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Judith Guest's "Ordinary People", 1999.
Examines dysfunctional family dynamics in this 1976 novel.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, $ 63.95
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"Introduction
Goldenberg and Goldenberg define a family as:
...a natural social system with properties all its own, one that has evolved a set of rules, roles, a power structure, forms of communication, and ways of negotiation and problem-solving that allow various tasks to be performed...(3)
Families can be functional or dysfunctional with dysfunctionality being associated with family members having several characteristics that make it difficult for them to solve problems and/or perform tasks efficiently. According to family therapist, Virginia Satir, these characteristics include: low self-worth; indirect, vague, or dishonest communication patterns; strict, rigid, unbending and everlasting rules; and fearful.."
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"Ordinary People" ( Judith Guest ), 1999.
Analyzes the main character's therapeutic treatment for depression, possible problems in the relationship with the therapist and the role of parents.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 63.95
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There are many psychological issues uncovered in this book and many problems suspected, although not all diagnosed. Each of the characters in the family has psychological problems, and together they are in a muddle of difficulty and problematic communication.
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"Ordinary People
Introduction
There are many psychological issues uncovered in this book and many problems suspected, although not all diagnosed. Each of the characters in the family has psychological problems, and together they are in a muddle of difficulty and problematic communication.
There are at least three separate treatment situations. First, there is the treatment of Conrad at the mental hospital, which involved both talk therapy and ECT. Then, there is the treatment of Conrad by Dr. Berger, which relied on talk therapy. Finally, there is brief mention of Conrad's father, Cal, beginning to work with Dr. Berger on his own issues. The focus of this paper is the second course of treatment, with reference ..."
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A Review of Christopher R. Browning?s "Ordinary Men", 2001.
This review of Christopher R. Browning?s "Ordinary Men" examines the Nazi soldiers' psyche during the holocaust.
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, $ 34.95
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This paper reviews Christopher R. Browning?s "Ordinary Men," and its analysis of Nazi soldiers that murdered innocent civilians in the holocaust. The paper shows the methods used by the soldiers to rationalize their actions even though many of them were morally opposed to what they were ordered to do.
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"It is understandably commonplace to refer to Hitler as a monster, as inhuman. It is also, by extension, equally commonplace to refer to the Nazis who obeyed him as monsters as well. Yet before the implementation of the madness that was the ?Final Solution? in Germany and Eastern Europe, these Nazi soldiers were human beings like ourselves, individuals who lived in a world only a half-century or so before ours. They made ethical decisions on a day-to-day basis. They were ordinary men, according to Christopher R. Browning, who committed acts of extraordinary cruelty. The thesis of his book, appropriately titled 'Ordinary Men,' provides a less comforting view of the foot soldiers of the Holocaust than is tempting to take. But it is ultimately more ethically illuminating?these men were not monsters, Browning suggests, they were ordinary men who provide an example for us all how low we can sink if we are not vigilant in resisting the evil that exists around us."
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"Ordinary Men", 2008.
This paper analyzes Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men".
1,262 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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The paper discusses Browning's book "Ordinary Men", where Browning wants the reader to see how a unit of the German Order Police, who committed terrible acts by carrying out a number of killings and other atrocities as part of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews of Poland, were actually "ordinary men". The paper describes Browning's analysis of these men, which is told in a detailed way and that exposes all the questions that might be raised. The paper also highlights the Browning's difficulty in explaining how ordinary individuals could commit such terrible atrocities against the Jews during the Holocaust.
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"Brown asks how these men faced this dilemma and offers a history of the Order Police, though that history does not explain the central issue of why these men acted so brutally and so out of their normal character. Browning does try to answer the question of why these men acted as they did, though he also points out that no one reason can be offered as to why the many man involved committed the acts they did. Any explanation would apply only to a percentage of the whole and not to all. One force that Browning does cite as important is the conditioning of society, conditioning that accustomed people to respecting and deferring to authority."
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"Culture is Ordinary", 2006.
Discusses and analyzes Raymond William's 1958 essay "Culture is Ordinary".
2,619 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 78.95
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In this essay, the author explains William's claim that "Culture is ordinary, in every society and in every mind." First, the paper discusses cultural materialism and William's discourse. This is followed by a presentation of examples and cases that explain how the culture is ordinary. Specifically, two cultural objects-film and television-are used to achieve the objective of the essay. Trainspotting is used to discuss the interplay between the author (filmmaker), cultural medium (cinema), and society. Teletubbies, on the other hand, is used to explore the "ordinariness" of culture in a highly globalized environment.
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"The New Left of the late 1950s and 1960s, which wanted to find a critical mode of analysis that offered an alternative to the ideologies of the Cold War, inspired the modern materialist examinations of higher and popular culture. This came about as dissatisfaction with both the individualistic, market-cantered doctrines of the West and the structural central planning of the East grew, encouraging a search for different, fresh perspectives. The New Left centred on culture because it connects individuals and society, thus overcoming the conflict of individual agency and social structure."
