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- 1071: The Vikings
- ... do these things, he could be outlawed from his family. Children were raised at the home where they could be taught the importance of the family. Most children were brought up at home, but a child could be raised at another household. Boys were sent to other families when the other family was in need of help. They could also be sent there if there was a feud between two families and the sending of him would stop the fight. It was hard for a child to get a education from a school. The schools they had were very small and there was very few of them. Children were taught how to farm and, do other household tasks from their parents. Boys were taught how to fight and practiced with their elders or brothers. If a child showed a talent in any tasks he was sent somewhere, where he could perform it to his best ability. He usually was sent to a household where they specialized in his talent. If his ...
- 1072: Teaching Diverse Students
- ... and world views developing international skills, cross-cultural perspectives, respect for different values and learning styles, and other skills useful in a diverse global environment (Lee, 4 Mar. 1999) Parental Effect From the day a child is born, they are raised into the cultures of their parents. A child is taught their native language and about their cultural beliefs. Different cultures eat different foods, have their own way of dressing and speaking, and possess many other distinct cultural aspects. Children grow up questioning and understanding many aspects of their background and many times aren t subjected to other cultures. It is up to a child s parents to be the first teachers of multi-cultural education. Many times parents are bias to their own culture and way of life. There is a lot of discrimination in the world and ...
- 1073: Brave New World: Escape from Reality
- ... enforced through electric shock while the children are still babies. The knowledge of different classes in the world and why it is best to be in the class you are in is implanted in the child’s mind through hypnopaedia, a series of hypnotic suggestions played while the child is asleep. Through the suggestions that make up the childhood of the adults in this society, the adults are “raised” by the leaders of the State to think and act as they are told. Rather than individual parents instilling there own values into their children, the State chooses how and what each child learns. The parental relationship of a father and mother to a child has become a dirty and improper idea. Feelings have become obsolete. It is this lack of family that helps keep the different ...
- 1074: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... 1922) and The Spy (1928), which, with The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1932), strongly suggested his anti-Nazi sentiments. Lang's interest in the criminal mind produced his masterpiece--the chilling portrait of a child killer, M (1931), Lang's first sound film, starring Peter Lorre. Lang left Germany for France in 1933. Lang made a highly successful American debut with Fury (1936), an indictment of mob violence, followed by ... and his love of extremes in human nature have prompted him to tackle-- successfully and with humor--an incestuous relationship between mother and son in Murmur of the Heart (1971) and--with somewhat mixed results--child prostitution in Pretty Baby (1978). Considered his finest film, the controversial Lacombe, Lucien (1974) sympathetically portrays the life of a teenaged French collaborator with the German army of occupation. Malle has continued to demonstrate his ... in Dark Victory (1939), Elizabeth and Essex (1939), The Little Foxes (1941), Watch on the Rhine (1943), All About Eve (1950), and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), in which she played an insane, aging child star. In recent years she has primarily appeared in television films such as Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last and A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (both 1982), and the pilot of the series Hotel (1983). ...
- 1075: Scarlet Letter- Pearl
- ... character serving entirely as a vehicle for symbolism. From her introduction as an infant on her mother s scaffold of shame to the stormy zenith of the story, Pearl is an empathetic and improbably intelligent child. Throughout the story she absorbs the hidden emotions of her mother and magnifies them for all to see, and asks questions nothing but a child s innocence permit her to ask, allowing Hawthorne to weave rich detail into The Scarlet Letter without making the story overly narrative. Pearl is the purest embodiment of literary symbolism. She is at times a ... bosom every time she thought she was free of her weighty burden of sin by flippantly reminding her of the letter and the meaning it bore. Pearl s questioning wrenched Hester s heart when the child seemed to somehow know about the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl s precocity worried Hester constantly. Hester Prynne herself realized that Pearl was unlike other children, and prayed that she was not sin ...
