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This paper discusses the play, 'Bent' and its historical significance. It further discusses elements within the script which evoke emotions and which are controversial in nature, yet necessary in relaying the event of the story. The play serves as an education to the world in the treatment of homosexual men in Nazi Germany during the 1930s, and allows the audience into the suffering of these 100,000 men who have been ignored for decades.

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"The play, Bent, by Martin Sherman, is one which tells a story that has been little known to the world for decades. It depicts the lives of homosexual men who were forced into concentration camps, and who endured lives of fear and suffering by Hitler, and Nazi Germany. As the world recalls the horrors that Hitler inflicted on the Jews, this issue is one that received neither public condemnation, nor acknowledgment until the play was produced. While Bent is an important statement on the historical world of our society, it is also filled with moments that engage the audience in emotions that are universal in their impact. The main character, Max, is a self-centered man who has no respect for himself, nor anyone else in his life. "

Tags:bent, sherman, literature

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Blithedale Romance", is the first person narration of a man bent upon joining a world that has no need of him by imposing an arbitrary order upon his reality. Blithedale, is a novel of polarities. Just as Coverdale imposes order on reality, Zenobia, the feminine voice of creation, understands reality as a fragmented thing that cannot have order forced upon it. We see in the novel oppositions in communities, in social order, and in place. But, Hawthorne also gives us a richly crafted story about what it is that defines community and the common spirit or communal soul. The romance, of this book, is not just that of man and woman, but of the romantic ideals of society and of order. Coverdale, who is the namesake of the primary translator of the King James bible, is a man bent upon making the world be what he wants it to be. Hawthorne's, The Blithedale Romance, provides the reader with a set of beliefs, ideals, and aspirations, that become ideologies that actually mask reality thus pitting the utopian hopes of Blithedale against actual human behaviors - which makes for a difficult conflict at best.

Tags:the, blithedale, romance

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This paper will argue for the representation of the a "frontier" in the early climate of American history. By understanding the notions that America was a society bent on Manifest Destiny, we can see the true nature of America in its earliest stages of growth.

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This paper examines Mary Shelley's Gothic tale "Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus", published in 1818, in which the main character, Victor Frankenstein, a young student steeped in the mysteries of science, describes his explorations into the unknown through his obsession to create life from the dead, which produces a monster of great size and strength bent on nothing but revenge. In particular, it looks at why Shelley included "The Modern Prometheus" as part of her title for the novel and how it is clear that she was attempting to compare Victor Frankenstein with Prometheus, the Greek god, who breathed life into man and brought fire to earth after stealing it from Mount Olympus.

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"Not surprisingly, the future husband of Mary Godwin, being the great English poet and rebel Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote a very long lyrical poem in 1820 (two years after the publication of Frankenstein) called "Prometheus Unbound" which explores Prometheus's relationship with Earth, his mother, Asia, his wife and Jupiter (Zeus), the King of the Gods. In this poem, Prometheus is described as being bound to a rocky cliff by Jupiter for his misdeeds against the gods. And while chained and powerless, Prometheus is tortured by an eagle that eats his liver on a daily basis, but the liver always grows back which allows the cycle to go on for eternity. Perhaps, since Percy Shelley allegedly aided in the writing of Frankenstein, he may have been attempting to allegorize the ever-growing liver as a symbol of the Monster's immortality, meaning that the Monster, like Prometheus's liver, can never die and is eternally damned."

Tags:monster, revenge

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This paper discusses the social aspects of the Great Gatsby by F, Scott Fitzgerald. There is also an analysis of the main character Nick Carraway, as he portrays an American bent on finding the American dream.

Tags:the, great, gatsby

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This paper discusses how, in Mary Godwin Shelley's 1818 Gothic masterpiece, "Frankenstein", the main protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, a young student of the alchemical arts and sciences, takes the reader on an exploration into the unknown, for his primary goal is to create life from the dead. It looks at how, after much experimentation, he produces a creature of hideous proportions and intellect, bent on nothing but revenge. It also shows how, likewise, Professor Hardwigg, the main protagonist in Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth", published in 1864, leads the reader on another "journey" into the unknown, only this time into the bowels of the earth, where Hardwigg and his companions discover another world, much like Victor Frankenstein with his experiments concerning the mysteries of life and death.

