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Escaping from Sobibor, 2006.
A description of the Sobibor Nazi death camp and a point by point explanation of the escaping procedure that took place in 1943.
1,687 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper looks at the conditions in the Sobibor death camp which was part of the Nazi death machine. It discusses how the conditions might have assisted in the successful escape attempt which occurred in the summer of 1943. An description in the from of a timeline account of the event is included.
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"The Sobibor death camp was one of the Nazis' best kept secrets. When Toivi Blatt, one of the very few survivors of the camp, approached a "well-known survivor of Auschitz," with a manuscript he had written about his experiences, he was told, "You have a tremendous imagination. I've never heard of Sobibor and especially not of Jews revolting there." The secrecy of the Sobibor death camp was too successful, its victims and survivors were being disbelieved and forgotten.
The Sobibor death camp did exist and a revolt by the Jewish workers did occur. Within this death camp, in operation for only eighteen months, at least 250,000 men, women, and children were murdered. Only 48 Sobibor prisoners survived the war."
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Escaping Traumas, 2005.
Examines the theme of escaping past traumas in the novels, "Ceremony" (Leslie M. Silko) and "Beloved" (Toni Morrison).
2,235 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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In the novels "Ceremony" by Leslie M. Silko and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, a variety of ways for dealing with past trauma are examined within the framework of narratives that switch from one story to another and one time frame to another. The paper compares and contrasts the two novels and shows how their protagonists deal with the past.
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"Both novels tell of people who are haunted by their pasts, afraid to face the experiences that have brought them into destructive behavior. In both, the characters who face the past and tell about their ordeals find peace and live a life of contentment. Those who do not, never find peace and they die or go insane. Tayo's friends never face up to the past, and they continue to get drunk and use alcohol as an escape mechanism. In the end they die in a car crash that is described in terms of their shared past..."
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Twelve-Step Program to Escaping Dante?s Hell, 2002.
A comparison of the hell described in Dante's "The Inferno" to the twelve-step program required by an alcoholic to pass by AA.
3,585 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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Dante?s "The Inferno" paints an incredibly vivid picture of what Hell is like. The journey Dante undertakes in order to progress pass his ?lost? stage and escape Hell can be likened to the 12-Step Program a recovering alcoholic must complete in order to finally escape from the clutches of drinking to excess. This paper explores Dante?s journey through the perspective of this 12-Step Program. By going through each step, one can witness the introspective and emotional self-examination Dante goes through, with a little help from his support group, in order to get out of Hell.
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"The first step that every recovering alcoholic must take involves the process of admitting his or her problem. Alcoholics must acknowledge that they are helpless when battling their addiction and they must admit that this addiction to drink has wreaked havoc on their lives to the point where they have lost control (Alcoholic Anonymous, 1955, 59). Dante?s predicament is no different to that of an alcoholic struggling to regain control over his or her life. At the beginning of the poem, Dante is portrayed as having gotten lost on the path of life and trying to get back on the right path. Using imagery, Dante recalls that ?in the middle of his life, he [finds] himself lost in a dark forest, having lost the right path while half asleep.? "
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Escaping Gender Classifications in Augustine?s "Confessions", 2003.
An evaluation of the ways in which St. Augustine's mother challenges standard conceptions of women.
1,742 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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In St. Augustine?s fourth century text, "Confessions", his mother, Monica?s devoted and exemplary relationships with the men in her life ironically deny her the status of a respected individual in society. This essay uses Monica to analyze the role of the early Christian woman in her society. Additionally, it uses the works of feminist anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner to provide a framework for the analysis. Specific examples from Augustine's "Confessions" are also used.
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"Additionally, Ortner believes that women?s inferiority is partially due to their association with domestic tasks such as raising children, beings far removed from culture (77-8). Augustine has very little interaction with his father, especially in regards to the cultural construct of Christianity. His religious devotion is the realm of his mother, giving her significant influence over his future societal relations. This close interaction, following Ortner?s theory, degrades Monica despite its cultural nature. Thus, ironically, Monica?s relationship with Augustine devalues her in the eyes of men, an opinion that Augustine also adopts. Meanwhile, her efforts in raising him to become a Christian, a cultural classification, are overlooked."
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Escapism, 2007.
An exploration of the different facets of escapism.
1,463 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper examines the concept of escapism from a positive outlook. It considers how humans use escapism for creativity and to evolve to higher levels. Escapism is discussed from the perspective of both the individual and society. The paper concludes by citing change as the result of escapism, which is a natural occurrence in a fluid and dynamic world.
