Abstract This paper looks at the reports of women faking orgasms throughout history and their reasons for doing so. It examines an article by Laura Lewis, ?Why Women Fake Orgasm,? and then presents an argument against faking orgasms - from a feminist perspective and from an equal relationship perspective. The writer concludes that the worst result could be that a woman will feel obligated to continue doing so in the future, indefinitely perhaps, and never achieve the intimacy and joy that results from climaxing with their partner. Includes an outline.
From the Paper "Why would any person, male or female, fake an orgasm? Throughout history, women have reported faking orgasms much more frequently than men. The reasons are varied, and include the desire to please their mate, self-consciousness at actually achieving orgasm, and the lack of knowledge related to how their "plumbing" works. Most individuals have likely "faked" an orgasm at least once in their life. There will always come a time when one just wants to get the process over with, please their partner, and catch a few zzz?s. However, the reality is this: Orgasms are wonderful. Yet for many inexplicable reasons, thousand upon thousands of women fake orgasms on a frequent basis. They do not fake orgasms on occasion only, but rather fake the majority of time rather than the minority."
Abstract This paper explains that the Ghost's Walk, which is a symbol for Lady Dedlock's secret past, is one of the most haunting images in Charles Dickens' "Bleak House". Specifically, the paper relates the ways that Dickens uses this literary device to create an overall tension, to foreshadow connections between characters and to symbolize Lady Dedlock's guilty conscience. The Ghost's Walk is particularly significant to the book as a whole, the paper relates, because it brings the novel to its main climax.
From the Paper "Esther's fascination with the Ghost's Walk is fitting, since she is personally a key to the fulfillment of its prophecy. How appropriate, even ironic, that just as Esther is wondering about the family curse, Lady Dedlock arrives to make her aware of her own part in it. This connection becomes blatant and fever-pitched when Esther later decides to explore the Ghost's Walk. "I was passing quickly on...when my echoing footsteps brought it suddenly into my mind that there was a dreadful truth in the legend of the Ghost's Walk; that it was I, who was to bring calamity upon the stately house.""
Abstract This paper discusses the historical context which determined the Cuban missile crisis. It discusses the actual development of events, the climax and the resolution of the situation. The paper also underlines, when possible, specific issues and their contribution to the diffusion of tension between the American political parties. Finally, the last part of the paper presents the importance of the crisis in the Cold War environment.
Table of Contents:
Historical Context
Development of Events
Climax Resolution of the Crisis
Importance
From the Paper "The importance of the crisis has a series of different perspectives. On the one hand, it represented a test for the stability of the bipolar system. The fact that the two most important states in the world, having nuclear potential, managed to reach a non violent resolution of the crisis proved the stability of the system and the fact that, indeed, from the perspective of international relations theory, a bipolar system is the least vulnerable. (Nye, 2005) On the other, the event proved to be defining for reorienting the course of foreign policy during the Cold War. After the crisis, the Hot Line was established between the White House and Kremlin, to enable direct and unhindered communication between the two leaders of the world. Therefore, a certain awareness of the danger the world faced in 1962 led the political leaders to reconsider their intransigent position and be more open to cooperation in terms of international treaties and political talks. However, the changing of the leadership in Washington and the War in Vietnam slowed down the road to cooperation."
Abstract This paper discusses the plot, climax, resolution and theme of Caroline B. Cooney's work "The Face on the Milk Carton", a book about a teenage girl that sees her face on the back of a milk carton. The review breaks down the story by it's main problem, the rising action, the climax, and resolution.
From the Paper "The problem begins one day while Janie is eating lunch in the school cafeteria with her friends. Although she is allergic to milk, she take a small drink of her friend's milk and when she looks down at the milk carton, she recognizes the face of the young girl to be a picture of her taken when she was three years old. It has been fifteen years since the picture was taken, but Janie wanders if she had been kidnapped from a mall parking lot when she was just three years old. She wanders if her parents, who are kind, loving and very nurturing really are her birth parents. She is afraid to ask them questions, so she has her boyfriend help her investigate the truth. She has a lot of problems trusting her friends with what she has discovered because she feels that they will not listen to her or not believe her. The main problem in the story is that Janie does not know who she really is."
