What Kind of Police OfficerUses Excessive Force Examining why police officers use excessive force is a complicated subject to unfold. There is no simple explanation on why they use force. Studies have revealed that their personality dynamics plays a factor in their judgment. Scrivner (1994)‚ described five different profile types of violence-prone officers who may be subjected to this kind of behavior. The various group types are Chronic Risk Group‚ Job-Related (Traumatic) Experience Group‚
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“The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams. The story is set in the Depression era. An unnamed doctor arrives at a new patient’s home to assess a female child for a sore throat. Her parents are present‚ but are at a loss for what to do to help their daughter‚ who refuses to open her mouth for an exam. As the story progresses‚ the audience
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Sake of a Symbol “Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.” - Alfred North Whitehead. To symbolize is to represent much like the Cowboy Ethics principle ‘Ride for the Brand’. A brand is a symbol used to mark an object in order to claim it as owned property by the entity the brand is specified to. The knowledge of symbolism has been my north star for what has seemed an infinite amount of time. To me representation and responsibility
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telling the story and what desired response they want. No matter who the writer is I think the audience would get a different message out of it because they would each portray their individual emotions in different ways and writing styles. "The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams was told from the point of view of the doctor. There were four characters involved in the story. I believe any difference in point of view would have invoked an alternate response from the reader. Since the doctor
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married‚ legally her husband owned everything she had. The protagonist represents the oppression and frustration that women went through in society. Perkins use of symbolism adds to the reality of the wife’s oppression that slowly progresses into insanity. The subordinate position the wife is in because of her overpowering husband is created by the use of symbols such as the yellow wallpaper‚ secret diary‚ and the woman inside the wallpaper. The yellow wallpaper‚ being one of the largest symbols in the
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Conflict – Symbolism Symbolism is a predominant convention used in The Warriors (1979) to show conflict between characters. The symbolism shows conflict between characters through the use of the colour red. The colour red is a (unofficial) globally recognized symbol of many things which include love‚ anger and teen anxiety. However the use of this colour is used appropriately in context to communicate a specific meaning. Many films that involve such themes like anger/teen anxiety/hatred have used the
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COMPLETE: symbolism in Hope is the thing with feathers As a quick review‚ a metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two objects‚ and it can be used to compare a symbol to what it represents. Metaphors are often used in poetry in which one thing is pictured as if it were something else as we see in Dickinson’s Hope. Answer the following questions‚ citing textual evidence to support your answers. 1. In the first stanza‚ Hope is being symbolized as what? (Do NOT say a thing with feathers!)
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of the poem‚ also influenced Yeats’ lack of optimism about a long future peace. From line one‚ Yeats talks of a “widening gyre”‚ “turning and turning” as history‚ past‚ present‚ and future‚ revolves slowly. The great gyres referred to by Yeats are used to represent his view that a single miniscule point in history can spiral outward exponentially to cause great long term catastrophe. Yeats also notions toward his beliefs in the link between mysticism and astrology as the “turning and turning” represents
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Humanity in Movie “Life of Pi” —Conflict between human nature and death Introduction Pi whose father operates a zoo in India has his special attitudes towards beliefs and humanity because of his extraordinary environment in which he lived when he was a child. His parents decided to immigrate to Canada when he was only 17 years old while Pi had to break out with his first lover. On the ship to Canada‚ a rainstorm occurred and the ship sank. Nevertheless‚ Pi survived dramatically
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in the story through the use of the protagonists characterisation‚ the symbolism of the wolf‚ and finally through the precise use of point of view. Despite each reader being positioned differently in their understanding of a text as a result of their own
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