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"In the same way, we can say that our participation in the culture of capitalism, an economic system based on increase, necessitated the "escape" from haphazard factory environments to more organized, efficient, well-lit environments, where company employees could be more productive, thus creating increased profits for the corporation. The cubicle farm was clearly once the romantic daydream of an inspired capitalist. Fu Tuan said that, "Seeing what is not there lies at the foundation of all human culture" (Tuan 548). Without the desire to escape from our current situation, we would not expand and progress. If it were not for human imagination, we would still be living in caves."
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The Great Escape, 2002.
A description of the event that took place during World War II, known as "The Great Escape."
2,719 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper reviews the story of Stalag Luft III, more commonly known as "The Great Escape." The paper presents the events of that courageous escape in terms of the strategic and operational setting, tactical situation, threat of discovery by the Germans and finally the allied strategy. The paper then gives a detailed description of the actual escape event, in March 1944.
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"?The Great Escape? is remembered as one of the most significant events in the history of Allied POWs (Prisoners of War). It was 24th March 1944 when 76 captured Allied airmen at a German war camp named ?Stalag Luft III? tried to escape by means of their own hand-dug tunnel that was over 300 feet long and about 30 feet deep down the ground level (Rafmuseum.on.ca). Stalag Luft got its name from ?Stammlager Luft? that means ?Permanent Camps for Airmen?. As the name suggests, the prison facility was especially utilized to keep the enemy air crew whose planes were shot down."
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Escape of CO2, 2005.
A chemistry experiment studying the escape of CO2 from Seltzer water.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper describes a chemistry experiment that examines the escape of CO2 from Seltzer water into distilled water, and from a solution containing NaCl into a solution containing CaCl2. The paper demonstrates that the escape of the gas was measured at 5-second intervals until the volume of gas did not increase.
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The Holocaust and Sobibor, 2006.
Examines two responses to the question of whether Jews rose up against the Nazis, using Sobibor death camp as an example in one of the responses.
2,200 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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The European Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust. During the Holocaust over 6 million Jews from all over Europe were annihilated by the Nazi death machine. The paper questions why European Jews allowed themselves to be led to their death, despite their innocence of wrongdoing and why they not resist. The paper examines two responses to this question. One response includes psychological, historical, religious and tactical reasons. A second response is that in fact there were instances of resistance and the paper uses the uprising in Sobibor death camp as an example of Jewish resistance.
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"The inmates interred in the camps as workers were almost totally focused on simply surviving; chronic starvation robbed concentration camp inmates of their physical strength. There were uprisings in the camps, but they were rarely successful. Those attempting to resist faced almost impossible odds. It was much more difficult for resistance fighters to organize themselves and engage in armed resistance activities because they were completely exposed to the camp administration, the guards, and unofficial collaborators among the concentration camp inmates. The Nazis also used the principle of collective responsibility against the concentration camp inmates, punishing groups of inmates for the acts of one or a few individuals in a group."
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Escaped Slaves in Canada, 2000.
An examination of the living conditions for slaves escaped through the Underground Railroad, compared to life in U.S. as slaves in the South or fugitives in North.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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The escaped slaves who fled through the Underground Railroad to Canada hardly found the promised land they might have sought or expected, but their experience in Canada was invariably better than they had had as slaves in the South or as frightened and endangered fugitives in the North.
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"The escaped slaves who fled through the Underground Railroad to Canada hardly found the promised land they might have sought or expected, but their experience in Canada was invariably better than they had had as slaves in the South or as frightened and endangered fugitives in the North. At its worst, Canada offered a more free and humane life than did the South under the horrors of slavery. Canada itself was never a major player in the slave trade, although slavery was legal in the nation until well into the 19th century. Still, it outlawed slavery more than twenty-five years before it was declared illegal in the United States, and its outlawing did not cause the national division it caused in the United States. Nevertheless, the "promised land" of Canada was still marked by racism and resistance to the influx of slaves fleeing the United States. While some blacks returned to..."
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Escape through Art, 2002.
A look at poetry by T.S. Eliot and how he used his poetry to express himself and escape from the hardships in his personal life.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper shows how this great American poet exposes his life extensively in his writings. It examines many of his poem and compares each one to an occurrence in Eliot's life and shows how the poet used his art as a form of escape.
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"Eliot had an exceedingly difficult childhood because of a double hernia that affected him in his early schooling in St. Louis. As a result, he led a very sequestered childhood, and this is reflected in all of his poetry, but especially ?The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.? Another source of unhappiness was his first marriage. He married Vivien Haigh-wood but she suffered from neuralgia throughout their marriage and as a result, much of Eliot?s adult life was spent in a sort of living mourning both for his wife and for his married life. Vivien had to be admitted to a series of nursing homes and eventually Eliot?s first marriage failed entirely."