Tags: girls, teenagers, kidnapping, parenthood, conflict, resolution, literature
Abstract This paper looks at the way "Raisin in the Sun" develops, so that the focus is shifted throughout the play. The three acts are explored as follows: The first act's function in the play is to introduce the character's internal and external conflicts and make the reader guess what kind of solvency will come from the new money, act two's purpose is to give the audience a false sense of security which ultimately leads to the climax of the play and in act three, all of the issues in act one resurface.
From the Paper "The first act of Hansberry's play is used to introduce the problems that the family is facing while showing that there is an end to these problems in sight. The money problems that the Younger family faces are shown through various ways in the beginning of act one. The first act's function in the play is to introduce the character's internal and external conflicts and make the reader guess what kind of solvency will come from the new money. The very beginning of the play familiarizes the audience with the Younger family's lack of resources. Several families share one bathroom on the floor of the apartments that they live on and Travis is made to sleep in the living room, because of the shortage of bedrooms in the apartment. By showing that the characters face these money problems, the audience is able to appreciate the situation that the family is in."
Abstract This essay examines historical fiction as seen in the famous Hollywoood movie Quo Vadis. The successes and failures of the film in accurately portraying Roman history and the struggle between early Christianity and Roman society are analyzed. Through a look at real historical sources, we can see that for the most part the film is an entertaining but flawed example of the retelling of a historical event and the personalities of that time. For example, the film leads viewers to believe that this period of history was the climax of the conflict between imperial Rome and early Christianity, but in fact Nero was no worse for the Christians than many other emperors before and after his reign.
From the Paper "The characters of Marcus Vinicius and Lygia in the film are symbolic of the rift between imperial Rome and the early Christians, however, they are fictional characters and did not exist in ancient Rome. Galba was in fact the real leader who replaced Nero (he does in the film as well), but he was a seventy-year old man who only ruled for about six months before he was executed by rivals in the forum and replaced by Otho."
Abstract This paper gives a complete overview of the factors which led to the abolishment of slavery, including a comparison of attitudes between the North and the South and how this affected the process of change - with the ultimate change being voting rights for all.
From the paper:
"While the growing unrest in this country that lead eventually to the Civil War included a number of conflicts and demands from various areas across the United States, the majority of the unrest was focused upon one central issue: Slavery. People living in the North and the West were seeking free farms for settlers, federal aid for roads and other improvements, along with protective industrial tariffs. They were also embracing a growing political opinion that America's Founding Fathers were opposed to slavery."
Tags: civil, war, american, vote, Lincoln, Jefferson, rights, freedom, race, liberty
Abstract This paper discusses the history of terrorism and how it climaxed into the largest domestic terrorism act on September 11th in the United States. It focuses on the emergency services responses in New York City to this terror attack and explains how for many years these services have been preparing for such an attack.
From the paper:
"Three months America was introduced to terrorism on a level that it had never before experienced when two planes were crashed into the World Trade Center Towers in New York, causing them to collapse even as another plane plunged into the Pentagon and another, perhaps on its way to a Washington D.C. target crashed in a field in Philadelphia.
But while the plane crashes and the destruction that followed them were terrible, they could have ? and would have ? been much worse had not the cities and states involved worked closely with the federal government to contain the damage and limit the injuries and death."
Abstract This paper explains how the Information Highway will affect the society in a manner that cannot yet be imagined and instead of a means of uniting the world the author feels that the technological revolution is creating a divide within society furthering social stratification and changing the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.
From the paper:
"As the communications revolution reaches its climax the society is increasingly becoming virtual. Millions of Internet users are logging one every day and interacting with each other over the Internet. Where once socialization was limited within borders today, the society is increasingly becoming borderless as the Internet creates a global world. Chat systems like MSN and AOL Messenger, ICQ and MIRC have captured the people's imagination and no longer is there a need to have personal face-to-face meetings. The interactive software's allow a user to have web conferences, meetings and chat with more than one person at a time. Society is becoming impersonal as concepts like 'cyber love' and 'cyber world' emerge. "
Abstract This term paper examines the character of Hamlet in which we see a very human character, one whose destiny in part condemns a man whose is also condemned by his own actions. This essay discusses Hamlet's habitual indecisiveness which leads to a climax in which there is in fact no clear resolution to the play's action.