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"Ordinary Men", 2003.
An analysis of Christopher Browning's book, "Ordinary Men".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses the book "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland", authored by Christopher Browning. It emphasizes the importance of the command structure during the early days of the Nazi regime, which allowed each person to accept only a small portion of the responsibility for any action. The paper expands on the conditions that caused ordinary men like the members of Battalion 101 to explode into homicidal and even genocidal violence.
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"We would all like to think that there is something that separates good people from evil people. We would all like to think that there is nothing that would make us behave like the people that we read about in our history books people who slaughter the innocent ..."
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"Ordinary People", 2003.
Discusses the film "Ordinary People", directed by Robert Redford.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses the 1980 film "Ordinary People", Robert Redford's directorial debut. It looks at the major theme of family dysfunction, the deterioration of a family after the accidental death of the eldest son, and how father and son come to grips with it, but not the mother.
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Susan McCaslin's "Just an Ordinary Woman", 2008.
This paper discusses Susan McCaslin's poem "Just an Ordinary Woman" as an example of the British Columbian mystical tradition.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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This paper explain that Susan McCaslin's "Just an Ordinary Woman" is a lucid, brief poem, which communicates the mystery of a new birth far from a 21st century postmodern hospital. The author describes that British Columbia has long been an ideal location for creative, mystic writers because of its distinctive atmosphere created by the ocean coastline and mountains. The paper concludes that McCaslin's writings reflect the British Columbia's cultural legacy of mysticism, which is not found as often in writers from other areas of Canada.
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"To a large extent, people in British Columbia who were given to the arts and letters had to promote their own opportunities, so that through the 19th century, a number of private presses and newsletters were appearing. Since many people lived in remote out-stations, books when of interest to them could be very much valued with some early philanthropy addressing small public library facilities for smaller interior and coastal communities, a point explained in an article of the 1940s that discussed matters of books and libraries in British Columbia in the early colonial period."
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Joseph Plumb Martin's "Ordinary Courage", 1995.
This paper is a critical review of Joseph Plumb Martin's "Ordinary Courage", an 18th Century Revolutionary War soldier's autobiographical account of battle from the average citizen's perspective.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Joseph Plumb Martin, the author of the autobiography Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin, presents a compelling portrait of what that war was like from the perspective of an average citizen. At the outbreak of the war, Martin was sixteen years old, a young man who, like the country itself, was in his early formative years. His development in the course of the war parallels the simultaneous development of the nation, both being formed and toughened in the forge of the war.
The portrait of the war and the birth of the nation painted by Martin is a realistic, down-to-earth portrait. Martin clearly wants to do away with any romantic or idealistic notions about the war or the founding of the nation. He wants to show how it was for an average soldier to fight in that particular war, and ... "
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Free from an Ordinary Life, 2006.
A comparison of James Thurber's short story, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and the film "Fight Club", directed by David Fincher and written by Chuck Palahniuk.
1,148 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper compares these two stories about ordinary men with ordinary lives seeking to free themselves from their mundane existence. The paper asserts that, while both works display the breakdown of the human psyche that can occur when individuals see themselves as more than their actual reality allows them to be, both works achieve this display in different ways. The paper also asserts that both the film and the play are successful at portraying to the audience the mental breakdown of their characters.
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"In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", the main character, Walter, is getting older. His everyday existence involves mundane activities, such as buying overshoes and driving his overbearing wife to the hairdresser. In response to this, Walter's mind begins to fantasize about a life in which he is not an everyday man. In his mind, he can become anything in relation to the world around him, from a naval officer, to a doctor, to a Capitan in World War II."
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?Ordinary Men?, 2002.
Analyzes Christopher R. Browning's history of the German Police Battalion in Nazi Germany, comparing it to Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners".
757 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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According to Christopher R. Browning?s aptly-titled history of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101, "Ordinary Men", the most significant single factor influencing any given policeman?s decision to participate in acts of Nazi genocide, was that individual?s personal willingness to obey the orders given to him as a soldier and as a German. In other words, how much was that individual willing to be subject to, for want of a better word, ?peer pressure.? The paper shows that this is in direct contrast to the thesis advocated by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in his book, "Hitler?s Willing Executioners". Goldhagen stresses that the actions of the policemen, soldiers and citizens who enforced the larger Reich ideological agenda were performed enthusiastically. The paper explains Goldhagen's belief that this willingness was the result of many years of anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany, extending back in historical time to the earliest days of German Lutheranism?s influences on Christianity.
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"The actions of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 become, in essence, even more chilling when viewed through Browning?s schema of explanation. It is easy to rationalize inhumanity as a symptom of German culture, and to state that all human beings have pure free will to resist the pressures of position, country, and ideology. The idea that one can still retain one?s ethical, moral compass (as evidenced by the disgust and horror of the policemen) and act against it when structural pressures persuade one to do otherwise is far more disturbing and a far more bracing slap in the ethical face of one?s judgment."
