Abstract
The paper describes how Jackie Chan's "Drunken Master" (1978) was immediately successful in HK and later abroad, and explains that his combined martial arts with slapstick comedy as well as a likeable public peronality appeal to both youths and adults. The paper relates that Chan's reference to Bruce Lee films is plain, only he created his own form atop established patterns of Good versus Bad characters.

From the Paper
"This film masterpiece was the first to show Jackie Chan's eventual trademark of extremely high level martial arts combined with slapstick comedy. When released in Hong Kong in late 1978, Drunken Master was an immediate hit that brought in HK$8 million on its first run. David Desser has written on the Kung Fu craze in North America commencing in 1996 with Chan's Rumble in the Bronx as drew the interest of audiences able to remember Bruce Lee films. (2000 19) Actually, Americans had earlier taken to Bruce Lee films and then Chan's early films, due to a complex time in..."

Tags:chan, drunken master, hk kung fu

Abstract
An examination of works from both authors which closely examine American realities through characters that pursue wealth, drunkenness and sex with the hope that they will provide at least the possibility of some sort of meaning.

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""The Great Gatsby" and "The Sun Also Rises" by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wealth, Drunkenness and Sex

Like other writers of the 1920's, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were fascinated by what had become of the American Dream. The impact of World War I on both Fitzgerald and Hemingway and on their generation was tremendous. Indeed, many writers in the postwar period took on the unpleasant task of exposing the degradation of the American Dream; of covering the grossest aspects of selfishness, hypocrisy and moral vacuum. Fitzgerald and Hemingway's characters are a careless, aimless, pleasure-seeking crowd which is clearly emblematic of a generation of lost souls. Before Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, opens, he quotes Gertrude Stein who names the generation that came of age during the First World War as the "lost generation." Indeed, the pre-war values of love, faith, manhood and womanhood, which previously gave meaning to life, fail to offer an adequate answer to Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's characters who try to produce meaning in a world seemingly lost to rampant, amoral consumerism and loveless-ness. Both authors closely examine American realities through characters that wander through endless experiences of wealth, drunkenness and sex with the hope that they will provide at least the possibility of some sort of dependable meaning. "

Tags:daisy, east, ernest, hemingway, jake, tom, west

Abstract
This paper analyzes the evil component in the personalities of Captain Ahab from "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, Roger Chillingworth from "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Pap Finn from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. The author believes that Captain Ahab is one of the most evil characters in fiction because Ahab's evil is all encompassing because he is so obsessed with finding and killing the whale that took his leg. The paper concludes that Hawthorne and Melville's views were concerned with the danger of carrying revenge too far; while Twain was concerned with illustrating the evils of petty larceny and drunkenness, but with a tongue planted firmly in his cheek.

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"Unlike the other characters, Pap's evil is self-directed, and only really takes in Huck when he beats him and gets drunk around him. Pap does not influence others the way Chillingworth and Ahab do, and his evil is not based in vengeance or hatred. Pap is pitiable and comical because of Huck's amusing descriptions, while the other characters are anything but pitiable. Thus, Pap is the least evil of all three characters, and he is more sympathetic than the others are, because his evil is based on a disease of the body, rather than a disease of the soul. Alcoholism is not funny, but Pap is about as funny as a child beater can get, while there is nothing funny about Ahab and Chillingworth, who are far too serious about their goals of revenge and hatred."

Tags:comedy, revenge, ahab, obsessed, drunkenness

Abstract
This paper discusses the changes that have taken place over time regarding alcohol, its consumption and alcoholism. The paper looks at beliefs about alcohol in colonial America, discusses how the rise in drinking and drunkenness started to cause concern and describes attempts made to decrease heavy drinking and drunkenness and encourage more of a moderate form of drinking. The paper also explores how negative attitudes regarding alcohol abuse began to change and how the body is affected when alcohol is consumed. In addition, the paper explains why alcohol is considered to be a depressant and looks at studies on alcoholism.

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"The belief that wine was a gift from God was carried to colonial America, thus, alcohol use was accepted and often encouraged during this time. On the other hand, drunkenness was viewed very negatively. As the production of alcoholic beverages increased in colonial America, so did the rate of drunkenness. In fact, the Virginia colony even tried to outlaw it. Although their attempt failed, this showed society's attitude to the abuse and over- consumption of alcohol. As the production of alcohol increased, so did public drinking facilities, such as taverns. For this reason colonies increased their attempt to outlaw drunkenness. Like the Virginia colony these attempts failed. After the American Revolution, alcohol consumption changed from drinking during public celebrations and socialization to solely drinking in taverns. As alcohol increased in production, prices fell and it began to be widely available to the middle and lower classes. "

Tags:abuse, wine, addiction

Abstract
In this article the writer analyzes the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams and notes that bathing and drunkenness are two common threads exposing sexual tension in the play. The writer points out that even the title of the play suggests the sexual tension between the characters. Further, the writer looks at the connections between desire and death as portrayed in the play. The writer maintains that it is as if Williams is telling us that from too much desire only death can come. The writer notes that Stanley, the most dead of all three characters becomes numb to his reactive behavior. The writer concludes that Stanley is trapped in his uncontrollable animalistic sexual desire destined to live like an animal surviving purely by instinct.

From the Paper
"Stanley is a man's man--full of animal instinct and desire. He cannot control himself in any regard. Stanley cannot control his temper so he beats his pregnant wife. He can't sequester his passion for Blanche so he rapes her. He can't bare losing Stella so he screams for her at the top of his lungs proclaiming his need and love for her. Stanley is all about sexual desire--it rules and runs his life.
"Drunkenness and bathing are the soothsayers for Blanche and Stanley when their desires become overwhelming. Blanche uses a bath to soothe her nerves and to try and wash away her sexually promiscuous path."

