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The Film: "The Sorrow and the Pity", 2004.
This paper discusses the movie, ?The Sorrow and Pity?, by producer/director Marcel Ophuls, which relates the behavior of the French during World War II.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that the movie, "The Sorrow and the Pity", explores the fact that France fell in only 42 days during WWII, in spite of having the largest army in the world and that many of the French quickly made accommodations or even collaborated with the Germans. The author relates that the 1971 movie about the German occupation, including about 40 personal interviews with a whole range of individuals, including farmers, journalists, government officials, aristocrats, business owners, historians, attorneys, educators, and resistance fighters, as well as news clips from the time, was refused for viewing by the French TV stations. The author believes that one of the key reasons the film remains so memorable is the way the story is told with no scripting; everyone tells his or her own story in his or her own words with no editing by the interviewer.
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"On the side of the resistance supporters, farmer Louis Grave offers a serious personal story of the work he and his brother Alexis did for the resistance. For his efforts, Grave was denounced by a neighbor and sent to a concentration camp, and his anger still shows in the interview. If "The Sorrow and the Pity" has heroes in the truest sense of the word, it is surely Louis and Alexis. These simple farmers knew what they were resisting and why, since they had done a thorough job of thinking about their actions. Director Ophuls makes it clear, through his in-depth evidence and anecdotes that the Occupation presented the French with complex questions. Fighting for the resistance or not was a decision that no one would enter into blindly and without strong emotions one way or another."
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Chaucer and Pity, 2002.
How Chaucer defines pity in the "Canterbury Tales", or an attempt to explicate the line " Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte."
2,785 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper attempts to understand and define the notion of pity, gentility, and nobleness in Chaucer's time as he wrote "The Canterbury Tales". The paper includes several scholarly sources which attempt to explain Chaucer's definition of what his idea of a noble or gentle man is. The paper includes observations from "The Knight's Tale", "The Merchant's Tale", "The Clerk's Tale" and "The Franklins' Tale", and all the sources from Chaucer are taken in Middle English.
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"In his essay "Chaucer and Pite," Douglas Gray records the relevant meanings of pity taken from the NED current to Chaucer's time as: (1) The quality of being pitiful; the disposition to mercy or compassion, clemency, mercy, mildness or tenderness . . . (2) A feeling or emotion of tenderness aroused by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, and prompting a desire for its relief; compassion, sympathy . . . (3) a ground or cause for pity . . . and (4) a condition calling for pity (Gray, 179). Pitee is used in various contextual manners in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, The Merchant's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklins' Tale, but each time the word is used, it indicates feeling. Even when the word means grief in The Knight's Tale when the people mourn for Arcite's death- "Allas, the pitee that was ther"- rather than compassion or sympathy as it usually refers to, the word still appeals to feelings since grief involves intense emotions (2833). Like gentilesse, trouthe, or franchise, pitee is an important word for Chaucer since he often employs the word and in a way tries to define its essence through its repetitions."
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"The Pity of War", 2002.
This paper critically reviews the book "The Pity of War: Explaining World War I" by Niall Ferguson.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper makes a brief comparison to the book "Griff Nach Der Weltmacht "(German Aims in World War I) by Fritz Fischer.
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"The Pity of War: Origins of World War I", 2002.
This essay consists of a summary and a critique of the first six chapters of Niall Ferguson's "The Pity of War: Origins of World War I".
2,612 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 78.95
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Examination of Fergusons book in which the author examines the events leading up to the outbreak of the First World War and the factors which caused that war. It explains how this is a work of revisionist history inasmuch as Ferguson dismisses as inadequate or misleading previous attempts by historians and others to explain the origins of the war and offers his own formulation of the causes thereof. Its great strength is the comprehensive manner in which the author deals with the interrelationships among the diplomatic, military, political, economic and social developments of the period and his insights into the internal dynamics in various nations which helped bring on the war. The paper discusses how the author's overall conclusions are, however, poorly supported. They involve leaps in logic and in some cases retrospective speculation, including the questionable use of counter factual scenarios which sometimes border on fantasy, and assumptions which display his own peculiar set of biases.
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"World War I was a great calamity for European civilization. The widespread disillusionment with its consequences has generated a large number of varying historical explanations as to why it occurred. Ferguson states at the outset that he is profoundly dissatisfied with previous explanations of the war's origins. In Chapter I, he deals with the belief that the war was the inevitable product of "cultures of militarism," especially Prussian militarism. He says that "in both Britain and in Germany the advocates of increased military preparedness enjoyed only limited success, and certainly failed to win over the majority of voters" (15). He convincingly demonstrates that public opinion in Great Britain was divided on the need for large expenditures on armaments during the 20 years prior to the summer of 1914 and that the Liberal Party, which dominated British politics after 1905, was committed to domestic reforms. He points to the many sources of Germanophilia in Britain, but concedes there was general agreement across party lines on the importance of ensuring the supremacy on the high seas of the Royal Navy.
