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- 8021: Mimosa
- ... trouble from an outside source, would recoil its leaves and take a defense position close to the garden that it grew within. Vito would retreat to this garden to escape the troubles of the outside world when they became unbearable. He describes the garden to us as; The garden that kept them little children even as adults; This could be taken as that it did not actually affect Vito physically young ... singing about Mimosa and the American moon, and soon afterwards he tells of the troubles that he endured in his life. He may see Mimosa as representing his own homeland and the moon representing their new home (this could also be to represent the Americanization of everything in that time, America taking over many things)which was strong while their home, represented by the Mimosa, is like the plant that represents it, so weak and short lived. And soon afterwards he speaks of a world without Mimosa, thus a wish for a world without his troubles. Vito and his daughters seem lost in their own worlds, Vito in his defensive garden with his dreams of a better home and ...
- 8022: Effects
- ... believe, comes directly from news sources and advertisements. From our actions it seems as if we no longer need any evidence to support the media's claims, for we have turned the media into our new god and we believe just about everything the media says, with out giving a second thought. Not only do we believe into everything the media tells us to, we also adapt TV into our life ... a violent television show like “Power Rangers,” they often imitate the heroes and begin to punch and kick pretending to “kill evil villains,” the children may not realize that they are in fact demonstrating a new violent behavior, however, they in fact are. Other times, violent television shows can change us very subtlety, perhaps in just the way we think about things. If a person watches a TV show about gang ... actual needs and desires, the media takes that and runs. However they do realize that people watch TV for entertainment and everyone watches for their own reasons. The media want to fill desires and create new “needs” and new “wants.” The uses and gratification model acknowledges that we are all motivated by different life experiences and circumstances, thus, getting rid of the problems with “intervening variables” that was a problem ...
- 8023: Gangs: A Violent Reality
- ... kinship develops between the gang members and the child. It is then that the bond between the kid and the gang is completed because the gang has effectively taken the place of the family. The new anti social structure of cities also effects the ease in which a boy/girl can join a gang. " The formation of gangs in cities, and most recently in suburbs, is facilitated by the same lack ... more people to form organizations like the "Guardian Angels" a gang-like group that makes life very tough for street gangs that are breaking laws. Bibliography Margot Webb, Coping with Street Gangs. Rosen Publishing Group, New York, 1990. William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society. University of Chicago, Chicago, 1955. Peter Carroll, South-Central. Hoyte and Williams, L. A., 1987. 1 Marshall B. Clinard, Sociology of Deviant Behavior. University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 1963, Page 179. 2 Merton Nisbet, Contempory Social Problems. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1971, Page 588.
- 8024: Living Together Before Marriage
- ... spouses that may be discontinued if that individual gets remarried. "Rather than marry and impoverish their incomes, a number of couples choose to cohabit and pool their financial resources."(Pearce, Jack M. Modern Day Marriages. New York: Abel-Hils,1990.) Other economic advantages that are present in a live-in relationship is the sharing of food, rent or mortgage, and other housing expenses. This sharing of expenses can be very beneficial ... system, providing emotional, and physical support. The emotional and physical support can be a valuable asset to the couple as many cohabitors are young and trying to find their own niche in the difficult career world. The support that an individual can get from their partner can be very comforting to them, and can be a good stepping stone from dependence on their families to independence. Many experts claim that " the loosely structured arrangement instills a sense of independence while establishing resources of support; marital decisions are postponed until a greater degree of maturity and occupational independence is secured" (Pearce, Jack M. Modern Day Marriages. New York: Abel-Hils,1990.) The security from the emotional and physical support experienced by many cohabitors can help them concentrate on his or her career aspirations without: the frustration of divided energies among dating, ...
- 8025: Breaking Down Racial Barriers
- ... in. Here you have a white man who turns his skin black. He wanders around places he has never been, trying to figure out how to not stand out, how to “fit in”. He faces new problems and fears with each passing day. He gave insight into something that most of us would never be able to imagine experiencing. The author was raised in Texas a prejudice state. So it made ... the race barriers can be broken. It shows people how harshly blacks were treated in the South, all because of the color of their skin. It is because of people like John Griffin, that the world will continue to grow, and change itself. It is only through brave and courageous people that we will ever truly realize the mistakes that we make and how to work to change them.
