1971

Death Knocks was written by Woody Allen, an author, an actor and a filmmaker. (Allen 1971, p.1052)The play Death Knocks comically transformed death, by its use of puns, which according to the theory of incongruity stated by Monro are funny (n.d, p.91). According to Freud’s definition of comedy “a person appears comic to us if, in comparison to ourselves makes too great an expenditure on his bodily functions and too little on his mental ones (n.d, p.752). But, also according to Meeker and Langer…

The Attica Prison riot of 1971 is known as one of the most famous and important of all prison riots. This riot took place at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York. In total, the riot occured over the course of four days resulting in forty-three deaths. The riot began on September 9, 1971, and while there is no clear, sole reason as to why it started, there are many possibilities of which might have led to the uprising. Some of the most popular reasons include racism, unfair…

2010: 50). This therefore means that, law enforcers can only stop, search and arrest on the foundation of rational suspicion. In addition, the law enforcement officer must provide a search warrant before searching a suspect’s property (Dirty Harry, 1971). Detective Callahan’s failure to do this in the movie Dirty Harry, resulted in the evidence being inadmissible in the court of law, and in turn the suspect was released from police custody. Therefore, despite a law enforcement officer’s efforts…

Throughout history it has been a lot of movements in order to defeat injustice, and one of these movements was created back in the mid 1960’s in San Antonio. This book is divided into three different time-lapses and it tells us how the Mexican-American started to gain a place in the US with the Chicano movement. In the mid 1960’s San Antonio was ruled by the Anglo social and the high class. The Mexican-American motivated by the gang warfare, the seasonal flood, and the strike of the farm…

example of thoughtful, eloquent protest” (New York Times). People like Laurence Steinberg are considering and debating the idea of the age being further lowered to 16; a proposed extension of the 26th Amendment. The 26th Amendment was ratified on July 1, 1971, establishing…

system, and if these have answers to themselves. Rawls believe that justice is an indeterminable right. In his book, The Theory of Justice, Rawls go into depth around what justice truly is. To him, it is determined to be a “system of thought” (Rawls, 1971). Society is structured around fundamental rights and duties, as well as the advantages of society based around social institutions. The veil of ignorance ensures “no one is…

Hegemony is rooted in the struggle for power and influence in a given community. In 1971, Antonio Gramsci wrote in “Selections from Prison Notebooks”, that the ruling class dominates the lower class through intellectual rule. Gramsci added, “The supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways, as domination and as intellectual and moral leadership.” This is the foundation of his ideas about cultural hegemony, intellectual and moral leadership. Gramsci started the conversation about…

is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. While comparing the two movies with similar scenes, one will know about the main character “Willy Wonka”, the music displayed, and the plot of the two films. Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory came out in 1971 and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came out in 2005. Both Wonka’s resign in their speechless colorful, chocolate, candy filled factories. What is different in the two movies though is the acting displayed by the main characters themselves.…

After Operation Searchlight and the brutal genocide led by Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan on the masses of the Bengali (East Pakistani) people on the night of 25th March 1971, a chronic uproar resulted in the next day of 26th March, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s declaration of independence was broadcasted all over the country. On 27th March, Major Ziaur Rahman, the commander of the East Bengal Regiment in Chittagong, broadcasted two declarations on behalf of Sheikh Mujib stating himself as the temporary Head…

In 1971 25th march the ruthless and brutal armed operation undertaken by the Pakistani army. Pakistani rulers curb the movement of the freedom loving Bengalis rulers. By the military authority was termed as “Operation Searchlight”. Because of this operation many students leaders, Bengali intellectuals arrest or kill the distinguished Awami League leaders in the main cities of the then East Pakistan including Dhaka, the Bangali personnel’s of military, that time radio station and telephone was…