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more states began to enact laws which closely resembled the Virginia statute. This resulted in over 62,000 intellectually disabled or mentally ill Americans being forced into the operation room. While the main target of such programs were the feeble minded, however some states legislation also targeted the blind, deaf, epileptic, and

not sob, and it tormented him that he could not sob. In any case, he was out of tears. Elie explicated, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...” (Wiesel 112). The death of his family gave Elie two sentiments where he felt remorseful however; at last he felt free. Overall in the story Elie survives the Holocaust not only by the

fighting for women’s rights. This was also the time that women began trying to showing their equality to men and proving that women could be just as useful outside the home as within. However, in literature, women were still being portrayed as weak, feeble-minded, and incapable of doing anything except for chores. Due to this information, “The Yellow Wallpaper” needs to be re-evaluated because of its set gender roles, its put-downs of women, and its blatant disregard of the female brain.

author specifically put that there in order to heavily contrast the living situations of the child in the basement and the people in the city. The child in the basement must suffer in order for prosperity to flourish in Omelas. The existence of the feeble-minded child in the filthy basement a condition made for the happiness and prosperity of the citizens, however, some realize that their happiness isn’t freedom and simply walk away thus creates the point of morality versus prosperity, the nature of happiness

the court reached the decision to uphold Virginia’s sterilization statute. The case involved Carrie Buck, an 18 year old women in a Virginia institution for “feeble-minded” individuals, she was to be sterilized after being found to be feeble-minded. In addition to the summary of the case, Holmes raises his concerns with having more “feeble-minded” individuals and criminals parading the streets which justifies coerced sterilization. Justice Holmes’ opinion creates a picture of negative eugenics which

Who is John Galt? A question asked often throughout the course of the novel, John Galt is an unknowable entity, raised to mythical status by those who do not understand. John Galt is the man who stopped the motor of the world. He is the man who would not sit by while those thinkers, and innovators, those people who cared about the world, were slowly eradicated from it. The general masses of people, those sheep were willing to vilify those that threatened their sheltered lives, but John Galt would

Between the time period of 1900 to 1945, many scientists and researchers sought ways to improve the human race by defining who was fit and unfit to reproduce, this was infamously known as eugenics. Eugenics looked at races and ethnic groups to identify what genetic qualities they had that would help decipher who had the strongest physical and mental characteristics to survive within nature. The idea of eugenics was inspired by Darwin’s theory of evolution in 1859, but was later defined in 1883 by

work, the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, it is obvious that he does not really associate with any of his coworkers. Sure, there is Syme, but Winston calls him his friend with contempt, and his image of Tom Parsons is like that of a feeble-minded dog whose concern is limited to its keeper, which would be the government run by Big Brother. There is also Julia, who Winston is both repulsed and attracted by, and eventually I start to think of him as someone who contradicts themselves. Indeed

undesirable.This process was headed by the Eugenics Records Office which was government funded. They were in charge of in the sterilization of the “undesirables”. This group of people mostly consisted of the mentally retarded, criminals, and the feeble minded. However different ethnic groups people were brought into the fray without choice. This process continued until WWll when Adolf Hitler justified his malicious purge by using eugenics. Before it's end the eugenics was supported by 33 states and

An “Essay on the Influence of the Art of Design” by William Dunlap compelling argues the critical importance and influence of art on the modern day society. A main aspect of his argument is that art, “…will perpetuate knowledge and prevent a second deluge of barbarism….” (p190) Dunlap believes that art enhances society, he claims that, ‘Before the benign influence shed upon him by the fine arts, man existed; he can scarcely be said to have lived, as man.” (p190) This is similar to the argument given