Escape
The character that James Joyce portrays in his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is attempting to escape unsatisfying conditions that he find himself in during childhood. In three of the stories, "Sisters," "The Encounter" and "Araby," the main character hopes to escape the pressures of society and in the case of the three stories he does escape. Yet while he escapes on the surface, the character does not break away from the internal feelings he has. Joyce leaves his character with the hope of escaping his oppressive environment, but without hope of escaping feelings that accompany death, monotony and the emotions that occur from awakening to the physical and mental attraction to girls.

In the story "Sisters" the boy attempts to escape the reality of death. In the beginning he thinks, "if he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew…...

This completely stunts their growth and freedom. The authoritarian and the automaton psychology are seen in Nazism and democracy. Nazism is both an economic and political problem, which has to be understood on psychological grounds. During the Nazi regime in WWI and then once again in WWII, two groups of people existed: there were those who did not give any resistance, but also without supporting the cause and those who were deeply attracted to the new ideology.
This is what can happen when people try to escape their freedom. History shows with numerous examples, including Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s, and even today others throughout the world, how great the disaster can be when humans give their power to someone else. Someone like Hitler can come to power because people lose the ability to exert their own personal strength and fortitude.

In the situation with Hitler, stresses Fromm, there were…...

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Only if man masters society and subordinates the economic machine to the purposes of human happiness and only if he actively participates in the social process, can he overcome what now drives him into despair -- his aloneness and his feeling of powerlessness. Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, and automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning (276).

Therefore is it very important that a person is critical and dares to think independently. he/she must fight against powers outside of his/her self and look for the strong powers that are active within and learn to trust his freedom. For in freedom the power of the self shows itself.

Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. New York: Holt Reinhart, 1941.

escape socialization, but the fact may be, as 'The House on Mango Street" shows, that the impacts of socialization stay forever. A Society has effects just as environmental pollution has. Some of these may be positive; others neutral, but still others may be self or socially destructive. The problem is that we are too close to these effects to recognize them for what they really are. In "The House on Mango Street," both Esperanza and Sally experienced acculturation. Sally was stunted by reaction to her society and unable to escape it. Esparanza, it seems, may have the potential to escape. Nonetheless, as Cisneros notes, the effects of acculturation stay forever.
All societies, as all groups of humans, both micro and macro, are effected by their specific acculturations. The Mexican-Americans who are the inhabitants of the "house on Mango Street' represent an example of one such society. The incredible thing is…...

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Reference

Cisneros, S. The house on Mango Street, Knopf, New York, 2010

Relocalization."

Relocalization is at the heart of this film. It is a movement that believes in peak oil, and that society will have to relocalize to a more rural, sustainable way of life in order to survive the crisis when oil runs out. These small, rural societies will produce their own food, energy, and products, and could even devise their own governments, money, and culture. It sounds like the survivalist movement kicked into high gear and many people are joining them to learn what they need to know to survive when technology fails.

Ecovillage"

Ecovillages are another aspect of relocalization. They are supposed to provide social, economic, and ecologically sustainable villages for residents of about 50 to 150. This is based on sociology an anthropologies studies that indicate this is the perfect amount of residents for social networking. They promote a balanced and ecologically sound lifestyle, as well. Ecovillages already exist in many…...

The plan they concoct is convoluted and complicated, and indicates the ingenuity and dedication of the flyers. They are determined to stage a mass escape and then engage the German Army to chase them, leaving the way clear for Allied forces to move through the area. It also shows the bravery of the men, who know they can be caught at any time. They are determined to escape and rejoin the fight, as well as outwit the Germans.
This film does not cover a pivotal point in the war, but it shows the drudgery of war, and some of the background that many people often do not think about. It shows a kind of "behind the scenes" aspect, about men on both sides who were dedicated to their own cause for their own reasons. The R.A.F. fighters were brave, witty, and determined, and that could describe just about all of…...

Great Escape
One of the biggest challenges facing most organization is maintaining effective control of projects and how managers are trained in dealing with a host of issues. For large entities, this is problematic because it means that they could see declines in productivity and the utilization of different resources. Once this occurs, the underlying profit margins of the firm will decrease. This is the point that they could lose focus on their long-term objectives and will see a decline in market share. To avoid these kinds of issues requires understanding how to: effectively control the project and the way mangers can maintain influence over the operating environment. Once this occurs, is when we can see what specific strategies must be utilized in achieving their objectives.

Knowing How to Control the Project

To control any kind of project requires utilizing techniques that will improve communication and collaboration. The best way that this…...

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Bibliography

Introduction. (2011). Max Wideman. Retrieved from:  http://www.maxwideman.com/guests/great_escape/intro.htm 

Introduction to Part 2. (2011). Max Wideman. Retrieved from:  http://www.maxwideman.com/guests/great_escape/intro2.htm 

Garg, A. (2008). Delivering Multiple Sites. PM World Today, 10 (11), 1 -- 6/.

