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The paper describes the story in "All my Sons" of a family involved in creating airplane parts for the government during World War II who knowingly sold defective parts, leading to the deaths of 21 pilots. The paper then discusses the many real instances of failed and flawed parts in machinery during World War II. The paper shows how this play centers on the American dream and family, but also points out the negative side of the American dream, such as greed, capitalism, and shoddy workmanship.

From the Paper
"Joe OK's the repair of several cracked cylinder heads for Air Corps planes after his plant foreman, Steve Deever, notifies him of the defect. Several weeks later, 21 planes crash, killing their pilots, and Steve and Joe are arrested and imprisoned. Joe convinces the court that he knew nothing of the crime, and is released, while Steve remains behind bars. Steve's daughter, Ann, was engaged to Larry, but has since fallen in love with Joe's other son, Chris, and they want to marry. Joe's wife, Kate, knows the truth, but has never told anyone, keeping Joe's secret safe. The play establishes all this past history in the first act, and then moves on to the final confrontation between the family that leads to tragic consequences."

Tags:American, dream, weapons, bombers, defects

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The paper discusses how in the novel "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren, Willie Stark is the idealistic innocent who runs for office and is defeated, after which he learns to play the game too well and compromises his ideals in pursuit of power. The paper then points out that it is implied that this is a course taken by many politicians. The paper explains that even after being elected governor, Willie retains sufficient idealism to want to serve the poor by building the hospital he has promised, and he does so always stating that it has to be done without the sort of graft and corruption that marks the rest of his administration, showing a clear knowledge that the methods he uses are suspect at best.

From the Paper
"In the novel "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren, Willie Stark is the idealistic innocent who runs for office and is defeated, after which he learns to play the game too well and compromises his ideals in pursuit of power. It is implied that this is a course taken by many politicians. Even after being elected governor, Willie retains sufficient idealism to want to serve the poor by building the hospital he has promised, and he does so always stating that it has to be done without the sort of graft and corruption that marks the rest of his administration, showing a clear knowledge that the methods he uses are suspect at best. Even with reference to the hospital, though, he uses bullying and blackmail to get..."

Tags:warren, novel, questions

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This paper explains that Arthur Miller, in his tragic play, "All My Sons", symbolizes through the lifestyle of the Keller family and their friends his view of the American Dream. The author points out that the concept of the American Dream is associated with the years following WWII, in which, through the movies such as "Pleasantville", the world created successful children, perfect families, and a happy stay-at-home mother, which, in the end, just as for the characters in this play, was impossible. The paper relates that writer Miller is the character Jim Bayliss, who, even though he has moral values, lives his life in sync with everyone else.

From the Paper
"Once the truth comes out and everyone begins to argue (Miller 58-59), the only way that Joe feels he can free Chris and the others from guilt and pain, so that they can live and continue their attempt to become successful, is to kill himself. Throughout his life, he never learned that true success is measured in who we become rather than what materialistic item we have. If he learned how to love and respect himself and his family, he could have achieved the happiness he never found. His intentions were good, but his dream for the American dream was wrong, and suicide (Miller 69) was his way of fixing the burdens he caused. Joe's longing to become socially accepted eclipsed his ability to distinguish right from wrong, and that is what leads him to his dishonest and selfish choices. Joe Keller believed that he had to sacrifice everything, to give his family the kind of life Americans can only dream."

Tags:materialistic, suicide, burden, morality, status

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This paper examines how in Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" there are multiple factors that play into the constant conflict within the heart and mind of the central character John Grady, as well as many of the other secondary characters involved throughout the novel. It looks at how McCarthy uses the wilderness, and nature itself, as the central battleground within which John Grady is presented the opportunity to adapt and carve out his own "niche." It also discusses how McCarthy's contrasting of the natural world and the civilized world is ever-present throughout the novel.

From the Paper
"McCarthy opens his novel with John Grady thrust into the midst of a life changing scenario. Grady is dealing with the death of his grandfather, something that is unquestionably difficult for any male to deal with. When faced with the death of a grandparent, particularly a grandfather, one has come to a changing point within a family's structure. Now the patriarch that has most likely been a constant for most of the grandchildren's lives, has moved on and left a position needing to be filled. Most view their grandfather as having been more in touch with natural side of life, having probably lived a life of lesser means compared to those who followed. The same seems to hold true with John Grady. "

Tags:John, Grady, wilderness

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In this article, the writer notes that modernist art is characterized by its resistance to the metaphoric; its insistence on chains of association rather than strict metaphors prevents the audience from drawing a clear and precise meaning from the work. The writer points out that Chris Cunningham's "All is Full of Love" video operates on this ambiguous level. A quick run-through of the video seems to offer two paths of interpretation, one of hope and one of pessimism. But one must take both paths and examine the relationship of their ends. The writer maintains that in this way, the video is neither a celebration nor condemnation of modern love, but rather an exploration of what modern love means.

