ISSUE -37 WE CAN USUALLY LEARN MUCH MORE FROM PEOPLE WHOSE VIEWS……. Learning is a life-long process‚ very much dependent upon perspectives one gets to see through. Thus‚ one cannot obviate the need for considering the perspectives of others towards different situations. Greatest advancements in the past have been made through learning from the contradictory thoughts of others‚ and thus by modifying our own personal opinion. Thus contradictory thoughts play a very important role in enhancing our
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tragic Figure of a View from the Bridge In his play A View from the Bridge‚ Arthur Miller tells the story of Eddie Carbone‚ an illiterate longshoreman‚ who has an incestuous love for his niece‚ which drives him to his own tragedy. The story is set in 1950s America‚ in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The play has the ingredients of a traditional Greek tragedy‚ complete with Alfieri‚ a narrator that fulfills the same purpose as Sophocles’s chorus from his plays about
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In A View From The Bridge Catherine is presented to the audience by being an ambiguous yet socially inexperienced character. "You’re getting to be a big girl now‚ you gotta keep yourself more‚ you can’t be so friendly‚ kid." This quotation is said earlier on in the play by Eddie but Beatrice later gives the same advice to Catherine but in regards to Eddie. Beatrice thinks Catherine needs to grow up and become a woman and to do this she needs to decide by herself whether she wants to marry Rodolfo
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Marco and Rodolpho are Beatrice’s two cousins coming to the United States from Italy. They are coming to the United States to make money to live better lives and they stick together through thick and thin. That is where the similarities end with these two brothers. Each one of them is there for completely different reasons. They are viewed differently by those around them and react differently to the situations that are presented to them. Marco came to the United States for one reason only: to
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The Battle of Gettysburg: Why was it a Turning Point? “This nation shall have a new birth of freedom‚ and that government of the people‚ by the people‚ for the people‚ shall not perish from the earth” -Abraham Lincoln‚ The Gettysburg Address 150‚000 men fought in this violent war (B). Only 99‚000 of those men have lived. The Battle of Gettysburg was a brutal war‚ but it wasn’t the worst. Compared to the other wars America has fought in‚ it’s far better.
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A comment on ’A Glimpse of Things to Come ’: Two points of view I. Lee M. Silvers point of view Professor Lee M. Silver states in the prologue of his controversial book Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in the Brave New World‚ that with the advancements in reprogenetics (a technological mixture of reproductive biology and genetics) parents can have "complete control over their genetic destiny" and can "enhance the characteristics" of their children and grand children. Silver stresses that "the
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taking over the farm industry while others are even “taking over” the legislative government by receiving many influential government jobs. The documentary Food Inc. sheds light to the public about how monopolies in the food industry are becoming more common and the impacts they are having. Monopolies in the food industry have a negative impact on society. Monsanto is an agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company who sells crop seeds to farmers. They have evolved however and are very
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during the Civil War. This major victory was a massive turning point in the war for the Union. Before this point in the war‚ the Union only had a few wins against the Confederacy and hope was slowly withering away for the Union; but because of Vicksburg‚ the Union was able to turn the war around and eventually (as we all know) win the war and reunite the North and the South. Vicksburg was an important Union victory and turning point in the war because it was believed to be the key to the Confederacy
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Both points of views can be seen on “The Gospel of Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie and “the life of a coal miner” by John McDowell‚ which will be discussed in the following paragraphs. First‚ Andrew Carnegie’s point of view is the one of an educated and wealthy man‚ while McDowell’s is one of a coal miner. This is the first and most important comparison between these
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The Little Rock Nine “Somewhere along the line [staying at Central High] became an obligation. I realized that what we were doing was not for ourselves.” (Elizabeth Eckford‚ One of the “Little Rock Nine”). Following the Supreme Court’s Brown V Board of Education decision‚ schools in the South fought hard to keep African American students out of white schools. The most important case involved Little Rock’s Central High School. Nine African American students (The Little Rock Nine) helped mold schools
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