Lavell, D. (2008). Program and Project Retrospectives. PM World Today, 10 (9), 1 -- 6.

Living Social Escapes
Changes in Consumer Behaviors Linked to Online Discount Travel Deals

Today, we live in a world where consumers are constantly demanding goods and services faster and cheaper. In order to meet this heightened demand favoring extreme discounts at the click of a button, online discount retailers have begun to open up new daily travel deals, where amazing discounts on travel packages and locations entice online consumers into purchasing spur of the moment getaways. For example, LivingSocial's official website provides to categories of travel deals, one being "escapes" and the other, and the other is "adventure." While escape provides special rates on hotels and resorts, adventure provides special rates on activities such as tours and different activities. Now, how do these online daily travel deals affect purchase behavior? There are a number of changes in consumer behavior that have come as a direct result from such online discounted travel deals.…...

After this, these professional escape artists begin planning the big event, the escape after which the film is named. The teams are organized to build the tunnels, forge documents, make civilian clothing, acquire contraband goods and prevent the guards from discovering the work of the escape. The POWs commence and continue work on three tunnels simultaneously. On the night of the escape, seventy-six prisoners get out of the camp. Most are killed (fifty were murdered outright by the Gestapo) or captured with only a handful making it out to freedom. Only three make it to safety in Sweden and Spain ("Allmovie.com").
The Great Escape was a major box office success on release and made a superstar of Steve McQueen. It became one of the highest grossing films of 1963 despite heavy competition. According to the veterans, many details of the first half of the film depicting life in the camp…...

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References

The Great Escape (1963)." Allmovie.com. Allmovie.com, 2012. Web. 15 Mar 2012. .

"Pop Culture 101: The Great Escape." Tcm.com. Tcm.com, 2012. Web. 15 Mar 2012. .

pleas of his friend, Crito, to escape from prison in the closing days of his trial Socrates presents the concept of the absolute and its relationship to civil justice (Grube). Although Socrates is convinced that he is personally innocent of the charges being leveled against him and is also assured that he could safely escape from prison, he still opts to remain imprison and to see the trial through to the end. Socrates views his escape from prison as being a wrong and as a violation of the public trust in that the public has proscribed that those facing trial should be imprisoned. He viewed this public decision to be an absolute that should not be violated. Even though he also viewed the charges being brought against him as being wrong he did not believe that two wrongs would make a right.
The arguments offered by Crito concern the opinions…...

The oppressed then became their own oppressors, judging themselves on the high class standards of life. Through their own regulation, high class norms were used to judge each other on the basis of financial stability, female morality, Christian ideology, and so forth. They upheld unrealistic standards when one looked at the condition of life many within the lower classes were forced to endure. No matter how much they grew to resent the high class for the lifestyle they would never be able to live, the lower classes still unconsciously internalized the beliefs of that class they hated.
This theory is easily adapted into an ideology of racial hegemony, where the beliefs of the white majority were slowly filtered into the African-American social structure. The African-American community began to define itself using white standards. Gramsci himself even noticed "the formulation of a surprising number of negro intellectuals who absorb American culture…...

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Works Cited

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Signet Classics. New York. 2005.

Dubois, W.E.B. Souls of Black Folks. Found in the Norton Anthology of African

American Literature. W.W. Norton. 2nd ed. 2003.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Vintage International. New York. 1980.

So what do a couple of people like you have to run away from?” (John, Revolutionary Road) Discuss the theme of escape and/ or escapism as it relates to representations of everyday life in Revolutionary Road.
Sam Mendes’s movie titled ‘Revolutionary Road’ examines routine and routineness, which makes people go to great lengths in order to escape it and enjoy freedom within a structured society. This movie is a fitting representation of the dynamics of daily life that make one feel manacled to societal expectations, standards, domination, structure, repetitiveness and direction. Through the movie, Mendes delves into the ideas of escapism and escape via its two key characters. The first is the movie’s male protagonist, Frank Wheeler, who, although, terrified of change, is simultaneously not entirely satisfied with routine life and wishes to escape it. In the movie, the escapism concept has been utilized to express Frank’s fulfillment of his need to…...

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Bibliography

Felski, Rita. Doing Time : Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2000

Lefebvre, Henri, and Christine Levich. \\"The Everyday and Everydayness.\\" Yale French Studies, no. 73 (1987): 7-11. doi:10.2307/2930193.

 

Twelve-Step Program to Escaping Dante's Hell
Dante's The Inferno paints an incredibly vivid picture of what Hell is like. The journey Dante undertakes in order to progress past 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 endeavors to explore Dante's journey through the perspective of this 12-Step Program. y 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.

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…...