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Escape from Oppression, 2004.
Paper critiques the poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers", by Adrienne Rich, and the play, "Trifles", by Susan Glaspell, from a feminist perspective.
1,242 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper compares Rich's poem and Glaspell's play. It discusses the oppressive situations both women are in and how they escape this oppression in two very different ways. From a feminist perspective, these two works give very different examples of how a woman is the cast as the ?insignificant other?, but discovers a way out of her continual oppression by rejecting her insignificance.
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?Aunt Jennifer?s Tigers? by Adrienne Rich tells of the repressed Aunt Jennifer who produces scenes representing freedom and fearlessness, but in reality is trapped and powerless. Only through her artistic expression is she able to find a temporary release from her entrapment. In ?Trifles?, Minnie Wright allows herself to be subjugated for thirty years before she frees her whole self, through drastic means that leads to a more permanent solution, murdering her husband. From a feminist perspective, these two works give very different examples of how a woman is the cast as the ?nonsignificant other? (Bressler 144), but discovers a way out of her continual oppression by rejecting their insignificance. Rich begins her poem by describing the tigers of Aunt Jennifer?s tapestry."
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Escape From Freedom, 1997.
Analyzes the thought of Erich Fromm, who examined the psychological problems of freedom and the apparent desire of many individuals to relinquish their autonomy to an external leader or force.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, $ 79.95
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"Escape From Freedom
Introduction
The first foreword to this book provides an interesting view of Fromm's decision to publish the work at the time that he did. He was responding to the Nazi advances in the world, primarily, and the retreat from freedom that totalitarianism represented. As he noted, to understand the actions of human beings is at least partially a psychological problem and, in this book, he sought to analyze the results of the change from the medieval, preindividualistic society of the past to the modern, individualistic society of the 20th century.
The Past
According to Fromm, medieval times had the advantage of ..."
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Escapism and European Cinema, 2005.
A discussion on Geoffrey Nowell-Smith's statement that European film makers live in the past.
3,841 words (approx. 15.4 pages), 34 sources, APA, $ 105.95
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This paper discusses Geoffrey Nowell-Smith's statement that "only too often European directors and producers seem to have deserted the discontents of modern existence to seek refuge in the more comfortable world of the past" with reference to one German, one French and one Italian film. It looks at how his statement is based on three underlying assumptions: that European film makers, in general, avoid dealing with actuality, that the past is, indeed, more comfortable than the present and, finally, that dealing the past has no other purpose but to avoid dealing with the present.
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"Concerning criteria of 'past', 'modern', 'actual' or "contemporary", primary historical sources are, in general, inaccessible to the public for a period of 50 years, the required distance for an objective relation to the issue. Events that took place during the last 50 years preceding the research are, generally, considered contemporary. Applying the same criterion to History of Cinema means that films created between 1945 and 1965 and dealing with any period after (respectively) 1895 and 1915 are not "deserting" the "discontents of modern existence" but dealing with contemporary issues. Moreover, given that both periods of 50 years (1895-1945 and 1915-1965) include 2 world wars, a devastating world economic crisis and the Spanish civil war, films dealing with either of these periods could hardly be considered as "seek[ing] refuge in the more comfortable world of the past"."
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Defense & Escape Mechanisms, 1996.
Psychological means of adapting to stress & trauma. Definitions, role of ego, positive & negative uses & effects.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 47.95
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"In attempting to adapt to the demands of everyday life, psychoanalytic theories has for decades suggested that individuals rely upon mechanisms of adjustment. The two dominant forms of mechanisms of adjustment are the defense mechanism and the escape mechanism. These two forms of adjustment account for a majority of the ways in which individuals modify their behavior as triggered by the stress and trauma which they daily encounter in their environments. According to the American Psychiatric Association's latest updates as issued in the Diagnosis Statistical Manual IV Sourcebook, mechanisms of adjustment enable individuals to cope with modern life's high degrees of unusual stress (Strain, 1996, p. 1039). This brief overview will..."
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Margaret Ward: Escape from Slavery, 2002.
A review of Margaret Ward's personal experience of slavery, "She Would Not Be Whipped, She Would Rather Die."
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 13 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper analyzes a first-person story from the book "African American Voices: The Life Cycles of Slavery", edited by Steven Mintz. The story chosen is that of Margaret Ward, entitled "She Would Not Be Whipped, She Would Rather Die."
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