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" The video begins with a tangled mass of wires seen only in flashes. Ascending the wires, the camera stops on an industrial, construction plane outlined in bright black and white. As the music starts, the two machines opposing the lying android move forward like record needles. When the needles finally make contact with the android, it opens its eyes and begins to sing. It's important to note that the beat used in the video is not the original mix from the album, but more mechanical, industrial and driving to match the visuals. Not only is the music industrial, but the video seems to have been directed by a machine. Moving with technical precision, merely observing and not speculating, the entire video presents a mechanical gaze. It's a video for, by, and about electronic beings."

Tags:Bjork, wires, emotion, mechanical

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This paper explains that murder has a profound affect on man as depicted in Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"
when the protagonist Paul Baumer, gradually moving from an idealistic German student to an embittered and realistic young man forced to both see and perpetuate senseless carnage on men, forgets the reason for hating. The author points out that trapped in the mud of the no-man's land, Paul has his illusions shattered fairly quickly, though he still seems to cling to the belief that there can still be gentleness and beauty in the world. The paper relates that, although Paul has been responsible for men's deaths before, he never witnessed the exact moment that they stopped breathing, until he stabbed a Frenchman in a trench; even after the man has finally died, Paul cannot find his way back to total sanity.

From the Paper
"After several months in the war, Paul Baumer goes home. However, he is like the man from the country, who, once accustomed to the noise at night in the city, cannot readjust to the silence of the country. Coming home, he immediately realizes how many things have changed. He has become hardened, his mother is near death, and no one can comprehend what war is truly like. "But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I cannot feel at home amongst these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano-but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us." (139). Paul is unable to resume the life he once led, even for just a few weeks. His father continually asks him questions, "...in a way I find stupid and distressing." (143). Paul is also offended by his old German-master, who patronizingly tells him, "You see only your little sector and so cannot have any general survey." (145). "

Tags:illusions, idealism, killing, sanity, change

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This paper discusses Stephen Kinzer's 2003 book "All The Shah's Men An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror". The author points out that it is an account of the 1953 coup engineered by the CIA that installed the Shah of Iran in power for 25 years until the 1979 revolution.

From the Paper
"This book puts the twenty-first-century condition of the United State sand the Middle East into historical perspective. It helps explain the origin ..."

Tags:Shah, Iran, Mossadegh, CIA, Cold, War, Antony, Eden

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The author writes this essay comparing and contrasting three works, including that of Ronal Moe, around the idea of privatization, or "contracting out." The author also expresses an opinion of the effects of privatizing social services. Although the federal government has given many of their programs to the private sector, history reveals that the idea of privatization has not always been widely accepted. Nevertheless, the "movement" seems to allow the government to cut costs, all the while, weakening their power over these programs. The writers of the three works discussed would debate these issues. Despite the private sector's efficiency, privatizing social services could have a negative effect on disadvantaged clients.

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"There has been continued debate over the issue of the privatization of public administration. Privatization can be generally defined as "any public policy decision that involves a reliance on a private means to achieve a pubic end." In Ronald Moe's "Exploring the Limits of Privatization," he examined the need for mutual coexistence and linkage between the public and private sectors while describing the limitations of privatization from a legal perspective. In "The Privatization of Correctional Facilities," Quinlan, Thomas, and Gautreaux provided an overview of the theory and the history of correctional privatization as an introduction to detailed information for the procurement and contracting process in the area of corrections. Both of these works can be compared to that of the "State and Local Fiscal and Privatization Trends" where Chieppo, Montague, and Savas discussed the experiences of different states and their desire, or lack thereof, to privatize government agencies. These three writings are similar in content; however, there are some portions where the ideas of they contrast."

Tags:chieppo, contracting, moe, montague, privatization, ronald, savas, services, social

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This paper relates Thomas Bell's late nineteenth century portrayal of life in Pittsburgh to the of a melting pot, or gathering of immigrants of all shapes, sizes and cultures into one community. The late 19th century in Pittsburgh, much like anywhere in the U.S. during the time reflected an era of economic and social growth and change. This influx of people from so many different countries, with little skills and high hopes paved the way for low-paying labor. Thomas Bell's "Out of this Furnace" tells the story of three generations of Slovaks that moved to America, and the challenges they faced in the new land.

From the Paper
"Djuro Kracha is a recent immigrant from Hungary in Bell's novel that desires more than anything to leave his native country and restart life in America. America became a melting pot because of immigrants such as Kracha. Many people flooded the U.S. during this time, from Hungary and other Eastern European countries, from Ireland, Mexico and China, all in the hopes of economic opportunity. Ethnically, socially and politically all of the people that came to live here were different. In Bell's novel, Djuro is the first member of his family to come to live in the U.S. Like many immigrants his initial struggles include working in a Steel Mill for terrible wages and long hours."

Tags:immigration, melting, pot, culture, labour, class, society

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The paper provides an outline of a future essay describing the faltering turnout rates in Great Britain in recent election cycles - including a recent EU election. The paper discusses what the apparent causes of all of this are and what the government is doing to combat the problem. Additionally, the paper looks at what is being done in other parts of the UK and if local initiatives should be given a wider application within the House of Commons.

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"Introduction * Voter turnout has been very poor in recent elections - particularly among the young * This paper will examine the recent history of voter turnout in the United Kingdom..."

Tags:voter, turnout, britain