... possible, they would carry out their day turning a blind eye to the devastation that swirled before them. Most of them justified the acts in concentration camps by saying, “…the acts of torture were committed by a small group of insane or perverted persons” (page 151). Also, the German government did an outstanding job of using propaganda to deny the truth about the camps. When the reports about the camps were believed, the government quickly went to work to repress the terror and convince the German population that nothing horrible was happening. In the film Swing Kids, the main characters are Peter, Thomas, and Arvid. They, along with many other German yout ...
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... Roman Empire. If he would have loved Caesar more than Rome’s people he never would have killed Caesar for the Roman people. Cassius is the most significant character for his ability to perceive the true motives of the characters. Cassius thinks the nobility of Rome is responsible for the government of Rome. Cassius strongly dislikes Caesar personally. He sees Brutus as the person that will unite the nobles in the conspiracy. Cassius tries to use Brutus to achieve his goal. His main goal is to remove Caesar from power by using his persuasive speaking. Antony first appears in the play as a devoted follower of Caesar. He is also one of the great triumvirs. When ...
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... III, l. 50-53) Soon after the meeting with the witches Macbeth realises that he is the thane of Glamis and the thane of Cawdor. He realises that the only way for the 3rd prophecy to come true is to kill Duncan the king of Scotland. So Macbeth and his wife decide to kill Duncan and Macbeth becomes the king. He then decides he should kill Banquo because he could betray him, the witches said that Banquo would be the father to the line of kings and that means Macbeth will not be king for a long time. The murder of Banquo lead to Macbeth's downfall. Lady Macbeth an evil and weak woman made her husband kill Duncan, the king of Scotland at the time. With h ...
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... give rise to three very different courses of action (or inaction). It is here that Laertes and Fortinbras display their true purpose in the play. If we first examine the acts of Fortinbras we can see numerous occasions when the brave and instinctive actions of this character reflect poorly upon the character of Hamlet. For example although we do not see Fortinbras’s initial reaction to his fathers death, we know that from the outset of the play he has already set out to avenge his fathers death. “...Now, sir, young Fortinbras, Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, Shark’d up a list of lawless resolutes,” This quote tells us that in this short period ...
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... deceased once dead with there honor will not be able to feel the honor the died with nor will he be able to hear stories of his valiant efforts when they are told. When a deceased man looks back upon this honor the conveyed the decest will see that their own honor was their downfall. Lastly Falstaff believes a man with honor will not or cannot be remembered forever for distractions will fade the memory of the fallen hero in every man’s mind. Falstaff defies the image of a hero simply because he doesn’t believe in honor and would save himself rather than give own life to save another. Falstaff exposes this in a conversation with his trusted friend Prince Hal: “Pr ...
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... event, and it greatly effected more then just people like the Joads, but programs like the public works administration which employed people for government construction projects. Another program, the Works Progress Administration, later called the Works Projects Administration was created to develop relief programs, and to keep a person's skills. From 1935- 1943, it employed 8 million people, and spent 11 billion dollars. But in 1939, there were still 9.5 million still unemployed. Another program was the Civilian Conservation Corps. Unemployed, unmarried young men were enlisted to work on conservation and resource-development projects such as soil conservat ...
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... as Shakespeare' s characters in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". This just shows how characters from two totally unrelated stories are similar. Both Mr. Perry and Egeus want to have total control over their children's lives. Egeus and Mr. Perry made the most important choices their children would ever have, rather than letting them run their own lives. Egeus states that he has the right to make his daughter marry whomever he wants: Full of vexation come I, with complaint/Against my daughter Hermia. /Stand forth, Demtrious. My noble lord, /This man hath my consent to marry her…Be it so she will not here before your grace/ Consent to marry with Demetrious, ...
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... Mary Warren not to say anything. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down.” She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This shows that when a ...
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... a die-hard for the game. This crazy man just wants credit for giving a Barry Bonds-like player ( Wesley Snipes ) his number back. Unfortunately, the ‘fan' gives Wesley his number back by killing the player who occupied the number before him. When the baseball player's son is kidnapped by the disillusioned man, the police held the man at gun point in the stadium. When the deranged man made a move to open fire, the police gunned him down right on the ball field. My attitude toward this hostile man was that he was very baneful and my heart was lifted of many worries when he was killed. Hector gave this film two thumbs up because of its screen play and cinemato ...
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... chance that he will rise. Troy loves his son Cory and wants the best for him but not like anything like his father. Troy doesn’t want him to play sports because of what happened to him. Troy tells Cory that he won’t get to play because of the discrimination. “I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn’t getting involved in no sports. Not after what they did to me in the sports (p.39).” Troy also wants Cory to be a man. He tells Cory to keep with school because he never had an education. He wants Cory to grow up to learn a trade like fixing cars or build houses so they can’t take it away from him unlike an injury in sports. “You go on and learn to put ...
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