating Rita’‚ written by Willy Russell‚ follows the relationship between Rita‚ a young Liverpuldian working class hairdresser and Frank‚ a middle aged University lecturer. One of the main themes in the play has been conveyed: personal relationships. Rita is moulded by her tutor‚ Frank‚ and learns a great deal from him‚ whilst also teaching him in

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    intimate look into the POW camp brutality than straight facts and statistics. Nonfiction books do not usually include information that cannot be proved by more than one source. Quotes like this give you a more intimate look into the lives of war prisoners. It makes you feel the despair of Louie and his POW mates. The book is

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    Laura Hillenbrand will be a name never forgotten. Her masterpiece‚ Unbroken‚ follows Louie Zamperini through the chaotic events of his life: qualifying for the olympics at 19‚ fighting for his life in a Prisoner of War (POW) camp‚ and struggling to conform to society after the monstrosities of war. Louie’s life is full of suspense‚ determination‚ and hope leaving the reader hanging onto every word. A thief grew up in the small town of Torrance‚ California. Running from trouble at a young age assisted

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    forty years after the war‚ more than 85 percent of former Pacific POWs in one study suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder‚ characterized in part by flashbacks‚ anxiety‚ and nightmares”(355). Suffering from the same incidents that many former prisoners of wars did Louie’s determination to achieve better led him back to the track to change for the better‚ but a mishap with his ankle occurs and leaves him frustrated and destroyed. Throughout his alcohol addiction Cynthia did her best to try and bring

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    and easily gave up through hardship. But Louie‚ astonishingly kept on going‚ and enduring the most of it all‚ reaching to the end. This theme has its show throughout the entire story‚ from surviving crashes‚ living with sharks‚ surviving in POW (prisoner of war) camps‚ and dosed with PTSD. FOr example‚ a major event that leads Louie and some of his friends to being captivated is the Green Hornet crash in the Pacific. As Hillenbrand states‚ “Sensing the ocean coming up at the plane‚ he took a last

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    Prisoner experimentation is an issue that has affected prisoners all across the world. When participants are being experimented on‚ most of the time‚ there was no consent given to the experimenter. In these cases‚ the experiment should not be performed. In most cases the subjects‚ have little understanding of the experiment and should be able to stop being tested on if they please. Although using prisoners for experiments‚ is not a terrible thing to do‚ because most of the prisoners being tested

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    Critique of The Great Escape I. The Great Escape is about a group of POWs that were transferred into a high security camp; these prisoners were considered “high risk” because every man at the camp had tried to escape from various POW camps before. This movie follows a main cast of 7 men; each of these men determined to get out of the camp and each of the men bringing a special skill. The film follows the men through the planning process‚ building process‚ and even the escape. The Great Escape

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    effects and some sort of mental disorder. (Khazan). Prisoners today are treated much different than French prisoners. In fact‚ French prisoners in the 1800s were treated much worse than they are today. They weren’t even considered humans‚ and they were treated worse than some animals (Prison Life). In the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo‚ the psychological effects of long-term imprisonment and solitary confinement

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    4. RIGHTS OF PRISONERS A convict lodged in a prison is not denuded of all fundamental rights though it is true that he does not enjoy all the fundamental rights like other persons because of the fetters imposed on him in accordance with the law. In an American case on prisoner’s right‚ i.e. Procunier v. Martineg the court emphasized that since the liberty of a prisoner is constitutionally curtailed due to his confinement‚ his interest in the limited liberty left to him becomes all the more substantial

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