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"The beginning of Frankenstein opens the proverbial door to the strange and horrifying tale related by Victor Frankenstein to Captain Walton, an English explorer surveying the polar regions of the far north. One day, as the ship's company is looking out over the empty ice fields, they are astonished to see a sledge drawn by dogs speeding northward with the sledge driver huge and misshapen. That night, an ice floe carries another sledge with a weakened man to the ship, and once the man (Victor Frankenstein) discovers that the first sledge has been sighted, he turns quite agitated. As Victor convalesces on the ship, he becomes friendly with Walton and after recovering his strength, relates the tale of the creature that he created artificially from the dead."

Tags:victor, walton, hardwigg, monster

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This paper examines how China would like to embrace the internet for the prosperity of its country while keeping their citizens safe from illegal material that could demoralize the society. It looks at how Chinese leaders are trying to make constructive usage of the Internet because they realize the profit wired economy can bring to their country and how they also feel that political discussions should not be openly accessible by their citizens or other countries since it can bring harm to the well being of their law and order situation. It looks at how the internet in China has been predominantly controlled by the authoritarian regimes and how officiating bodies are bent on filtering material and also have the users register online.

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"In China Playboy, CNN, BBC all have one thing in common, they have been blocked by the local ISPs. Even search engines like Google and AltaVista have become restricted sites. The Chinese government has blocked these sites because it finds them rebellious to their regime. The search engines have been blocked so that the citizens cannot access material that is anti-government and may threaten the ruling Communist Party. The Chinese government's does not approve of Google because it has the ability to allow the users to see cached websites. This ability allows the users to see archived sites that may have been deleted or blocked. However, Chinese people have their own way to get around this, they use Elgoog that is a site similar to Google and are not filtered. This site is written backward that is why it requires a mirror to be read. People can access Google by typing search queries backward in this site. The governments stand on blocking Alta Vista and Google have led the people to use domestic search engines that are approved by the communist government."

Tags:authoritarian, regimes, economy, society

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This paper is an analysis of Operation Market which was the plan for the First Allied Airborne Army to capture and hold the crossings over the canals and rivers from Eindhoven to Arnhem inclusive, laying what was referred to as ?a carpet of airborne troops? along the 2nd Army?s main axis of advance. It details the problems that the Operation faced, why they occured, and how these failures led to the ultimate failure of the operation.

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"However, if blame must be assigned, and in historical analysis, it usually must, then ?responsibility for Market Garden?s failure can be given to planners at strategic and operational levels who seemed hell-bent on carrying out the operation?. They accepted extra risks without modification of the plan and forced the British First Airborne Division to accept too many of the risks. Despite having the hardest task, they were assigned lowest priority in the transport allocations."

Tags:airborne, arnhem, bridge, far, garden, ii, market, paratroop, too, war, world

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The swastika is an equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles, all in the same rotary direction, usually clockwise. The swastika as an ancient symbol of prosperity and good fortune, and it was widely distributed throughout the ancient and modern world.

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"INTRODUCTION
The swastika is an equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles, all in the same rotary direction, usually clockwise. The swastika as an ancient symbol of prosperity and good fortune, and it was widely distributed throughout the ancient and modern world. The word for this symbol is derived from the Sanskrit svastika, which means "conducive to well being." The swastika was a favorite symbol on ancient Mesopotamian coinage. In Scandinavia, the left hand swastika was the sign for the god Thor's hammer. The swastika also appeared in early Christian and Byzantine art and was known as the gammadion cross, or crux gammata, because it could be constructed from four Greek gammas attached to a common base. The symbol can also be found in South and Central America, among the Maya, and in North ..."

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John Cheever's work is peppered with themes of alienation from the self and from society. Cash Bentley, the protagonist in Cheever's short story "O Youth and Beauty", is a middle-aged executive who is bent on recapturing his collegiate youth and vigor and accompanying prowess, by hurdling the furniture in his living room. In the act of leaping, Bentley is transported back in time, in his head only. In fact, as he is leaping, Bentley falls and breaks his leg. But, that symbolic injury does not stop him. Instead, he continues to engage in his fantasy, desperately trying to be young and beautiful again and finds his end, tragically and ironically, as his wife accidentally shoots and kills him with a starter pistol. This story, like many of Cheever's other works such as "The Swimmer", runs on the theme of a fear of getting old. The characters in these stories grew up and developed their sense of professionalism in the atomic age when men could not be anything but masters of the world. Cash Bentley is a man detached from his age and from himself.