Although he acknowledges the powers of the Kaiser and the armed forces in Germany were greater than in Britain and France, he argues that "only a minority of Germans were militarists, and a minority of them were Anglophobes" (25). His overall conclusion was that "militarism . . . was far from being the dominant force in European politics on the eve of the Great War. On the contrary: it was in political decline, and not least as a direct consequence of democratization" (28)."
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"Hippolytus" ( Euripides ), "King Lear" ( Shakespeare ) and " 'tis Pity She's A Whore" ( John Ford ), 1999.
Compares the treatment of the themes of illegitimacy and incest in three plays, focusing on "Hippolytus".
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This study will explore the themes ofillegitimacy/legitimacy and incest in three plays, Euripides's Hippolytus, Shakespeare's King Lear, and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
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"This study will explore the themes ofillegitimacy/legitimacy and incest in three plays, Euripides's Hippolytus, Shakespeare's King Lear, and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. The study will focus on Hippolytus and the several illegitimate children in that play, followed by comparisons of that play with the latter two. The argument of the study will be that the issues of illegitimacy and incest have more to do with love rather than sex, or even with morality, and, therefore, investigation of those issues will focus on the roles which illegitimacy and incest play in the expression of love and in the obstacles to love.
Hippolytus is the illegitimate son of Theseus, but an obsessively virtuous man who incurs the wrath of Aphrodite because of his rejection of her and his alliance with Artemis, a ..."
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'A Sorrow Beyond Dreams', 2006.
A review of 'A Sorrow Beyond Dreams' by Peter Handke.
1,878 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper reviews and discusses Peter Handke's novel, 'A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'. According to the paper, 'A Sorrow Beyond Dreams' is a non-fiction book that relates, in a series of disrupted fragments, the life and suicide of Maria Handke, the author's mother. The paper further discusses how the book focuses both on the personal and emotional life of Handke's mother and on the social context that was partly responsible for her misfortunes.
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"The book comes only a few moths after the painful event that caused it- the suicide of the author's mother, and thus captures Handke's division between his feeling of loss and sorrow as a son, and his struggle to give an account of this feeling, as a writer. Every human death can seem unreal and puzzling , and this is even more so when the death is the cause of the suicide. Suicide seems to place every certainty we might have about ourselves and the world around us, under doubt. The main coordinates of the book are loss, displacement and exile and all of these are connected with Handke's struggle as a writer trying to express the horror and banality of the suicide event. On the one hand, the loss of the mother causes pain and makes it difficult for him to externalize the experience in his writing, and at the same time, the author has to displace the pain he is feeling and to translate it into his work. This detachment that the son has to perform to become a writer is a form of self-alienation or exile."
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Midrange Chronic Sorrow, 2006.
This paper discusses and analyzes the theory of midrange chronic sorrow.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the aspect of loss and notes that different people react to loss in different ways. The writer explains that in some cases, people may experience chronic sorrow. The writer further points out that such sorrow known as midrange chronic sorrow can become a part of a person's life.
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"The concept of loss affects individuals in varying ways. For some individuals that experience what they believe to be catastrophic loss, chronic sorrow may occur. The chronic sorrow becomes part of the individual's life, and it has the ability to gain in intensity as factors associated with the loss are presented periodically. While there may be some within the social order that believe that individuals are entitled to a customary period of mourning when such loss occurs, midrange chronic sorrow demonstrates that grief has no time frame for recovery."
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The Theory of Chronic Sorrow, 2006.
An article review involving the theory of chronic sorrow.
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This paper reviews a mid-range theory in a peer reviewed nursing article. The paper explores the mid-range theory of chronic sorrow as it is discussed in LaDonna Northington's article 'Chronic Sorrow in Caregivers of School Age Children with Sickle Cell Disease: A Grounded Theory Approach.' The paper then explains why this article was chosen, provide an overview of the theory, discuss some key points which cannot be passed over in silence, analyze how the theory is utilized by the academic in question, and consider the article's (and the theories) general strengths and weaknesses.
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"The Sorrows of Young Werther", 2004.
A discussion of why the main character, Werther, in the novel, "The Sorrows of Young Werther", by Goethe, is well-suited to the single-voiced, epistolary form.
