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Persecution, oppression, humiliation, and above all, fear. Welcome to the lives of Molina (Stefan Atkinson '03) and Valentin (Stephen Toub '01), two men trapped in an Argentine prison. Molina, a gay window-dresser serving time for corrupting a minor, sits alone in his dark prison cell avoiding further torment from the warden and his frighteningly faithful guards when Valentin, a Marxist revolutionary, is thrust inside the room. Although Molina nurses his fellow prisoner back to health, their relationship becomes anything but friendly: Valentin, a suspected conspirator, wants nothing to do with the "dizzy," chattering Molina. But as this tale unfolds...
...around Selma (Bjork), a Czech factory and single mother who is gradually going blind. She endures ordeal after ordeal in an attempt to pay for her son Gene's operation, who we are told will develop the same eye disease as Selma. In order to escape the agony and torment of her own worsening condition, she finds relief in musicals. She goes to the movies with her friend Kathy (Catherine Deneuve) and also takes part in a local production of The Sound of Music. And when situations become unbearable, she breaks into a musical number, which takes place...
...home to China.' I got a pretty hurtful one that said, 'I'm a Vietnam veteran, and I can't stand to look at your flat face every day.' Sometimes I can't help myself. And I wrote back, 'I hope my flat face continues to torment you in perpetuity...
...driving tension behind The Missing World-a tension that gets tiresome quickly-is Jonathan's torment at having to reveal the truth about his relationship with Hazel. He wants her back, and will take advantage of her amnesia to win her back. He agonizes over his decisions, but always manages to rationalize keeping her in the dark...
...this essay my main idea is that though turner's examination and explication of this state of marginality has significant sociological merit, it is lacking in the psychological analysis necessary to truly understand the human disposition with respect to liminality in cult membership. The psychological torment that the neophyte endures is the direct result of his systematic demoralization, which makes the idea of social death even more genuine. The biggest problems that I am having in the writing process are my inability to do an outline, my inability to stay within the page limitations given, and my ability...