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In 1980, Robert Redford released his dramatic coming of age film that was nominated for 6 Academy Awards won four, including best picture and best director. Ordinary People is about a family dealing with the death of their son/brother. The film offers many perspectives on metal illnesses and how people deal with them and at the same time explores how our culture views mental illness. The film revolves around Conrad, who is the son of Beth and Calvin. Conrad’s brother died in a boating accident.…

With the basic fundamentals of poem writing, anyone can see that the overall message of “Robert Frost” poem “Out, Out” is about how people need to realize how their surroundings work and operate and why they do so. Robert Frost conveys a deliberate soothing tone for the reader to experience. With this outstanding tone it impacts how the poem flows so he also backs up that part of his writing with figurative language. The figurative language provides the poem and reader with a better…

In 1828, Sir Robert Peel was elected as Home Secretary of England so his first job was that he had to face with the increase of street crime in London. He created the "London Metropolitan Police Act" to promote public safety and decrease the street crime. Through the years, Robert Peel became a good example to those countries who created their own policing. One of them is American policing where in some ways are equal. Nowadays, I think that some of Robert Peel's visions still used in the…

Robert Nozick, an American philosopher born in the 1960s, explores the concept of distributive justice through a minimalist state in his work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. A minimal state refers to a state that obtains the least amount of power possible without becoming an anarchy. Throughout Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Nozick argues that the minimal state is the only state that can be justified and will not violate people’s rights. By exploring various theories and principles such as the…

the “Requiem,” one of many works that Robert Louis Stevenson produced during his lifetime. Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the best authors during his time and captured the hearts of many with his unique way of writing. He had many accomplishments within the writing realm which he had to endeavor. Despite Robert Louis Stevenson’s many flaws and unhealthy life, he still managed to have a successful career which ended with a tragic death. As a result of Robert Louis Stevenson’s yearning to…

pronoun “I”, providing more description than usual. Moreover we come to know about the inner thoughts and opinions of the character through his speech. Here, in these lines an extensive description of the surrounding is provided as “brown fog of winter dawn”, “crowd flowed over London Bridge”, “Sighs”, “fixed his eyes before his feet”. All these point toward the fact that the narrator has himself observed his surrounding keenly. Additionally, in this part of poem First person narration is used…

a point in life where we are bound to take crucial decisions in order to move forward. Some choices would prove to be exactly what we were hoping for and others will make us wonder what would have happened if we had taken the other available path. Robert Frost presents this enigma on his poem ‘The Road Not Taken’. He most chose between two paths and he is conflicted about not being able to “travel both.” He looks at one road until it disappears from his sight, yet he decides to travel the other…

The idea of murder may make people’s stomach turn, but to the Duke in Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” it seems like an easy task. The Duke is showing the emissary the painting of his last Duchess and telling him of her flaws and how she made him unhappy. The Duke has met with the emissary to discuss his next marriage. The death of his most recent Duchess was caused by the Duke and his personalities traits. They are the reason for him murdering her because he is a jealous, selfish,…

Sir Robert Peel created the “Nine Principles of Reform” in 1829 the first principle was “The basic mission for which law enforcement agency occurs so that they can avoid wrongdoing and complaints as an alternate suppression of corruption and complaints by soldierly strength and strictness of lawful penalties.” (Peel R. , n.d.) What he was implying was that the police are to prevent crimes and any other disorders The second was “The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent…

Annotated Bibliography Robert Browning wrote "My Last Duchess” to demonstrate oppression, jealousy, and pride that the speaker (duke of Ferrara) presents when he is talking about his last duchess who he murdered because “she smiled too much.” It is assumed that the Duke keeps the painting of his late wife covered by a curtain so only he can reveal her smile which was just supposed to be for him. At the end of the poem the duke mentions a bronze statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse which suggests…