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    Abstract According to the United States Department of Justice reports, each year nearly 800,000 children are claimed to be missing. This shows that each day, over 2,000 children are reported missing. Kidnappings occur for a variety of reasons, and at the hands of many different people (“Children Exploitation and Obscenity Section”, n.d.). For example, the United States Department of Justice claims that 203,000 children are kidnapped by family members annually, while 58,200 are abducted by individuals

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    “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....” ― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” ― Henry David Thoreau In the early 1960’s Stanley Milgram (1963) performed an experiment titled Behavioral Study of Obedience to measure compliance levels of test subjects prompted to administer punishment to learners

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    dynamite sticks and threatened to kill them many times during those 131 hours. Gaining the name thanks to Nils Bejerot, a criminologist and psychiatrist, after he analyzed the victims’ brains. A year later in 1974 came another case of the syndrome; Patty Hearst, the granddaughter and heiress of William Randolph Hearst, was held captive by the Symbionese Liberation Army and brainwashed into accepting their ideas. In April she was caught robbing a bank in San Francisco via CCTV and was sentenced to 7

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    to communicate with others. The Kellers find a teacher for their child. Annie Sullivan, Helen’s teacher helps her unlock language. “The Miracle Worker”, a movie also about Helen Keller was directed by Arthur Penn in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. The play and movie have similarities and differences along with advantages and disadvantages of each medium. The Miracle Worker movie and the play were similar in some ways. In both dramas, Kate Keller and Annie Sullivan know that Helen has

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    Stockholm Syndrome, originally identified in 1973, is an often cited psychological condition that may pertain to some people who have been kidnapped. Dictionary.com defines Stockholm Syndrome as “feelings of trust or affection felt in certain cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor”. As a result, victims sympathize and defend their abuser or kidnapper. Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that has been analyzed in professional articles by various scholars,

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    Betsy Devos Analysis

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    colleagues motives, and doesn’t question, but only believes that where they are putting their concerns are not in the right place. People who is opposed to Ms.DeVos do not believe that she is the right one for the job. In the article, it says “Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the ranking Democrat on the committee, insisted she needed more time to question Ms. DeVos about possible conflicts of interests and about her dedication to ensuring the protection of public schools, which she eschewed for her

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    The Miracle Worker

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    and a half and Annie Sullivan has just entered her life. She needs to learn discipline and self-control before she learns language and the movie shows her in the stages of learning all of that. The Movie is about the Main character Helen Keller's (Patty Duke) life, her family James Keller, Kate Keller, and Captain Keller

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    Journal The questions in this assignment cover all the reading of William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker. You will be prompted to answer these questions as you work on the lessons. You will need to turn in this assignment after you complete the lessons covering the entire play. Your answers should be written in complete sentences and include examples from the text. 1. Consider the differences between reading a play and seeing one performed. What are some of the advantages of reading a play

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    Helen Keller Analysis

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    Helen Keller was born normal, however, shortly after being born she suffered an illness that caused her to be both blind and deaf. There is a movie about Helen’s struggle called “The Miracle Worker”. There is also a story by Helen Keller with called “The Day Language Came into My Life”. Both the story and the movie, display how the miracles of language and learning allowed Helen to overcome many obstacles in her life. This essay’s purpose is to perform a literary critique of both the movie and the

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    After reading The Bad Seed and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, these books clearly show a female family member function as the protector of the child who is committed several murders. When making a comparison between the two stories we can determine the member who protects the child is a motherly figure. A mother inhabits the role of bearing a relation to a child. It is known, children experience a connection with their motherly figure through the feelings and emotions they associate with them

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