|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 8091 - 8100 of 22819 matching essays
- 8091: Working Mothers
- ... women against certain negative aspects of being full-time homemakers and mothers, such as monotonous housework, dependence on the male partner for financial and emotional support, increases self-esteem because they are contributing to the world they live in. These women receive a renewed interest in life because they are in the thick of it. They are living life to the fullest. This model is the one that is constantly referred ... may also lead to conflict and psychological stress. Both of these models can be seen in the working mother at any given time. They are simply a fact of life, a by product of the world in which we live. Mothers are constantly jumping back and forth in these roles, striving to find a sense of balance. But is there such a thing? Most of the time the scales are tipped ... the chores that were previously held by the homemaker. In this day and age, the ideal homemaker is a thing of the past. Many women today want and desire careers and a place in this world. They want to stand on their own two feet, to become a self-sustaining individual, free of dependence on another individual. When the mother considers the idea of working and raising a family, many ...
- 8092: The Aeneid
- ... upon and is intrigued by two lovers, Paolo and Francesca, who were tragically killed by Francesca’s husband, Gianciotti. In The Aeneid, Aeneas is on a journey to lead his people, the Trojans to a new homeland. Aeneas was chosen by fate to lead the Trojans to establish a new homeland in Italy and Rome. This fate also represents the national destiny of Rome. Aeneas looks towards the future, towards Rome’s power over the known world. In the same way that the Promised Land was guaranteed to the Hebrews in the Old Testament, the Trojans’ Promised Land was guaranteed by fate. History is the guarantor. The theme of this work ...
- 8093: Divorce and Children
- ... their emotions so that they won’t feel they pain of the break-up. Sometimes adults can’t seem to do the things that they know they should do, or want to do: getting a new job, become involved in a new relationship, and find new interests. Sometimes they fell so paralyzed that it may be hard to clean up the house, get up in the morning and go to work, call a friend, or go out into a movie. ...
- 8094: Emily Dickinson 2
- ... the nuances that the framework would allow. No democrat, she constructed for herself a set of aristocratic images; she was queen and empress. No traveler, she stayed at home to examine small fragments of the world she knew. For Dickinson life was kinesthetic; she recorded the impressions of experience on her Said 3 nerves and on her soul. Rather than being linear and progressive, it was circular: My business is circumference ... history and tries to make some sense in how a fly may have had an affect with what is known today as a profit, the sun of God, or God to the people of this world. Another reader, author, Eugene Hollahan sees the fly as something more evil. Hollahan states: Assuming that the fly as an element in the poem takes on a new meaning when seen as an example of Miss Dickinson s daring use of traditional Christian symbols for the purpose of Said 5 dramatically rendering the experience of death and the afterlife, I herewith suggest ...
- 8095: Surfacing - A Reason To Kill
- ... 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 ...
- 8096: Why Teens are so Stressed Out
- ... see their little babies grow up. Some of the most painful years are the teenage years. This time is usually very confusing for the parent in addition to the teen. The teens start to gain new responsibilities but they do not gain very many new freedoms to compensate for these responsibilities. This can lead to conflict caused by a lack of understanding between the teens and their parents. It all starts out with a sweet, little adolescent who used to ... more important parts of their lives such as their school work and spending quality time with their parents. In closing, being a teen is not as easy and carefree as it appears to the outside world. In fact, it is actually a stressful and often painful whirl of confusion and decisions. Teens have to make important sacrifices of their free time and hobbies in order to dedicate themselves to their ...
- 8097: Women In Nationalist Movements
- ... countries thought that the nationalist movement would provide them with the opportunity to advance in the public sphere. In Turkey, Mustapha Kemal recognized the “courage and militancy of Turkish women during the Balkan wars and World War I.” (Kemal article) This time allowed women to obtain new jobs, such as nurses and factory workers. Algeria also had a similar emergence of women into the public sphere. During the Algerian War women who fought in the war were known as moudjahidines. These female ... women were not breeding children who felt strongly toward the nation, the entire battle would come to an end. The militancy in Algeria was heavily looked upon as heroic. At the end of the first World War, Egyptians demanded independence which allowed women to be apart of the political struggle. One woman in particular went by the name of Huda. “Huda refused to sacrifice women’s liberation for male political ...
- 8098: Donald Barthelme
- ... Location, and art and literature review (Harte and Riley, 41). His other jobs included serving in Korea and Japan in the U.S. Army (Barthelme Bio, 1), Professor of English at the City University of New York, teacher of Creative Writing at the University of Texas in Houston, and of course author of short stories and novels (Anderson et al, 919). He is the author of a number of collections of ... seem to be a very serious writer. Thomas Leitch says about Barthelme: Perhaps the most striking feature of Donald Barthelme s fiction is the number of things it get along without. In Barthelme s fictive world, there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no sense of place or community, no awareness on the part of his characters of any ... a room together, whose mission is to insert keys and launch nuclear missiles when they see certain events happen on the televisions that they have. They are completely cut off from the rest of the world and seem to have lost sight of reality. Chablis the second story I read is about a guy whose wife wants a dog. His wife has a baby so she forgets about wanting a ...
- 8099: Overpopulation
- Overpopulation What does it man to be overpopulated? To some it means living in a world with more than 1 billion people. By that standard, we would have been overpopulated in the mid 19th century. Overpopulation should be defined as a situation where it is impossible to provide everyone on the ... a normal level. Most people don't think that a population growth of 1 or 2 percent a year is a big deal, well small percentages add up very quickly. The current population of the world today is 5.7 billion, with an annual growth rate of 1.5%. At this rate, 88 million people will be added to the population this year alone. That's nearly 1/4 million additional people to feed every 24 hours. At this rate the world's population will double in 47 years. Already, more than 3/4 of a billion people will suffer from malnutrition. Much of the world's hunger problem stems from an uneven food distributions. To ...
- 8100: How to Overcome Shyness
- ... understand “The spider is more afraid of you than you are of it,” then you will begin to excel in your relationships with other people around you. First step: begin by saying ‘hi’ to 5 new people everyday. Not too long ago, I noticed that I even did not know how to perform the simple of saying ‘hi’ to people. Then, what happened? As I started to analyze myself, I could ... of strangers, you are putting yourself into a significant amount of pain, but without it there can be no gain. Man! You sound like your life is a gamble. Surely, as you can see the world is a funny place, where things do not always come easily. It is by the sweat of out brow that we must labor to get those things, not by always trying to take the easy ... fear of mingling with unfamiliar people. At worst, they can furrow their brow and act as if you do not exist. Conversely, if all goes well, there is a good chance you could make some new lifelong friends. Shyness is something that can be rid by anyone that tries whole-heartedly. If you experience shyness, you are perfectly normal and you are in the majority. Sekou, I hope I do ...
Search results 8091 - 8100 of 22819 matching essays
|
