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illustrates this theme. Written during the McCarthey trials of the 1950's it is an allegory to the Salem Witch Trials. This work illustrates the idea that it is nobler to die with integrity then live with compromised principles. Giles Corey makes the ultimate sacrifice for his children. Mary Warren succumbs to…

McDonaldization Christopher Rivers DeVry University McDonaldization Let’s take a few seconds to think about how McDonaldization has made your life better. For example; online shopping, self-checkout, online education, communication, and even the way we travel. Even though McDonaldization costs thousands of people their jobs, McDonaldization helps businesses thrive because it’s far less expensive, with more control means there’s fewer human errors, and more is done in lesser time…

come to the realization God owns everything and everything belong to God. Once this is realized the reader can see God in all things. In this process of prayer and meditation Millay accepted that this is the only way of getting certain answers to ultimate questions is to receive knowledge coming down from the supreme intelligence, God. People experience the trials and tribulations of life. In life, you go through your difficulties. The author describes her feeling and emotions at the time of…

Every single person in this room has embarked on a journey, whether it be a journey to senior schooling, or even a journey to self-discovery; everyone has at least once experienced the impacts journeys may potentially offer. In William Shakespeare’s marvel, King Lear, and Hai-Van Nguyen’s, Journey to Freedom, the impacts journeys can have on a traveller, are made apparent through tone, imagery, cumulative listing, irony and also motifs. King Lear is one…

necessity of love. Those who conduct themselves as if love is not needed are viewed as leading fruitless and barren existences. There is a disdain towards those we perceive as unwilling to bear weakness for something other than oneself. Love is the ultimate culmination of selfishness and selflessness. We are perusing the ease of a mortal wound that, if not appeased, will either be the carried with us to our end or will be the very cause of our end. At the same time, personal well being falls in…

In the Odyssey, Homer uses many different hosts to tell the reader what traits a good host must possess. Homer shows several types of hosts throughout the book: hosts who want to eat their guests, hosts who want their guests to eat, hosts who want to talk to their guest, and hosts who want their guest to talk. Most of the hosts seen in this book show themselves to be cruel or bad hosts, by either killing their guests or keeping them against their will. Only a select few show themselves as truly…

What would lead someone to willingly change their gender just to be accepted? What kind of world do we live in that the discrimination of women leads them to desperately look for ways to assert themselves into this broken society? The movie Mulan is a great picture of how gender issues get in the way of letting people break away from the mold and become the person that they were meant to be. The movie, Mulan, brings up gender stereotypes, identity through gender, and gender inequality. Mulan is…

The feature film called, Network (1976), directed by Sidney Lumet is the story of a fictional television news host called Howard Beale. The film is pure satire and it portrays how much of an impact the media has, especially television. Howard Beale was a news anchorman on UBS for a long time and was fired that would be effective in two weeks. He announced on live television he would be retiring from the show because of poor ratings and was going to kill himself on live television a week from…

More specifically, throughout the Odyssey, the ultimate goal is to make it back to Odysseus’s home, in Ithaca. The reason for Odysseus’s aspiration to go home is to rejoin his family which he has longed for twenty years. Odysseus’s feelings may be inferred at the moment he meets his son, Telemachus, as shown in the text, “Held back too long, the tears ran down his cheeks as he embraced his son...Then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father, Telemachus began to weep. Salt tears rose…

love for Lucie inspires him to make the ultimate sacrifice, showing his true heroic nature. 2. Carton becomes a selfless martyr whose death allows Lucie to be happy. 3. In addition to securing Lucie’s happiness, this action is also Carton’s final and last attempt to learn to love him. 4. Through this act, he finds meaning in his own life, transforming him from the once self-pitying alcoholic to someone who is remembered and admired. 5. Carton seems to marvel in his own bravery, admiring his…