From the Paper "We are accustomed to thinking of Hamlet as the hero of the play that bears his name ? the avenger of his father, the man who returns a sense of justice and order to the land of Denmark. And yet a closer reading of the play suggests that while Hamlet is in some sense a hero, he is also quite clearly culpable for the terrible events that occur. And yet rather than make him less compelling as a character, his essential flaws make him more interesting. His own indecisiveness and unwillingness to act in the end cause a great deal of harm in the world. His role as a prince is to serve as the protector of his people, as a dam against the threat of evil. This passivity of his is certainly not as morally wrong as is the active evil involved in the murder of his father. But neither is it heroism, constituting no outstanding feat of virtue. "
Abstract Produced in 1962, "To Kill a Mockingbird" emerged on the big screen years before the climax of the civil rights movements, marches and before Dr. King's assassination. The United States, especially the South, still saw segregation in full force. The paper shows how Harper Lee's novel was a stunning statement in print and it awakened in its readers awareness not only of racism but of the persecution of any type of outcast. The paper analyzes the film against the backdrop of America's racism towards African-Americans and examines how the issues put forth in the novel are still relevant in American society today.
From the Paper "To Kill a Mockingbird may contain dated dialogue, but the screenplay adaptation of Harper Lee's novel ages well. Forty years after the film was produced, its messages still need to be heard. Blacks still struggle against racial injustice and receive the blunt end of the stick in modern politics just as they did in the 1960s. Although conditions have immensely improved and segregation is but a scar on America's social history, racism and injustice is alive and well. Rodney King is a simple reminder that all men are not treated equal. Death row is still predominantly black. People, whatever their race, who are perceived as strange, different, odd, or other, are still persecuted in 2002. Even though it is rare nowadays for a white lawyer to receive death threats just for defending a black man, it is still a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Abstract Analysis of Herman Melville's story. Basix in a true story. Difficulties critics faced with the story based on Melville's narrative choices. Theme of innocence and eveil, and spiritual suffering. Role of Captain Delano as central character of the story. Mystery of character of Don Benito. Unfolding of events. Climax. Use of symbols.
From the Paper "In the story "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville, the author tells a story that had been told before, a true story reported in a book by the real Amasa Delano. The story is interesting for the way the author shapes it so that the reader is led to see the story in one way until a single moment causes a reversal so that everything is seem to be the opposite of what it has seemed until then. Critics have had some difficulty with this story because of this way of telling:
If we take Melville's rendering of it as a fable--of innocence and evil, or of spiritual obtuseness and spiritual suffering--we might indeed have to say that the narrative is awkward and negligent in composition, an that it really does not make its point (Berthoff 151)."
Abstract This paper is on a short story "The Lady with the Pet Dog" written by Anton Chekhov, translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1947). It includes the identification and demonstration, and how the plot's inciting moment and the plot's major crisis and climax and the plot's denouncement are well connected in the same movement of conflict development and resolution. It also includes the description of Freytag's Pyramid.
Abstract This paper will discuss the how Emma, in the same titled book by Jane Austen, after being immature in her ways of arranging love with others and misjudging her own lovers, find outs the "simple and natural" way of mature love. The focus of the paper will be on the end of the book and the climax that reveals Emma's maturity after the many problems she faces within the story.
Abstract This paper examines how Act 3 Scene 1 is a key scene in William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet". It discusses how it represents the climax of a love story and the beginning of a tragedy and how the scene shows the consequences of hatred or feud and what can happen if things go too far. It also looks at the dramatic effectiveness this scene has on the audience, both contemporary and in Shakespeare's time.
From the Paper "Act 3 scene 1 has a lot of contrast because of its variety of language and style. For instance, it changes from blank verse, to prose to blank and rhyming verse. It's language and style changes to indicate the mood of the scene as well as it's development. In Act 2 scene 6 and Act 3 scene 2 Shakespeare uses blank verses to draw attention to a change in a speaker's mindset, to move from serious to lighter subject matter or vice versa, to emphasize the differences between social classes but in Act 3 scene 1 it is important that Shakespeare uses less verse because this an active scene. Prose is used a lot in this scene. In fact almost half the scene uses prose and this is appropriate because in Act 3 scene 1 there are a lot of speeches in which the characters speak about their state of mind and prose signal insanity."
