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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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Invisibility as an Escape from Racial Degradation, 2008.
A comparison of approaches to escape racial degredation in "the Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison and "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson.
3,574 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper discusses two opinions of ways to escape from racial degradation and the pain associated with it as an African-American male. It analyzes the views of Ralph Ellison and James Weldon Johnson in their works "The Invisible Man" and "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," respectively. The paper compares their approaches to escape and how they are portrayed in their books.
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"Both Ralph Ellison and James Weldon Johnson chose a life of invisibility over the pain and suffering related to living in American society as a black man. Ellison's narrator chooses to ignore his individuality for the time being and instead to reside within the larger stereotype as a way to avoid the unwanted attention of a white audience. Despite his association with several African American groups aiming at social reform, the invisible man realizes that it is much easier to stay invisible then to try and force the white community to recognize you. James Weldon Johnson's narrator chooses a different form of invisibility but with the same motivations. Due to his mixed heritage, he has the choice to be seen as a white man. After seeing how horrible American racism can truly be, he decides to abandon his African heritage and all the degradation which accompanies it to live a middle class white life. He becomes invisible in that he "passes" as Caucasian in white society. This opens up new doors for him and ensures he will not have to deal with the prejudice many of his fellow black Americans must deal with on an everyday basis. Both characters show cowardice in their choice to become invisible to American racism, but can anyone really blame them for their choice?"
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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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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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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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"The Great Gatsby" and the Fall of The American Dream, 2002.
A analysis, from today's viewpoint, of the classical American novel "The Great Gatsby " by F. Scott Fitzgerald from the perspective of the corrupt American Dream.
1,890 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper describes ?The Great Gatsby? as Fitzgerald?s signature novel of the American dream gone awry. It compares American society in the 1920s to American today. The author writes that immigrants, like Gatsby, come to escape their own problems for our empty promises of unlimited advancement. On the surface, ?The Great Gatsby? is a novel about confused and unhappy relationships that drank and socialized their way through the 1920s. Yet, when investigating further, it speaks of the bankrupt American Dream, which no longer stands for progress and hard work, as it has become materialistic and corrupt.
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"For years immigrants poured into Ellis Island looking for freedom of religious persecution, to escape poverty and hunger and numerous other reasons. Today over 50,000 immigrants come to the shores of America clutching Green Cards hoping for a piece of the American Dream."
It is in this setting, that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays ?The Great Gatsby.? Jay Gatsby, himself, the title character, was a major culprit of this corruption.
Nick Carraway surmises that Gatsby made his wealth from bootlegging and involvement with organized crime. Gatsby has focused his adult life to being wealthy enough and having enough to impress Daisy."
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Globalization, Europe and Great Britain, 2008.
A look at the impact of globalization on the welfare state in Europe and Great Britain.
3,071 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 89.95
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This paper argues that globalization has had some striking consequences for the people of Great Britain, for the people of Europe (principally Western Europe) and for the social policies geared towards assisting them. The paper suggests that globalization has been a negative force in the lives of working-class people and that, even if it has not quite led to the contraction of social welfare policies in Europe and in the UK, it has certainly served as the external impetus keeping governments from doing all they might on behalf of the less-fortunate. As a final point, the final part of this paper asserts that France has been relatively more resistant to the de-centralizing forces of globalization than either Britain and Germany, but there is simply no evidence that any of these three major countries have been able to escape the neo-liberal pressures of the global marketplace.
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"At the same time as the United Kingdom finds itself burdened with a society that is more polarized than ever before, it must also be borne in mind that the state - courtesy globalization - is seen by many has having less control over internal matters than ever before. Furthermore, countries like Great Britain have been forced to acknowledge that the new logic of globalization splits apart the traditional coupling of economic growth with an increase in social standards; in other words, a country can grow more economically powerful without necessarily seeing the living standards of many of its working-class families increase (Mishra, 1998)."
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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 Gatsby", 2002.
An analysis of the effect of materialism on the characters in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss the theme of appearances in the great Gatsby in how they actualize themselves in the book and the plot. The aim of this paper will be to find what instances are used to reveal this and to project how this was so. By studying the superficial sense of wealth pervades the essence of each character, we can find how this sense of escapism eventually destroyed many of the characters because of this intrinsic belief in this physical sort of materialism.
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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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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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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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