- 1076: Aldous Huxley
- ... a drama critic for the Westminster Gazette, was an assistant at the Chelsea Book Club and worked for Conde Nast Publications (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley married Maria Nys in 1919. In 1920 they had a child named Matthew. The family split time between London and Italy and traveled around the world in 1925 and 1926 (Aldous Huxley-Biography). In 1955 Maria died of cancer, and a year later Huxley married Italian ... Huxley wrote the Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. These novels deal with the “inebriated states produced by hallucinogens.” They describe the alteration in sensory perception that Huxley experienced with mescaline (LSD-My Problem Child). The rock group the Doors named themselves after the Doors of Perception (It’s Online-Aldous Huxley). Huxley had become a guru for hippies in California and began to use LSD (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). Huxley ... and his wife experimented with LSD and psilocybin. He didn’t like to refer to them as drugs because he believed in “the importance of agents producing visionary experience in human evolution” (LSD-My Problem Child). Huxley continued his drug use and experiments until his death. While lying on his deathbed with terminal throat cancer, Huxley asked his wife to inject 100 mmg of LSD into him, sending him to ...
- 1077: To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus Finch
- ... Pip. “‘Terrible?’ cried Joe. ‘Awful! What possessed you?’”(99) Joe can not believe what he is hearing and takes the right course of action by making Pip really think about what he has done. A child like Pip does not see the consequences of his actions until he really thinks about the problems he has caused. Joe blatantly expresses his feelings to Pip and Pip becomes ashamed of his actions. Joe ... very good job of being a parent in the first place for believing Pip’s outrageous story without question. Joe tries to be a good father figure but falls flat by not realizing when his child has done something wrong as in lying to him. Joe is rather gullible and can not allow himself to be outwitted so easily by his child. Joe does not know Pip that well which is indicated in the errors he has made as a father. This is very apparent since Pip begins to lose respect for Joe and only really ...
- 1078: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... on the sunless April day in 1926 when Elizabeth Bowes- Lyon announced to her husband of three years that it was time. The Duke and Duchess of York were anticipating the birth of their first child. As the doctors were soon to discover, this was not to be a routine delivery. The child was breech and as night fell the decision to perform a cesarean section was made and thus commenced. The operation a success, at 2:40 AM, Wednesday, April 21, a princess was born. As is ... development of a remarkable tidiness that followed her through adulthood. Her many ponies also served as a learning experience through the necessity of their care in grooming, feeding, and watering. She was a very bright child as well. Her mother began teaching her to read at the age of five, the same age she had began to learn. Much like her mother, Elizabeth caught on very quickly. This may be ...
- 1079: Silas Marner
- ... and luck, instead of love, does not lead him to happiness. Another character, Silas Marner, looks first to a pile of gold that only consumes his life until he starts loving and caring for a child, who finally brings him happiness. The lives of these characters show that wealth or material objects do not bring as much happiness as love. Godfrey Cass believes that he can use his wealth to buy ... what a father should ha been to you all these years, I wish to do the utmost in my power for you for the rest of my life and provide for you as my only child (714). However, Eppie can t feel as [she s] got any father but one, (715) meaning Silas Marner, who cared for and loved her for sixteen years. The lack of love that Godfrey has given ... remains in this bleak position for fifteen years until his gold is lost and replaced with something to love. When Silas loses his gold, he begins to experience happiness again after opening up to a child. The child, Eppie, replaces Silas s gold, but unlike the gold, she requires the love and care of a person. Unlike the gold which needed nothing . . . Eppie was a creature of endless claims and ...
- 1080: Alcoholism An Intrepretation
- ... drink equal to at least two drinks a day. An at-risk person for alcoholism will drink more than fourteen drinks a week or four drinks in one sitting. An individual who suffers from alcohol abuse would display one of the above mentioned behaviors for a period of a year or more and show typical symptoms such as: failure to fulfill work or personal obligations, recurrent use in potentially dangerous situations, problems with the law and continued alcohol use in spite of the harm that is being expressed to social or personal relationships. Alcohol abuse can be attributed to the downfall of many famous people. Edgar Allen Poe, a classic author, suffered from alcoholism. Which were apparent in his stories that took on a dark and grotesque style. This may be attributed to his depressed state resulting from his own abuse of the drug we call alcohol. He was found dead in a gutter due to over-consumption of alcohol. Addictions to a substances such as alcohol can inhibit normal human lifestyles. Many people forget ...
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