- 8026: Gangs in Today's Cities
- ... kinship develops between the gang members and the child. It is then that the bond between the kid and the gang is completed because the gang has effectively taken the place of the family. The new anti social structure of cities also effects the ease in which a boy/girl can join a gang. " The formation of gangs in cities, and most recently in suburbs, is facilitated by the same lack ... more people to form organizations like the "Guardian Angels" a gang-like group that makes life very tough for street gangs that are breaking laws. Bibliography Margot Webb, Coping with Street Gangs. Rosen Publishing Group, New York, 1990. William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society. University of Chicago, Chicago, 1955. Peter Carroll, South-Central. Hoyte and Williams, L. A., 1987. 1 Marshall B. Clinard, Sociology of Deviant Behavior. University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 1963, Page 179. 2 Merton Nisbet, Contempory Social Problems. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1971, Page 588.
- 8027: Margaret Atwoods Surfacing - A
- ... swamp. The other things, the ones still alive, I let out." The characters come across a dead heron tied with a blue nylon rope and hanging from a tree branch. This heron symbolizes the natural world. The narrator does not understand why they killed the heron since you can not eat them. It bothers her to see the bird strung up like a lynch victim. She thinks the Americans did it to prove "they had the power to kill." Killing the heron was their way of possessing it. The heroic ego establishes control over the natural world by killing. The narrator goes diving one night by a rock face to look for Indian paintings. While diving, she has a vision of a fetus : "It was blurred but it had eyes, they were ... to go because they are things that contain and define life according to a social order. During her journey, the narrator has visions of her parents, and later, as she is preparing to reenter the world, she talks about not being able to feel their presence : "No gods to help me now, they're questionable once more, theoretical as Jesus." At this point, she acknowledges for the first time that ...
- 8028: The Urban Underclass: Challenging THe Myths ABout America's Urban Poor
- ... inevitable rise in the percentage of teen agers who are unmarried mothers, exploding welfare rolls, and legions of high school dropouts consigned forever to joblessness. Yet none of these perceptions is true, according to a new Brookings book, The Urban Underclass. Edited by Christopher Jencks of Northwestern University and Paul E. Peterson of Harvard, this set of essays attempts to separate the truth about poverty, social dislocation and changes in American ... decades after President Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1964. The book suggests that greater efforts are needed to address the poverty paradox the persistence of poverty in the most affluent society in the world. Peterson suggests that solutions to the problem of the underclass lie in a more integrated, comprehensive national welfare policy. Theda Skocpol of Harvard advocates universal family security programs including child support assurance, parental leave and ... Academic Revolution (1967). Paul E. Peterson, former director of the Governmental Studies Program at Brookings, is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. Among his other Brookings publications are Welfare Magnets: A New Case for a National Standard (1990), Can the Government Govern? (1989), When Federalism Works (1987), and The New Urban Reality (1985). ____________________________________________________________ _______________ "The Urban Underclass," Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson, editors. Published April 1991. ...
- 8029: All Quiet On The Western Front
- Erich Remarque s All Quiet on the Western Front is not about men, but of German soldiers and their hardships during World War I and how their attitudes changed throughout the war. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war (p.88). This novel portrays the overwhelming effects and power war has to ... his classmates to join the military. While they taught that duty to one s country is the greatest thing, we already that death-throes are stronger.... And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through. (P. 13) Paul felt completely betrayed. We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can ... find him with a small scratch lying in a corner pretending to be wounded. (P 131) Even the big men like Himmelstoss are scared to go and fight. He is in a panic; he is new to it too. But it makes me mad that the young recruits should be out there and he here. (P 131) The soldiers were being crushed and seeing things get destroyed, but because they ...
- 8030: Jackie Robinson 2
- ... He was also a daring baserunner. In 1962 Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the first black player so honored. After leaving baseball, Robinson was vice president of a restaurant chain in New York City. From 1964 to 1968 he served as special assistant for civil rights to Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Robinson starred in the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and was the author, with Alfred Duckett, of I Never Had It Made (1972) ROBINSON, Jackie (1919-72). The first black player in ... in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He continued to excel in sports at the University of California at Los Angeles. He left school in 1941 and was drafted the following year for Army service during World War II. After receiving a medical discharge in 1945, he spent a year playing baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League. His outstanding play brought him to the attention of ...
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