Abstract 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.
From the Paper "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. "
Abstract 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.
Abstract 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.
From the paper:
"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
Abstract 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.
From the Paper "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 ..."
A discussion of how the Chinese Government exercises authority on how its citizens use the internet, simultaneously restricting websites that are considered obscene or offensive to the government.
Abstract 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.
From the Paper "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."
Abstract 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.
Abstract 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.
Abstract 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.
Abstract 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.
From the Paper "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."
Abstract 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.
From the Paper "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."
Abstract This research paper delves into the reasons why Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gathered enough votes to come to power in 1933. The paper shows that, rather than a nation bent on world conquest or racial superiority, the common German was disaffected by long-term economic problems, and the Nazi propaganda machine was capable of convincing them that the it would be able to drag the country back from its doldrums. The paper includes appendices.
From the Paper "From 1930 onward the style of its propaganda in staging political rallies, where Hitler could project his leadership and the faithful could give the impression of being a dynamic movement, far exceeded these of other parties. Nazi propagandists also sought to deify Hitler. They carefully constructed mass rallies with their marches, banners and fags, which, when combined with Hitler's speeches, provided Goebbels with the opportunity to synthesize the twin concepts of Volksgemeinschaft and the "Fuhrer cult" in one political experience. It was here that Goebbels and his propaganda machine were able to bring to life the "Hitler Myth."
Abstract This paper analyzes the Institute for Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) 802.11 standard. The paper explains this standard as a way to connect our computers and other gadgets to each other and to the Internet at very high speed without any cumbersome wiring or a significant price tag. The paper contends that the provision of as much wireless speed as this, at a modest price, promises to have profound implications for a world bent of anytime/anywhere communication. The technology is examined, and the security risks are explored.
Outline
Introduction
The Benefits of WLAN
Review of the Literature
Security Risks Associated with IEEE WLAN 802.11
Current and Future Trends
Bibliography
From the Paper "A relatively new standard introduced by the Institute for Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) known as 802.11b has been gaining a lot of momentum in the marketplace and is about to change the nature of telecommunications (Patrick 2001). With its approval from the Standards Board Review Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in September 2002, a veritable "Wi-Fi" (wireless fidelity) revolution is taking place in portions of the unlicensed spectrum, based on the IEEE 802.11b standard. "Products equipped with 802.11g Wi-Fi capability have been on the market for some time now, but a green light from the IEEE is huge step for 802.11g that could usher in a high-speed wireless networking standard" (Yo! G. September 2003). This new technology is threatening to undermine parts of the business plans of traditional telephone companies; further, such Wi-Fi technology may be an enabler for a future "killer app" (Anderson, Bikson, Hundley & Neu 2003)."
Abstract This paper examines how in Mary Godwin Shelley's 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; after much experimentation, he produces a creature of hideous proportions and intellect bent on nothing but revenge. It looks at how Victor is ideally a thematic character, for he stands as the penultimate explorer of the unknown, a theme which is highly effective and necessary for the overall plot of the novel.
From the Paper "On the morning after creating the monster, Victor goes for a walk, "endeavouring, by bodily exercise, to ease the load that weighed upon my mind." And with his heart palpitating "in the sickness of fear," he is reminded of the great poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge-"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" which relates "Like one who, on a lonely road/Doth walk in fear and dread/And, having once turned round, walks on/And turns no more his head/Because he knows a frightful fiend/Doth close behind him tread" (53). This passage is very powerful in its imagery, for it shows that Victor realizes his failure as an explorer of the unknown, due to creating "a frightful fiend" in the form of the monster."
Abstract This paper explains how Frost uses symbolism, metaphor and imagery in both these poems to address the idea of one's death. Examples from both poems are used in the paper to illustrate Frost's technique.
From the Paper "In "After Apple Picking," Frost's narrator professes to be descending from a hard day picking apples. However, that he speaks more of metaphorical than of literal work is evident in his choice of words, such as referring to his ladder as leading "Toward heaven still..." The mythical impact of his story is heightened by using biblical imagery through-out the poem, both in the reference to the ladder to heaven, and when he speaks of the "the great harvest" (a biblical term for the final judgment). Another such reference is " looking through a pane of glass," which is a direct paraphrase of the Pauline/platonic idea that in life we see through glass dimly, but after death we will see clearly. That he has broken the pane through which he sees the world indicates his death. The Shakespearan reference (from Hamlet) as to what dreams will come to trouble his sleep also indicates that the narrator faces death, which is above all a "long sleep." Yet he does not speak directly of death, but hides its presence within the extended metaphor of retiring from apple-picking."
Abstract While many historians consider the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 the spark that ignited the inferno of World War II, the embers of global conflict had been smoldering unchecked for some time before then. This paper shows that, in many ways, the vindictive and pernicious demands set in place by the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, made a phoenix-like second coming of German forces bent on vindication and conquest almost inevitable. The paper explains that while German angst percolated, half way around the globe similar discord was brewing in the Pacific with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, a blatant violation of previously signed non-aggression treaties by the major Asian countries. The paper shows that these two sparks, ignited by German demoralization and Japanese aggression, separated by thousands of miles, ultimately led to events that would pull England, France, Italy, Russia, Northern Africa, and the United States into a two sided struggle for world domination that would leave its mark on mankind forever.
From the Paper "As the time approached, it would be these military actions that would ultimately force Italy into the world war. Repercussions with the League of Nations from these acts of aggression as well as prior support for Francisco Franco in the Civil War would prevent Mussolini from any hope of alliance with France or Britain. His only hope to maintain his prior victories would be to align with and suborn to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany - an idea he originally disliked due to the German occupation of Austria. In 1940 the die was cast for Italy - at odds with the League of Nations and the rest of Europe, unable to overcome the mighty force of Nazi Germany, and unwilling to submit the spoils from the decade before, Italy had no other options but to prepare for war."
Tags: Adolph, Hitler, League, of, Nations, Mussolini, Nazi
