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In 1971, Congress created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, otherwise known as Amtrak, through the Rail Passenger Service Act. Amtrak was created as both a private and public entity, due to its public funding and oversight. However, Congress was clear to differentiate it as a public entity. In 2008, Congress created a statue that allowed the Federal Railroad Administration and Amtrak to jointly issue standards and metrics for railroad performance.. This also allowed Amtrak to regulate

This paper will summarize the major differences between Ascetic (early Eastern) and Western monasticism. In addition will explain why living Christian live in the isolated community that routinizing a whole life ordered to God through prayer, study and work is more efficient than living the Christian life alone. The paper will also point out why, the founder of Western monasticism, Benedict encouraged the rules for organizing the common life and why he argued that society as well as the property

LACE DRESSES Which one of you brides has always wanted and dreamt of having a lace dress? This blog post is going to inform you on everything you need to know about finding your perfect lace dress. All fabrics that wedding dresses use are all beautiful, but none of them come close to how romantic and historical lace is. Back in history, when a bride would wear lace at her wedding, this demonstrated the wealth of your family and prosperity. It would tell everyone that you came from a wealthy family

In Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange, Alex the narrator grows up in a near future English city that develops his inner moral disconnect and sociopathic tendencies. These characteristics mirror and grow from the corruption of his city, originating with its lack of resources and culminating in the great cultural divide between teenagers and adults, emphasizing the importance of perspective in decision making and acting. In Alex’s city, adequate education is near nonexistent and crime

In the story a Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; the authors point of view is focused to the devotion of free will. A Clockwork Orange means what happens when someone has had their free will taken away from them. In this case, Alex the protagonist can be described as a violent, psychotic criminal, and the idea of treating him so that he may no longer be able to commit crimes that may seem to be justified. “ What is happening to you now is what should happen to any normal healthy human organism

Quantico, a new dramatic television show, created by Joshua Safran, explores the lives of young FBI recruits who have come to Virginia for training to become special agents. The recruits are considered the best and the brightest, but each one possesses secrets, including hidden reasons for enlisting. One recruit is harboring the biggest secret of all, and ends up being suspected of masterminding the biggest and most deadly attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 (Quantico). As you can see, Quantico is rather

1. Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them; always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of whatever kind, in domestic circumstances; and therefore Pearl, who was the gem on her mother's unquiet bosom, betrayed, by the very dance of her spirits, the emotions which none could detect in the marble passiveness of Hester's brow ( This passage fits into the novel by adding character development and adding to the plot on how women are supposed

As time progresses in the novel “A Clockwork orange” written by Anthony Burgess, the theme is slowly unveiled. In the second part of the novel, Alex decides to break into an elderly lady’s’ house with intentions of raping her and stealing her most valuable possession’s. This here allows the reader to infer that the theme of the story consists of the fact that uncontrolled individual power can become overwhelming and can get out of hand very quickly. This specific event soon turns in the opposite

‘A Clockwork Orange’ - How does Stanley Kubrick create reference to the duality of ‘the fool’? A Clockwork Orange (1971) is one of Stanley Kubrick more notable endeavours, based on Anthony Burgess’ novel. Both film and book depict the simultaneous humanity and inhumanity of Alex and his ‘droogs’. This duality is key to my interpretation of these characters as representative of ‘the fool’. Here, ‘the fool’ is derivative of the Commedia Dell’arte Harlequin character, ‘[a] chameleon which takes on

Introduction A Clockwork Orange and 1984 are books with Non-traditional language use to affect the reader in some way. A Clockwork Orange was written by Anthony Burgess and follows the teenage life of Alex and his ultraviolent hobbies and run-ins with the law. 1984 was written by George Orwell with a controlling government as the main premise. The languages used in the books are both based on English but are vastly different from each other. Form In A Clockwork Orange, the language is called Nadsat