Joseph Severn

James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything is a biographical picture adapted from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen written by Jane Hawking. From a framing perspective, this film is pretty ideal when compared to the other representations in this study and in films with disabled characters in general. According to Darke, most disability films construct the disabled characters as abject where the impaired are easily fatigued, totally dependent, socially isolated, asexual, and…

According to the works of Richard Cantillon and Adam Smith in the 17th and early 18th century, innovation holds an important position in capitalism. In a market economy the basic economic problem (what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce) is solved by entrepreneurs on a trial-and-error basis. An entrepreneur is a person who pays known costs of production to exploit opportunities in order to maximize financial returns. Thus, entrepreneurship is associated with innovation: a really…

freedom and independence, most of history has been consumed by tyranny. Tyranny rises when shrewd men, such as Joseph Stalin, take advantage of poverty-stricken, ignorant nations. These nations are helpless; they’re uneducated about the dangers of fascism and dictatorship. They’re simply waiting for an eager tyrant to benefit from their lack of education. Throughout history, many like Joseph Stalin have altered society’s way of life by gaining too much power, causing fear, and killing for…

In modern business environment, global competition continues to heighten and market demands rapidly evolve that companies strive to adroitly accommodate to these changing conditions for survival and success. As volatility in business environment created uncertainties and obsolescence in traditional business, innovation emerged as a significant driving force to sustain and improve competitive advantage for companies. However, despite both academic and practical focus on innovation and…

“The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, were ill-conceived and led to disastrous consequences.” (Scharm) In consequence of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Mao enforced anti-rightest movement which was just the start of Mao’s reign of terror. Mao felt hated and rejected, therefore, to fix the problem Mao simply decided to exterminate all of the people who were against him. These people who were typically educated, independent thinkers were called the Rightists and to make them agree…

Lenin (Russia) 1917-1924 Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the third of six children. His parent were well educated, and he also attended high school. During the high school, he showed a particular gift of Latin and Greek. When he was a boy, his father was threatened with early retirement by a suspicious government nervous about the influence public school had on Russian society. In 1887, his big brother, Aleksandr, was arrested and executed for being a part of a…

beliefs with modern society. Modern literary writers often represent the world as a fragmented and chaotic place that has lost the faith the previous generations once had. Two such modern authors are Leo Tolstoy who wrote The Death of Ivan Ilych and Joseph Conrad who wrote Heart of Darkness. It may seem that these two novels have a lot of differences, but they are more similar than some would think. The Death of Ivan Ilych and Heart of Darkness may have differences, but they have more…

The Salem Witch Trials v. The Red Scare - Dawn of Hysteria In the 1690s, mass hysteria overcame Salem, Massachusetts. After exhibiting strange behaviors, people were being accused of witchcraft. Since witchcraft was deemed as a capital crime in 1641 (law2,umkc), the punishment for it was either imprisonment, or hanging. A similar event happened after the end of World War II. In 1947, the Cold War had begun. (Wolfe). Due to a lingering fear of the Soviets and Communism, people were accused and…

The atrocities of the WWII era were caused by Joseph Stalin using police and military terror in the USSR to get rid of anyone he considered his enemy by locking them away in the Gulags, he used control of individuals by forcing farmers to combine their farms into mega farms, and Adolf Hitler used ideology to “purify” Germany of lesser races. In the USSR Joseph Stalin used police and military terror to confine peasants in concentration camps known as Gulags where millions died of starvation and…

However, many foreign correspondents, especially the early Cold War Presidents, President Roosevelt and President Truman, were unimpressed with Joseph McCarthy’s claims of insurrection, infiltration, and treason within the veins of the American government. McCarthy’s domestic aims did not extend to the diplomatic stage, where the beginnings of the Cold War were prevalent. The Cold War was highlighted…