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"Ordinary Courage", 1999.
A review of this book by Joseph Plumb Martin who was a soldier in the American Revolution.
1,749 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 56.95
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This paper reviews the book "Ordinary Courage" by Joseph Plumb Martin, a personal account of the author's trials and ordeals as a soldier of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The book details the life of an average soldier during the years of fighting the revolution from 1776 to 1782.
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"Martin's soldiering potential was observed by his officers, which led him to be selected as a member of the Corps of Sappers and Miners. Even more deserving was his promotion to the rank of Sergeant, quite an achievement for a 20 year old. The Sappers and Miners are analogous to the present day Corps of Engineers. These are the men who lay field obstacles and dig the defensive earthworks; it is thought to be on of the most demanding occupations in the army."
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The Mind of "Ordinary" Men, 2003.
The paper considers the origins of the Holocaust in terms of the men who carried out the "final solution."
4,841 words (approx. 19.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 123.95
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Using Browning's "Ordinary Men" and Rhode's "Masters of Death", the author explores the origins of the men who were responsible for the Holocaust, the SS-Einsatzgruppen and Reserve Police Battalion 101. The author believes that two different dynamics that drove these men to kill millions. Peer pressure and the situation drove some, but ultimately, an active decision to kill was required of every man.
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"In an unfortunate relationship, the most intriguing events throughout the course of humanity are the most brutal and horrific. The Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis and Hitler?s Aryan race was quite certainly the most appalling event in modern history and the question of ?how did it happen? still stands today. Two recent works, Masters of Death and Ordinary Men, by Richard Rhodes and Christopher Browning, respectively, attempt to answer this query. Though both authors discuss the physical actualization of the mass murders, the more important topic between both is the work of Hitler?s most dastardly henchmen: the unlikely Heinrich Himmler?s pet SS-Einsatzgruppen and Reserve Police Battalion 101. However, the question is by no means of a single man?Hitler was quite obviously insane?but rather of the men who acted directly as the hand of God to cleanse the Reich. The Wehrmacht invaded territory after territory with devastating effect, but the Reichsf?hrer?s (Himmler?s) Einsatzkommandos and the Police Battalions followed with a single mission: stability through purification. The fundamental difference between Rhodes?s account and Browning?s is whether or not these men made any active decision to embody their orders and become pure executioners. Rhodes believes that the common soldiers?the men who actually dispatched the victims of the cleansing?at one point or another believed what they were doing was justified in some manner and thereby made a positive decision to take steps against civilians and accept execution as their profession. Browning asserts that the men of the Reserve Police Battalion were simply thrust into their acts of violence and lacked the time to consider their orders as heinous, a position that allowed many of them to continue the atrocities after being propelled into the fray. Essentially the Einsatzgruppen were bred for and accepted the role of slaughterers while the Reserve Police Battalion simply found themselves caught-up in a frenzy of death and continued on."
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Ordinary Lives, 2005.
Compares the wartime experiences of Anne Frank and Hatsuyo Nakamura.
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This paper compares and contrasts the experiences of Anne Frank and Hatsuyo Nakamura in relation to their respective experiences with the horrors of war and discrimination.
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"The experiences of Hatsuyo Nakamura and Anne Frank reveal how ordinary individuals confronted with the incomprehensible horrors of war and discrimination often achieve extraordinary feats. There are many similarities between Hatsuyo Nakamura and Anne Frank. They both suffered great losses due to war, they both were subjected to discrimination of the most oppressive nature and they both found a way to persevere in the midst of the horrors of war. While their cultures, religions and economic circumstances differed, the experiences of both Hatsuyo Nakamura and Anne Frank reveal..."
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The Value of Ordinary, 2004.
A comparison of three of Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary works, "Wakefield", "The Birthmark" and "The Minister's Black Veil".
2,775 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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This paper discusses the literary works of author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The paper focuses on three of his writings, "Wakefield", "The Birthmark" and "The Minister's Black Veil". The paper explains how Hawthorne's most favored characters are those that are happy with their lot. The paper claims that if the protagonists in each of these stories had left their happy lives alone, the negative experiences that they endure certainly may have been avoided. The paper contends that the theme of Hawthorne's works may hence be that people must love and cherish what goodness they have and never expect to transform that goodness to greatness.
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"It is evident in almost all works of literature that the author of the work favors certain characters. It is not a coincidence that the characters whom Nathaniel Hawthorne favors practically always fair well (as much as Hawthorne will allow of his characters-- Hawthorne's ironic style leaves his stories appropriately devoid of heroes and victories.) Although there are no fairytale endings, the protagonist who makes decisions that Hawthorne does not respect virtually never triumphs. (When he does succeed, it is not a victory worth celebration.) Rather, he punishes those who are compelled by greed to improve their already happy lives. This trend is especially apparent in three of Hawthorne's works: "Wakefield," "The Birthmark," and "The Minister's Black Veil." It is this curiosity about a better life that Hawthorne discourages in his stories."
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