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Alcoholics Anonymous (1955) The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism. New York City: Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, Inc.  http://www.recovery.org/aa/misc/12steps.html 

ClassicNote on Inferno.  http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/inferno/fullsumm.html 

Dante's Inferno. http://www.*****/essays/Literature/danteinferno.shtml

Dante's Inferno: Character List.  http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/inferno/characters.html

Four Noble Truths
The Truth of Suffering -- the First Noble Truth

The Buddha believed that humans suffer and struggle, which is the problem of existence. He believed that all existence comes down to dukkha, which translated means roughly "anguish," or "pain," or "suffering"; dukkha also suggests a word that isn't in the English dictionary -- "unsatisfactoriness" (the Buddhist Center). Dukkha also suggests that life / existence is temporary and conditional, and before humans can contemplate life and death people must come to terms with the self.

The Truth of the Cause of Suffering -- the Second Noble Truth

Buddhism teaches that humans suffer because people are constantly craving, searching, seeking for answers outside ourselves that will bring happiness to us (about.com). The Buddhist Center explains that the "root" reason for suffering is the mind; people tend to "grasp at things (or alternatively push them away)" which makes humans "at odds" with the way…...

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Works Cited

About.com. (2012). The Four Noble Truths / The Foundation of Buddhism. Retrieved September 17, 2015, from  http://buddhism.about.com .

Buddhanet. (2008). The Eight-Fold Path. Retrieved September 17, 2015, from  http://www.buddhanet.net .

The Buddhist Center. (2011). The Four Aryan (or Noble) Truths are perhaps the most basic formulation of the Buddha's teaching. Retrieved September 17, 2015, from  http://www.thebuddhistcenter.com .

Glass Menagerie
Methods of Escape in the Glass Menagerie

The three members of the ingfield family are trapped within the claustrophobic confines of their poverty, sadness, and regret. However, each one of them escapes from the realities of their daily existence by engaging in acts of fantasy. For Tom, the narrator of the play, this escape is found through books, movies, and alcohol. His mother, Amanda, distances herself from her current condition by escaping into memories of a more genteel past. And, even more so than her mother or brother, Laura is incapable of living in the real world and instead chooses to escape from her fears and anxiety by creating a fantasy world that is symbolized by her love of the glass animals. The difficulties each character has in dealing with reality serves to drive them further apart from each other, heightening their isolation and causing them to retreat further inward.

As…...

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Works Cited

Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: New Directions, 2011.

Letter From an Escaped Slave to his Former Master" by Jackson Whitney. Specifically, it will explain, analyze, and critique the document, while explaining the historical context in which it exists and the point-of-view it creates which gives us insight into the events of that time.
Jackson Whitney's impassioned letter to his former master is a microcosm of history. Not only does it emphatically indicate what was in his mind and heart, it illustrates the great stresses slave families were put under by their unfeeling and unsympathetic owners. Families were torn apart, usually forever. Jackson's letter shows his bitterness at being removed from his family, and it gives a deep insight into slave families of the time, and what they faced. Not only that, it indicates the steps slaves would undertake to free themselves. Jackson went all the way to Canada where he could not be sent back to his master.…...

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References

Whitney, Jackson. "A Letter From an Escaped Slave to his Former Master." Slave Testimony: Two centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. John W. Blassing, ed., (1977).

While it is impossible to escape the similarities between the French Revolution and American Revolution and there is no question that the American Revolution helped inspire the French Revolution, there are a number of important differences between the French and American revolution.

Location was an important difference.  America was a colony that was revolting against a ruling government that was separated from it by a large distance, while the French Revolution occurred in France and was aimed at the monarchy in that country.

Social class played a much more important role in the French Revolution than the American Revolution. ....

Genre theory refers to the use of familiar themes and ideas as a way of signaling to the audience what to expect from a work of fiction. Genre theory can be used in various types of fiction and is often discussed when talking about both literature and movies. Genre theory can provide a good springboard for analysis of a particular work, because works can exemplify genres, deviate from genres, or even flip genres completely upside down.  As fictional works have developed, genres have become more specific.  Genres were initially very broad, both....

Harriet Tubman has always been a great choice for an essay topic because her life story is dynamic, interesting, and incredibly inspiring.  Born into slavery, Tubman not only escaped, but also risked her own freedom returning to the South in order to help others escape from slavery using the Underground Railroad.  She deserves respect as one of the country’s leading freedom fighters, but it took decades for her story to be fully told.  A full-length movie describing her life was only released in 2020 and while most people recognize her as a....

An escape story refers to a story where a person is getting away from some type of negative situation.  The escape story can be a literal escape from something or an imagined escape.  Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour is a famous escape story, because the protagonist imagines all of the freedoms that she has now that her husband has been declared dead, only to discover he is not really dead.  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is another popular escape story, even though his escapism is in his head.  However, escape stories....