having a factual basis‚ starring and directed by Edward James Olmos. Released to the national theater circuit in 1992‚ “American Me” depicts the life of Rodolfo Cadena‚ a ranking Carnal (gang member) in the prison gang La Eme‚ also known as the Mexican Mafia. To therapeutically approach the salience and pervasiveness of gang membership‚ including its allure and reinforcers‚ would be a challenging task for any human service practitioner involving accuracy of assessment and effectiveness of treatment. However
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Discuss the character and role of Alfieri in A View from the Bridge paying particular attention to the contributions he makes to the audience’s understanding of the issues of the play. Alfieri’s character and role in A view from the Bridge is a very important one he sets the scene and environment and is an engaged narrator helping the audience understand the play. Arthur Miller has used the characteristics in Alfieri to help us understand the background information an overlook of the play almost
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as a longing for future pleasure‚ lust as it is consummated in the present‚ and finally‚ lust as it is remembered after the pleasurable experience‚ when it becomes a source of shame. These three categories are organized flawlessly into the three Sicilian Quatrains of the sonnet which all lead up to the heroic or rhyming couplet at the end. These final two closing lines fundamentally state that everyone in the world knows everything that has been said very well‚ they know and have experienced the
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On the noon of April 20th‚ 1999 America’s deadliest school shooting had just ended with the suicide of its two gunmen. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had just murdered twelve students‚ one teacher‚ and injured twenty-one since they began their shooting spree forty minutes earlier in the city of Littleton‚ Colorado. The media coverage of the Columbine High School massacre made this event have a tremendous impact on the people of the United States‚ inducing fear of all outcasts in schools‚ and creating
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Humans have consumed alcohol since the beginning of written history‚ and this history had not been forgotten in modern day society. People study history for many reasons‚ but one of the main reasons is so that humans can learn from the mistakes that people have made in the past‚ especially mistakes that affect entire societies. Scholars and politicians use history to make better and more educated decisions on policies and laws that affect today’s society. One of these mistakes that is intensely studied
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Snow Crash Neal Stephenson Online Information For the online version of BookRags’ Snow Crash Premium Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-snow-crash/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction‚ Author Biography
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tradition (signified here by the Virgilian river Mincius and the Theocritan river Arethusa). This departure‚ however‚ is not without pastoral precedent: cf. the opening line of Virgil’s “Messianic” fourth eclogue: Sicelides musæ‚ paulo maiora canamus (“Sicilian [i.e.‚ pastoral] muses‚ let us sing of somewhat loftier matters”); what follows is prophecy. 88–102 “[T]he Herald of the Sea” insists that Lycidas died because his boat was defective‚ not because of a storm. 103–7 The River Cam (standing in for
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Their aims had increase over the years of war. Athens cloaked its reasons for expansion on the ideas of protecting itself but quickly turned to be seen as a desire for conquest and imperial domination. For example the Sicilian expedition was masked as an expedition to put down the Syracusans who were looking to destroy the power of Athens but in reality it was an expedition of conquest. Athens was more then eager to capture the resources of Sicily and they didn’t know
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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful‚ or believe to be beautiful." -William Morris In the age of decadence and authenticity‚ William Morris stood out from the artists and designers of the time by creating works based upon good quality raw materials‚ hand processing and natural dyes. The walls of most Victorian homes‚ with few exceptions‚ were deeply colored‚ profusely patterned‚ draped with printed cloth‚ or heavily hung with pictures. Especially in the rising middle classes
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the ones in control of their territory and would not let anyone in their sector. Organized criminals are smart in the way they conduct their business to not make it obviously apparent to police officers or any kind of law enforcement. Besides the mafia who really didn’t care that people knew who they were organized criminals nowadays are more discrete with their criminal activities and are cunning to keep the police a stray and even if local police know of what they are doing the criminals have a
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