Tags:promiscuity, relationship, passion, destruction

Abstract
The paper examines an article by William C. Kerr, Thomas K. Greenfield and Lorraine T. Midanik (2006) that looks at the trends and predictors for subjective drunkenness. The paper answers the following questions: What were the researchers looking for? What is their main question? Where was the research conducted? What tests/procedures were used? Who were the participants (and what were their characteristics)? What did the researchers find out? What do those findings mean and how will they impact your life? What are the limitations of the research? The paper asserts that the article is an intriguing one insofar as it shows that our understanding of what it means to be "drunk" has become much more modest in recent years - revealing how our society has become older, better-educated, and more sensitive to the dangers of heavy drinking.

From the Paper
"The following paper will look at an article by William C. Kerr, Thomas K. Greenfield and Lorraine T. Midanik (2006) that looks at the trends and predictors for subjective drunkenness. The paper will answer the following questions: What were the researchers looking for? What is their main question? Where was the research conducted? What tests/procedures were used? Who were the participants (and what were their characteristics)? What did the researchers find out? What do those findings mean and how will they impact your life? What are the limitations of the research?"

Tags:psychology, drinking, review

Abstract
This paper examines how Tennessee Williams uses three elements - themes, motifs and symbols - to transform "A Streetcar Named Desire" into a literary classic.

Paper Outline:
Introduction
Themes
Fantasy vs. Reality
Sex and Death
Men
Motifs
Light
Bathing
Drunkenness
Symbols
Shadows and Cries
The Varsourviana Polka
"It's Only a Paper Moon"
Conclusion

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""It's Only a Paper Moon" is a popular ballad Blanche sings while she bathes. The song's lyrics describe the way love turns the world into a fictitious fantasy. The speaker in the song says that if both lovers believe in their imagined reality, then it's no longer "make-believe" (Falk 2). These lyrics summarize Blanche's approach to life. She believes that her lying is her only means of enjoying a better way of life and is harmless. She comments, "I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth" (Williams 2029). "

Tags:Blanche, Stella, Kowalski, Mitch

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The paper begins with a general overview of the meaning of religion in Michelangelo's art and then moves its focus to the panel of the Drunkenness of Noah. It explains the basic story that this piece hopes to capture and compares how this Biblical story differs in a way to what is portrayed in the picture.

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"Michelangelo's frescoes for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are regarded by nearly all art historians as being amongst the most significant and most lovely -- of all works of art created in the West since the beginning of the Christian era. It is no doubt because of their artistic importance that it is easy to overlook their religious significance, for while the religions stories that Michelangelo gave vision to are well known and in no way original to the artist, the images were overwhelmingly original. We cannot fail to be impressed by their beauty when we look at them and so we may forget to see what is actually contained in them."

Tags:Noah, flood, Seth, Ham, Japeth, Genesis, Italy, art

Abstract
This paper explains that the marriage relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth is ironically close, given their overwhelming personal ambitions. The author feels that their relationship disintegrates not because they lack love or respect for one another, but because they succumb, by the end of the play, to guilt and other personal psychological demons. The author relates that the porter's joking about his drunkenness is an analogy for Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's being drunk on power, as well as the clouding of their moral judgment.

From the Paper
"Macbeth's soliloquy at the time of his wife's passing is as full of sorrow as Macduff's, but Macbeth also lapses into self-absorption and bravado. At first, he mourns his loss, saying "She should have died hereafter," (V, v, 19). Macbeth then begins the "Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy, which reeks of hopelessness, despair, and nihilism. He feels that life is meaningless, and in so doing may be attempting to extricate himself from his own guilt. Lady Macbeth committed suicide because of her immense psychological trauma. Her husband transforms his guilt into self-righteousness and even after Lady Macbeth's suicide he still feels invincible because of the witches' prophesy. Whereas Macduff incorporated his loss and pain into a healthy psychological makeup, Macbeth transforms his grief into denial."

Tags:macduff, soliloquy, porter, guilt, demons

Abstract
This paper explains that the problem of discretionary police judgment, in some cases, clearly leads to abuses of police power, even among police who are academically educated and have attended structured training in discretionary decision-making. The author points out that any time a police department uses racial profiling as part of a process to decide whom to stop, that practice requires judgment and discretion on the part of the officers. The paper reveals that police officers routinely choose whom to stop for traffic violations and how to deal with them once they have been stopped because they do not have time to stop everyone who commits a traffic violation; but the departments should have clear priorities about traffic violations, so that officers can be free to deal with more serious issues, such as reckless driving and incidents of road rage.

Table of Contents
Public Substance Abuse
Different Neighborhoods Handled Differently
Racial Profiling
Traffic Violations
Public Soliciting
Public Drunkenness
Domestic Abuse
Public Disturbances
Police Chases

From the Paper
"When William Bratton, former New York City Police Commissioner, was interviewed, he argued that different neighborhoods might want laws enforced differently. He argued that this was the basis for "community policing." He said that different communities want different kinds of crime made a priority. He used Harlem as an example, and said that in 1994 and 1995 they had to deal with drug dealing, prostitution, gaming, and other public crimes. He also said that after public street problems were under control the police were under pressure to make more arrests, which to Bratton didn't make sense (Newfield & Jacobson, 2000). However, it's hard to imagine any neighborhood that would be willing to have those crimes, when taking place in full view of the public, ignored. If the police target drug dealing say, in Harlem, more than, say, the Upper East Side, charges of racism would inevitably follow. While there may be a place for police discretion, it should not be up to the police officer on the street to decide which public crimes get ignored and which get dealt with."

Tags:drill, abuse, education, profiling, priority