character from a novel or play who conforms outwardly while questions inwardly. Analyze the nature and elements of this internal conflict‚ and discuss how the tension between conformity and defiance contributes to the meaning of the work. Winston Smith‚ the protagonist of Orwell’s 1984 is an example of an everyday citizen in Oceania who obeys the rules of the government but questions them inwardly without speaking up. He is described as the only hope for the totalitarian system to be abolished‚ but
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Diagnosing Septimus Smith Virginia Woolf’s novel‚ Mrs. Dalloway‚ features a severely mentally ill man named Septimus Smith. Throughout the novel the reader glimpses moments of Septimus’s dementia and how his poor frazzled wife‚ Rezia‚ deals with him. Septimus‚ who has returned from the war and met Rezia in Italy on his discharge‚ has a seriously skewed version of reality. He has been through traumatic events during the war‚ including the death of his commanding officer and friend‚ Evans
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the mentally ill. Mental illness is like any other type of medical conditions that requires equal and nonjudgmental treatment and care of sufferers of this fate. In illustration of how the society has failed on this account is a case study of Ashley Smith who undergoes painful experiences until her dying day. She is a young mentally ill Canadian woman whose experiences are unthinkable and inhumane given the obligation
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The session that I attended at The Anne Frank Project on September 11‚ 2009 was Beyond the Diary: Behind the scenes of a Jewish Family in Hiding with Sophia Veffer. Even though I learned some things about the Holocaust during middle school‚ there still were things that I did not know. The reason why I attended this session is because I wanted to know how some of the Jews were able to survive the Holocaust and I also wanted to know what Sophia’s experience was like actually being a child during the
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The accounts of the first vision share unique perspectives but also include similarities that really do testify the truthfulness of Joseph Smith. Joseph was an incredible child because of his desire to search for salvation. In his first account from 1832‚ he describes the discontent he faced‚ “At about the age of twelve years my mind become seriously imprest with regard to the all importent concerns of for the well fare of my immortal Soul.” In the 1835 account‚ he was curious to know what is right
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I think Ada smith is a motivated person that’s out to get things done.I think this because Ada had a terrible childhood‚and a tough upbringing‚she learned how to outsmart her strict mother‚also she did the impossible‚well‚with her odds. This is the life of Ada Smith‚London‚England‚summer 1939.This young lady had the worst childhood you can think of‚her mother beats her senseless‚she can’t go outside of one room (not why you think‚because of Ada’s foot).She can’t even wear shoes due to her clubfoot
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When people are put in difficult positions‚ it’s often that their maturity alters. In the play The Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich‚ taken place 1942 in Amsterdam‚ is about a Jewish family who go hiding in a secret annex in order to avoid being captured by the Nazis. This play is based on the diary of the Anne Frank‚ the main protagonist‚ who recounts her experiences from when she entered the annex at age thirteen until when her freedom out from it at fifteen. Over the course
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While there are many heroes in the US who are recognized for something they did for themselves‚ there are some unspoken heroes who should be recognized for their actions for others‚ for example‚ Sheldon Smith. Sheldon was an African American child who grew up without a father figure in his life‚ and who‚ at the age of 17‚ was sent to jail for robbery. While this may seem bad‚ it was the turning point in his life. "It was horrible. It scared me straight. It woke me up and saved me. I haven’t been
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in western New York‚ I do not have too much experience with the other religions of the world. I have grown up a Christian Protestant my whole life‚ and I am a firm believer in my religion. Soon after reading the chapter on Buddhism in Huston Smith’s book The World’s Religions‚ I came to understand and respect the Buddhist religion. I came to learn who the Buddha as a man really was‚ and the steps he took in becoming a religious icon. I know understand that Buddhism is not all meditation and relaxing
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These were the words of Anne Frank which were contained in her beloved‚ leather-bound‚ red and white checkerboard-patterned diary. Handwritten in her beautiful scrawl‚ these few simple words have impacted minds around the world and refreshed those with intents of hatred and harm. Despite the bad deeds of those around her‚ and the horrid happens depleting the population of her kind as a Jew‚ Anne Frank could still see the inner light shining through the dreary‚ gray smoke of all of humanity.
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