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This paper examines Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther". It looks at how the main character, Werther, has the raving, emotional lunacy and foolish-but-guiltily-enthralling confessionalism that can hold readers' attention, although the novel is low on plot and driven almost entirely by one man's series of egocentric letters. It also analyzes how Werther's intensely unstable and emotional personality, as well the voyeuristic feel of his ultra-personal letters, makes him just the kind of character that can enamour or disgust, but nonetheless hold the attention of readers through the first 124 pages of long-winded, epistolary inaction, and how the success of Werther's story within the epistolary form would not be possible in other forms of narration.
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"The excessive emotions that these very mundane events trigger in him would seem ridiculous in a form that does not consist of very intimate personal letters that border on diary entries. In the epistolary form, Werther?s constantly oscillating feelings are able to hold the readers? attention because of their passionate, in-the-moment quality and voyeuristic appeal. Although Werther is ostensibly writing to his friend Wilhelm, he may as well be writing to himself in a diary. We are never shown any letters of Wilhelm?s in response, and Werther vehemently rejects much of Wilhelm?s advice, even bordering on cruelty at times."
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"A Sorrowful Woman", 2005.
An analysis of the narrator in Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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In this analysis of the "no name" narrator in Gail Godwin's short story, "A Sorrowful Woman," the author contends that the narrator wishes for nothing other than death in order to escape the limiting and unfulfilling roles open to her as wife, mother and homemaker.
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"The fairytale-like opening of Gail Godwin's "A Sorrowful Woman" presents us with a no name narrator and clearly spells out her predicament. Once upon a time there was one wife and mother too .."
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Swimmer and Sorrow, 2002.
A contrast analysis of "The Swimmer" and "The Sorrows of Gin" by John Cheever.
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A paper that contrasts two stories: The Swimmer and The Sorrows of Gin by John Cheever. By showing a character analysis of each of the stories, we can assemble an argument to show their differences on the subject of alcoholism.
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Joy & Sorrow, 2002.
A review of William Blake's poems 'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow' with emphasis on historical perspective.
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This paper compares and contrasts two poems from William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" collections: 'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow'. In one poem a child is nourished and loved and in the other the child is leaping into a ?dangerous world?. It discusses the differences in style, language and poetic pattern between the two poems and compares their themes to events known to have occurred in Blake's lifetime.
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"An interesting concept is that in the poems there is a reference to the part of Songs they are printed in. In ?Infant Joy? the narrator sings to the child, a song of innocence, in ?Infant Sorrow? the mother groaned and the father wept, a song of experience. Even though some might deny that groaning or weeping are songs, they could be viewed in such a way, they are songs of realism, songs of pain, songs of experience. Thus even within these poems there is a referring to the part they are printed in, Songs of Innocence or Songs of Experience."
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"The Sandman and The Golden Pot" and "The Sorrows of Young Werther", 2005.
A Comparison of the characters in "The Sandman and The Golden Pot" by E.T.A. Hoffman and "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe.
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The paper analyzes the three major characters in the stories by Goethe and E.T.A Hoffman. The writer describes how these characters reflect romantic love-madness. The writer further explains that by being very young and impressionable, the behaviors of madness seem to stem from their actions and behaviors toward women. The writer further analyzes how, in the cases of Nathaniel, Anselmus, and Werther, they reflect a Germanic "Sturm and Drang" style of writing that blends magic and dreams to distort any kind of sensible reality and order in male/female relationships.
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"This literary character study will examine the romantic delusions and madness that are within the three stories: "The Sandman" and "The Golden Pot" by E.T.A. Hoffman and "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe. In this manner, one can realize how obsession and illogical love turns to madness in the case of Goethe's Werther, as well as the two other major characters Nathaniel and Anselmus in the literary works of E.T.A. Hoffman. The precepts of Goethe's romantic love-madness can be seen within the character Werther, and it is accomplished through his extra-marital involvement with an experienced woman."
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"The Swimmer" and "The Sorrows of Gin", 2002.
Analyzes the main characters in two stories by John Cheever to show their differences on the subject of alcoholism
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A paper that contrasts two stories: "The Swimmer" and "The Sorrows of Gin" by John Cheever. By showing a character analysis of each of the stories, we can assemble an argument to show their differences on the subject of alcoholism.
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Sorrow And Violence, 2004.
This paper looks at the "Greek tragedy Medea" by Euripides and the T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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In this paper, the themes of violence and sorrow are explored as they are illustrated in the "Greek tragedy Medea" by Euripides and the T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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"Sorrow and violence pervade Euripides' "Tragedy Medea" and T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock." The paper describes Medea's sorrow over her husband Jason's rejection manifesting itself in murderous rage. Prufrock's sorrow over the lack of human connection and love also manifests itself in violence but of a different kind than Medea's homicidal acts."
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