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    way surprising that many people would try to rectify these mistakes, and improve their society. John Steinbeck and J. B. Priestley wanted to just that. They produced works that show the effects of these mistakes if they are not rectified, in hope of raising awareness about society 's own impurities. Two of these works are "Of Mice and Men" and "An Inspector Calls", by John Steinbeck and J. B. Priestley respectively. "Of Mice and Men" is a novella that follows two itinerant workers that follow a…

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    Throughout the course of The Tempest, all Shakespeare’s characters are controlled by at least one passion. One desire, common to several of the characters, is the desire to rule. This is strongly rooted in Prospero, Caliban, and Stephano as they bend others to their rule by controlling them with their passions. Each one has their own capacity to rule and their success is determined by the methods they use, the way they conduct themselves, and whether they let their passions get the best of them.…

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    James Braddock during the Great Depression. The movie is written by Cliff Hollingsworth and produced by Brian Grazer. The movie was released in June 3, 2005 and distributed by Universal Entertainment. The main cast was Russell Crowe played as James J Braddock, Renée Zellweger played as Mae Braddock, Paul Giamatti played as Joe Gould, and Craig Bierko played as Max Baer. The director made the movie as historically accurate as possible but also certain entertainment tactics were used to spice up…

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    former research project that was responsible for developing the first atomic bombs during World War II, with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada from 1942 to 1945 . General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer were in-charge of the Project . The members of the committee combined their expertise, technology, science and finance. The success of the Manhattan Project was when a uranium bomb called “Little Boy” and a plutonium bomb “Fat…

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    In the Disney animated classic, “Beauty and the Beast”, there is a scene where Gaston is talking to Belle and he takes her book away and says to her, “It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas…and thinking..” Gaston saying this wasn’t even the part that is wrong with the entire picture; it’s the fact that the entire village agrees with him because women reading was not something women should be doing back in that day. Women were seen as cookers, cleaners, and the ones who…

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    superego takes control and changes his perspective drastically. He realizes that if he gives in to intimacy, he will rob the young girl of her innocence. Holden’s psyche has become so compromised with the complexities of Allie’s death that he cannot bare the idea of taking someone’s innocence. He swells up with guilt and refuses to have sexual intercourse with this young prostitute in order to preserve her innocence. From a Freudian perspective, Holden was deprived of his own innocence after…

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    Once said by the famous Stephen Chbosky, “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes ours ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” I think this book should be banned because it displays delicate and sensitive material and would put bad images into the younger generation 's minds and be corrupted by it. It should only be read by high school and college students because the material in the book can be understood by those age groups and they would know…

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    Marriott Hotel is owned and managed by Marriott International, Inc., a global leading company in the hospitality industry (Tashmuratov, 2010; Marriott International, 2015). According to Tashmuratov (2010), Marriott International was founded by in 1927 by J. Willard and Alice Marriott, and has its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland in the US (Marriott International, 2015). The company operates more than 4, 000 properties across at least over 75 countries. In the 2014 fiscal year, Marriott…

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    Salinger The Great Is J.D Salinger possibly the best author to come out of the Beat Generation? The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger was one of the most famous book in the early 1950’s when it came out. (Need help on intro paragraph) Jerome David Salinger, also known as J.D Salinger was an American born author, born on January 1, 1919 in Manhattan, New York. He later died of natural causes on January 29, 2010 in Cornish, New Hampshire. He was the second child and only boy of…

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    The children in the 1980’s Toys R Us’s commercial expressively repeated the phrase: “I don’t wanna’ grow up, I’m a Toys R Us kid.” Although the company Toys R Us was not founded until 1948 (About Toys"R" Us), Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has the same mentality: he does not want to grow up. His bias towards innocence and fear of adulthood leaves him with one purpose in life: to save those from enduring the pain of maturing. Due to a mishearing of…

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